and, a total defeat for the extreme maga republicans. let me also thank publicly leader schumer and the senate democrats. because, part of the reason why we had this space to get to a place where we reached a bipartisan agreement in the house is because leader schumer and senate democrats have been working in a cooperative end bipartisan way for weeks in the senate. sitting forth the only path forward. as a result of that, you had house democrats in alignment with senate democrats. both of us were in alignment with senate republicans. both of us were in alignment with president biden. on behalf of the american people. you had the extreme maga republicans on an island all by themselves. as recently as yesterday, they put forth a draconian bill that would have slashed and burned the ability of the federal government to meet the health, safety, and economic needs of the american people. but, largely, as a result of our unity within the house democratic caucus in fighting for everyday americans and putting people over politics, and, because

maga lawmaker mat gaetz calling for the motion to remove mccarthy. furious debate breaking out before that vote among republicans. >> chaos is speaker mccarthy. chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word. we are on a path to financial ruin. it is astonishing to hear any colleague give speaker mccarthy credit. >> this republican majority has exceeded all expectations. the republicans strongly support speaker mccarthy and are proud he is our speaker. >> oh, look at that. oh, look, give me money. i filed the motion to vacate. using official actions -- official actions to raise money, it's disgusting. >> house democrats under leader hakeem jeffries had the power to save mccarthy's speakership, but everything single democrat who was present voted against him, dooming mccarthy to his future. ousted speaker mccarthy had already prepared and turned over a list of possible temporary successors should he be voted out. republican congressman patrick mchenry of north carolina will assume the role of speaker tempore effective immediately. some lawmaker

just consider these as actual quotes from maga, the maga movement. quote, i am your retribution.ats of civil servants, replacing them with extreme political cronies. maga extremists proclaim support for law enforcement only to say, quote, we must destroy the fbi. it's not one person. it's the controlling element of the house republican party. whitewash attacks of january 6th by calling the spearing and stomping of police a, quote, a legitimate political discourse. did you ever think you'd hear leaders of political parties in the united states of americas speak like that?? seizing power, concentrating power, attempting to abuse power, purging and packing key institutions, spewing conspiracy theories, spreading lies for profit and power to divide america in every way, inciting violence against those who risk their lives to keep america safe, weaponizing against the very soul of who we are asar americans. this maga threat is the threat to the brick and mortar of our democratic institutions. but it's also a threat to the character of our nation and gives our, that gives our constitut

maga republicans.'m not a mega republican, but if i were i would be offended and i would look for a republican because you are insultingly. i say that -- see that with by this speech in arizona and i would rather see more people coming together and say something good about the opposite party. host: bob mentioned what senator schumer said after the bill passed. let's watch a bit of speaker kevin mccarthy's remarks at the behest voted on the temporary funding legislation. [video clip] >> moments ago the house floor we passed by overwhelming numbers the ability to keep government open for the next six weeks. the senate has produced not one appropriation bill for the floor. the house more than -- a discussion a discussion of spending has not pass. i do not believe are choosing to be punished for us by getting the work done. i asked congress to stay in session the next two weeks, continuing to work to get this done. cannot look the man and women in the eye and asked them why they would not be able to pay th

maga extremism is a poison that the house gop has refused to confront for years. and until the mainstream house republicans deal with this issue, the chaos will continue. now, i hope it's obvious maga extremism is not good for the house republican leadership. it's not good for congress and it's disastrous for the country. so let me say this to the next speaker of the house, whomever that may be, think carefully about what happened to your predecessors before trying to coddle the hard right. each of your predecessors got burnt. each time i urge the next speaker not to make the same mistake, not just for their own future, but for the country's . whomever the house elects as speaker will not be able to ignore the realities of divided government no matter what the hard right demands and to his credit. i will say this speaker mccarthy both on shutting down the government and on default to the debt. at the end of the day, realized he had to work in a bipartisan way to do what's right for america. well, the need for bipartisanship will not change. we'll need bipartisansh

