new york congressman elect mike lawler, great to see you today.washington, happy new year. your thoughts on how this is going the play out? >> look, ultimately kevin mccarthy will be elected speaker. the overwhelming majority of the conference supports him. he received over 85% of the conference vote when we had our elections back in november. and i believe he has been negotiating if good faith with those members who have held out and making progress. and, you know, whether it's one ballot or ten ballots, whatever it takes, we will see kevin mccarthy elected speaker. >> big day for republicans. look, obviously we believe mccarthy will eventually become the speaker but to that point, it's been a hundred years since we haven't had a speaker on the first ballot, sure you recognize promises were made to the electorate and that's why we were able to swing districts like yours, ny3 and ny4 in long island. how do we press upon people like mike gates that if we don't begin to govern, the people we put faith in hour hands will begin to lose trust in the pa

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mike lawler joins us now. congrats again to you. happy new year to you.bit that mccarthy is trying to work? will kevin mccarthy be the speaker of the house? >> the overwhelming majority of the conference supports kevin mccarthy for speaker. when we had our conference elections back in november he received 85% of the vote. i come along with the vast majority of my colleagues, will be voting for kevin whether it is one ballad or 100 ballots. i think for my colleagues that have been holding out so far, kevin has been negotiating in good faith to address their concerns on the rules. the rest of us are open to those rule changes so long as they in good faith support kevin. ultimately, cooler heads will prevail. i do think he will have the requisite number of votes to become speaker. we will see what happens on tuesday. todd: the american people elected republicans to be in charge of the house because they want change. they are not happy with the way the country is going. your soon-to-be colleague put out the following five priorities. irs funding meaning undoi

. >> representative elect mike lawler said the following. i'll get your response. >> the people voting against kevin mccarthy in the republican conference are aiding joe biden, hakeem jeffries, and chuck schumer. >> how can you come together and do what you promised the american people you would do as republicans after this kind of chaotic house speakership vote? >> oh i think the world of mike lawler. he's going to do an incredible job. there are days in the united states congress where the only vote that happens is to rename one post office. so, if we could do that for a day, if there are days when all we vote on are how we're going to take the next vote, then maybe takes two or three days or several weeks to select the person second in line to the presidency is worth our debate and deliberation. after that, abc lurtly. we will come together. -- absolutely. i have every confidence we'll be able to come together. we'll be an effective fighting force if we can get rid of kevin mccarthy and get jim jordan or byron donalds in this speaker chai

it's trying to figure out where the breaking point is, essentially, how far people like mike lawler can other republicans in the biden districts. you have five other republicans in new york, six in california, that the white house and house democrats -- of course one of those seats is george santos' district. that district went for biden by the highest margin of one represented by a republican. and there's a sense that race could be coming up soon if there's a special election for his seat if something happens there. we don't know where that's going at this point. >> we'll see how the map is playing out. great reporting, isaac. thank you. >>> senior biden administration officials are addressing the grim reality of the deadliest drug epidemic in american history. >> number one killer of americans between the age of 18 and 49. fentanyl. last year we lost more than 100,000 americans due to drug overdoses 70% were from synt synthetic opioids. >> the dea seized 10,000 points of fentanyl. that much can kill every single american. >> more than 107,000 deaths from fentanyl last year, about two

mike lawler elected in his district. he's congressman-elect from new york state and would like to get things moving, get to his job. a lot of family members thinking they would see people sworn in today. thanks, congressman elect. thank you. >> take care. >> martha: obviously keep one eye on that. as we await the next steps on capitol hill or a third round vote, there's other breaking news today as well. the nfl says that last night's bills-bengals game will not be resumed. it will not be played this week. it was called off, the game was called after a buffalo defensive back, damar hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field. the 24-year-old received medical treatment on that field for 20 long minutes before being rushed to the hospital where he remains in critical condition. first to eric wood, a former buffalo bills player, now a commentator that was at the game last night. eric, good to have you with us. this is a heart breaking situation for everybody that watched this game and was concerned about him,

