former speaker speaker of the e kevin mccarthy.now to sit back and watch what is taking place in congress. not just the house but all of congress. and you can see the glide path is basically where the democrats want it right now. we are going to have to really show up in big numbers and change the electoral map, increase the numbers in the house. when the senate and elect donald trump to have any hope of saving this country, aren't we? the democrats are not interested in compromise. they are interested in monopoly power. >> people sit back if they sit back and think about how much further the democrats would go. republicans have the house they are able to stop a lot. i will tell you this for everyone sitting at home. this is a unique opportunity if the election was held today president trump would win simply on the merits that people can measure what we have been able to accomplish but on the card of joe biden himself more around the world a brighter white open fentanyl killing americans at five embassies have to evacuate. the deci

aforementioned kevin mccarthy is here. i love an optimist. i love a bull and i love kevin mccarthy. let's begin with mr. trump? >> well i'm optimistic because that's what the data shows. let's go back to the last election. president biden won that election by 48918 votes. so if you take the polling from then and compare it to today, president trump is really at the exact same place he was then. the difference is, president biden was plus 10 favorability then. he is minus 20 now. i think if the election was today it wouldn't even be close. president trump would win big. you're seeing it, even talking about new york. you're not mentioning michigan. you're not mentioning pennsylvania, arizona, or georgia. president trump has been leading in those swing states for a number of months and now we're looking at black american percentage, up to 22%. if president trump gets above 13%, democrats will never win the white house. and you look at his growth with hispanic voters. we've watched that in congress, winning the districts along the border. we were the first party ever to have a mexican-b

she is backing that was case when kevin mccarthy of thrown out too, the people.t gaetz did not have a candidate to win consensus. this is a democracy, this is how it works if she does not like the bilges bills she votes again them, she has one district in georgia that is plus 22 that is her big selling point. not a big group of people, deal with it, shut up and by the way, when donald trump came out and said he supported michael johnson that should be enough forever these people who are backbenchers, they should say we'll make it work that is the game. >> everyone is a rino . >> over or under on trump. >> reagan did it twice, trump -- you can imagine a private citizen running for president and winning, he has done it before. larry: you are taking over. >> safe the tape. >> joe concha,. i'm kudlow, up next, kevin mccarthy, very optimistic about republicans winning the house, senate and white house, i'm business. it's not a nine-to-five proposition. it's all day and into the night. it's all the things that keep this world turning. it's the go-tos that keep us going

they do like the fact they believe he has been much more honest than kevin mccarthy. he has not made deals with different sides that are not congruence with one another. they also think he did the quote right thing. he passed the multiple bills to fund the government. multiple bills to avoid short-term government shutdown and now he has advanced the foreign aid package israel, taiwan, also ukraine for the democrats it i house speaker mike johnson. >> speaker johnson recently announced his son will begin at the is not the time to be a republican or to be a democrat this is the time to be an american. he is referring especially to the ukraine aid the $61 billion everyone knows the world is watching. if ukraine cannot stave off a russia, a pollutant will keep going the next thing you know he is stepping into nato territory than that u.s. is dragged into that. i think it would be surprising if at this point marjorie taylor green does try to oust the speaker because it appears in sight of her own party as well as of course it democrats they are tired of basically the polit

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there's a reason this fundraising is less than half of what kevin mccarthy's musk whether i like it orot, the speaker of the house is a fundraiser in chief for majority party and we are going to have lackluster fundraising with everybody, especially donors being aware he's not the next figure. it would be who of us to get somebody in there. joey, let me begin with you because marjorie taylor greene did not move on vacating the house speakership today but you have called white there and probably not going anywhere. >> i have thoughts on why he's there to begin with, there's a lot in that poster statement, a lot of tentacles to the school politics of it and then policy involved. before we get into should we spent the money they spent? look at work speaker johnson is and whether republicans are. it is a good chance republicans will win the senate, a good chance donald trump will win the presidency in a decent chance those two things will then republicans will be in a deficit in the house. what got us here when you look about kevin mccarthy, the last straw and matt gaetz make say because o

