Gaetz taunts McCarthy on convention floor: 'What night are you speaking?'

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) needled his rival, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), on Tuesday while the two were on the floor of the Republican National Convention, tauntingly asking McCarthy when he was slated to speak. 

“What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight?” Gaetz mockingly asked McCarthy.

“If you took that stage, you would get booed off of it,” he told McCarthy. “You would get booed off the stage.”

Gaetz defended his previous comments in a brief interview with The Hill, saying he was counterpunching.

"He was saying something very untrue and nasty about me to CNN. So, this is a convention floor. I thought it'd be okay to convene a little bit."

The rivalry between Gaetz and McCarthy is well known. Gaetz was among a group of hard-liners who extracted concessions from the California Republican during the initial House Speakership race in order to deliver hi...