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headquarters in new york city and the political drama captivating washington and paralyzing the house of representatives now in a third day with no end in sight. we're well into the seventh vote. still no speaker ask it does not appear the concessions kevin mccarthy agreed to last night made any difference in the vote count today. the biggest backlash against those conservative rebels coming from other members of their party. slamming them as egotistical opportunists. one of those members, chris stewart, will join us in a minute. and donald trump's big endorsement of kevin mccarthy landing with a thud. his own maga members rejeking his advice and holding the line against the would-be speaker. so has the former president last his touch? joining me now is senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, political correspondent steve kornacki, former congresswoman donna edwards, an msnbc political analyst, john

theory is a long-time republican house staffer, matthew dowd is founder of the group country over party, and susan del percent owe, an msnbc political analyst. one heck of a group. where do things stand on this vote right now? >> where they stand is the seventh ballot is not going to settle it. we're going to head to an eighth ballot. this is now the ninth longest vote for speaker in the history of the country. if it the gets to nine ballots, it will be tied for eighth. when you say there's been no movement, what you've got here, we're tracking them as they vote. these are the folks who voted against mccarthy on the previous ballots. they are voting for byron donaldss, whose name was placed into nomination as an alternative to.com county. except for matt gaetz, who put a name in there for donald trump. interestingly, donalds himself

hasn't voted. garrett had had interesting reporting there. when they get to the end of the roll call, donalds will have an opportunity to vote. it will be interesting to see if he does vote for himself again here. otherwise, there are a few others left here. five others who previously have opposed mccarthy, left to vote we'll see if there's any shift there. . it seems unlikely given the trajectory of this, but this would add up to 20 that have been voting for other candidates besides mccarthy. spartz has been voting present. there's been no mccarthy supporters who jumped ship. if there's a silver lining at all, sho far he hasn't shed any support this this round of voting. but the bottom line is when you start to look at this, in any future vote, it there's going to be a path for mccarthy to break this log jam and emerge, he can afford no more -- you see this long list, there's 21

republicans on it. mccarthy can afford no more than four republicans voting for somebody else. he would need every other republican to vote for him and up to four republicans voting for someone else. that would just bare lu get him over the top. you take a look at this list. it's not just how dug in all 20 seem to be. then you think back tos last night when mccarthy was trying to get a vote to adjourn the house. biggs voted against that. boebert voted against that. crane voted against that. that's four right there. you go down the list, bob good left the chamber saying i think kevin mccarthy is never going to be speaker. all it would take even if mccarthy is able to start picking off a few members with more concessions and deal making, if just five from this list continue to refuse to back mccarthy and vote for someone else, if five continue to do that, he has no path to victory.

>> all right. here we are same place we were yesterday when we were on the air for a couple hours. keep an eye on that. garrett, i have been watching what's happening on the floor. it seems like there's some interesting huddles. do we know what the conversations are? what can you see of what's going on? >> reporter: there's always conversations going on the floor. the ones i'm most interested in are the ones happening behind closed doors just off the floor. really right after this vote began. several of the folks who have been involved in the anti-mccarthy vote, they left the floor and found themselves down stairs in the office of tom emer, the republican whip if and when this congress is ever properly constituted. when those men came out, they were saying nothing about their conversations. what that tells me is if you're looking for some sign that this log jam might break, you're not going to see it on the floor.

you're not going to see it in this vote that maybe happening behind closed doors. typically in congress when people stop talking publicly about what their negotiations are about, it's usually a good sign they are negotiating something of substance. scott perry is standing about five feet from me preparing for another interview. i tried to ask about those conversations and he said he's not going to describe them at all. he told me he thinks of himself as someone trying to be a broker between the people who don't trust mccarthy and mccarthy himself. we'll see if anything is coming out of these conversations perhaps later in the day. but just the fact that they are going on while this vote is happening i think is a noteworthy development, at least in terms of the glacial pace by which this whole story has been developing. >> and what can you tell us about matt gaetz voting for donald trump? >> it's about not being speaker. he voted for jim jordan.

