tonight s special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the and messam busy mothership with my colleagues joy, read and lawrence o donnell, and gems, aki and all remember. great to have you all. here our friends chris hayes and stephanie ruhle will be joining us later. it is going to be fun. we are less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa, last i when public debate is underway tonight with oddly, a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five people for presidential candidates taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates off the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. also two of them are debating, tonight nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that final hour debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate who of course has refused to participate in any debates at all of this year, but
an absurd vote to censure adam schiff for something. well, now, donald trump is counting on my kevin and his oddball caucus to save him, because he has no legitimate defense in his criminal case for taking national security documents home and not giving them back. also tonight, no labels. the group that claims america needs a third party choice if biden and trump are the nominees. i ll ask national co-chair about the very real possibility that they could inadvertently put trump back in the white house. plus, breaking news on the missing titanic submersible. the coast guard has now confirmed debris has been found after a, quote, catastrophic implosion. killing all five onboard. but we begin tonight with what is becoming a clearer reality for the twice impeached, twice indicted former president. who up to now has been able to live a charmed life with little accountability. no matter what alleged crimes he s committed. and now, at 77 years of age, for the first time, donal
but as always, the finer details reveal the true winners and losers of the gop s latest manufactured political crisis has a new york times writes, the president and his negotiators believe they worked out a deal that allowed republicans to claim big spending cuts, even as the reality was far more modest. joining me now is one of those negotiators, shalanda young, director of the office of management and budget director. welcome back to the sunday show. thank you, jonathan. let s put on the screen some of the provisions of the law. i know we did that in the introduction. imposes new caps on federal spending for two years, restarts the federal student loan repayments, new work requirements for food stamps, cuts 1.8 billion dollars in irs funding, rescinds 30 billion dollars of unspent covid funds. now, the president the speaker both said they didn t get everything they wanted. what didn t the white house came? look, we always said, if you have a true budget discussion, if
texas sized fall from grace, the state s controversial attorney general, ken paxton, is impeached by fellow republicans in the state house. texas congresswoman, jasmine calk, joins me live to talk about that and more. and, as sunday show first. republican presidential candidate, asa hutchison, joins me live. how does he plan to stand out in a crowded field still dominated by donald trump? i ll ask him. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. we begin with a deal of house speaker kevin mccarthy and president john biden reached an agreement after a three-month standoff that almost triggered a u.s. to fall. the tentative deal would boost the nation s borrowing limit for the next two years, until after the 2024 presidential election. there are no changes to medicaid, or biden s student debt relief bill. but, the deal does include work requirements for recipients of federal aid like snap. increasing the aid from 29 to 34 with the exception of veterans. this is a deal w
good evening rachel, we have michigan state senator mallory mcmorrow joining us tonight. she s one of the big stars who was merged outside of washington in the democratic party, and we are going to be talking about the garden of evil, later in this program, which is the name of the garden owned by harmless billionaire harlan crow, clarence thomas s best friend. i m gonna have an awful lot to say about what harlan crow says is the one thing he has never done in the garden of evil. i i i, my mind went to some very dark places immediately. and rachel, when you kill your back or the garden of evil [laughter] and hey, rachel. i ve got some bad news today about the canoeing trip we have planned for the summer, with stephen colbert, seth myers, and john oliver down the volga river in russia. it turns out the only john oliver i can go, because all of the rest of you have just been sanctioned by vladimir putin. you are not allowed, a more, to enter russia. i know. i mean,