Jim Jordan House Speaker push is holding up GOP agenda: Republican rep-elect

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Mike Waltz: This House speaker bid holdup seems to be 'pure obstructionism'

Florida representative-elect Mike Waltz gives his take on the fight over McCarthy's House speakership on 'Special Report.'

Florida representative-elect Mike Waltz joins Tuesday's "Special Report" to explain why some Republicans are not supporting Rep. McCarthy's bid for House speaker. 

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MIKE WALTZ:  You asked about my support of Kevin McCarthy. The irony here is the other person that people are voting for in the race, Jim Jordan, also supports Kevin McCarthy. President Trump supports Kevin McCarthy. Conservatives and moderates, which we also have to have many moderates who just won Biden districts, also support him and as Aishah just said, we can't get to our agenda, the reason we were elected into a majority, on China, on big tech, on border. Heck, tonight we were supposed to vote to rescind funding for the 87,000 IRS agents, but we can't get to that because we have a group that's pushing for someone who doesn't want the job. 

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Well, I have an immense amount of respect for Jim Jordan. He's actually coming to my district in the coming weeks, but I was confirming with him that he indeed doesn't want the job and he said, ‘Mike, I want to be chairman of Judiciary. We have to hold big tech accountable. We have to get to antitrust. We have to reform the FBI that's become highly politicized.’ So, we were actually lamenting about all of the things that we had expected to get started this week and that we can't...