Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
Dangerous humanitarian crisis getting even worse. We cant continue going to way were going. The drug cartels will get richer and the criminals will embolden themselves more and well have complete disregard for the laws of our country at all. Fox Team Coverage begins with former Acting Dhs Secretary Chad Wolf Standing by. But first to matt finn live in los angeles. Matt . Hi, guys. I was at the border last week. When youre there in person, the humanitarian crisis is undeniable. In the summer in the extreme heat, men, Women And Children arrive in the United States pleading for water and on the verge of heat stroke. We see migrants just collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. The migrants tell us about graphic stories of rape and robbery. Some say they have their money taken along the routes by police and criminals. Migrants tell us about walking through thick jungles and exposed to wild animals and bugs. Once the migrants make it here, they have no guarantee of roof over their head. Child
for access into even greater doubt. we ll explain all that and more. i m ayman, let s get started. election denialism and conspiracies have a stranglehold on republicans. sitting politicians, party activists, everyday registered republicans. the idea that elections, multiple elections, plural here, have been stolen and that it s only republican elections that have been stolen is now common wisdom from many corners of the gop. just last night, the michigan republican party elected christina karamo as their new chair. here s a quick refresher for you. she s a 2020 election denier. he lost her race for secretary of state by 14 points in last year s midterms. she has refused to concede her race, making countless baseless claims of election fraud. instead, in arizona, kari lake is still fighting the results of her gubernatorial election, and late this week, the arizona court of appeals rejected lake s challenge of her loss to now governor katie hobbs. it s the second court rulin
politicsnation tonight s lead, the turnin point. right now, donald trump is huddling with his attorneys in florida. and getting together his defense for possible crimina indictment they could come as early a next week according to the new york times for people with knowledge of the matter have said, hi lawyers say they have no plans to meet with the manhattan district attorney s office after prosecutors invited trum to testify before a grand jury next week about the hush money payments majoring his 2016 presidential campaign to actor damage stormy daniels. years after and alleged sexual in a fair. which trump has denied former chunk fixer michael cohen, who served time i prison for charges relate to those hush money payments, met with prosecutors for the 20t and final time yesterday ahead of his grand jur appearance on next week. meanwhile, current trump attorney joe tackett pinot tol nbc news this weekend, his client is an extortion victim. and that neither of them believe c
course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.