Republicans should have one simple message, no Border Security, no funding. Congressman chip roy blocking funding for department of Homeland Security unless President Biden meets his demand. Fors force to be reckoned with. Being deployed to patrol the ohio sidewalks. Steve Wildfire Alert and a story weve been tracking all morning and all day yesterday. Devastation on the island of maui. It has taken lives and tourists scrambling to safety. Ainsley smoulderring after hurricaneforced winds whipped across the illegal aliens. Brian max is on the ground this morning. It was a pretty alarming view coming into maui, you can see fires burning luckily as the hours have passed, Fire Conditions have calmed down and the winds die down. Firefighters are keeping a look out making sure it doesnt grow out of control. Folks dont know why the fires started, officials are investigating. When they did start on tuesday, this island was ripe for fire, things were dry and humidity was low and hurricane dora,
the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining that discrepancy. what this does is it allows democrats to show that they ve got more money and it allows speaker johnson to kind
Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
with joy reid next tonight on the reidout it angered me but i turned to my daughter, who was standing there by me it doesn t take courage to break the law, it takes courage to uphold the law the president s words were reckless it s clear he decided to be part of the problem mike pence back in november with about as much anger as pence is able to muster. today, the former vice president presumably said much more to the grand jury in the doj s january 6th probe. also tonight, you can t beat me up for not screaming. the chilling words of e. jean carroll who was back on the witness stand today, facing cross-examination in trump s civil rape trial and we begin tonight with the breaking news that former vice president mike pence testified before the d.c. grand jury investigating donald trump s role in the january 6th insurrection the path to pence s testimony was cleared yesterday, when a three-judge panel rejected trump s emergency bid to prevent pence from testifyin
attempts to pressure him and he could be a key witness trump and his team could still appeal the ruling. but they have lost similar previous cases a date for pence s testimony is not settled, though it is likely to be later this month according to an adviser. now the ruling by judge james boseberg ordering pence to testify said that while pence was excused from providing details regarding hisrole as president of the senate on january 6, 2021, he s not excused from testifying about conversations related to alleged illegality on donald trump s part that means that special counsel jack smith could gain firsthand knowledge, a firsthand account of the one-on-one conversations that mike pence and donald trump had that day special counsel jack smith on the verge of access to a central witness in the insurrection is where we start today new york times reporter glenn flush is back with us and joining us msnbc legal analyst paul butler. he s a former federal prosecutor, now a law pro