speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in after waiting on the historic 15th ballot. it is not my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel. look to a son of bakersfield, a former small business owner, a proud product of a firefighters household. but the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy, you write? i never thought we d get up here. my father always told me, it s not how you start it s how you finish and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leader jeffries, there will be times we agree, and many tanks we will defer. i promise our debates will be passionate, but they will never be personal. but that s my commitment to you. after taking his own oath of office says the speakers were in the members of the 118th congress and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes. too short
help me deliver on that. if the past week is an indicator for what may lay ahead, it may be a bumpy two years. we hope it s smooth and out a little bit. senator russia cushman murthy, thank you so much sir. we appreciate you coming on. thank you, ayman. i mentioned this a moment ago, one of the surprises of this long night was the fiery speech of democratic leader hakeem jeffries. we are wide, we are black, we are latino, we are, asian we are native american. we are christians, we are jewish, we are muslim, we are in, do we are religious, we are secular, we are gay, we are straight, we are young, we are older, we are women, we are man, we are citizens, we are dreamers out of many, we are one, that s what makes america a great country. t hat s what makes america no matter what s [applause]
possibly give away and the willingness of the never kevins to actually be never kevins. congratulations to the new speaker of the house, i didn t think he could get to 218 votes, he did it. get the 2:16 but he got enough to be speaker and we all watched out how this played out which was kevin mccarthy completely out ruled by 21 members of the house and i would suggest the other people that got ruled by this 21 where the 200 colleagues who have had to give up stuff because kevin did their dealing for them. if matt gates gets gavel, he takes it from somebody. if for members of the caucus going the rules committee, that s four and less slots for the other 200 that sat silently with kevin. what you saw him do though was beat kevin mccarthy which is all things to all people. can he maintain that is the big question tonight. i can tell you what i m watching for, ayman, in this. there is no way that the debt ceiling will be raised without
to the site business of governing? look, we re ayman, i don t think there s anything wrong with messi to governments, messy democracy, having to compromise, having to deal. in a vacuum, i can see that argument that this is best for america, this is what it s like to have a democratic system in the peoples house. the problem is that this is not what was really happening this week. it s not as if there were horse trading over policy issues, if they re any great contentious debates that people were compromising over. what this was was a small group of extreme republicans who want to stick it to kevin mccarthy who want to stick it to republican leadership in order to have them raise money online and get the monster defendants podcast and get attention for themselves. we saw leader and kevin mccarthy that was really willing to give away to all these extremists even more
that clip is so fitting, sitting right behind kevin mccarthy is the one boebert who s one of those holdouts into the variant. you re right, ayman we, kevin mccarthy made the calculation that was gonna meet donald trump on his side and donald trump endorsed him and her about that and work this week but people who are lord told on trump, some of his final holdouts i think when you look at a two years, ago there was an effort to take the capital by force and what we saw this week is very different in terms of the exercise of democracy and the republic. at the same time, as you point, out the same members are looking for new ways to dismantle the basic functions of our government. what you can see in the concessions that kevin mccarthy it s going to be difficult to get anything done, and what i mean specifically is raising the debt ceiling this year