that's a quote from then from republican leader kevin mccarthy. democrats, of course, joined in the condemnation. they have stood by it through today. what is different, what we're charting here is how republicans went over time from calling it up acceptable to going soft on crime and the insurrection. within a year, the national party formally declared that it claimed january 6th was, quote, legitimate political discourse. when that happened, that drew outrage over that lie, an effort to embrace and defend convicted seditionists and trespassers. hard to imagine in al qaeda or isis stormed the capitol that a year or two later you would have one political calling it discourse. republicans rejected the chance to -- or follow, say, the precedent of a 9/11 investigation. instead they ousted the party members who stood up. they excommunicated people like liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger. seen enough, the legislator who replaced kevin mccarthy, got himself in a scandal saying he would blur the face from doj. he backtracked on that, but went on

it took 15 votes to elect a speaker and only 3% to overthrow kevin mccarthy. and now mike johnson is not only short on experience but also short on republican. kevin mccarthy resigned. both democrats and republicans teamed up to expel george santos. at the current juncture, republicans can only afford to lose one vote on any piece of legislation. to get to the finish line along party lines. the key question in the coming weeks is will mike johnson be able to keep his job if a ukraine aid package comes to the floor. marjorie taylor greene is obviously holding the vote -- motion to vacate over his head. although it is difficult for democratic strategists to make republican dysfunction in the house a campaign issue in and of itself, what democrats tell me is they hope this chaos gives the extreme message that they hope to run against republicans in districts and trying to tie it to abortion man's and -- ban and former president trump's rhetoric. host: we are told from people as particularly women in suburban districts when it comes to those issues important to th

remember the example of kevin mccarthy, who tried to cozy up to trump and, at the end of the day, trumpe is banking on donald trump to be a reliable partner to save him, yeah, kevin mccarthy would like to have a word with him about it. this is a bizarre pairing here. i mean, as much as kevin mccarthy was an ally of donald trump, i don't recall them having a press conference like this together. my former boss certainly never did. it feels to me like there's some type of trade going on here, what's going on. yeah, donald trump can certainly protect mike johnson to a certain degree, but i don't know that marjorie taylor greene is necessarily going to step aside. you know, as we've seen, she seems dedicated to coming after mike johnson. i'm sure she'll say she's just as close of an ally to donald trump. i don't know this saves him, but i'm worried what mike johnson may give away to donald trump. perhaps scuttling ukraine, for example. >> keep an eye on that tomorrow. let's talk more about marjorie taylor greene and her threats. we played sound earlier in the show. she's very much on this, s

kevin mccarthy gave that away. kevin mccarthy paid the price for and it looks like speaker johnson's going to pay the price as well. >> yeah what is happening inside these forces that we saw throw kevin mccarthy the overboard the last time around, it seems as though there's some hesitancy do this yet again. but at the same time you have marjorie taylor greene going out to the cameras and saying, i've got more people coming on board what do we know? >> this is a power struggle. this is an internal power struggle. >> i think one of the other more remarkable sort of unmentioned pieces of this is you did have speaker johnson meet with the former president for president donald trump. >> should try to really try to get him in his corner and even kevin mccarthy had the former president and his court remember he was making calls, trying to keep try to keep him in power. that trains seems to have left the station. it seems like that even he doesn't have the power to make sure that a speaker, a very friendly speaker to the f

do now, how many times i heard as a former friend of kevin mccarthy from kevin mccarthy, none.iz cheney and i pelosi republicans kevin mccarthy went to mar-a-lago. caitlin for one reason, he needed to become speaker and he knew that he didn't have time to take out the maga and he wanted to win. he needed them, so he went down to enlist the help of donald trump for fundraising, which donald trump help them with and to get donald trump on his side as a political player. so he could become speaker. >> that's it. and in that process, it was like a ambulance showing up to a person in cardiac arrest. he thought the paddles to donald trump and brought him back to political life. and this, by the way, is just a few weeks after he said that donald trump was responsible for january 6 after capital lease officer died on january 6 after numerous capitol police officers were assaulted and beat up on january 2 but he has no choice because he made his bed. now we have to lay in it and he is lying to himself in the american people by saying that's why he went, >> well, there was also the photo

