agency of unfair treatment and alleging retaliation. republicans say this is further proof of what it calls institutional rot and anti-conservative bias and adding to the argument just before the hearing, the fbi yanked security clearances of two of the agents. working as an fbi special agent was my dream job, my whistle-blowing was a political up oath, but the fbi closed ranks and attacked the messenger. my family and i have been surviving on early withdrawals from the retirement account while the fbi has ignored my request for approval to outside employment. i swore an oath to the constitution. do you believe that the fbi is hostile to you for that reason to keep agents from speaking up? yes, yes, no question. dana: chairman jim jordan morning the whistle-blowers they would face heavy attacks from democrats. we talked to two dozen whistle-blowers, people have come to us and we have interviewed several of those in today three of them. three of those brave whist
talks and he is confident they will come to a bitart san agreement before it is too late. todd: alexandria hoff live in washington. alexandria: president biden did receive a briefing this morning, the president s team informed him steady progress is being made and the president directed his team to keep pushing forward for bipartisan agreement. on wednesday, they introduced procedural resolution that would allow members to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling. president biden is in japan. hakeem jeffries wrote to colleagues, given the impending june 1 deadline, it is important all legislative options be pursued in the event no agreement is reached. for a forced vote to be successful, all democrats, plus five republicans would have to join the effort. here is house speaker kevin mccarthy. i do not think it is going anywhere, for one, it seems that would be playing into a biden default. i think america public is tired of those political games. freedom caucus members u
Major overhaul of the speech or speaker Selection Process persons are the no changes we dont know for certain. We know more about the selection of the miss america then we do about the next speaker of the house and second in line to the presidency. Kevin mccarthy of california does have the majority of the majority of the House Republicans behind him. That you need 218 votes and can only lose four and four already said they were level for him. Will split all play out on tuesday at noon eastern. The next big question is what are the rules of the house . Will they be able to vacate the chair thus forcing john boehner to step down the speaker . Committee chairs have unilateral Subpoena Power . Will they end proxy voting how wild will they go with your marks . After that vote trying to accomplish three major things, things, first you have to actually legislate its much more difficult in the scenes and republicans made a long list and they will be judged by their ability to get out of the h
take these cuts off the table. remember i said it no, i m serious. remember what i said, i said so you re not going to cut it, huh? no, i said okay, we ve got a deal. i sure hope that s true. president joe biden hits the road following a strong state of the union address keeping republicans in the spotlight for proposed cuts to social security and medicare. plus speaker kevin mccarthy spent parts of biden s speech trying to calm down rowdy members of his own party. we ll show you what he had to say about their outbursts. and house republicans got to air their grievances against twitter. we ll have the big moments from yesterday s contentious oversight hearing. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden is continuing his populous push following his state of the union address taking his message to the swing state of wisconsin yesterday. the president spoke t
republican proposal that could bring cuts to social security and medicare, calling out lawmakers by name who have supported those cuts. i mean, he negotiated, basically, with republicans on the house floor. it was quite a sight to see. they conceded. i mean, his position it s a strong one. meanwhile, house republicans yesterday were focused on hunter biden, big tech. that s what america really wants. and the fbi. we ll show you the big moments from a grievance-fueled house oversight committee hearing. plus, new york congressman george santos doubles down on his criticism of senator mitt romney following romney s confrontation of the embattled new york lawmaker at the state of the union. mitt romney, of course, saying what everyone should be saying on the republican side. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, february 9th. good to have you all with us. with us in washington, white house editor for politico, sam stein. washington bureau