an opportunity to help guide this caucus is a great responsibility. meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, house republicans are fighting amongst themselves over who will be the next speaker. republican leader kevin mccarthy faces the possibility of a humiliating and potentially career ending defeat as he scrambles to secure enough votes to get his hands on the gavel. at least five members of his caucus have already publicly vowed to vote no on mccarthy as speaker. and joining me now is the newly elected house democratic whip, congresswoman kathleen clark of massachusetts katherine clark of massachusetts. sorry, that s me being silly. thanks so much. i want to show you the picture, the side by side of the new leadership presumably we re not 100% sure about the republican side. but just looking at their leadership team and your leadership team, it is a big difference. what do you think it will mean for the people of this country? the people of this country
tonight on the reidout as the verdict of this case makes clear, the department will work tirelessly to overcome those responsible for crimes related to the attack on our democracy on january 6th. the oath keepers sedition trial he was referring to, trump s white nationalist dinner guest, and kevin mccarthy s embrace of his party s fringe. it s all happening at the same time, and it s all connected. and while kevin is facing the possibility of complete humiliation in his caucus, the democrats today made a historic and smooth transition to a younger generation of leadership, one of those new members congresswoman catherine clark, joins me in her first interview since being elected house democratic whip. meanwhile republicans appear to be passing the torch to florida s ron desantis, buying
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if do you, i endorse you. if you don t, i reject you. let me tell you, that s not what this party stands for. it s no the what it should stand for in the future. we need to stop it now. hakeem jeffries is making it official, announcing his bid for democratic leader in a letter to colleagues. jeffries seems all but secured after speaker nancy pelosi and leader steny hoyer s decisions to step down from leadership posts last week. over the weekend, speaker pelosi voiced her support for jeffries along with the likely new caucus chair and minority whip congressman pete aguilar and congresswoman katherine clark. current house democratic whip jim clyburn announced he will stay at the leadership table as assistant democratic leader. that means he has the number four job. house democrats will gather next week for the leadership elections. joining us now, co-founder of punch bowl news, jake
conference. earlier jeffries told cnn that he s confident that democrats will remain united during their time as the minority. the majesty of the house democratic caucus is that we also incredibly diverse in terms of race, gender and religion and sexual orientation, region, life experience and even ideology. if we can have some noisy conversations at times about how we can make progress for the american people, what we have seen is that under the leadership of speaker pelosi, jim clyburn we have constantly been able to come together time and time again. and i m joined now by house democratic whip jim clyburn who is right now the number three leader in the democratic caucus. he s thrown his support behind jeffries and also announced his bid for assistant democratic leader. good evening, congressman. good evening. so you stepped aside from your leadership position along with nancy pelosi, but you