but a majority is only a majority if we actually work together.ots of people back home don't trust anyone in this town. perhaps we would be wise to listen to them and some wisdom from ronald reagan. trust but verify. trust is a fragile condition and easily broken. as i've listened to my friends, 20 of whom have opposed kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house, and others, the root issue is this. they do not trust kevin mccarthy. what can heal that divide? right now there are a lot of colleagues that don't trust 20 or more of my fellow republicans. [applause] right now though we remain divided, a majority, an actual majority of the house freedom caucus members do support kevin mccarthy. this summer a unified house freedom caucus started the negotiations with a proposal for new rules. different way to govern that empowers committees and regular members. we proposed a set of tools could be structured to make trust more verifiable and allow recourse if that trust is ever broken. following the election, kevin mccarthy engaged in that negotiation, he led

is a major win for every citizen. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. i yield one minute to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neal. mr. neal: i rise in strong opposition to this legislation. i can't wait for that term limits vote here. when you ask members on the republican side who have been here for 20, 30 years to codify your vote and explain that one back home when you have a four-seat. this is an extreme proposal and pit social security and medicare and medicaid and our seniors will be sold out and the full faith and credit of the united states will be under threat, all in the quest to organize the house. the gentleman from south dakota, nice enough fellow, he said people are making a lot about the chaos over the last four days. was the gentleman denying that he was here for the country to witness what happened here? this is part of the rules package that is being forced upon the american people by a small minority in the republican party, and we out to turn it down. mr. cole: i yield o

, that majority is going to want to use its power to preserve its now majority and if there's a minority in a divided political system that minority will feel like there's no way for them to gain power legitimately, what's the al tentive? what's the alternative to politics? violence. so the framers, what they really feared was just two great parties. a binary divide and they thought they had worked out a rather clever solution, which was clever at the time, 1787, which was this complex system of checks and balancing in which if you have all these different institutions, house, senate, presidency,le powers delegated o the states, it was going to be really hard for any party to form aar majority at a national level. .... >> . >> reality is that we have that for most of our political history. that's how we managed as a democracy. but the framers got the importance of the coalition and multidimensionality in politics correct that they made a mistake i didn't have any experience to draw on is that political parties are the essential institutions of modern mass democracy. and this is another f

like al, he was jewish, dallied, never made the majors but he became the second jewish major league umpire. and not only that, he went on to become a very well-known designer of women's clothes going stag. so that's two jewish players on the bathroom team. the third jewish player was a 1917 lehigh graduate named sam fishburn, traveling bret, do you have a image him now? that's okay. no problem. sam fishburn was a shortstop, very talented. he would end up being very influential there, had a great year with the team. so the mentored the reason i'm mentioning three -- is on the fm team is that two of those actually they had four --. stan baum was a pitcher who ended up writing for the sporting news and the philadelphia inquirer. four -- on one team, two -- ended up playing in the major leagues. two of the over 160 -- who have in the major leagues who would have thought, that's a great percentage? and that just gives you an idea of the the united nation's quality of the bethlehem steel like there was a dentist who played on the same team. there was a judge who played on the four river plant in

>> he needs the majority of the house, not just the majority of house republicans which he does have in a closed door session, republicans, most of them agreed that kevin mccarthy is the current republican leader would be their nominee. but there are five republicans that have said they will vote against him, like matt gaetz or lauren boebert said she would vote against mccarthy. and that group right now, a lot of the members of the house freedom caucus are conservative members are looking for rules changes that would empower them, the main one the motion to vacate the chair, the way to oust the speaker and that takes a member to call that motion, but republicans especially in mccarthy camp. the compromised number is five. and this is the same motion that ended the speakership of john boehner. and not able to reach consensus, those five or so of republicans are going to keep voting against mccarthy unless they reach a consensus or reach a different candidate. >> when would the second vote take place? >> it should happen after the first vote. they can't operate without a and members a

