imminent does starts right now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone. i m alicia mendes. we begin this saturday with america on edge of a financial cliff. a test it presents for congress and for the new house speaker, kevin mccarthy. a huge test for him, specifically given how much he gave away to become speaker, handing away power to those who prioritize chaos over governing, which is not what you want when the task at hand is paying the nations bills. instead of working to keep the global economy on track, the biggest headlines we saw this week about republicans where this was the circus surrounding republican george santos it is very complicated relationship. nbc news confirmed he lied about his mother, attack being in the towers of 9/11, turns out his mom wasn t even in the united states during those attacks. this week santos also denied claims he stole money from a veteran s gofundme page that was set up set up to help a man s dying dog. are republicans o
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it s going to be a big loss, but at the same time it is well known that these are tough jobs. they take a toll on people. and usually some chiefs of staff don t even last one year. rod emmanuel did not even last to obama s midterm election. the fact that ron mcclain is stuck around without much controversy is a testament to his some of his accomplishments during the first two years of joe biden s agenda, where they are accomplished everything from infrastructure to gun control to the chips bill as well as the inflation reduction act. it was quite a feat. he s going to stick around through the state of the union and we expect that february 7th state of the union is really going to be a victory lap for president biden but also probably for ron klain himself who shepherded a lot of major pieces of legislation through the congress during president biden s first two years. nbc s scott wallen, thank
ready to put santas out to pasture? no. everything. but because mccarthy still need santos, giving given the gop s razor-thin majority in the house. science and small business committees. mccarthy s inaction on santos might show what he gave up to get the gavel. mccarthy is also seated in marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert on house oversight. what could go wrong? applaud postings republican rebels fulfill a key concession mccarthy made, handing conservatives greater influence over the gop conference comfort congressional probes and legislative agenda. joining me now, reporter scott won, on the byline of nbc s reporting on mccarthy s key concessions. scott, this was the big topic as he got back out. what was it that he conceded in order to get it, given all your reporting, what most stands out
scott, i am old enough, you are old enough to remember when ways and means was the hottest club in town. it is now the oversight committee. is it mostly going to be made for tv moments? or is there actually anything they planned to get done? there s gonna be a lot of made for tv moments. i think that is one of the reasons why marjorie taylor greene was insisting on getting on house oversight because she knows that the spotlight will be on that committee on many of the investigations. she wants to be front and center. it s part of the reason why she cut a deal early on with kevin mccarthy to back him. she was not one of the 21 defectors. a lot of people were surprised by that. she signaled her support for mccarthy very early on. in turn, if you remember democrats kicked her off committees two years ago. kevin mccarthy insisted that she would be put back on those committees. she actually got promoted to much better committees. you mentioned house oversight.