>> she was trying to be funny like kat cammack is a character and she was trying to have a good time. all prim and proper, how dare say i drink. i got to go, my kid is going to a drag show. they are not the morality police, i found that laughable. republicans are pressuring themselves to wrap up because democrats are calling us unorganized. who cares what the democrats think. i love this is dragging on forever. >> todd: interesting. why? >> first of all, why, because i don't consider this embarrassing compared to the state of the country under democrats. the border is embarrassing, inflation is embarrassing, they are not running the country into the ground, they are just dragging out the process. i think it is embarrassing in the last 100 years we didn't make leadership get held to this standard. let them rip, tell drinking jokes, kat cammack, different material. >> todd: i think aoc comedy is getting better, it is improving slightly. we lost shame and etiquette from our society, why not have be ms of congress get turnout in the halls? >> settle this with a game of yo mama, that is w

joining us now florida congresswoman kat cammack. great to see you.hat was your reaction to the president calling republicans quote, fiscally demented? >> that is really rich, coming from a guy that takes his orders from the easter bunny, contact complete a coherent sentence but regardless we'll the ones getting fiscal house in order. he has no interest in being serious about it. this man in the white house spent $10 trillion over first two years in office. he wants to balk at us discussing the scope and size of government. i don't know if anybody noticed recently the price of eggs is what people will be getting at the grocery store for a long time to come, upwards $12 a dozen. i know they have not shopped for themselves recently, people like me, everyday americans, we're sick and tired of inflation. we're sick and tired of the welfare state. we want to get our house back in order. republicans are going to do it. elizabeth: so you know, every democrat since jfk, even through the democrat platform through george w., with obama was about cutting spendin

joining us tonight, congressman kat cammack, james comer, former ecohealth alliance vice president drdrew huff. joe gamaldi from the national fraternal order of police, art del cueto from the national border patrol council, jon levine and "daily caller" vince colanese. look at this the just disdepartment is accused allegedly covering up release of hundreds of documents payments and gifts to the biden family from china, russia and ukraine. we'll break down that lawsuit. also the illinois supreme court at the 11th hour blocks illinois's new law to get rid of cash bail for major crimes. now could this set the stage for states to stop getting rid of cash bail, causing retail theft to veer out of control nationwide? elon musk reveals new bombshell twitter files could be coming this week on dr. fauci. plus, should all politicians release their own tax returns after democrats forced the release of trump's taxes? i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. happy new year. let's get right at it. look at your stocks ending lower on the first

stuart: congresswoman kat cammack, thank you for being with us this morning. want to look at stacy abrams. she lost the georgia governors race two times in a row. ashley webster, good morning, is she going for 1/3 time? ashley: third time lucky, right? as the saying goes. abrams says she will likely run for office again but didn't specify for which position. is she is on drew barrymore's daytime tv shows. >> i will likely run again, if at first you don't succeed, try try again and if it doesn't work you try again. ashley: not giving up. abrams lost her second bid for georgia governor to incumbent republican governor brian kemp by 8 points about she is seen as a fundraising giant in the democratic party, she raised one hundred $13 million for her 2,022 campaign and built two of the largest voting rights organizations in the state. but the latest filings show abrams campaign now has one. $4 million in debt with the campaign manager blaming negative press and negative polling that made fundraising difficult in the final months of the gubernatorial race in georgia

if you watch the nomination speech by kat cammack, republican of florida, there were some cat calls back an forth and people yelling back and forth across the aisle. people are getting tired. they're getting grouchy. you're probably going to see the tensions continue to rise. that is where you actually see some action. because people are going to say, hey, we're doing the same thing over and over again. that's where somebody will go to kevin mccarthy and say what is our plan? how much longer are we going to do this, martha? >> martha: thanks very much, chad pergram as we watch all of this play out. there's a lot of rules that pertain to the way all of this is being carried out. you just saw cat cammack. she placed the latest nomination for kevin mccarthy. we're going to mike huckabee, who is watching all of this from afar at this point. governor huckabee, great to have you with us. you know, what goes through your mind as you see how dug in both sides are here? where do you think this goes? >> first of all, i don't think i could get far enough away from it to be completely happy. i think

alexandria ocasio-cortez gave some credence to kat cammack's observation about alcohol, if democrats were doing shots every time there was an unsuccessful vote that would be passed out by now. but brad sherman, positive if mccarthy is speaker, he would have to make deals with the democrats because not with the house freedom caucus. >> that's absolutely not true. look, we are always interested in working with republicans and we don't want our speaker to be working with democrats as long as the speaker is true to what we believe in, as republicans across the board, we are going to be in fine shape. we have to get this worked out and get the tools in place and again, sometimes with the personnel to have transformative change so we don't keep ending up with the same thing. what we keep doing is the same thing with the same people under the same conditions and expecting a different outcome. i don't know why we would keep doing that. >> john: if i could just finish the question that i had for you congressman-elect, if mccarthy as speaker, a hypothetical, were to cut a deal with democrats i

