finally official. kevin mccarthy is the new speaker of the house after 15 hard-fought ballots and some serious late night drama. and a good saturday morning to you, i m katie fang, let s begin today s show getting caught up on how we got here. it started with the 14th vote late last night mccarthy managed to flip more of the hard-line republicans needed to win the speakership. but came up short one matt gates voted present. that led to a tense conversation on the house floor between the two men, and our show of visible frustration from mccarthy. and watch this. republican congressman mike rogers approaches matt gates to see something and a colleague pulls him back by putting a hand on his face. the moment showing how much anger was boiling over on the floor after several days of voting. and then for a moment it looked like republicans are going to adjourn, and start voting again on monday. but at the last second, or it was out that they suddenly had the votes. and of that 1
best a sizable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the capitol and said it was no different than the black lives matter of last summer. some lament that the only reason this activity is getting more attention is because of quote, political correctness. this e-mail went on to flag a number of incredibly alarming examples of comments being made in different fbi field offices including one official saying this. quote, over 70% of his counterterrorism squad and roughly 75% of agent population in his office disagreed with the violence, but could understand where the frustration was coming from which led to the protestors getting carried away. the fbi declined to comment on the e-mail when it became public last week then the fbi agents association told nbc news that it does not comment on ongoing investigations. added this, quote, fbi agents understand the importance of separating their own personal views from their professional wor
mar-a-lago search as the department of justice appeals a special master ruling. and 53 days to november 8th. i signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that trump won the election, and emmett, i stand by what i signed. will voters a by a sped snapping republican pivot to democracy? do you stand by that today? so you know, we we live in learn. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, happy friday. i m chris hayes with less than two months to go before the midterm elections, of republican party finds itself in considerably worse shape than they had expected we have new polling out and day from the new york times. it shows that 46% of registered voters said they would be more likely to vote for the democratic candidate for congress in their district, if the election were held today, compared to 44% who said they would vote for the republican. that s within the margin of error. but even if we consider the parties neck and neck, ac
between policy, human rights, and yes, the trolling politics of the maga era. ron desantis is trying to cruelly exploit and use human beings as a type of prop for a trolling political points a well as endear himself to apparently people who in public call the shots with what this supposedly mighty powerful governor does, because he is the most powerful person in the state of florida in the government system, but apparently he has bosses that outrank him there, and they don t live in florida. a lot of them are based around the east coast in fox news. we ll explain. the maga governor has flown 50 undocumented immigrants, including minors or children, on a plane up to martha s vineyard. so this is a real thing, but it s also a type of trolling performance art designed to trigger or upset liberals. now, one immigrant is saying that they were misled about this or lied to, that they were told initially that some sort of refugee association would be involved in this project, that th
from as msnbc world headquarters, welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news as we await a news conference from police in mississippi where a pilot is now in custody after threatening to crash his plane into a walmart. he circled the skies for hours and instead landed in a field in north mississippi. the faa says only the pilot was on board, no word yet confirming his identity. it started early today after the pilot took off from to pull a regional airport. the police got word that the pilot intended to crash intentionally, the walmart was closed. that plane flew haphazardly for hours before coming down in the field where police swarmed it and made the arrest. here s our affiliate as that drama unfolded. we have been able to confirm, we have at least confirmed to us that it has crashed, that does not mean they reach the crash location. one of the difficult things about figuring out something like that is just how fast the plane was moving. at its lowest poi