academic for decades. we knew each other for more than 40 years. why we did not always agree, we always came back together. over the last two years, he and i were closely as co-chairs of the national campaign to have the black community fight covid. he was on politics nations of november 2020. we booked as late as a couple of weeks ago about this work and he was still fighting cancer all the way through, he kept fighting. we have the community on health conditions, housing and economic conditions, he will be tremendously missed. that does it for me, thank you for watching, i ll see you back here tomorrow at 5 pm eastern for another live hour of politicsnation. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now on msnbc. methank you as always, reference sharpton. hello everyone, i m alicia mendez. we begin to saturday in san francisco where federal and local investigators are piecing together the motive behind friday s brutal attack on paul pelosi. the husband is the spea
thank you so much for being with us on this busy day of news. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. we are tracking this breaking news as republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century. kevin mccarthy started the new congress a humiliating failure. he lost the vote for speaker today. lost 19 republicans on the first ballot. it s the first time any politician in any party lost a hope floor vote for speaker since 1923. it s rare because of course this is a job where the votes are typically lined up. person who is becoming speaker is above all else supposed to get, count, and keep votes. in the orderly process of this first day of the new house, here s what it sounded like on the floor. the honorable hakeem jeff his of the state of new york has received 212. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 202. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surnam
america s governor of florida, my opinion is one of the most influential conservative figures today. making a huge positive impact. we ree here with our guest governor desantis. good to see you in florida. mark: this is snowing up there. it is nice. 75 degrees here. a lot of people are moving to the state of the florida. before we get into that. i would like to know about your wife, casey, we ve come to knowe her a lovely person, how is she i doing. going through the breast cancer treatments, she is very strong. i think she is responding about as well as you can. it is a difficult process, there are some days that are good, some that are bad. so we re working through it. and something that you nevern t to have to face. but i can tell you, if anyone can beat it, she is going to beat it. mark: local press, criticizing you, talking about you as if you were joe biden in the basement in wilmington. and you accompany your wife to theou treatments. yes, they try you know
governor ron desantis. governor of florida, he is making a huge positive impact for his state and the country. go impact. we ree here with our guest governor desantis. good to see you in florida. mark: this is snowing up there. it is nice. 75 degrees here. a lot of people are moving to the state of the florida. before we get into that. i would like to know about your wife, casey, we ve come to knowe her a lovely person, how is she i doing. going through the breast cancer treatments, she is very strong. i think she is responding about as well as you can. it is a difficult process, there are some days that are good, some that are bad. so we re working through it. and something that you nevern t to have to face. but i can tell you, if anyone can beat it, she is going to beat it. mark: local press, criticizing you, talking about you as if you were joe biden in the basement in wilmington. and you accompany your wife to theou treatments. yes, they try you know this was
guess they are using the same co flatten the curve. [laughter] but thank god because the stuff i ve watched so far has been so riveting. to hell with that summer vacation to key west, i know what i am doing the first week or 2 of july. yeah. apparently they re going to pursue witnesses and a lot of new evidence. i guess they re not happy with the witnesses they originally cast in this [bleep] show. what a disaster, huh? made the hindenburg look like a fender bender. to make pompeii look like knott s berry farm. that is a weird comparison. apparently they are going to subpoena trump s white house counsel, pat cipollone? i don t know. already talked to these clowns, and what for? local, obviously to salvage the mess they made with their big star. the good news, at least you didn t implicate two body building nigerians. [laughter] seriously, haven t they been through enough? just wish they would move out of my apartment. they take the longest showers. apparently, the committee d