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griff: i don t think anyone is awake here. it s miami. they don t get up this early. the whole city is asleep. nike i can in nic haven t gone to sleep yet. steve: go to bed early. i got up pretty much every day about #:00. to your point, they probably are asleep. but, look at the sunrise. nicole: beautiful. steve: gorgeous. welcome aboard. it is monday. it is technically a federal holiday. a lot of people have the day off. we have dr. nicole saphier and griff here on the couch. it s great to have you. nicole: glad to be here on this day off. happy to be here. steve: because we had a comp day. nicole: do we? griff: what do we get for that? nicole: to be together. it s the first monday of 2023. bring it in. steve: speaking of the first monday of 2023, do you guys make resolutions or vow to change behavior or something have a hope and aspiration, a goal? nicole: i don t make new year s resolution same thing every year live a happy healthy life. ....
You have that there is enough votes for that person on the second ballot because you have got so many of the republicans say we wanted these changes, particularly the motion to vacate which mccarthy has given along with several of the rule changes kevin mccarthy laid out yesterday the conservatives wanted. how are you going to get the numbers for earn that . seems like you are headed into ha real mess. griff, we shouldn t be in a hurry to make a bad decision. it s worth it to fight for a few hours or even a few days to get the best possible person to speaker instead of surrendering to the status quo and surrender guilty to establishment. if you want earmarks continuing kevin mccarthy is your speaker. if you want massive democrat spending bills not majority. last time he was majority leader when we had control of the congress kevin mccarthy is your speaker. if you wan surrender the power f the purse and true principles kevin mccarthy would be your choice for speaker. that s not who w ....
Boehner lived under which is any given time if you have five republicans. you could force a house floor vote. nicole: put forth what it will take. steve: they have told him. nicole: i want to know. steve: of course we do. one of the other things they have talked about in the press dissidence, the republican dissidence, is that, you know, he has had a couple of years as a leader, and our red wave never materialized. we thought we were going to do better. they only have a 5 member majority. but, if you were reading over the weekend, there was a great article. and i believe it was in the new york times, i had a lot of free time after i finished wordle, i read that and it talked a little bit about how the reason the republicans got the red wave wrong was there were a couple of polls that came out. that suggested there was going to be a red wave. traditional polls had pretty much called it. were right on the numbers. ....
The conservative conference. motivate the base. inspire republicans across the country, get 218 votes to bring congress together to fight against the radical democrat agenda. griff: let me stop you there? who is that name? here we are in the 11th hour. there are no names. give me a name. it s not andy biggs. going to resist for a few more hours what i have resisted the last several weeks. as you know, if we were to put forth a name right now over the last few weeks that person would have suffered all of the attacks and retaliation. griff: you don t have a name. absolutely. griff, you will see that name tomorrow on the second ballot. griff: let me ask you this, because and i don t mean to browbeat you but here we are with some issues that republicans want to get going. keith olbermann wants to get started on oversight. and jordan on judiciary this clearly is going to hold it up. you say you will block in that first vote. you are laying down the marker. will you accept responsi ....
They want to make sure if mccarthy gets the speakership not just his forever. want to have checks and balances on that i understand could of power. mccarthy does have a lot of support within his caucus. important to point out he does have a majority not a majority but most republicans that are going for him at this point. so obviously, for him, money is on him but of course what happens between now and tomorrow nobody quite knows. steve: just one other question for you. that is there are a number of republicans who had suggested they would vote present. present vote doesn t count toward 218 does it? no. but i believe it would lower the threshold had. again, chad pergram much harder man than i am. steve: we couldn t get him. is he working the next hour. i believe it would lower the threshold wouldn t have to hit the 218. fuzzy math still work out in mccarthy s favor there think of the embarrassment this might be. republicans who ran on this unity platform, talked about getting ....