that's john boehner walking in as we can see. i want to let the viewers know that's happening. on. >> reporter: yes, he's had a rough day, waiting for this moment. now, here's a chance for boehner to be celebrated by members of the house as he will take the gavel, presented by nancy pelosi the minority leader in the house. this is a point of celebration. can you see there is the family spirit of the day as well. lots of children and families are here for the oath of office for all of the members. now this ceremonial moment which is significant. for as much bashing as congress gets, a lot probably well deserved, these are days where they pause and they celebrate the institution of congress and what it can mean or should mean for the american people. so, back to the substance of your question. there will be a lot of pressure to have some of those message votes. but for example one of the things you'll see house republicans want to do is to examine the issue of the 30 or 40-hour work week as it relates to the health care law. trying to reinstate the idea that a 40-hour work week i

it is john boehner 216 votes. apparently not a lot of drama. >> well, we'll still cover it even with the drama without it, whatever. thank you so much for joining us. >> the real story with gretchen carlson starts now. >> we start with the fox news alert for this hour. the police have suspects in custody in the shooting of the new york city police officers. we will give you all the breaking details. >>> the speaker of the house is as you just heard, john boehner. it was a nail-biter and new reaction from the white house on whether the president will actually veto the keystone pipeline bill. >>> plus, a big announcement in the world of baseball. who will make the hall of fame? i'm gretchen carlson, and "the real story" starts right now. >>> we've just been telling you over the last 30 seconds or so, john boehner in his third term as house speaker. he needed at least 206 votes, and he got over that. 116. speaker boehner faced not one, but three republican challenges today. texas louie gomert and ted wr oho and danie

is there any likelihood that john boehner loses the gavel or go to a second vote? >> there is a small chance. there were surprises recently. scott garrett of new jersey and chris gibeson of new york they didn't vote for boehner and that was a surprise to me. in the end of the date i don't know where the vote stands. >> if that 11 votes for others than boehner right now from the republican side. >> it would be hard to get to whatever they need. a lot of democrats in the chamber and lowers the threshold that boehner needs to win. if everyone was there there could be 29. depending on how many show up today. >> sherry, opponents of speaker boehner feel that he's not been robust enough in challenging president obama i wonder if in some respects if wake -- weakening him does that weaken his standing with the president. >> it does, it reenforces the narrative of john boehner not being able to control the house. if you paid any nows, it has been an issue for the speaker. in the long run, i don't think he will have a problem. many new york democrats are in the funeral of mar

we anticipate john boehner will be reelected. but as you point out, there are some opponents, some names have been raised, some names put into the process right now, technically informally. >> reporter: that's right. we're seeing all the members president -- not all 435 but pretty close in their seats. and they're being called on one by one in alphabet call order. we're only in the cs right now, to say who they support. all of the democrats so far have said pelosi. that is the tradition, again, of those in the minority party to vote for their leader as speaker. but because they don't have the votes, that doesn't happen. and we've only so far heard just a couple of republicans vote for somebody other than john boehner. and those others are louie gohmert, ted yoho and daniel webster, three conservative republicans who put their hats into the ring in order to make the point that they don't believe that john boehner has been the right kind of leader for republicans over the last for years. so we'll continue to watch this. the key her

dana momentarily, we should know whether or not john boehner has officially been reelected speaker ofpresentatives. we'll stand by for that. i'll also speak live with one of the republican leaders in the senate john thune, his party is now the majority in the u.s. senate. lots to discuss with him. our special coverage continues right after this. >>> vice president joe biden, take a look at this about an hour or so ago, he's the president of the u.s. senate. he was swearing in the new members -- these are actually live pictures right now. he's taking photographs with some of the newly elected and reelected senators, their family members, joe biden, part of the job. he's the vice president of the united states but he's the president of the senate. so he swore in a whole bunch of newly elected senators and reelected senators. you see senator orrin hatch joining the festivities there. that's going on right now. >>> as gas prices drop at the pump the u.s. federal gas tax could be rising. the last time that happened that was back in 1993. back then bass prices for as low as $1.09 a gallon.

