jeff van drew. jeff van drew is supporting me. jeff van drew was a democrat five years ago. switched parties now a great member of our conference. is he supporting me. that's what we have to do so we can get to the real goal which is those things we told the american people we were going to do for them. >> steve: it's interesting. scalise and jordan are both considered further to the right than kevin mccarthy who one of them could replace. for jordan, who, you know lawrence you mentioned the house freedom caucus, he is hard right. and what he has got to do is he has got to convince mainstream republicans in the congress that he can govern and not simply tear things down. and so that's why yesterday he met with the main street caucus a group of business minded republicans. and scalise, his challenge is to stay one step ahead of jordan and make better inroads with the right wing, the hard right. in steve scalise's phone pitch yesterday, the number one thing that attracted members was he said he reminded them, you know, i'm the number one fundraiser behind kevin mccarthy. >> ca

jeff van drew, jeff van drew is supporting me. jeff van drew was a democrat five years ago.tched parties and now he is supporting me. i think we can do that. that is what we have to do. so that we can get to the real goal, which is those things we told the american people we were going to do for them. >> brian: ultimately it comes to that thing again, somebody's got to get to -- the question is who will it be? stephen's goalies has a dozen and so does jim jordan. here are people suggesting maybe donald trump and donald trump himself said maybe i come in for 30 days, just until things blow over. highly unlikely because it would be hard for him to also get to 218. >> brian: we will see how many candidates on the floor with the exclusive joint interview with everybody that wants to be speaker including jim jordan, kevin hearne, oklahoma steve scalise or at least those threes hand that could be more. i originally heard will be stephani but i have not seen her name on the list sense and i don't see any women. >> ainsley: i don't think kevin o'hearn officially said he was running.

joining me now is new jersey congressman jeff van drew.d your colleagues wasting here. you have to get the appropriation bills done. it's been two months since you've gotten nothing done here. >> well, we've gotten the majority of the appropriations bills done but we've just got to move them through now. let me say this. we, it is incumbent upon us to come together and pick a speaker. p republicans are right on the issues, they're right on the border, they're right on the debt, they're right on the military. we have the answers that the american people need. but we've got to get this process done. it's up to jim jordan, he is the speaker designee, it is his right to go for another vote. we have to see if we can get everybody together. i look forward to him being a speaker, he's a good, conservative, solid man that ah has done a good job. i worked with him closely. he's my friend. and i certainly am committed to that. if he decides, and that's up to him, if he decides that he no longer wants to go forward, i think there are other capable in

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jeff van drew is supporting me, he was a democrats, now a member of our conference, he is supportinge have to get to the real goal, those things we told the american people we would do for them. >> ainsley: we've watched joe biden, he came out much afghanistan and told everyone that was success and with the border, he said it is not a crisis, it is secure and not open. now they are saying we have to build a wall. they ran on never building a wall, we will not build a wall and this morning you have his team, mayorkas saying there is acute and immediate need to construct barrier and road for unlawful entries. why change his tune now? >> because democrats are telling him, the problem is so severe and serious, they are not doing what president trump said we should do all along. that is how bad this situation is and if we can pass the legislation that i think changes the equation, when we say you cannot use tax dollars until you stop the problem, that is how you fix things and what we need to do. >> steve: talk about aid for ukraine. there are number of conservatives who say in your confe

talking with, you know, we got from freedom caucus to people in the middle to committee chairs to jeff van drew, democratic four years ago, all kinds of across the board support and we are going to keep working. >> and that was manu raju moments ago working early in the morning. i think underscoring that jim jordan is working -- or he tries to figure out his path forward to the 218 or requisite number of votes he needs. that comes after trump had been floating the idea of being speaker himself, even though he is in the middle of a civil fraud trial and facing four criminal cases. he is also running for president. >> jim jordan working early. manu is never allowed to sleep, by the way. the upcoming calendar, right now set to meet monday in this race to replace kevin mccarthy. they will hear from candidates, jim jordan, steve scalise, on tuesday. an internal election is expected on wednesday and there could be a house vote on that same day if there is a candidate who can yun unify enough republicans. they need to win support from moderates and hard-liners who voted out mccarthy. >> insight f