you really have to wonder what kevin mccarthy is thinking today as he watches. now speaker johnson making the same pilgrimage down to mar-a-lago to kiss the ring and yes, there's this issue that they're going to have this press conference and bad. >> but the >> reality is at the end of the day, mike johnson says he doesn't want to talk about his private conversations with donald trump. but if you want to stay in power, you need donald trump. and that's why he's there today. >> but the key difference between that moment and this moment that was at a moment of weakness for donald trump. kevin mccarthy going down and yes, on bended knee, wanting to be in his good graces and understanding that trump's still had power in the party in the aftermath of january 6. but that moment of kevin mccarthy doing that actually helped build up donald trump in that moment here, i think the power dynamic is a little different. i think it is speaker johnson who's looking draft off a donald trump, who is actually sitting atop the party in a very powerful position right now within the

>> i think it speaks more to what we should think about kevin mccarthy than marjorie taylor green.erling politically in the lacs -- lasted decades and he is this guy now that wants to be the sort of come back in washington. he wants to be in trump's good graces. he knows that green is still in trump's interim good graces so i think this speaks more to kevin's word desperation than a valid analysis of who marjorie taylor green's but he understands that in the trump power universe, she ranks up here, and make -- mike johnson ranks down there. >> renee, i'm going to save you from having to talk about him tg and have you respond to donald trump and something he said on tuesday to spectrum one news in wisconsin. watch this. >> what shall we prepare for, could that be a change in position? >> no, not a change in position. it's going to be about something that is very important. you have to go with your heart. you have to go with your spirit and it's going to be something that people will be overly surprised but we also have to remember, we have to win elections. it's very important. >> r

>> i agree which is why kevin mccarthy shouldn't go after fellow republicans that can win in generalions, nancy mase.org -- maria: he is not even there yet. >> fight somebody like kevin mccarthy who is coming after republicans who can win in november. maria: good to see you, nancy mace, quick break and janet yellen are arriving in china, expected to discuss of the need for a level playing field for beijing and new risks about climate change. stevens inc. senior policy advisor to mike pompeo is here to weigh in. you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. maria: spring has sprung but much of the northeast to look like winter. show casone has details. maria: a powerful nor'easter barreling up the east coast blasting parts of new england with heavy rain, sleet and snow, millions bracing for torrential rain and dangerous wind gusts. main will take the brunt of the storm, bracing from 24 inches of snow. white out conditions can make for dangerous driving conditions. high wind warnings in place from pennsylvania to new york city as rain and powerful wind gusts go through t

to stop mike gallagher from trying to get everybody back from taking kevin mccarthy down.aving at a time that forces you to have no representation in his district until november, you can't do a special election. leadership your self, mike johnson convince himself to leave immediately so you could do a special election so you don't lose that vote? >> we not leave at all. we have that conversation too. he is free to do what he chooses, he chose to do that. i wish he wouldn't have. at the other end of the spectrum, we have special elections coming up for kevin mccarthy's seat, it will be a republican win for us next month. we have to wait to get the special election for real. that we have a two razor thin majority. the most important thing is having a majority and not having the minority, not having her team jeffries means president biden's agenda doesn't get through the house and the far left agenda has more taxes, wants to lock in the green new deal and open borders. we've shown a different direction. the country has to decide this in november. biden does not want to work w

to this day, like kevin mccarthy had now authorized and held a committee, a plaque honoring officersrom the capitol police, but yeah, they go in front of the cameras and say they support the order, the police and whatnot. but they don't. a meaningful gesture, the least they could do is authorize the plaque to be honored and place at the capitol entrance where i defended the capitol that day. >> conversely, you were recently appeared at a press conference ordered by the biden campaign. there may be critics who say you obviously are supporting. what do you say to them about your motivation, and i would like you to add to what you just said which is your concern that this january 6th that happened in the last time could happen again? >> i mean, the reason why i had gone to the press conferences is not because i align myself with president biden. he's one of the people who has given me an opportunity to tell my story. how many republican elected officials have sat down with me with the exception of liz cheney and adam kinzinger. those are the only two individuals, elected officials who i

