and now a lot more people can. so let s go. the digital age is waiting. new reporting as we come on the wear from washington, a key court appearance, a new white house statement, and more questions for the administration. let s start with what is happening right now this hour. the new mexico suspect solomon pena getting ready to go before a judge, just about 30 minutes from now. arrested on conspiracy charges. among others. for the shooting attacks, the ring leader, police say allegedly targeting democratic officials, in albuquerque. our team is live on the ground with new reporting and what to expect. also this hour, president biden s first reaction to the deadly helicopter crash in ukraine. the interior minister and more than a dozen others killed. we have a live report from kyiv and the pentagon with more on just what happened. plus, any minute, the white house getting ready for you name it, inevitably nor questions on how president biden handled classified documents,
concessions he made to them in order to get their votes? reporter: jake, that is really starting to come into focus. the number of concessions and promises that kevin mccarthy has made over the course of the negotiations has been quite outstanding, and i should caution that this stuff has not been put on paper. there has not been anything put out that we have seen. this is based on the reporting from me and my fantastic hill team. but i just want to walk you through just to give the viewers a sense of what has been agreed to and what a kevin mccarthy speakership could look like. the big one is he agreed for any single member to be able to call for a vote on ousting the sitting speaker. that s something he used to say he would never budge on. now any member could call for that vote. he s agreed that his leadership pack is not going to play in primaries to try to beat conservatives, at least in safe districts. that s something conservatives have complained about in the past.
lot of these members. i m told in this closed door meeting which you heard from our reporters was incredibly intense. i don t think anybody like we covered on capitol hill in our years there. that scott perry was asked point plank by kevin mccarthy, what do you want? what can i give you and he couldn t answer the question. that is the challenge that he has. there s nothing he can give them in order to get their support. for someone who has been dreams about being speaker for years and years, this is one ugly way to get there. and in the last 24 hours it looks like he s been losing vote, not getting them. one gop source who sees himself as a go between between the hard-line never kevins and allies of kevin said to me, this should have been wrapped up weeks ago. yeah. he s got nothing for these concessions and the other thing this source pointed out was if he even gets there and this person was not sure that kevin would get there, he said the chaos caucus as john boehner
good monday morning. i m hallie jackson in washington we re coming on the air learning more people have been killed in a massive winter storm with emergency workers only starting to get to some of the hardest hit areas now. we just got an update from officials near buffalo we will bring you live what they said we are looking at western new york buried under several feet of snow. the governor describing it all as a war zone. i know how hard this is but western new yorkers are tough. we know how to deal with this. we will get through this together we ll have more on that in a second new tension on the korean peninsula after north korea fires drones over soak soak for the first time in years. how the south is responding. plus, the first christmas holiday inn ukraine since the war began. the defiant message from president zelenskyy later in the show here at home with holiday shopping season over, the return the gift season is kicking into high gear. what you should know abo
cade of the nation s best minds, we begin with gordon chang. go. freeman of new york times he has praised the chinese system. the one party they know how to get things done. while condemning the american system. has he turned out to be right? what is going on in china? well, thomas friedman has been wrong, so has klaus schwab head of world economic forum who said that china was a model for the developing world, they are wrong, we ve seen the fire on the 24th. immediately there were protests, they were not coordinated. people were on the streets. they were on streets protesting covid rules which contributed to deaths in that fire, they said down with xi jinping, and down with the communist party. the mood on the streets in china, is they realize the root cause of the problems is the communist party, the system does not work. and if they thought about it, they would have said, thomas friedman is wrong. mark: yeah, new york times, and cnn, have both praised the communist c