tonight on the reidout no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and implements its vision. for some, it serves as bring your kids to congress day, so that children get to see their parents or their grandparents take the oath, and perhaps make history themselves. history was certainly made on this opening day in the house of representatives when house democrats nominated their caucus chair, hakeem jeffries, of new york, to succeed nancy pelosi as speaker. i rise today a
first of all, i don t know the answer to that question. again, this is a freak occurrence. it occurs very infrequently. it happens in car accidents, when you get hit by a baseball, football. so, it is something that occurs so infrequently that it is we have really limited utility in trying to prevent it. sure. the other question, with the anti vax, misinformation that is out there, it is really ridiculous. i don t know if you saw case, but basically, you come to rock nation, vaccine and it is a pretty disappointing night, instead of lifting up this man and trying to jumping to all kinds of weird, wacky theories. amen to that, amen to that. dr. bernard ashby that really was one of the best explanations i have seen and william rhoden, friends both, happy new year to you. and next up, slippery george
laura: howie? you know, when there is a terrible tragedy and even as bodies are being brought out, the fingerpointers want to score political points, so even though this is happening on the other side of the world and has nothing whatsoever to do with president trump, we can debate his rhetoric for hours but i the idea that trump inspired this and set the tone for some crazed mad man in new zealand really makes me angry. laura: do republicans do this to the bernie sanders supporter who shot up the baseball field? exactly. laura: did we sit around saying, well, obama s people said this and pelosi said this it was a freak. he happened to be a bernie sanders supporter and had a lott of wacky theories. that s right. laura, i was just about to say this.. if you ll recall, shooter of the scalise shooting was a big fan