he voted for byron donaldss at least a couple times. he might vote for steve kornacki in the next round here. the point is that he will not vote for kevin mccarthy ushd any circumstances. he's trying to communicate that in as many ways as possible. who he wants to see, matt gaetz didn't give me part of it. >> steve kornacki if nominated would you serve? >> it would be a disaster for the country. >> disaster for the country. i'm not sure that if we're doing any comparisons there aren't worst disasters out there. but that's a story for another day. john, the big difference between today and yesterday is all these concessions that kevin mccarthy is willing to make allowing a single member to bring a vote that could remove the speaker at any time. he's willing to put members on key committees and his superpac

agreed not to spend money in certain races which conservatives were pushing for. first of all, what does it say that kevin mccarthy would even make these concessions and what does it say that even with that, the holdouts are still unwilling to take the win? >> usually when you're making deals, you don't give something away and get nothing back. but that seems to be the dynamic we have here. i'm not sure how much more kevin has in the bank to give. those are a lot of concessions. i thought the clf concession where the outside superpacs which are supposed to be uncoordinated, don't get involved in primaries. i thought that was a very big thing. and it got nowhere. this doesn't seem to be anything that is ideological. it seems very personal to me. and the big question i have is if this doesn't work, and kevin doesn't get it t while these concessions aply to the next guy, who is going to take his

place in the speaker's lottery. so this is a very interesting time. i have been through some very tough speaker votes. i worked for a speaker who had always seemed like an easy time, but it was cutting deals to the last second. this is really confusing to me. at some point in time, they are going to be here for the weekend and hopefully they get this done next week. at some point in time, they have to get paid. and right now they can't get paid. >> and i mean how much time does he have? it awe peers that this is partly personal that they don't trust kevin mccarthy. but it's not like he's dealing with one group of republicans. he's got a group made up of smaller cluster with different goals. how do you do that? it's one thing to have an opposition. it seems like he has multiple opositions on different levels. >> you know what it's like to try to shepard a massive piece of legislation through the house

it's lot like this. you can think of this like a final exam for kevin mccarthy. this is a major test of the same skill set that it takes to do the job to get the job. you have to keep constituents in all different parts of a massive republican conference who have different sets of ideologies and governing principles, personal wants and needs and dislikes. you have to keep a bunch of them happy if you don't have a big majority, you better keep that at a high percentage. as mentioned earlier, he's not going to get matt gaetz. lauren boebert, she's made it clear he's not going to get her vote either. ast a form of triage cutting out the people he knows he cannot get and toexing on those and somehow reducing the number of people who maybe don't trust him and turn those into present votes that's the only way this math works it's very hard, but that's the job. this is the easiest vote in some ways that republican conference will have to take up.

everything else they want to try to actually pass or defeat will be harder than this down the road. >> i'm not sure that bodes well for the country, but again rgs a conversation for another day. so matthew, how much time does kevin mccarthy have? this can't go on indefinitely. what are the the consequences if you're making all these concessions to the rebel group? >> it definitely can't go on indefinitely in the course of this. i agree with john. and at some point by sunday or monday, that the pressure is building so much not only on republicans, but actually in the mode of we cannot have the branch of government for this long. there may begin to be conversations between democrats and eight or ten moderate republicans whoen don't likes what's happening as well in the course of this.

i think you and i talked before election day. and i said that maybe the best result for democrats in the election is they keep the senate. the house, they do well, but republicans keep barely and they win the statewide races because my arguments was republicans would be so dysfunctional to provide a great contrast. i had no idea the dysfunctionality before they took office. and i don't think it can last indefinitely. can it last a few days, yes, but at sol point, kevin mccarthy is going to have to put his egoaside and many members will have to put their egoaside and say we have another what's in the best interest of the country. >> do you see that happening? >> there's a strategy that you want to maximize the pressure on those back home that they hear

from their constituents this is not the way to go. now the danger in that is they might hear from constituents that this is fantastic and they would like them to keep fighting. they are more than happy to see they are tired of too much government. we'll see how this goes. they have to make a decision. if he can't get it, you don't want to leave the republican party in tatters. you don't want to have a situation where you have 15 to 20 moderates join with democrats and then have kind of the coalition government. that would be a disaster for the republican party. i think that even the 20 would understand that the stakes on that would be too high and they would is have to find an all the tuf. >> we want want to let folks know they have cycled through the alphabet. they are going back to some of the people who haven't voted yet. to puck up with john left off. let's say there's no deal and someone else comes in or maybe