kevin mccarthy went to mar-a- lago, took the photo. there's not even the pretense anymore. there's mike johnson the speaker of the house, having a press conference to talk about proposed legislation to deal with the problem that doesn't exist, which is more outlandish than i think many other theories we've heard. >> let's be clear. this is the least surprising thing in the world in the sense that mike johnson was not just a follower, not just a lemon on the big lie and on the donald trump election, he was one of the primary architects of the big light and the strategy to put in the fee collectors. he has been down with the program from the very beginning. it is a big reason why he's a speaker. he doesn't know anything about the house and how it works, he has no qualifications to be speaker. he's probably learned something in the half a year he has been speaker. he is not someone who would qualify on the basis of anything else, unlike mccarthy who put in that time and understood preliminary procedure. mike johnson is there because he's the most maga candidate who survived th

but on the subject of matt gaetz kevin mccarthy was a georgetown this week and he was incredibly blunt, candid, and sharp about matt gaetz give me the truth about that number >> and i'll give you the truth why i'm not speakers because one person, a member of congress wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old an ethics complaint that started before i ever became speaker, and that's illegal and i'm not going to get the milk. did he do it or not? i don't know >> okay. before you jump in, i just need to say that the doj did investigate the congressman gates for sex trafficking. they looked into allegations that he had sexual relations with an underage girl. they dropped the investigation and february of 2023, he denies the allegations and gates responded to mccarthy san kevin is a liar, which actually is why he isn't speaker. just ask any of the 224 people who voted to remove him. >> listen. kevin mccarthy, obviously, still dealing emotionally with what it means please do not be speaker anymore. in effect, that matt gaetz is the one who dealt him that fate.

he was not one of the aide whofa held hands witilh democrats and replace kevin mccarthy..accomplished when they got ridcp of one speaker and inserted speaker mike johnson? >> nothing. there was no policy win and affect worst case with fisa, federal spending, and with majot initiatives on national security. we are not in a better position to extract conservative reformse than we were with speaker mccarthy. and so, we traded and a tray die not result in more conservative policy.po it actually put us in a worse position politically and organizationally. i don't think making another trade on the speakership will give us a different outcome aren better outcome as republicans. we need to focus on november to get the best results we can there. >> trey: view announced you are leaving congress to returnur to your beloved state of north carolina. ca have you reconsidered that? it seems lik e a lot of fun. ou ware you sure you want to le? >> look, trey, you know i love this place and i love the the battles and the policy initiatives and i love the people. but it was time for me to be

you'll recall what happened last fall when mike john, kevin mccarthy became the first speaker and american history to be ousted by his own colleagues as a threat right now, from mike johnson, i asked one of those eight republicans voted to oust kevin mccarthy about what they gain from pushing them out from the speakership what would good came of getting rid of kevin mccarthy? >> well, i think one of the best things that came on here a precedent has been set you can't just do whatever the hell you want, regardless of what the voters that sent us here, what they want, what they demand in what they deserve it's time for these people to start trying to legislate and stop trying to be popular okay. so we have to make hard decisions that when your decision is solely based on whether or not someone's going to talk bad about john social media you're not thinking right and that just shows you just a taste of the republican anger right now, the republican divisions at several of these members, like cod going the end of his bow, like congresswoman lauren boebert called this vote a slap in the face to

