mccarthy. if mccarthy wins the first election this afternoon and a sense to the post, there will be a second election to replace mccarthy as majority whip. ratce, a three-horse ise, peter roskam, and marlin stutzman. se is believed to be the front runner. if it is forced to go to a second ballot, whoever is in third place will drop off automatically and it will be a head-to-head matchup. i could be interesting. 's supporterscalise are confident they can win outright. he was planning to be up until 2:00 making last-minute calls and shoring this thing up. he had the look in his guy who thought they were right on the cusp of getting to the magic number of 116 or 117. it remains to be seen. it remains to be seen. has his way,ise it will be a clean victory and he will be the new house majority whip. if it goes to a second ballot, anything can happen. the significance of having a red state republican leadership? guest: the lack of a red state presence has been a source of tension within the house rep

kevin mccarthy is in the room right out voting for him versus raul labrador as majority leader.e that occurs, then the vote moves into who will face kevin mccarthy as whip -- will replace kevin maccarthy has whip. there is peter roskam, steve stutzman,nd marlon who is representing the tea party wing. keeping an i will be eye on for and something i am listening to, the people in the room right now, how that second round goes. people might say go with somebody else in the first round and be with me on the second round. there is a lot of strategizing on how to get that second round. let me ask you companies are not well-known people to the american public, even maccarthy. savvy investors may not have a sense of him. whatever the leadership lineup stays a speaker, maccarthy as majority leader, any idea how markets and investors will react? >> investors really like eric cantor. wall street was particularly fond of him, and now with him gone there will be a testing period. personable, great personality, but the jury is out on how knowledgeable he is on policy. peopleill be a period on

it was the 1954 army mccarthy hearings and the exchange between joseph welch and joseph mccarthy that changed this city and the world. six decades ago, america's national mood was marked by anxiety over the looming threat of communism. the victory of world war ii had given way to the gripping tension of the cold war. communist power was on the rise in eastern europe and in china. american forces were at war in korea. here in congress, the house committee on un-american activities worked to sniff out communist subversion within our borders, including the infamous hollywood blacklist. one man in the senate sat out to exploit the fears of that time, and he came to symbolize the fearmongering of that fretful era. joseph mccarthy was a relatively unknown junior senator from wisconsin when in february of 1950 he delivered a speech accusing secretary of state dean atchison of harboring 205 known members of the american communist party within the state department. the charge was questionable and ill supported, but the brazen accusation struck a nerve with an anxious american public, and senat

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what we're hearing is it's likely to kevin mccarthy. people say kevin mccarthy isn't that different than eric cantor. is he a tea party insurgent? no. is he a moderate? does he broker compromise? not so much, but in terms of measurable difference with the republican caucus it doesn't feel like it would be night and day, if you will. do you think the democratic caucus can work better with kevin mccarthy than any other candidate? >> i don't want to get any of the candidates in more or less trouble here. but let me just say this, alex, i know that the folks who were part of defeating eric cantor do not think that the current leadership, including kevin mccarthy, is anything but the status quo. i heard an interview last night with one of the tea party activists part of the big upset victory for brat in the virginia race, and what she was saying is that, you've got to throw out the whole bunch. you've got to throw out boehner and the current leadership, which includes kevin mccarthy. so i think it's fair to say that however this works out, t

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mccarthy will also speak. do we see some of the sting -- steve king cost discussion -- type ofe king discussion? host: we will follow your work on the pbs website. thank you for being with us. who follows the house leadership or bloomberg blending red and blue is the editorial. an important and troubling new study from the pew research center confirms what has been evident of american politics. differences are deeper than they have been in two decades. they are more committed to their worldviews more than they were. they consist of ideological activists, half of each party's donors revile the opposition as a threat to the nation's well-being. what else did you find in the survey and how many people did you question? guest: it was an enormous survey. we interviewed 10,000 americans. itlook at three main topics. was the growth of ideological consistency, the growth of antipathy, the third aspect was the dimension of all this. how do people live their lives and how does polarization affect that? host: i want to s

