speaker Kevin McCarthy struck a deal to quell internal rebellion in the house Republican conference this week the result of a handful of hard-line members dissatisfaction with the debt ceiling compromise Lisa Desjardins brings us up to speed now on what happened and what it means for the House GOP Lisa good to see you hi so help us understand how has this small group of hardliners gained enough power to control the workflow of the entire House of Representatives this would be like me taking over the show right now when I'm not even the anchor but this comes down to the margins in the House of Representatives let's take a look at where things stand in the house right now 218 votes is what you need for a majority Republicans have 222. so they've got that majority but let's talk about these 11 members who figured out let's if you so look at those 11 members then they have the power to control the majority there they are and these members have a few things in common some are members of the House Freedom caucus but one thread that runs through them Amna when you talk talk about how they voted for Kevin McCarthy on those first Speaker votes most of them voted no and that is a significant threat here when you look at these names this is a group that does not have a name of its own it's not the freedom caucus but these are the names I watch when I look at the voting board and so does Kevin McCarthy so what about the timing why is this group taking this stand now this was coming out of the debt ceiling deal as you said and let's say happened spontaneously on the floor those frustrations bubbled up they realized they did not have the votes to oust McCarthy they did have the votes to freeze the entire house floor for a week so that's what they did house house leadership responded to this well today the House Majority Whip who counts the votes tried to put a good face on it Tom emmer as with every team the Republican house majorities had to learn how to work together to build that success and as with every team you win some games and you lose some every now and then too but you always come out stronger and that's exactly what we've done so house Democrats say they think the Republicans aren't shambles this is not just about internal Party politics obviously they're real world implications what do we need to understand about why this matters this is why I think it's important we're talking about this tonight to get the house moving again which happened just in the past few hours Kevin McCarthy struck a deal with these 11 members and I want to go through some of the elements of that deal this is a handshake first of all he agreed to a vote to reverse a gun restriction that's significant for conservatives But ultimately we don't think that vote will change law because of the Biden white house but he also agreed to a 100 billion dollars worth of additional spending cuts on top of that debt ceiling deal what could that mean well if Republicans do it the way they want that would mean about 30 percent cuts for everything except for defense and Veterans now this isn't just an idea right now the House Appropriations Committee as we speak are moving all of their Appropriations and spending bills and they are cutting it down to that lower level lower than the deal with President Biden what we think will happen is these Cuts will be passed by the house in some form potentially and then the Senate will pass a very different deal and then we could have yes another fiscal standoff in September over Government funding this is heading to another significant fiscal cliff what does all this mean for what's ahead for congress outside of just the potential fiscal cliff there we're in for a roller coaster ride you know speaking to some of these members I spoke to one today Ralph Norman of South Carolina I said is this case by case do you have a deal for months now with the speaker he said no this is Case by case we could come back next week and say we don't like something that speaker McCarthy is doing and we could block another rules vote just like this so the house floor will be very dramatic and it could be hard to predict also speaker McCarthy does not have let's say job security right now and he he has to walk a very careful line and he's going to have very difficult decisions to make when it comes to that potential government shutdown uh debate that we could have at the end of or the beginning of the Fall you've also been covering of course how Republicans are responding to the historic indictment and today's arraignment to former president Trump it's not just what they're saying but what they're doing right tell us about some of the actions you've seen this was significant today at the top of the list I want to talk about Senator J.D Vance of Ohio he has made a threat and I'm trying to find out if he's actually put this in process yet he's about to to block every Biden Administration nominee to the Department of Justice while this trial is ongoing it seems to be his implication now right now there are two nominees on the Senate calendar one is a U.S attorney the chief prosecutor for a district in Mississippi the other is the woman who's nominated to head the office that oversees basically domestic violence violence against women act both of those nominations could be in complete limbo as could any other prosecutors that the president wants to nominate that's just one thing in addition to that we know that some House Republicans want to vote to defund the special prosecutor make sure he can't actually go ahead with his prosecution that's unlikely to pass through Congress but they are taking moves to censure people who've been involved in past investigations like Adam Schiff there could be a house vote against him even though he's not involved in this essentially Amna they have few powers to really stop this prosecution but members of Congress fired up Republicans are just throwing a lot of any weapon they can at the board right now and we have to watch it carefully and they're all rallying behind former president Trump that's those ones are yes they are uh Lisa Desjardins covering it all thank you so much welcome foreign