hill. >> it was a clean shot to the kidneys, and i turn back and there was kevin. >> as the maga congress keeps brawling. >> you look like a smurf. you're just going around on this stuff. >> the republican front runner keeps advertising fascism. >> i am not going to comment on candidates in their campaign messaging. >> tonight, what on earth is going on here? >> statements are fiction at best. what? >> answer the question, please. >> then, an emergency hearing for protective order georgia as witness videos keep leaking. >> he said the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. we're just going to stay in power. >> and the incredible -- on the march on washington, as the calls to rescue hostages grows and the destruction in gaza continues. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. it was a chaotic and oddly violent day on capitol hill. republicans dysfunction, stance, and anger becoming more and more extreme. ironically, this all happened amidst what should be a real success for house republicans. the new speaker, mike johnson, louisiana, just managed to pass a continuing resolution funding the government until early next year. that avoids a looming shutdown. that's good, you would think. but crucially, more democrats voted for that then members of johnson's own party. and jake sherman of -- news put it, democrats saved him. dangerous territory for republican speaker say mccarthy kevin. mike johnson and pretty quickly the lesson that the only way to keep the government functioning, something we've been saying forever, is to basically ignore part of his own caucus and work with democrats. and that decision today, and the kind of oddly anticlimactic vote in congress, along the lines we all knew it would happen, that may have something to do with the rage that emerged all over capitol hill today in environment that speaker johnson himself described as a, quote, pressure cooker. and the first and most notable incident involved mike johnson 's predecessor. remember that guy? that's the former speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, turfed out over a month ago. this morning, in clear view of at least one reporter, mccarthy appears to have assaulted a member of his own gop conference. npr congressional correspondent claudia gross alice posted this firsthand account, quote, have never seen this on capitol hill. while talking to congressman nash tim burchett after the republican conference meeting, former speaker mccarthy walked by with his detail and mccarthy shoved burchett. burchett lunged toward me. i thought it was a joke. it was not. and a chase ensued. she also recorded video of the interaction, which i am going to play in full. before that, a warning. all of the clips, low lights that we're gonna play you from the hill today are so cringing [laughter] that you want to turn away a first. but it's such a wild window into what's going on. you won't want to take your eyes and ears of them. here's what happened when kevin mccarthy exited that meeting and encountered tim burchett of tennessee in the hallway. >> i wanted to check in on the conference, how it went, it sounds like it went back and forth. >> i think it went all right. sorry, kevin, why do elbow me in the, back kevin? hey, kevin, you got only got? chuck. >> has he done that before? >> now. >> he. that's a new move. >> hey given, why do walk by me an elbow me in the back? you've got no guts. you did so they said there, the reporter said it, right there. what kind of chicken moves that? you're pathetic, man. you are sympathetic. what a jerk. you need security, kevin. anyway. >> anyway. >> a short while later, burchett explained what happened in more detail telling reporters he believed the salt was intentional. >> i was treated interview first and kevin mccarthy walked by an elbowed me in the kidneys, and walked by. it kind of caught me off guard. it's a little different than anywhere else. and so i moved forward. i fell forward. >> on purpose or not an accident? >> on purpose, ma'am. 435 members of congress, eight of us voted against him. -- publicly calling me out. he didn't see any cameras, he didn't think it would -- >> for his part, mccarthy denied the whole thing, claiming it was a tight area where they may have bumped shoulders by accident. >> did you elbow him? >> no, i do not elbow him. i do not double. i would not hit him in the kidney. 85, you are down there, right? not a big hallway. so i'm walking out, i should come after you guys report saying, did i hit somebody? bruce westman and i were walking down. i guess a reporter was interviewing burchett or something. i guess our shoulders had. burchett runs up to me afterwards. i don't know what he was talking about. i did not hit the guy, i do not kidney punch him. >> you didn't shout him? >> no. >> but the reporters say it looked like you intentionally hit him. >> okay, not a place. show me a reporter who saw that. ask bruce westerman. no, i did not. if i would get somebody they would know i hit them. >> he said he was in pain that you hit him so hard in the kidneys. >> oh, come on now. >> that's what he said. >> that explosion was met with a lot of skepticism especially in light of recent accusation by adam kinzinger that mccarthy shoved him on two occasions. take a second to think about how insane this is. kevin mccarthy is alleged to, in view of a reporter, appears to have, like, elbowed in the kidney a colleague he was mad at. that is a wild thing to do. a grown man in a workplace. can you imagine doing that in your place of work? anywhere? congressman matt gaetz of florida never want to see a new cycle go by without joining it, while this request for a house ethics committee