now for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening alex. seeing is kevin mccarthy s first order of business in the house of representatives is to prove how much we do not need a house of representatives if it is to be run by the legislative crazies of the republican party. maybe that will never be seated. maybe this is it. maybe it s just about the upper chamber? so far, the republicans have done no damage in the house of representatives. the damage begins as soon as they have control of it with the speaker. we are wishing for the good old days when nobody was seated, once they do. and, alex, one nice note for history today is that the person who is next in line for the presidency, after the vice president, is, once again, a woman, because patty murray became the president pro tem of the united states senate, and there is no speaker of the house. so, as of now, the next in line for the presidency is a woman in the united states senate
chamber. so far the republicans have done no damage in house of representatives. the damage begins as soon as they have control of it, with the speaker. we will be wishing for the good old days when nobody was seated. and, alex, one nice note for history today is that the person who is next in line for the presidency, after the vice president, is, once again, a woman, because patty murray became the president pro tem of the united states senate, and there is no speaker of the house. so, as of now, the next in line for the presidency is a woman in the united states senate. so, you know, we could live with this. we could. they are welcome. have a great show. thank you alex. thank you. in other news, that you should know, that is actually happening in this country while, in a way, nothing is happening in the house of representatives, is that in south carolina today, the south carolina supreme court has ruled that the south carolina constitution provides a right to priv
the gavel, the house taking a break until 8:00 p.m. after kevin mccarthy lost his six the vote for speaker, republicans backing him saying enough with the nonsense, it is time to move forward so they can go after joe biden. they have gotten together and decided that they can only blackmail the republican conference in effect they are blackmailing the american people. it s because of their headlines about the chaos, this and that, yesterday our colleagues on the other side of the guy over tweeting their bags of popcorn that they had out, they love it. i plead with all, all of my republican colleagues, let cooler more rational heads prevail. i ve had a number of conversations with kevin, and basically said that this needs to break loose. he needs to make a deal, or he needs to step aside and give somebody else a chance to do that. judge jeanine: but the 20 plus republicans who oppose aren t giving up. i think the path is very difficult right now for kevin, at the core
the country in traffic accidents from freezing to death in the elements or from a range of other causes as a direct result of this storm. multiday snowfall totals have been titanic, up to 43 inches in hard hit buffalo. governor hochul requesting a federal disaster declaration due to the historic winter storm. it is devastating. it is going to a warzone and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking. it is not just small vehicles, it is literally snowplows, it is major size recovery vehicles and utility vehicles and tow trucks. so we have a real challenge right now are we have roads blocked. roads are literally blocked by emergency vehicles so that has made it extremely challenging for us. effect on air travel on a crucial holiday week end was nothing shorts of catastrophic. there were a total of more than 11,000 flights canceled friday, saturday and sunday. this morning so far airlines have canceled another 1300 flights. nationwide more than 60,000 homes and bus
classified documents into there s a new special counsel to investigate the handling of classified material after the president s lawyers return a document stored in his garage next to his corvette. by the way my corvettes in a locked garage. okay, it s not like you re sitting out in the street. tonight jamie raskin on what it means for the president. what it means for the special counsel investigating trump s coup. then what i find is voters have elected george santos. a freshman republican bucking leadership in calling for george santos to resign. he joins me live. it s a national joke, he s an international joke, but this jokes gotta go. another new candidate in senator elizabeth warren in adores isn t a senate race for the incumbent hasn t announced retirement. what s happening in the california senate. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. there s two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorn