Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
document discovery. the fbi searched president un biden s delaware home on friday and found more classified d materials. six documents, including some from his time as a senator, were found. biden insists he did nothing wrong. i think you ll find there s nothing there. i have no regrets. plus warning signs. american politics teetering on the edge, from the court to congress, to probes, to rising threat. a rep candidate is arrested and charged in connection with the shooting at the homes of four democratic lawmakers. the attack on elected officials is an attack on democracy. is new mexico just the next camp. and post-roe. 50 years after the landmark supreme court decision granting a constitutional right to abortion. the debate has shifted, with the rule now overturned. if we learned anything we but yesterday our head in the sand. my guest this morning, democratic senator joe manchin, and republican congresswoman nancy mace of south carolina. i did not have
democrats again? guess what. i reduced the deficit last year $350 billion. but so what. these guys are fiscally demented, i think. joe biden sounds utterly ridiculous. he wants to keep the items that he s ratcheted up spending in, he wants to keep them, as opposed to examining things at the federal level, to get our debt and inflation under control. dana: and the president turning heads with these comments about the second amendment and car insurance. i am going to get assault weapons banned. i did it once. i m going to do it again. i love my right wing friends, talk about the tree of liberty is water in the blood of patriots. if you need to work taking on the federal government, you need some f-15s. you don t need an ar-15. i m serious. by the way, if you live in one of those neighborhoods, you have the exact same car i have in the other neighborhood, you pay more insurance. no basis for it. none at all, other than you re black and i m white. jeanine: oh, my. dana:
well, the new house judiciary chairman, jim jordan, announcing he s launching an investigation into the doj s actions related to president biden s handling of classified documents. he s demanding the department turn over a variety of information including all communications related to yesterday s appointment of special counsel. it s hard to believe this is what s happening one week ago, but at just about exactly this time there was a complete chaos on the house floor. a lawmaker lunging at another lawmaker, and we still didn t know way back then because last year was a whole year last week a whole year didn t know if kevin mccarthy would actually become speaker. what a difference a week makes, and of course when you think about in washington, d.c. every minute seems to be a new, well, crisis to avert or try to maintain. i want to bring in michael shnell, congressional reporter for the hill. and lia donovan. let me bring you into this conversation because, look, we re talkin
affiliated think tank in washington. approximately 20 markings with classified markings have been found. joining me now former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and cnn senior legal analyst. i will talk to you in just a second, but evan, what is going on with these additional pages that were found. obviously not the kind of news they want to hear over at the white house. it is not the way the white house would have liked to have disclosed all of this. this is the third disclosure we have had last week. and for the white house, they had told us just about 24 hours ago that they had found one additional document turned over to the justice department in a search at a room that was adjacent to the president s garage in his home in wilmington. and now they say that in the process of turning over those documents or that one document they found an additional five records. so now they have what you mentioned, around 20 records or so, that i have classifi