and realizing if he draws this out in any way with miss daniels it s something he s not really to accept at this moment. there s someone who is working to draw this out and that is michael avenatti, stormy daniels lawyer. this is an adversary that is different for the president. this isn t a member of congress who s going to sit back and let the president that you some punches and go by. the president claims or his attorneys claim he s party to a nondisclosure agreement. if you were to comment on this situation that he has with stormy daniels it s actually nullify the nondisclosure agreement to which he is party. it s really unlike trump just to refuse all the weigh around to respond to a story that s this big. the white house says this doesn t arise to the level of a presidential tweet. the level for a presidential tweet is extremely low. let s be real, i think what s
there s always been this sort of fantasy prospect that the house could pick somebody who is not actually a member of congress. you don t have to be a member of congress in order to be speaker of the house. it s possible that they could throw a huge hail mary and pick somebody they could all agree on, but who isn t a member of congress. that s always one of these fantasy ideas in politics. today it seems more probable than a lot of other more mainstream options. those of us who love studying american government also know you don t need to be a lawyer to sit on the supreme court but we are still waiting for the modern era version of that. rachel maddow, thank you for calling in. on this busy news afternoon. those just joining us, this was supposed to be a more or less pro forma day for the gop caucus, the controlling caucus in the house of representatives. kevin mccarthy, one of the closest lieutenants to the outgoing speaker of the house,