guidance from, as you pointed out, matt gaetz, the very man who brought the resolution to oust kevin mccarthy. carthy back in october, and the guidance he's getting from gates according to this great reporting from our colleagues, melanie zanona, annie grayer, and manu raju. >> is >> that matt gaetz is arguing they need to get some republican wins on the board, but that could be very difficult for speaker johnson in the months ahead. that's because he's already given some signs that he could move on ukraine aid in some form or fashion. now, what state that actually takes remains to be seen. they could serve structure. this was some kind of loan program. he's still working out those details, but that's something else that house conservatives do not want to see on before. meanwhile, speaker johnson making a political argument that marjorie taylor greene may want to rethink her decision-making process here, here's what he said >> how. does, this motion to vacate help went back the majority or when a bigger majority >> i don't think it does and i think all of my other republican colleagues recogn

kevin mccarthy and then republicans had no idea what to do ultimately leading to the election of mike johnson. but mike johnson making the calculation that and deciding it is time to take on those right far-right elements in his conference, take them on work with democrats and deal with the aftermath at the moment. he's in his speaker's chair because democrats very well could come to his defense. >> i said, well, it sounds like yeah, it sounds like an issue of also buying time. manu because when you spoke with congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, i mean, she really put it on, you know what? i'm not going to make that decision right now. i'm going to let my colleagues you know, go home and hear from their constituents. i mean, buying, time measure. maybe the constituents really will give some of these members of congress and earful about their point of view on the house speaker is this really an issue of well, maybe we don't have the consensus right now and we're looking for another way, another avenue in which two potentially make the motion to vacate or let it go yeah. >> look, i me

we know that, but i do think that this shows what a mistake it was to remove kevin mccarthy. i was those who are very upset when that happened, again, a couple of republicans sayyed with all the democrats to remove our speaker, bringing our congress to a standstill, we lost weeks of work during that time, and quite frankly, we have now a weakened speaker because of the circumstances in which he entered. so i do not support a motion to vacate. >> all right. and just quickly before i let you go back to the aid, bills, will you be supporting them? if they do not have that border security or will you not? so for them. >> well, look, there's gonna be four different bills. i'm still going through the initial language, but we have amendments to it and we got to see at the end of the day what actually comes out. i believe we will support some and i've probably will vote against at least one. we have to see how it comes down the pike and then i will make my decision at that time once we have a full understanding of what is included in these bills, that's why we're given three days to

with that today is my pleasure to introduce the house kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy served served 55th speaker of the house of representatives. u.s. representative for california 20 congressional district. 2007 -- 2023. he served two terms of the california family before being elected to the u.s. house and 22006. mccarthy served as her public and chief deputy whip 2009 -- 2011. house majority whip from 2011 until 2014. in 2014 his luck that house majority leader later surfaced house minority leader as well. he was elected to the speakership in general 2023 filling his marks a former speaker will take his questions in a discussion moderated executive director. during the conversation on social media by tagging at gq politics using # mccarthy at gu. now, please show me in welcoming to the stage former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. [applause] [applause] it is a great crowd this close to the end of the semester. i think i was at the tombs this close to the end of the semester mr. speaker thank you for joining us for coming back. you spent some time

that was not the case last fall with kevin mccarthy. democrats kind of with a wink and a nod indicated they would be willing to help mike johnson if he did, quote, the right thing. it may have been putting this bill to aid ukraine on the floor. they passed it. they passed it with democratic votes and mike johnson stays, marjorie taylor greene would have lost. paul: let's bring in our panel, columnist kim strawser land bill mcgurn and kyle peterson. you heard that from chad. all of this would appear to vindicate speaker mike johnson's policy of breaking up those bills so each could pass and you could have different coalitions with each one. is this vindication for his strategy? >> absolutely. i did the math. in the end if you look at the ukraine bill, 72% of the house voted for it to the israel bill, 84% and the taiwan bill, 89% and the question is why didn't these things pass back in october given the overwhelming support? the answer, some paul holdouts among the republican party who used the fight with kevin mccarthy to strengthen the

