the country s election results. does that sound familiar? we will break it down for you. the week leading the week, kevin mccarthy in donald trump s influence have bottomed out. congressman dan goldman is here to discuss this three ring circus that was the republican house speakership vote this week. plus, president biden has just landed in mexico city after the trip to the u.s. mexico border in texas. i will discuss his immigration policies with our sunday night panel. i m ayman mohyeldin let s get started! kevin mccarthy is officially speaker of the house, but what does he have to show for it? the california republicans quest for the coveted gavel has come as a steep cost. a new rules package schedule to a vote tomorrow includes a measure that will allow a single member to allow a motion to vacate the speakership. it also makes it harder for the lawmakers to raise spending, taxes, and the debt limit. if it does pass mccarthy will take office as the weakest speaker in
majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays
good evening to you lawrence! it evening alex. i have a funny feeling that tomorrow will be very much like today. we ll see how far we debt whether we have a speaker or not. but we want to see a lot of same stuff tomorrow. i think that the official term is groundhog day, congress. while there is that! we will see. kevin mccarthy might, he might be on his way to breaking the hundred year old record of number of votes most since i think like nine is the most that we have for. that he s already broken the record for most humiliated person that is seeking the speakers gavel in modern american political history. yes. so we will see what other records he can shatter and the next couple of hours. thank you alex! have a good show! well at this very moment, kevin mccarthy is negotiating with terrorists, legislative terrorist. that is what former republican house speaker john boehner called destructiveness republicans in the house of representatives when he was spea
today. we ll see how far we debt whether we have a speaker or not. but we want to see a lot of same stuff tomorrow. i think that the official term is groundhog day, congress. while there is that! we will see. kevin mccarthy might, he might be on his way to breaking the hundred year old record of number of votes most since i think like nine is the most that we have for. that he s already broken the record for most humiliated person that is seeking the speakers gavel in modern american political history. yes. so we will see what other records he can shatter and the next couple of hours. thank you alex! have a good show! well at this very moment, kevin mccarthy is negotiating with terrorists, legislative terrorist. that is what former republican house speaker john boehner called destructiveness republicans in the house of representatives when he was speaker. he was referring then to republican congressman jim jordan when he called him a terrorist. a legislati
white house has really been minimal at best since the discovery of these classified documents. you have president biden yesterday ignoring and shouting questions from reporters. twice at the white house and then for three days in a row this week, press secretary kareen jean pierre referred most of our questions about this topic to the justice department, the special counsel s office. she read statements from the white house counsel s office and reaction to the mishandling of these classified documents earlier this week. that is really essentially the posture that the white house has had since this was discovered. that is really the posture that green chunkier had when my colleague kristen welker asked her whether president biden would be willing to sit down with the special counsel if asked for an interview to be able to fully cooperate with the special counsel probe. take a listen to what she had to say. again, that is something that i do not have a magic wand here. i don