you have a guy named mike mccarthy and mike tom linn. mike tom linn can't be fired he's a great coach. mike mccarthy needs to be gone. get what they have one super bowl and mccarthy has a better record. one says fire him. the other can't be touched. that's what is going on with blacks. can't say anything. if do you you're racist. it allows us to stay in jobs sometimes over. mr. eric adams will use that even though the people criticizing him are as chocolate. i'm so glad we have this chocolate around us. >> jesse: it's okay. it preserves your job security even if you're not doing that good of a job sthafplt okay to play in that case? >> look this is black history month. what i would like first off is for you to switch houses with me. that needs to happen. we have awful these black people, i don't know if you have seen it, there are black people saying the wild thing. i thought black friday would be -- i'm disappointed about that. now i'm disappointed about black history month. i'm not getting free stuff. we can ask for you. the world says

mike mccarthy needs to be gone because he hasn't won in years. ewell, guess what? super they both have won super bowl and mike mccarthbowly has a bet. record yet, and one is saved by him. the the can't be touched. that's what's going on with blacks. you can'blact say anything goodf be doing a racist. and it allows us to be able to sta to stay iy jobs sometime. eric adams. he's going to usmr. e that evenn though the people criticizing him are just as chocolatm are as he's they there and saying, hey, i'm so glad we got all this chocolate aroun d. >> so it's okay because itr jo preserves your job securitya jo even if you really aren't doing that good of a job. >> is that is that oka okay y ty in that case? >> look, this is blacks history month. what i would like, first of all, is that you to switch housesu toh hous with me because that's what needs to happen. we have all these black people. i don't know if you've seel e be video of the video of black saying the most wild. hey, i thought black friday was just i would go to the mall. m a it wouldn't be bad, but black peo

they spent much of the year just trying to select the leader, 15 rounds to mike mccarthy, then the theorem him and then took a while to get speaker johnson in place. they're struggling just with the basic function of government, whether it was the debt ceiling, the appropriations measures, spending bills, continued resolutions, and then the democratic up on everything. and so they really can't do anything on their own. they need democrats on any substantive policy. they going to need their help again on the ukraine israel foreign aid package. they will need their help, and if they're smart right, now i think what they would, do your some problem solver republicans trying to work with democrats to bring that ball up, and he puts back the border provisions that were agreed to in the senate and then tries to pass it. some of them are trying to get something done, but i think many don't particularly care that they are not getting anything done. some of them just like to blow things up all day. i've often said this many times, any jack asking get kicked out of a barn door, but you need a carpen

mccarthy. he was great at his job like mike johnson. >> right, as the house went to kevin mccarthy to mike johnsone go to mitch mcconnell -- >> to someone named john. >> michelle goldberg, thank you for helping me ride the chairimate tonight. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> a surprising decision from the supreme court could have a massive impact on the 2024 presidential election. the justices will hear arguments on donald trump's immunity claim, which will delay his federal election interference trial.

mccarthy. he was great at his job like mike johnson. >> right, as the house went to kevin mccarthy to mike johnson so does the senate go to mitch mcconnell -- >> to someone named john. >> michelle goldberg, thank you for helping me ride the chairimate tonight. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> a surprising decision from the supreme court could have a massive impact on the 2024 presidential election. the justices will hear arguments on donald trump's immunity claim, which will delay his federal election interference trial. we'll have expert legal analysis for you on that in just a moment. also ahead, the end of an era for senate republicans. the party's longest serving leader in the upper chamber is stepping down at the end of the year. we'll take a look at mitch mcconnell legacy and who could replace him. and that comes as congressional leaders now have a deal to fund part of the government for a few more weeks, giving lawmakers a little more time to get a lot done. o get a lot done >>> good morning, and welcome to "way too early" on this thursday, february 29th, a weekda

it was ultimately what toppled kevin mccarthy. mike johnson was, who i think is a very good person and someone who i get along with well, but the reality is he was literally the fifth choice the lead the republican conference because they were so badly divided internally. that dynamic is what is preventing an agreement that was reached last june by kevin mccarthy and the president and democrats and republicans in congress. it actually got two-thirds of the vote here in the house, and yet here we are so much later, some eight months on since june, we have not been able to finally pass the budget for the fiscal year that we've been in for the last five months. liz: i don't envy you, but i respect all of you for at least, hopefully, trying. we will follow it. congress marneing, thank you -- congressman, thank you. >> thank you. liz: what you're seeing, again, on the screen is president joe biden on the ground, brownsville, texas, speaking with customs and border patrol agents. and we are, just so you know, very, very close on following fo

we don't know specifically why mike gallagher is gone but i should mention also that kevin mccarthy was removed and a lot of his allies are leaving also. they just see the chaos in the house and if one person has the power to remove the speaker and there were three weeks when we didn't have a speaker, no one was happy on capitol hill and they came appear to get things done and they can't get things done, you just get frustrated and say i'm out of here. as to the numbers, it's not significantly higher or lower than we seen in years past. it's kind of cyclical but that could change. the numbers could go up much more than we can say this trend is specific to the chaos appear with donald trump or whatever the reason. people are kind of across-the-board and why they are leaving. host: this is bob in missouri, republican. caller: hi, how are you doing? how are you doing? i am republican. i am for ukraine and the war. host: anything else you want to add? caller: yeah, do you think the last senate made a mistake of turning down the border deal? host: the border deal? guest: a lot of people woul