and i have maga, you have qanon folks.gepodge of different ideologies that are a key tenant of republicanism right now. it's playing out in the house of representatives. i am concerned about what we are hearing coming out of this government shutdown. you have speaker mccarthy who went to the cameras and gave an alternate reality. he was talking about hunter biden and cafÉ milano and the president saying that the president didn't not want to work with him to avoid the shutdown. mister secretary, this does not bode well for the next 45 days. this large conversation we're having about democracy, it's like we're not even reading from the same hymn book. >> what can you say except this is republicans in disarray. this is a party at war with itself in washington. of course we should have known that. it took 15 rounds of voting to get -- speaker of the first place. and now the vitriol and loading is even greater amongst these factions. what i take solace in, and when i take spoken, democrats were able to help stave off a shut dow

but not all maga. there's a lot of quiet conversations that go on. you're not really maga in cases. people are hoping for a future. but it's remarkable because the speaker, the idea to bring him down with one vote is extraordinary. that condition he had to set to become speaker is probably the problem. to allow yourself open to one. and this guy has a grudge. matt gaetz is unhappy now. >> jake sherman tweeted that for the last 12 years, members of the republican house conference have been at war with their leader. and it made me think. you covered a lot of this too. boehner was pushed out by the extreme in his caucus. it is sort of the -- it's not a new new story. it just seems they are going to new lengths to punish their leaders. what's the natural extension? what happens next? >> what came before with boehner, we thought watching it as a journalist, we watched him leave the white house. he made a deal with the president. and you get the sense that his chief of staff had just called him and said we'r

maga republicans.'m not a mega republican, but if i were i would be offended and i would look for a republican because you are insultingly. i say that -- see that with by this speech in arizona and i would rather see more people coming together and say something good about the opposite party. host: bob mentioned what senator schumer said after the bill passed. let's watch a bit of speaker kevin mccarthy's remarks at the behest voted on the temporary funding legislation. [video clip] >> moments ago the house floor we passed by overwhelming numbers the ability to keep government open for the next six weeks. the senate has produced not one appropriation bill for the floor. the house more than -- a discussion a discussion of spending has not pass. i do not believe are choosing to be punished for us by getting the work done. i asked congress to stay in session the next two weeks, continuing to work to get this done. cannot look the man and women in the eye and asked them why they would not be able to pay th

because maga is not popular.osing when they put up people like this to be elected beyond their little red districts. this guy is virulently antiabortion, virulently anti-lgbtq, there are republicans who won in districts where biden won. aren't they setting themselves up to lose the house? >> i think it could be a 20 or 30 seat swing. 20% of the american electorate believe the elections of stolen. listening to matt gaetz is like listening to a wet far, nobody wants to listen to him or be around him. he's right about maga mike johnson, and the fact is -- i swear to god. the fact is that matt gaetz might be the most powerful person in congress right now. look what he did. he did it. and that's the thing that people need to recognize. matt gaetz changed the speaker of the house to somebody much further to the right of mccarthy. an amazing feat. >> part of the job is fundraising. i'm not sure he's good at thatment lots of performative stuff. i think this is the first time fart was used on msnbc, congratulations. >> th

after the failure of maga extremists, jim j rep. aguilar: today is day 21 without a speaker and the other side is back to square one. after the failure of maga extremists, jim jordan, multiple candidates have emerged to see if they can be the ones to get to 217, if any of them at all can get that done. the american people and our allies abroad cannot afford any delays. every day of maga madness is another day of not sending aid to israel and ukraine, not taking meaningful steps to fund our government, and not making sure that we are looking out for working families in this country. it is another day of being away from our districts and talking to folks in our communities who elected us to work on their business, the people's business, not to be here and baby sit house republicans as their party infighting further cripples the integrity of this institution. house republicans can continue down the path of destruction or work with house democrats in a bipartisan path forward to get back to doing the people's business. the clock is tick

