and animal apocalypse. the big mystery surrounding the death of thousands of birds the big mystery surrounding the death of thousands of birds spreads overseas. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello and very good morning to you. today we begin with laying down the law. on their first day in control of the house, newly elected speaker john boehner and his fellow republicans flex their majority muscles swinging into action bypassing new rules and promising by changes. steve handelsman has the latest. reporter: directed by the new house speaker john boehner the people voted to end business as usual and today we begin to carry out their instructions. reporter: republicans passed new rules to help them cut spending. thank you. well, mr. speaker, that didn t take long. reporter: the minority democrats cried foul. they want to slash money for education, for infrastructure, investments and new technology for medical research, for job training, you name i
is larger than most gavels here, but the gavel of choice of speaker boehner. i now pass this i now pass this gavel and the sacred trust that goes with it to the new speaker. god bless you, speaker boehner. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to morning joe. good morning everyone. it s thursday, january 6th. and we re back in new york after being in washington watching that in person, the passing of the gavel. with us onset, msnbc and time mapping scene political analyst mark halperin, good to have you back, and msnbc political analyst haired ford junior as well with us. willie on his way. feels nice. you were on the floor. what did you learn out there? what was it like? i actually learned i don t want to sound condescending about this, but i actually learned that some adults have taken control, not only of the republican side, but the democratic side. i learned two things. it was great. on the democratic side i talked to steny hoyer and many, many other democrats. there
that is jobs in america. moments ago a new report showing a slight jump in the number of people apply fog unemployment unemployment benefits, the first five weeks, the jobless claims rose to 409. that s where we start today. how you doing, i m bill hemmer. martha: thank you very much, good morning, everybody. it s interesting because today s numbers we re getting in, those come on the heels of the private sector jobs number we saw yesterday and what was fantastic, it blew away expectations, it was triple, 300,000 jobs added in the private sector, three times larger than economists predicted. bill: let s put it with stuart varney, varney & company. good morning, stuart, what does it mean? you ve got to remember the long term downtrend in the jobless claims is very much in place and the number of those new claims is still now way below the danger zone. i put the danger zone at 450 every week, you are around to 400,000 tpalg. that s a sign the trend is in place. tomorrow you
the day may be this one, folks, when outgoing speaker nancy pelosi hands that gavel over to john boehner. from start to finish you will see it right here in america s newsroom live. bill: then after that ceremony the new republican blood plans to get down to business. here is how some of those freshman members are talking about the new responsibilities. we want to come down here now and change the course the country is on. so with that in mind, it s easier to stick to your principles. it s not so much as we won as they lost, and if we don t do right by the american public, then two years from now, we re going to lose. i don t think they trust us bus i think they want to take a chance on us as opposed to the other people and now we ve got to prove to them that we are trustworthy. bill: get ready for a jam packed hour. shannon bream, the first big move is on health care in the house. what can we expect? reporter: bill, they re fighting over the logistics of the health
beneficiaries is marco rubio, the senator elect from florida who cuban-american young attractive charismatic, likely presidential material. say goodbye to the tea party. well, it is a question of who got on whose bandwagon. the ole real tea party person on this panel, i can attest to the fact that yes, the tea party was the biggest winner and this year they went from just being a movement to being plain stream america and bringing america back to constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets. thanks for clarifying all of that. you re welcome. clarence, welcome. i was thinking tea party but john, i chose john bohner because he is a bigger winner than the tea party because he got to be speaker and didn t have to do much work to do it because the people did most of the work for him. the envelope, please, monica. here you go. thank you very much. that jacket, i m blind. how am i going to make it through the rest of the show? pu