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
footsie with his far right colleagues. now because mccarthy is quarreling with that same group today does not mean he is resembling a moderate. it does not change the fact that right now in humiliating public fashion, kevin mccarthy is clawing and scraping his way he hopes to the speakership, trying desperately to halt what looks like at this hour, at lee, a runaway train. it s where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. nbc news senior correspondent, garrett hague, covering the action. and former stpho claire mccaskill is here, and claire and david are both msnbc contributors. ferret, what is happening now? right now we are seeing the third vote get ready to take place here, and this one will have kevin mccarthy introduced by steve scalise and placed in nomination by steve scalise, and for the second time in a row, you have people that could be foes to mccarthy, placing his name in nomination. the last round we saw with jim jordan, and far mor
6th insurrection. wolf blitzer is off today, i m p pamela brown and you re in the situation room. and let s begin our coverage this hour with tonight s top story. the justice department looking to file a response to donald trump s request for a third-party attorney to review materials seized from his florida home. cnn s sara murray has this report. reporter: the justice department set to weigh in today on former president donald trump s push for an independent special master to review the documents seized from mar-a-lago. there s still a need for a judge to get involved on every aspect of this, checking their assertions of privilege, and also giving us fair timely access, letting us build a case for why this search warrant was not only essentially morally wrong, but legally wrong. doj asking to file a brief in response to trump s request. the fbi has begun digging through documents and a filler team uncovered some material that may include attorney client privileged i
years chanting lock her up about hillary clinton because of some deleted emails or quote unquote wiping a surveyor, they re now out there defending a man who clearly did not take the national security of the united states to heart. i will be up to doj whether that reaches the level of indictment. but this is disgusting, in my mind. and a reaction to president biden s promise to cancel some student debt for low, middle income borrowers and to critics who say it doesn t go far enough. there are a lot of people hurting announce cider right now, people are getting crushed with inflation, crushed with gas prices, food prices and all the rest. i think a targeted approach right now really does send the wrong message, there s a lot of people out there making 30, 40 grand a year that didn t go to college. they need help as well. the criticism is correct, but the answer is not to deny help two people who cannot deal with these horrendous student debts. the answer is that, maybe j
longest-serving monarch queen elizabeth ii. [ bell tolls ] guests and i will reflect on this one monarch s great legacy. and the many challenges the new sovereign charles iii must now face. hi, nice to meet you. then, i travel to kyiv this week to talk to the man in the crucible of the 21st century s war in europe. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy. we sat down for a wide-ranging conversation. we talked about ukraine s ability to counter russia s attack. kyiv s big new push in the south and east. whether he and his nation are ready if this turns into a long fight. president zelenskyy and i went for a walk outside. and i had to ask him, wasn t he worried that putin might target him? it doesn t matter for me because we can t be afraid of him. but first, here s my take. for me, the most striking aspect of queen elizabeth ii s 70-year reign was her iron determination to be boring. bear with me. in those seven decades, she very rarely let slip her views about any p