going first is funny because i will give an answer and mike will say, that is not right at all. s totally other thing but i will do my best. >> i'll go first next time. >> so, right. look, there are obviously the immediate crises and the wildfires in california, that is something that will demand a n all hands on deck effort. there is closing at the cease-fire and hostage deal which hopefully we can do this week but then there is the actual execution of that. but for me, the critical thing is in the midst of dealing with immediate crises, we cannot take our eye of the ball of the long term competition for the people's republic of china because china is the one country with both the ambition and the potential capacity to really really compete with us across all dimensions. we have not faced a challenge like that in a very long time, perhaps ever because the soviet union did not have some of the economic and other engines that china has. and we had to stay focus on making sure we are investing at home, rallying our allies and pushing back against chinese unfair economic practices a

i agree with ronny jackson i will vote for mike johnson and i think it will be wrapped up quickly. >>ember mike johnson has the biggest endorsement at all from president-elect trump, who is calling on this to be taken care of quickly. we also got the endorsement marjorie greene taylor who last year tried to oust him. he is writing into this with momentum that we have a bunch of undecided that will not say how they will vote until the vote actually begins. >> lawrence: so, i'm getting the sense most undecided around the freedom caucus, right? >> they are. these are hard liner conservatives. people who have bigs and you don't have to call it big ask that people who want a good budget. they want appropriation bills to come back, regular order. this is an ask, lawrence, we hear every single time. it was an ask of michael mccarthy and the problem is these promises are never filled. we don't see regular order but we see crs over and over again which we will have to face again in a couple of months. >> brian: quick question, did the republicans realize how embarrassing it was when they went

hopefully mike will. >> i will make a decision tomorrow. had a meeting with the speaker to discuss some things. a lot of things i agree. >> i'm absolutely positively voting for speaker mike johnson. he has done a good job under the circumstances. >> i'm voting for mike johnson i agree with ronny jackson. i think this thing is going to be wramed up quickly. >> he has not talked to you will at men's supporting him today. >> the magic number is 218, the republicans hold their majority slimmer now because of matt gaetz's resignation. the equation it could get more complicated if you think about it. there is only one vote that jonathan would afford to lose. that is if everybody turns up today and participates. if maybe one republican doesn't show up mark themself as president that would that i think things, guys. >> brian: i know things change would there be a vote immediately after? would they come back again? would that be something we see right away. >> yeah. i think there is a negotiation period after that. continue with the holdout no. just

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i will vote for mike or mike johnson. >> i will bow for money jackson.rapped up fairly quickly. house speaker johnson said i don't want to make deals or concession with contractors because that did not work out for mccarthy. >> todd: alexandria hoff. led spring and ryan zinke and pick up, congressman where alex left off and likely last-minute deals and some horsetrading that some of the potential holdouts are trying to negotiate with mike johnson to get concessions. what last-minute concessions are you hearing ear to the ground with colleagues to get from johnson to secure their vote? >> mostly fiscal discipline and the big argument we went through a 1500-page bill and you look at it, a lot of giveaways. he took some harsh criticism. this is not my first rodeo. we watch the battle for speaker bain or, numbers of course. they voted in an unanimous prior to the floor. at the floor, all of a sudden different modes came up and same thing mccarthy's 15 rounds. the difference is donald j. trump. most of the congressman on republican side endorsed by trump and

will you vote? >> i'm voting for mike johnson. for mike johnson until mike johnson becomes the speaker. hopefully that's on the first round. >> brian: you got about seven republicans who have not committed. and tom massie says don't even ask. it's a no. your thoughts about where they stand? >> i think outside of massi, i think nobody else is a hard no. and so, they have issues that they need to work out with the speaker. look, this is bigger than all of us. we need -- we have an agenda that we need to move forward, very aggressive agenda that the trump administration wants us to pursue. none of it can happen until we have a speaker. we need to unite and get behind mike johnson and get to work for america. >> brian: so the new rule that's blasted by democrats, especially congressman jim mcgovern, says that now members -- one member and a co-sponsor in the majority party will have number 8 in order to make a motion to oust the speaker. do you think this is important? do you like the way it's written? >> yeah, i do, i think it's -- pr