there is some sort of coalition government or some other alternative. how does that get the conservatives what they wanted? >> they don't have any core principles. so what they want is not kevin mccarthy. that's it. that's the only thing they truly care about. and not because they care about it but they want a fight and want the to win a fight. what's interesting is there's a group of republicans. i don't know if they are willing to go as far to make a dole with the democrats, but they are not there just to back kevin mccarthy. they will stand firm against those 20 conservatives because they are sick and tired of being ruled by people like that. their vote counts as much as theirs. they are going to say i don't want one vote to vacate. it's an interesting proposition that even if mccarthy steps down and it is scalise or whoever it is, what kind of deal are they

willing to make that the moderates will also back. that's what i think is playing behind the scenes. that's why kevin mccarthy is in so much trouble. >> so congresswoman, jerry nadler talked about how since they right now aren't real members of congress because they haven't been sworn in, there's no security briefings. he said, quote, if there's a real emergency, we couldn't respond. either the republicans don't understand that or they do understand that and don't care. i don't know which is worse, but it is a profound danger to the country as long as it lasts. beyond that, ted lieu said he wasn't sure if staff were being paid. they asked who was helping constituents with everyday concerns. how is any of that getting done right now or is it? >> i think it's not being done right now. i think this is the thing that the country needs to understand. this republican dysfunction, the

chaos that they are reeking now on the house floor has real world consequences for the person not receiving their social security benefits or veterans benefits or maybe they are in danger of losing their home or national security issues. we have a vacancy in the speaker of the house, who is in line for success session. so this is a real disaster. i know i have heard a lot of conversation about this idea of a coalition government and stuff, but i think we really should just dismiss that. that's not something that hakeem jeffries could go along with. there's more than 100 members of his caucus who are either members of the progressive caucus or identify as progressives who would not go along with that with the rules package that republicans have. so republicans need to end this chaos and elect the speaker. either mccarthy needs to step

aside and they need to bring somebody else forward to so the business of government can go on. >> so i want to back to the idea that this is not about legislation or what they can accomplish. this is personal. this is against kevin mccarthy. i want to play part of what lauren boebert told my colleague last night. >> this is absolutely nothing personal against kevin mccarthy. we will elect anyone who will unite the republican party, but kevin mccarthy has prooun that he's not that person. when the conference voted for him, there were 36 that voted against him. right now, we're sitting at 20. i'm the only increased opposition. it's really hard to negotiate when you don't have a lever of trust to have those negotiations with. >> so i'm going to reread that quote from her. we will elect anyone who will actually unite the republican

party. is that really what's going on here? >> i like lauren boebert. she's a very nice person. i'm not sure -- i think she's all over the place here. i think that they are trying to send a message to the political establishment that they despise that they are not going to support the establishment. if they could vote against mitch mcconnell, they would. but they are going to vote against kevin mccarthy because he's the closest thing they have. i understand the frustration out there, but ultimately from a republican perspective, the only way to have any seat at the table is by unifying and starting the process of govern ing. and the only way republicans are going to be in decent shape to take back the house and keep the house and elect the president next time around is by proving you can govern. the american people want someone who can govern. they want a political party that

can govern. if the choice is between a party that reflects their values and can't govern and a party that doesn't reflect their values and can govern, they will go with the parties that doesn't reflect their value. you have to figure this out. you have to figure out how to pull the team together. if it's not kevin, it has to be somebody. and i think that a lot of these 20 are trying to figure out a way out. >> the guy you were just referencing was standing a few feet from you, if i'm looking at the tally if i'm right, he just voted for donalds, right? >> he did. people want washington, d.c. to be west wing. some days it's "house of cards." other days it's "veep." scott perry was on a fox news interview. he had members frantically saying he missed his vote. they were going to gavel it closed. he had to come in and vote. he waited ask waited and waited. finally got out of the interrue and ran to the door of the house

chamber to make sure his vote is recorded. this is a group that's struggling to convey their message effectively, which is why those interviews are important. they are getting beaten up on fox news by other republicans for not letting this process move forward. and b, just trying to string this out a little bit while negotiations continue. his counterpart has been telling reporters just off the floor that things are productive. when asked what he means, he says they are product i haveive by being productive. we are stuck in a "veep" episode right now. now we have a little bit of a built-in pause here as the tellers count the votes. republicans can't get off the floor without a vote to adjourn. they get a little bit of a built-in break to figure out what they do next. that's what we're trying to figure out now. >> thank you. we're going to continue to watch