making the majority in the senate.cott is not able to do that. they didn't win. on the point about the split between the house republicans and the senate republicans, the white house probably loves that because of the fact that house republicans launching the investigations and potential impeachment and senate republicans are sending signals they want no part of that. >> just to the point here's a long list of investigations they had said they want to be involved in and potential impeachments of the dhs secretary mayorkas. big tech, covid origins, critical race beginnings. some are important. it is a real question to me, like, are they able to differentiate what needs to rise to the top? >> they will be forced by the calendar and raising the government. a lot of issues may seem cosmetic and they are. trying to sell a case to the american public but on funding the government and raising the debt ceiling are two confrontations that kevin mccarthy cannot avoid and a challenge and they have to work that out. again, maybe i

legal -- any major legal -- any major leader.e is paying for it and there is no way back to the status quo. even with the cuban missile crisis, both sides had the ability to have cool heads, then go back and do business as usual. that is not possible for russia because the energy has been cut off. nato is expanding. ukraine is going to have the most capable military in europe. all of these things are non-starters for putting and he can't do anything about it. what we are seeing is a significant likelihood of russian escalation. >> you can catch the rest of that check -- chat on thursday. the pace of consumer price rises has slowed slightly in france. new data from the french statistics agency indicate the drop -- inflation dropped a bit to 6.7 percent in december. this is from the eu harmonize index. energy costs 15% more than a year earlier, slightly less than the previous month. food inflation remains stubbornly high at 12%. let's check in on trading action. we saw gains of over 2% in paris and frankfurt. the pan-european stock

and we were awarded the majority by the people across this country. and so today starts that process of fixing what's broken in washington so that washington can finally start working for the people of this country who are struggling. and so let's start with one basic thing is reopening the people's house. for years the american people were shut out of coming and seeing their government work. in fact, with proxy voting, which by the way ends in this rules package, members of congress has to show up and work again. just look at the bill that passed a few weeks ago. the omnibus spending bill. $1.7 trillion. mostly borrowed from countries like china. you look at all of the things that had absolutely nothing to do with the general operations of government that were thrown in that. now, you can start looking at it today, but you surely couldn't look at it the day of the vote because very few people had the opportunity to read it. over 4,000 pages dumped by dark of night, right before the vote, and, yes, a majority of this congress voted by proxy on that bi

john: you talk about its them, fractured majority. the fact that there were about 20 members the type the house up in knots, are we going to see more of that? >> hardlmes into the speakership quite weakened what is given away, and that is going to encourage not just the original five holdouts or 20 that secured concessions, i thk that will encourage other members of the majority to come forward and push their perspectives as well. it's about 18 members who are elected in districts that president biden one. -- won. it will not be happy lining up behind the freedom caucus. john: thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. john: there is other news today, fighting went on in ukrai despite russia declaring a cease-fire. scheing reduced entire city blocks to rubble. ukraine called theease-fire ploy. meanwhile, floating near zelenskyy praised the latest package of u.s. military assistance. >> this is exactly wt is needed. new guns and rounds. new rockets. drones. john: the latest package is over $3 billion, the largest yet. in virginia, t

, that majority is going to want to use its power to preserve its narrow majority and if there is a minority, and a divided political system, that minority is going to feel like there is no way for them to gain power. in nutley, so what's the alternative, the alternative to politics, violence. so the framers, what they really feared was just two great parties, a binary divide and they thought they had worked out a rather clever solution which was clever at the time, 1787 which was this complex system of checks and balances in which if you have all these different institutions, house, senate, presidency, power is delegated to the states, it was going to be really hard for any party to form a majority at a national level. they grasped something important you really don't want to allow a polity to split into her majority and minority. you want coalitions to be fluid and changing, issue by issue, you want politics to be multidimensional, to have crosscutting cleavages. that is something political scientists have shown time and time again is essential for democracy to work and the reality is we h

baseball novel gentlemen's agreement emerging in the 18 '80s work on major-league teams agree not to sign any black players. so when he is essentially excluded from playing the majorly, eventually turns to sports journalism instead. and the pittsburgh courier one of the largest black newspapers. in pittsburgh courier is one of these and by 1937 and one of the things he does that was so important, is he didn't become docketing the sport among many americans for and among the teams themselves to integrate players into major-league baseball that has a role to play in the eventual decisions of branch rickey who he worked with with the dodgers, i.e. jacky robinson so here you have the sports journalist play key role one of the most important decisions in the history of major-league baseball. so i guess what i'm arguing is black journalism ways and on baseball that i would argue at that point that in the immigration of the entire nation. okay, one more figure to talk about, actually two more then will move on to our next topic and one of the figures, so schmidt was an journalist, fisherman