. >> brian: mike gallagher named by kevin mccarthy focused on china and the threat and they outlinedtle disagreement, now he has to act. will he get legislation and people and money to fight the problem? >> ainsley: and tiktok, they say, our kids don't have tiktok. >> brian: wray, say it should be banned, it should be banned. >> ainsley: lawrence is back outside a new migrant facility in boston talking to outraged residents. he is next. >> great they want to help the immigrants, what about the americans and people already here that don't have jobs, don't have homes and are sleeping on the street already. (♪) (♪) (♪) (♪) book in the hotels.com app to find your perfect somewhere. jordan's sore nose let out a fiery sneeze, so dad grabbed puffs plus lotion to soothe her with ease. puffs plus lotion is gentle on sensitive skin and locks in moisture to provide soothing relief. a nose in need deserves puffs indeed. america's #1 lotion tissue. i look back with great satisfaction on my 32 years in active duty. i understand the veteran mentality. these are people who have served. they've been

and what missing from people like mccarthy and mike johnson? it's a great question. i mean, look, i don't know how we get here. so i'm just going to toss this out and. we absolutely need campaign finance reform. i mean, george w bush, i remember when he ran in 2000, he had raised like 50 or 80 million. and everybody's, holy --, that's a lot of money, right? it was it was record breaking like they just spent 80 million. each candidate in new hampshire for a primary. i mean, that's that's to give you an example how exponentially this is. and so money is like mother's milk to a politician. you have to raise money. if you don't, you lose your ability to raise money affects how effective you are in congress. you well know, if you don't raise money for national committee, you're not going to get those plum committee assignments, even though it's officially not based on that. it is. and so so that's a huge problem. but can i just can i just press you on that? you talk a little bit about that because i don't think people outside the hill really understand how this basically

. >> is a house went from kevin mccarthy to mike johnson, the senate goes from mitch mcconnell. >> thank you for helping me ride the chariot into darkness tonight. i appreciate your time. that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. neal katyal and harvard law professor laurence tribe. they have a lot to say, and i'm going a to get straight to it. >> do it, i will be watching. >> thank you. gh >>> boston the fog of today's supreme court news is the hard fact that donald trump is still scheduled to go to trial in manhattan on march 25th to face criminal charges in his first criminal trial, charges that he tried to effect the results of the 2016 presidential election i by making hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels, who will likely become one of the star witnesses against donald trump in that trial, a witness who even donald trump's followers will have no problem understanding what she describes donald trump did with her alone in a hotel room while his wife was pregnant. and when she describes how donald trump delivered his hush money p

. >> is a house went from kevin mccarthy to mike johnson, the senate goes from mitch mcconnell. >> thank tonight. i appreciate your time. that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. neal katyal and harvard law professor laurence tribe. they have a lot to say, and i'm going a to get straight to it. >> do it, i will be watching. >> thank you. gh

a two seat majority, 6-10 people can do a great deal of damage, something that kevin mccarthy experienced, and mike johnson is not long too. the senate has passed a package we all know of which would give ukraine 60 point $1 billion of assistance. absolutely essential assistance to maintain its ability to fight and stop a russian victory. the package has been held up since roughly the end of september, five months. i suspect this package of some kind will pass, perhaps a little bit less than the 60 billion. while speaker johnson -- i don't think we should dismiss this as malarkey, he understands america has a great interest of getting this aid to ukraine. if he put the bill on the floor, he would lose his job because that group -- folks who don't understand america's national interest, the determination to make sure this doesn't happen. the good news here is that there's a second way to get that bill on the floor. it is called a discharge petition and it requires a majority of people in the house to sign. and the democrats and those who vote with the democrats represent a very sizable minority but

mccarthy. they have to do an interim spending bill, they will push on mike johnson. >> shannon: thank you always for your insight, good toy zoo you both. up next, more on maximum dysfunction on display at the capitol hill this week. we'll talk to lawmakers about if it is possible to overcome the log jam. that is next is "fox news sunday." with two lobster tails and lobster & shrimp linguini it's one of ten next-level lobster creations red lobster. is your party ready? a few years ago, i came to saona, they told me there's no electricity on the island. we always thought that whatever we did here would be an emblem of what small communities can achieve. trying to give a better life to people that don't have the means to do it. si mi papá estuviera vivo, sé que él tuviera orgulloso también de vivir de esta viviendo una vida como la que estamos viviendo ahora. es electricidad aquí es salud. (vo) welcome to lobsterfest. is your party ready? ready to attack this new lobster & shrimp stack? ready to get your mitts on lobster, shrimp and grits? they're two of ten lobster creations, only at lobsterfest.

