Kevin mccarthy s quest for power has opened a rift even among the extremists. matt gates one of five house republicans who have vowed to vaet against mccarthy told the daily caller why. i m not voting for kevin mccarthy for speaker because i think he s just a show of the establishment. and the reason most of my republican colleagues are supporting him is because they benefit from the redistribution of lobbyists and special interest money through mccarthy to their campaign accounts. joining me now matthew dowd, founder of country over party and chief strategist with the bush cheney campaign. eugene scott, national reporter at the washington post, and dana millbank columnist for the washington post and author of the deconstructionists. the 25-year crack up of the republican party. thank you all very much for
Where the country should go, and he has very little confidence in kevin mccarthy s ability to lead it. and so that s why he s been vocal in his support about, you know, for people like jim jordan and other people popular with, you know, some of the more extreme figures in the gop, the same individuals that elevated him not only to congress but were very much involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. dana, we ve got a minute left, but i want to end on you with this text from ralph to mark meadows. we ve talked about it before, but i just think this is let s just put this up. this is ralph norman, congressman. mark, to see what s happening so quickly and read about the lawsuits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we re at a point of no return in saving our republic. our last hope is invoking invok
Tonight on the reid out . is this debate or is it just false? no, it s not false at all. it s debatable. as prosecutors open an investigation into the lies of republican congressman-elect george santos kevin mccarthy is facing a caucus in chaos just six days before the house votes on a new speaker. meanwhile serious questions are being raised about where santos got the money to run his campaign. also tonight the death toll is rising after a winter storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow on buffalo. we ll check in to see how the city is digging out and getting back up and running. good evening, everyone. i m jonathan capehart in for joy
Sync with where the republican primary voters are. and dana, i know i mess up the name of your book. it s called the destructionists, and you re writing about newt ging rich and his republican revolution at the time. but these folks who are ruling the roost in this current republican majority are quite some characters. there are six people who are opposed to kevin mccarthy right now being speaker, and kevin mccarthy can only lose i think four of them if he wants to become speaker, but what s interesting here is of those six two of them requested pardons after january 6th, andy biggs and matt gaetz and also in there is marjorie taylor greene and she s voting for kevin mccarthy. also marjorie taylor greene was caught on tape saying if she had planned january 6th she would
Have been successful and her people would have been armed. i m just you ve written about kevin mccarthy and what s happened with his quest for for the speakership, so put all of this into historical context. how far has the republican party slid from the destructionist newt ging rich to these jokers? right, it s just been iteration after iteration to this so 1994 the tea party wave, the trump wave and so on. i don t often get to say this, so let me say i agree with matt gaetz. he called kevin mccarthy cave in mccarthy, that he ll cave in to anything, and that is exactly the issue. he stands for nothing but ambition. so this is, you know, old-fashioned coalition politics. it used to be, you know, you d