that s what this vote will begined to. we ll get a sense is it four or five or ten and then is that really breakable? and garrett haake, do you know whether the three missing republicans are mccarthy supporters? he s kind of gone off the reservation a little bit to float alternative theories that might have made the allies nervous. wesley hunt, a new member from houston, who just had a baby is on his way home to see his wife there. and and and apparently tending afuneral in oklahoma this weekend had to get back. three mccarthy votes. one in nomination himself, which speaks to the kientd of unseriousness of the fact that he was placed in nomination. he was not intending to be here. as we watch this and break
0 good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. it s january 6th. the anniversary of an insurrection that almost destroyed our democracy. today the white house and the nation commemorate the civilian and law enforcement heroes and the victims of that terrible day, even as the house chamber is no longer a literal battleground, it is now torn apart by political combat. a divide among republican factions creating a new crisis of government. on this date in 2021, lawmakers were wearing gas masks and taking cover as thousands stormed hallways fuelled by former president trump s false claims that the election was stolen. if the house had not chosen a speaker and had not sworn in its members two years ago or two years from now, the electoral college vote would not be counted. america would not have a new president. this hour, there is some movement according to multiple republican sources with kevin mccarthy giing away more power and picking up some votes. he still does not have the now 217 to
public view and will find him on twitter reeling against bob mueller. so this is a president who enjoys punching. if he has a faux or someone good to go after, he s going to do that. amash has a primary opponent. it seems that person was going to get in the the race anyhow. but is this something where the president tweets once or twice or is this a cautionary tail from speaking their mind and conscious because the president hits the campaign trail and holds a huge rally in amash s district. kimberly ath tins, do we have a sense of whether this is the kientd of offense that would rise to that level. it s enough to get the president s attention, even if it doesn t give democrats the cover they need to launch proceedings.
roughly $50,000 reached out to journalists a couple weeks ago alerting them to this scheme. journalists were not able to confirm her identity. so it kientd of went uncorroborated until this week when the special counsel released a rare statement saying they had referred the matter to the fbi for further investigation, because they take these allegations that women are essentially being paid to make up stories against the special counsel seriously, especially eight days before mid-terms. fast forward to yesterday when these two again conspiracy theorists activists held a press conference in virginia, where they claim to have a woman, they named her, who is willing to come forward and issue that ages herself. it fell apart. there were inconsistencies in the story. she apparently got on the next flight to wherever and refused to show up. but this whole thing has kind of
essentially create complete incoheerngs because on the one hand he attacks the policy bitterly and then he says, well, i m going to stay in it. i m going to punt this to congress to a deeply divided congress and force them to cleanup. it s an abrogation of responsibility. it is entirely irresponsible act. if the president wants to walk away from the deal, i agree with mike that he has the technical right totsds. i m simply saying it s a terrible idea and it undermines u.s. credibility, but he does have the legal right to do it. but he won t even do that. it was an act of strange cow ard he is. no. kientd of incoherent foreign policy while on the one hand he says the deal is the worst in the world on the other he says but i m going to stay in it. congress can decide what to do. give him some credit for flexibility and for opening up negotiations with the europeans and with congress. now, he didn t just go out negotiation with the europeans the europeans have said they will n