two seat majority, six to 10 people can do a great deal of daniel, something that kevin mccarthy experienced and mikeoes not want to. >> the senate passed an aid package, 61 billion of assistance, actually essential assistance to maintain its ability to fight and stop a russian victory, and that package has been held up since roughly the end of september, five months. i suspect this package of some kind will pass. perhaps a little less than the $60 billion, not a terrible result if it does get passed because while speaker johnson has claimed, i don't think we should dismiss this as malarky, he understands that america has a great interest in getting aid to ukraine. he also has a personal interest in his job and a pretty good bet if he were to put the bill on the floor, he would lose his job because that group of determined, let's use a plight word, folks that don't america's national interest with the determination to not make that happen. the good news there's a second way to get the bill on the floor, it's called a discharge position, and requires a majority of the people in the house to sign and t

maria: you're hearing people say oh, the same thing is happening to mike johnson that happened to kevin mccarthyshback in terms of spending the same levels that nancy pelosi put in place. you're sure you're not going to continue this again? >> yeah, well, i took the reins when the deals were made. we're trying to make sure we can institute conservative policies. when we win back the senate for the republican party and when president trump is returned to the white house, i'm convinced all those things are going to happen, we're going to do 180-degree turn. we're going to have a better time in january next year than right now because we'll be able to institute the conservative policies and reforms that we know are critical. reducing regulation, reducing taxes, getting the economy going again. right now, the federal government is working against the free market. it's working against innovators and job creators and entrepreneurs. we have to reverse that. we know how to do it. we're looking forward to it. maria: you think you will be able to work with president trump should he return to the white hou

something that governs, it is under mike johnson's leadership allowing for the vote, and a majority of democratic votes, not republicans, which leads them to the kevin mccarthyike johnson right now is nobody wants his job. so maybe -- i don't see how he pulls this rabbit out of the hat. >> so we have congressman elise stefanik, she's rooting for another kind of job. she's facing backlash from both sides of the aisle for saying she would not have certified the 2020 election had she been vice president. but take a listen to this. >> i would not have done what mike pence did. i don't think that was the right approach. i specifically stand by what i said on the house floor. and i stand by my statement which was -- the constitutional overreach. there was unconstitutional overreach in states like pennsylvania. listen, we need to make sure the election is constitutional and legal. we're talking about democrats -- it was not. >> don, is this kind of an audition process that she finds herself in to be trump's vp? and if so, what does it tell you about the people that he is auditioning? >> this is really difficult because, you know, when you come around washington, d.

taylor greene will begin the procedure for recalling the speaker and mike johnson will be thrown out of office, just like kevin mccarthyago, because the procedure there is now very simplified, and in order to declare no confidence in the speaker, five legislators and congressmen are enough to start procedures, then they will vote against mike johnson during the... initial original plan, to carry out migration reform and approve external tranches, migration reform, they simply want to return all the practices of the trump era, that is, about the deportation of illegal migrants, and at the same time highlight ukraine has not 60 billion, but 40 billion, well, like a third less, as if it would be easier to implement, i’m not sure that the democrats will agree with such a reform project, but this is like another plan c, let’s say, if the plan b won't work well, plan d, which we also already talked about, and there i continue to believe that... of the most likely scenarios, if it doesn’t work out with b and c, then the next option is simply in the month of march, when the next federal budget will be discussed, to include dir

kevin mccarthy maybe wasn't graded his job, he was better at his job than mike johnson. and that redounded to the republicans benefit. >> as house went from kevin mccarthy to make johnson, so the senate goes for mitch mcconnell to someone named john. >> someone named john. michelle goldberg, thank you for helping me ride the chariot into darkness tonight. i appreciate your time, my friend. that's our show for tonight. now it's time for the last world with don lawrence o'donnell. good evening on this big newsnight. >> good evening, alex. and of course we have our supreme court experts with us, neal katyal and laurence tribe. they've got a lot to say. and i'm gonna get straight to it. >> do it. >> thank you, alex. thank you. >>> lost in the fog of today's supreme court news is the hard fact that donald trump is still scheduled to go to trial in manhattan on march 25th to face criminal charges in his first criminal trial, charges that he tried to effect the results of the 2016 presidential election by making hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels, who will likely be

funniest meeting, one of the funniest meetings we've had is the first meeting, mike, where we met and then speaker mccarthy's conference room and his conference room is like ginormous like the size of this room and he sat at one of the end of the table, the members of the committee sat around that table and interestingly, to his left sat hakeem jeffries and made it a point to address us jointly as a committee and basically what then speaker mccarthy said was, look, this is so important i wanted hakeem to sit next to me and address you together and say we've got to get this right and we need to speak with one voice, despite all the other divisions that exist in this congress and he said, then he said, if you want to get something done, this is the committee. if you want to do politics, i've got other committees for that. and so that really sunk in on day one. i think that really sets a tone and he selected people for the committee, by the way, who i have to say are some of the, you know, real talents in congress, serious people have intellectual curiosity and are willing to -- they're not even -- we're not ev

