tonight on the reid out . is this debate or is it just false? no, it s not false at all. it s debatable. as prosecutors open an investigation into the lies of republican congressman-elect george santos kevin mccarthy is facing a caucus in chaos just six days before the house votes on a new speaker. meanwhile serious questions are being raised about where santos got the money to run his campaign. also tonight the death toll is rising after a winter storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow on buffalo. we ll check in to see how the city is digging out and getting back up and running. good evening, everyone. i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid. republican leader kevin mccarthy faces a vote for speaker of the house next tuesday with a razor thin republican majority and the very real prospect of an open fight over the gavel. it s a predicament underscored by the saga of incoming republican congressman george santos of new york who again tried to explain away lies about
A speaker will have to will have gone through ballot after ballot after ballot in order to get the speaker s gavel. and i m wondering already kevin mccarthy seems weak. how weak and how damaging is that not just to the republican conference but to the country if a speaker mccarthy comes in, he gets the gavel, but it took him five, six, 30 ballots in order to get the gavel? well, i mean i m going to something that dana just said that i ll just carry on because i think it goes to this conversation, which is for a guy that s completely craven and, you know, all he wants is to sit in the speaker s office, that s really fundamentally what he s always want asked wants. he s never put together a sort of a effort or vision of how he wants to govern and what he wants to do on behalf of the