oust liz cheney from house leadership in backing elise stefanik, will hear from house minority steve scaliseoming up, surging demand for new homes shrinking inventory in record high cost of lumber now driving up home prices at the fastest pace in 25 years. i'll be speaking with the head of the largest homebuilders in the country in a fox business exclusive chairman and ceo on where things go from here. but first let's take a look back at the week's big moments with the top newsmakers on morning with maria on this additions of the week's talkers. >> your reaction to a 4 trillion in spending, unprecedented except for war times they need to pay for it somehow and there massive increases. >> the federal government is going to throw stimulus, higher taxes, and may very well throw higher interest rates. >> the house is on fire, there is no crisis, there is no economic crisis, there is no longer a vaccination crisis. maria: mark we are big fans of yours, let me kick it off with you, have you sold number bill you yourself. >> you can do what you want and set your old price and have everything that y

punch bowl with a tweet early this morning that kevin mccarthy, the majority leader and steve scalise, minority leader, turn on cheney and baxter phonic for the conference chair and a tweet from political's -- politico's, a spokeswoman for cheney, regarding the news that steve scalise is supporting stepanek to replace cheney as conference chair, this will have more to come -- liz will have more to come. the house is not in session. numbers are out -- members are out. let's hear from you, comments about former president trump and facebook. here is michael in pipestone, minnesota. go ahead. caller: good morning. my question and concern would be , if he was reinstated, if he had any type of guidelines that could be imposed on him because my concern would be the rhetoric that would come behind it. i would vote no. host: you would vote yes that he should be reinstated, but you're concerned that the potential rhetoric if you were reinstated, and my reading you right? how do you think they can control that? caller: basically, it should be a contract, a legal contract that if he were to turn

with that, i want to call up our whip, steve scalise. mr. scalise: thank you, kevin. i also want to congratulate our new conference chair, elise stefanik. congratulations. you're going to do a great job. our conference is incredibly unified right now but we're also very concerned because america is experiencing numerous crises. all across the board, you're seeing president biden fail to lead this nation through some unprecedented serious problems that are affecting everyday hard working families. it's not just in america we're seeing crises. across the globe, you see, right now, thousands of rockets going off in the middle east, israel under attack. where is president biden's leadership? he spent more time negotiating to help iran get toward a nuclear weapon than to confront the problems of hamas and palestinians attacking israel. you're seeing russia continue to be on the move. not only is russia on the move in eastern europe, russia is attacking america's pipelines. and what is president biden doing? he's making it easier for russia to send us gasoline, to be more r

minority leader kevin mccarthy and house whip steve scalise.or the republicans brand new chair of the republican conference. that's new york congresswoman elise stefanik and she will join us. the new cdc guidelines on masking. andrew cuomo wants new yorkers to wear their masks forever as does nancy pelosi. and bill de blasio has a big new vaccine plan that involves french fries. may be if he throws in a big gulp, he is onto something. joe biden screamed masks or vaccine into the camera. it's been an awful week for the biden presidency. this weeks caps disastrous democratic party rule. it's not going well. inflation through the roof. unemployment on the rise. gas shortages in over a dozen states and turmoil in the middle east. joe is clueless on what to do. in the months and years coming while the republican party has what is a new opportunity to change this trajectory for future generations. it's important. right now in the minority, the gop must fight tooth and nail. the first job is to stop the democrats huge massive, unprecedented power grab

a spokesperson said steve scalise also wants cheney replaced. they warn that republicans "purging liz cheney for honesty" would damage the party. as we were coming on the air, liz cheney's spokesperson is now responding to all of this back and forth. what are you hearing from cheney's office? >> this is a really quickly moving story and the downal in the republican conference has been so fast. her office is now responding to representative steve scalise. cheney's office is saying she will have a lot more to say about this later saying this is bigger than a leadership position, insinuating this is about the future of the republican party and she is define saying the former president no longer needs to be part of the party and the election was not stolen. so with the fact that steve scalise came out to back stefanik, a trump supporter, who voting to overturn the election results after the insure rex happened is a very big sign of where they want this to go and they are fully embracing the republican party. >> they say this is more than just about

cnn is learning house republican steve scalise is urging his colleagues to vote against the measure and back mccarthy who refuses to sign off on the commission. why? the commission itself is bipartisan. and there was of course a time when maccarthy was outraged and angry on january 6th when he called the president for account. >> pretty basic sentence from kevin mccarthy. a week later here is the same kevin mccarthy. >> i don't believe he provoked it if you listen to what he said. >> two days after that, mccarthy went down to see trump at mar-a-lago to make sure he made up for his comments, in good graces with the king. here they are. he knows more about trump's mindset that day than anybody else. he was on the phone with trump. the former president was watching these images, images you are seeing now, trump is watching them and talking to mccarthy. congresswoman jamie herrera, a republican was told by mccarthy that mccarthy tried to get trump understand the severity of the situation, he pleaded with trump. mccarthy told her that trump actually claim to mccarthy that the people there we