how serious should the press take these rumblings that the new speaker, mike mike johnson, could lose his job like kevin mccarthyne motion from one conservative hard-liner,? >> i think it's making it tough for him to govern, but watching him he'll claim he's not paying attention to that, and yet politics always play a role. marjorie taylor greene is starting to use it if he brings ukraine aid to the floor. you just have to watch it because sometimes when you're covering these stories, you see some bluster, you see some kind of public maybe fund raising stunt, and the next thing you know they actually do pull the trigger, so it's something you have to track carefully. howard: in other words, it's not over til it's over. so we'll get more into this next block. next on "mediabuzz," the bipartisan border bill collapses despite the media support as washington remains paralyzed. ♪ ♪ ♪ [storms sound] whatever weather comes your way [wind and snow sounds] weathertech has you covered. [bird chirping] [laughing] with our laser—measured cargoliners. no drill mud flaps and floorliners. to secure your phone don't forget the

championed the idea to tie ukraine and border aid after then house speaker kevin mccarthy tied the two items, speaker mikenson endorsing that after the fact. twha is leader schumer going to do moving forward? he has a backup plan. when that vote on the bipartisan national security supplemental including the border security provision fails after republicans are expected to block it this afternoon. schumer is going to put another bill on the floor, a clean bill with israel, ukraine and taiwan, and we'll see if republicans push it through or kill that effort too. >> julie, stand by. everybody stay with me. joining us by the phone from the hospital democratic congressman al green of texas who made that stunning appearance to cast a crucial vote in the house yesterday. congressman, first, thanks for joining us. first, your health, are you doing okay? i understand you're still in the hospital. >> thank you for having me. i'm in recovery. i have excellent health care providers and i will recover, and i'm grateful you will give me the opportunity to speak on this subject. >> thank you for taking the time. walk us

but some stunning new information from former house speaker kevin mccarthy suggests biden needs to be tested. mikeueto. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: in the meantime, here it is, folks. this is big bear valley, california. 145 feet in the air is jackie the bald eagle. she is sitting on three eggs and they are expected to watch any day now. and meet sandy, the executive bald eagle watcher and she helped put this camera in nine years ago. captivating camera here. it is live and real. she does move. if you watch it carefully. we're told we're on pip watch. >> that's watching for the first little dent in the egg that means a chick is trying to get out of it. >> bill: when is that going to happen, sandy? >> today starts pip watch. 35 days from when the first egg was laid and jackie's eggs have been watching between 38 and 39 days. it could be a few days still but we start watching at the first chance that it could be happening. >> gillian: i have to ask if jackie's feathers are also so lush and shiny. is this a side effect of where she is in her life right now with these chicks about t

i mean, this is part of the reason why kevin mccarthy lost his job and why mike johnson is in there to begin with and what i'm talking about, of course, is the very big difference of opinion over government spending. and that is first and foremost, when it comes to the funding of the government generally. and that's what we're looking at with this potential partial government that down in the near future in the next couple of days, but also about ukraine. i've been talking to sources on capitol hill this morning and pretty much to a person on both sides of the aisle, wolf, the feeling is that it's a democrat to hold much of the leverage because it is a must pass. it is a political loser for republicans broadly to be responsible for the government shutting down and so the question is, how is mike johnson going to get out of this pickle that he is in, particularly when as you sort of alluded to wolff the conservatives in his caucus are so angry at him for even the notion of continuing the government spending bill without trying to get some kind of give from democrats, democrats don't fee

mike johnson. some regretting the ouster of former speaker kevin mccarthy.. >> whatever the cards were for mccarthy are the same cards that are being dealt to speaker johnson. all it did was take a crowbar to it and made it worse. >> republicans criticizing johnson for indecision and late play calls. >> they got to start thinking strategically over the long term. not just what is in front of us. >> five committee chairs retiring, including homeland committee chairman mark green. >> thanks, guys. >> he just led the impeachment of homeland secretary alejandro mayorkas. >> my point being you go out to win. i have accomplished what i wanted to do. >> a monmouth poll found only 17% of surveyed approve of congress. no everyone believes political paralysis is bad. >> let me just tell you something about the people i represent. they don't want this body to keep passing more laws and spending more money for the sake of it. >> two government funding deadlines loom in march conservatives are fighting fire with fire. not only burning down the house but perhaps shutting