is a major win for every citizen. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. i yield one minute to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neal. mr. neal: i rise in strong opposition to this legislation. i can't wait for that term limits vote here. when you ask members on the republican side who have been here for 20, 30 years to codify your vote and explain that one back home when you have a four-seat. this is an extreme proposal and pit social security and medicare and medicaid and our seniors will be sold out and the full faith and credit of the united states will be under threat, all in the quest to organize the house. the gentleman from south dakota, nice enough fellow, he said people are making a lot about the chaos over the last four days. was the gentleman denying that he was here for the country to witness what happened here? this is part of the rules package that is being forced upon the american people by a small minority in the republican party, and we out to turn it down. mr. cole: i yield o

the majority rules. it's a simplistic view of democracy. i look at thela landscape electoral landscape and another close election in 2022. . . . y won't. but it's going to be close. democrat it's thought they were going to get a big win in 2020 because they were all, you know, was the highest turnout election in 120 years. and the result was basically a split decision. so i know, you know, maybe maybe democrats can somehow win. you know, i will confess that i am a democrat and i would like see democrats win. but i also am not sure i want democrats to win a permanent majority because i don't think that's actually good for the either. even if they could do it, which i don't see how they could, because then we have 47% of the country who says, well, have no path to power. okay, what's my alternative? you can't have one side dominate the other side. you have to up the binary logic. our politics. you have to break the two party system that keeps us locked into two competing camps, engaged in zero sum political warfare. now. another thing that pe

i think that's going to be a major issue when the majority is so close. one of the first votes we will have today is to rescinded additional irs auditors that were put into place not to go after everyday people but to try to make everybody pay their fair share. the irs has been behind for years. i think that's where we're going to start to feel some of the pain of the messages that they're trying to send. i think -- i will say this on msnbc, a fox talking point, i heard it back home as people are screaming about it, thinking the irs will come after them, which is a falsehood. but you are going to see policy issues like that that will -- if we get the speaker issue resolved, that's a vote that will be taken today. >> finally, i want to ask you about nancy pelosi. how do you think she is today? do you think she has any regrets about staying in congress in the minority? there's lots of talk of ambassadorships dangled in front of her. >> nancy pelosi is a very strong, tough woman. i have nothing but the utmost respect for. she knew exactly what she was doing

kevin mccarthy of california does have the majority of the majority of the house republicans behind himat you need 218 votes and can only lose four and four already said they were level for him. will split all play out on tuesday at noon eastern. the next big question is what are the rules of the house? will they be able to vacate the chair thus forcing john boehner to step down the speaker? committee chairs have unilateral subpoena power? will they end proxy voting how wild will they go with your marks? after that vote trying to accomplish three major things, things, first you have to actually legislate it's much more difficult in the scenes and republicans made a long list and they will be judged by their ability to get out of the house will they address energy immigration and massive government spending will they pursue impeachment of secretary mallorca said republicans try to have say balanced budget amendment? they need to find the government unfortunately for the house republicans appropriation through september 2023 were put in place last month with the mammoth trillion dollar om

were protesters, they don't represent the majority. and he was proven right when a year later he $149.00 out of 50 states. so i think sometimes for example, in italy, you really didn't have large scale protests. i mean, there were some there here there, but there wasn't a well, you know, there's a part to of much on your own that kind of thing. but yet they elected a foreign government, whereas a, you know, where i am currently in vienna. there were a lot of anti vaccine protests here. i'm especially anti locked down protests and you know, i hated the lock downs. i was happy to see them, but it did not represent the v in these population at all because they were overwhelming the supportive of these locked downs. and when there was a chance to vote finance, i've seen party recently in their presidential actually got like one percent of the vote and right now in the parliamentary poster for so i think that you can't look to just add um protests, but you have to look at electron result, now in some of these places, like in the netherlands

