Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles ALL RIGHT. I AM TOLD WE HAVE THE GREAT CONGRESSWOMAN CLAUDIA TENNEY FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK. CLAUDIA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I ASSUME YOU VOTED. CLAUDIA, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US, FIRST OF ALL THIS IS BALLOT THREE, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING 133 BALLOTS LIKE WE DID IN 1856. WE MIGHT GO NINE WHICH WE DID IN THE MODERN ERA IN 1923. HAPPY NEW YEAR. YOU LOOK LIKE A MILLION BUCKS. GIVE US A LITTLE INSIDE BASEBALL, WHAT'S COOKING? >> HAPPY NEW YEAR. WE'RE UNDER OUR THIRD BALLOT. LUCKILY MY NAME IS AT THE END OF THE ALPHABET. I GET TO VOTE LAST TO BE HERE WITH YOU. THIS IS PRETTY UNPRECEDENTED AT THIS MOMENT, RIGHT NOW I THINK REPUBLICANS I THINK NEED TO START STICKING TOGETHER. I LISTENED A TOWEL THE CONFERENCES. I LISTENED TO THE DISCUSSIONS. WE HAVE OUR GOVERNMENT IN DISARRAY. WE NEED TO GET IT TOGETHER. WE NEED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON WHAT WE CAN DO AS REPUBLICANS. WE'RE THE LAST BET HOPE RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE SENATE RUN BY DEMOCRATS. WE HAVE AN ADMINISTRATION, FREEWHEELING, EXECUTIVE ORDERS, OUR BORDERS IS OPEN. WE HAVE SKYROCKETING INFLATION. WE ARE THE ONLY THING THAT CAN STOP WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THIS AUTHORITARIANISM, COMMUNISM FROM THE LEFT. WE EVEN HAD A DEMOCRAT GET UP ON THE FLOOR TODAY SAID SHE WAS HONORED TO VOTE FOR HAKEEM JEFFRIES FROM THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BROOKLYN. LAST TIME I KNEW NEW YORK STATE WAS NOT A COMMUNIST REGIME. IT WAS NOT THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA. THESE PEOPLE ON THE LEFT ARE LAUGHING, MOCKING US, WE NEED A SPEAKER IN PLACE, GET EVERYONE SWORN IN. WE NEED TO GET DOWN TO THE BUSINESS OF FIXING INFLATION AND OUR ECONOMY, GETTING GROWTH, DEALING WITH THE SOUTHERN BORDER. HOLDING THIS ADMINISTRATION WHICH IS VERY LAWLESS ASKEDDABLE. WE HAVE TO GET STARTED ON IT RIGHT AWAY. I HOPE WE GET TO THE BALLOT REAL SOON. I APPRECIATE AND UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS PEOPLE HAVE BUT GUESS WHAT, FESTIVE JUST IS OVER, TIME FOR GRIEVANCES IS OVER, WE NEED TO STICK TOGETHER AS A GROUP OTHERWISE WE FAIL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. LARRY: CLAUDIA TENNEY, I WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH NEWT GINGRICH ABOUT ALL OF THIS, AND I THINK NEWT AGREED, THIS IS ABOUT PERSONALITIES, NOT POLICIES. I DON'T SEE THE POLICY DISPUTE. I MEAN IT IS NOT LIKE KEVIN McCARTHY IS SOME FAR LEFT-WING GUY FOR HEAVENS SAKES. IT IS NOT LIKE THE COMMITMENT TO AMERICA WHICH ALL OF YOU PUT TOGETHER IS IN A COGENT, CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLED MESSAGE THAT WILL STOP BIDEN'S RADICAL AGENDA. IT IS ABOUT PERSONALITIES. YOU KNOW, CLAUDIA, TO ME PERSONALITY POLITICS IS THE WORST KIND OF POLITICS. >> I AGREE WITH YOU 100%. THE FORMER SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH IS EXACTLY RIGHT. THIS HAS COME DOWN TO PERSONALITIES. I HEARD GRIEVANCES, KEVIN, YOU VOTED FOR OMNIBUS BILL FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO. WE'LL HOLD THAT AGAINST YOU, NO MATTER HOW FAR YOU GO BENDING CHANGING RULES. TO BE HONEST I THINK KEVIN HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH. THESE RULES, HE MADE CONCESSION AFTER CAN SESSION. YOU NEED TO JOIN THE TEAM. STAND UP FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. STAND UP FOR A RULES PACKAGE THAT GIVES US A STRONG LEADER TO STAND UP TO THE SENATE. REMEMBER AS WE TALKED ABOUT LAST TIME I WAS ON THE SHOW, THE SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE THE ONES THAT GAVE US $1.7 TRILLION SPENDING BILL THAT IS GOING GOING TO LEAVE US STUCK AND JAMMED UNTIL SEPTEMBER. OUR ABILITY TO ISSUE SUBPOENAS, GETTING THEM COMPLIED WITH IS GOING TO BE WITHOUT OUR POWER OF THE PURSE, THAT WE'RE GIVEN BY THE CONSTITUTION. THERE IS A LOT OF ISSUES HERE AT PLAY. I THINK SOONER WE GET BALLOT. SOONER WE GET SPEAKER, GET DOWN TO WORK I THINK BETTER IT IS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. LARRY: CLAUDIA, YOU'RE ON THE FLOOR EXPERT VOTING, I'M NOT BUT MR. McCARTHY GOT 19 NAY VOTES, SORRY IN SORRY, EACH OF THE FIRST TWO BALLOTS. I'M SUGGESTING THAT IS NOT SUCH A BAD THING. THE 19 HAS NOT GONE TO 30 OR 35. HE ORIGINALLY HAD, HE WON THE MAJORITY LEADER, MAJORITY VOTE EARLIER BUT I THINK HE LOST 30 SOMETHING VOTES. SO FAR THE NAYS HAVE NOT BALLOONED. IS THAT A GOOD SIGN FOR KEVIN McCARTHY IN YOUR JUDGMENT. >> I DO. I THINK THAT THERE IS A LOT GOING ON IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD, A LOT OF CONSERVATIVES DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON HERE WITH THE SAUSAGE MAKING AND INSIDE BASEBALL. THAT WE NEED TO GOVERN, THE ALTERNATIVE IS THE OTHER SIDE. THEY'RE MOCKING, MAKING FUN OF US AND GRANDSTANDING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOR. GUESS WHAT WE'RE DOING THIS TO OURSELVES. IT IS NOT THEM. I THINK WE'LL BRING IT TOGETHER. THE PETTY GRIEVANCES. I THINK THOSE 19 WILL EVENTUALLY TURN OVER TO SUPPORTING KEVIN McCARTHY. LOOK, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET A PERFECT SPEAKER. WE NEVER HAD ONE. AS MUCH AS I LOVE NEWT GINGRICH, SPEAKERS IN THE PAST WE NEVER HAD A PER SPECK SPEAKER. WE HAVE REPUBLICANS IN PLACE TO WORK WITH US, MAKE CONCESSIONS WHICH HE HAS DONE. I THINK IN SOME CASES HE HAS GONE TOO FAR. WE CAN DO ANOTHER RULES ADJUST ONCE WE GET A SPEAKER IN PLACE, GET CONTROL OF THE HOUSE. LARRY: THANK Y
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