mike johnson, the speaker, botched it. a lot of these were easy pickups, he is no kevin mccarthy. his days are numbered. are you in that? a move that is afoot. i haven't heard that. we are performance-based, results-based. we need mike johnson to lead us. the biggest example, the biggest question for him, are we willing to have a shutdown fight over securing the border? we should not fund the government that facilitates the border invasion, we shouldn't give millions to mayorkas and biden to continue to allow illegals to pour across the southern border. we said this is the hill we will die on. it's not part of the supplemental, needs to be part of the spending fight. neil: if he were to pursue that would be a marked man your eyes? >> to pursue what exactly? neil: being speaker of the house? if he does something opposite to what you want, if he's not willing to say it's the border, we shut down, or vice versa, he wants to avoid a government shutdown, you say? >> i wasn't cavalier or flippant about that a year ago. i was focused on fighting for the american people doing what we said we would do. what we can't do is keep t

because of what i just said mike johnson said about trump being unfit for office and what mccarthy saidore the photo i showed you. >> the president bears responsibility for the activity. >> i don't see how he could be criminally charged. mccarthy's rhetoric there. what criminal activity did he engage in? there's an answer for that. prosecutors have answered there were several criminal plots to overthrow the election and they met the requisite bar to indict on that. donald trump is presumed innocent until those trials but those looming trials are part of this tonight. that's why -- one of the reasons why haley's staying in, that's why it's a factor for haley to stay in even if she trails. she is now the republican party's only viable alterna tiff. she's the only person with her own ongoing campaign structure and her own delegate count who could step in as an alternative at a gop convention or after if donald trump were convicted or otherwise deemed unable to run. now i can't tell you if that's going to happen or is likely to happen, but based on what's going on and this being the first p

floated and i mean like these are the same members that did it once with kevin mccarthy and they could do it again with mike johnson. and i think the thing that we're seeing is that a lot of these house conservatives are growing really frustrated by johnson's job performance so far and pretty much everything that he's done. a johnson's made it clear that he's very indecisive. he can't make decisions given his newness to leadership one, but also, i think that he just doesn't know how to handle this very, very divided conference. so they've been upset about the way he's handled passing short-term government funding bills to avoid a government of downs. how he's gagged bills off the house floor prior to expected, those like what just happened last week with fisa bill. so there's a lot of frustration right now and i think that house conservatives are, are very much seeing johnson has less of the alla that they thought he was going to be governing is hard. episode 735 >> can we >> talk about the possibility of a discharge petition here because one of the lines of reporting that came out of munich over the weeken

. >> no, but mike johnson is and kevin mccarthy is, and -- all these people are stupid or treasonists they like political power. they have chosen political power over their country. >> democrats don't like political power? >> i am sure they do, but one is in a totally different league than the other. >> that's why we are going to have an election, obviously. g thanks, anthony. >>ood to be back. >>> two stocks that doubled in the premarket just this morning, and we will show you those moves after the break. "squawk box" returns after this. >>> we're helping our client navigate from the experimentation phase. >> how are you helping them make a shift? >> first and foremost, we are helping them understand the key technology requirements so they can deploy gen ai, and key optimization targets. >> what are you doing at ey that is working that you are sharing with your clients? >> we are a global organization. we have 400,000 employees, so it's been complex to do this. we have been on a journey to employ ai across our employee base. we have generated with ai a million lines of new source cod

mike johnson, house speaker, is also on the rocks here. people suddenly saying hey, maybe it was a bad idea to get rid of kevin mccarthy, or underscoring this shows it was a bad idea to get rid of kevin mccarthy. i want to show you an assortment of lawmakers talking to my hill colleagues. take a look. >> these vowed votes need to co the floor. as bad as pelosi was, she knew it was important. >> and why did we barrel ahead. we didn't need to embarrass ourselves. >> there is a lack of leadership and i'm disappointed that we're not having the conversation of what is round two. we need a round two because otherwise we're getting nothing on the border. >> the problem of course is that they don't seem to have a better option than mike johnson. just getting him in there was not easy. >> and it is really showing the perils of bringing in a rookie speaker and perils of how to take down somebody in kevin mccarthy who for better or worse had been there for quite a while. i think this was a pretty stunning embarrassment for speaker johnson, for tom emertz, the whip. their team. for those who voted against the impeachment of secretary mayorkas, i don't

the second thing he has going for him is he is not kevin mccarthy but if they have to do an interim spending bill maybe they'll start to push on mikenson. >> oh boy. remember the last several rounds of that. brit and chad thank you for your insight and expertise good to see you both. up next morn the maxim dysfunction on display on capitol hill and the white house this week. we are going to talk to lawmakers from both sides of the aisle about whether it is possible to overcome the logjam. that is next on "fox news the failure of the nicest congress if it occurs to not support ukraine is close to criminal it is outrageous. shannon: present biden pointing the finger capitol hill over u.s. u.s. funding to your grade being held up for months this will make a struggle to file a compress will be joined from lawmakers from both sides of the aisle arkansas republican senator tom cotton washington state democrat congressman adam smith we begin with you center cotton, welcome back. >> think was good to be back with you. you are working this week and there will be some votes on move this big supplemental so here's the deal the president wante