i don't think we would lose the same number of republicans that we lost with kevin mccarthy.ven people that -- >> you wouldn't get to eight republicans. they've gotten to three. >> there's a lot of people that like this speaker, respect this speaker, even when they disagree with him. they know he's honest, a straight shooter. and they've had a taste of what it's like to go without a speaker for three weeks. i don't think they want that again and i don't think they want it close to an election. >> former speaker gingrich says the demons that matt gaetz unleashed going after kevin mccarthy are out there. you can't govern by shooting yourself in the head every day. how does speaker johnson get anything done? >> he's gotten a lot done. every appropriation bill passed. fisa through, this aid -- >> he has to re lie on democratic votes which he's being faulted for by members of his party. >> every appropriations bill is bipartisan at the end of the day. they just work that way. most of these -- something like fisa ought to be bipartisan. i actually think he's, you know, empowered th

kevin mccarthy.xactly was accomplished when they got rid of one speaker and inserted speaker mike johnson. >> nothing, there is no policy. worst case with pfizer, federal spending and with a major initiative on national security we are not in a better position to extract conservative reform that we were with speaker mccarthy. so we traded in entry did not result in more conservative policy. actually put us in a worse position politically and organizationally. i don't think making another trade on the speakership will get us a different outcome or a better outcome as republicans. we have to focus on november and getting the best results we can there. trey: you announce that you are leaving congress to return to your beloved state of north carolina. have you reconsider that? it seems like a lot of fun are you sure you want to leave? >> you know that i love this place. i love the battles and the policy initiatives. i even love the people. but it was time for me to be done with committee term limits and

that is how we got here in the first place with removal of kevin mccarthy. what i'm interested to see is if the anchor over the spending bills that johnson pushed through with democratic aid earlier this spring, if that anger will continue to foment and grow this marjorie taylor greene coalition with massey and others or if johnson can give any of these folks things they want to see if he can get them to back off. he was defiant when passing the spending bills, and then with the aid to ukraine and israel. he kind of said if this cost me my job, i will have done the job. that is what we are watching now. that defiance was adjusting thing to see from a very unexpected speaker. none of us at the beginning of this year thought we would see speaker mike johnson. host: a reminder of what the margins are in terms of votes in the house and what role democrats are likely to play if this motion to vacate comes up. guest: johnson's majority is tiny. minuscule. we are talking two to three votes. what is interesting, the larger marjorie taylor greene -- the longer marjor

i give speaker johnson minus o, same thing i give kevin mccarthy. what he's going to do is the same thing. he's going to go to mar-a-lago to kiss the ring and i actually like what the republican party is doing right now, even though i think they're crazy. they're blocking money to go to israel. they're blocking money to go to ukraine. that war is lost. why do we want to keep sending money to keep killing people? the same thing with israel. netanyahu has to go. so if our leadership is not strong enough to deal with that, they don't get my vote. so he can go to mar-a-lago and kiss the ring all he wants, he's still the same fool. republican party is a lost cause. the democratic party is weak and they should stand up right now, but they won't. maybe it's because they're too old, i don't know, but right now, i don't know the difference between the republican party and the democratic party because i'm watching a genocide take place right before my eyes and we're doing nothing. >> okay. mary there in maryland. when it comes to the assessment of not only th

kevin mccarthy was it's the exact same situation when it was doing the exact same thing that speaker johnson is doing. and he was ousted. so it is a tough spot. it's nowhere and situation he's going to have to cut a deal with democrats if he wants to survive. apparently, you have to two votes. he can't afford to lose the two boats here will be ousted. so stay tuned. it could be tumultuous next few weeks, let's see what happens. >> that's a very sensitive moment of deep guys. thank you very much. after the break a crucial case that could undermine potentially hundreds of january 6 cases arguments are underway right now in the supreme court stay with us. urine the cnn newsroom the sinking of the titanic, how it really happens. >> it's to our premiere sunday, april 28, did nine on cnn this home-style chicken salad rat from subway this is how you do it. savory chicken. chris veggies all wrapped up. >> these maps are a main thing. >> people can hear my thoughts that's a problem stay fresh out there. all new reps from subway with the fund drives innovation fund. you can invest in some of t