i know mike will be an integral part of this country's come back. she will lead us through another successful republican majority. as chairwoman of the unified house republican conference chair, i can say proudly that we are ready to govern. [applause] it is my pleasure to present our conference's nominee for the speaker of the people's house, the honorable mike johnson from the state of louisiana. [applause] >> the clerk now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. aguilar. >> thank you, mr. clark. [applause] thank you, mr. clark. i have had a little bit of practice, and clearly my colleagues took notice. i rise to place in name a nomination, but first i want to acknowledge my calling from michigan for her heartfelt speech. i can say you serve your conference well, representative mcclain. [applause] bud, mr. clark, today i rise on it i have of the governing majority of the house of representatives. [applause] the american people have sent a strong message that they want their elected leaders working together to tackle the affordability crisis.

i know mike will be an integral part of this country's come back. ill lead us through another successful republican majority. as chairwoman of the unified house republican conference, i can say proudly that we are ready to govern. [applause] it is my honor to present our conferences nominee for the speaker of the people's house, the honorable mike johnson from the state of louisiana. [applause] >> the clerk recognizes the gentleman from california. >> thank you, mr. clerk. [applause] >> thank you mr. clerk. i have had a little practice and my colleagues took notice. i rise to place a name in nomination but first i want to acknowledge my colleague from michigan for her heartfelt and personal nominating speech. you served your conference well. [applause] mr. clerk, today i rise on behalf of the governing majority of the house of representatives. [applause] the american people have sent a strong message they want their elected leaders working together to tackle the affordability crisis. there is only one leader in this chamber with a track record of com

i will be voting for mike johnson. will be looking ahead incomplete hopefulness, and working as hard as possible. we are going to elect a speaker and then we are going to swear in as members of congress. and then, on monday, we are going to certify the most historic election in our nation's history when we certify donald john trump's election as 47th president of the united states. we are going to spend a few weeks working hard on preparing for his agenda, and then on january 20, we are going to inaugurate donald john trump as the 47th president of the united states. it is 18 long days until we get to that important date. [end clip] host: a video saying we need to stop the drama. you will recall that the congresswoman threatened speaker mike johnson in 2024. the rules for the 118th congress allowed one member to offer a privileged revolution -- resolution on a motion to vacate. they will change the rules in the 119th congress. it will take nine members to do so. but it can only be republicans. that is in the rules for t

i know mike will be an integral part of this country's come back. she will lead us through another successful republican majority. as chairwoman of the unified house republican conference chair, i can say proudly that we are ready to govern. [applause] it is my pleasure to present our conference's nominee for the speaker of the people's house, the honorable mike johnson from the state of louisiana. [applause] >> the clerk now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. aguilar. >> thank you, mr. clark. [applause] thank you, mr. clark. i have had a little bit of practice, and clearly my colleagues took notice. i rise to place in name a nomination, but first i want to acknowledge my calling from michigan for her heartfelt speech. i can say you serve your conference well, representative mcclain. [applause] bud, mr. clark, today i rise on it i have of the governing majority of the house of representatives. [applause] the american people have sent a strong message that they want their elected leaders working together to tackle the affordability crisis.

i know mike will be an integral part of this country's comeback. through another successful republican majority. as chairwoman of the unified house republican conference, i can say proudly that we are ready to govern. [ applause ] it is my honor to present our conference's nominee for the speaker of the em people's house, the honorable mike johnson from the state of louisiana. [ applause ] >> now they do have the full number. so it's back to 218 for majority. he can only afford to lose one. >> the clerk now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. aguilar. >> thank you, mr. clerk. [ applause ] thank you, mr. clerk. thank you, mr. clerk. i have had a little bit of practice, and clearly my colleagues took notice. i rise to place a name in nomination. but first i want to acknowledge my colleague from michigan for her heartfelt and personal nominating speech. someone who has given a few of these, i can say you served your conference well, representative mcclain. [ applause ] but mr. clerk, today i rise on behalf of the governing majority of the hou

