-- mike louisa is out and about. - this morning. are you? -- mike louisa is out and about. come together for the first time apart from the strike that happened just over a week ago, so that meansjoint that happened just over a week ago, so that means joint action is much unprecedented. and on the words here at this hospital and other hospitals, it brings staffing levels down to christmas days staffing, as it is called, which means it's the minimum level for safety on the words of a hospital like this. and why are they striking? it's because of pay, also because of conditions, as you've been hearing, it's because doctors want they paid to be restored to 2008 levels and that would mean a rise of 35%. the government have offered consultants around 6% on average and they have offered junior doctors around 8%. they say that's fair and they are not getting round the table, and the doctors here have been telling me that they would be willing to potentially stop this strike action pretty much immediately or in the next couple of days because they would then be round the table with t

abc seven news insider phil matier phil mike johnson not a lot of people really that familiar with him. what do we know about him? >> he's from louisaright, a lot of people don't know about him. that's because he's been pretty much in the background. he's not exactly what we call an effervescent or an aggressive personality out there. he is getting the speakership by default because all of the people that are lined up that people thought had an inside track on this or possibly had the votes after they voted out, kevin mccarthy just didn't make it. but we have is a guy that is very conservative, anti-abortion, anti gay marriage trump supporter here that's got some people nervous. but he also is he's not from california. now, we suffered a blow when nancy pelosi stopped being speaker of the house because a lot of our money and our that we get from the feds comes through that congress right there. and when you have a democrat in charge, and especially one from california and the bay area, things tend to come our way. kevin mccarthy was from southern california and although he wasn't exactly, you know, santa claus when it came to the ba