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we continue to watch this stunning and historic showdown on capitol hill as the republican party struggles to elect its next seeker. this moment putting un. ed spotlight on kevin mccarthy and the growing sures in the gop. it also raises questions about the republicans' future. our next guest a mccarthy supporter calls the detractors a small group of egotistical members who just want their 15 minutes of fame.

joining us now is congressman chris stewart, who represents utah's second district. it's a good of you to be here and not to be facetious, but tell us what you really think of these 20 members of your party. >> i think i said it there. and some of them are friends of mine and some of them are people i have grown close to and have a lot of respect for. but some of them have motivations that aren't about the country any longer. ask that's become clear when they made demands that have nothing to do with the country or how we govern the body here in congress. it has to do with prime committee assignments or gavels on subcommittees. i think when people know that, when other members like myself learned that, it changes our view of some of their motivations. kevin is the leader of our party. i remind people we had an election in november. anyone could have run for speaker. everyone had the opportunity to vote for who they wanted and

kevin won that election resoundingly. 190-30 or something like that. and then to come in a the this point and say, regardless of that, we're not going to support him. it just isn't helpful. let me conclude by saying this. democracy is messy sometimes. we're certainly seeing that, but i continue to be confident we're going to work our way through this and we'll have a speaker in a pretty short order. >> are you concerned? it's one thing to be messy. it's another thing for staff members to question whether they are getting paid or whether they have hospital insurance. it's another thing you can't be briefed on security issues because you're not a member of congress right now. you haven't been sworn in. there seems to be a lot of folk who is are raising questions about national security issues. how long are you willing to let this go on and how worried are you about the fact that there is no sworn in house of representatives right now? >> it's obviously a concern.

you may know i silt on the house intelligence committee. i'm a former air force pilot and officer of national security is one of the main things that i work on here in congress. i can tell you there's ways for us to be aware of whether there are imminent dangers or things we have to have members of congress have knowledge of. so i'm not terribly concerned about that. i think a greater concern is the issue you raise about suppose we get another ten days into this and we don't have a speaker and then people begin to wonder a am i going to get paid. that does become a concern. but i don't think we're going to take ta long. i believe in the next few days we'll have a speaker of the house of representatives. >> you did tell your local station that you don't have a second choice. but how long are you willing to let this go on? how long are you willing to not be sworn in? to not have a functioning branch of government before you say to

yourself, okay, maybe this isn't going to work out the way we thought it would. are there real alternatives out there? tell me about the conversations you're having mind the scenes. >> i really believe that kevin mccarthy is not only very, very well prepared for this. i think he's uniquely well prepared to be the republican leader. are there others that iffen kevin were to withdraw that i would support, there certainly are. but i don't think we're at that point yet. i really believe kevin mccarthy will be the speaker. if i'm wrong, and if at some point he wut draws and for whatever reason decides that for the good of the party he won't continue to put his name forward, at that time we'll consider other members. but right now, i don't think we have to. i think kevin will continue to negotiate with these folks and we'll have a conclusion to this.

>> so i'm very curious what leads you to believe thatten kevin mccarthy will be speaker. you mentioned you're friends with some of the 20. have you been having conversations with them? any indications there could be movement? >> you have them personally. there is some movement. kevin has been willing to concede a number of things. reducing the threshold from 5 down to 1. those kind of conversations will help move this along. apparently wit haven't gotten there yet because i just walked off the floor and we hadn't persuaded any of them to change their vote. i remain optimistic that there

are some things that we can get to to bring the number we need to to support kevin. >> is there anything kevin could give up in the negotiations to make you give up your support of him? is there a bridge too far? >> there is. and honestly, there's many of us who feel like we're very close to that at this point. but more than, that some of these individuals are running out of things to ask for. they have been given. it's not the two or three things i mentioned. there's a list of 30 to 38 rules changes and other things that they were ro points of. there were ideas that many of us supported. but at a certain point, you run out of a wish list. we're getting close to that. then if you go beyond that, you really would reach a point where members of the rest of us would say, look, there's 200 of us.