mike lawler is a republican who defeated a noted democrat in the last go around preheating to be a brand-new member of the next congressional class, here's what he had to say of the appealing of the american voter. >> i want in a district with 70000 were democrats and republicans. if the district joe biden one by ten points. and we defeated the chair of the d triple c and i did it by talking about issues that matter to people regardless of their political party and that's mainly affordability and public safety and if we put forward the agenda that we ran on and one, the democrats are really going to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. >> what anything about that advice is a lot of talk about convening hearings about joe biden and his son in the origin of the covid virus and things like that. are those the issues that the american people want the congress pending his time in question were. >> i think -- this is the biggest pressure for all republicans to get the speakership race behind them. , they have to talk about things like crime, then to talk about the open border, they have to ta

mike lawler, they are not in a one-party government and it requires negotiation. moderates saying that january 22? >> yeah. listen. they can shift the weight around. they have power with such small margins. the issue is that this has the potential to become a political loser for republicans. this conversation about dead ceiling and then around government shutdowns. both sides end up bruised and democrats might have an opportunity here because often democrats are seen as weaker on the economy but the economic issues that democrats champion are popular with most americans, like expanding the social safety net and the child tax credit. if it shifts democrats might have a strong argument to make. >> there's a real question about whether the united states can avoid a recession this year or go into a recession this year. amy, when we talk about the debt and the deficit this is where i think republicans were silent for four years of trump racking up 25% of all of the u.s. debt since 1789. added $7.8 trillion to the debt. nobody was talking about it then. both parties are

republicans are calling for representative george santos to resign fellow new york congressman mike lawler sy said santos loz suppot of constituents and that santos should step down, and also it was added, "obviously he won't." government agencies say global temperatures did not set a record in 2022, but it was the fifth or sixth hottest year on record the agencies agree the important trend is that temperatures over the last seven years are above previous levels. tyler? >> thank you very much, bertha coombs. >>> ahead on "power lunch," yields on the move following today's cpi report investors looking for any clue on where the fed will take interest rates next. we will hear from pimco's jerome schneider next with rates the way they are, maybe not the time to buy a house. power e*tr especially not a lex are you k - luxury home condo. we'll be right back. >> announcer: krccnbc news updae sponsored by -- power e*trade's easy-to-use tools make complex trading less complicated. custom scans help you find new trading opportunities. while an earnings tool helps you plan your trades and stay on top

i've been surprised to see the nassau county republicans coming out you, mike lawler, despacito, andned about the politics here, about being associate with, him about the branding for this new york. freshman class which is probably the biggest in the country? >> well, chris, you know new york. i'm in upstate new york, i'm not responsible for anything south of yonkers. but the reality is, that lola, esposito, marina, nicole, they all share -- even michael waller, they say a calming media market. and every minute with george santos on and this story really drowns out their ability to convey what's actually happening in congress. i look at it through that lands, you're -- i'm not. i think that's really a lot of what's driving this is that sucking all the air out of the room, the major media markets does not help frankly the new york delegation that won the majority for the republicans. >> it's interesting. the new york delegation is laser focus message, at the top of the ticket helps you quite a bit. -- >> absolutely. >> it's messaging on crime helped quite a bit. i'm curious as someone

joining is republican congressman mike lawler.r the weekend five additional pages of classified information found at joe biden's residence in wilmington, delaware. how concerned are you about that? and are you satisfied with the attorney general, that he has now appointed a special counsel to investigate this? >> well, i think obviously when you look at the former president and the current president, the bottom line is this. classified documents shouldn't be in anybody's home. they shouldn't be leaving the white house. they should be returned back to the national archives, et cetera. i think you need to have consistency on this. so if there was a special prosecutor appointed in the case of the former president, then there needed to be a special prosecutor appointed here to investigate this. it's not enough to just say the intent wasn't there. how do we know what the intent was? the fact you have classified documents on iran, on ukraine sitting next to a corvette, that's a bit of an issue. i think the current president shouldn't be

joining us now, newly sworn in republican congressman, republican mike lawler. so you supported kevin mccarthy in his bid for speaker in the beginning. all 15 ballots. mccarthy's had to make a lot of concessions in order to flip the hard liners. are you worried about any of the concessions? >> no. a lot of these rules were already negotiated over the last two months. the only thing that changed was the motion to vacate from 5-1, which i was willing to concede on long ago. at the end of the day, that was the rule for over 100 years in congress. so the person who changed that was nancy pelosi. >> yeah. >> so reverting it back to the one and based on the fact it took 15 votes, clearly they can pull together five people if they wanted to. >> you're right in the sense that that's the only change that showed up in the rules that you're going to vote on. but there are all these other side deals that we don't know what they are. they haven't been presented. we've heard some of them. for instance, tieing any vote on raising the debt ceiling to some accompanying spending

