6th to impeach donald trump on the january 6th insurrection was bipartisan. ten house republicans voted with the democrats then. the vote to convict donald trump included seven republican senators who joined all 50 democratic senators. the vote it create an outside commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection was bipartisan across the board. 35 republicans voted for it in the house. six in the senate. all those efforts to hold the ex-president accountable came up short, though, because of the partisan obstruction campaigns waged and led by kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell. they sit on the deck of the titanic, though, erecting to shield the public from an unfiltered view of the firsthand witnesses begins to unravel this week. take this statement from kinzinger accepting his appointment to the committee. he said this, quote, self-governance requires accountability and responsibility. my faith requires the same of me. truth is necessary for order, and that s what i w
five years now, tried to tell paul ryan, off and on air, before he endorsed donald trump the day or two after he called him a racist, that he s a bully and you don t you don t negotiate with bullies. and you don t grovel, because when you grovel with bullies, they spit in your face. and that s what s happened time and time again with republicans. and, you know, again, all this groveling what has it gotten the republican party? minority status in the senate, the house, they ve lost the white house. they now seem to be their two main planks right now seem to be voodoo when it comes to health care, letting people die. they re on the side with wild anti-vaxx conspiracy theorists. and then basically forgiving the violence of what happened on january the 6th. trying to forget the violence, ignore the insurrection. so voodoo and violence. that s really not something that a party wants to side up with. but, mika, again, though, on this personal front, you cannot suck up to a bull
were big votes in the senate like that, these days i was talking to senator tester saying until you are doing something completely noncontroversial it is unheard of to get 18 people joining with democracy. democrats. it s quite something. it really is. i saw your interview with john throughout the problem and he s very realistic about what the possibilities are. he s not someone who throws around a lot of false optimism. he is one of the keys to watch it get this far. it s not all the way there but this vote is a huge hurdle to get over. looking forward to your show. have a good one. thank you, ali. as i say, the senate delivered a huge vote tonight, a huge win, very important, huge win for joe biden in the senate tonight. it was also a huge win for chuck schumer s legislative strategy in the senate passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill followed by a larger democrats-only bill, and at the very same time, this part was completely unnecessary and he brought it on himse
wear a mask for just 100 days. it s the easiest thing can you do to reduce covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths. the cdc puts out their guidelines ansds they re very important guideline, but i think this. i think that the vaccine was or goal. that was number one, because that was the way, it was the way it ends. vaccines in a vile only work if they re injected in an arm of people especially those most at risk. this would be one of the hardest, the most costly operational challenges in our nation s history. the president-elect and the current president. both speaking at the exact same time yesterday with very different messages. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, december 9th. joe has the morning off but along with willie and me we have white house reporter for the associated press john sthnathane and host of way to early kasie hunt and former chafe of the republican national committee and msnbc political analyst michael steele is with us.
building. we have to warn you. this is upsetting. okay. i don t know who s watching. we got hit by a hurricane. i m at work in mayfield. and we are trapped. please, y all, give us some help. we re at the candle factory in mayfield. please. please. in arkansas, at least one person is dead. five seriously injured after the apparent tornado hit a nursing home. early reports say two people died and multiple injured at the amazon center in edwardsville, illinois after a 100-foot portion of the wall collapsed. we will stay with the story. a lot going on. i want to get to stephanie stanton who has been covering this. stephanie, good morning. this is a fast breaking story. we are learning about the damage and as sun starts to come up and what that damage looks like. there is still danger of more storms. reporter: good morning, ali. we are monitoring what is happening over in the several states in the midwest. from here in florida, i grew up in the chicagoland area. i m familiar