kevin mccarthy supports that, too.tives out of listening to ted cruz and tried to work with obamacare. on planet heritage eric cantor only counts as 52% conservative. he's a mushy moderate. kevin mccarthy gets a 42 because unlike cantor, mccarthy has voted for such radical left wing priorities as the violence against women act. what the tea party has to show for it is a new majority leader that is marginally less conservative than eric cantor and only one tea party congressman raised his hand to oppose mccarthy, raul labrador who is in theory, pro-immigration reform. how did this happen? why didn't one of the more senior right wingers, like someone like jeb hencsar long o jim jordan. -- but the main reason is there's no good way to be a tea party majority leader. tea party politicians have promised tea party voters something they can't deliver that by simply standing their ground and refusing to compromise they can force any policy agenda they want on a democratic president and a democratic senate. basically, if you be

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kevin mccarthy is the new house majority leader. this is how he describes himself. >> they elected a guy who is a grandson of a cattle rancher, the son of a firefighter. only in america do you get that opportunity. they elected a guy that's only grown up through the grass roots. they elected a guy that's spent his time going around recruiting many of these individuals to get the majority. gwen: he's been in leadership for a while. what's new, ed? >> a little more youth and inexperience, to put it bluntly. mccarthy is 49. he's been in congress since 2007. having won this week, he is the fastest-rising majority leader in american history. so he is now in charge of running the schedule, deciding what bills get to the floor, determining whether they have to be pulled. a lot of mechanics. but he's prepared himself well, having spent the last few years, as he said, recruiting most of these guys to show up here in washington. he cashed in his favors, basically, over the last 10 days and was able to successfully succeed cantor. him moving i

kevin mccarthy may still have a fight on his hands.gton post" full rucker reports that labrador may run to the right of mccarthy and try to make thursday's vote a little more interesting. the last 48 hours have been a whirl wind for house republicans. >> i don't know any good policy or administrative reason why cantor should leave that position now rather than finish his job. there may be political reasons. political reasons are always morally inferior. >> there's still a close race we are watching. it's a three-way battle to take mccarthy's spot as house majority whip, which his chief deputy, pete raskam is getting a look among his competition steve scalise. >> kelly, how are you? >> good morning. >> the tea party conservatives will blind quote leadership to death. they love to complain, moan to death but when the chips are down, they don't want to run? they love complaining but they don't want to lead? >> there was so little time by cantor stepping down, he created a much bigger hurdle for those sort of noise makers to create any kin

mccarthy will take over from the current leader, eric cantor.ry, forcing a stunning shakeup for the g.o.p. leadership. trace gallagher mass here from los angeles. kevin mccarthy is the first majority leader from california and the youngest at 49 years old. lives in bakersfield, california, which is 100 miles east and north of los angeles, and he comes back to bakersfield every week where his wife and his son and daughter live, and kevin mccarthy is a guy who is in d.c. he sleeps on a couch in his office. he grew up in bakers field, attended cal state, and married his high school sweet earth, and those who wonder how a majority leader could be from california, you have to keep in mine that california is very blue from interstate 5 west but also very red from interstate 5 east, and kevin mccarthy's district is in the eastern part of california. he served on the california legislature for several years, and he walks a very fine line on immigration because he knows that illegal immigrants are needed to pick his crops out in the valley, so he does no

i know kevin mccarthy has supported it. paul ryan and mario diaz-balart of florida had been working behind the scenes to try to get some votes of the members. a majority of the republican conference to support this, i've been told that they had as many as 144 in support to do something this year, before this election. and now, half of that support has melted away. >> i think the results of cantor's defeat mean that it's probably dead for this year, and that's unfortunate, paul, because i think there's a danger of reading too much into what happened to eric cantor. if you look at other races, renee ellmers in north carolina faced a tea party opponent, ran on immigration. in virginia, the republican nomination for senate, a very pro-comprehensive reform guy. so, i think there's a danger in extrapolating too much from these results in virginia, but i do think the political reality is a lot of people are spooked right now and i don't think anything's going to get done on immigration reform. >> in a census, kim, do you agree wit