i am a congressional reporter for axios and happy to be joined by house minority whip steve scalise fromouisiana. the number two house republican. congressman, thank you so much for being with us today. mr. scalise: thank you, alayna. alayna: today marks the 100th day that president biden has been in office. he gave his joint address to congress earlier this week. spoke a lot about some of the things on the trail, unity, calls for bipartisanship. he spoke a lot about his infrastructure package and his big proposals for the future. i'm curious. i know a lot of your republican colleagues don't think that the biden administration is doing much to be bipartisan. they think he's catering to more of the left flank of the party. i'm curious, though, what areas you think there are still -- there's still hope for bipartisanship? mr. scalise: yeah, alayna, if you look at the first 100 days, it's a far left move to the socialist extreme agenda. you've seem from the very beginning. he canceled the keystone pipeline just to appease the radical left. he got rid a lot of the permitting and things that

this is about right or wrong, steve scalise. this is about republicans selling the soul of their party to placate the disgraced, formal former president, because they're afraid that they can't win without him. win at all costs. lindsey graham, of course, lindsey graham, always saying the quiet part out loud today. >> if you try to drive him out of the republican party, half the people will leave. so it doesn't mean you can't criticize the president. it means the republican party cannot go forward without president trump being a part of it. >> and that is the deal the republican party is making, buy into the big lie or get out. the senate minority leader john thune warning, quote, if we continue to rehash the 2020 election, we're going lose the 2022 election. if we continue to rehash the 2020 election, we are going to lose the 2022 election. republicans, are you listening? and this tells you everything you need know about the hypocrisy of the gop. tomorrow the very day, the republican party will throw liz cheney under the bus for

steve scalise, the second most powerful house republican, initially told members he was not going to whip this bill, that they could vote according to their own conscience. but he sent out an e-mail with a long list of problems the republican leadership has with this commission, recommending they vote no. the plans for a commission to investigate the january 6th capitol insurrection have hit a serious roadblock. in a statement rejecting the bipartisan deal, house minority leader kevin mccarthy said, quote, given the speaker's shortsighted scope that does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in america, i cannot support this legislation. mccarthy is insistent that groups like black lives matter and antifa be included in the commission's work. >> we just went through a whole summer of riots throughout this city. we should grasp that as well. >> the bill can pass the house with only democratic support, but would need ten republican votes on the senate side. senate republican john thune said the passage is now uncertainly as mitch mcconnell weighs his options. >> i think

steve scalise, the house minority whip is telling republicans not to vote for it.vely shocking. obviously, it's going to pass the house anyway. the big question is, what does this house republican opposition mean when it comes to senate republicans who, so far, have behaved more normally than their house counterparts when it comes to basic standards of democracy. >> to that point, and i'm so glad you raised that point about, look, congress deserves this investigation. this commission. but so do the american people, right? this was an attack on -- >> it's our place. >> it's so essential. in the senate, though, where, as you said, it seems like more normal behavior in the wake of what happened on january 6th. we're now getting these indications from senator mitch mcconnell that republicans are maybe not willing to go for a commission. let's listen to his concerns. >> i'm not saying that we have decided this should not go forward. but if it's going to go forward, it needs to be clearly balanced and not tilted one way or the other so we have an objective evaluation. so

he injured steve scalise with the shot to the hip.c terrorism. the congressman, the republicans are absolutely justified in raising their outrage that it would be minimized. this james hodgkinson, the shooter, was a man who had a radical democratic background and he wanted to kill republican congress people. no doubt about it. >> bill: here is virginia republican morgan griffith. it was random why was he asking if this was the republican baseball practice? that's not random. that's a specific intended target. was he thinking about he would die in a blaze of glory? that's certainly possible. but not his main motivation here. the security detail that day weren't in uniform but plain clothes. how would he even know he had guns and b that they were cops? >> you're absolutely right, bill. let's go back to the reason why it was ruled as suicide by cop. who was the acting f.b.i. director this time? trump hater, disgraced andrew mccabe who was fired from the f.b.i. for him to have a press conference and declare this was suicide by cop was bas

