Welcome it is a verdict to its Senator Ted Cruz been Ferguson with you. It is a moment that finally happened.

Many of you were asleep but we have a new speaker the house Kevin McCarthy and here's what it sounded like.

Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.

That you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.

And that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you're about to enter. So happy God.

Yes I do.

Congratulations and God's name.

That was it happened late in that way to say technically early in the morning Senator your prediction on this podcast was spot on.

You said you thought they would get a deal done Friday night. It happened Friday night and decided a morning pretty spot on.

Congratulations for that prediction.

Well I will say when we talked about this on Wednesday morning's pod what what you and I predicted together I said that I thought the most likely outcome was that Kevin McCarthy would cut a deal with the holdouts and in particular that he would cut a deal with chip Roy that chip Roy really was the leader of the 20.

And the reason I thought that is because chip was focused I think quite rightly on changes to the rules changes to how the house conducts business on substance some of the people involved in this leadership battle I think had had real personal animosity to Kevin McCarthy I think chip to his credit was not motivated by that he was motivated by changing the broken way that Washington operates and.

What you and I talked about Wednesday morning on this podcast is I thought the most likely outcome was Kevin and chip would reach a deal he would make some significant concessions.

And those concessions would be enough and McCarthy would be elected ultimately at about one in the morning late last night that's exactly what happened it took it took a few more hours then we had predicted but not much it was about about the same time period.

And I will say what chip and the other dissenters accomplished was a really big deal.

There was a lot of drama because there was a vote at 11 p.m. where I think McCarthy and leadership thought they had the votes and they ended up falling just short because many of the dissenters dropped off but they remained a handful who didn't and it led to.

It led to some interesting drama it led to and in particular you also had during the day two votes that were missing one Wesley hunt new congressman from Houston actually my congressman who had to fly back to Houston because his wife had just delivered a baby his son who was born prematurely and and they were having to care for.

His son he flew back to Houston to be with them and then turned around and was there for the late night vote his vote was needed at the end and he was there for the late night vote but it it got a little wild and wooly including at one point mic Rogers or Republican from Alabama had to be physically restrained from from taking a swing and and coming after Matt gates that that was I'm not sure I've seen.

I've seen the beginnings of an actual bar fight on the floor of the house but it it came pretty close.

I was wondering if that was a new covid certified mask for congress right the hand over the face and restraining I'm like maybe that account is a new covid mask.

But at the end of the day all of the histrionics about oh this is terrible this is the end of the republic now the democrats were of course growing you would expect them to grow that's what they're going to do regardless the media went on and on but but I've got to say.

The agreements that they ended up getting were significant let me throw a caveat that the rules package is not yet been voted on that the plan is to vote on that on Monday and so the devil is always in the details and it it could you know this is at this point what's been publicly reported but among other things that have publicly been reported here elements of the deal that that have been reported in the press number one that the rules package ends proxy voting which means.

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