Nominee. How it could influence the race to replace the republican leader. And the record busting billions that president ial campaigns will pour into buying a mountain of negative ads. Can all that money buy a winning message or is it just so much white noise . Msnbc chief political analyst chuck todd will join me to talk about that, and why it may takes weeks to get an answer. We start with today, the official start of the rematch most voters say they didnt want. Joe biden versus donald trump, an unprecedented race in extraordinary ways. To candidates, older than any in history, both extremely wellknown yet deeply disliked facing a polarized electorate and toxic political climate, and yet they have essentially cemented their partys nominations even before they have the delegates to make it official. Trump is now the presumptive nominee, after this morning nikki haley suspended her Campaign Congratulating but not endorsing trump with a warning that seemed to directly target him. Our c
paid to those materials when you are in office and after you leave office, and clearly that did not take place in this case. but the unequal treatment before the law was deeply troubling to me early this week. well, well, well. that was mike pence two weeks ago talking about president biden s classified documents. but now it s pence s lawyers who are explaining how classified material ended up at the former vice president s home. also ahead, kevin mccarthy makes food on his promises for committee assignments, procking high-profile democrats from one and adding fringe members of the gop to others. plus, the pentagon now appears to be ready to send tanks to ukraine after all. we ll explain why the move is as much about putting pressure on allies as it is about arming the ukrainians. good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 25th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a packed show and we begin in washington where c
meeting of mccarthy and you see at this point mcconnell saying you get in the room together, see what you could it would not surprise me a couple of months from now you see mcconnell all of a sudden becoming much more active and kind of helping the two of them come to some kind of an agreement. the three relationships to watch here, the president with each of the republican leaders and the mccarthy and mcconnell dynamic, the two of them, fascinating, shaping so much of our politics this year. anna palmer, we will look for your newsletters in our in-boxes. new developments in the war on ukraine. in a major reversal, the united states is now finalizing plans to send tanks to the war-torn country. new questions about campaign finance loans for republican congressman george santos. those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. .
attempts, the president public attempts, the president public attempts to carry on getting bipartisanship on a host of issues thatjoe biden once past, once past. the protection of the voting rights bills in the senate, it seems to me that progressive democrats are getting frustrated with those efforts to try to get bipartisanship and they say it s time to move on, we have to do this by ourselves. i we have to do this by ourselves. i would separate the if structure from the voting would separate the if structure from the voting rights issue. in general you have the voting rights issue. in general you have not raised this word yet, but let s you have not raised this word yet, but let s face it, this all comes track but let s face it, this all comes back to but let s face it, this all comes back to the filibuster. and my view, which back to the filibuster. and my view, which is back to the filibuster. and my view, which is the back to the filibuster. and my view, which is
made clear to pompeo that is a great landing spot for those with his ambitions. and then underneath lies the uncertainty about the state of the race in kansas where there are red flags for national republicans. this is precisely the point mcconnell made directly to pompeo s boss in a meeting earlier this fall sources tell me. trump i m told was receptive and made clear if the race in the red state was in trouble he himself would urge pompeo to get in. i m told pompeo is undecided and nothing is likely to happen in either way until the impeachment trial ends but trump is already working up a short list of pompeo wait list at the state department and mcconnell tends to get his way on those kind of things. keep an eye on that. that is it for inside politics. catch up week days. up next state of the union