the phone conversations between the president and john boehner.uncommon for him to roll his eyes on one of the longest shpeels with obama's must haveled voice. another camel to hand him a file without skipping a beat. he will pick it up in time to register a standard of uh-huh or i'm not sure about that mr. president. >> i do it with relatives here too. boehner and obama do sort of like each other. they bond over golf. i don't think there is a lot of chemistry between them. obama gets on people's nerves on the hill. democrats feel the same too. the thing that boehner's folks told me is what really aggravates them is instead of talking about tactical stuff, politics or details on legislation, obama tries to sell boehner on his point of view. perfect example were the exchanges on immigration. they did a bunch of trading over the summer. he was not able to do that. during the exchanges where they were working on the same side, there would be 10 or 15 minutes where boehner would have to sit and absorb an obama speech and he hates that. >> interesting

and where john boehner was a member.an complained in his initial interaction with police that because he had just been fired from the country club, he quote, did not have time to put something in john boehner's drink. they interviewed him in october about the case. he stated he did know the bartender from the club, but he didn't recall any negative situations. he thanked investigators for their efforts in the case, but again, the very strange breaking news tonight from the fbi, is that a man in ohio has been arrested for threatening to kill house speaker john boehner. that indictment was filed tonight. we'll bring you more on the story if and when we learn more. the man in question is in custody right now. we'll be right back. you can find a new frontier. there's nothing stopping you and a lot helping you. technology that's with you always. this is our promise. it's never been better to wander because wherever you go, you'll find us doing everything we can, so you can. i'm jerry bell the second. and i'm jerry bell the th

had just been fired from his job at the country club and that he was going to kill house speaker john boehnerecause mr. boehner he said was mean to him at the country club and was responsible for the man being fired. the context of those remarks consider that he told police john boehner is the devil. and that john boehner is responsible for ebola. police say he also told them that he, himself, is jesus christ. the suspect in this case was hospitalized for a psychotic episode in the past. that is apparently not enough to keep him from obtaining at least two guns. the man told police after that 911 gun that he was in possession of a loaded beretta handgun. and a bunch of different kinds of ammunition. three boxes of different types of ammunition a bunch of loose rounds of ammunition and a speed loader. they later visited the man's mother in kentucky she said she took her son's assault riffle out of his house while he was away because she was worried about his state of mind. thank god for his mom, if not the law. when they did find the handgun that the man had in his house, the one he said he wo

and john boehner. democrats who would like her to no longer be a house democratic leader minority leader. but they don't have the ability to effectively challenge her leadership. so why bother? >> there's not really going to be a serious challenge to nancy pelosi at all? >> no not at all. >> and there won't be a challenge to harry reid as the minority leader in the u.s. senate? >> once again there are senate democrats who would like to see new leadership and yet they don't have the votes and they don't have the power and people like harry reid and nancy pelosi got to where they are by wielding power effectively. >> even though the democrats in the senate suffered the democrats in the house suffered they will remain the leaders with no significant opposition at all? >> that's exactly right. i think one of the challenges for john boehner going forward, by the way, is the fact that the senate is now controlled by republicans. that actually means because the senate is the cooling saucer as they say, of

john boehner tried to centralize the power and the speakers as nancy pelosi did. ntrol. boehner had more challenges than pelosi in the past. there have been a lot of grumbling over the years that maybe it's time for her to step aside and there were divisions in the ranks of the leader who is have not been here or can't. she can be a tough customer. >> she is very tough and without doubt. that's why it will be interesting to see who does that publicly. most of the people lost in 2010 and 2014. on the point you made about john boehner, it's important for all the talk about restoring order, he asserts the power of the speakership similar to what nancy pelosi did. without going to the committee process and we expect that to continue moving forward. in all honesty, that's the only way they can get things accomplished. if goes to regular order. the longer a bill is out there, the more time they have to go up against it. that's in the future right there. we will see how strong his margin is. his passing aids john boehner's ability to suppress the up rising and fascinating

is john boehner in any trouble?> the short answer is no, but this is not what speaker boehner and the republican leadership want to happen as the kickoff this new era for republicans, this joint control of congress, both senate and house. he faces a challenge from two conservatives who say they want to run for speaker. they are a long shot. you would need 29 republicans to either say they want to vote for somebody else and simply vote present to trigger a second ballot, and that is likely to be a distraction, and embarrassment from john boehner, but he is going to prevail in the end. the question is, does this have a lasting impact beyond this first day? >> is this a challenge of things to come? >> this is a sign of things to come, if you will. the numbers are big. they posted that 29 number and all of a sudden john boehner is reminded early on he has to watch his right flank. that is not the sort of message that republicans hoped to convey as things kickoff. they really want to seem united in front, john boehner wi