we're nearing that threshold. there's only so much you can ask for. and we have reached that. the second thing is if you go beyond that, you're going to begin to lose support of the other 200. and i know kevin is aware of that. i think he's careful not to go beyond that line. >> you made the case for something you told to kutv. i'm going to quote you. it's a message of not only division, but a message that says, well, a few people can mandate to the majority. it's a message that says are the republicans ready to lead? how big a hill do you have to climb to convince people this is not the type of governance they can expect going forward? >> i think that will be done with time. we will have a speaker and then we will go on and we'll do the people's work.

i'm very confident of this. six months from now, people won't be think of these days in january. they will be thinking of the work that we have done since then. they will be thinking of the efforts we have made on border security or reducing spending or on protecting our military or on reducing energy prices. they won't look back and define the work that we do as a party by a few days in january. do think our party, absolutely i don't think that. there's no question in my mind that we'll be judged on the work we do over the next two years, not on this bit of an us a suspicious start. >> congressman, a long few days. thank you. we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. susan del percio, while he was saying he doesn't think the republicans are going to be

judged on a few days in january, you were shaking your heads. >> he said it would be the things they achieve. and they are not going to achieve anything. that's why i was shaking my head. what legislative agenda do you think these people who cannot even agree on a speaker are going to be able to move on their own? this is personal. it's deeply personal. and i think that this is going to -- the words that were said during this battle will continue to haunt members going forward. >> we're looking at a picture. we saw the would-be speaker kevin mccarthy talking to andrew clyde. they were deep in conversation. he's one of the 20. a member of congress from georgia. that's an interesting conversation going on. and exactly what we just heard from the congressman that these conversations are going on. they just have not moved anything. mccarthy appearing to lose the speaker vote for a seventh time. next, how his potential rejection as house speaker, what

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>> we are happy to entertain some questions. i believe representatives from the buffalo bills are going to help facilitate those for us. we can't see the chat. >> this is cameron wolf from the

nfl network. can you take us through the timeline from when damar arrived in your care to where we are now as far as what you guys did with his recovery and where that progress specifically is? >> duh come through can you try again? >> yes, apologies. appreciate you both for your time and your care in this situation. just wanted to inquire and take us through the timeline from when damar came into your care and to where he is now stars what you guys have done to get him to this improvement stage? >> sure.

thanks for being here today. what i can tell you is our team involved significant number of the care team involved in helping with plflt hamlin on the field on monday night. he was attended to by four of our best serving in the role as the airway physician, visiting team liaison as well as one of the team positions for the cincinnati bengals. as everybody knows, mr. hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field. it was promptly recognized by the buffalo bills medical staff. and that allowed for very immediate resuscitation on the field. he was properly resuscitated. it did require cpr and defibrillation ask he was transported to university of cincinnati medical center where he was met by dr. pritts and the

trauma team. heavy managed and worked up in the emergency department. had some additional tests in the hospital and then has been managed in the surgical icu as dr. pritts. it's been a long and difficult road for the last three days. he has been very sick and has made a fairly remarkable recovery and improvement to the point, as tim noted, he is now demonstrating that sign of good neurologic recovery, as well as overall clinical improvement, as has been previously reported related to not just his vital signs, but his organ recovery. >> again, thank you very much for your time and all the work that you have done with this. can you speak at all to the cause of what happened?

what caused the cardiac arrest and i think specifically, was it simply the actions that happened on the field or was there something existing that made mr. hamlin, i guess, something that might be susceptible to this happening? >> the a answer to that is that workup is ongoing. we don't have definiive answers as to that as this time and tests will continue to be ongoing as he continueses to progress. >> thank you very much. >> this is wkbw. thank you for everything you guys have done. i know you briefly mentioned about the timeline was like, but can you go into a little more detail or explain how critical those first moments were on the field to ultimately get him to this point? and what the doctors and medical staff and the bills and bengals were able to accomplish in that period? >> sure. i think it just speaks really to

the immediate recognition that there was something suggest cantly and seriously wrong by the bills medical staff. we cannot credit their team about their often injuries that happen on sports fields, be it football or others. but it is incrediby rare to have something be this serious that happens like that and to be that quickly recognized, what they did was immediately marshalled the emergency action plan, meaning the emergency medicine services. that prompted the emergency physician that was out on the field to be at his bedside in less than aen minute. he had a prompt recognition of loss of pulse, which gave him immediate bystander cpr, which as many of you know, rarely ever happens. so the fact that mr. hamlin had immediate cpr in addition to prompt recognition