will speaker mike johnson get the vote? he can only afford to lose one is all those we expect to show up today do so in the house chamber at noon eastern with the vote will take place. if they can elect a speaker, then they can go about their governing business. then they will vote on a rules package for the 119th congress. you learned this morning that the rules package includes language that says the speaker of the house can -- a resolution to vacate the chair cannot be brought forward unless there are nine republicans in support of doing so. the threshold for dethroning the speaker has been raised from a one in the 118th congress to nine republicans in the 119th congress. that stay of theouse of representatives. -- that is day one of the house of representatives. there you can see the order of what you will see when they gavel in the 119th congress. let's go to margarita in florida, democratic caller. we are taking a handful of calls, margarita, before we get to the house. go ahead. caller: yes. regarding the 119th congre

you will get to see. does mike johnson have the votes in the first round, or will it take more? should the caller also reminded us, nine months later, republicans dethroned kevin mccarthy. and it took many more nominations of different people before the republican party landed on mike johnson. he has retained the top post since then. today is the day when he finds out if he has 218 votes to be the speaker of the 119th congress. crystal in philadelphia, democratic caller, it is your turn. caller: thank you so much. america, what a joke. it's a joke. johnson is a kool-aid drinking clown. standing outside the courthouse up in new york with his red tie circus of folks, trying to get the guilty jerk off. republicans are a bunch of hypocrites, liars. the democrats need to stand up for america and stop this stupid clam show, the ridiculous arguments. dumb fools. trump is a crooked creek, rapist. host: you said democrats need to stand up for america. what do they need to do in this 119th congress? where do they not agree? caller: tired, silly sideshow of trying to put johnson back in. i

member in the house of representatives, elected in 1980, he will swear in mike johnson and johnson in turn will swear in the entire membership starting with 434 members and one vacancy unofficially the house of representatives can do business. the one thing we don't know whether or not they are going to approve the rules package today, where you go through and establish all of your different parliamentary rules for this congress, the senate is a continuing body and rolls over its rules, the house for the most part you have to go back and kind of recalibrate all of those, and the one to watch is the one provision that raises the bar to call for a vacancy in the speakership, call for a vote of confidence in the speaker essentially now up to nine votes. the biggest question everyone will want to know right now is what speaker-elect johnson said to keith self and also to ralph norman in the cloakroom. what was promised. what was promised there that wasn't promised before? what was that conversation like? did they have to make a point about saying hey, i wasn't going to vote for you on the

mike: israeli troops will stay in southern lebanon but says the gradual withdrawal process will continue. mike tobin is live in tel aviv to explain. hello, mike. >> reporter: and, mike, with both of cease fires with hamas and hezbollah, they're a both fragile and hang by a thread. let's start in gaza where israel says hamas is in breach of the ceasefire agreement because they were supposed to release female civilians before they released the female soldiers. you saw it yesterday, four female soldiers got out, specifically they talk about one who has not been released, a civilian kidnapped. islamic entry had has been holding her. they released a statement saying she will be released ahead of the next scheduled round of hostages, but israel has been blocking palestinians from if going back north of the gaza strip. that has caused them to fire warning shots. some injuries are reported in the gaza strip. meantime, president trump made the point that palestinians could move temporarily to egypt and george can while the devastated gaza strip is rebuilt. that idea gets universal rejection from

and in a new blog post, the head of the federal aviation administration insists that will not stop. mikehittaker will resign as faa administrator on inauguration day, only 15 months into a five year term. but whittaker says boeing's turnaround is not over, even after the faa did a massive audit of boeing's production line and flooded boeing's renton, washington, plant with inspectors. these same factory where that brand new 737 max nine was delivered to alaska airlines without the four critical bolts that held the door plug in place. whitaker says this. this is not a one year project. what's needed is a fundamental cultural shift at boeing that's oriented around safety and quality, above profits. that will require sustained effort and commitment from boeing and unwavering scrutiny on our part. the big question now is who will lead that federal effort? whitaker says he has the utmost confidence that agency staff will continue to apply rigorous oversight required to make sure this happens. after my tenure as administrator ends, it will be up to president-elect trump's second administration