they would be wrong _ them as maga lunes. they would be wronu. �* ., ., them as maga lunes.unes. they would be wron.. �* . . , ,., them as maga lunes. they would be wrong . ., , wrong. amanda, let me bring you back in on this. because _ wrong. amanda, let me bring you back in on this. because what _ wrong. amanda, let me bring you back in on this. because what we _ wrong. amanda, let me bring you back in on this. because what we heard - in on this. because what we heard from president biden today was a pledge to get congress to pass unprecedented funding for israel. you need to do that, don't you? you do need a you need to do that, don't you? 7m. do need a speaker to do that. and what i thank you will see in the coming days is that you might see the crisis actually bringing the urgency that the republican party needs to needs to come to some sort of conclusion here. again, it might be a temporary solution, but i think it's becomes untenable as urgency increases, especially when it is just right down the hall in that rotunda where you can feel that. in addition, what you're h

yeah but underscore maga mega maga bob. and it and it got to me it got to me and i was in a dark place and. i talk about that in this book because the parallels as i was writing it became obvious to the reason i got to that is over time. i ignored my own guardrails. the things that are supposed to protect you from getting to that point. friends and family who warn you in avoiding substance abuse and better outlets and just you go through that list of things and it was striking to me how much those individual things that should be personal guardrails paralleled democratic guardrails that we've seen only ignored in recent years. and i will put it this way, i think at the moment our country has ignored its guardrails and is in gauging in civic suicidal ideation. we are considering or a an element of our republic is considering getting rid of the american experiment and putting it out of its misery. and and that's where we're at right now. and it's very scary. but there's lessons to be learned from who've been in that dark of a

but they are not going to cross the aisle for maga -- maga is not a republican party. it's a party within itself. a maga party. a republican party is a true conservative party. like we had under president reagan. host: carolyn in louisiana. republican line. caller: yes. until they learn to play ball together, they ain't going to do crap. first of all louisiana, we don't play this monkey business they play everywhere else. we go in, we vote. we don't try to steal votes or whatever. but louisiana's got a good guy there. they don't squished out some of the best ones. everybody has skeltons in their closet. i'll tell you one thing, the democrats will stick with democrats. and republicans here lately don't want to do too much of nothing because they want a pity party like a bunch of women. we are just down home people. we don't like all this crap. we think they need to turn around and do what needs to be done and quit playing fudge ball with everybody and do what needs to be done out there. we need to get this mess straightened out now. host: ok. you heard our guest referen

we're thankful that the house of representatives is back open and hopefully, we can move beyond the magaepublican chaos, dysfunction, and extremism that has been visited upon the american people for the entirety of this congress. before i say anything further, let me just communicate on behalf of house democrats. how heartbroken we are by the tragic events in maine, the killing and slaughter once again of innocent americans, families, broken individuals, injured, fighting for their lives. and we stand with the people of maine and will do so in every way possible moving forward. president biden continues to show tremendous leadership. and he has requested that congress act now on a national security supplemental funding request for israel, ukraine, other parts of the free world, along with humanitarian assistance to palestinian civilians and others who may be in harm's way. the house needs to prepare itself to act immediately. as soon as bipartisan legislation is sent over from the united states senate. president biden has also requested supplemental funding in terms of some of the domest

if that actually made iran really mad and you want to blame maga republica -- maga republicr that, i think president trump would love to be blamed for what's going on right now if it was the result record cooperation in the middle east under his tenure. maria: they were this close for getting the saudis to the agree to the abraham accord. i want to talk about the $6 billion for a moment. this administration has been defending its decision to unfreeze $6 billion to iran from day one of this conflict. they've been trying so hard to defend it and they came up with this idea that was leaked over the last couple of days that they came up with some kind of a quiet agreement to with qataris to hold had that money back from you iran once again. i am questioning this quiet agreement. i know that michael mccall broke news on the show yesterday saying that he is launching a bill today to make sure that money is permanently off limits for iran but then i spoke with reza palovi, the former crown prince of iran. here's what he said about this quiet agreement that the administration's trying to sel

host: you use the term extreme maga republicans. the caller was using the term terrorists in congress. just your thoughts on calling other people terrorists in the other party? at a time like now, the time we're in. guest: the terrorist was not what i was agreeing with, but the extremity. we cannot allow the institution to fail. we have to work with each other and find a bipartisan pathway forward, making sure we can meet the need of the american people. when it came to vote for the cr democrats stood up and we had 90 republicans who voted against the cr at the 10th hour when we were trying to make sure that american peoples could get their paychecks. that is what we are talking about and we talk about extremists. their goal is to destroy the institution until they can gain total control of it. if that means getting rid of, a speaker holding up the process they have no problem because they want to take full control of it. host: wilson, north carolina this is len. caller: please give me a chance to make my point, because it is very i

