hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king and washington. very busy day in the news. thank you for your time right now a supreme court deadline in a critical medication abortion case, a decision on whether to take a pregnancy ending drug off the shelves but now happen at any moment and this hour, an overwhelming show of solidarity for a black team shot for ringing the wrong door. bell, the man who pulled the trigger twice. it s still not under arrest. attorneys for ralph yours, family say that s an outrage and that the reason his black and white and the florida governor versus the house. the mouse build ron desantis threatens retaliation against disney with rival amusement parks. even he says, maybe a state prison crowd cinderella s castle, others eyeing the 2024 republican nomination, say governor desantis is doing harm . the gop s less government free markets brand. this has gone from kind of going after a headline to something that is devolved into an issue and i
imminent does starts right now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone. i m alicia mendes. we begin this saturday with america on edge of a financial cliff. a test it presents for congress and for the new house speaker, kevin mccarthy. a huge test for him, specifically given how much he gave away to become speaker, handing away power to those who prioritize chaos over governing, which is not what you want when the task at hand is paying the nations bills. instead of working to keep the global economy on track, the biggest headlines we saw this week about republicans where this was the circus surrounding republican george santos it is very complicated relationship. nbc news confirmed he lied about his mother, attack being in the towers of 9/11, turns out his mom wasn t even in the united states during those attacks. this week santos also denied claims he stole money from a veteran s gofundme page that was set up set up to help a man s dying dog. are republicans o
coffin, in very yasmin vossoughian. it is now speaker kevin mccarthy, and we have learned he is at work to get today after an ugly week for where publicans and with a 15 ballot victory for mccarthy after last minute efforts that couldn t vince republicans to finally given. and even more chaotic than the beginning of this battle, even one near physical altercation between two members on the floor, now the question is how much did mccarthy give up to represent matt gates, and the other holdouts, and what will they deal with their almost limitless power over the speaker? preferably, you do this, the preference in politics is to always suffer indignities in private not in public. when you have a lower house of legislatures, anywhere in the world, it looks like trump s. i actually have newfound, i have new respect for people i knew. we have newfound respect for people. we do not engage in serious negotiations. i think that s good for policy. in a moment, i m gonna talk to co
anybody out here. so the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head, i know you guys are getting excited. i don t think if you watch me that i get excited do i want to go through all this, no. but i think at the end of the day it s better to go through this now so we could be successful for this term. if you fail three times, how do you possibly pull this off? you get to 218. this morning, a speakership stalemate. the house adjourned last night without a speaker after kevin mccarthy failed to win enough support in three rounds of voting. we ll walk through what happened and how today is shaping up. plus, republican congressman-elect george santos had an awkward first day in washington. he kicked things off with another statement about something that didn t actually happen. we ll tell you what it was. also this morning, the family of damar hamlin says he s still fighting after his scary collapse monday night. we ll have the latest on his condition straight
good evening. we begin with the very real possibility house republicans tomorrow will do something that has not been done for a hundred years. it s possible perhaps even likely that when the chamber s very first piece of business comes up choosing the next speaker, something necessary for anything else to proceed, they will fail to get the required number of votes to make former minority leader kevin mccarthy nancy pelosi s successor as speaker. and beyond the drama of the history that could be made tomorrow if the first vote fails and it goes to another and then as many as it takes there is the irony. mccarthy who wants to succeed floesa woman widely acknowledged to be one of the most successful legislative head counters and arm twisters of all time is still trying with just hours to go to count enough heads and twist enough arms. do you have the votes tomorrow? i think we have a good day tomorrow. that remains to be seen. just ask a fellow republican. i won t be vot