of his arrhythmia, to get defib rillated and back to the return of circulation very quickly, that speaks to that timeline that you were asking about to get the return of circulation with immediate cpr that was performed well. all meeting the standard of what we would expect in that scenario is what has led us to be able to discuss these good outcomes today. >> i will second that. the bills training staff with him immediately recognized this was not a run of the mill injury and that they had a significant event on their hands. and immediately responded and got the emergency response team involved in his care. and really this went as well as something like this could go under very challenging circumstances. they did a fantastic job. >> and understanding how complicated of a situation this ultimately is, would it be fair to say if things would have

taken a few extra minutes or few extra seconds there could have been a different outcome here? >> i think that's fair to say. >> thank you both for everything you have done and the time today. >> a lot of people breathing a sight of relief that the bills damar hamlin, who suffered that big hit and cardiac arrest in the game the other day is making substantial improvement. i want to bring in maura barrett from cincinnati. clearly as the doctors have pointed out, there's a lot still that needs to happen. there's still significant progress that he needs to make, but obviously, the news here is very good. >> reporter: welcome news hearing that damar has woken up here. i'm standing outside the hospital where he remains in the trauma unit. he will continue to be treated

here, but this comes after the past three days of us reporting that he had been sedated after of suffering that cardiac arrest and was using the help of a ventilator to breathe. doctors now saying that his lungs are heel haling and even better news that as he's talking and interacting with people, he does appear to be neurologically intact. so that's welcome news as well. we have had several fans here outside the hospital who were breathing a sight of collective relief saying they are still going to continue praying. we have seen a similar response from his teammates as well. his family obviously very, very excited about this progress. but again, welcome news even a long road to recovery to go. >> thank you for that. let's go back to the floor of the house. here we go round number eight. and brian mast is speaking right now. let's listen in. >> i totally agree with him on that. but we don't control whether individuals had in here are suting on their cell phones, scrolling through whatever social media or whether they are

paying attention to the issues. we have to look at each other and make each other better. [ applause ] >> when we started this process months ago, behind closed doors, as leadership for the minority was being chosen behind closed doors, leadership for the majority was being talked about and debated and chosen behind closed doors, i said to my friend mr. mccarthy. i said, please don't look at us and see me as your friend or all of us as your friends. don't look at us and see us as your colleagues. don't look at us and see us as

individuals that are votes for speaker of the house. look at us as individuals that are looking out to our communities, our neighborhoods, our friends, our neighbors and our country and telling them that we vouch for you because that's what we're doing. we're vouching for you. i couldn't be more proud to stand here today and vouch for you, my friend. i vouch to my community thatten kevin will do as he was promised. he will give us the opportunity to right the course. he will give us the opportunity to vote. we he won't control how every individual votes, but he will give us the opportunity to make

sure a that we have smart energy policy between the atlantic and the pacific, to make sure he protects our border, protects americans to make sure we don't spend what we don't have on a credit card, vouch for my friend he will give us that opportunity to make sure we don't have endless terms here in the house of representatives. i vouch that he will deliver that opportunity to us. i'm proud to stand before my country and say that kevin mccarthy is different. he is different. that is why for those that i was speaking to earlier, the process is where it is today. he's different. he's not paul ryan. he's not going to get tel you about you'll get a term limits bill and then you won't he's not mitch mcconnell. he fought against the 1.7 trillion wasteful spending package that was sent us to on new year's eve eve. that's not him.

he's different. he's not john boehner. he didn't throw you all that disagreed with him out on your cans and say i don't want to hear from you. i don't want to listen to you. he welcomed everybody. because he's different. and it we give him the chance to be our speaker, we will all be different. he will be different. this congress will be different of and our country will be different. i stand before you today and say the direction of the republican conference, i advance the name of kevin mccarthy, very proudly, as the next speaker of the house. [ applause ] >> for what purpose does the gentlewoman from massachusetts rise? >> i rise to nominate hakeem

jeffries as speaker of the house. [ applause ] >> the gentle woman is recognized. >> 212, 212, 212, 212, 212, 212, and today, 212. [ applause ] >> 212 house democrats stand united behind our leader, because hakeem jeffries stands united for the american people.

