From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast center.

The Armstrong and Joe Getty.

The Armstrong and Getty show.

Later on Tuesday, today, as I say it, they are going to have the vote on whether Kevin McCarthy stays the speaker of the House or not.

He's calling the vote, actually, and he just told reporters if five Republicans go with the Democrats, then I'm out.

It's that simple.

So he seems to be fairly resigned to the process and let's do it.

Let's get it over with.

Let's move on with our lives, which is a good way to approach it.

Yeah, well, then what?

Matt Gaetz.

Exactly.

Exactly.

I wonder if Kevin McCarthy is not thinking, okay, I don't think I'm going to get booted out.

If I do get booted out, you're going to go through like 30 votes for some names nobody's ever heard of who don't really want the job.

Then you're going to come back to me and I'm going to be back.

Speaker left.

Yeah, that's absolutely a possibility, although in a weird way, the fact that he's going through this proves that the job's probably not worth having anyway.

So if he gets booted out, he'll be thinking it's a good thing.

The third time in our nation's history and it's the first time in the 1800s, it was the old switcher.

It was like, it was kind of like this one is kind of like, all right, we're going to call the vote just to show that you don't have the votes and they didn't have the votes.

And then there's another one that didn't go all the way through and then now this.

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