. >>> well, of course, today lawmakers will decide if mike johnson will remain speaker of the house. johnson can only afford to lose one vote if all house members participate. a democrat being absent or a republican simply voting present could change the equation. it's on a knife's edge. it is friday, january the 3rd. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ >> [inaudible] acts of violence that occurred yesterday morning in the french quarter here in new orleans. [background sounds] ashley: well, that was the patriotic scene at the sugar bowl in new orleans last night. the crowd honoring victims of the new year's eve terror attack with a moment of silence then followed by those chants of usa before the game. the game itself between georgia and notre dame had been delayed for one day because of security concerns. authorities installed additional barriers, of course, ramping up security with hundreds of local, state and federal police officers on site. the broadcast began with a message of resilience from president joe biden. >> because the spirit of new orleans can never be kept down

will culminate. good morning, brian. >> hey, mike, good morning. as many as 50,000 people are expected in washington d.c. for today's people's march. it's starting actually now at 11 a.m., people will begin marching from three different locations here in washington d.c. and culminate here at a rally at 1 p.m. in front of the lincoln memorial. now, look, this is being organized by the women's march. this is the same group that did that protest in 2017 at the inauguration. you'll remember that one was 500,000 people here in washington d.c. alone, they were wearing the pink hats and expected to be far less people here today. now, today's people's march includes a dozen different organizations focused on a hodgepodge of different issues like immigration, free palestine, lgbtq rights, abortion rights and feminism and the goal today organizers say is to build support for communities that will be most affected by trump's policies. and today is not just an anti-trump, but energize resistance 2.0 will look like. they recognize it won't be as large as 2017 an

mike will talk about what and will talk but it's doing. we have some questions and that will take some of the questions from you. we are doing quite a bit together. should be a relatively seamless set everything we are focused on measuring three allied partners together a theme from us as we go through this. as well as an awful lot of activity has happened. they continue to mount on the program overall. as from a phased approach and then from a pillared approach. two pillars of technology pillars for the first pillar we refer to as the submarine herself so pillar one is a summary and herself. that support and surround submarines everything from cyber electronic warfare to seat five capability sensing unmanned systems capability print that would be pillar two. and then, what we've done on our team is to create a third pillar called pillar one alpha. that now that you have a nuclear powered submarine with size and the submarines those are the pillars. the phased approach of the optimal pathway. ultimately goal is to develop sovereign austral

honestly, whoever it is, they will not get as much support as mike johnson. it's blindingly obvious. you would have to be deliberately obtuse not to know what to do. host: the agenda. what will republicans in the house to? you have the majority. guest: we have a national mandate expressed through the presidential election. president trump, the first republican to win the popular vote in 20 years, the first republican to win this level of electoral votes since. 1988 he said clearly what he wants to do. secure the border, i suspect that is job number one. he has people in place to do that assuming the senate act, and i think they will. he wants to be reconciliation that will secure the trump tax cuts from 2017. he wants physical discipline. in the end, that will take not just dealing with appropriations but the larger issue of mandatory spending. the people looking at that on doge and in congress know that it will take some tough decisions. it will have to be bipartisan. long-term those are things the president wants to accomplish. host: emily brooks saying with

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we will certainly hear speaker mike johnson and democratic leader hakeem jeffries names being culturally and there could be other nominations as well. once a new speaker is elected, we will hear from -- remarks by the speaker elect, and that is followed by their swearing in by the dean of the house. the dean is the longest serving member of the house and that is now hal rogers, republican from kentucky, first elected in 1980 when ronald reagan was elected president. after that, the oath of office for the newly elected and reelected members will be administered by the speaker. and the last order of business is the adoption of the rules package for the 119th congress. if you are seeing different shots today, that is because c-span's cameras are allowed on the floor on opening day. so, we will be live with our cameras which are usually controlled by the house of representatives. well, joining us today to help set up what is going to happen this afternoon is daniela diaz, she is a congressional recorder with politico. daniela, going into today, what is the headline? >> well, we are just goin

mike: president-elect says stay tuned, we will stay tuned. to see you. >> thank you, sir. mike: to california now where more residents are getting their first looks at the damage. madison alworth is in altadena, california. madison? >> reporter: mike, time is of the essence because right now the winds are calm, but those santa ana winds, they're coming back next week. so after this i'm going to give you the latest on on the fire, and you're also going to hear directly from a business owner who is worrying about whether or not she's going to be able to rebuild in one of the most heavily regulated states. you'll hear from her after this. ♪ ♪ cash-out loan for homeowners. now you can pay off debt and save money! borrow up to one hundred percent of your home's value and get up to seventy thousand or more. save hundreds a month, thousands a year. ring in a new year of security bills paid and cash in the bank. (vo) call 1 (844) 934-2573. mike: search, rescue and recovery efforts underway in california as crews continue to try to contain the flames b

