today, there are no reports of any toxic chemical spills, but lots of questions about how in the world this happened again. what started out as a wild weather story has quickly turned into a life-threatening disaster. scores of california residents penned in by literal walls of snow more than six feet high. they re trapped and running out of food. we ll have a live report on rescue operations under way right now. today the battle lines for the 2024 republican nomination are being more clearly than we ve seen to date, setting up what may be a long and nasty fight for the republican nomination. we heard it in donald trump s borderline apocalyptic address to a less-than-robust corrode at cpac, while ron desantis amped up his attack on liberals to a packed house at the reagan library. in four years you didn t see our administration leaking like a sive. you didn t see a lot of drama and palace intrigue. what you saw was surgical precision, execution day after day after day a
i think what joy reid did frankly is the issue that happens to black conservatives all the time. where somehow we re less black than black democrats. first of all, i ll tell you and i ll tell joy reid and anyone else who wants to hear it, i grew up in brooklyn, new york, in the inner city, in a single parent household. i am a black man. i m also a republican. the republican congressman you just heard, byron donalds of florida, who got a bunch of votes for speaker, joins me in studio tonight. meanwhile, kevin mccarthy and his far right overlords are off and running with an extreme agenda. and normalizing people like marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar. while punishing lawmakers like adam schiff, ilhan omar, and eric swalwell, who joins me in just a moment. plus, my pal and colleague, chris hayes, is going to help me make a big announcement tonight. you do not want to miss it. we begin with the extreme republican agenda taking shape in the u.s. house of representatives.
i always had a few questions about it. reporter: the campaign, pretending to be your chief of staff. you know, i didn t know about that. it happened i was not notified about that until a later date. reporter: did you speak to him about it at all? yeah, i didn t know about it until a later date unfortunately. house speaker kevin mccarthy thought george santos resume was questionable before revelations about his lies were discovered and there are so many lies. some of them. others, like the fact that his political person pretended to be mccarthy s chief of staff. there s so many. i m sure he s not thrilled about that at all. as for santos, have we gone from ridiculous lies to russian ties? the bizarre saga takes another turn with new reporting that links him to the family of a sanctioned russian oligarch. hold on now. meanwhile, republicans remain focused on president biden. they re laser focused on biden and his handling of classified documents. the
flavor, this is a very serious issue. this isn t stuff that we can say clearly doesn t matter. it matters. nbc s ali vitali is on capitol hill. there have been widespread bipartisan calls for more details. where does this go today? reporter: think about it. even just to get to last week s briefing, you had to have democrats and republicans on both sides of congress asking for months since those documents that were found at mar-a-lago became public. that s the result of months of asking, is a meeting they had last week with the gang of eight you see on your screen there where they got some information, but even walking into that meeting, people like senator marco rubio, the top republican on the senate intel committee didn t have high hopes for a high degree of transparency. instead, their view walking in was this was going to sort of be like the opening salvo, the first conversation that they re having about what could potentially be in these documents. you listen to the two top
always err on over classification. that may explain why some of these have been handled so carelessly because there was a sense, well, this really isn t stuff that s going to jeopardize the country. we don t know if all of trump s documents were that. if they re serious top secret stuff in there. that s a horse of a different color. until we know that, i think we all need to be really cold eyed about this and realize this is not good news for holding donald trump criminally liable for all of his misdeeds, including the documents at mar-a-lago. and the white house is trying to be careful, saying that they re listening to what the doj is instructing them to do, which is why they were limited with information, which caused a lot of stress and questions about transparency, but, joe, even to clarify what claire just said, she talked about the difference between what joe