kevin mccarthy. >> i congratulated him last night and he said not so soon. >> mccarthy join john boehner they control tea party figures in the caucus. >> the kamikaze caucus. >> steve school ease appears likely. >> a lot turned toward scolese and protects john boehner. >> he is sort of a tea partier. he's shown a desire and ability to work with the leadership. >> not mckarthy? >> it's that's the million dollar question. >> you never know what's going to happen. >> i was thinking about it and i was praying for the republicans in church as i do at least every sunday. ♪ >>> house republicans have new leadership. there is a new number two in the u.s. house of representatives and a new whip. in a vote that took place just moments ago california congressman kevin mccarthy ascended from majority whip to majority leader in the sudden sweepstakes for house republican power, a sweepstakes that were, of course, precipitated by the surprise and very swift primary defeat of majority leader now former eric cantor. there was no upset victory for mccarthy's lone rival. conservative idaho congressman rau

it looks like kevin mccarthy is going to be number two. >> kevin mccarthy also angling for boehner's job. >> not as quickly or as openly. if john boehner wants to keep his job after this year it's certainly good news for him. that's still the open question. is john boehner coming back next year? beyond that, how long does he want to stay? that's the question that still looms around john boehner. i'm so struck by this paradox where you see how, if a member of congress does not take care of home, regardless of who they are, they can lose a primary. so that happens, and obviously it sends shockwaves as it should throughout washington. at the same time, washington has not changed that much itself . and relationships still matter here. that trumps everything which is why kevin mccarthy is on the verge of being the next leader. this political earthquake was not felt in the capital itself. >> that's the interesting question. can they continue to ignore what happens at the ballot box. this is 70,000 voters in one congressional district in virginia. i think jonathan is right. we can attribute

mccarthy.most i want to thank my constituents and my colleagues for the trust that they instilled in me. america's struggling. we're struggling with a stagnant economy, a failed health care law, and so many are living paycheck to paycheck. they're looking for individuals that put people before politics. i make one promise. i will work every single day to make sure this conference has the courage to lead with the wisdom to listen. and we'll turn this country around. >> thank you. i too want to thank my colleagues and my constituents for the honor they've entrusted me to be the next majority whip. i'm looking forward to bringing a fresh new voice to our leadership table and joining with this team to help confront the challenges that people all across this is country are face. we've got solid conservative solutions that are going to solve the problems facing our country. we've reached out to the president to join us in sofing those problems. but we're going to continue to move forward in the house

mccarthy. >> first and foremost, i want to thank my constituents and my colleagues for the trust they have instilled in me. america is struggling. we're struggling with a stagnant economy, a failed health care law and so many are living paycheck to paycheck. they are looking for individuals that put people before politics. i make one promise, i will work every single day to make sure this conference has the courage to lead with the wisdom to listen. and will turn this country around. i too want to thank my colleagues and my constituents for the honor they entrusted me to be the next majority whip. i'm looking forward to bringing a fresh, new voice to our leadership table and joining with this team to help confront the challenges that people all across this country are facing. we have solid, conservative solution that's will solve the problems facing our country. we reached out to the president to join us in solving those problems but we're going to continue to move forward in the house as a uni

kevin mccarthy is poised to become the next leader. are there any other challenges? idaho hasntative from decided he wants to challenge mccarthy for that number to post an house leadership roster. he and mccarthy will be making their pitches on wednesday morning. in a closed-door session. and then on thursday though for conference full 33 members will willon that and the house switch position if mccarthy goes to number two. craig how about the house for majority? >> there are three candidates. he has been challenged by steve who is head of the republican committee. a group of 177 conservative members which gives them a heavy lift into the race. and then a late entry from indiana. said to may be eyeing the chairmanship if he does not win this race. >> they would've a spending bills. which ones are they and you expect congress to put all 12 of them passed by the end of the fiscal year? >> it is looking more and more doubtful. they are taking another break on july 12 and then they take in august a break and out for most of september. on tuesday, the senate will debut sp

