Tomorrow at noon Eastern, the 119th session of Congress begins.

The first question before the newly elected Congress is going to be, will Mike Johnson be the Speaker of the House?

How much confidence do you have that you will have the necessary votes to retain the gavel?

We're going to get this done.

Look, I'm humbled and honored to have President Trump's endorsement

for the role again, as well as the endorsement of leaders across the conservative spectrum and the Republican Party, all of my colleagues that are standing with us, and we will get this done. We live in very serious times. We cannot afford any palace drama here.

Well, he's super right about living in very serious times. Unfortunately, he's really right. We cannot afford any palace drama here.

Well, he's super right about living in very serious times.

Unfortunately, for Speaker Johnson, tomorrow is almost bound to be filled with palace drama.

And that drama will be televised.

Now, you'll note that most of the year, only the cameras that are run by the house itself are allowed into the House chamber, which is why no matter how dramatic the issue being discussed,

footage of Congress almost always looks like this. However, tomorrow, C-SPAN will be allowed

to bring its own cameras into the chamber to film however it likes. You might remember when it took

Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy 15 votes to win the Speaker's gavel in 2023. I remember that

night well, that week well, but you saw a lot of images like this. C-SPAN gave us live footage

of representatives all over the House floor, negotiating, bickering, taking what would normally happen

off camera and letting the world see. That's one reason why tomorrow might be a bit more dramatic

than Speaker Johnson would like it to be. But there's another reason, and it's this.

It's a numbers game. We have the smallest margin in U.S. history. We'll have a margin of probably

two votes

tomorrow during that, so can only afford to lose one or two. Back in 2023, when Kevin McCarthy

had to suffer through five days of humiliation and 15 rounds of voting just to barely

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