greg: at least we know they re still alive. but even though kat s not back, look who is. yes, another blond psychopath. oh, she s not that bad. okay, she is you know, i bet she was the secretary of state. you know, i was the secretary of state. i spent, you know, many days on airplanes flying from place to place encouraging people to have a real democracy and one of the hall marks of a i real democracy is the peaceful transfer of power. greg: yeah. well, you know what else is a hallmark of democracy? a free and fair election and the right to pitch about it if you didn t think it was just that. you know, kind of like you did, you old gas bag in sensible shoes. and hillary, you remember libya s peaceful transfer of power right? it ended up with two civil wars murdered americans and you saying, what difference does it make. anyway apparently she was a guest on the view, which is like sprinkling saw dust on vomit. i don t even know what that means really, if that s a good t
bill: the house can t do a thing without electing a new speaker. can t swear in a new member or staff committees or serve on a check on the biden administration. dana: 90% of republicans support kevin mccarthy for speaker. opting to support jim jordan or andy biggs. bill: the chamber will be deadlocked for days, maybe weeks. some think they could call dana: the house reconvenes in three hours and they ll try again. what happens after that is anyone s guess. are you going to stay in the race? i m not going anywhere. hakeem jeffries can only be speaker of the house if republicans vote for him. moderate republicans might do that. i will try to find ways to hammer out a resolution so we can go ahead and elect a speaker and get down to the business the american people sent us here to do. dana: aishah hosni is covering this for us live on capitol hill. good morning, aishah. good morning, dana and bill. supporters of kevin mccarthy met last night to talk it o
in the faulkner focus. it is nasty. the battle for the gavel. the first time as i mentioned in a century the vote needed more than a single ballot. resistance to republican leader kevin mccarthy. it got hotter yesterday in the final rounds of votes. he started losing support. now 20 mccarthy defectors going into the second day. they are backing ohio representative-elect they re all elect because they can t be sworn in because they haven t chosen a speaker those 20 like jim jordan for the job. jordan supports mccarthy. how will that work out? he said he is not interested in being the speaker position. leading the charge for jim jordan and against kevin mccarthy florida congressman-elect matt gaetz. many of his colleagues not happy. south carolina republican nancy mace tweeted gaetz full ego was on display and he will screw around and get another pelosi elected to the spot, her words. former speaker newt gingrich said the hold juts are hurting themselves. i think a numb
but it s likely to be an uphill battle, the subpoena is set to expire by the end of this congressional session and that s in january. news coming as the white house gets rocked by the last inflation report before novembes still at record highs, not showing any signs of coming down. president biden says america is making progress. today s report shows some progress, overall inflation is 2% over the last three months. that is down from 11% over the prior three months. that s progress. because of my economic plan, we are better positioned than any other major economy in the world to whether the challenges that come through this as a stronger country. if republicans win, inflation will get worse, it s that simple. dana: it s that simple, greg. she we had january 61st? greg: it was a beautiful backdrop, very inspiring for everybody and i think that they should name it to the hunter inflation, because it is always high even when joe claims it isn t. i am so surprised it was u
conspiracy charges. he lived with rhodes for months and is expected to reveal how he capitalized on conspiracy theories to build membership and funding. he met with the committee for three hours and also met with the commit personally. steve bannon, with his criminal trial for contempt of congress approaching, bannon now says he is willing to testify. that s a pretty remarkable about face among those least wanting to testify. in a filing today, the department said that trump attorney justin clark confirmed the former president, quote, never invoked executive privilege over any particular information or materials in response to the subpoena bannon received. like pat cipollone s lengthy testimony on friday, panel member zoe lofgren says his testimony will be similar. would it be a public hearing or would it be behind closed doors? ordinarily, this goes on for hour after hour after hour. we want to get all our questions and answers and do that in the right format. joining