imminent does starts right now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone. i m alicia mendes. we begin this saturday with america on edge of a financial cliff. a test it presents for congress and for the new house speaker, kevin mccarthy. a huge test for him, specifically given how much he gave away to become speaker, handing away power to those who prioritize chaos over governing, which is not what you want when the task at hand is paying the nations bills. instead of working to keep the global economy on track, the biggest headlines we saw this week about republicans where this was the circus surrounding republican george santos it is very complicated relationship. nbc news confirmed he lied about his mother, attack being in the towers of 9/11, turns out his mom wasn t even in the united states during those attacks. this week santos also denied claims he stole money from a veteran s gofundme page that was set up set up to help a man s dying dog. are republicans o
the two ears. what this might matter, i don t think they care. i think they listen. as i say, it goes in, goes out the other side. so i think the likelihood that they re going to force this as an issue and i create a situation where at least for a while we will be in a troubled fiscal situation, in the end it may ultimately be solved by a lot of the republicans we don t talk about which is the eight or nine or ten republicans that seem still part of the rational caucus. they may have to team up with the democrats to get this done. and the majority of congress, the majority who holds congress may be opposed to. it explained to me, i agree with your analysis that that they may not care about the way this impact every day americans or the economy, donie at least care about raw political power? how do they see this not back splashing on them? you and i have heard this conversation on so many different topics. every time i think well that s a dumb political move, why would they deny ele
it s going to be a big loss, but at the same time it is well known that these are tough jobs. they take a toll on people. and usually some chiefs of staff don t even last one year. rod emmanuel did not even last to obama s midterm election. the fact that ron mcclain is stuck around without much controversy is a testament to his some of his accomplishments during the first two years of joe biden s agenda, where they are accomplished everything from infrastructure to gun control to the chips bill as well as the inflation reduction act. it was quite a feat. he s going to stick around through the state of the union and we expect that february 7th state of the union is really going to be a victory lap for president biden but also probably for ron klain himself who shepherded a lot of major pieces of legislation through the congress during president biden s first two years. nbc s scott wallen, thank
symbol of what their approach to governance is. they don t care about the functioning of government. they don t care about what lives and how government might be able to help them, or hurt them if they don t do things. what they are concerned about to perform, for who they want to perform for for their base, is on these things like oversight or anything that they can raise up, cause somebody to get him to scene subpoena or whatever happens to be. but all of the committees they spent years and years to get to and congress, because that could impact somebody, a person s life and des moines or albany or wherever else it happens to be, they don t care about that because they just as to not have anything to do with the act of governance. matt, you are sticking with me because of naps trump s days of threatening to sue everyone under the sun could be over. the big price tag for what the judge called a frivolous filing. and later, three active duty