this is a maga republic right now. we need to get this country back and it takes somebody strong like jim jordan to do it. host: charles in florida. hi, charles. caller: yeah, how are we doing tonight? why haven't we heard today about we the people, we the people, we the people? you know what, they haven't -- they have not supported we the people for a long time and it's time for us to, we the people, to say you know, hey, you know what, if you don't want to do the job, get out, you know. 212 people voted for jarvis. i don't know much about him. jon much about jordan. but i know one thing. there's 20 republicans that didn't vote period. and why didn't five of them cross the border and elect who had the my of theule? host: they voted, they just voted for somebody else besides jim jordan. caller: no according to the report, 20 republicans didn't vote period. host: six voted for kevin mccarthy, seven for steve scalise, let's see here, three voted for lee zeldin. and one for mike garcia. they voted for others than jim jord

she says it is maga extremists.ke her vision, you are included in the deprogramming. >> can i add especially black men, gay people who do not conform, we are especially dangerous. women who do not conform, that's exactly. >> you know men and women coming in droves to the republican party. it is frightening. you have the american public who sees this, many believe there's a two tiered justice system, mark halk, home raided by the fbi, acquitted by a jury, all of these pro-life activists trar getted, the catholic memo, that's not us, we are sorry, we can't defend that any more, you understand why an average american would hear that and think i don't like what i am seeing and hearing. >> you talk about weaponization of government which we have seen in several instances from president biden and this administration, whether it is one set of rules for his son and one set for others. what's so interesting, you mentioned this, it is perfect, you said the elite. it is elitism that is hurting them. and remember, she lost in 2

>> this was a maga civil war. once kevin made a deal with maga, this was bound to happen.day you saw mega at its worst. and when you look at the biden harris twitter feed, it's all filled with little ads that they made with maga attacking republicans today. so matt gaetz, nancy mace, and all these guys who, attacking republicans today, they provided great fodder for democrats. so joe biden is the winner today. but maga also showed how they aren't fit to govern. while at the same time, donald trump was in his trial today, talking some poor little clerk, a showing maga is unfit to be in the judicial branch, so the only way maga hasn't been doing a horrible job is maga is fortunately not in the white house right. now >> undertaken a step further. in 2006 democrats won in the midterms, but talking about the republican culture of dysfunction and corruption in chaos. it's lots of talk with trump, just look at what we have seen. we literally have people going home and we have no speaker of the house, -- >> i do want to cut you off bu t, i want to understand. at what job do most p

maga republicans are determined to spread anger, hate, and division. >> this maga threat is a threatthe brick and mortar of our democratic institutions. >> kayleigh: the blood red background that was fitting. the unifier in chief as he calls himself ratcheting up the hateful rhetoric taking us down a dangerous new road. and the media, they took his cue. we call it here trickle down hatred. that's what it is. commander-in-chief gives the instructions to the media. and now here we are. no longer content with the usual smears of racism and bigotry, now trump and his supporters, many of you watching are an existential threat to america's very survival. >> he is the villain. is he easy. what is difficult is that so many of our fellow americans buy into this. >> it's abundantly clear that the party is unafraid to stand with those violence. >> if you don't stop it now it, will only get worse and only jail will get to him directly. >> kayleigh: the message is clear, trump belongs in prison. and if you support him and the america first agenda, they may target you, too. this is why we have see