joining me now mike lawler. he supported kevin mccarthy on all of these ballots. congressman-elect, thank you for coming in. what happens on the conference call just now. >> i'm not going to get into the details, except to say that i do believe that progress is being made. i do believe that conversations over last 24 to 48 hours have been very productive and i do believe that people are going to be moving towards kevin and ultimately that kevin mccarthy will be the speaker of the house as i've said from the very beginning. look, you have over 200 members of conference who have supported kevin throughout this entire process. that is not changing. and we are going to continue to stand strong in support of kevin until he ultimately is elected as speaker of the house. so ultimately here you've had. >> like i said productive talks and many of the changes requested by the members of freedom caucus are changes embraced by the conference. so this is not a question of weakening kevin mccarthy to speaker. the motion to vacate going from five to one, there is no difference w

you heard earlier mike lawler say his conduct is embarrassing.e sworn in today, but republicans are not rallying around him. i don't think he'll get a warm reception on capitol hill and he'll face a lot of questions from reporters. >> john, listen, embarrassed, but not embarrassed enough to speak out. kevin mccarthy is not weighing in on this because he needs the votes. where does this put us? what does this say about the culture of lying in our country and his place in the republican party? >> it shows how much we put the pursuit of power over principle. shamelessness is table stakes in politics. this is all down stream from donald trump. to some extent lying has become normalized. this case is so extraordinary because this isn't resume embellishment. this is a serial liar about every aspect of his biography. that raises real questions -- dan goldman has suggested conspiracy to defraud the united states. lying on financial disclosure forms is also illegal. there are still questions out there. a local paper in his district reported before the ele

someone's radar voting no but what it suggests to me and i was on the hill this morning talking to mike lawler and brian fitzpatrick two mccarthy voters said they believe that the faction of the hard-liners are saving some no votes so if they do multiple ballots today the no votes against kevin mccarthy will only continue to grow. so it will seem like opposition is growing, they tactically behind the scenes are trying to do that. >> i want to state one thing. the reason we are here, the reason kevin mccarthy is here is because it is so small. and if you go back in time he was predicting a big wave and then as the election got closer, he predicted a smaller wave. it was barely a trickle. and there are a lot of members in that chamber who are voting right now who are voting to support kevin mccarthy. these are republicans. but are telling me and i'm sure a lot of you guys here that a big problem that republicans have is one that they have had for the last 12, 15 years since the tea party started and it's that these extremes, small band of extremes have successfully taken over the leadership and

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common sense proposals and they were negotiating in good faith, according to congressman-elect mike lawlerlot of moving of goal posts here. >> martha: sounds like it, and welcome to washington, makes albany look like bean bag. we know albany has tough politics of it own. this is where we are right now in this process, and you know, if you are fighting for something you have to be willing to trade something in order to shift. so you have this dynamic of both sides so dug in that so far we have not seen any give in these numbers, but at some point, john and sandra, as you well know, we will. something will happen, there will be a catalyst and why we are watching it closely, and you have the other number at 20 right now, and victoria is voting present for an interesting reason, basically saying there is no -- we are not getting anywhere in this moment. she's hoping for an option to give her something to vote for that looks like it could be a potential game changer here and that's what needs to happen at some .1 of these sides has to give in and so far it does not appear to be happening. but y

mike lawler, despacito, but that cruel, interesting lee, is some of the most crossed pressure congressers going to default, and to impeach joe biden. i think they know, that to. i think is, there is no question about it. >> there are republicans who may have moderate instincts, it was held to the far-right of a party, which is intent on defaulting in americas debt and, detailing the full faith in the united states. it appears that these moderate republicans or pass observers, and hostages taking crisis. house republicans have become the freudian it of the republican party. >> how do you think of being the minority this year? what your job is? >> i think her job is to resist the excesses for the republican party, and my concern is the debt limit brinkmanship. if we default on our debt, it would do irreparable damage to the american economy. there are six republicans are joining to her 12 democrats, and to proceed with a discharge with everything to the debt limit, and to protect the american economy. >> are those active right now? negotiating is understanding, and we don't negotiate on