and the reason is not hard to understand if there's a majority that majority is going want to use its power to its narrow majority and, if there's a minority in a divided political system that minority is going to feel like there's no way for them to gain power legitimately. so what's the alternative? what's the alternative to politics, violence? so the framers, what they really feared was just great parties, a binary divide, and they thought they had worked out a rather solution, which was clever at the time. 1787, which this complex system of checks and, balances in which if have all these different institutions house, senate, presidency powers delegated to the states, it was going to be really hard for. any party to form a majority a national level. now they grasped something important that you really don't want to allow a polity to split a majority and a minority that is you want coalitions to be fluid and changing issue by issue you want politics to be multidimensional to have cross-cutting cleavages now that is something that political scientists have shown time and time again i

>> he needs 218, a majority of the house, not just a majority of republicans. in a closed-door session a week ago, most of them agreed that kevin who is the current republican leader would be there nominee for speaker. but five republicans have said they will vote against him, people like congressman matt gaetz or lauren boebert said she would vote against mccarthy at this juncture. that group, a lot of members of the house freedom caucus, are looking for rule changes that would empower them on certain issues, the main one being the motion to vacate the chair. a way to ask for speaker, normally that only takes one number to call that motion but republicans in mccarthy's camp would like to compromise on the five in order to call on that vote. this is the same motion that ended the speakership of john boehner, so if they do not reach consensus on these rules changes, those five or so republicans will keep voting against mccarthy until they come up with either some way to reach consensus, or maybe find a different candidate. >> what could a second vote look like,

if a majority decides to do something, that becomes the law.he notion that people are going to be ordered what to do in order to get to that majority doesn't seem like the right play. if you're saying, on the other hand, should republicans turn to democrats or act as if democrats are the majority and acceed -- no, that's the opposite of what republicans should do. we need to take the responsibility to our voters. i think you've seen that democrats have shown greater will in previous times than we have had divided government. that could be the case. we have to show will on behalf of the voters who sent us to washington to fight for them. >> there's a lot of republicans arguing what you were arguing on the campaign trail, but in many house races, they got rejected they ballot box. is the fact that voters rejected many members who share your point of view at all impact on the fact that maybe you just need to go out there and campaign more, you can't sort of hold a chamber hostage because you're not getting your way? >> i think democrats have gotte

it's new for us, being in the majority but being in a tight majority. i think at the opened they have day we'll be more effective, more efficient, and definitely government will be more accountable. reporter: how worried -- reporter: how do you explain it taking this long. mr. mccarthy: because it took this long we have learned how to govern. now we'll be able to get the job done. thank you all very much. see you later. host: kevin mccarthy speaking to reports for the statuary hall just off the house chamber there in the united states capitol. a few minutes left here to take your phone calls after we watch the 12th and 13th rounds of voting, it's going to a 14th round tonight. that expected to start at 10:00 p.m. eastern when the house reconvenes. john has been waiting in richland, washington. democrat. john. go ahead. your thoughts on what happened today on the house floor. caller: are you talking to don or john? host: are you in richland, washington? then i'm talking to you. caller: if you remember when jim jordan first nominated kevin mccarthy for th

each week and provided scores for every baseball game played in the major-league, and numerous minor leagues. and hence the bible the baseball think, it pvided all of that they think y needed and also printed weekly report on each major-league baseball team and that was usually written by kind of a local reporter that baseball team. so they incorporated this whole nate network of agents and fighters. and really originated, thing to this is still around. i know my husband is it dodgers fan and he still reads the la times every morning to find out what's going on for dodgers. this is really the growth of the sport and a whole another of it, advancing into journalism. so the significance here, and i wanted to to take away from this is that basically journalism in sports were often intertwined and that is no different today. you think of today's relationship betwe the sports teams and media and broadcasting, lots of money involved read every major-league team is like billions of dollars for the contract with the media companies and key part of the revenue and that originates well over 10

