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speaker Kevin McCarthy 
struck a deal to

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quell internal 
rebellion in the house

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Republican conference 
this week the

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result of a handful 
of hard-line members

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dissatisfaction with 
the debt ceiling

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compromise Lisa 
Desjardins brings us up

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to speed now on what 
happened and what

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it means for the 
House GOP Lisa good to

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see you hi so help 
us understand how has

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this small group of 
hardliners gained

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enough power to 
control the workflow of

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the entire House of 
Representatives this

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would be like me 
taking over the show

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right now when I'm 
not even the anchor

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but this comes down 
to the margins in

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the House of 
Representatives let's take

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a look at where 
things stand in the

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house right now 218 
votes is what you

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need for a majority 
Republicans have

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222. so they've got 
that majority but

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let's talk about 
these 11 members who

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figured out let's 
if you so look at

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those 11 members 
then they have the

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power to control the 
majority there they

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are and these members 
have a few things

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in common some are 
members of the House

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Freedom caucus but 
one thread that runs

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through them Amna 
when you talk talk

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about how they voted 
for Kevin McCarthy

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on those first 
Speaker votes most of

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them voted no and 
that is a significant

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threat here when you 
look at these names

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this is a group 
that does not have a

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name of its own 
it's not the freedom

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caucus but these are 
the names I watch

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when I look at the 
voting board and so

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does Kevin McCarthy 
so what about the

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timing why is this 
group taking this

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stand now this was 
coming out of the

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debt ceiling deal as 
you said and let's

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say happened 
spontaneously on the floor

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those frustrations 
bubbled up they

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realized they did 
not have the votes to

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oust McCarthy they 
did have the votes to

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freeze the entire 
house floor for a week

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so that's what they 
did house house

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leadership responded 
to this well today

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the House Majority 
Whip who counts the

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votes tried to put a 
good face on it Tom

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emmer

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as with every team 
the Republican house

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majorities had to 
learn how to work

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together to build 
that success and as

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with every team you 
win some games and

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you lose some every 
now and then too but

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you always come out 
stronger and that's

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exactly what we've done so

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house Democrats 
say they think the

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Republicans aren't 
shambles this is not

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just about internal 
Party politics

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obviously they're real world

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implications what do we need to

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understand about why 
this matters this

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is why I think it's 
important we're

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talking about this 
tonight to get the

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house moving again 
which happened just

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in the past few 
hours Kevin McCarthy

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struck a deal with 
these 11 members and

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I want to go through some of the

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elements of that deal this is a

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handshake first of 
all he agreed to a

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vote to reverse a gun 
restriction that's

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significant for 
conservatives But

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ultimately we don't 
think that vote will

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change law because 
of the Biden white

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house but he also 
agreed to a 100

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billion dollars 
worth of additional

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spending cuts on 
top of that debt

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ceiling deal what 
could that mean well

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if Republicans do 
it the way they want

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that would mean 
about 30 percent cuts

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for everything except 
for defense and

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Veterans now this 
isn't just an idea

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right now the House 
Appropriations

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Committee as we speak 
are moving all of

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their Appropriations 
and spending bills

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and they are cutting 
it down to that

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lower level lower 
than the deal with

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President Biden

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what we think will 
happen is these Cuts

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will be passed by the 
house in some form

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potentially and 
then the Senate will

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pass a very different deal

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and then we could 
have yes another

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fiscal standoff 
in September over

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Government funding 
this is heading to

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another significant 
fiscal cliff what

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does all this mean 
for what's ahead for

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congress outside of 
just the potential

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fiscal cliff there 
we're in for a roller

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coaster ride you 
know speaking to some

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of these members I 
spoke to one today

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Ralph Norman of South 
Carolina I said is

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this case by case do 
you have a deal for

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months now with the 
speaker he said no

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this is Case by case 
we could come back

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next week and say we don't like

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something that speaker 
McCarthy is doing

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and we could block 
another rules vote

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just like this so 
the house floor will

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be very dramatic and 
it could be hard to

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predict also speaker 
McCarthy does not

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have let's say job 
security right now

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and he he has to 
walk a very careful

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line and he's going to have very

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difficult decisions 
to make when it

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comes to that 
potential government

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shutdown uh debate 
that we could have at

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the end of or the 
beginning of the Fall

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you've also been 
covering of course how

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Republicans are 
responding to the

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historic indictment and today's

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arraignment to former 
president Trump

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it's not just what 
they're saying but

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what they're doing 
right tell us about

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some of the actions 
you've seen this was

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significant today at 
the top of the list

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I want to talk about 
Senator J.D Vance

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of Ohio he has made 
a threat and I'm

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trying to find out 
if he's actually put

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this in process yet 
he's about to to

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block every Biden 
Administration nominee

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to the Department of 
Justice while this

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trial is ongoing 
it seems to be his

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implication now right 
now there are two

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nominees on the Senate 
calendar one is a

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U.S attorney the 
chief prosecutor for a

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district in Mississippi 
the other is the

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woman who's nominated 
to head the office

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that oversees basically domestic

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violence violence 
against women act both

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of those nominations could be in

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complete limbo as 
could any other

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prosecutors that the 
president wants to

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nominate that's 
just one thing in

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addition to that we 
know that some House

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Republicans want to 
vote to defund the

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special prosecutor 
make sure he can't

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actually go ahead 
with his prosecution

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that's unlikely to 
pass through Congress

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but they are taking 
moves to censure

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people who've been 
involved in past

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investigations like 
Adam Schiff there

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could be a house 
vote against him even

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though he's not involved in this

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essentially Amna they 
have few powers to

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really stop this 
prosecution but members

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of Congress fired 
up Republicans are

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just throwing a lot 
of any weapon they

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can at the board 
right now and we have

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to watch it carefully 
and they're all

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rallying behind 
former president Trump

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that's those ones 
are yes they are uh

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Lisa Desjardins 
covering it all thank

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you so much welcome

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foreign