and the republican party looks like an embarrassment right now. the 20 that are doing this, they have done a good job. they need to keep talking, and then they need to do what every single successful person does, you take your deal, you take your win, you take your victory lap, and let s move on, and let s get on with business. wow, rare agreement between president biden and republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. both labeling the mutiny among the house republicans as embarrassing. this morning, there is still no speaker of the house. welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, january 5th. along with joe, willie, and me we have congressional investigations reporter for the washington post , jackie alemany, sam stein, the founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes, and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. still no speaker. i feel like what we saw yesterday, and we ll talk about that and show members of congress speaking on the floor but we re beginn
Thrown into a position where his leadership could be challenged. congressman gaetz said mccarthy also has agreed to place freedom caucus members on key committees like the rules committee which controls all traffic to the floor of the house. republican congressman patrick mchenry of north carolina has been part of the negotiations and confirms to nbc news mccarthy has offered a series of concessions to the group but refused to comment on the specifics, but after all of that, congressman gaetz says while he s happy with those concessions, it is still likely you cannot negotiate with these people. it s what we keep saying. you can t negotiate with them. you turn the plane over to them, willie. they re flying the plane for the next two years. you don t let them in the door. like you can negotiate with somebody like chip roy who s
To resign after the january 6th capitol attack. mccarthy called the original report false. then said this after audio proved his denial was a lie. a lie, yeah. what they said we did, we never did. i mean, i never asked president trump to resign. we both talked about that. we ve talked about about resigning? no, he met be clear. you missed i have never asked the president to resign. what the book said was not true. i never asked the president to resign. if you listen to the phone call, i got asked a question. i was asked a question in a time period about the 25th amendment. all i did was walk through, like anybody would, what are the different scenarios that would happen. all we did was put out the different options. it s not all he did. all he did, he said he was disgusted by it. like he said on the floor he was disgusted by it. like he told members during the time period he was disgusted by it and said he was going to have
His stance. trump called the quote a big compliment, that reasons who criticized him after january 6th would still back him. trump did deny he told mccarthy he accepted responsibility for what happened. a person close to trump tells nbc news mccarthy called to apologize to the former president. oh, my god. the person said trump isn t really mad. he s got other things on his mind. he accepts kevin for who he is. which really says it all. let s bring in founder of the conservative website, charlie sykes. we had a good talk on conservatism the other day. talks about where we went wrong. i think you and i probably think we continue to go wrong. maybe a little more than matthew does. anyway, it is an excellent book on reviewing conservatism. here, though, you know, part of what we discussed the other day
Acknowledge that. i ve had it with this guy. what he did is unacceptable. nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend it. i ve had it with this guy. it s true. what he did was unacceptable. nobody could. i ve had it with this guy. what he did was again, kevin, he lies. he gets caught lying. then he lies again about hiss original lies. again, i take it back to 2017 when it came out that he, in 2016, had told house leaders that donald trump was on the take. he was getting money from vladimir putin. putin was paying trump and dana rohrabacher, in his opinion. he said, swear to god, i think it is happening. he lied about that. he was shown a transcript. he said the transcript was fake news. then they played him the tape. then he said, oh, never mind. despite those words, donald trump told the wall street journal friday his relationship with mccarthy was in tact because mccarthy quickly changed