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slow start, putting it bluntly, quote, welcome to the seinfeld congress. it is a show about nothing. the vote on congresswoman omar is one of the political squabbles unfolding while the nation ticks a day closer to defaulting on its debts. house speaker kevin mccarthy met with president biden yesterday, but there doesn t appear to have been any progress on the debt limit. the president did strike this optimistic tone while speaking this morning. start treating each other with respect. that s what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. but a good meeting yesterday. we ll get latest ahead. also this morning, day four of that deadly ice storm across the south. cars are spinning out of control on highways. thousands of flights delayed and canceled. and in texas, nearly half a million people are facing the bone chilling cold without power. it is scary. definitely scary. i can say that. it is very slippery out here. probably one of the worst. we ll get an update ....
Members of the judiciary committee have apologized for or have condoned the events of january 6th, 2021. and, you know, by suggesting that they not be able to recite the pledge because they failed to uphold the constitution during that time period. so, it is going to be this back and forth politically. i think a lot of this comes from a tendency, i think carlos would agree, of republicans to kind of wrap themselves or try to wrap themselves around the flag. in the end, it is more of an embarrassment to them. congressman crawley, on the debt ceiling, we heard president biden say he and speaker mccarthy had a good meeting yesterday at the white house. they still don t have a deal. how sustainable is the president s strategy to not negotiate on this issue? well, i think the president s willing to negotiate and talk to speaker mccarthy. i think the onus because it is the republicans who i remind you ....
And the audience voted several times during the trump administration to raise the debt ceiling. it always seems to happen when they re when the president is a democrat, that they don t want to raise the debt ceiling. these are obligations owed by the united states. and i think it is incumbent upon the speaker and the republicans if they don t want to raise the debt ceiling without cuts to suggest what those cuts would be. i know that speaker mccarthy has taken social security, medicare off the the table. but where does he see the cuts coming from? i think the president would be open to discussing those. but i think it is incumbent upon the speaker to come up with those cuts. ali vitali, joe crawley and carlos curbelo, thank you for starting us off. we want to turn to the deadly weather in the south. on this now fourth day of a massive ice storm across multiple states. nearly half a million customers in texas are still without power including heat this morning. these frigid condit ....
probably one of the worst. we ll get an update from one of the areas hardest hit. and watering down history. the college board facing criticism for caving to political pressure from florida governor ron desantis and revising its ap african american studies course. so what are students no longer going to learn and what could this mean for students in other states? going to ask those questions to two leading academics in african american studies later this hour. we are going to begin with the political fight on capitol hill. starting us off, msnbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. and also joined by former congressman joe crawley, democrat from new york, and former chair of the house democratic caucus, and former congressman carlos curbelo, republican from florida and msnbc political analyst. so, ali, first to you here, this vote to remove omar is set for 12:15. will mccarthy have the votes and what else is on the agenda for the week? reporter: well, look, this is wha ....