we got from freedom caucus to people in the middle to committee chairs to jeff van drew who was democratr years ago. we have all kinds of across the board support and we are going to keep working. >> right. cnn's kristen holmes following donald trump, lauren fox up on capitol hill. kristen, first to you. how did this happen and why? >> reporter: yeah, john, i mean, this came after a very chaotic day in which former president trump inserted himself into an already tumultuous situation with the republican caucus on capitol hill. he was floating the idea that he was going to travel to capitol hill to speak to republicans, which had a lot of gop house lawmakers, including some of his allies, a little bit concerned. they didn't think that was a good idea. he also did an interview in which he floated the idea that he would serve as interim speaker, not mentioning the fact that he would actually have to get the votes to do so. on that interview i'm told that some of his top advisers didn't know he was doing that. the same advisers that have been telling me and my colleagues all week that trump

new jersey congressman jeff van drew made a party switch under president trump. lot of folks that have fit that bill. erik johnson is the most interesting one of all because he is the mayor of one of the biggest cities in the country. i don't think republicans have a mayor in one of the top 20 cities in the united states. erik johnson immediately has a chance to show how a republican -- he is already very popular and can show how republican governance can make a difference in an important state. texas is a pretty republican state. i have a feeling he could be on the short list for governor, senate, higher office as an african-american republican governing one of the biggest and most important cities in the country. >> bill: he is someone to watch for sure. hillary clinton sat down with cnn and let it rip, josh. at one point saying trump, the alternative to end our democracy. i don't say that lightly. she -- perhaps she has a new phrase for deplorables. >> sadly, so many of those extremists, the maga extremist take their marching orders from donald trump. at some

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jeff van drew, republican from new jersey, indicated that they should give him a shot.so that's the problem. the house can't advance bills. they want to adopt a resolution to support israel and condemn hamas. they can't even do that. and there's another quartet of people here on capitol hill who are saying if we can't get somebody like scalise or jordan or anybody else, maybe we should try to go back to kevin mccarthy, the former speaker. you know, he didn't rule that out during an interview on brett baer's program interview on the bret baier program earlier tonight per ata ignored case earlier tonight in the other thing too watch for i there's another group of republicans that think maybe they should try to empower. he is the speaker pro tem. until he with israel. >> can you repeat all that? honestly. >> absolutely. i know you could. thank you for staying, we appreciate it. we know you been working on it the past couple of days. joining is now with reaction, i studio, let's get a warm, new york, welcome to the former speaker of the house. i walked out, i did not get a

jeff van drew, republican from new jersey, indicated that they should give him a shot. >> they a bit it's obvious, over a couple of days, this is van drew, then maybe they should move on to somebody . here's what's going to happen tomorrow. the house republicans will meet again, head to meetings today. they'll have another meeting tomorrow because you can never have enough meetings here on capitol hill. they will meet at 10:00 in the morning and try to figure out what is the course forward. >> will they put up kind of some guardrails, some parameters to what they want to do? >> but there's a lot of republican members who don't think that anybody can get to 217 and they started with steve scalise. >> they believe that might be the case with jim jordan, although it seems like there's a lot more boisterous support for him. >> maybe not as broad there, but we'll see in the next couple of days. it's very hard to read this. zach nunn, a republican from iowa, indicated earlier today that he just wanted somebody who could be the speakers the and they could start to to move legislation. >> so

the last time was the end of 2019 when jeff van drew switched from being a democrat to being a republicanre thinking about what it means to be in the minority in the house. when you are in the minority, you are often not that interested in helping the majority party get its act together. this is the most extreme version of that. they do not have a permanent speaker because of divisions within the republican conference. while there are a handful of house democrats who come from districts who voted for president trump, i do not see them representing a meaningful block. they are certainly -- unwilling to change parties over the next speaker is. guest: lawmaking has changed over the last 25 years. it used to be that even newt gingrich and bill clinton can get together and pass a balanced budget in 1997. the main significant payment curves to bankruptcy. it was headed for bankruptcy and now it is again. what is the playbook now? as we saw with barack obama, who said he would unite the country but he was handicapped by the fact he had an overwhelming democratic majority. he did not have to call