good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you to all of us joining us at this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. that appears to be exactly where we are right now in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of times that he has failed to win the speakers gavel up to 11. that s the most failed elections for speaker and any congress and over 100 years. surpassing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker all the way back in the year 1923. throughout those failed votes, kevin mccarthy hasn t picked up one sin
me snickering and chortling through the conversation you were just having. you know me, i like when i get a laugh. the idea that you just said, we are going to have a speaker and odds are that person probably will be a republican. that s where we are right now. i want to cover my bases because that s on tape. the fact that it s even a possibility that it might not be someone from kevin mccarthy s you never know. tells us where we are at. thank you. thank you to all of you at home for joining us. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. and that appears to be exactly where we are right now. in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned with the third day without selecting a speaker of the house. the lower chamber held five votes for speaker and congressman kevin mccarthy failed to cinch the nomination on all five of those bringing the total number of time
top secret documents were in president biden s possession. oversight chairman james comer pushing to get the visitor log particularly for biden s home in delaware. where aides found classified materials not once but twice so far. special counsel robert hur on the job, we re told, after the investigation steeped in america s national security was hidden from the public. why? how could this surface november 2nd and get handed to the archives on november 3rd, and nothing ever leaked about the nation s leading politician and his team? we all know washington, d.c. leaks like a sieve. it s hard to believe. just shows the hypocrisy and why the american public doesn t trust their government. step one in stopping this behavior is exposing it and getting the truth to the american people. for those who think well the president didn t realize he had those in his possession, it is nonsense. of course he knew he had them. they are so obvious. harris: a growing list of democratic la
what we know about how they were found in what the biden team is doing about it. and a dangerous escalation into the battle over medication and abortion. we will touch down in the state whose attorney general has threatened to prosecute women for taking abortion pills. plus, they would ve been dr. martin luther king junior s 94th birthday. tomorrow, we celebrate his. life later this, hour though, we will talk with his. work velshi starts now. and good morning to you. it is sunday january the 15th. i am ali velshi. we begin with a dire warning for the american economy. a debt ceiling showdown that is set to explode this week in congress, with potentially disastrous consequences. but in order to understand what is at stake, let us start with a history lesson and a historic visit. on, friday president biden hosted the japanese prime minister fumio kishida at the white house. an important visit meant to highlight the close relationship in the alliance between those two nations. a
we spoke this morning with david sanger of the new york times who said trump was significantly more interested in the nuclear weapons efforts of north korea and iran than other countries. to be clear, we don t know from this report which country this is talking about. do you expect that this was information about the military, though, of an american adversary? well, we simply don t know exceptional interest in the nuclear capabilities or aspirations of north korea and iran, we all did for national security purposes. but we don t know whether it was a friend or a foe, and the issue is not just about the content of the report, but what it may reveal about our sources and methods and capabilities to find out and learn about another country s military capabilities. so that is a particular concern as well, which why i think it is all the more important that the intelligence community quickly conduct its risk assessment of what may or may not have been released at mar-a-lag