host: this is axios's stef kight joining us. this is from lewis, the mike ross line. -- democrats line. caller: top of the morning to you. i have a comment and question but we do know that we had a feeling this may happen with the republican party. i call the republican party the pink bouquet party. that stands for proud boys, insurrectionists, and oath keepers. here is my question. you have republicans calling in. they wonder why the democrats do not vote and help the republicans to elect a speaker. we tried to deal with a speaker named mccarthy, but he lied and it a lot of things -- would you please tell the people why we would not vote on a republican congressman that is maga? guest: i think the caller raises an important point, that democrats were already hesitant to work with mccarthy and republicans while mccarthy was speaker and now you arguably have a more controversial speaker candidate who is looking likely that he might be able to pull this off. that will not do much to help with any bipartisan efforts here. we will h

host: this is axios's stef kight joining us.his is from lewis, the mike ross line. -- democrats line. caller: top of the morning to you. i have a comment and question but we do know that we had a feeling this may happen with the republican party. i call the republican party the pink bouquet party. that stands for proud boys, insurrectionists, and oath keepers. here is my question. you have republicans calling in. they wonder why the democrats do not vote and help the republicans to elect a speaker. we tried to deal with a speaker named mccarthy, but he lied and it a lot of things -- would you please tell the people why we would not vote on a republican congressman that is maga? guest: i think the caller raises an important point, that democrats were already hesitant to work with mccarthy and republicans while mccarthy was speaker and now you arguably have a more controversial speaker candidate who is looking likely that he might be able to pull this off. that will not do much to help with any bipartisan efforts here. we will hav