212 is our call for a speaker who will secure liberty, justice and opportunity for everyone. well, the unanimous call of 212 house democrats has been answered. by our nominee for speaker the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our house democratic caucus, the honorable hakeem jeffries. [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majority s nominee is disconnected, disconnected from the american people and their values. maga extremism is designed to divide, and it has broken the republican party. their nominee s vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the american people. he s got the record to prove it. the republican nominee has voted against health care for children for veterans and even for 9/11 survivors. he has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. he wants to cut social security and medicare. don t take it from me. it was raised on the other side of the aisle just this week as a selling point to make him speaker. over his
good day to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is friday, october 20. it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington, noon in gaza where we had thought we would see trucks full desperately needed humanitarian aid rolling through the rafah border cross buying nby now. but not yet. this is a live picture. u.s. officials now believe the first convoy will cross into gaza this weekend. possibly saturday. last night president biden addressed the nation tying israel s war against hamas in gaza to ukraine s battle against russian aggression. hamas and putin represent different threats but they share this in common, they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy. history has daughters when terr has taught us when terrorists and dictatorses don t pay a price, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. they keep going. and costs to the americans and the world keep rising. the president is trying to build support for a $100 bil
tonight on the reidout a bunch of dodgy affidavits that don t add up. you have a group of people with dubious credentials. that s your characterization. that s all your characterization. so far, you have provided no evidence. you myth as well be working for dominion and smartmatic. i m waiting for you to provide the evidence. you ll see it in court. that was back in 2021. and now, we will hear all about it in court, as the cracken lady, sidney powell, accepts a plea guiel, agreeing to testify against donald trump and the other codefendants in the georgia election interference case. also tonight, the disgraceful republican house caucus is still leaderless, with jim jordan vowing to make yet another embarrassing effort to win the speaker s gavel. and we re one hour from an address from joe biden. and we begin tonight with the release of the cracken, but not in the way donald trump was expecting. we learned one of trump s key allies and legal agitators cut
chris jansing reports starts right now. good day, i am chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. you have been following this step by step. deja vu all over again on the house floor. a new vote for speaker once again ending in a deadlock as jim jordan comes up short. in fact, he actually lost ground when compared to the first round. 22 republicans opposing jordan this time compared to 20 yesterday. two members, doug lamalfa and victoria sparts flipped and supported him. four others went in the other direction, securing the defeat not just for congressman jordan but arguably for the far right as a whole. now what? joining us nbc s ali vitali on capitol hill, and steve kornacki, brendan buck an aid to former republican speakers paul ryan and john boehner who s an msnbc political analyst, and david drucker, senior writer at the dispatch. okay, al what now? what are the conversations? what happens? reporter: once again, back to the drawing board, chris, a