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World. And welcome to hannity. History on Capitol Hill Tonighel ,republican lawmakers joininawg all 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as house speaker. To the first time in our nations history. And mccarthy will not seeks speakership again. Now, sources telling mt agaie au hour, some House Republicans have been in Contactblican Withd have started an effort to draft former president donal ad to bee the next speaker. N toldi hat pres that President Trump might be open to Helpingid Ort Term the republican party, at least in the short term if necessarys ,if its needed anyway. But heres former Speaker Mccarthy. Earlier tonight. Loo lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight maybe in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. Ill have the conference pick wie. Today s i think today was a political decis. Thingshe democratwa and i think that i think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. And they just started removing ine and theycommitte jus
Said they will only vote for mccarthy for speaker no matter how many rounds of votes it takes. joining us now the author of that piece politics reporter for the daily beast ursula perano. welcome to you let s dive right in. in your reporting you talk about the never kevin group, it s five congressmen, do you foresee that group growing and how much of a problem do you foresee that group able to be against mccarthy with such a slim majority in the house? yeah, absolutely. you know, it s five for now, but they do sort of say that they think there are more of them, more folks weighing their votes or folks potentially trying to make a splashy showing of their vote on january 3rd. i do think there is potentially holdouts here, people in the house freedom caucus, you know, have voiced grievances against how the house has been run, tried to push mccarthy for certain rules changes that he has not yet committed to those are the folks i m watching in that space to potentially come around to t