majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays
you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
Hes got caught, and the man practically has the legal version of an Ankle Bracelet around him. And he cant leave the five boroughs. I dont care how you feel about joe biden, you must vote for him. Progressive power and the revenge of the normies. We have to win more. Were going to win more. We are going to celebrate. Were going to party the day drinking. Great news in case anybody wondering fani willis keeps dancing, but the musics about to stop. Th i probably smoked more Parmesan Cheese thanknow anyone. Anyone that you know. Im sure hunter biden, irs whistleblowers and the cia. Plus, im not playing with you in new york. Im giving you this love. Its a love rampage. Hear, hear. Normies are revolting and they want to mak revoltie america normal again. Former cia analyst martin guri ,one of the good guys, says were living through a great Global Battlinrough E for Powerl A Clash of classes between the normies. Ordinary people who just want to work, get married and have children and geies,
A big and overdue declaration from nikki haley. More on that with Newt Gingrich in moments. But, first, bidens judicial sneak, thats the focus of tonights angle. Laura now, from day one, the Biden Administration has put the lefts demand for diversity and activism above competence and merit. As you know one of the biggest priority of the president is nominating and confirming extraordinarily qualified men and women who are dedicated to our constitution and who represent the diversity of america. Laura all right. Well, from the open borders to their push for transgenderism, the democrats have relied on their handpicked judges to validate these policies regardless of the constitution, the rule of law, or just plain common sense or biology, which takes us to todays Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing to consider the nominations of several Biden Appointees to key federal judgeships. Now, democrats were hoping, i think, to squeak these nominees through, all of them women, knowing that america
republicans believe that the. she said, trump lost, biden. what she criticized for critically about january 6th, saying history would hold him to account. and she said his argument in court about presidential immunity was ridiculous. not a full frontal assault on donald trump, but her ruling if she s going to have any hope, she has to consolidate the anti trump vote. it s a little tougher there. to every s point about desantis, he knows where he is and how important this is to him. this is a much more conservative electorate here in iowa than you have in new hampshire. school choice, woke, transgender, a reckoning coming against fauci and the science and the washington bureaucracy. he is appealing, that s a very trumpy trump base message. but it s also, if he has any hope, it s to be strong here. everyone assumes trump s going to win. we ll see what happens on monday. he was playing conservative, conservative, conservative oh night long because that s iowa. given chris christie was t