tonight on the reidout leader mccarthy, do you have the votes for speaker tomorrow? do you have the votes for speaker locked in tomorrow? we ll have a good day tomorrow. kevin mccarthy plays let s make a deal with the most radical fringe members of the republican caucus. with his longtime quest to become speaker in serious peril. or comical peril, depending on your point of view. one vote he needs belongs to george santos, the biggest liar in washington since donald trump left town. we re getting a look at trump s taxes but where did santos get his money? also tonight, gen z finally arrives in congress. congressman-elect maxwell frost joins me. and republicans love to call themselves pro-life, but in recent weeks, many of those same people were voting against bare minimum protections for women and children. tonight, we re calling them out. we begin tonight with happy new year to all. we re in 20-michael jordan and hopefully 2023 won t decide to play baseball i
increasingly ugly face off that could shift the balance of power in the senate. blast, show people leaders are blurring the line between church and states more than ever. according to new police, nearly two thirds of republicans say the u.s. should be declared a christian nation. i ll talk to rick wilson, the founder of the lincoln project, about where this trend can take us. and for your sunday s finals, a tennis icon s final match makes headlines. it had nothing to do with the plays on the court. the emotional moment that scrap the world s attention. we are now just three days away from the next public hearing of the january six committee, investigating the attack on the united states capitol. this morning, we re learning new details about what the paddle house and store. committee vice chair congresswoman liz cheney can give us a hint of what we can expect on wednesday sane any, about criminal reform will be unanimous, cheney is also sal just in this hearing may not be the
motorcade driving through the edinburgh airport. he will fly then to northern ireland to meet with leaders and receive condolences while mourners in london prepare for the arrival of the queen s coffin to that city this afternoon. with us we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius, and host of way too early and author of the big lie, jonathan lemire. a busy day, the report out of the new york times that we ll dig into about new subpoenas issued to a wide range of people in donald trump s orbit around the effort to overturn the 2020 election. right. you know, at first glance, surprising, after you think about it, not so much. there is a reason, of course, why we have all of these investigations moving forward and whether it s the records investigation or whether it s around january the 6th or because donald trump obviously broke the law, time and again. and you even have the most hard right lawyers saying what attorney general barr
anderson, thank you very much. does former vice president mike pence really mean it when he says it s willing to sit down with the january 6th committee to tell him what he knows? it sort of sounded like he meant it when he said this in new hampshire today. if there was an invitation to participate, i would consider it. it would be unprecedented in history for a vice president to be summoned to testify on capitol hill. but as i said, i don t want to prejudge. if a formal invitation were rendered to us, we would give it consideration. but wait, there s more. the chairman of the committee, bennie thompson, said nearly two months ago the panel did invite former vice president mike pence to come in and talk to them. we would love to have former vice president pence s testimony. we have sought it, we ve talked to his attorneys in the past. okay. and then what about the next part? mr. pence claimed it would be, quote, unprecedented for a former vice president to testify
all right, this is the big news tonight. cnn projects that vocal trump critic liz cheney has lost wyoming s gop primary. we ll go straight to cnn s jeff zeleny he s, in wyoming for us. also king at the magic wall. let s go to john first. john, liz cheney losing her primary tonight. what are the numbers? showing their showing, don, look at the numbers right here, not quite 2 to 1. but harriet hageman, the trump backed challenger to liz cheney is winning, and winning convincingly. many votes ahead, about 57% of polls reporting. you see 62 to 33, or 62 to 34 if you want to round that up for liz cheney. and you can see on the map here, mostly filling in with harriet hageman s color, the salmon color, which is what we give to trump endorsed candidates. i want to make one key point, don, education is increasingly the big dividing point in american politics. and the two counties where liz cheney is leading, albany county, it is the highest percentage of college graduates in the st