to elect a bona fide speaker over the house. there's a lot of people here who want paul ryan to run, jeb hensarling, a darling of conservatives. knee were one will run. i talked to jeb hensarling, i said, mr. chairman? he said, that's a good title. he doesn't want to be speaker of the house. the people who could be voted are out of the running. >> chad, that's what makes since here. it's all about the math. you have to have 218 votes. without the right wing he doesn't have the votes. that's that. why suffer a humiliating defeat. or this? a north carolina'll congressman walter jones wrote an extraordinary letter in which he asks that the candidates with secrets to hide drop out of the race. he called out two former republicans who resigned amid scandals. and he wrote that he wants to make sure nothing like that