lead house speaker mike johnson will remain house speaker mike johnson. he kept the gavel today after a dramatic vote. he was initially on track to lose in the first ballot. that is, until two holdout republicans changed their no votes to johnson votes at the last minute. shortly after johnson's victory, republican congressman mike lawler of new york posted on x congratulations to speaker johnson. it's time to get to work on behalf of the american people. and that congressman lawler joins us now. congressman, happy new year. so you were always in support of johnson. what was going on behind the scenes? you had six people refusing to vote. then they voted for johnson, three people voting against him, then two of them flipping their votes. did you talk to any of them throughout the last few days? >> certainly. >> but look, jake, it's the theater of the absurd. but i'm glad, obviously, that we were able to get this done in one round on one day and get mike johnson elected speaker so that we can actually get to work. >> there is so much to do on behalf of the

there is mike johnson. we will go ahead and watch. host: we see ralph norman, keith self did not vote for mike johnson. talking to the clerk. i'm not sure who is standing behind him but mike johnson was down there. mike johnson was talking with akeem jeffries. let's see what happens. this is the case, according to matthew green. one can vote present, one can vote for mike johnson and it would be over. guest: that is the math i have. that is according to my math. host: we see johnson there. a little bit of politicking going on. the first vote has still not been called. guest: correct. that is right. perhaps they are trying to change their vote. host: ralph norman and keith self down in the well. unless they are still talking to the clerk. i do not see tom massie as part of this conversation. he said he is a hard no. keith self. 218 was needed. representative is joining us by phone. a republican. what just happened on the floor of the house of representatives? guest: you had two members, one voted for jim jordan. the other one voted for

mike: we will follow it all. lucas tomlinson reporting from vegas, thanks a lot. r more on the senate confirmations, let's are bring in republican senate majority whip from wyoming, john barrasso. senator, welcome. >> thanks, mike. great to be with you. mike: what's your reaction to two confirmations between kristi noem for homeland security and, of course, pete hegseth to lead the pentagon? >> we said president trump would come in with shock and awe a , and he has making dramatic changes, and i was committed as chip to make sure we could get the president's team, his national security team in place as quick as possible. he's been in office five days and we have that team now confirmed. we're talking about the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the head of the cia. all of those things and the director of national -- of -- with john ratcliffe at the cia. so this has been a big effort with homeland security now, kristi noem today, four cabinet members confirmed in a short period of time. we've committed to that. you know, the democrats have tried to slow u

will they continue to hold out? >> manu, we're going to go back to the floor. mike johnson and hakeem jeffries, their votes will be soon. >> johnson. jacobs. jeffries. jeffries. james. white johnson. johnson. jayapal, hakeem. jeffries. jeffries. jeffries. jeffries. jeffries. johnson of georgia. hakeem. jeffries. johnson of louisiana. johnson. johnson. >> so they're. you are, not surprisingly, mike johnson. vote for himself. and so did hakeem jeffries voted for himself. >> that would have been quite a story if he didn't. >> it sure would have um, this is this is dramatic. and again, we need to emphasize two years ago, notwithstanding, this is not normal. this does not happen with house speaker votes. it hasn't in 100 years up until two years ago. >> the other thing i was thinking about, not only does it not happen, but you see here, when jeffries was voting, who was over his left shoulder, the old guard, nancy pelosi, steny hoyer, longtime leaders of the democratic caucus in the house, the republicans don't have that on their side because they have ousted their speak

>> i think mike will get there.y hard and talking to all members during the break. >> reporter: that leads us into the next topic, and perhaps the next thing johnson has going for him. it's not clear there is any credible alternative to him as speaker. if not johnson, who? steve scalise could not get there in 2023. he's got enemies in the republican conference. he likely has them still and that dynamic might keep johnson, even those who think he's not especially effective, say they like him. that dynamic might help push them across the finish line, ana. >> walk us through what we could witness and how this could play out. there could be drama if johnson loses in the first round of voting. what happens next? >> reporter: you will remember folks are called on one by one in alphabetical order and will stand up and vote by name. we know thomas massie will vote for someone other than johnson if there is a second. we will know at that time johnson does not have the votes to become speaker. what happens next is up to him.