. >> brian: when kat cammack came out and indicated the democrats were drinking during this standoff, there a bar outside? i mean -- >> i have no idea. she made it kind of tongue-in-cheek. she was asked about yesterday. i think bret baier asked her about it and she brushed it off a little bit. >> brian: they didn't like that. >> they didn't like that. you can hear an audible sound on the house floor. but a lot of them have been in there the entire time, and every time, they stick together and they vote 212 for hakeem jeffries. >> ainsley: we don't know if they are drinking alcohol, but they are eating popcorn. >> steve: david, thank you very much. g.o.p. insiders are saying that, while some progress has been made, they expect it to drag into next week. they are preparing for it to drag into next week. the problem is, kevin mccarthy is very sensitive to the fact that they keep having these roll call votes and he loses every time. there could be a delay of game. they might come back for a little while today and just say, "you know what? it's thursday. let's come back next week." >> bria

let's bring in florida republican representative elect kat cammack who made speech nominating mccarthying here. >> hey, thanks for having me, bret. >> bret: do you know what happens at 8:00 p.m. >> right now negotiations are ongoing. actually, right behind me, we have got folks who are hashing out the differences that are keeping us from going from 91% to 100 percent. so, as long as those talks continue, that's a good sign. it's when folks leave that table that's when things get a little concerning i'm very optimistic. >> bret: i know you didn't hear representative roy at the top of the show he said one of the demands there is a list but he wants four of nine, it seems on the rules committee. is that something that kevin mccarthy is will to negotiate to be speaker? >> you know, i have seen over the past not just weeks and months but kevin mccarthy has negotiated in good faith with our conservative base for well over a year. we have had task forces that every single one of us conservatives have had a seat at the table. and when it comes to some of the issues that i am most passionate ab

presented of elect kat cammack told me last hour they had booze in their cubbies. >> they didn't like that. it in like that. >> pushed back on that hard. i think what you will get is a successful adjourning vote which means the mccarthy people succeeded in that sense last night. i don't know if they can do it again today. you are right, democrats love this but there is a point at which they want to move on to but not yet. if they do agree to support some candidate come a consensus candidate, that will come with strings as well. whether it's committee, committees being equal, subpoena power on committees, that is a big deal when you're talking about big investigations. >> harris: hunter biden and the like. >> we are not there yet. i do want to make one other point and that is for the 20 that are holding ground we don't know it's 20 as of late, there may been a shift robbery of one present as well, it could be more. there are always the always come in group who are saying they're only voting for kevin mcca mccarthy. on the 200 plus but there is a group of those. and you have to consider

in fact, when i have talked about this bill to other people over the years that kat cammack has had acharge pe significance to bring to the floor, and so many others all across the country have asked congress to address, the first thing that people express is shock. they say wait a minute. if a baby is born alive outside the womb, alive, how could you kill that baby and that be legal? how is that not already murder? i questioned how it wasn't myself. and yet in a number of states it is legal and happening today. this is america. you see countries like china and north korea, there aren't many countries in the world that allow this practice. the united states should not be one of those countries. this is inhumane. this transcends the abortion debate. before the dobbs decision, this bill still would have been constitutional to pass. because we are not talking about 20 weeks. we are talking about the baby born alive outside the womb. and yet in america there are some states that allow that baby to be killed and called abortion. you can call it whatever you want. it should be murder. it sh

in fact, when i have talked about this bill to other people over the years that kat cammack has had a discharge pe significance to bring to the floor, and so many others all across the country have asked congress to address, the first thing that people express is shock. they say wait a minute. if a baby is born alive outside the womb, alive, how could you kill that baby and that be legal? how is that not already murder? i questioned how it wasn't myself. and yet in a number of states it is legal and happening today. this is america. you see countries like china and north korea, there aren't many countries in the world that allow this practice. the united states should not be one of those countries. this is inhumane. this transcends the abortion debate. before the dobbs decision, this bill still would have been constitutional to pass. because we are not talking about 20 weeks. we are talking about the baby born alive outside the womb. and yet in america there are some states that allow that baby to be killed and called abortion. you can call it whatever you want. it should be murder. i

next, i would like to welcome congresswoman kat cammack, she is a representative for farmers and business people. she was a rodeo queen in high school. and last, but not least, we have a congressman jay obernolte, from california's 23rd district. his background is an innovation, business, and video game development. his two sons think that must be pretty cool, and, in addition congressman obernolte he served in california state legislator and is mayor of the city of big bear lake. so, again, welcome to all of our members. we are excited to have you on the team, and i know that you are going to make the biggest impact possible for those you serve on this best committee in congress. now, i would like to recognize my friend from new jersey, mr. pallone, for five minutes of an opening statement. >> thank you, chairwoman rodgers, and i know you talked about the historic nature of the committee and being the oldest continuous committee, which is certainly true, but what you didn't mention is that during that entire time, we only had men as chairman of the committee. >> and now we have a chairwo