they are propelled by the maga wing of the party. i think the house of representatives is really a leading indicate of wor of wher country ended up with donald trump. so why is it different for steve scalise to run the house with matt gaetz and company still there? >> two groups led us here. maga republicans like matt gaetz and then democrats. i hear democrats saying they are the did you tells in the room yet they are the ones who saddled up with a bunch of extremists like matt gaetz. >> no, no, no, i don't want go there right now. i want to talk about the in-fighting inside the republican party because the reality is most democrats kept the government open. kevin mccarthy would have been happy to take their support yesterday. so let's drill gown on if steve scalise were to get this job let's say, what is the difference between ohio he could manage this faction in his own party and how kevin mccarthy wasn't able to? >> steve scalise is a consensus builder. i know him well. he is a great supporter of me and my two races. and like kevi

you have a maga speaker of the house.extension of what donald trump is trying to do by pushing forth and authoritarian government here in this country. and people need to pay attention. do not be, do not be taken by the fact that mike johnson's and what -- these are the most dangerous types, what maga mike johnson, there's a reason why they call him that. pay attention to what he says and to what he does. his inexperience here may have gotten him the speaker's gavel because he did not have the same relationships or bad blood with other members of congress. we just get exhausted. that's what authoritarians do. they wear their opponents down. and you cannot appease authoritarianism. and mike johnson as speaker of the house is one step further man. >> tara setmayer, danny cevallos, a superstar all-star panel to get started with a bang. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> still to come, gradually returning to the gaza strip, but what does that mean about the humanitarian crisis? is it going away? we're going to go live to the

there's been a lot of attention on the maga republicans who are against aid to israel. but there are other republicans, internationalist republicans, people like mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, michael mccaul you mentioned. and the presidential campaign nikki haley, mike pence. these are internationalist republicans who are strongly pro-ukraine they are aligned with democrats. some are working closely with democrats in congress. mcconnell and schumer on the issues of aid to ukraine, aid to israel are cooperating and trying to build a package that can go through congress. there are mixed story. partisanship polarization. but there is also still bipartisanship. host: portland, oregon next. independent. rose, good morning. caller: good morning. i feel the greatest threat to america, 250u8ly to the world, would be -- actually to the world, would be jim jordan becoming house speaker. it's very frightening to me. the potential of him being -- making decisions regarding our military, regarding our position in peacemaking, whatever. he's totally unknit and -- unfit and appalli

we just need some republicans to abandon maga extremism and join us. so the question is, why not have republicans vote present. the media should be asking that question as well. reporter: congressman dean phillips is he going to announce a bid against president biden on friday. do you have any response? mr. aguilar: nothing to do with the tweet he put out earlier today. one of the great things about serving in this institution is we see colleagues who want to run for other things. some of them are successful and some of them aren't. i think all of us have talked about the importance of re-electing joe biden and kamala harris and we can talk about it in the political context. that's what we are focused on, but people having ambitions and running for other things is par for the course. reporter: congresswoman jackson lee -- indiscernible] have you had a chance to listen to the audio? mr. aguilar: everybody should try and do their best -- and more than try. everyone in this institution, every member has an obligation to treat staff respectfully and to tre

it wasn't the magas is half of the country maga? where is this bad behavior?s to have bad behavior to be a cold. so we will just wait. maybe she knows something we don't know or haven't seen yet. you are supposed to drink your bitter tea alone. >> is this why trump is rising outside of his policies? people get defensive and say those on the fence with trump are being marginalized and ridiculed? you want a part of me, i'm going back. >> because it is hillary and no one likes her. no one. she was the most unlikable candidate in the history of president spirit and that is saying a lot. manuk grigoryan biden. >> he is number two. when biden says something, do they say, what did he say? >> steve: you know, tyrus, people were reluctant to talk to pollsters. but fast-forward eight years later and essentially they are sating if you like him, you are in a cult. do you really want to be in a cult? >> if the cult hillary doesn't like, yes, i'm in. what do i need? is there a have a? i will get one. this is ridiculous. when the losing side she is an unlikable person and sh

they created this maga monster, this extreme maga base that has completely gotten out of control. kind of running scared of it. they embrace trump as am agent, and what they will quarrel with matt gaetz and now. you are absolutely right about that. there is no greater chaos agent than donald trump. it is more than amusing and critical to see them attack matt gaetz for being a chaos agent. they elected a chaos agent. they still owe their fealty to the greatest chaos agent that this country has seen, donald trump. they made this monster. they are trying to deal with it now. for the country sake, they need to somehow get their house of the half an order, pick someone who can govern who can be trusted so that we can move things forward, because there is no reason why the country cannot have another great leadership, but for the broken governance, and right now it's broken because republicans can't even get along with each other. >> congressman adam shift of california, thank you very much, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> david jolly is a former republican congressman from the state of

