gavel and his party has passed the rules. leaving preview of what the next two years of divided government could look like. then, brazil s big lie. chaotic scenes as far-right supporters to former president bolsonaro storm the capital. while he appears to be in florida. the direct line from there to january six. and damar hamlin it s recovery gets even better, he is back in buffalo tonight with a massive outpouring of support when the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. after a marathon election, now, speaker kevin mccarthy has gathered the house into for the rules vote tonight. the house will be an order. since the speaker election took a total of four long days, the rules vote became a test of unity for house republicans and they managed to pass it with just one single gop, no vote. the rules package includes many of the concessions, the far-right demanded of mccarthy. things like one member being able to force a v
him marc greene was just elected chairman of the homeland security. not only pro trump, pro maga guy but also pro 16 big lie, guy maybe had something to do with brazil. and so i think these are the folks that are now running everything as jason said. and, you know, i think the funny thing that i was reading about the new ways, the tax writing committee and they said that we re gonna follow up on the success of the tax custom jobs act which was what trump had done. they gave, massive massive tax cuts to the wealthy. and, what we saw was that that little hole in the deficits so if the republicans are going to go through the craziness they are talking about, then they are going to cost jobs in the country. they re gonna drive the market into the ground. and, they re going to because of potential default over something like the debt ceiling. they re going to realize that the math doesn t work. jason, i want to talk about the border. president biden was in el paso,, yesterday it was his
reporting. watch this. facing mounting pressure or with handling of the grown migrant crisis, president biden met with mexico s president after the crucial talks ahead of a summit in mexico city come just one day after president biden s first trip to the southern border since taking office. he met with officials in el paso. and while he did that, he was met with criticism from all sides. texas republican governor, greg, avid handed the president a letter. blasting mr. biden s border policies for encouraging the migrant influx. and arguing that the visit came two years, too late. as the federal government done enough absolutely not, they are trying to cover the bullet wounds jason, biden is obviously facing a ton of criticism from republicans about the border, some call it a crisis, some say
now being in charge, they just want to get going on the craziness that they have already told us. and they ve been telling us since last fall. all right, be careful what you wish for them jason. i want to share what republican michael walter florida said on fox business earlier today. if we really want to talk about the dead and spending, it is the entire program that 70% of our entire budget, that 1.7 trillion and defense within that is only 30% so if we want to talk about big reforms, i look forward to hearing that from those votes that are pushing against the ballot budget. giddyup, in tight on, and the polling is very clear. americans on both sides of the aisle, senior citizens, do not want to touch their social security. jason, could this end up being the return of repealing roe v. wade, the dog that caught the car? be careful what you wish for republicans. no, because republicans have
but, of course, further investigation into necessary. in the case of donald trump, he has bragged about doing, it knowingly and willfully. he said this with this documents. you know, he s got this defense that he declassified the documents by thinking about them and i don t think that we ve seen any evidence to suggest that that s even possible. that that s his defense, nonetheless. i think there really are apples and oranges, this is a handful of documents that appear to be inadvertently left behind as opposed to donald trump s case where he is willfully withheld boxes and boxes of documents despite many months of an effort to recover them by the national archives. all right, barbara mcquade, thank you so. much yamiche alcindor, luke broadwater, thank you so much for joining. when we come, back the chaos in brazil, and it s eerie echoes of january six. and how shocking some key players in trump world are deeply entangled in the story. and later, our friends jason, johnson, read gayl