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rick wilson is a former republican strategist. he says that's happening. what's happening is not good news for kevin mccarthy. well look, i think this is the for kevin mccarthy, perhaps the end of the beginning, but there is no sign. the sub block is breaking in the short term. it only takes of the $21.00 members who oppose mccarthy publicly. it only takes 5 of them to continue this, this particular charade indefinitely. um, so mccarthy faces a very difficult choice. right now. the chaos is going to continue to rise. it's going to become less rather than more stable. and we're going to see, i think an awful lot of pressure coming on. mccarthy, from folks in the, in the more moderate one of the party, the very small, moderate into the party to stop making deals with, with this chaos caucus of the, of the hard right. market types and the market types are going to continue to pressure. kevin mccarthy, to give up more and more of his power. either way. he even if he wins, he loses at this point. the debt ceiling vote or every member of the freedom clock is not

well, joining us live now from tallahassee, florida is rick wilson. he's a former republican strategist and author of the book. everything trump touches dies. he co founded the lincoln project, a group formed opposition to donald trump, that happy with this. so what, what do you make of what you've seen so far? well look, i think this is the for kevin mccarthy, perhaps the end of the beginning, but there is no sign. the sub block is breaking in the short term. it only takes of the $21.00 members who oppose mccarthy publicly. it only takes 5 of them to continue this, this particular charade indefinitely. um, so mccarthy faces a very difficult choice right now. the, the chaos is going to continue to rise. it's going to become less rather than more stable. and we're going to see, i think an awful lot of pressure coming on. mccarthy, from folks in the, in the more moderate one of the party, the very small moderate when the party to stop making deals with uh, with this chaos caucus of the, of the hard right. margaret types and the mog types are going to co

we nominated cabinet of qualified public servants led by my chief of staff rick wilson to thank you for that. i appreciate you. [applause] we showed respect for public workers who administratively during the holiday season supported local spending on our local businesses. we announced a new educator tax credit check hope you guys will believe and teachers get a 500-dollar credit to support the work and investment they put into students in a classroom. [applause] because of your work with release $50 million to directly support our nonprofit across thursday and the service providers for the critical work they do in our communities. that's a credit to you and thank you for giving us those resources for the people who need them. [applause] and we propose a climate impact fund of $100 billion right out of the gate to fight climate change. we have denounced -- announced a return of three and 53 acres for beneficiaries and signed an agreement to streamline travel and promote hawaiian products and to improve the airport but we took immediate action to prevent disruption in the health care pric