alex night starts to be incredibly fe thing but to be incredibly funny and decent is an entirely different thing. also a rare combination. thank you my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. california congressman kevin mccarthy the shortest serving speaker of the house in over 140 years is ending his extraordinary 2023 by throwing in the towel. now it is time to pursue my passion in the new arena. while i ll be departing the house at the end of this year, i will never, ever give up fighting for this country that i love so much. if you blinked, he might have missed mr. mccarthy s ten month term is the country s highest republican elected official, and that s not just because it was so short. it was entirely unproductive. mccarthy bargained away basically everything to when the speaker s gavel and he got nothing in return for it. that is the lesson for people who court the far right who do the bidding of donald trump, look the other way. and
and luckily, we will never ever forget the great norman lear. on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i ll see you again tomorrow. california congressman kevin mccarthy the shortest serving speaker of the house in over 140 years is ending his extraordinary 2023 by throwing in the towel. now it is time to pursue my passion in the new arena. while i ll be departing the house at the end of this year, i will never, ever give up fighting for this country that i love so much. if you blinked, you might have missed mr. mccarthy s ten month term as the country s highest republican elected official, and that s not just because it was so short. it was entirely unproductive. mccarthy bargained away basically everything to when the speaker s gavel and he got nothing in return for it. that is the lesson for people who court the far right who do the bidding of donald trump, look the oth
prompting another person to send off a message that flynn can be compromised. what can you tell us about flynn going forward and the attention on him from the fbi? that certainly, from the informant s standpoint, that was a moment that he took merit of. it is not clear that that information that went to the authorities triggered a counter intelligence investigation. but it would have been logged by authorities. new york times reporter adam thank you for joining us and congratulations on the late breaking news tonight. thank you. bye. i will say, flynn is, if this anecdote about michael flynn from 2014, sources alarmed by the closeness with a russian woman at a intelligence seminar, reporting back whether orient
this executive order from my research we have not heard from him since the protests at airports across the country, and do we have that statement. let s put it up. we are a compassionate nation, and i support the refugee resettlement program but it s time to re-evaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process, and he says that he supports president trump s executive orders saying he s right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know who is entering our country. after our viewers hearing what you said about this order, the execution and the merit of, what would you say to speaker ryan and to the president about how this should move forward? well, i certainly agree that we can always improve our visa vetting and refugee vetting program, and i don t have any question about that, but i think it s wrong in the case that i was dealing with, with the