Good morning, 935. It's Kendall and Casey on 93 W I B C. So Steve Collies, Scalies of

Louisiana, defeated Jim Jordan for the Republican nomination to be speaker and also replaced

Kevin McCarthy, although they voted and they didn't come to an agreement on that. He still

does not have the votes to be elected speaker of the house.

Let's point out they voted in private, right? They go behind closed doors. They don't

want anybody to see what's going on. So they go behind closed doors and then you're

led to believe, right? Because I don't think it's officially, there's been officially

publicly released. I mean, they don't do the totals. It's not, now he's got to go out

and get the votes publicly. So it's like they go behind closed doors. They do these actions.

And then well, no vote today on the speaker. Yeah. So we're going to try again. So isn't

it interesting that Republican voters overwhelmingly want to Jim Jordan? So what do the Republican

party do? Yeah, they go behind closed doors and they nominate Steve Scalies. Well, let's

see. And while Steve Scalies may be a fine person, you know, he was certainly obviously he

would be the first. I saw this yesterday. I thought this was perfect. He would be the

first speaker of the house ever to be recovered, ever recovered from being shot by Bernie

Sanders supporter. I mean, he was famously shot by lunatic in a, in a Congress softball

game or baseball game or whatever it was and, and lived. And now he has a fairly serious

form of blood cancer, I believe it is. I would say any person who was chosen by Kevin

McCarthy, incorporated to be in leadership, which Steve Scalies was, should probably be

a giant red flag. Okay. And we're going to get to this is because here's the thing that

I don't understand. Matt Gaetz has come out and he said the Matt Gaetz, the guy who's

spearheaded the, you know, getting Kevin McCarthy out of there, he's come out and he's fully

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