kevin mccarthy. nobody seems to love the idea of putting him in there but it sounds like nobody wants to try to stop him. >> kevin mccarthy has a tom delay-like whip operation p.m. she very well organized in the house. committee chairman like dave camp, hal rogers of kentucky working as whips for him now. on the side lines have you sessions who has no organization and trying to get his name out there. this has enabled mccarthy within the last 24 hours to get from what i hear over 120 votes already on the side ask if not more this morning. >> molly, you have been on the rail covering the conservative primaries a little bit. you do hear from sort of grassroots conservatives, i don't like any of the washington leadership and so this will look like more of the same today. >> absolutely. one of the story lines of this year so far in the house has been the way john boehner managed to reassert control and reunify his caucus and stop some of the destructive in-fighting that helped bring about such things as

let's talk about mccarthy and labrador.rsfield, it's not only in his interest in his district because of the growers and because of his population to do something, but obviously hispanics are going to blame 100% republicans and lablg bra dor is an immigration attorney. he knows full well the problem and he's a hispanic. i'm not completely sold on this. >> you think this summer the republicans in the u.s. house could put this on the floor? >> i don't understand how wise republicans aren't telling their party to do so! >> tell me party -- >> michael steele, the prospects of the house actually voting on it? >> zero. there's no -- there is no political upside. there's no political interest. and there's no -- there's no desire to move on this because the elements of what republicans want on the table, first and foremost in this situation that we're seeing now, as reported just a moment ago, folks coming across the border, securing the borders is -- unless that is dealt with in a comprehensive way and the president's got to be ho

a lot of the tea partiers were supported by mccarthy, were given pep talks by mccarthy.s sometimes when they were running in tough races when they thought they wrntd going to win. so mccarthy has been able to engrash yat himself over the longish term. he doesn't line up with them i'd lodge lick because he's from california and he can't so it will be really interesting to see how this shakes out, where loyalties lie and politics lie. it's like open heart surgery right now for the republican house caucus and everybody's going to watch it from the viewing area up top. it's going to be so soul bantering, summer soul-searching. >> i think they call it the box. but, michael steele, to the point of open heart surgery and the catharsis here, jake sherman from politico tweeting from inside the gop meeting, cantor was quoting a holocoust survivor. suffer i suffering is a part of life. misery is a choice. boehner is crying and thanking cantor. >> it's like when the pope dies, there's oop nine days of mourning and everybody is running around trying to talk about who the next pope is

except that kevin mccarthy probably won't do that.nd the good news is that two of the people who were running for this post, jen hensarling and paul ryan, who will probably take over the ways and means, tax writing committee, are both very good committee chairman. jen hensarling will terminate the bank, try to rewrite dodd/frank in a way that will make it work, and paul ryan an historic rewrite of the tax code is supporting them in that effort and as kim says win the senate in 2016, you could have a potentially very productive house of representatives. >> and my information, jason, is that my sources are saying that mccarthy told the senior -- other senior members of the republican party he's not guaranteeing that he'll run for speaker if john boehner departs. retires at the end of this year or in a couple of years. so that would still leave the opening for somebody like ryan or jen hensarling, for either one of those to run to succeed boehner. >> yeah. but i think we also need to reb, remember, though, this is going to need to be mor

mccarthy is a good choice. >> how will mccarthy be different than cantor? >> you saw cantor embraced mccarthy right away. >> you hear complaints from some of the red states, the ultra-right guys, that we need our leadership. >> that will go into the whip's race. you need a southerner, somebody from the right. >> you don't expect anything to happen legislatively for the rest of the year. >> you hope you get some appropriation bills. it is not just the house. the senate is in a shutdown mode as well. basically, we are in gridlock. >> if kevin mccarthy wins, does that mean he will win in december when they comeback? >> left wing insipid elections are like. a funny thing, what elections can do. if it is a good cycle, absolutely. if there are disappointments, they will be looking for more change. >> tell us what you expect in november. >> if you look the polling, you have the president's numbers tumbling at the white house, it ought to be a good midterm. in the house, modest republican gains only because they have won most of what they can win and they're not th

