trying out pathetic new excuses for his fur loined classified documents as the january 6th investigation moves forward with two big names meeting with the special counsel. and despite trump s increasing desperation, kevin mccarthy is still predictably, genuflecting at his mega masters feet. reportedly apologizing for daring to suggest that trump might not be the strongest candidate. and president biden delivers a potent message for the presidential campaign, the american economy is roaring back after the pandemic. as republicans try to take credit for infrastructure they voted against. but we begin tonight with the on going humiliation of kevin mccarthy. the republican house speaker more known for his fears than for wielding the gavel. the latest fiasco kicked off on tuesday when mccarthy went on cnbc to discuss the messiness of a twice-impeached, now twice-indicted former president becoming his party s nominee. you think he could win an election? could he win an elec
is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m
covid lockdowns was anti science. tonight i can tell you that democracy is grinding through its process and there could be a speaker of the house elected tonight. now, i know that s a change from what you ve heard all week but we can report that in the next few hours, it could actually happen. the house is reconvening any second, and the ingraham angle is hearing from a high level source kevin mccarthy does have the votes to get elected. let s go live to capitol hill, things are very fluid they can change but senior congressional correspondent who has been working very hard this week, chad perfect gram is standing by. chad what can you tell us? laura good evening, kevin mccarthy gained support as speaker on two roll call votes today. he did not gain any support on 11 votes for speaker over the previous three days. the question is whether mccarthy can close the deal tonight. we are told he should have the votes later on and be sworn in as speaker. two of his supporters are b
democracies. according to the new york times, mccarthy also called trump on tuesday to apologize. so, let s just pause for a moment. i mean, can you imagine sam ray burn, the longest serving house speaker apologizing to harry truman for bruising his ego as the u.s. transitioned from war to peace? i mean, can you imagine outspoken speaker tip o neal graveling to jimmy carter for marching out of step with the party? or just try to picture nancy patricia pelosi, graveling before barack obama or bill clinton for insufficient party line praise? i mean, of course you can t because that would never happen. these weren t fearful devotees. legendary house speakers who i might add never gutted their own pourer and dignity just to get the job. which brings us back to kevin. politico is reporting that none of his recent moves, the backtrack, the apology, have assuaged the fury in trump s inner circle, mccarthy they feel, has taken advantage of the
committee, you control ultimately, under this new scenario, what bill gets to the floor, correct? what bill and how it s dealt with. you control whether there are amendments to the bill. in other words, representatives could add and have voted on amendments on the floor. you control how many minutes are debated, how many what the threshold is, what the quorum looks like. if you control the rules committee, you control everything in the house of representatives as far as bringing legislation up. i think chad did a great job describing it in his only the way chad can because he s a big baseball guy saying it s 85 feet or 90 feet to first base depending on what the rules committee says, and that s true. so the debate on the rules tonight is really important. but i just didn t want to overstep the historic nature of this moment for kevin mccarthy. and, you know, longest serving speaker was sam ray burn, 17 years two months and two days.