investigation into kidney punch gate today. and then on the other side of capitol hill, we're not talking about this here, we almost saw another confrontation come to blows. this took place in the middle of a health education labor and pensions committee hearing when republicans senator markwayne mullin of oklahoma brought up his online before the witness, the president of teamsters labor union, shawn o'brien. sanders had to step in. >> he pretends he self-made. what a clown. fraud. always has been. always will be. quit the tough guy act in the senate hearings. you know where to find me. any place, anytime, cowboy. sorry, this is the time, this is the place, you wanna run your mouth, we're two consenting adults, we can finish it here. >> okay, that's fine, perfect. >> you wonder what? now >> i'd love to do it. now >> stand you about. up >> you stand your butt up. >> oh, stop it. sit down. come down. you're an united states senator. sit down, please. >> you are a united states senator. sit down, sit down, united states editor. that senator, by the way, former mixed martial arts fire eater, refused to back down, he kept trying to set a place in time for the fills occult occasion between the two men. >> you said anytime, any place. >> what's your question? >> except the challenge. >> what challenge? >> you said anytime, any place. i'm accepting yours. >> what? challenge >> april 30th. how about we do it for charity and smoking guns and tulsa, oklahoma. >> no physical confrontations. here >> you want to fight me? >> what did you say about anytime, any place? >> let's have coffee, discuss our differences. >> okay let's have coffee. >> it's funny how your backing out. >> i'm not backing out of anyone. >> you did. >> you should be the most influential people in this country making changes. you are focused on the irrelevant? >> when he was asked about the wisdom of using violence to solve the dispute, mullin pointed to the long history of fighting in the nation's capital. >> what about just the idea that fighting as a way to solve a problem, is that, are you concerned that that's the way that the conversation is happening here on capitol hill? >> people been fighting for a long time. go back to the 1800s, it was legal to do duels. if you have a difference, you have a difference. i didn't start it. i didn't tweet at him. i didn't go after him. i have no beef with the guy. let me know the last time i got a street fight. i used to get paid to fight. what victories it for me to be to beat up o'brien? that would be a shock. but he said it. i just simply responded. if he wants to call it off and we just go have a cup of coffee, fine. i have no poor feelings. it's not personal to me. he just challenged me and i accepted the challenge. >> to be clear, mullin isn't wrong about the history of violence on the house floor. a great book came out about this on house floor. the canine he reviewed to, the infamous scaling of the abolitionist center from massachusetts who was beaten near death by a pro slavery advocate from the house on the floor of the senate, is widely considered to be like the turning point of no return pass to which a war between the states and the civil war was inevitable. believe it or not, what i played you there, with markwayne mullin and sean o'brien, was not the only hearing where we saw a republican member of congress up on the dais and microphone explode today. there's another one. all the same day. i'm just giving you today's recap. this tuesday, house oversight committee chairman james comer cannot contain his anger when confronted by democratic congressman jared moskowitz about a report that calmer made 200,000 dollar business deal with his brother. that comes amidst comer's accusation that president biden's business dealings with his own brother james when biden was out of office. >> never alone my brother money. don't have an -- but you and goldman, who is mr. trust fund, continue to no, i'm not gonna give you. stop the clock. you all continue, you look like a smurf. you're just blowing around on this stuff. >> mister chairman, hold on, we're not on time,. >> you've you discount. >> you're doing stuff -- >> the american rather the american public -- >> you want to. >> why should they believe you? it is devour of the president, a deferral for you? why should they believe what you're saying, mister chairman? why? >> now, all this is kind of the ridiculous myths you expect from republican members of this conference. on a deeper level, though, these incidents highlight the fact that the republican party, congressional republican party was specifically, do not have a unifying governing vision. there is no project they're engaged in other than being the praetorian guard for donald trump's take over of the u.s. government. but there is no project are doing together. nothing that binds them together. crucially, also, that is the party who's de facto leader endorses, cultivate political violence, the rhetoric that led to a vie violent coup on the capitol, he makes q jokes about it when nancy pelosi's husband gets savagely assaulted. that's like a punchline for him. that's the political movement that they are part of. so it's disconcerting to see members of that party actually assaulting, apparently, other members of congress, less than three years later. jeremy is congressman jared moskowitz, a member of the oversight committee, democrat of florida. i've covered congress for a few decades. i've been a lot of congressional hearings. there's always a fair amount of posturing and performance that just is politics, it's fine. it's partly showmanship. it does seem like weirdly more unhinged over there than usual. is that a correct