here's how mike lawler put it earlier today on this network. >> it looks like a game of chicken, but republican conference supporting kevin mccarthy for speaker. and we are not going to allow the conference to be held hostage by a handful of members. >> joining us now is "washington post" congressional investigations reporter, david jolly is back with us along with brendan buck. you noted in "the post" this morning that what we're seeing play out is the, quote, culmination of an internal divide that had in the past helped bring down the speakerships of republicans john boehner and paul ryan with members of the conservative house freedom caucus asking for a range of demands in exchange for their votes. but this time, jackie, it's different, right? >> slightly so. i think that there are definitely two competing tensions at play here, one, how did kevin mccarthy fail in his own way to sort of assuage and win over this bloc of hard-line republicans who are refusing to support him, you know, over a dozen of whom are unlikely to budge as pete said yesterday until the cows come home, versus

we're set up for mike lawler to serve in financial services, elise stefanik in leadership. for the state of new york, and people of new york, and this is getting in the way. >> now the speaker says that he disagrees with you and the other republicans from new york delegation there who says that he's got to go. this is what speaker mccarthy says on the question of a santos resignation. >> the voters of his district have elected him. he is seated. he is part of the republican conference. >> what do you think about how the speaker is handling this? >> well, that's a, you know, look at georgia's race. new york, third, he won by eight points. it's a very competitive seat he won by eight points. his message resonated, but now the package around that message is falling apart, and these are new revelations every day. i think, victor, if you look at us that are in new york, particularly those downstate, we're in the same media market as ny3, particularly everybody out in long island, and it's saturating the market. we want to talk about our wins. we want to talk about the strength o

mike lawler, the top priority is to deal with inflation and tony gonzalez and mario diaz-balart of floridang they don't see it right now. how does kevin mccarthy deal with many of his members, committee chairs think this is something they want to do? can he tell them to stop once they start or once they start, is this out of his control? >> i think what we're going to see is like a slow walking of this. there will be a lot of investigating on these three committees like mel talked about. a lot of hearings, things like that but clearly while mccarthy has shifted in tone, when we talk to him in october he said he didn't think impeachment was the route for any cabinet official or biden, that changed in november after the majority we saw house small it would be and shifted in tone and still not rushing to do this. there are a lot of parallels to when speaker pelosi came in in 2019 democrats on the far left were immediately calling to impeach trump. she really took her time and did not want to do it and knew what a political football it was and here, remember, democrats still control the senate

to introduce next for his first special order hour speech, in the 118th congress, representative mike lawler from new york. he represents the 17th district which includes rockland county, westchester and duchess counties. he served in the -- before serving in the u.s. house here, he represented the 97th district in the state assembly and worked on bank, education, housing. he has a broad range. he passed more bills than any other member of his conference. and really, it's a testament to his ability to work in a bipartisan, pragmatic fashion to approach the problems that we face. that's a skill that's going to come in handy here. he previously served also as a deputy town supervisor, as a senior advisor to a county executive. he was also the executive director of the department of new york. he graduated with degrees in accounting and finance. he was a valedictorian there, i i'd note. his greatest accomplishment is of course his wife and daughter. they live in pearl river. we are proud to have congressman lawler here. he yield to him as much time as he may consume. mr. lawler: thank you to my

i just talked to congressman mike lawler, incoming congressman who told me if it goes to 50 ballots he plans to stick with kevin mccarthy for 50 ballots, he said of those conservative foes what is their end game? we'll keep voting and voting and guess what, we -- they don't have enough votes and we outweigh them so that's the question here, jake. who will blink first? right now mccarthy allies are saying they won't do it and neither will the conservatives and will there be some sort of cons consensus? at the moment no consensus candidate. kevin mccarthy, 19 votes against him right now. he needs to keep that only to four. unclear when or if it will happen. >> we heard manu talking to congressman chip roy who seemed to suggest he's not blinking. i got a text, abby phillip, from 1 of the 203 viting for kevin mccarthy saying he'll get the vote. we're not blinking either. >> to be fair, hallmark of this group of 19 and the folks who are kind of leading this charge is that it's all about throwing a wrench in the machine but not actually solving any problems, who is the alternative? no one ha

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