he has never had the majority lead. and the speaker. he never had the ability to be in power, like all of the power he would have. they should allow him to do it and take the deal, if he messes up, they could vote him out. that is not a bad thing. i don't get should be one person. that makes it a must impossible for him. everyone is going to be nitpicking that everything they don't get their way. that's not right to the american people. the american people don't want to see them fighting back and forth. they want to see them vote for somebody and make them the leader. instead of playing around. he has done the work. the washington post notes that in 2015, when speaker john bader was resigning under pressure from his right, and the gop was trying to find someone who could succeed him, they ultimately settled on paul ryan. they skipped over kevin mccarthy then, in 2015. >> i thought that was bad, too. i think he is really showing that he can do a lot. he could gain more money for most of these people. a lot of these people that are holdin

the american people have told us why putting the republican majority -- by putting the republican majority here that they want republicans to lead and they want a government that works and doesn't embarrass them and we are failing on both missions. that must change today. it will change -- benjamin franklin said, we must hang together and must a-- or must assuredly hang separate. we're stuck in a malaise, at an impasse. and we will stay here. we will not be able to fight the real conservative fights until we find a way to come together. and fight that mission together. yesterday we experienced very briefly our first win. it was a small victory. it was a small victory. it was a small victory, but didn't it feel good? we've . working hard for -- we've been working hard for that victory and there are much more to come. at west point i learned a phrase and it's always been my motto throughout life, mission first, people always. and right now the people are left out. right now they don't have a congress to speak for them. at the highest level of government. right now every individual in this ro

as we can see, they have filled the majority in the senate. but the house of representatives is going to blog initiatives and legislations, and some smaller ones regarding a domestic politics. there might be a bipartisan support, but for now, president biden is quite a blog and leaned into sins, duluth, washington, correspondent, carolina. to many, many thanks. and while russian army commanders are facing mounting criticism over the deaths of 63 soldiers killed in one of the deadliest strikes of the war and ukraine, media, commentators from back the invasions a senior officers have failed to learn lessons from previous incidents. the kremlin took the unusual step of confirming the deaths in the strikes by ukrainian missiles on new year's eve. new russian crowns gather in somber ceremony in the city of samarra, to mourn soldiers killed in ukraine. people who lived here or among those who died in a new year's eve foaming in the keys, the kremlin claim. 63 soldiers were killed. but ukraine and critics and russia put the death toll in the hundreds

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instead of micromanaging, the majority leader was actually laissez-faire. president kennedy's cabinet could meet with the majority leader all they liked, but he wouldn't get ahead of his members, he listened politely and referred them to the appropriate chairman. when snafus stalled the senate floor, mansfield's first problem-solving tactic was to simply do nothing. one biographer marvels at mansfield's awesome, monumental, fearsome, incredible patience. he would sit stiffly erected his desk on the senate floor hour after hour and sometimes day after day. leader mansfield prioritized treating members equally. apparently he never even took a position in the races the determent his own with.rm one small but telling touch, he may be you only two women members got a pair of offices that shared a private restroom. in the mansfield senate, proceedings became more orderly, less theatrical. crucial work migrated out of hallway confrontations and out-of-the-way handshakes and into hearing rooms and committee officers. the senate was less defined by top-down dramatic

so he's not or considering any option of giving up his, on his own major goals, which is to control major parts of ukraine. and the former president would read of speaking again that the russian russia wants to ago regime change and key of so all the things are taking here very, very seriously. thank you so much. that room room gunter icon, keith the european union has a great number of restrictions on travelers from china in response to a surgeon coven infections there, but stopped short of making the restrictions mandatory for member states. recommendations include requiring negative cov 19 tests from passengers departing from china, as well as face masks on flights as a to and from the country by showing threatened countermeasures against these restrictions which is condemned as discriminatory. and not based on science. i asked our brussels bureau chief alexandra phone number, why the e u was only made these recommendations. instead of issuing mandates because member states could not agree whether it is urgent to take action right now, italy, spain, friends are saying yes it is. they d

