tonight on the reidout no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and implements its vision. for some, it serves as bring your kids to congress day, so that children get to see their parents or their grandparents take the oath, and perhaps make history themselves. history was certainly made on this opening day in the house of representatives when house democrats nominated their caucus chair, hakeem jeffries, of new york, to succeed nancy pelosi as speaker. i rise today a
police reform, immigration rights, voting rights, social security expansion. even under the great nancy pelosi, who is going to go down as one of the greatest speakers in history, those things could not get done. you now have hakeem jeffries, a different type of guy, different type of person, also dealing with a different type of crazy on the other side. what do you anticipate this looking like in the 118th congress? well, joy, the thing is, the display we saw today by the republicans is clear that not only do they have contempt for the american people and they are ill prepared to govern and mccarthy is unfit to be speaker, they have proven that they are the party that is anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-democracy, and in my opinion, anti-american. on the other side, the democrats have proven time and time again
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unlike the republican party, held hostage by the right since the tea party during the obama years and morphing into the maga crowd and now in its current incarnation as the party of insurrectionists. in 2018, the squad changed politics in washington and forced the democrats to actually hear its base. and with this new congress, the progressive wing s numbers are growing. i m joined now by one of the og members of the squad, massachusetts congressman ileana presley, who was wearing the fliest outfit in the gallery today. i caught you on the feed and was like hold on a second. i have to ask you what the vibe was like on the democratic side. i m so curious because it was this wonderful sort of, you know, picture of multiculturalism, multiracialism. a leadership team with a woman, two black men, a latino, what was the vibe like on the
it was before the times that we re living in. the congress was not seen as hugely important to every single minute of what s going on in our economy and national security. so americans were willing to put up with these long fights. but in recent years, until 1994, the kind of person who would be the leader of the house more or less would be someone like gerald ford or someone like bob michael, two republican leaders, both of whom i knew. two of the nicest guys on earth. and they were elected because they could get along with their colleagues, gerald ford played golf with tip o neal. they were nice people. they raised money. and so everything was sort of a world that we do not know now. then comes newt gingrich, 1994. yes, yes. please, say more. say more. well, gingrich came in and said, you know, we republicans have been out of power for 40 years. we have been letting the