competitively that republicans flipped four seats, ultimately handing the republican party the majority in the house, and kevin mccarthy, the gavel, we re going to work on the lights. now, democrats have a chance to try once more. a state appellate court threw out the maps again. a major win for the party. we re going to explain what happened because if that ruling stands, the democratic party has a serious shot at retaking the house next year. especially since the needs of front line republicans, the moderate ones who won, like toes here in new york are being sacrificed by kevin mccarthy to appease the conservative wing of the party. the amendments added to the defense version of the budget focusing on culture war issues like abortion, diversity, critical race theory, transgender medicine and covid vaccines. what does the democratic party do now, and what does kevin mccarthy do now? let s bring in nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and msnbc legal analy
The house of representatives the honorable Hakeem Jeffries of new york. Mr. Speaker, you may agree with this. But we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber. Or has this been about Something Else . Has this been a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. A fair question. A fair question. Nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping
Mccarthy. Lets listen in. By sir name. The house will be in order. The clerk may call the roll. Adams. Yay. Anna holt. No. Nay. Aguilar. Yay. All force. No. Nay. Allen. Nay. All red. Yeah. Amma day. Nay. Armstrong. No. No. Bacon. Nay. Baird. Nay. Barr. Nay. Barragan. Yeah. Bean of bent. Nay. Berra. Yay. Bise. Nay. Biggs. Yay. Billa rackus. Nay. Bishop of georgia. Yay. Bishop of North Carolina. Yay. Nay. Nay. Bloomen hour. Yeah. Blunt rochester. Yay. Boebert. No for now. Nay. Bona meche. Yay. Bost. Nay. Bowman. Yay. Boil of pennsylvania. Yeah. Nay. Buck. Yay. Bourbon. No buzzinski. Nay. Berches. Yay. Burgees. Nay. Calvert. Nay. Cammic . Cammic . Cara carl. Nay. Carson. Yay. Carter of georgia. Nay. Carter of louisiana. Yay. Carter of texas. Carter of texas . Cartwright. Yay. Case. Yay. Castion. Yay. Castor of florida. Yay. Castro of texas. Yay. Chavez mccormick. Yay. Chu. Yay. Ciscomanny. Nay. Clark of massachusetts. Yay. Clark of new craig. Yay. Crane. Yay. Craig. Yay. Crane. Yay. Crawf
Good afternoon, so good to be with you. Im jose diazbalart in for katy tur. This is just the beginning. It has been a historic day inside the manhattan courthouse. Both sides completed their Opening Statements in Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial. The prosecution, Zeroing In On Donald Trumps alleged attempts to interfere with the 2016 election saying they have receipts that prove the former president , quote, covered up a criminal experience by lying in his new York Business records over and over and over again. Now, the defense meanwhile says that former president simply didnt do anything wrong. Quote, theres nothing wrong with trying to influence an election, todd blanche told jurors, its called democracy. We heard from our first witness in the trial. Trumps long time friend and former ceo of the National Enquirer, david pecker, a man at the center of the alleged scheme to bury claims from women who say they had affairs with donald trump. Well tell you what he said and what his