speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in after waiting on the historic 15th ballot. it is not my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel. look to a son of bakersfield, a former small business owner, a proud product of a firefighters household. but the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy, you write? i never thought we d get up here. my father always told me, it s not how you start it s how you finish and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leader jeffries, there will be times we agree, and many tanks we will defer. i promise our debates will be passionate, but they will never be personal. but that s my commitment to you. after taking his own oath of office says the speakers were in the members of the 118th congress and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes. too short
in after waiting on the historic 15th ballot. it is not my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel. to a son of bakersfield, a former small business owner, a proud product of a firefighters household. the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy, huh? i never thought we d get up here. my father always told me, it s not how you start it s how you finish and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leader jeffries, there will be times we agree, and many tanks we will defer. i promise our debates will be passionate, but they will never be personal. but that s my commitment to you. after taking his own oath of office, the speakers swore in in the members of the 118th congress and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes. too short of a majority of the house with six members voting present. it was of cours
chase those stories to make that the central narrative of what we re all talking about. they want to put that last for five days in the rearview mirror and the best thing they can do that is to go on offense by going after the biden presidency. tim miller, depending on who you ask, you probably saw the worst of american politics. republicans were defending it by saying this is democracy in action but a lot of people were saying this is power, this is a man who is trying to fill a seat and do whatever he needs to do to hold on to political power. and we heard kevin mccarthy say time and time again, the slow quote from his father but it s not where you start it s about how you finish. it is off to a bad start for the republicans after this week. what is your sense of those who have been saying this is how we govern and we ve heard of governing the republicans at least have been saying we are learning how to govern, we are learning to front load our problem so we can get back down to the
to the site business of governing? look, we re ayman, i don t think there s anything wrong with messi to governments, messy democracy, having to compromise, having to deal. in a vacuum, i can see that argument that this is best for america, this is what it s like to have a democratic system in the peoples house. the problem is that this is not what was really happening this week. it s not as if there were horse trading over policy issues, if they re any great contentious debates that people were compromising over. what this was was a small group of extreme republicans who want to stick it to kevin mccarthy who want to stick it to republican leadership in order to have them raise money online and get the monster defendants podcast and get attention for themselves. we saw leader and kevin mccarthy that was really willing to give away to all these extremists even more