that, i mean there is the only potential that immigration reform has now is the fact that kevin mccarthy, as the new majority leader, is from a district in bakersville, california, that has 35% latino workers, latino population and even larger group of workers. and businesses who have told him repeatedly that they rely heavily on these migrant workers. in addition to that, he is well known for his relationship with silicone valley, being the bridge from the gop to the tech industry. and i'm thinking that if immigration reform advocates

mccarthy has showed some openness on immigration. no one is going to act on it now because the rest of the congress is so -- so much so has to look over their shoulders for doing anything on it. mccarthy will be somebody similar to eric cantor. they were friends. the dissension will remain within the republican conference. host: from north carolina, good morning. caller: c-span guests and america, good morning. host: good to hear from you. caller: if it was any better, i would be greedy. veteran.etnam era please allow me as much time as you did the gentleman from west virginia. it appears to me that reporters nowadays on news media are stenographers. they don't report anything. let me give you an example. you had rand paul saying -- boasting about how he had chastised hillary clinton for not reading cables. anybody who knows anything about civics knows good and well that is something that happens with the undersecretary or below. not only that, if these reporters pulled the senate report in january, 20 14, at the bottom of page 20, t

mccarthy. deputy chief of patient care services for the veterans health administration and miss lorraine landsfree, deputy chief information officer for product development of va's office of information technology. they are accompanied by dr. mary lawrence, deputy director of the vision center of excellence and mr. pat sheehan, director of va's 508 compliance office. i think we'll continue the -- for committee members, we'll continue the process of stating your name so those that are vision impaired in the audience can know who is speaking. i would ask the panel to do the same. dr. mccarthy, your complete written statement will be made a part of the hearing record and you're now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. good morning chairman coffman, ranking member kirkpatrick and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to discuss the department of veterans affairs contributions to the vision center of excellence and the care and services provided to veterans with visual impairm

compared to mccarthy's 72%. kevin mccarthy, current republican whip from bakersfield, california has had a conventional rise in gop leadership from the house republican steering committee, deputy when to his current job. former chairman of the young republicans and founding member of young guns with paul ryan and recently defeated eric cantor. now mccarthy is favored to get cantor's leadership possession over red state republican pete sessions from texas. here's what john boehner said about the race today. >> i told the members yesterday. this is a time for unity. >> do you want kevin mccarthy to be house majority leader. how important is it do you think for unity in your conference to have a red state republican at the leadership table? >> well, i do think the members are going to make the decision. we are going to do it next week. and i'm sure some will argue it is too soon. some argue it is too long. but it is important that we resolve this issue in a fair amount of time so that we can do the work that we wer

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he was kevin mccarthy's deputys' he didn't get this. it's also significant this did not go to a second ballot. three candidates in there, harv thought you wouldn't get the absolute majority and they would have to kick this over to a second ballot with the third-place finisher coming in. the fact seive -- steve scalise won this on the first ballot is significant. he said he had a lot of votes on this, appeared to be in the lead, and you can't be whip if you don't whip your first vote -- >> jeb in texas was going to challenge mccarthy, pete sessions would do that. both ultimately dropping out. what happened there and do we know the vote count that lifted mccarthy to his position? >> no. they're not giving us the vote tallies. was thought that raul labrador, the conservative congressmann from idaho, they vote against everything, decorrect controlling, the hurricane sandy bill, thigh voted no on almost everything. they used to tell us what the vote tallies were but the votes needed to win, you have 233 members of the house republican confer