certainly for john boehner passes family, this man e-mailed john boehner's like directly.ertainly a concern for his family and not some thing anyone should have to go through. >> peter cook, our chief washington correspondent. a bipartisan chief -- team of senators introduce legislation to reform immigration for high skilled workers. something the tech industry has really been focused on for the last several years. i want to bring in my guest host for the outer -- for the hour. great to see you this morning. you hear about all of the shenanigans again on immigration. you say what? you are still hiring? >> we are hiring and we hire immigrants. we have one guy with us right now who had to leave the country to get his visa. he is australian and he almost had to go back to australia to basically get a piece of paper. that is the operational heart and it is insane. >> he is still being hired. >> he is, but it makes you think twice about hiring someone. he is fantastic and he has got skills. >> there are 65,000 visas out there. can you honestly say in the tech sector, every sing

. >>> the honorable john a. boehner is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives for the 114th congress. >> big drama in the house of representatives today as john boehner is re-elected speaker. >> we're glad and humbled to begin anew as servants of the people's house. >> we'll hear from two republicans who challenged him for that post. >> john boehner's a nice guy. what we're lacking is political leadership. >> in november the speaker had said we were going to fight tooth and nail. >> and bill clinton gets caught up in an excrony's sexual lawsuit. what's his connection? ann coulter is here tonight with the details. >>> the war on cops continues as hollywood liberal bill maher makes disgusting comments about the nypd. all that plus former presidential hopeful rick santorum is here to tell us about his 2016 aspirations. welcome to "hannity." so the 114th congress was officially sworn in today. republicans now control both the house and the senate. and john boehner was re-elected as speaker. here with the very

a. >> john boehner now officially re-elected. >> new congress, same speaker. >> boehner looks lamer. >> the honorable john a. boehner. >> i want to thank my family. >> i wish them well. >> obama recently said his new year's resolution is to cooperate more with republicans. >> more cooperation. this time. >> areas of common ground. >> big battleground is going to be the united states senate. >> there are going to be areas where we disagree. >> president is going to see the keystone xl pipeline on his desk. >> obama runs out on stage and says are you ready for some stuff that's never going to apologize? >> a lot have announced their new year's resolutions. rand paul vowed to stop asking his barber for the ramen noodle cut. >> i just swore in your grandson. >> he said it's great to be here in the amazon. always want to see where the books came from. glad i'm here. >> for the first time in eight years, republicans now control both chambers of congress, and tonight, john boehner has managed to retain the title of speaker of the house of representatives. >> this house will continue to be le

but first, john boehner keeps his job. there was a surprisingly strong challenge to john boehner. a one-day blip or an omen of things to come? >> as we say in pong, blip. john boehner had his challenges. people on twitter and other places have said they would like to see him go. this was not his problem. he has other problems, but this is meaningless. >> i agree. it is a problem that is not going to define his speakership or ruin him. it is as much of a problem as it was before, except before he had to rely on democratic votes. now that republicans have all of congress -- >> all that matters is the next two years. the next two years, when boehner needs help, paul ryan, jeb hensarling, other conservatives will back him up. the whole thing is not on the president, but boehner and mcconnell taking risks. the two dozen who voted against him today will not matter. >> the responsibility will be more his watch than it was before. >> he is speaker and he recognizes that. he is not an angry guy. he is not a guy who was going to be rattled by this thing. you could imagine somebody who was s

>> john boehner is no surprise. it was predicted but seems like every time -- melissa: a little drama in the last little bit. >> come on. no. >> here is the drama. i did this on twitter and facebook, i'm going to nominate for the forget the tea party pumpkin spice latte party neil cavuto. i'm nominating neil cavuto as house speaker. melissa: he would be a great house speaker. >> of the pumpkin spice latte party and i'm going to be only one voting for him. melissa: okay. jack, you're speechless. >> i have to read the details of the party platform before i opine on the pumpkin spice. >> pumpkin spice. melissa: i'm eager to see a republican agenda and what it looks like. i'm interested to that. too much of what they have done in recent years has been reactionary. now they have -- >> i disagree. i disagree. they were doing a lot of work. the problem we're finding out is good ol' harry reid was blocking everything over there. he controlled the senate so much that nothing got past him, not even what democrats wanted. >> h

