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but at what price? he made a whole lot of concessions and it darn near came to blows. more on that later. just how did things unfold the way they did on that crucial 15th ballot, and how did mccarthy forces get those 6 never kevin members to end up voting present rather than against mccarthy? pennsylvania republican scott perry was a no vote on mccarthy too, but with he changed his mind a few voting rounds earlier. why then? we ll ask him, because perry is here now. and so is texas congressman keith selt who did the same thing. and look who wells is joining us this morning who else, none other than dan crenshaw who had some very choice words for those early holdouts, called them enemies, and that was even the nice part. what does he think no? and why dud south dakota republican dusty johnson insist republicans can move on now? he ll tell us. they ll all tell us because they re all here, and so are we. ed good morning, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and maybe i should be ....
it s great to be here as congressman. it was a long night, but we finally made it here. neil: yeah. what a bumpy ride, a controversial one. but it s done, to your point. now, you were originally against kevin mccarthy. unlike the six who voted present in the end, you had voted for, i believe on the 12th round of voting. why? because i was convinced that what we then called the framework of negotiations that were going to return some level of authority to individual members of congress was preceding a pace, and i thought we would get there and eventually i think we did because i m not going to be a chairman, i m not going to be in leadership, so i will be a member of congress. so in the past two years, there s been almost no authority for individual members of congress and this framework, now an agreement, did exactly that. and i look forward to exercising the constitutional horses given ....
Desire, votes on term limits and ca budget resolution to balance the budget in 10 years plus an array of spending cuts. with the speakership sorted, the 118th congress was finally sworn in. and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on. you are about to on which you are about to enter so help you god. i do. congratulations. [cheers and applause] you are now members of the 118th congress. [applause] reporter: now, speaker mcthink has a maintained that he does not feel this drawn-out process has weakened his position whatsoever. neil? neil: we shall see. still early going. thank you very, very much for that, alexandria hoff. in the meantime, we have texas congressman, i no longer have to say congressman-elect, they re all congressmen now. keith selt, again, of texas. congratulations, congressman, and very good to have you. ....
But at what price? he made a whole lot of concessions and it darn near came to blows. more on that later. just how did things unfold the way they did on that crucial 15th ballot, and how did mccarthy forces get those 6 never kevin members to end up voting present rather than against mccarthy? pennsylvania republican scott perry was a no vote on mccarthy too, but with he changed his mind a few voting rounds earlier. why then? we ll ask him, because perry is here now. and so is texas congressman keith selt who did the same thing. and look who wells is joining us this morning who else, none other than dan crenshaw who had some very choice words for those early holdouts, called them enemies, and that was even the nice part. what does he think no? and why dud south dakota republican dusty johnson insist republicans can move on now? he ll tell us. they ll all tell us because they re all here, and so are we. ....