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come back monday, try again. but at the very last second, there seemed to be a deal reached between gates and mccarthy. and a 15th round again. finally, kevin mccarthy was elected to be the next speaker of the house. let me close with this. i may not know all of you, some of you are new. but i hope one thing is clear after this week. i never give up. joining me now from capital of the hills nbc news capitol correspondent julie circuits. let s talk a little bit about the deal that was made to get mccarthy over the finish line, and what you re hearing about in next epsilon with congress. a lot of concessions were made. some of the moderates are really unhappy about that. because mccarthy was willing to go pretty far in order to secure the speakership gavel. one that he has been trying to get since 2015. so some of the concessions he made to some of those hard-line conservatives, including matt gates, lauren boebert, and others, have to do with the budget, have to do ....
Conservatives, including matt gates, lauren boebert, and others, have to do with the budget, have to do with the omnibus government spending, those are the big things that we are seeing here. and also, most importantly, have to do with committee assignments. namely, we are talking about the rules committee. three house freedom caucuses, such as the heart rate fraction of republicans in the house, get seats on the committee, they are essentially control the floor agenda, and another for the important thing here is the motion to vacate. they can essentially call for a vote of no confidence, threatening his speakership, he exiting the yesterday told us he s 1000 percent confident, he ll get a hold on to the gavel. but look, the world s package, which includes these concessions, it s something they haven t passed yet. that s going to happen, hopefully mccarthy, thanks one day night. it remains to see enough moderates still go along with. it take a look at what mccarthy hinted on the floor ....
Republicans have. and in full disclosure i was part of that small group of republicans a few years back that blocked kevin mccarthy s ascension to the speakership, the first time he tried to become leader because i told him point-blank that republicans refuse to address comprehensive immigration reform, kept pursuit of repeal of obamacare without replace. and that was when republicans controlled the house. we know the republican caucus has become more trump like, not less trump like and kevin mccarthy won t be able to control the floor agenda. talking about paycheck issues, health care, on community safety while also saying we re going to engage in oversight but not too far, that contrast over the next years is going to hurt republicans and donald trump more than it s going to help them. they ve got to identify who is the voice of the party as all these presidential candidates emerge, and they ve got to look hard at all the losses they had last tuesday. how do you win states like flori ....
Less trump like and kevin mccarthy won t be able to control the floor agenda. talking about paycheck issues, health care, on community safety while also saying we re going to engage in oversight but not too far, that contrast over the next years is going to hurt republicans and donald trump more than it s going to help them. they ve got to identify who is the voice of the party as all these presidential candidates emerge, and they ve got to look hard at all the losses they had last tuesday. how do you win states like florida, how do you win states like missouri? those are real procedural challenges republicanvise s hav figure out as well. they ve got republicans at a whole new level of insanity. he says quoting a person close to donald trump, he says this is a matter of the president now being on his own without any counter veiling force ....