mccarthy and has gotten worse under johnson. okay, read, let's just say that johnson's ousted. does that even solve the dysfunction? >> it, frankly, mike wrote three or four months ago on substack that i think republicans in those very biden districts that you're talking about sort of said that a lot of us are probably done anyways, let's cross over and give hakeem jeffries the gavel, get some real things done for the country in that time. maybe it costs us our jobs but it will help the country. at this point the democrats might get the house back bishops on the attrition rate going on, but i would also say this. the things that johnson is holding up, whether or not it is israel aid, ukraine aid, the border, as the former congresswoman said, this march 1st deadline, these are things that have overwhelming support. the republican party, which is a donald trump and mike johnson's republican party, are holding these things up almost singlehandedly. i would also say that only republicans shut down the government. democrats don't shut down the government. every time they have done it it works out badly for them. if you go back to the fall o

begin the procedure for recalling the speaker and mike johnson will be thrown out of office in the same way as kevin was thrown out not so long ago mccarthy legislators and congressmen are enough to start the procedure, then they will vote against mike johnson during the main vote, in general, that’s where it all ends, here’s mike johnson, i think that’s it- he still wants to sit longer, so he’s not ready to commit such political suicide right now, but nevertheless , the democrats have a plan b, they started talking about it quite openly in the last few days, to try to convince some moderate republicans, vote with them. and thus , bypassing the speaker, still bring this matter up for discussion and then pass it, but i admit that this can happen, yes, although of course, even if you are a moderate republican, even if you represent such swing districts or districts in liberal states, for you such a move will again mean, most likely , political suicide, because there both trump and trump supporters will, of course, give them a very serious nightmare, but theoretically this is possible, which is why we should keep this point in mind that sudd

the second thing he has going for him is he is not kevin mccarthy but if they have to do an interim spending bill maybe they'll start to push on mikenson. >> oh boy. remember the last several rounds of that. brit and chad thank you for your insight and expertise good to see you both. up next morn the maxim dysfunction on display on capitol hill and the white house this week. we are going to talk to lawmakers from both sides of the aisle about whether it is possible to overcome the logjam. that is next on "fox news sunday." are almost inseparable. she lifts her calf to its first breath of air, and then protects it on their long journey. one of the most important things you can do is help the next generation. protect the ones you love with pacific life's trusted financial solutions. talk to a financial professional about life insurance and retirement income with pacific life. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. (♪) (vo) welcome to lobsterfest. is yo

support from republicans and majority support from democrats that's kevin mccarthy became the former speaker. and i think that's what mike johnson's looking at, not the situation of a freedom loving country in eastern europe. and that really is in trouble right now against the russian invasion. >> yeah, meanwhile, for president biden this weekend democratic the first 100 needed to leave. she told voters in michigan to write uncommitted when they go to the ballot box because of how biden has handled the israel hamas war. remember she shared that video that called biden genocide joe. >> this >> is becoming a major issue for president biden is michigan is home to the largest population of arab americans. is this something that is maybe spiraling out of the biden campaign's control here as we go into the general election here, well, they're very concerned about it. they sent a bunch of top cabinet officials and we're not talking about the campaign. we're talking about people with actual responsibility for foreign policy to speak to the arab american community in michigan and try to persuade them of what the administration ha

i do think the problems speaker mccarthy had, the problems mike johnson have, or partially a consequencee this ordered incentive structures members of congress have. most members of congress just want to do a good job. they want to do the committee work. my congressman in western pennsylvania is doing a good job. mike kelly from western pennsylvania does a good job. he is not a flashy guy. he is not interested in making headlines. there is increasing incentive for members of congress, and i'm thinking specifically of matt gaetz and you can probably imagine others, who can get instagram famous or cpac famous, thumbing their nose at the system, indicting everybody of being in on the game, and causing chaos and then going off and reaping various benefits as a consequence. that is an increasing problem. i think it exist on both sides with members of congress that do not want to do the work. the job as a member of congress should be about the drudgery of government. you sit through the hearings, you go through the markups, you get deep in the weeds in your committee. you go through the drudge

i do think the problems speaker mccarthy had, the problems mike johnson have, or partially a consequencethe this ordered incentive structures members of congress have. most members of congress just want to do a good job. they want to do the committee work. my congressman in western pennsylvania is doing a good job. mike kelly from western pennsylvania does a good job. he is not a flashy guy. he is not interested in making headlines. there is increasing incentive for members of congress, and i'm thinking specifically of matt gaetz and you can probably imagine others, who can get instagram famous or cpac famous, thumbing their nose at the system, indicting everybody of being in on the game, and causing chaos and then going off and reaping various benefits as a consequence. that is an increasing problem. i think it exist on both sides with members of congress that do not want to do the work. the job as a member of congress should be about the drudgery of government. you sit through the hearings, you go through the markups, you get deep in the weeds in your committee. you go through the drud

