a conspiracy theory that made it to the white house after the 2020 election claimed that somehow an italian defense contractor had conspired with the cia to use military satellites to flip votes from trump to biden. congressman scott perry brought that theory to the white house. the texan former chief of staff mark meadows. why can t we just work with the italian government. perry was one of four republican members of congress that the january 6 committee referred to the house ethics committee to cooperate with the investigation. the others were california congressman kevin mccarthy, ohio congressman jim jordan, and arizona congressman andy bigs. mccarthy is the speaker of the house. and as of tonight, perry, jordan, and bigs, all three of them, are officially members of the house oversight committee. the committee that under the new republican leadership has devoted itself to investigating president biden. other notable members are announced tonight are arizona s paul gosar
disinformation and flat out lies continue to pour out of trump world this week, as the red continues to scramble to try to get their stories straight following the fbi search on trump s home. in just a few days, the official maga line says there was no cause for a search and that the fbi planted classified materials to u.s., there was classified materials, but trump somehow telepathically the classified them. look, each lie is more absurd and more cartoonish than the one before it. quite honestly, it is even more dangerous because the lies are actually turning into threats. those threats are beginning to turn to real world consequences. in fact, just last week, the fbi and the agents issued a joint bulletin warning that threats to federal law enforcement have spike since the mar-a-lago search. here s the thing, trump and his allies, they have continued their attacks on what enforcement agency even after a pro trump gunmen attempted to storm distance in it fbi field office. th
healthcare, prescription drugs and more. we need to show democrats across this country that the democratic party can actually get stuff done when we have 50 democrats in the senate, and i think that s where we are right now. so i m all about forward looking, brianna and hello, joe manchin. happy to have you. a new effort to form a viable third party, names from the right, left and center say they will succeed where others failed. soon we ll hear from the president of the united states live at the white house. he ll tout big progress on his agenda, a senate agreement that includes new climate and new health care investments. a package, the president will say in a way that will also take a big bite out of inflation. it is a smaller, but still significant piece of the giant goals the president and has party had back in the beginning of his term. the white house event is a presidential push to get this new senate deal to the finish line and, make no mistake, it is a president
Thats five pm on the east coast, and the nations eyes are on washington. On capitol hill. We are a stopgap federal Spending Bill is now in the hands of the senate. After being passed in dramatic fashion by the house, just a couple of hours ago. To fund our government and avoid a shutdown with just seven hours left on the clock to do so. We have a lot to cover on our show tonight, but we start with a possible shutdown at midnight. Nbcs Ali Vitale Is Standing by on capitol hill. Elie, give us the latest. Right, things have been fast around here, because if you had told me when i left late last night, that Speaker Mccarthy was going to effectively look left and do this in a partisan fashion, i would have told you, absolutely not, no way. But it was a recognition on mccarthys part that within his conference those republicans that continue to block his path forward were not going to change and is that it was him who had to change the strategy. Now what this does is by the house, and by prox
phil mattingly. good morning. we are glad you are with us. in just hours from now the house is set to vote to formalize an impeachment inquiry into president biden after a resolution passed yesterday. republicans have alleged that the president biden benefitted from his family s foreign business dealings. they have not provided evidence of wrongdoing. hakeem jeffries with us in moments. rudy giuliani is back in court today. jurors heard voicemails that an election worker said they heard lies about the election. rebuking trump s former attorney as he repeated the lies about the election and the election workers outside the courthouse this week. in half an hour, the labor department will release a key report giving us a critical look at the state of inflation in the country. we will have the numbers for you as soon as they come in. this hour of cnn this morning starts now. trump says jump, the maga extremists say how high? donald trump asks them to impeach joe biden a