fights behind closed doors. you walk out and wow. willie what? you know. nancy pelosi would never allow this never. to happen. never. you just don t go out there and get humiliated three times in a row. what a contrast. nancy pelosi never went to the house floor. people saying, what it s going to happen? you went to the house floor, you knew if nancy put it on the floor it s going to pass. did all the work before. hear from a lot of people, willie, kevin pl m had a month to lock it up and didn t do it. he didn t flow how to closed deal so humiliated yesterday. i got to say, that marjorie taylor greene fed up saying she s had enough. you had kevin mccarthy attacking members of his own caucus yesterday. you have the wall street journal editorial page, gop chaos caucus. house republicans said they want to drain the swamp and save america, but they can t even get through day one without a display of dysfunction. it s just it s just chaos. new york post a
The republican side and democrats, of course, but also i think in the eyes of the public and hes still not going to get it . It was actually the core of gaetzs speech was that mccarthy had, what did he say selling shares of himself. And one of the people i assume he tried to sell shares of himself to was matt gaetz. Yes, i mean, this group owns many of those shares and yet they are i think its amazing to people who buy shares or willingly take shares hes giving up attack him for that very act. Yes, but it does speak to this sense of not fearing mccarthy, a sense of lack of respect for mccarthy as a leader and i just dont see how he comes back from this. I think one of the things hes done is approach this with the air of inevitability, right . He goes foo the 11th hour and said i earned it. Its owed to him. Thats not something theyve taken too kindly too. Watch the moderates, this sort of only kevinish. At some point do they say this is dragging the party through the muck and the mire a
the republican side and democrats, of course, but also i think in the eyes of the public and he s still not going to get it? it was actually the core of gaetz s speech was that mccarthy had, what did he say selling shares of himself. and one of the people i assume he tried to sell shares of himself to was matt gaetz. yes, i mean, this group owns many of those shares and yet they are i think it s amazing to people who buy shares or willingly take shares he s giving up attack him for that very act. yes, but it does speak to this sense of not fearing mccarthy, a sense of lack of respect for mccarthy as a leader and i just don t see how he comes back from this. i think one of the things he s done is approach this with the air of inevitability, right? he goes foo the 11th hour and said i earned it. it s owed to him. that s not something they ve taken too kindly too. watch the moderates, this sort of only kevin-ish. at some point do they say this is dragging t
Strong warnings to republicans about the idea of reelecting or renominating donald trump. ron desantiss was talking about the failed agenda of the trump administration. nikki haley was talking about the chaos that a trump presidency is would bring. they were not going after one another as they have been and their attack ads have been, but they are making an argument for a new generation of leaders in a party that is still led by donald trump. it is time to move past president trump and time to start focusing on how to strengthen america. you don t want it to be a referendum on trump in the past. you want it a referendum on biden s failures. reporter: sharpening arguments. ten days until iowa voters representer the first judgments of the republican presidential race. in back to back town halls last night, desantis raise ing questions about trump s eligibilitiablety and the legal
He s now out of the race, basically? look, i think what you are seeing overall, john, this field is shrinking much more rapidly than the field shrank in 2020 for the democrats or 2016 for republicans, you had 17 and as many in the case of democrat, 29 candidates run for office. that s something that s helpful for any of these candidates, including nikki haley, including chris christie, who you are going to have on the show today who want to see that field shrink so they have a shot at becoming the nominee. the fact it s shrinking so quickly i think is a very good benefit for the republicans to have some clarity, even if they ultimately end up renominating former president trump earlier on in the process so that everyone can get a fair shot. sandra: ben, covering a lot for us there. thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it, sir. meanwhile, hurricane idalia is rapidly gaining power as it heads towards florida s big bend on the gulf coast. right now idalia is on track to make l