of remaining mum on some of these details still seems to be in place. outside the white house, carol lee, thank you. some new exclusive reporting from nbc news now, showing former president trump and his staff are hard at work to try to get his facebook account put back in place. you know that meta, which now owns facebook, the parent company of facebook, banned donald trump the day after the january 6th insurrection. pointing out it was mr. trump s instigation leading up to the attack that violated fibromyalgia s policies. two years late violated facebook s policies. two years later, that is due up for review. and in a letter obtained by nbc, we believe that the ban on president trump s account on facebook has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse. the former president faced a similar ban on twitter which was reversed back in november after elon musk took over the company. let me bring in now one of the reporters who got the exclusive reporting. john allen, s
investigation, presumably into donald trump s many alleged crimes but you have to wonder if one of them will be a future investigation into jim jordan. joining me now from the capitol is sahil kapur, nbc news senior national political reporter, and mara gillespie, former aide to congressman adam kinzinger and speaker john boehner. sahil, i want to start with you. this rules package is pretty draconian. not only allowing that one member to vote as a vote of no confidence, but also these cut as you go budget requirements and other things that are mainly seem to be targeting spending on social services. what went down and was it a unanimous vote on the republican side? not exactly a unanimous vote, joy. there was one republican, tony gonzalez of texas, who voted no. he had announced several days ago he would do that. he was the only republican who voted no. everyone else stuck with the caucus and voted yes on this package. and it passed by a vote of 220-213 with every democrat
joining me now with the latest on negotiations, nbc news senior national political reporter, sahil kapur. you ve been there all day. republican leadership setting out a notice that seems to make it clear they think they have the votes sewed up and will roll right into initiating the new house. chris, we are two hours away from the house reconvening and possibly electing a speaker. i say possibly because not a done deal. yet but, yes you re right, kevin mccarthy and his leadership feel confident they will have the votes to finally make him speaker tonight after more than a dozen attempts, more than a dozen filled attempts. they ve been feverish lee negotiating with these right-wing holdouts. and made a lot of progress over the last 24 hours. they flip 14 out of the 20 rebels. the map is quite simple. the six remaining rebels. they need to win two out of them, flip them to guess. or get a bunch of others to vote president. which will lower the threshold but also give kevin mccarthy a
specify what wrongdoing the panel would investigate but suggested it would search for evidence to bolster claims about harmful side effects. joining us now, nbc news senior national political reporter mark caputo. we ll let you talk broadly about this idea of ron desantis taking on donald trump, but specifically this action about vaccines. what s he up to here? reporter: well, that s a good question. what desantis is definitely up to is that kind of a political brand built in 2020 questioning expert opinion about covid, covid-19, response to covid. opening schools, opening the state up. fighting vaccine mandates. what s happened over the years is, desantis has gone from this full-throated supporter of covid-19 vaccines. toured the state. told people to get them. called them life-saving. and then just kind of slowly morphed as a portion of the republican party, became anti-vax, which it came to the covid-19 vaccine and now we re