tonight on the reidout no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and implements its vision. for some, it serves as bring your kids to congress day, so that children get to see their parents or their grandparents take the oath, and perhaps make history themselves. history was certainly made on this opening day in the house of representatives when house democrats nominated their caucus chair, hakeem jeffries, of new york, to succeed nancy pelosi as speaker. i rise today a
The american people. what january 6th proved to us, when a white supremacist mob seized the capitol to interrupt the peaceful transition of power is that white supremacy is a threat to everyone who calls this country home and to our democracy. and in fact, we see across the aisle with the insurrectionests that are still serving here in congress, you know, again, it is anti-democratic, it is a threat to everyone, and they do not care about democracy or the american people. so the democrats have two years to make the affirmative case that we do care about democracy, that we do care about the people. and so we ll continue to fight the good fight. i m very proud to be serving in the commonwealth of massachusetts, having just elected historic governors, lieutenant governors, attorney generals, all women. and also to be serving with the historic mayor. so i m going to be exhaustive in
The fact you can t afford groceries or a tiny number of people is richer than anyone in human history, no. the real threat to you is white supremacy. domestic terrorists from white supremacists is the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland. we know now we must confront and defeat political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism. don t dare call them protesters. they were a riotous mob, insurrectionests, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. white supremacy. the media outlets began ranting about race talkingly it can t
And eugene, so he s the first trump family member to speak and his wife is ivanka, the former president s daughter. i think chairman, bennie thompson, said himself they re still in contact with her team, trying to figure out what agreement they can get to do get her to speak to the committee. because the committee definitely wants to hear from her. not just a daughter but one of the closest aids and someone folks were telling and talking to and she was talking to the then president about calling off the insurrectionests. so, that s an important aspect as we re watching and talking about this is what the president was doing at that time and whether or not his aids were able to get in touch with him and convince him to do something. it s going to be fascinating,