make clear. , after december of 2014 the speaker at that time, john boehner, had pushed through a krom nee bus bill that immediate -- a cromnibus bill that immediately broke many of the promises that got republicans elected back to the majority in , after the 2014 promises, many of our promises in the speaker's -- and the speaker's promises were broken in that december, 2014, cromniing bus, a number of -- cromnibus, a number of us realized, we've got to have a new speaker. we can't go through two years like this. these kinds of outrageous broken promises with the country suffering under obamacare, many soblems that were before us, e began to try to get enough republicans, we did the numbers, we knew if all the republicans voted, we needed 29 republicans to vote for any living person to be speaker who was not the current speaker, john boehner. like, three for, weeks, we couldn't get more than ne people to agree to be someone voting for someone other than john boehner. the vote was coming up on the house floor on tuesday. and on friday night i got a call from thomas massey and jim briden