i'm harris faulkner. 20 house republicans are led by house minority whip steve scalise saying they are launching an investigation into alleged improper outside influence on the cdc by the american federation of teachers. right now about 1/3 of students across the country are still not back in their classrooms full-time. the lawmakers are asking cdc chief to hand over those communications with the aft. that's a major democratic donor. some republican senators yesterday questioned the doctor over a report saying the agency used feedback from that teachers union word for word in some parts of cdc guidance. >> why is having offline secret negotiations with one stakeholder. >> as a matter of practice the cdc engages if stakeholders, with consumers who take our guidance. >> it suggests that aft leadership, they certainly changed the language of the guidance. >> it was the cdc scientists that provided the guidance that provided the science around what we should do. >> harris: steve scalise, house minority whip and ranking republican is here with me now. great to see you today. my first questi

what is going on in the house among republicans, some republicans including kevin mccarthy and steve scaliseoman liz cheney for fist bumping biden on the floor and speaking out about trump's lies about the election and they're also upset she voted to impeach the president. is it political dangerous to be a republican like liz cheney who tries to stand up for facts and truth regarding the election and the insurrection? >> liz cheney is a woman of strength and conscience. and she did what she felt was right, and i salute her for that. we need to be accepting of difference in our party. we don't want to become like too much of the democratic party which has been taken over by the progressive left. we need to have rooms for a variety of views, especially since we adhere to those core principles that i mentioned earlier. >> after president trump was impeached for the first time for urging ukraine's president to investigate joe biden, you said you believed, you hoped the president had learned his lesson. and you said that was aspirational. but after biden won, the president tried to overturn the e

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i think scilly's state dog quiet -- steve scalise state dog quiet. kevin mccarthy goes only on certain press elements that are never going to ask about this. when you talk about trying to win a broad coalition and a majority, and all you are doing is going on steve bannon's show, why aren't you out there on nontraditional republican areas? that is the people you are supposed to be reaching two. this because all they do is they want to go stir up the base. so when it came to kevin, the only thing liz did was be consistent. she refused to change because two weeks after -- i consider kevin mccarthy a great friend -- two weeks after january 6 he goes down to mar-a-lago and it was like january 6 never happened. we cannot at the blm and antifa, it's not really our fault, less just move on, that was a whole four months ago, let's just move on. i think it's important for people to know the truth, which is, this was entirely predictable and it was disregarded. i don't know if kevin couldn't have done anything to stop it necessarily, i don't know, but i know t

too scared, worried he could hurt his chances in the coming speaker and number two republican, steve scalisecience, and now is saying, no, wait, vote against it. is this -- is this a panic about this commission? what is? can you help explain? >> you know, i think jamie did good reporting there, i mean, sources tell me that he's worried, that he would be called to testify and then he'd have to say what his conversation with donald trump was about and he's probably worried that he will erase those good-will trips -- or trip that he took down to m mar- mar-a-lago. i don't know. but don they've been investigating things forever. 9/11, remember when the marine barracks were blown up in lebanon, iran contra, we did investigation. it's just normal, after-action, to figure out what happened. this should just be a unanimous vote to check it out, look into it. it's a bipartisan group with equal numbers on both sides and i -- it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous. >> okay. all right. and i think this is a very fair question then because of what's happening. so, john, it appears the official position of the

>> it sounds like we'll hear soon from congresswoman liz cheney about all this hubbub, this as steve scaliseto replace liz cheney as the number three. >> a spokesperson for cheney says, quote, this moment is about much more than a house leadership fight. next week, a vote among gop house members could end up stripping her of her leadership role. manu raju is following the latest on capitol hill. this is now only going to need a simple majority to oust her from leadership. i know you're doing informal whips of gop votes on the hill. does that mean this is likely over for her? >> almost certainly. in talking to multiple republican sources who are very familiar with the process, the process they'll use to replace liz cheney will be set in a simple majority of the 212 house republican conference. that means almost certainly she will not have the votes to hang on. this is done by a secret ballot election. it's hard to handicap how members will come down. it's hard to see her coming up with a coalition to hang on to her position and elise stefanic is building support. she's making clear she has su

but in terms of condemning it, it's really a mixed bag from people like congressman steve scalise.gressman scalise does not agree with these comments and condemns these comparisons to the holocaust. we also need to be speaking out strongly against the dangerous anti-semitism that is growing in our streets and in the democrat party resulting in an alarming number of horrific violent attacks against jews. gloria, who in the democratic party has likened vaccines to nazis? >> no one. no one. it's just another ridiculous case of sort of whataboutism here. enough is enough. this is despicable. they should have said, enough is enough five days ago. and the question that i have, well, i have a couple of questions. one is, why all of a sudden, now, five days later, all of them in unison, right? saying, oh my god, oh my god, this is terrible. she shouldn't be saying this. maybe they got permission from donald trump. maybe their donors started complaining. we know that one prominent republican donor, close friend of mr. mccarthy, tweeted today about this. so, maybe they were starting to get s

