hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsuit brought by the then-republican attorney general of missouri, he has to be an attorney from missouri, pushing back against efforts by social media to fight disinformation schmidt was one of two witnesses brought forward by republicans, but republican majority on this committee who testified and was dismissed, sent away before democrats could ask one single question so much for a functioning committee in which the free exchange of ideas and sharing of witnesses prevails democrats were justifiabl
repairs are occurring. that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on twitter and instagram. thank you for the privilege of your time. alex witt picks up with more news right now. good morning, everyone. i m alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. breaking across the pond, a political earthquake. just 44 days, that is how long prime minister liz truss was in office before resigning just in the last few hours. i recognize, though, given the situation, i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. this makes truss now the shortest-serving prime minister in 301 years. one british journalist wrote in the new york times days ago as political pressure mounted, quote, he was boris johnson s departing gift, a human land mine to level the ground for his possible return. in a sign of just how tenuous her standing was and perhaps how brutal uk politics can be, a british newspaper began tracking a hea
temporarily. a former head of the democratic party says, we are a nation of wusses. we will get ed rendell to explain. we begin with a developing story as to leaked intelligence that congressional officials say is putting american lives at risk. the top republicans and democrats on the house senate intelligence committee, house and senate intelligence committees say they will find and plug what one calls a cascade of national security leaks. this is not finger pointing at anybody. what we are trying to do is say we have a problem and we want to stop that problem. when people say they don t want to work with the united states because they can t trust us to keep a secret, that s serious. senator john mccain accuses members of the obama administration of leaking secrets to make the president look good in an election year. well, the white house flatly denies it. our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, asked the top republican on the intelligence committee wheth