we don't know specifically why mike gallagher is gone but i should mention also that kevin mccarthy wasd and a lot of his allies are leaving also. they just see the chaos in the house and if one person has the power to remove the speaker and there were three weeks when we didn't have a speaker, no one was happy on capitol hill and they came appear to get things done and they can't get things done, you just get frustrated and say i'm out of here. as to the numbers, it's not significantly higher or lower than we seen in years past. it's kind of cyclical but that could change. the numbers could go up much more than we can say this trend is specific to the chaos appear with donald trump or whatever the reason. people are kind of across-the-board and why they are leaving. host: this is bob in missouri, republican. caller: hi, how are you doing? how are you doing? i am republican. i am for ukraine and the war. host: anything else you want to add? caller: yeah, do you think the last senate made a mistake of turning down the border deal? host: the border deal? guest: a lot of people would say t

mike johnson. don't forget it was hard, right? republicans that ousted former speaker kevin mccarthy from the speakership last year after he brokeredwith democrats to keep the government open. the task at hand will require that everyone rose in the direction. but what that direction will be remains unclear, especially of speaker johnson can't wrangle enough of his members on board with keeping the government open. we realize the speaker of the house is in a difficult position. >> but he must reject them at the hard right, which wants to shut down and will likely get a better sense later on today. one of funding vote might happen reporting in washington. i'm trevor shirley. >> the faa has released a scathing new report critiquing boeing safety culture and recommending an overhaul. u.s. regulators noticed a disconnect between. >> boeing's senior management and others over safety matters and they cite sufficient safeguards to prevent retaliation against employees who flagged safety issues. this is coming after the door. plug blew off that alaska airlines jet mid-flight. and a date has now been set for alec baldwin's involuntary mansla

mike johnson. don't forget it was hard, right? republicans that ousted former speaker kevin mccarthy from the speakership last year after he brokered a deal with democrats to keep the government open. the task at hand will require that everyone rose in the direction. but what that direction will be remains unclear, especially of speaker johnson can't wrangle enough of his members on board with keeping the government open. we realize the speaker of the house is in a difficult position. >> but he must reject them at the heart right? which wants to shut down and will likely get a better sense later on today. one of funding vote might happen reporting in washington. i'm trevor shirley. >> 10. 39 the time. breaking news this morning. macy's is reportedly closing its massive store in san francisco's union square. the san francisco standard is reporting the supervisor aaron peskin was notified this morning of that plant. closure. the news comes as macy's announced just this very morning that it would be closing 150 of its stores across the country over the next 3 years. now, a date hasn't been set yet for when the san francisco store will

mccarthy said back in 2022. and now what the current speaker mike johnson is saying i vote for aid for ukraine. i support aid for ukraine. there >> are important questions that must be answered so that we can continue with these negotiations among those is what is the objective? what is the endgame in ukraine? >> the endgame is defend democracy, rush back putin >> russia is like that. but one of those is speaker and one of those isn't speaker and i think what johnson is trying to do quite badly as save his own job. it really is as easy as that. and he just trying to figure out a way to do that and don't forget there's a to israel tied up in all of this. there's the issue of border security tied up in all of this. but he needs to get a vote where it's carried by republicans and not with democrats because it would pass in the house. democrats would vote for it and then he would go down with the ship and he knows that. so he's got a bit of a problem there. but i think for from the democratic point of view and from the white house point of view. >> it's >> a political, a good political move to tie

mccarthy. he has really governed in a similar fashion. mike johnson seen as a conservative and ally. union leadership is a whole different job. i think that he is learning that he actually has to govern and legislate. >> to what degree do you think that speaker johnson has gone some cover because of his stance , now on immigration. >> i think that he has gotten quite a bit of cover unlike mccarthy. a lot of it is technology driven quite frankly. i think that he kind of -- kind of came in with no baggage. there were members that were really skeptical of mccarthy from the start. he would not give in to the demands of conservatives. of course, mccarthy really led with the house caucus. he pushed back really strongly against that notion. that is how this congress has to govern. they were able to dig eight this >> giovanni and missouri. you are on with our guest. good morning. >> good morning. how are we doing this morning. >> thank you. you are on. go ahead. >> i want the world to listen to this. can you please tell me why they will not pass a clear bill and why they keep adding in the b

this has echos of the speaker vote when mccarthy was going for 15 different times when we ended up with speaker mike do the count. you bring to a vote to lose by one vote? >> it's all about the math. i was told before i came down to get on the air tonight that they thought that there were a couple people who they weren't completely positive who were locked down. i'm told here from the house chamber that blakemore, who is now a member of the leadership speaking on the floor right now. he switched his vote from yes to know. and he is on the floor right now. i'm wondering if he is trying to amend something right now. that's why mike johnson is speaking. blakemore is now the vice chair of the republican conference. the bottom line is. >> bret: let's listen. >> pass h.r. 72-17 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. >> hr 72-17. >> chad: they are going to now. >> they need two thirds for this. we are not guaranteeing this going to pass either. you need this coalition of democrats and republicans to pass. this president biden has threatened to veto this. >> bret: chad, ama

