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friends first on this busy friday. todd: democrats hoping to pass the tax and spending plan last night but the minority leader s marathon speech forcing pelosi to push to 8 am eastern today as the package will at a whopping $367 billion to the federal deficit. that is carley shimkus, far cry from the president s promise that it would be fully played for. carley: breaking news from washington. kevin mccarthy was able to delay a house that with more than a our speech. i don t know. i know america will know more about it. it is your money. what you do with your money is to decide, not washington bureaucrats. mccarthy s beating nancy pelosi, back in 2018. mccarthy s last-ditch delay was to stall passage of the bills back better bill, the nonpartisan congressional budget office estimates the bill will add $367 billion over the next decade. the deficits are closer to $160 billion, that is not 0 like the president has claimed. doesn t cost a cent. $1.75 billion, guess ....
right now, house republicans fail to impeach the border boss, fail to deliver an ally in need and they will fail to advance an immigration deal that they themselves demanded. plus an appeals court reveals that donald trump is not immune from prosecution. had what might the supreme court say. and the chair of the republican national committee offers to quit amid tension from trump. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s wednesday, february 7th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in washington, where house republicans were delivered a dramatic and really embarrassing defeat on the house floor last night. they failed in their efforts to impeach homeland security secretary mayorkas over his handling of the southern border. the resolution is not adopted. there was so much uncertainty over who would support the effort and three house republicans ultimately decided to vote with democrats against this. those three congressmen brou ....
republicans are expected to torpedo a bipartisan immigration and foreign aid bill. well, democrats aren t entirely on board either with that bill. fail to go pass immigration reform is especially embarrassing for republicans who have been screaming for decades that the border is in crisis, and needs to be fixed through legislation immediately. but now that a once in a multi-decade opportunity to do something about it is in front of them, they re about to decide that chaos at the border is politically better for them than an attempt to fix it. in the gob smack words of conservative republican senator james lankford who cowrote the bill, quote, are we as republicans going to have press conferences and complain the border is bad and intentionally leave it open after the worst month in american history in december. well, senator, it seems the answer is yes. so what exactly is happening in the republican party? who is in charge? and is this these failures, what they want? jo ....
at this hour, breaking news, the senate is now voting on a doomed border deal. can critical aid for ukraine and israel, though, still be saved? democrats will make a move to find out. a stinging defeat for nikki haley in nevada, trump wasn t on the ballot, but she still lost by double digits to an option labeled none of these candidates. fani willis s fight, the new support for the fulton county d.a. as trump tries to have her disqualified from his georgia election case. and a big map costs how much? the growing backlash as fast food prices take a bigger bite out of your wallet. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we want to begin with all of the dysfunction on capitol hill. nbc s ryan nobles is following that. a couple of horrible, terrible votes for the republicans last night. but now another vote. tell us what s happening and how this all fits together? reporter: yeah, chris, what we re expecting is actually a series of vot ....
also come together on immigration. make it a bipartisan mission once again. a major theme in last night s state of the union, president joe biden calling on a divided congress to work together and pass legislation on several key issues. however, some members of the gop decided to make a scene during the speech heckling the president over the budget and the border. and then there was george santos who found himself in a tense exchange with of all people republican senator mitt romney. we ll show you what romney had to say about the freshman congressman who s facing multiple legal investigations. good morning and welcome to wail on this wednesday, february 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden delivered his annual state of the union address last night before a newly divided congress. speaking for just over an hour, biden touted his administration s accomplishments while repeatedly stressing that the job isn t finished ....