there's been a lot of attention on the maga republicans who are against aid to israel. but there are other republicans, internationalist republicans, people like mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, michael mccaul you mentioned. and the presidential campaign nikki haley, mike pence. these are internationalist republicans who are strongly pro-ukraine they are aligned with democrats. some are working closely with democrats in congress. mcconnell and schumer on the issues of aid to ukraine, aid to israel are cooperating and trying to build a package that can go through congress. there are mixed story. partisanship polarization. but there is also still bipartisanship. host: portland, oregon next. independent. rose, good morning. caller: good morning. i feel the greatest threat to america, 250u8ly to the world, would be -- actually to the world, would be jim jordan becoming house speaker. it's very frightening to me. the potential of him being -- making decisions regarding our military, regarding our position in peacemaking, whatever. he's totally unknit and -- unfit and appalli

maga inspired riders were all removed from the bill.er trying to take our government hostage, maga republicans won nothing. one more time. it is good speaker mccarthy finally heeded our message that bipartisanship was and is and remains the only way. he could have made this decision weeks ago. i have said from day one this is a bridge cr, a temporary solution, not the final destination. we will not stop fighting for more economic and security assistance for ukraine. majorities in both parties support ukraine aid and doing more is vitalfor america's security and for democracy around the world. but this cr is still very good news for the american people. maga today extremists failed, and both parties have come together to avoid a shutdown because once again, thank you to leader mcconnell, vice—chair susan collins and members on both sides of the aisle who came together. today's cr would not have been possible without the senate's good work. the senate showed bipartisanship was the only way and the same will be true again in 45 days. i yie

that's on the extremist maga gop. both sides definitely have to take responsibility for defending and prolonging a broken dysfunctional undemocratic political system. sadly, democrats, in my view, have not come out forcefully enough for the type of reform that american democracy, especially, congress desperately needs. as harvard political scientist daniel ziegler and steve lewinsky explain and that tyranny of the minority, they explained on the show a couple weeks ago, minority rule has become the norm within american politics, especially on capitol hill. every point of the legislative process. minorities are able to block, impede, and obstruct. the whole reason we almost shut down the government this weekend is because, as the washington post noted, the hard right holdout and speaker mccarthy's gerrymandered conference represents 100 percent of the oppositions deal. just 2% of the population. just 2%. they almost brought the government of the richest country and in the history of the world to a shuddering halt. they

the maga forces have won. we have seen the critics of donald trump and the maga movement slowly banished from the party, slowly being excommunicated and leaving. they're right now negotiating the terms of the surrender. what we saw today is 20 members saying they're not going to do an unconditional surrender after they feel their side was badly mistreated. >> sahil kapur and denver riggleman, what a time to be alive. thank you very much. stay tuned to hear nancy pelosi's thoughts on the republican speaker mess when she joins me here on set later in the show. >>> but up first, as president biden begins his trip to israel, a powerful explosion hits a gaza hospital today, killing hundreds of people. "the reidout" continues after this. eidout" continues after this with cirkul, your water is deliciously flavored at the turn of a dial, with zero sugar and zero calories. and cirkul has over 40 flavors, so your water can be as unique as you are. try cirkul. your water, your way. now with even more flavors. available a

on the brink of a shutdown that was entirely unavoidable and has been brought to us by the extreme maga republicans. who have decided that rather than pursue the normal legislative process of trying to find common ground, not as democrats or independents or republicans, but as americans, rather than try to pursue policy achievements through the normal legislative process, that they want to threaten the american people with a shutdown. to try to drive your extreme agenda down the throats of the american people. why are we here? at this moment? on the brink of a catastrophic shutdown that will hurt everyday americans. hurt children. hurt families. hurt older americans, hurt veterans and hurt the economy. why are we at this moment, when from the very beginning we have said that there's an opportunity to come together in a bipartisan way, consistent with the spending agreement that house republicans themselves negotiated. themselves negotiated. and from the beginning of this process we have said nothing more, nothing less. simply, keep your word. with respect to the agreement that you negot