as we begin the 118th congress, this senate democratic majority be enters the new -- majority enters the new year in a stronger position than anyone ever expected wsm we have a lot -- we have a lot of challenges ahead, but this majority is ready to meet them, we will work with the other side to get things done. it won't be easy moving forward under a divided government, but after we accomplished with an evenly split senate and ordinarily divided house, there is no reason to keep the streak going moving forward. let's not forget, five of our six major bills last year were done on a bipartisan basis. let me say it again. after everything we clished in an even -- accomplished in an evenly divided senate, there's no reason both sides can't keep working together for the good of our beloved country. theat doesn't mean we'll -- that doesn't mean we'll agree all of the time or that we will compromise on our values. but party differences do not absolve either side of the need to work together when the good of the country is on the line. if both sides are willing to give it an effort, we can b

and there was a respect for the majority. what's happened and changed in the last 1015 years is this small faction just doesn't care about the republican party. they care about their cause, and they're holding the speakership hostage. we will see scenarios similar to this on the debt ceiling on major preparations, bills, defense spending, things of that kind were 5 members, can create enormous chaos in the house. and eventually what this might lead to, ironically is a coalition between democrats and more moderate republicans. ah, and that would make to the republican brand israel's far right. security minister is mar, bank via has made what's been called up provocative intrusion into the aisle. ok. some mosque compound, palestinians, and several muslim countries have condemned the move. the white house said any unilateral action that affects the status of holy sites into islam is unacceptable sort of highlights reports from occupied east jerusalem. it was a quick incursion into alex, almost compound under heavy israeli securi

it's and sabotaging its own major capital investment, which it counts on for supplying europe. if russia, one of the supply to stop the supply of grass is all it can do is turn off of didn't have to destroy it, man, it's me and investment. so the least likely state that can be charged is russian. so of course, the western media immediately rushed on race to say, will russia is responsible? now they're raising some skepticism. that's called manufacturers consent said to framework and debate within it. but it's the framework that is insane who's likely culprit in the north stream service, who had the motive and the capability. well, just one state, united states obviously had the motive, in fact, was quite frank and open about saying that those are put not only opposing the pipelines but saying that they'll be destroyed. the motive was not secret was perfectly public. obviously had the capability adjusted large naval movers in the region right before the 7 major ship some equipment so that the capability in the mode is clearly nobody else anything like that. the russians are the

they had much stronger majorities. and so i think that the name that's going to emerge here if all of this shakes out and kevin mccarthy isn't able to develop that consensus might be something like a steve scalise. i was watching him carefully during the nomination speech and his face, he had a very poker face. applauded politely, buts he's somebody who might be able to draw the consensus of the republican conference. >> and jonathan, let's talk about the role behind the scenes of donald trump. is he playing a role? obviously, he's supported in the past kevin mccarthy. mccarthy to a certain extent did humiliate himself after jan 6th going down to mar-a-lago and exbracing donald trump after criticizing him on the 6th and on the day after. does he have the overt support? do we know anything that trump is doing behind the scenes? >> you're right to bring up that moment in mar-a-lago. first reported in my book that mccarthy not only opened the toor for trump to get back in the good graces, but even apologized to trump whil

when margaret thatcher was deposed for john major, it wasn't major that led the opposition. there's a john major figure. i think the most likely one is steve scalise. he's a little more conservative, a little less flexible. >> martha: we hear there's some people dug in against him as well. we're going to the floor. they're tallying the votes for the most recent round and heading towards round 9. let's listen in for a second here. >> the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 201. [applause] the honoring byron donalds from the state of florida has received 17. [applause] the honorable kevin hearn from the state of oklahoma has received two. the honorable donald j. trump of the state of florida has received one. [applause] with one reported as present. no member elect having received a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. the reading clerk will again -- what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. >> the gentleman is recognized. [applause] >> kevin mc

house majority leader, house majority leader and california, donner class, on the west coast that hasin how things are run throughout the state. and cursing allowed i believe it was on the floor. when a person is being defeated or when a person is being defeated dayton to get violent and seems to be that not might be the case but seems to be that is what i see in kevin mccarthy for him to have to use such language he knows he's -- >> host: let's hear from paul in north carolina, democrats line. >> caller: this is an amazing little conversation. i hear all the republicans spouting their normal lines they have been told about the terrible biden administration although they have no specifics but won't listen to the good stuff that has been happening. they are living in their own false reality these days. if they had any sense about what is good for the country they would be out there saying let's find out and prosecute this false president who went out and seditious lady decided that he couldn't stand not being elected and we need to prosecute him because he started an insurrection. the