it also comes after the number two house republican steve scalise emailed his team urging them to remainedelosi and president biden's socialist agenda agenda. congressman, hoyer, good to see you. let me start with getting at a question i've been asking congressional reporters. this is what it looks like to many of us observers and reporting seems to bear this out that the congressional democratic leadership has a little less patience for working with republicans than the biten white house. is that a fair critique? >> i think we have frankly long experience of finding it very, very difficult to get to a bipartisan resolution with the republican colleagues when you have steve scalise putting out what notice he did with senator mcconnell saying he's 100% committed to fighting the agenda. you have been cynical. it is in the country's political interest and that's what president biden said today. we ought to look at ourselves not as competition with one another but in competition with the rest of the world, china in particular but others and i think if we do that, we'd have much more likely bip

and the number two gop official in the house, congressman steve scalise going along with mccarthy andpublicans to vote against it. there is a lot to discuss with cnn's senior commentator john kasich, the former republican governor of ohio. good evening, sir. so let's get into it. >> i'm very disappointed, don. i'm very, very disappointed. >> good evening. how are you? >> you had your inaugural show, and i wasn't good enough to make it. this is going to be tough to recover from this. just want you to know. >> my mom said, you'll be all right. thank you. it's good to see you. let's talk about what's going on. this by kevin mccarthy on this commission. this is what our jamie gangel is reporting. sources close to the situation are telling her he is too scared. he is worried it could hurt his chances of becoming speaker. and number two, the two republican steve scalise who first says vote your conscience and now is saying no, wait, vote against it. is this -- is this a panic about this commission? what is it? can you help explain? >> you know, i think jamie did good reporting there. source

this is steve scalise, saying if you disregard president trump, that's not -- jim banks who would replaceongresswoman cheney, a lot of us would like to see her join the team, same mission, same focus. lance gooden a texas republican tweeting this weekend, she'll be out of her gop leadership role by months end, they're thinking about getting the chairmanships back, not about are we supporting the big lie, the continuation of donald trump's big lie, even though it is poison on democracy. >> they are some how able to ignore everything that happened from november 3rd through january 6th to move on purely through the basis of will this get us closer to the majority. there's no question about that. the most interesting part, and congresswoman love brings it up, there are no shortage of issues for the republican conference to attack the current president on. when you look at what he's put on the table, just transformative economic policies that would push the country in a more progressive direction than it's gone in 50 or 60 years, this is the type of stuff that republicans should -- should, wou

garrett, we know kevin mccarthy and steve scalise are in the commission and they're saying not so fast. >> we'll see what amounts to a whole lot when it comes to other republicans. yes, over the last 24 hours we have seen republican leadership change their stance and working against a january 6th commission vote about 24 hours ago. all we have is a statement against kevin mccarthy and the republican is working against it and steve scalise now leaning on members and whipping against that bill and you have the statement from the former president that peter alluded to, calling it all a trap and this commission isn't about getting to the truth and it's all about politics and nancy pelosi and by which republican leadership has to speak to their members and to try to push them against voting for this bill. how is this about politics and nancy pelosi, on january 6th. those insurrectionists, it should be with mike pence and anyone else in between. what is mccarthy's explanation for opposing this and are there any other republicans buying it? >> he's got support from his allies and i had a hous

stefanik allied herself with trump and has trump's support and kevin mccarthy's and steve scalise, allwhich essentially assures she'll get the position. during this conference meeting, members from each side gave nominating speeches to talk about the candidates that they support. one of them is john katko who voted to impeach donald trump but he did nominate elise stefanik, despite stefanik's close alliance with trump. as well as ashley hinson, an iowa republican, comes from a swing district. there had been some conservative members who came out for stefanik's opponent which is chip roy, a texas republican, member of the house freedom caucus. some members came and spoke out for him including ken buck who is -- who came out actually supporting liz cheney staying in that position but here backing buck because chip roy has a much more conservative voting record than stefanik. she had one of the most moderate voting records in the house. that's one thing that she has had to tell her colleagues over the last several, two weeks, in which this all came up is that she won't buck her party. she