. >> donald trump and the maga republicans represent and extremism the threat is the very foundation of our republic. maga republicans do not respect the constitution or believe in the rule of law or recognize the will of the people. maga forces are determined to take the country backward. >> those hateful words are backed up with actions. according to a new report from newsweek, bidens fbi is now targeting trump supporters, maga republicans. shortly after biden inauguration the fbi bureau drafted a directive to categorize maga supporters under the acronym of antigovernment and tie authority violent extremism. one year later october 22 they added agave others meaning you are a threat. so they could drive a truck through their characterization of who was a threat to them and their power. another words as newsweek reports, trump and his army of supporters were acknowledged as a distinct category of extr extremist. even though they said publicly that was never part of the criteria to investigate or prevent domestic terrorism. not just a label. this designation helps the fbi surveillance

he saw that he feels he's been ship, and the maga caucus has been betrayed by kevin mccarthy.blem, kevin mccarthy really did make himself a hostage. >> it's been like that from day one. >> right, yeah. >> not in this process. >> but this whole time, we would not have gotten this far had kevin mccarthy not said, oh, matt gaetz, you're the boss, even though it's such a small part of the caucus. i do think that we will have to see, because they have this block right now, you can see matt gaetz calling a motion to vacate, but who will he have? there is nobody else. the reason that kevin mccarthy got the speakership after 15 votes was because they did not have anybody else. i don't think -- i actually think that mccarthy has in a weird way, called matt gaetz's bluff, and i don't think that gaetz will partner with democrats and make jeffries the speaker. he does not have great choices here. >> do you share the optimism that senator murphy has that in 45 days time, they will actually be able to have a more permanent solution to this? >> i mean, they are going to have to, right? they

maga republicans have one nothing. but we will find ourselves here in 45 days, if not sooner, as the congress tries to find a long-term solution to this. for now,, though there is no government shutdown, as we had all been bracing for and certainly, the white house. let's cross back over to monica alba. monica, my sincerest apologies to you for interrupting you, but we just wanted to hear the majority leader there speak. about the passage of this bill. and let's just go back to the point that we were saying and as i was concluding, those comments, that the white house and i think, most of us who are following this, we're bracing ourselves for a government shutdown. that now clearly has not happened. it will not happen. give us the insight of what the white house is thinking about the passage of this specific short term funding bill. obviously, on one hand, they are going to welcome it because it is not a shutdown of the government. but is it also a victory in terms of what they were hoping to get? >> well, i think ther

that is a bridge too far for anyone in the maga caucus.is going to come down to? i think there is a way. people, say is it possible for hakeem jeffries to end up speaker? it's going to be difficult, almost impossible, but it is a road to one. if there is one republican, member of the congress, who is thinking about retiring saying, you know, enough of this, all it takes is one to break the dam and change the conversation. is there one out there? i know for a fact there is, i've talked to one republican member of congress who was, like i'm to the point where i want to leave. i can't do this anymore. it does not mean they are necessarily going to support hakeem jeffries, but that is the thinking. the longer this chaos, this dysfunction, this paralyzing of the american government while putin watches and licks his chops is the open question. are we going to allow that to continue or are some republicans going to work out a deal? i think that's what we will find out over the next couple of weeks. >> susan, is that a pipe dream? fernand is an id

we just need some republicans to abandon maga extremism and join us. so the question is, why not have republicans vote present. the media should be asking that question as well. reporter: congressman dean phillips is he going to announce a bid against president biden on friday. do you have any response? mr. aguilar: nothing to do with the tweet he put out earlier today. one of the great things about serving in this institution is we see colleagues who want to run for other things. some of them are successful and some of them aren't. i think all of us have talked about the importance of re-electing joe biden and kamala harris and we can talk about it in the political context. that's what we are focused on, but people having ambitions and running for other things is par for the course. reporter: congresswoman jackson lee -- indiscernible] have you had a chance to listen to the audio? mr. aguilar: everybody should try and do their best -- and more than try. everyone in this institution, every member has an obligation to treat staff respectfully and to tre

