so a few months ago, i received a letter from lieutenant travis akers, lieutenant akers wrote about a friend and a fellow sailor. lieutenant reed served our nation and he worked as an officer near a burn pit. tragically, lieutenant ried asked to wait in 2018 from leukemia. he is buried here in arlington, section 60 plot 11854. lieutenant akers fought for the pact act and a friend's memory. he advocated, he testified, and thanks to him and so many veterans like him our nation is one step closer to living up to our highest ideals. so all of that to say america is a promise, a promise of security , opportunity, and freedom. not to some, but for all. on veterans day, we celebrate the generations of americans who fought to make that promise real. and we recognize to truly honor our veterans, we must come together as a nation to defend that promise too. on that point i will conclude by sharing the words of private first class abe lori one of the many veterans joining us today. [applause] so abe served our nation in world war ii. he was a member of the 58 q m sales company at the united stat

lieutenant akers fought for the pact act. he advocated, testified, and thanks to him and so many veterans like him, our nation is one step closer to living up to our highest ideals. so all of that to say, america is a promise. a promise of security, opportunity, and freedom. not for some, but for all. on veterans day, we celebrate the generations of americans who fought to make that promise real , and we recognize to truly honor our veterans, we must come together as a nation to defend that promise too. so on that point, i will conclude by sharing the words of private first class abe lory, one of the many veterans joining us today. [applause] so abe served our nation in world war ii. he was a member of the 58th qm sail company of the united states army. from 1943 until 1946, abe traveled across england, france, and belgium going from camp to camp to outfit the men and women fighting to free europe and the world. in his travels, abe met thousands of americans. they came from towns and cities he had never heard of, and to get -

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. >> you have to get 218 votes, that's the magic number to the house aker of and nobody has 218 votes as i sit here talking to you today . and that means that it's time for republicans to have an internal discussion, a family discussion that's what mister mccarthy always says about which direction were going to go and i don't think he's going to get 18 votes and it may not be . but we have a discussion to see who might be a consensus pick to get to 218 votes. >> which means that in the is going to be mister mccarthy he would have to reach out to several members of the freedom caucus and other factions within the party to gain support. what kind of message could be delivered to some of them? >> i think pedro huge part of this is trust and he's going to have to rebuild trust here in the next 45 days if he thinks he's going to be the speaker and that means you're going to have to have open dialogue and accountability and that's really how you build trust. trust is a series of promises kept. mistrust is a series of promises broken and we need to have a real positive message, positive dire