mccarthy 2.0. we don't know yet whether conservatives will try to push out mike johnson for doing whatever he decides 30,000-foot and zoom in. 30,000 feet, the house comes back wednesday, government shuts down friday at midnight. so there are effectively three days to get something done. i've never seen congress do anything with the divisions that we have now in three days. they will definitely have to work with democrats to get this done. speaker mike johnson said on a conference call on friday night that he didn't score any big victories, policy victories in this funding bill, no home runs, no grand slams is how he put it. so i don't know what's going to happen here. and i think it's incredibly tenuous right now. the obviously thing for him to do is to pass a compromise bill which should be coming out -- it was supposed to come out last night. it should be coming out in the next day or so, a compromise bill to fund those four funding bills through the end of the year and to take that threat off the table. short of that, he can do a stopgap to extend funding for another couple of weeks. that has its

but mike johnson, the new speaker of the house, is facing enormous pressure to scrutinize biden and move forward with impeachment charges. this was a constant threat to his predecessor, kevin mccarthy, if you don't take dramatic steps, we will take that's the context of which all of this is beginning to unfold just the second, just this hour on capitol hill. >> catherine herridge, you and your team of producers have had more time to read through the reports. your observations please? >> we are still combing through this 345 page report. one, the special counsel found that joe biden retained classified records from his time in the senate. i would emphasize that as a sitting senator, he would have had no authority to remove highly classified materials from a secure facility. this investigation we say is broad but some of the data, i can help you scope that. 173 interviews, 147 witnesses, 7 million records were reviewed by the special counsel. it goes on to emphasize the importance of the interview with president biden in october. it also notes there were significant gaps in his memory of those events. and those gaps or the lack of information would not sit well with the jury if it ev

we know what happened with kevin mccarthy and they govern in a similar fashion. mikes always seen as a conservative and an ally. being in leadership as a whole different job and i think he's learning that he has to govern and legislate and make these deals and work across the aisle at times. host: to what degree does mike johnson have backing? guest: i think he has gotten quite a bit of cover unlike mccarthy. a lot of it is personality driven quite frankly and i think he came in with no baggage. there were members that were skeptical of mccarthy from the start, thinking he wasn't conservative enough and he would give in to the demands of house that he wouldn't give into house conservatives. mccarthy's hands were tied and he pushed back strongly against issues and that's how congress has been govern. they've been allowed to dictate the agenda. host: this is from giovanni in missouri, republican line. caller: good morning. host: you are on, go ahead. caller: i want to know what the world to listen to this -- can you please tell me what they will not pass a clean bill an

motion to vacate something that was used successfully with kevin mccarthy, and he told me warren davidson, the congressman, told me that mike johnson in that situation would have to try and democrats to hold onto the gavel >> if the speaker were to put the senate package on the floor, what would that mean for his ability to hold onto the gavel? >> he would need democrats to hold onto the gavel at that point because there would be an african push amount. yeah. i mean, multiple with my colleagues have already promised that. i believe that it's not an the threat and we'll see how it would resolve. but i think he would clearly need democrats to be able to hold onto the gavel a few went straight to the floor with the senate package. >> would you vote to oust him in that situation? >> i don't like answering hypotheticals, but i do think that the the question would get asked. >> now, johnson today essentially ruled out putting this bill on the floor, contending that it needed to have tougher border security restrictions. of course, johnson essentially scuttled that bipartisan border security deal in the senate because he said it d

that of course, that led to the ouster of that then speaker kevin mccarthy after the revolt on his right flank, this not this time now mike johnson has not indicated his preference on how to proceed. there have been squabbling behind the scenes between johnson and chuck schumer about how to structure this funding legislation and talking to republicans and democrats alike, they are sounding off about these talks let's, this is supposed to be done in september. >> i mean, >> this is now almost march when this is just ridiculous and they've had agreement on the top line that had it since january this is why voted against the last seo or they're just been kicking this can down the road. i can't believe that they didn't get work done over the over the weekend they had months to do this stuff. i mean, my patients is run out, so leadership has to bind which leadership but said, well, yeah, of course, yeah, all of them. yeah, they're all the blame i mean, this at this point, it's just it's absurd. i think >> but it really this boils down to enlarge ways. dana, a republican and republican dispute, mitch mcconnell, the senate repub

mccarthy in the job? and, then that weakness was soon exploited. i watched him for mike unknown maga speaker who now showed his weakness and failing on that high profile impeachment vote, and republicans night losing another seat in the dos santos special election that he mentioned, taking up that vacancy. so do congressional republicans today know how bad it is? that may sound like a rhetorical question. but the answer, for many, is yes. one house republican lamenting, this place, the way the republicans run it, this place is so broken. explaining and a headline that three powerful republican committee chairs are now leaving congress. and the big jobs that pulls literally spent decades trying to get. they're just done. it's part of a wider exodus of 25 republican members who are leaving rather than running for b election this year. the gop to retirement retreat may reflect a range of factors, but some of it's tied to this function i just mentioned in those local losses, and the desantis seat which republicans remember had won by seven, even in the red fizzle midterm. th