stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the chaotic start to this new congress. republicans ran on inflation, immigration, and crime but they are focused on fights, internal vaccinations, and stunts. today removing the presented of a lot and when mark from a committee assignment. then the former president feeling the pressure. a potential new charges for his already jailed money man. and the gun country. the fresh push for more people to legally carry just as we get results of the first federal gun crimes reported in decades. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. house republicans have set off a new fire storm on capitol hill today. minnesota democrat, elon omar, has been officially removed from the foreign affairs committee after a party line vote. republican cited her past eight months criticizing israel, with some democrats saying, it is just political revenge for the removal of marjorie taylor greene and paul
Its so cold and so callus and so inhumane it is unconscionable. Its just vile. I cant believe it. Whats he looking looking for a headline. People like him are why so Many Americans dont like politics. There is no question that the governors of arizona and florida and texas are using migrants as pawns in their political campaign. Jesse and the governors plans are working. Democrats are finally paying attention to the border crisis. And so is the media. Who thinks migrants going to massachusetts is just like the holocaust . This is the coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook. This is what is so disturbing about desantis is to use human beings to weaponize human beings for a political purpose. What we find in all our films is that the themes that we engage in the past are present today. And so when you look at the story that we are telling of the u. S. And the holocaust, you understanded that the time to save a democracy is before its lost. Jesse 50 migrants arriving on a gorgeo
it s so cold and so callus and so inhumane it is unconscionable. it s just vile. i can t believe it. what s he looking looking for a headline. people like him are why so many americans don t like politics. there is no question that the governors of arizona and florida and texas are using migrants as pawns in their political campaign. jesse: and the governor s plans are working. democrats are finally paying attention to the border crisis. and so is the media. who thinks migrants going to massachusetts is just like the holocaust? this is the coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook. this is what is so disturbing about desantis is to use human beings to weaponize human beings for a political purpose. what we find in all our films is that the themes that we engage in the past are present today. and so when you look at the story that we are telling of the u.s. and the holocaust, you understanded that the time to save a democracy is before it s lost. jesse: 5
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that anybody in congress thinks they re gonna get anything substantive done over the next two years. because of these divisions between republicans and democrats and it will be like the show seinfeld, where will be a show about nothing. but i can just tell you being up there every day is not nearly as funny. i shall but nothing, of, course the latest nbc polls the gop voters think that they are focused too much on investigations. perhaps the read that. matt, you want to share something else that kevin mccarthy said earlier today. because we keep talking about him siding with the far-right and his party. he said something that was noteworthy. one of the first things martina greene said from the oversight dies was that ashley babbitt was murdered. do you think ashli babbitt was murdered, when you see the police officer who shot or was doing his job? i think the police officer did his job. wow. it just a week or two ago make a mccarthy speaking about marjorie taylor greene saying,