famously, mike will speak to exit, volts is national security advisor big said the trump plan was to take the handcuffs off the long range weapons. we provided ad to ukraine. one of your thoughts as these appointments have been announced. uh, i don't know. rubio is family left cuba under batista. so there's no way i use either what i, what he has a post or che guevara and as well. i'm not sure. um no, i mean these people are clearly near guns who don't support the piece that was talked about by trump at least as well. it seems to me that marco rubio at least was um uh that was that was a gift or pay back to sheldon $8.00 oceans widow gave a $100000000.00 to donald trump for his campaign. and um, it seems like um he will uh, he has a week to even though he is a his is history has been neil con, i'm pretty sure he voted against the last round of funding for ukraine. and it seems to me that he's there, he will be, you know, um carrying out the trump, whatever his wishes are. so the trump policy, it seems like it mark i'll reveal, will be there to do that. um the same thing with the secr

those who held major office will be announced this party. so mike pence poking his head out there for a second. it will be coming in in order. he'll be coming next noteworthy noteworthy that misses karen pence is not. now she has not met and that steely look, it donald trump jimmy carter i think part a funeral. >> she's not. karen pence is in here and michelle obama right again. something to be put into context, though. we've never cared. >> if former first lady's of first vice second lady, whoever the were relevant. and i think that we care about it often for the wrong reasons, which is what does it say to the division? what does it say say to the division. what doe to distress? s sion. what doe it say i don't think we need to be concerned about it as much because we'll see what happens going forward because he now has a competing domestic crisis. tiktok matters to americans. it's 170 million people would be the largest disenfranchising a fundamental right. we've seen in a generation open. if you lose that public foreign clinton and that started on

president-elect trump was behind johnson and posted quote mike will be a great speaker. two hold outs talked about the decision of switching from no to yes. >> we needed more input. the chairman in leadership position, that's what we have done. >> mike gave us assurances he will fight for things we think are important. >> johnson will command one of the slimmest majority after losing republican seats in the november election. his party holds 219 to the democrats' 215. that means if all democrats vote no on legislation, johnson must rely on nearly every republican to reach the majority of 2178. adam schiff of california has been sworn in for a full six year term as u.s. senator. after 24 years in house of representatives schiff will serve on the other side of the capitol. the democrat from burbank is the only member in the history of the senate to have taken oath of office three separate times in less than a month. he did so once to fill late dianne feinstein's seat, once when state election results were certified, and a third time yesterday. >>> the life and times of form

and despite, didn't to deal with, mike will not find that homes. but i was listening to one of the palestinians, well managed to get back to bells or this morning. he said yes, my home was destroyed and i went bought a tent on my home. this is not very important moment and much but other than being transferred out to him doesn't. yeah, obviously a remarkable isn't it that i'm going to, i'm going to, i'm going to camp in the rubble of my all time. that's the, the lives that people are willing to go through to restate a claim to the land. can you just explain what's going to happen next? obviously, if even on a significant die like to die historic day, people very quickly turn to what is going to happen in the near future? who's going to run gas? how is it going to be run? who gets to make those decisions? now we are the most important thing, know, it's like the following, what's the other stages and with other times of this agreement? so after this acceptance of going, you think of the people to go back to the step. now we are witnessing the continu

. >> reporter: trump posted on truth social quote mike will be a great speaker and our country will be beneficiary. trump warns of looming democratic attempts to block his cabinet picks. the defense secretary now many will face the senate armed service committee on january 14th while terms pick for director of national intelligence will meet tomorrow with senator mark warner. the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. >> we have great nominees that work together and they work very highly. >> reporter: incoming national security advisor mike waltz says it's important to get trump's cabinet picks confirmed. calling the presidential transition a moment of vulnerability. the terror attack in new orleans raises additional concerns. trump claims president joe biden for rising radical islamic terrorism and violent crime in the country. the judge says trump will avoid prison time in his upcoming sentencing on friday. trump disputed his criminal conviction on truth social writing quote i never falsified business records, it's a fake made up charge by a corrupt judge. trump can atten