>> john boehner wishes we would not have drama.a triumphant moment for republicans. john boehner expected to be elected to his third term as speaker, but he faces a republican rebellion. conservatives want to see someone else in the leadership position. john boehner can only suffer 28 defections and still hold on to the gavel. the question is, are there enough rebellious conservatives to stand in the way and force this into a second about? john boehner has been talking to members and trying to convince them to stick with him. >> what is your sense? >> we are probably at 18 by our headcount, and possibly more. i think they will not get the magic number, at least his opponents two blocks away. the important thing is, the people who are voting. there are people at mario cuomo's funeral that will make it a little easier for john boehner. however, it is an embarrassment he even has to do this. >> you think the people in new york for the funeral will affect the vote? >> yes. the people who are present is what matters. the democrats will

to doug is live with what is happening. >> almost all of the focus will be on house speaker john boehner can he win another term as speaker. the answer is almost certainly yes. but he is facing a challenge of almost two other republicans. this under scores problems with boehner. some say he gave into the administration especially in the wake of the massive end of the year spending bill known as the krom bus. >> there are 67 that voted against the omnibus spending bill. that's a good place to start. had communications with many of them along the way. his possibility is this. if one or two more candidates moved forward it would increase the possibility of those who would want to vote for speaker john boehner. >> they are expected to use the new power to push for legislation to improve the pipeline as well as changes to obamacare the president could always veto. with you we will take a careful look at it. >> on the senate side of things where mitch mcconnell automatically becomes the majority leader. >> look who is talking. charles krauthammer can't wait to see the gop's to take the reigns

tea party conservatives got 25 votes when all was told to oppose john boehner. was this a bad start for the g.o.p. - distracted by this internal sniping instead of focussing on substantive issues. >> i'm not sure that the 25 votes for others were republican votes. there were four or five democratic votes that didn't vote for pelosi. they never got close. republicans needed 29 votes to send it to a second ballot. it was exciting because there was some whipping it up in the press core of trying to make it exciting. i will tell you, having been through these, that if the john boehner people thought that there was any chance to fall short, the word would have gone out over the city to people like me and others to get on the phone and i would have had my call list handed to me saying get on the phone with this guy. i don't think it was as exciting as it was led to believe. >> you wrote in your column that we don't know if the congress will tackle or vote on difficult issues. and quoted shakespeare saying that this could be two years of sound and puree signifying into

he's a republican member who led a revolt, got 25 votes against john boehner. people voted against boehner. he said if we give foreign aid to foreign countries, they'll be eating dog food? >> he only got four votes. >> let's get through these people. stephen king, a member of your caucus voted against him. what do you think of stephen king? is he completely insane? >> he's made a name for himself being anti-immigration. he voted against boehner because he thinks boehner will do something on immigration. and i think boehner will do something on immigration -- >> he's the guy with the cantaloupe legs, right? >> yes. >> who are this other guy, representative yoho, what's his story? is he has good as his name? >> he used to do work with animals. he was a -- >> these are strange people in your party. you said this menagerie has been tamed that boehner doesn't care about these people. they were willing to dump him from the speakership. >> in many ways, what boehner has done is given them a free vote. he said there would be no retribution. when tip o'neil was speaker,

the magic number for john boehner is 29. if he can avoid that it will stay on a single ballot and he will prevail as speaker of the house. at at someone republicans really want our focus and the nations focus to be on all the things they plan to do now that they have control of the house and senate, we will see what this vote tally is. it's a distraction and embarrassment. it's not the way they want to kick things off. >> when they get past this, it sounds like john boehner will likely get past of this. what is the first big vote on the agenda for congress? >> even before the new year began, it is the keystone pipeline. you will have the introduction of legislation to authorize the keystone pipeline in the senate today and news conference is planned with a vote in the house perhaps later this week on friday. this is legislation that will authorize the keystone pipeline and will challenge president obama to veto this legislation. right now, it looks like they have the 60 votes they need to get a pass in the senate which they

. >> opposition for john boehner. ohio congressman is challenging him. >>> the 7 year old sole survivor of a kentucky plane crash that killed her entire family. >>> first, we begin this morning with a fox news alert. the u.s. embassy in indonesia issuing a warning. the same city where airasia 8501 took off from before crashing into the java sea a week ago today. rescue workers hoping they will soon recover more bodies and wreckage from that flight but bad weather and poor visibility continue to hamper that rescue effort. david is live for us from thailand on this recovery. hi, david. >> reporter: it's now over a week since airasia plane was lost and despite the best efforts of those rescue teams, they still haven't been able to explore the body of the plane on the ocean floor. more bad weather stopped attempts to try to confirm that five large objects found by sonar at the bottom of the java sea are parts of the missing airasia plane. indonesian officials are confident that items found by sonar 100 feet down are parts