you take what cheney says, what jim banks says and what steve scalise told my colleague, alayna treenen is. now, i don't is a crystal ball here. but it seems like in the next couple of weeks, to couple months will decide whether or not she stays in power as the number three or whether or not she has her own ambitions and has plans to do something else. kasie? >> mance, and there was a big story from robert draper in "the new york times" about cheney's future and how she orchestrated -- there was a vote already, a secret ballot vote to keep her in that position. and frankly, the vote was pretty overwhelming in the conference. people said one thing in public and another thing typically in private. my sense of this has been that there is now more concern about trying to retake the majority. and everybody wants to do that. and that particular -- and that's true of people that were trump supporters or who were not publicly or privately, is that the issue here, like, as she taken a step too far in a way that makes him think, you're dividing us from winning in 2022? >> the comment from jim ba

where are you, kevin mccarthy, where are you, steve scalise, where are you, mitch mcconnell? do something about this. >> republicans have made the issue something they can run on because democrats have been divided over this but they are silent over marjorie taylor greene, nothing yet from kevin mccarthy or steve scalise or elise stefanik, the new number three, but the ousted number three liz cheney called this lunacy. she said it was evil lunacy. but she was the one who was reprimanded, of course, because of her fighting with donald trump, and that caused outrage from the republican leadership, but nothing yet on marjorie taylor greene. >> manu and laura stay with us. >>> up next, the floyd family heads to the white house tomorrow, there's still some glimmer of hope for police reform. we'll check in on the status next. what do we want for dinner? burger... i want a sugar cookie... wait... i want a bucket of chicken... i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. as your business changes, the united states postal service is changing with it

the problem she has obviously you've got trump, mccarthy and also gym jordan, steve scalise, they're basically all united behind her and jake's exactly right. last time there was this lopsided vote in her favor and it was actually this very drawn out conference meeting where there were impassioned speeches given on both sides, based on the conversations i've had with sources in-house republican conference i expected this meeting next wednesday will be a quicker affair. the number of cheney defenders in the conference has diminished. there aren't that many people beyond adam kinsinger. it's probably lopsided in the other direction and the expect is that the following tuesday will be at the meeting of the house conference to elect elise stefanik. >> jake, does that line up with the reporting you're getting as well on that vote and how it will play out? >> yes, listen, i agree with everything jonathan said. it's fluid when they put stefanik in. there could be momentum to put in wednesday and stefanik would frankly push for that, she has momentum and the longer it draws out the more time

look at things down there in washington, steve scalise is always in the background behind mccarthy. look at the smirk on his face. he got shot at that ballgame. you would think he would have learned a lesson. republicans, i know you are not racist. i'm not going to call you all racist, but i will call you all prejudice. every time you talk about black lives matter, and you respect a crime family? donald trump's children. look at really -- look at rudy giuliani. host: opposition to the effort from tennessee, hello. caller: first of all, you let that man just sit there and say that skill lease should have learned his lesson after being shot? i cannot believe that such a statement was made. host: you are still on, go ahead. caller: i agree with marjorie taylor greene 100%. i believe the black lives matter riots and the nt for riots go hand-in-hand with the attack on the capital. after watching these attacks from blm and nt for for over a year, the capital being attacked, our president being forced into a bunker at the white house from blm and nothing done with that, i believe that ther

it was punch bowl who was the first to report that steve scalise also backing her. >> yeah. stefanik has been in ochs since 2014 and she was the youngest woman ever elected to congress and alexandra ocasio cortez beat her by a year. she's smart, harvard grad and worked on the romney campaign and in 2019 she became should very active trump defender during his first impeachment proceeding and he dubbed her a rising star, and she office trump's defense team during the senate proceedings for the first trial and she's continued to speak out on his behalf and she became this big trump supporter and that's what they want in the house republican congress. >> so let's stay on it. a star in the show. i want to do something silly and actually talk about approximately see. stefanik is a moderate compared to liz cheney and she voted against the trump tax cuts and to his point, she gained all of this attention during the impeachment hearings and she's in a regular and conservative media as a cheerleader for the former president. is this a prototype, and it is not about policy and it is ab

over congresswoman liz cheney's position in the republican party is growing with top republican steve scalise saying she needs to be removed from her role as the third-ranking gop leader his spokesperson adding republicans need to be "solely focused on taking back the house in 2022. at issue, cheney's fierce criticism of former president trump, arguing he should not be a part of the gop's future after the capitol attack and his false claims of election fraud. but the former president remains popular with republicans. top house republican kevin mccarthy caught on a hot mike obtained by mediaite. >> i've had it with her. you know, i've lost confidence >> reporter: mr. trump saying, "liz cheney is a war-mongering fool who has no business in republican party leadership." and the former president making it clear he plans to stay engaged. dangling his strongest hint yet he may run again. >> i think people are going to be very, very happy when i make a certain announcement >> reporter: now president biden weighing in. >> we're in the midst of significant sort of mini revolution going on in the repub