but republican problems with maga extremism seep far deeper than any single leader. maga extremism is a poison that the house gop has refused to confront for years, and until the mainstream house republicans deal with this issue the chaos will continue. i thought house republicans would have finally realized the dangers of maga extremism after what happened last fall, but year after year they end up making the same mistake, and it always leads to disaster. by now, i hope it's obvious, maga extremism isn't good for the house republican leadership, it is not good for the gop, it is not good for congress, and maga extremism is disastrous for the country. if maga republicans had their way, they'd take our countries back all the way to the 19th century. they'd turn the clock back radically on women's choice, on voting rights, on workplace protections, on education, on corporate greed, on the environment. they would disfigure our precious democracy, all for a handful of greedy, very wealthy people who just want to not have anything to do with the rest of us. the maga agend

this maga threat is a threat to the brick and mortar of our democratic institutions, but it's also ahreat to the character of our nation. gives our constitution life that binds us together as america is a common cause. none of this is surprising. now they've tried to govern that way before, but thank god they failed. but they haven't given up. just look at recent days, accusations of treason, treason against the major news network because they don't like his coverage. i don't know what the hell i'd say about fox. if that becomes real but think about it, i'm joking but think about it tomorrow. i have the honor of overseeing the change of responsibilities of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states military. from one genuine hero and patron general mark milley to another general cq brown, both both defining leaders of our time. and yet here is what you hear from maga extremists about the retiring patriot general honoring his oath to the constitution. he's a traitor and times gone by the punishment, times gone by the punishment would have been death. end of quote,

and for next speaker, the maga caucus has large demand.ber -- i will vote for the speaker who publicly and clearly commit to defunding jack smith's anti-american election interference which hunt and subpoenas under biden of bringing a vote on the impeachment of joe biden to the house of the floor. we must have free and clear elections and in the corruption of our government. and the somewhat ominously, and a little comically, these are by terms. so let her be written, let it be done. those demands are broadly representative of the clark's position. there are demands. it leaves out another one that we should include, which is a requirement cut off aid to ukraine. she doesn't mention that but i think it's there. if you take them seriously, their positions basically amounted to declaring donald trump above the law by defunding special counsel jack smith's investigation, going into the president's son and helping vladimir putin seize ukraine. and emerge successful from his war of aggression against that country. she served as a public relation

he stood up to that maga caucus, the freedom caucus.of the day, i tend to agree with speaker pelosi. this is not somebody that has really exercised leadership. it seems to be simply making promises to get to a certain point, and then realizing that those promises cannot be kept. i think that we are going to be seeing some interesting moves in the house of representatives over the next three weeks. >> olivia, many vulnerable republicans and moderate districts wanted no part of a shutdown. now they are facing the possibility of another protracted leadership battle. the republican majority is slim to begin with, are the gop hard-liners in the house putting it at risk? >> they absolutely are. every day that they behave in this way, and that the circus goes on, and the maga world within the gop is another day that the gop's brand is hard. it's another day that the party gets derailed and its progress. we are going backwards here, and i think that they are completely disruptive. i think that moderate republicans out there who are concerned ab

he wants to feed the maga monster not realizing that it's not only ravenous but insatiable, so thereckoning with them and it is the same thing with donald trump, he's made it clear, he's not interested in the constitution, he's not interested in democracy they set out last week with two primary goals and one of them was to shut down the government of the united states, we were able to stop them by hanging tough and having unity as a caucus. the second was to impeach joe biden, we completely embarrassed and humiliated them for having no evidence that brought the witnesses over to our side in the oversight committee. the third was not to fund the people of ukraine and they won a momentary respite on that putin's little helpers in the house got their way on that but we will get back in and make sure that america stands for moral reasons, for political reasons, strategic reasons for national security reasons with the people of ukraine, against vladimir putin. it's essential that we hold the line they are so that tyrants and autocrats and kleptocrats all around the world know that they ca