Thank you so much for letting us into your homes. We are grateful. The beat with ari melber starts now. Hi, nicolle. Thank you. The developing news that has been coalescing around the possible replacement for Kevin Mccarthy to be Speaker Of The House. It is developing because the people you see on your screen, one of them is the former speaker. The other may or may not become the republicans pick. Hes had more vote than anyone else, but maybe not enough votes. That is a big deal for the United States, for the congress at times like these, so we are going to bring you an update on that story later in our newscast. The news out of israel right now is bleak. There is escalation. There are reports that now 22 americans have been killed in this unfolding israelhamas war. Youre seeing gaza pitch dark because gaza is under a blackout. 17 of those are still unaccounted for and feared held hostage in gaza. The shelling tonight there intensifying. Vaez says it has fighter jets that have hit over
problems when barack obama passes a law kath nuns have to buy birth control one party completed unitying around the force of go of the to compel cats to buy birth control i don t think any more yun dpooig there are aspects of president use of twitter make many feel a shame i this i the left has to understand how so much what they have been doing, their on offense on wars they think tide of history behind them, that makes many other americans feel left out peel persecuted caused them show up vote for donald trump as president. so let s have a unifying president can do this start in davos or here saying to bipartisan group trying to reopen the government okay, finally i agree, let s have votes on these all issues, and put a package together, that moving the country forward and
speaker paul ryan any minute. his favorite thing is to have to answer questions about president trump and now he has questions about the nfl and health care and other things. what s it like to be paul ryan this morning? it s unpleasant, been unpleasant to be paul ryan for the last few weeks and months. his discomfort with the way that president trump talks about congress and american politics, is pretty palpable. i wouldn t say this is necessarily anything new. that said, yeah, paul ryan is watching the republican agenda crumble in front of him. the big question is, can he get the republican conference to get tax reform done? it s a very open question and that means that the next few days are going to be quite potentially stressful and complicated for him. the glass half full, maybe tax reform is that unitying force that can bring the republicans together. betsy, eugene, ryan, great to have you with us. thank you so much one and all. what will the president say? minutes from now, h
welcome back. another battle for the soul of the conservative movement in the age of trump on the horizon. this time in oout. last week a federal judge ordered jim bennett to be added to the ballot as an independent in the special election. bennett is the son of late oout republican senator bob bennett who died last may. you remember that shortly before his passing, while in the hospital, the elder bennett apologized to muslim individuals on maf of the republican party for the rhetoric of then candidate donald trump. independent house candidate jim bennett was on with andrea mitchell this afternoon and didn t pull punches in his dissatisfaction with president trump and the republican party at large. the entire party has failed me, i think, by unitying behind a president who is unfit to hold the office. you look at the fact that you have both houses of congress