presidency. ahe tru biographer kicked off donald trump s golf course by the president-elect joins me live tonight. all in starts now. good evening, i m ari melber in for chris hayes. tonight we have good news in washington or at least the defeat of potential bad news. there are still 17 days until donald trump becomes president but november s election kicked off today on capitol hill and the consequences with the 115th congress, they have the ceremony, pictures with family, it s supposed to be a layup for the new party to welcome into town before any fights or hard decisions have to begin. but it got gift right away for republican leaders. that s because they held a conference vote last night to dilute ethics investigations into members of congress. their plan was to quickly pass the diluted rule today. but they weren t quick enough.
defeat of potential bad news. there are still 17 days until donald trump becomes president but november s election kicked off today on capitol hill and the consequences with the 115th congress, they have the ceremony, pictures with family, it s supposed to be a layup for the new party to welcome into town before any fights or hard decisions have to begin. but it got gift right away for republican leaders. that s because they held a conference vote last night to dilute ethics investigations into members of congress. their plan was to quickly pass the diluted rule today. but they weren t quick enough. here s the highlights of what happened, which may offer a road map of opposition for the trump era. house republicans held their meeting last night, stripping the ethics office, the plan was watering down the powers of 2006. the rule would end anonymous
writing an op ed today. he writes that because he knows trump is not going to win. that s covering his bases with his voters. quickly, do you think that s true? well, the vote within the house on the republican side is november 15th. it s exactly one week after the election. the speaker vote in the house which would be a bigger threat to ryan is january 3rd. ryan is going to win the conference vote by a large margin on november 15th. it s uncertain. we ll see where we go from there. change for joining me on this lovely saturday night. our special edition starts with this bonus second hour. starts right after this break. don t go anywhere.
trying to get off that today after saying he wouldn t defend him, which seemds to me like, hey, dude. he likes that because he knows that trump is not going to win. i mean he is covering his bases with his voters. do you think that s true? well, look, i mean the vote was in the house on the republican side november 15th. it s exactly one week after the election. the speaker vote in the house, which would be a bigger threat to ryan is january 3rd. ryan will win the conference vote. he will win the speaker vote as well, i believe. this is uncertain. we ll have to see where it goes from here. thank you for joining us. our special free election addition continues with a bonus second. starts right after this break. we have much more to come. don t go anywhere.
paul ryan pushing for unity by not everyone was on board. he did not get support from all members of the gop caucus. several members didn t vote for him. congressman, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. all right. you re a member of the freedom caucus, one of the founding members. they had talked in previous weeks leading up to this vote about backing dan webster. he got dozens of votes in the closed conference vote. did you vote for him yesterday? i did because the house freedom caucus agreed to vote for him. i voted for mr. ryan today on the floor. why the switch? that s what we said we were going to do. we endorsed mr. webster in the conference. we told paul ryan if he made certain assurances we would support him on the floor.