american voices with castro starts right now on msnbc. thank you, reverend sharpton. hello everyone and welcome to american voices. i am in for alicia menendez this hour. we kick off the new year with a finale of political theater in the house of representatives. what it means for doing the peoples business and the year to come. 14 ballots tonight kevin mccarthy finally got what he wanted. last night he became speaker of the house, who knew the 15th time could be the charm. instead of using his historic moment to lay out a vision for the american people, the speaker made it clear his party s top priority is waging political warfare against the biden administration. we will hold the swab accountable from the withdraw of afghanistan to the origins of covid and to the weaponization of the fbi. let me be very clear, we will use the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena to get the job done. now, mccarthy might have the gavel, but not without a frankly embarrassing
good morning. s it s 10:00 a.m. eastern. 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m ryan nobles. after years of broken promises and legal battles, some of former president trump s tax returns are now public. a short time ago, the house ways and means committee release trump s tax returns from 2013 through 2020 and returns from some of his businesses. it comes more than six years after the former president made this pledge to release the returns. i ll release them when the audit is completed. i have had audits for 15 or 16 years. under audit, when it s complete, i ll release them. he never did release them. the committee obtained the returns in november after a long legal bat thal went all the way to the u.s. supreme court. the panel hoped to res lease the documents last week, but it delayed the disclosure so they could redact personal information. the former president responding to the release with a statement saying in part, the democrats should have never done it, the supreme court shoul
the sunday show. this sunday, we re following a lot of breaking news, including that mass shooting in monterrey, parkville fournié. this left ten people dead. we ll bring you the latest in just a moment. we begin with breaking news in the classified investigation. the white house is facing mounting questions after a reveal the federal agents search president biden s home in wilmington delaware for 13 hours on friday, and found more items with classified markings. the search was prompted by a white house, not the justice department, according to a white house official. the president s personal attorney issued a statement saying, quote, doj took possession ofmaterials deemed within the scope of its inquiry. including six items consisting of documents of classification markings, and surrounding materials. some of which were from the president surface in senate, and some of which were from his tenure as vice president. this is the fourth instance of classified documents being fo
that began way back on tuesday. along the way, we were treated to an important at times chaotic civics lesson including near fisticuffs live and on camera. friday the fourth day of voefting we saw 15 holdouts switch their allegiance during the 12th and 13th rounds of balloting, and then after an adjournment mccarthy thought he had the needed votes and at 11:00 came to a 14th vote yet one vote shy of a majority. for the first time all week he couldn t hide being visibly angry. lauren boebert and matt gaetz voted present while four other anti-mccarthy holdouts remained steadfast. it was dramatic and gripping to watch. a fistfight nearly broke out as mike rogers the chair of the house armed services committee, was physically restrained from matt gaetz who supporters rushed to his side. on enies were heard. mccarthy thought he d whipped the votes necessary. when it seemed they were going to be adjourning for the weekend there was more arm twisting. suddenly mccarthy was smiling a
and failed to get german signoff on the allies of ukraine s tanks something that poland says they would do on their own. and president biden was asked about it today. polands call to send tanks and money. u.s. tanks to ukraine? president biden: ukraine s going to get all the help they need. anchor: that s ukraine s president, he says he needs more than western gratitude to hold off the russians. hundreds of thanks, are not hundreds of tanks. also, today, the white house told reporters, that the mercenary fighters made up in part of russian convicts, this all come as day after we learned that cie director briefed president zelensksyy on how the spring russian may play off. fred starts us off from kyiv. reporter: hugely important week in ukraine. one that could be pivotal for the war and the future of their country. they want it take the fight to the russians, they understand that they need more modern, western weapons to do that. at the same time they re bracing