i'm watching the vote and one of the first names is john boehner, john boehner, he didn't show up so he knew he didn't need the vote. however there was a group that said they wanted to push back, one of the congressmen got 13 votes, louie gomer got three votes, a senator even got a vote. it was interesting to watch. the message to john boehner is that there is a group that wants to be heard and they want to push back on some of the stuff. those 300 or so senate bills that have sat on harry reid's desk arelikely to come to a vote. >> we shouldn't buy this media created conflict between the right and the far right. because they only do that to take these spotlights off the left. so they always like whenever there was any kind of disagreement within the republicans, that's a huge deal. the conflict isn't about the right and the far right. it's between the persuasive and turn likely. the leadership that must compel not repel. so you're looking for not differences in degrees of ideology. but skills in seducing the public. so it's never been about whether or not louie gomer is more of a ri

there's been a response from john boehner's office. i want to share. say speerk boehner is ware of the situation and thanks the fbi, capitol police and local authorities in ohio for their efforts. michael hoyt was treated for a psychotic episode. he was given medication and stopped taking it. they are taking this threat seriously. is that fair? >> sure it's fair. in the past year three different people have been arrested for threats to congressman boehner. was in new castle indiana who sent threats to the congressman. another was by twitter from arizona. in this case this is somebody that knows the congressman personally has poured him drinks served him drinks at the country club. being in his district, obviously, the congressman would go back and make public appearances all the time and be very vulnerable. we know what can happen when you have a mentally ill person with a gun going to a political rally as we saw in the case of congresswoman gabby giffords being shot in the head in tucson arizona a few short years ago. fbi and the police took this very

only from t-mobile. >>> a bizarre plot to kill house speaker john boehner and it involves his former der. authorities say this man, 44-year-old michael hoyt who worked at a country club where boehner was a member wanted to kill the ohio republican for several reasons, including his belief that the ohio republican was responsible for the ebola outbreak. the story doesn't end there. zach wolf is managing editor for cnn digital politics. he joins me from washington with more. good morning, zach. >> reporter: good morning, carol. >> tell me more about this plot and how police discovered it. >> reporter: well it's really kind of amazing. they discovered it because michael hoyt the 44-year-old bartender had worked for the country club where john boehner goes in ohio. he called 911 essentially on himself and said he was thinking about doing this and that he had a loaded gun and of course the local police went to his house and found the gun and took it away from him. he told them he thought john boehner was responsible for the ebola outbreak. he was e-mailing with boehner's wife asking for a

they were sending a message to to mitch mcconnell as much as they were to john boehner. don't compromise. boehner would clearly like to forge some kind of middle-of-the-road consensus on a few issues. it's not going to be easy and i don't think his party will make it easy for him. gl we conclude with eddie redmayne. >> what i loved about the script it was almost like a scrutiny or analysis of love in all its guises. it's this young, vibrant passionate love but it was also family love or love of subject matter, and ultimately the boundaries of love. and the physics of love element of it is interesting, because steven is in search of this theory of everything this one equation that explains everything but it always seems to me the notion of love is the one thing we can't quite articulate or reason. >> rose: al hunt and eddie redmayne when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communicati

likely john boehner will win the top spot for the third time in a row. a little dissent. licans saying they'll vote against boehner and two saying they'll challenge boehner for the title. congressman gohmert of texas are on that list. should boehner be shaking in his boehner britches? a spokesman tells "the washington post," quote, he expects to be elected by the whole house this week. that's what most prognosticators are saying but it reveals interesting fault lines in. caucus. kelly o'donnell covering all of this. thank you so much. what will it take for this message from these conservative opposition leaders to get through the mainstreamers, or is that even possible? >> for the last few years, the sort of irritation factor that's been going on between the most conservative members and john boehner has been a running story we've been covering. this is another one of those moments where those who believe he has not done enough to answer their concerns are going to you know make their objections known. this is not a real surprise. these couple members characters in that st