and that did not rescue kevin mccarthy when it was time. so this helps mike johnson day.s something that he wants today. i don't think that it goes any farther than that big picture. ashley allison, >> one of the things that johnson is fighting about with the right-wing of his conferences, fisa, i don't want to get into the technical details of seconds russian 702, but i do think johnson's explanation for why he is essentially changed his mind on fisa and gone from someone who was willing to stand with those right wingers who say it's the government spying on you. and instead attempt to move an extension of it that angered his right wing? he explained it. i'll just let him tell you why it is. he says he changed his mind. watch this area, saw the abuses of the fbi. that's terrible abuses over and over and over the hundreds of thousands of abuses and then one over. can you speak girl into the scalp and gotten the confidential briefing from the other perspective on that to understand the necessity of section 700 two 5s and how important is punished when security and gave me

today it is my pleasure to introduce former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy.evin mccarthy served as that 50 fit the speaker of the house of representatives. he was u.s. representative for california 23rd congressional district in 2007 to 2023. he served two terms as a member of the california state assembly before being elected to the u.s. house in 2006. mccarthy served as house republican chief deputy whip from 2009 until 2011 house majority whip from 2011 to 2014. in 2014 he was elected house majority leader later served house minority leader as well. he was elected to the speakership it january 2023. following his remarks former speaker will take your questions in a discussion moderated by executive director of geopolitics. you can join the conversation on social media by tagging at ge you politics using # mccarthy at gu. now please join me in welcoming to the stage mo and former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. [applause] it is a great crowd this close to the end of the semester. i think i was at the tombs as close to the end of the semester when i was

now the previous speaker of the house kevin mccarthy was ousted when he made what man described as a secret or back room deal to try and go forward with funding for ukraine. and now thomas massey and marjorie taylor green to outspoken republicans who opposed a due grand say they want the same thing to happen to mike johnson. they, they say he was replaced a, he replaced kevin mccarthy and was brought into office to oppose this kind of deal . he made this kind of deal and they want him, alistair, so we shall see what happens next. i'm concerned that the speakers kind of deal with the democrats of fun for mores rather than to secure a border. how did a bill that was intended for veterans that came out of the house become a bill that may bring us to the brink of war, at least 3 places on the globe by sending a 100000000000 dollars to military contractors. how if you creating officials reacted to the bill being passed, the ukrainian president has already responded in kind with great, thanks the personally bank speaker of the house mike johnson for making the deal that he promised not to

kevin mccarthy's true coalition partner has been the democrats.m on the debt limit bill. >> gaetz has proven unpopular within his party and of course among his opponent democrats but he is the one who did act on what he said he would do and get those others to oust mccarthy. now mccarthy's replacement, speaker to mccarthy, he is doing the very thing gaetz and others said was so terrible, for example, democracy, where you use the votes in the house to pass things. doesn't sound that controversial. speaker johnson worked with democrats to get much-needed aid to foreign conflicts including ukraine and israel. he also relied on democrats to avoid the shutdown. maga republicans apparently think that they want to go into this campaign season with another civil war. johnson could need democrats to help him save his job if there were a vote on removal, it would be democrats who probably stop the bleeding. chay, it is really remarkable that this story is kind of a catch up. i'm giving everyone that update because there's been a lot of other stuff happening

i want to emphasize that speaker johnson is an entirely different person than kevin mccarthy kevin mccarthyas very difficult to work with. in my experiences working with mike on committee, i do not agree with him on a lot, but he is a straightforward guy. you can work with him in a democrat's cannot work with kevin mccarthy. i think speaker johnson would survive the motion. >> congressman, a sentiment i have heard from several of your colleagues. i appreciate you joining us on the eve of congress' return. i will see you tuesday in the halls of congress. >> it is going to be a fun week. >> our definitions of fun may be different. >>> we'll talk with the former supreme allied commander of nato later this hour. >>> tomorrow afternoon millions across the u.s. will put on the protective glasses for a rare opportunity to catch a glance of the total solar eclipse. people from around the country and overseas traveling to towns across the eclipse path which will make its way across 15 states from texas to maine , all to see the afternoon sky go dark as the moon books up the sun -- blocks out the sun