about a four seat margin give or take. we have some races still to be called when things are settled so he can t he s got to win a lot of those over. he has compared it to paul ryan s private conference vote, speaker pelosi, they both have similar margins, but when they went to the floor they had much bigger majorities to work with. they still had a lot of defections. he has a lot more to win over. the freedom caucus has long been a skeptic of kevin mccarthy. they want house rules changes and they want to give the rank and file power to have influence over legislation and other things that go on the house. they say kevin mccarthy has not been in agreement to most of that yet and that s one of their major concerns. always fascinating when a new congress comes to town. lindsey mcpherson, good to see you. quick hits across america now. a driver plowed into a group
is this type of behavior will constitute evidence of obstruction of the inquiry, and secondly, any blocked evidence or testimony will be viewed as an almost admission or corroboration of the whistle-blower s complaint. the third point i want to say is just that i think that right now, the white house might be getting something wrong, which is that, i think the american people, public sentiment has changed significantly, and the american people want this inquiry to proceed. and they believe that something has seriously gone wrong. and so, i think they want us to actually ferret out the facts and figure out exactly what s going on, and so, if you are standing in the way of it, i think you re standing really opposite where the american people want to go right now. i know that legally you guys have the powers you need. there s a reason why you didn t have to do the vote to open an impeachment inquiry, as the previous ones, because you gave yourself that subpoena power with the house rule
not you re hopeful about how fruitful that discussion is going to be, is that the place where they could work out new rules, where we don t keep hitting this limit? no, we would have to do a little bit deeper than that. they repeal gephardt rule and then brought it back. i think it was repealed in 2001, brought back in 2003. repealed again in 2011. that can be done. but my sense of it would have to be one of the house rules changes. i could be wrong about that. i m not a parliamentarian by any means. but i tell you i had a chance to talk with senator morie last week. i think you know how democrats feel, made it clear in the last debate where we are coming from. to negotiate with ryan on the ryan budget the one that passed the house is terrifying to me. that budget did grievous harm to the things we care about in this country.
where they could work out new rules, where we don t keep h hitting this limit? no, we would have to do a little bit deeper than that. they repeal gephardt rule and then brought it back. think revealed in 2001. brought back in 2003. repealed again in 2011. that scan can be done. but my sense of it would have to be one of the house rules changes. i could be wrong about that. i m not a parliamentarian by any means. but i tell you i had a chance to talk with senator morie last week. i think you know how democrats feel, made it clear in the last debate where we are coming from. to negotiate with ryan on the ryan budget the one that passed the house is terrifying to me. that budget did grievous harm to the things we care about in this country. they continue the $40 billion