they're challenging the leadership of house speaker john boehner. snowy day in washington, d.c. hat vote set to get underway in the house. speaker boehner fights to keep his job. florida congressman running against mr. boehner. he told us why he wants the job. >> i put my name in the hat. mr. goemer put his name in the hat. people vote for the status quo or vote for the american people that sent them here. again, we work for the american people. >> so chief congressional correspondent leading us off. how much concern is there about this conservative challenge of speaker boehner? >> most folks don't believe they believe the votes and many house republicans are looking forward to getting through this voting and process so they get to business. he was the choice of the house republican conference in november and they say he expects to be elected again today. they also note these conservative challenges had the opportunity to run against boehner in november and did not and no one nominated them. they claim it is time for new leadership. it is certainly generating buzz for them and co

and the speaker of the house, once again, john boehner, republican of ohio. i've got dana bash standing by. a couple more questions for you ladies as we watch all this. dana to you, speaker boehner did not mention really any specific issues didn't mention keystone pipeline. what was your read on his address? >> reporter: it was vintage boehner. kept it lofty, kept it big picture. he tried to keep it together because he is known to shed a tear or a thousand. in fact, he joked about that. about the fact that he was keeping it together until he saw one of his colleague's kids and then lost it. doesn't take a lot to set john boehner off. but it really was, like i said, sort of classic kind of speech from him. did not, was trying to grasp the moment, understanding that he is the leader of the republican party, but he is the speaker of the entire house of representatives. and also would note that there was a gracious speech right before he got the gavel from nancy pelosi his democratic counterpart. and that is the tradition for the leader of the minority to hand the

chair to the wood of john boehner's ass! i say that he has wood there-- (applause) >> and let me say this again and i have said this before and i say this to you tonight the american people john boehner is grute. watch, watch, as the president has to go remedial on these folks. >> in is good news people. >> jon: this is good news. you [bleep] idiots! after the speech we're going to eat food. it goes in your mouth hole. >> not if you made it. bleh. >> and incidentally democrats didn't mention this good news during the midterms because you know they wanted to keep control of the senate but not at the cost of giving away any state of the union -- >> last night it was like the entire gop realized it was allergic to applauding things. although to be fair to one republican senate majority leader senate mitch mcconnell had rolled on to his back and could not be turned over unaided. he was-- (applause) >> but even though-- he was tired of watching t even though the president speaks with affection for how our country really is unifie

senator rand paul. >> the honorable john boehner. >> john boehner won this one, but he had to fight off a serious insurrection. 25 members of his own party declined to vote for the guy nor any defections of speaker in recent memory. that's 13 more than the second highest in two decades, john boehner in the last congress. >>> so here's where we're at with the 114th congress. the speaker's party is at odds with him, still. and the guy who spent 14 e $13 million to give republicans full control of congress was back at it again to play it all out. he was there for today's big show. if things keep going his way, maybe they'll build a jerry jones style owner's box for him in the house gallery so he can watch his teams play. >>> so on this day of fresh starts and new beginnings, it's already looking like dog poop -- >> dog poop -- >> has nothing to fear. >> joining me now, dr. howard dean, he's also an msnbc contributor. >>> so if you look at it numerically, oh, he lost 25 voets. but, historically, this doesn just happen. everyone falls in line. they vote for the speaker. but there were three

john boehner needs a majority of the house to vote for him. democrats will vote for nancy pelosi in there might be some who don't vote for her but vote for another democrat. john boehner needs to keep that number under 28 or so, and it looks like he has got that. what remains to be seen -- overall, it is a safe bet that john boehner is going to be speaker. host: in terms of what happened to use goat versus this time around, there are a couple of different candidates that have put their names forward. is it unusual that they haven't coalesced around one financial t -- one potential pick. guest: it is a shift in strategy, and the dynamics are different. they had lost seats in the senate, lost the presidential race lost seats in the house. here john boehner and his team have picked up 13 house seats. he has got momentum. the shift in strategy you mentioned is because last time around they did not coalesce behind one. vote for whoever you want and maybe we can get it to a second ballot and basically create chaos, and it was chaotic because it got

caller: john boehner is not conservative. i have called my congressman doug collins, and my former congressman, bryce, they should vote against boehner. taxpayers, we are paying their salary, not john boehner. good taxpayers again -- i head of leadership. -- good taxpayers ahead of leadership. i'm sick of those who will put the visitors ahead of taxpayers. host: a lot of headlines are saying boehner is likely to win. here is one from the usa today today -- this morning. how do you see republicans giving the 29 plus votes to block him? thereof only been about 10 that have definitely said they would vote against him. -- there have only been about 10 that have definitely said they would vote against him. caller: if doug goes against his own constituents, who pays 100 $72,000 a year salary, he's in real trouble. -- ok his $172,000 a year salary, he's in real trouble. host: you would vote against her own congressman in the next election if he doesn't vote against boehner? caller: i would strongly consider that. host: joe mccutchen,

