alex night starts to be incredibly fe thing but to be incredibly funny and decent is an entirely different thing. also a rare combination. thank you my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. california congressman kevin mccarthy the shortest serving speaker of the house in over 140 years is ending his extraordinary 2023 by throwing in the towel. now it is time to pursue my passion in the new arena. while i ll be departing the house at the end of this year, i will never, ever give up fighting for this country that i love so much. if you blinked, he might have missed mr. mccarthy s ten month term is the country s highest republican elected official, and that s not just because it was so short. it was entirely unproductive. mccarthy bargained away basically everything to when the speaker s gavel and he got nothing in return for it. that is the lesson for people who court the far right who do the bidding of donald trump, look the other way. and
and luckily, we will never ever forget the great norman lear. on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i ll see you again tomorrow. california congressman kevin mccarthy the shortest serving speaker of the house in over 140 years is ending his extraordinary 2023 by throwing in the towel. now it is time to pursue my passion in the new arena. while i ll be departing the house at the end of this year, i will never, ever give up fighting for this country that i love so much. if you blinked, you might have missed mr. mccarthy s ten month term as the country s highest republican elected official, and that s not just because it was so short. it was entirely unproductive. mccarthy bargained away basically everything to when the speaker s gavel and he got nothing in return for it. that is the lesson for people who court the far right who do the bidding of donald trump, look the oth
skomm comey. you re certainly seeing a lot of prech on rod rosenstein to appoint a special prosecutor. he s going to briefing the full senate this week, according to senator schumer. i think you ll see quite a bit of pressure certainly from democrats for him to take that step. the question now, whether or not republicans are going to join their democratic colleagues in putting that pressure on rosenstein. congress doesn t have any stay here. this is okay just a decision that rests with the justice department, with rosenstein. but republicans have been circumstanpect about coming fory kind of investigation into the russian interference, even in the wake of the comey firing. we ve seen three republican senators come out and say, yes, there should be some kind of independent probe. none of them were a surprise. senator john mccain, senator lindsey graham, both of them had been calling for some kind of independent outside
others. it seems contradictory that they re pushing the envelope. bill: let me just say this about russia. president bush 43 miscalculated putin big time. obama was weak and naive when it came to russia and frankly i think the trump administration has been slow to get where russia is coming from. maybe this will help them understand that russia is no friend to democracy and the united states and i have new russian sanctions to punish them more for their interference in our election and hopefully a wake-up call to president trump. shannon: it was a discussion of sanctions led to the events that cost michael flynn has job as national security advisor to the president. what would it take for you to step up to these calls by democrats and folks on the left they want some kind of independent outside investigation. what would it take for you? do you think it s appropriate to have that level of investigation? not yet. here is what i m looking at.
administration. false statements to the f.b.i. is a violation of the martha stewart statute. fox news is told there is no indication that flynn misled the f.b.i. in his interview, shannon. shannon: so does the f.b.i. investigation now go beyond flynn, catherine? what we ve learned so far from the government source the f.b.i. investigation did go beyond flynn and included contacts between the trump campaign team and russian officials. based on our reporting there is no substantive allegation that the conversations broke the law. the leadership of the senate intelligence committee, which has an ongoing investigation into the russian election interference said they re reviewing the leaks. we re concerned any time intelligence is publicly talked about. just the mere fact that we might hold intelligence about a certain thing, about a certain issue, leads individuals to look at where we might have gotten it from.