footsie with his far right colleagues. now because mccarthy is quarreling with that same group today does not mean he is resembling a moderate. it does not change the fact that right now in humiliating public fashion, kevin mccarthy is clawing and scraping his way he hopes to the speakership, trying desperately to halt what looks like at this hour, at lee, a runaway train. it s where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. nbc news senior correspondent, garrett hague, covering the action. and former stpho claire mccaskill is here, and claire and david are both msnbc contributors. ferret, what is happening now? right now we are seeing the third vote get ready to take place here, and this one will have kevin mccarthy introduced by steve scalise and placed in nomination by steve scalise, and for the second time in a row, you have people that could be foes to mccarthy, placing his name in nomination. the last round we saw with jim jordan, and far mor
Make this last pitch, which is what do you need? what can i give you? how can i become speaker? this will be the defining moment of his career tonight behind closed doors. there s a possibility they push it to tomorrow morning at 10:00. the denny hastert scenario is this. including myself have moved to the scalise hudson question. can one of the other members of leadership move up. in 99, i was actually working in the house when newt gingrich resigned. bob livingston of louisiana was the consensus pick and the night before the vote, larry flint published a scandal story about bob and he couldn t do it. there was nobody else there who could get 218. hastert was six or eight down the line. the chief deputy whip. in today s parliament, i think that s patrick mchenry of north
We ve made a lot of progress, i hope we can reduce the mask mandates, relax some of these requirements requirements. to use black history month. it s not my cup of tea and how i would ve handled it. jesse: she ended the pandemic, right? it s official. dana: she should have gone with the inside nobody needs to wear a mask and she would ve been the leader. jesse: she should ve said gutfeld said it was okay first. greg: she is a governor. that s a leadership move. jesse: coming up, liberals pulling out all the stops to try and cancel joe rogan.
Administration to conduct things as normal, but people who really just want to see leadership move forward in a direction that leads to less conflicts like this. is there any damage control happening at the white house right now with regards to the president s comments over the last 48 hours? from inghimasi self we ve seen him take to twitter to try to reshape what it is that he actually said but it s mainly gaslighting. it s really not the consistent with what he actually said in the interview regarding what he would do in term of receiving foreign aid and we don t expect to see him just walk back from that because he does have a history of doing those type of things. you gene scott, thank you. we ll see you in a little bit on morning joe . presidential candidate beto o rourke appeared on morning joe yesterday where he was asked what sets him apart from the current front-runner former vice president joe biden. watch this. if you stood next to him, why would you tell democ
For the fourth consecutive day of nationwide anti-trump protests. and as we knew the end of final vote tallying we re learning secretary of state hillary clinton may not may not have only won more votes than trump, a popular vote win on track to be 2 million votes or more. when all is said and done she may have won more votes than any presidential candidate in history besides one, president obama. on a conference call with supporters yesterday, clinton blamed fbi director james comey and his unprecedented letter to congress about what proved to be duplicate e-mails found during the anthony weiner investigation for stopping the momentum of her campaign. meanwhile, with the reality of a trump administration setting in, many americans are angry. many are afraid. democrats want to see their leadership move forward by preparing to fight, but who will lead the charge? just a few days after hillary clinton lost the presidential election and republicans solidified their grip on congress, sev