[ applause ] >> the historic dysfunction that we are seeing, in intra-party fight, that the american people have been drawn into, is imperiling our national security, it will imperil the ability of this government to deliver basic services. it is imperiling our jobs and our responsibility to serve our constituents. but it is also entirely predictable. they're failing to convene congress today, but for years, they have failed to deliver the votes for the american people. [ applause ] >> and small businesses needed to reopen, and the american people wanted vaccines, they said no, when we capped insulin costs for seniors, at $35 a

month, they said no, when we lowered health care costs and premiums for working families, they said no. when we defended the civil rights of lbgtq+ americans, they said no. when we protected lives from senseless gun violence, especially in the wake of the horrors of buffalo and uvalde, they said no. when we stood up for women and reproductive freedom, they said no. when we brought manufacturing back to america, they said no. when we answered the urgent call to protect our planet and invest in clean energy, and create tens of millions of good-paying jobs, they said no. when we said women deserve equal pay for equal work, they said

no. when we said that child care and paid family leave should be available to every worker in this country, to every family, they said no. when we secured the fundamental right to vote for every single american, they said no. when we stood by our veterans and expanded their access to health care, they said no. when we defended our democracy, two years ago tomorrow, from a tyrannical president, following the january 6th insurrection, they said no. house democrats will stand together. we will stand for the american people. it is our job and our responsibility to elect a speaker who stands with them and with great pride, i nominate

hakeem jeffries. [ cheers and applause ] >> for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> i rise to place into nomination the name of my friend from florida, byron donalds, for the speaker of the house. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> i appreciate that. you know, we're coming off an election. just two months ago, a little less than two months ago, actually. and what did that election tell us? well, when there were 5 million more republicans who cast their

ballots, it told us that the american public wanted a change. they wanted a change from the policies of the left that has taken over the democratic party, they said they wanted a change, change from this administration, this administration that has inflicted so much pain, economically, we've seen crime explode, we've got an administration that won't even acknowledge that there is a crisis on the border. go on down to the border. i've invited this administration to come with us to the border. let's see it firsthand. the american public said they wanted change. they want something new. they want something different. and we are on a path that just

continues. where were we just 12 years ago? an 11 trillion dollar national debt. you know where we are today? almost three times that. both parties share blame there. we have to bring debt under control. you bring debt under control, not just by chaining the rules of an institution, but by changing the leadership. and i'm told this process is painful. it's embarrassing, i'm told. you know what it is? it's not dysfunction. and it's not imperiling. what it is, is the exchange of ideas, an expression of support for people you want to be your leader in the next congress. i think it's incredibly healthy, actually, for the american

people to see that we're on the floor, something that my colleagues across the aisle so rarely like to be. they enjoy the proxy voting, i guess. they sat there, i'll give it to you, they've laugh and they've chuckled and they pointed fingers at us, and they said oh, oh, see here, but you know what, as my friend from florida just said, we're together. we're having an internal fight. it's being displayed. i wish it wasn't necessarily being displayed. but the american people can see it. but i can tell you this, when this is over and done with, i know what side of the aisle is going to be laughing. and it's going to be the side that is unified and taking on the issues that americans care about. the issues that this side has not only ignored but has put upon the american people.

we used to be energy independent. it seems so long ago. two years ago, actually. we're going to restore american energy independence. [ applause ] >> you know how you reduce inflation? you stop devaluing your currency. you stop blowing out the waters by spending $1.7 trillion on an omnibus bill that has how many thousands of earmarks in it? you start taking on crime. you start fighting violence. you start fighting the overgrowth of our budget and restore our economy. you start incentivizing jobs. you recognize that the american middle class is being squeezed, and those who are with more

difficult economic circumstances are being squeezed by an economy that has this inflation that attacks energy. you bring your border back under control. and this side is going to bring that border security under control. we recognize it's a crisis. it's a crisis when the 2020, sector had 9,000 encounter, not for a five-day period, but for an entire fiscal year. under this administration, with these policies, that 9,000 encounters is about a five-day period in the human sector today. you don't know what it's like unless you see that happen. we're on a sub-optimal path. it has to change. and to make a change,