Republicans who range from dick durbin of illinois, great progressive democrat, and coburn of oklahoma, a progressive conservative, and five dems, five republicans, one independent, thats a super majority. And for gods sake, the reason we were so successful is we effectively pissed off everybody in america. Congratulations, sir. Kudos. Kudos to you. Good morning. Its thursday, december 6th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, msnbc political analyst, former democratic congressman, harold ford jr. Mr. Professor. Good morning. Professor. And we have former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner. Financier. Rattner is here. I like and we have to go back to that. Its the truth. It is money is money. In washington, msnbc and time senior political analyst, Mark Halperin. We saw him on the streets of d. C. Yesterday, and he was very cagey. The mean streets of d. C. Yes. He was so cagey. He was. Yes. Yes. You cant ever ask those guys what theyre doing, wherever t
Inauguration coverage. Speaking of congress, republicans at the house retreat this weekend have decided upon a plan they will vote upon next week to extend the debt limit by three months with hopes of using the federal budget as a way of tackling spending. What do you think of that strategy . You can call us at 202 5853880 for democrats and 202 5853881 for republicans. 202 6280205 for independents. Send us a tweet at twitter. Com cspanwj you can send us comments on our Facebook Page and our email at journal cspan. Org. From the Baltimore Sun a story about the weekend retreat and a detail about the plan. Writing debt limit vote set. Heres what they write host attending the retreat and writing a story about it, jonathan strong from roll call. He is their staff writer. Jon, can you give us a little bit of the thinking by house leadership as to how they came up with this as a plan . Good morning. Im happy to explain it. One of the parts of this plan thats been a little misconstrued, its no
The rancor over the vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker seems quite pervasive. Seems to me we have not had a Republican Speaker fully committed to saving our republic
The rancor over the vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker seems quite pervasive. Seems to me we have not had a Republican Speaker fully committed to saving our republic
0 state and i think throughout new jersey were closed today. the governor here declared a state of emergency last night, 8:00, 9:00 at night. so everybody got ahead of the storm and it seems to be going well. we ve gone into a couple of neighborhood where is there are some tree limbs down and some power outages, not massive outages, so people are dealing with that here in new jersey. there were some interruptions with suburban rail service coming into new york city earlier today. they re trying to sort some of that out. but generally speaking, you can see the plows have gone through. we ve seen salt spreaders going through. there are a lot of towns that are under stress. their budgets deal with all the snow removal because many have already eclipsed the amount of snowfall and storm situations that they have to deal with this year compared to last year. and there may be more coming. also in terms of the precipitation now, it s just light rain falling. we re at 30 degrees, where we ve be