we don't hold the majority for bragging rights. we hold the majority to govern responsibly. we hold the majority to protect the american people, to coalesce around the foundational constitutional principles that i've been willing to give my life to defend since the age of 18. my democrat colleagues across the aisle, i want to make sure you understand and make no mistake, we are in fact on the verge of a very important victory, a victory for the people, a victory by the people, and most importantly, a victory for the future of our nation. it dawns on me as i look across the aisle after being here for nearly three years that i haven't had the pleasure of meeting many of you because you've chosen to stay home and not vote here in person and electing instead to proxy vote. the clerk of the house: the member-elect is reminded to direct his remarks to the chair. mr. garcia: it's a pleasure to see 212 of you here today. it's also a pleasure to see the end of the proxy voting. let me end with this. let me end with this. i'm extremely proud of my colleagues on this side of the aisle.

let's not forget five of the six major bills on a bipartisan basis.let me say it again after everything we've accomplished in an evenly divided senate and a narrowly divided house there's no reason both sides can't keep working together for the good of our country. that doesn't mean that we will agree all of the time or much of the time or ignore our differences or compromise on our values. but party differences do not absolve when we need to work together for the good of the country t on the line. if both sides are willing to give it a good faith effort, i'i am optimistic we can be successful than many might think. after all if you said two years ago that a 50/50 senate finishes one of the most successful with the naysayers would have said that is crazy talk. they would have said the 50/50 is doomed to gridlock but let's take a look at everything we've accomplished over the last years and be proud of it with no margin for error the majority enacted at the historic inflation reduction act and confirmed the diverse judges 97 in totalnf in history with

obviously looking for the majority of those voting with 218. as you can see from the screen, jeffries is leaving right now was 75 of those boats and mccarthy 72 at this moment. and zero have voted present. and the affairs on capitol hill, john, as we know this will go on. >> john: it will. it will go on for some time. it looks like he will not get the first vote because jim jordan and andy biggs called out as well. you just heard there and that means he likely won't get to a team and a first round of voting. if he doesn't, there will be a whole lot of horse training going on to see if something there is mccarthy to do to convince skeptical republicans to throw in a with him. sandra, based on the g.o.p. conference this morning from it does not sound like that is going to happen. >> sandra: a big question why you would take to this to vote on the house floor if you don't have the votes. so now that no canada secured the ballot, this process will repeat until the speaker is, indeed, elected and notable chad chad pergram will tell as moment the las

p slim majority or is mccarthy just to unpopular among his peers? what we're seeing here in the call is that the division among the far right in the republican party, the heart right wants mccarthy to give up certain concessions that he has made his and not aligning with their positions. and he's now paying the price for it. and he's trying to get the hard drive happy, but he's also trying to get the votes of the more moderate majority among the republican party. and that is, as we can see and not easy. so who are the people imposing the far right or colt of the freedom caucus, and they represent ideas like the elections of fraud, and they are hard liners on immigration to and they want to see a border will build up as soon as possible at the southern border of the u. s. there, of course also strong supporters of former president donald trump man born given mccarthy has about 4 weeks now to change the direction of the country on twitter. he was counting down to this day when he said he could finally start doing that. what is that change likely to lo

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i'm a history major. of the things from world war ii, we should have learned that it dictator and bully, you have to stand up to it. putin overran ukraine, czechoslovakia and poland will be next. we have to stand up tierney. richard is an independent in liverpool, new york. caller: first of all, your earlier guest, mr. brad sherman. as much as i appreciate his service, 27 years as part of the problem. i support the 20, 10% of the republican elect are finally causing debate. i don't think we have enough debate in congress. i don't think in general, the country which i love so much, both sides, the democrat and republican. i believe it is broken. i think our congress is broken and it is refreshing though disturbing to many, but i think people get too involved with their feelings and i think it is time that someone stood up and i hope good comes from this disarray in the house. host: so who do you think is a consensus candidate? do you think kevin mccarthy can get there? caller: well, i don't know enough. i