they are injecting the specter of donald trump's, who by the way, on new year's eve said, i will vote for mike johnson because he's likeliest to get the votes for now. that was his quote. for now. i will support him. just like jim jordan, he will pivot at a moments notice and keep us hands out of this messy conference. i think they're running a drill. they are trying to show confidence. >> you will have the last word. democrats. what do they do? >> it's still a democracy and the fact the margin is slim, democrats have a significant amount of power here. there's nothing that will move through congress that doesn't have the total support of the democrats. that is meaningful and the public should understand that. there's nothing just getting past this at this point. democracy does work when a margin is the slim and that's why republicans are frustrated because they have to negotiate with hakeem jeffries and with the democrats, and they won't get through a radical agenda they think they have a mandate for because there will be a stopgap. >> paging hakeem jeffries, thank you both very much. >>> pre

we will prosecute the government officials. [cheering and applause] >> mikeag, james o'keefe from citizens journalism foundation are announcing that we will protect whistleblowers, pay your legal bills and go on offense, not just defense. [cheering and applause] mike, for those of you out there people watching inside the federal agencies or corporations that are afraid, what are your messages to them? >> that i would honestly just say tread lightly because we are coming. the law is the law. our rights come from god and you better not violate either. [cheering and applause] >> i know james, i have worked with james for the last three years. he has gone through absolute hell on earth. i can tell you that this promise that i make is that neither one of us will never stop fighting until god calls us home or hilary clinton finds us. [laughter] >> we have one more thing we would like to do in the two or three minutes that i have left. well, actually, while these whistleblowers are coming public we are doing some stories on disney and we had caught one of these guys

they will only be allowed to lose one vote on anything they want to pass through the house. >> are there circumstances you can see where mike johnson reaches to hakeem jeffries and says we have things needing to get done? >> i mean, he may reach. but let me tell you, he will feel these reaches because when he allowed elon musk and vivek ramaswamy to jump on social media and blow up what have been you know, days and months long negotiations between democrats and republicans and you allow a tweet to blow it up, the only currency we have as lawmaker is our word. so if you will not honor your word because somebody sends out a tweet, that is no way to government and we cannot trust you. democrats couldn't trust mccarthy. nor could his own party trust him. so he got kicked out. i think mike johnson is in a pickle. if he had pushed forward as negotiated he would be in a position to say if i have a problem, can you help me out? but he is not in that position now. >> congresswoman jasmine crockett. thank you for joining us. she is from texas. i want to bring in brandon buck. good to see you again. this is tricky, because even if mik

mar-a-lago will be packed with a who's who from capitol hill for president-elect donald trump's annual new year's bash. >> happy new year. >> reporter: it's unclear whether house speaker mike johnson will be in attendance. but trump delivered a late christmas gift to johnson monday when he endorsed him to be the speaker of the house in the new congress. >> i'm really humbled and honored to have president trump's endorsement for speaker again. >> reporter: but even with trump's endorsement, johnson may have a tough time winning enough votes from his republican colleagues. at least three republican house members say they have reservations about johnson's leadership. >> i'll remain undecided as do a number of my colleagues because w saw so many of the failures last year that we are concerned about that might limit or inhibit our ability to advance the president's agenda. >> reporter: kentucky's thomas massie went even further posting to social media that he is a no vote for now. the republican majority is so tight that johnson can only afford the lose one gop member and still get the majority of votes needed to become speaker. >> right now i don't believe he has the votes on

we know already that one republican is on record saying he will not vote for mike johnson. several others have either refused to commit or undecided or simply just don't want to say in public until it is time to vote. we don't know. we will bring you all the latest from the house floor when the new congress convenes in less than an hour. coming up in just a few minutes we'll also get into all of it with republican congressman like lawlor. they're assembled on capitol hill. the news is happening right now and what so many of them have expressed, even some hold-outs now, even late breaking this morning hold-outs are expressing the need to vote the way that trump, the incoming president, has asked to get his agenda going. we're covering all of it and we're on this. investigators are combing through evidence to try to find out what led a u.s. army veteran to plow his truck into a knew years eve crowd in new orleans. 14 people are dead, additionally one other, the gunman. many more are injured. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." chilling details coming to li