custody undergoing a 45 day mental evaluation after being accused of plotting to kill house speaker john boehner. investigators say michael hoyt came in frequent contact with boehner, was a bartender for five years at the house speaker's country club and served him many times. speaker boehner took to the house floor in the past hour addressing a controversial dhs funding bill making no mention of the incident. investigators say hoyt threatened to kill boehner in october, saying he thought the speaker of the house was the devil and responsible for the ebola virus. court documents reveal hoyt even e-mailed boehner's wife telling her i could have poisoned his wine many many times. nbc's luke russert joins us. luke, obviously the allegations are true the access the man had to the house speaker are chilling given he was a bar tender and was there many times. >> it is frightening, in fact. we know that john boehner sort of knew mr. hoyt as a bartender at his local ohio country club and the speaker is often there playing golf and enjoying merlot two of the things he likes to do in his off time. the oth

>> this was an ugly win for john boehner.g a couple of dozen votes in your own party when there's no opposition, this is not a sign of strength for him but you would hope what it does for him is makes him listen more maybe to conservatives as they press, but i think for conservatives, they also have an idea here that their white house is still occupied by barack obama and you need to achieve what you can. >> you take this seriously, jason? >> it is what it is -- >> purely symbolic and didn't accomplish a thing. >> the people that were running to replace him were not serious contenders. if he was facing a serious challenge, we would have seen someone like henserling or paul ryan, that is not the caliber of candidate we saw coming out of this. the republicans picked up 14 seats. they have the largest majority in the house in nearly 80 years. voters seem to like the job that john boehner is doing. >> what about the president's response? >> he's now issued three veto threats already, one against the keystone approval rate and one

became three-time house speaker john boehner after fending off a minor challenge from... an idiot. boehner gaveled-- oh, my god! oh, my god, john boehner has become the wood of his own gavel! ( laughter ) john boehner-- he-- he is brute. he is brute. ( applause ) there you have it. your new house and senate republican majority, smooth sailing for them from hereon out. >> representative steve scalise is facing backlash after it was revealed he spoke before a white supremacist organization in 2002. >> jon: really, backlash? we have to look at it with a little historical content. back in 2002, back then, the civil rights act had only been in effect for ay really long time. good luck spinning your way out of this one, scalise. >> i'm not familiar who that griewt grooup was but from what i've seen about them they don't represent the values that i represent. i detest hate groups of any kind. >> jon: seriously though, you didn't know that you were talking to a white supremacist group? what did you think it was an oddly musicallist toga party? >> how could he not know? the group w

waiting for house speaker john boehner to take the podium. he's being introduced right now. you as soon as we hear and see mr. boehner. in the meantime markets here dow down one point. was down more than 100 points at the open it's really come back pretty strong. nasdaq and s&p 500 are in positive territory. >> all right. a lot of things we've missed in the course of the morning. house starts not too bad, up 4.4 in december. single family showing strength some of the strongest numbers since 2008. hasn't done too much for the housing sector. there's one of the hopes dashes over the past six months. if housing were to take off, what would it do for the economy, jobs and wages? >> as we await house speaker, we bring in john harwood from washington. what is mr. boehner expected to say? >> reporter: going to react to the president's speech. we heard from a couple of members of congress. kevin mccarthy, the house republican majority leader. and they've said that the president has the right goals but the wrong approach. that's an interesting way of not getting into a frontal war wit

[applause] >> john boehner once again the speaker of the u.s.ouse of representatives opening for one hundred 14th congress. i would like to thank my colleagues peter cook and phil mattingly for their contribution during the roundtable. we will continue to follow the developments in congress in the coming days and weeks here on bloomberg television. turning our attention to autonation. reporting double-digit sales or december. chairman and ceo mike daschle joins me from fort lauderdale on the florida. welcome back. -- fort lauderdale, florida. >> my pleasure to be with you. >> the 12% increase due in large part to consumers buying premium luxury vehicles. did you have to entice them to go to dealership or is this climate of low interest rates and falling gas prices getting consumer confidence? >> the consumers coming in on their own, the economy is genuinely growing now. probably at a 3%-4% rate for 2015. we still have pent-up demand for the great crash of 2009 and 2010. credit is readily available at very attractive rates. now all of a sudden we