the major difference between cancer and mccarthy is mccarthy knows this conference better than everybodyed a lot of the gender tea party members that have been so problematic for the house republicans. there might be a little bit of a change because of that. these are two lawmakers that were very similar in ideology and aligned in being pro-business. this is not going to change. >> what does this mean for john boehner? >> the boehner side of this is the more fascinating part. nobody took a shot at john boehner was a little bit interesting. everybody also looked at eric cantor as the heir apparent. tensions inhad their relationships. kevin mccarthy was often the middleman. think the key point here is in six months the leadership elections happen all over again. >> what does that mean for republicans and washington politics? is speaker banner a lame-duck speaker? >> i don't think he is. there is conventional wisdom that he is on his way out or may retire. hehink he is a lawmaker and is very cognizant of his legacy. for him to leave this conference he would want to feel comfortable in who w

could mccarthy be taken out if boehner remains strong.hat's going to be an open debate. >> luke russert, robert costa, good stuff. fun election to cover. you never know what's going to happen, but it does look like mccakaurcarty how big is his wi can mccarthy pull it out. thank you, guys. >>> time now for the first number in today's data bank. 1,220. that's the number of days that jay carney served as white house press secretary. carney held his final white house briefing yesterday. he walked into the briefing room one last time to his own at-bat music to the band guided by voices blader over the speakers. carney said that he loved every minute of every day on the job. deputy press secretary replaces carney at the podium officially, i believe, monday. >>> coming up next, the famous quarterback throws a hail mary in the mississippi senate race. >>> plus it was once a symbol of american expansion, so why has st. louis been stuck in a slump for so long? that's our tdr 50 focus this week. but first, today's tdr 50 trivia question. how many re

you said kevin mccarthy is doing this. how is he going -- how does he march right into eric cantor's old job, the majority leader's job without any real challenge? we have one last standing tea party challenge but that's it? >> there's a minor long sought challenger in raul labrador from idaho and part of that boehner coup attempt in 2013 and does not have much of a chance. his aide told me on friday that he was not going to even come back to the capitol until monday or tuesday. so he doesn't have the time and doesn't have the organization. mccarthy started immediately on tuesday night. making calls. he is someone who has been a staffer in the house. he's very well networked with his deputy whips. he was -- he has a -- former chief of staff counting votes in his first floor capitol suite and mccarthy is ahead. and speed kills in leadership races and mccarthy had speed. i came from the capitol to the studio. and meeting with steve scalise, a republican, a conservative from louisiana and as a conservative in the house, a hea

these high profile folks, jenny mccarthy jeef among them have had a real effect.s, talks about the how the misinformation spreads like a virus, like a virus, people pass along through the networks of contact that they have. so there's that. i also think the fact of the matter is, the relationship between patient and doctor is a complex strange one that's mediated by this kind of expertise. i think we live right now in a period of time in which there's a lot of distrust of experts but also i think the advent of the internet and different ways. it's amazing how many doctors i talk to who talk about the shift in how a patient comes into their room now. right? they are coming to the room having spent an hour or the internet. >> or much much more. >> with all sorts of ideas about what the diagnosis is and what test should be done. you're taking care of your own health and being pro active. at a another level, it's beginning to break down the nature of the authority of that relationship and all kinds of interesting ways. >> some of this is related to the rise of autism,

early advantage to mccarthy. ofooked at the gathering texas republicans and they feel pretty confident that pete sessions will give him a run for his money. >> the position would be open as well. >> if mccarthy were to win, the whip decision would open up -- position would open up. you have the possibility that sessions could run for the spot. mentioned,hree names one of mccarthy's chief deputie steve scalise and marlin stutzman. those are the names being mentioned most often. is a domino taking shape here. boehnerigns that john is holding onto the speaker job? >> there is no sign right now gavel isn'tehner's any doubt right now. thee elections will get leadership through the next election. there is next year -- that is when any challenge to john boehner with surface. >> peter cook live on capitol hill. thanks. during his 15 years in office, eric cantor raked in campaign cash from wall street bonus. what do they have to show for their investment? megan hughes has been looking into that. how did congressman cantor

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