perception? >> thanks for having me. yeah, that's a pretty good observation. it's been going on for the last ten months. obviously it evolves in january six. it has devolved since trump continues to lower the bar, day in and day out. and they repeated. it's continuing behavior. listen, if the chairman is listening, i think he needs a mental health day. he just, they have such thin skin, these republican, feel like to dish it out. but man, they just cannot take it. he's been going on tv day in and day out talking about the brother and the president and they do business together when it wasn't in office by the way. but as soon as there's an article written by the chairman is doing the exact same thing, all i did was ask the chairman to explain it, and he just totally lost it. i needed bernie sanders to be like sit-down mister chairman. [laughter] and put him in his seat. but yeah, look, you saw it. he's been running hearings all year. his own witnesses have said there is nothing there on joe biden, nothing for impeachment. and yet they want to continue this day in and day out. i'm glad the chairman exposed himself today. >> it also feels like this impeachment push, again, to the extent is a unifying project it's to get donald trump elected. i think that's fair to say. we're doing everything they can to do that. one of the things they want to do is impeach or sausalito biden to that and. i did see some fascinating reporting that in a meeting with republican house moderates, which is to say frontline members of biden districts, that mike johnson was open to their argument to that because biden's polling numbers weren't as strong as less need to impeach joe biden which seems to me a little bit of a tell. >> they don't have the votes. so they don't have the votes for impeachment. if they had to vote for impeachment, they would've called impeachment. don't take for a second that donald trump doesn't want joe biden impeached. donald trump has two impeachments. he had 50% of all impeachments in american history. he has four indictments. he has 100 percent of all the presidential indictments. and so at the end of the day they would love to run the score up on joe biden falsely. but they don't have the votes. so now they're coming up with this argument, well, we'll continue to prosecuted in the media with all the misinformation they're putting out. and comer goes on tv every day as the chief propagandist for donald trump and all this joe biden stuff, and so that is their strategy right now because they don't have the votes. marjorie taylor greene tries to impeach mayorkas. they don't have the votes for that. marjorie taylor greene filed articles of impeachment the very first week joe biden was in office. and so it just goes to show you how disarrayed they aryan because all day, every day, they go on tv and they sell the american people, they sell that echo chamber that joe biden could be impeached, but they don't have the votes. >> it's interesting, as well, because it's on the day that they don't have the votes, along party lines, to keep the government funded. one of the things that the number one power that the number one branch of congress has in the constitution? it's primary central power in this whole thing. you passed basically a clean continuing resolution without any crazy right-wing poison pills as democrats head asked, as i've been worked out with biden and mccarthy, you passed it today with more democratic votes than republican votes. it's like, no wonder they're so frustrated. the one thing that is actually the saying of governing the country, like the eight don't have the interest in, and we don't have the party votes to unilaterally drive the way they want to. >> they're great at being a minority and they're doing everything they can do to get back there. they just want to be the party of no and they are showing how good they can be being the party of. know what speaker johnson did today is exactly what kevin mccarthy did just a couple of weeks ago. filed a motion to vacate. is the house freedom caucus now going to file a motion to vacate? by the way the house freedom caucus literally asked for the laddered approach. speaker johnson said fine i'll give it to you and they go out in 80 of them vote against him and so they cannot govern without the democrats. that is crystal clear. they can't solve the debt ceiling issue without the democrats, they can keep the government open without the democrats, they can't fund israel without the democrats. they can't do anything without the democrats. and so here's the good news. the good news is in 12 months they're going to have a wonderful opportunity to do a lot with the democrats in the house when they're back in the minority. >> we shall see. congressman jared moskowitz, thank you very much sir. >> thanks, chris. >> coming up, donald trump pays homage to the dictators of the past, the deeply unnerving rhetoric from the likely republican presidential nominee. what it means for the state of american democracy, next. democracy, next my skin, thanks to skyrizi. ♪(uplifting music)♪ ♪nothing is everything♪ i'm celebrating my clearer skin... my way. with skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. in another study, most people had 90% clearer skin, even at 5 years. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. thanks to clearer skin with skyrizi - this is my moment. there's nothing on my skin and that means everything! ♪nothing is everything♪ now's the time. ask your doctor about skyrizi, the #1 dermatologist-prescribed biologic in psoriasis. learn how abbvie could help you save. looking for a bladder leak pad that keeps you dry? 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