you ll swallow your pride if hakeem jeffries came at you because you ll work together. there s stuff you want. if there s nothing you want in a governing sense there s nothing you can be given in a deal. michelle and nick, thank you. that is all in. alex wagner tonight starts now. happy new year. we re talking about the unity on display, we have congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez at the top of the hour. she will have a lot to say. thank you for a great show as always. thanks to you at home for joining us. if you took a high school history class in the united states, you probably spent at least a day discussing this image. this is the iconic political cartoon of the caning of senator charles sumner in may of 1856. preston brooks entered the senate and he entered the chamber carrying a metal tipped cane then he walked over to the anti-slavery senator and beat him unconscious and then he walked out without anyone stopping him. it is one of the most famous instance
for votes. kevin pmccarthy huddling with those to become speaker of the house. one doubling down on his opposition just moments ago. plus new details of the idaho murder. how the spektrct was tracked do and putin suffer ing on the battlefield. losses growing inside russia. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. house leader kevin mccarthy still on the hill at this hour, still meeting with members of his party with just hours to go for that critical vote of speaker of the house. dozens of republicans seen going in and out of mccarthy s office. among them congressman matt gaetz. significant, one of the republicans who s been a hard no on his gavel. moments ago leaving mccarthy s office, gaetz offered this update. give in to your demands? might vote for him tomorrow? i don t know. i m a no. i m a no. tomorrow the entire conference gathers to hear mccarthy make his final case for the speakership. shortly after that, if he doesn t get su
182 billion dollars 182 billion dollars and remain the second richest man in the world. that says it all. one doesn t need which tells you that he had too much in the first place and no human beings should have that much even on paper. it s ridiculous. i m glad, though, about your segment about how people are getting more worried about the gas stoves and you are talking about the culture wars and dr. seuss. and i remember don trump talking about not enough water coming into the shower and asked to flush several times to get it to work. but i m glad about that because what they re missing is the actual subversion going on in america tonight with two brown muslim guys anchoring primetime back-to-back on a major american network. i mean, go crazy. don t say it out loud. they re worried a bass about gas stoves. they re not worried about us, mehdi hassan. have a good weekend, my friend. i ll see you sunday night. you too. all right, buddy. breaking now, we now
the tellers agree that the total number of votes cast is 434 of which the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [ cheers and applause ] the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [ cheers and applause ]. the honorable jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy for the position of speaker of the house. the gentleman is recognized. [ applause ] thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done, to get big things done, the solve the problems. and i hope when we get through today that all of the members on both sides of the aisle will join together with us to solve the problems, to address inflation that is crushing middle class families, to get control over spending will
who are celebrating. i m ali velshi we begin this hour with th latest in the investigation an the insurrection, and th historic january six committee s highly anticipated final report the document is massive, bot in scope, it s 845 pages long, and importance, relating to th future of democracy in the united states. however, synthesizing th monumental report down to on line is easy it s this. quote, the central cause o january six was one man. the man is exactly who you think it is, donald j trump. the report also notes, quote none of the events of januar six would ve happened withou him. separately, the committee is voted to refer trump to th committee of justice for prosecution and for criminal charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding, a well as 18 and insurrection. important to know right now, the 14th amendment of th constitution, vance individual who engage in an insurrectio from holding federal or stat office the committee reports persists recommendations