taylor budovich served in all incompassing role, how, he s ahead of the trump-aligned super pac maga inc. so what did jack smith s team want from him? he testified for about an hour, a source familiar told nbc news that among the questions he was asked was one about a past public statement on behalf of donald trump. that the former president did not retain classified documents, the source tells us jack smith s team wanted to know how he knew that. in other words, did someone tell him that, misleading him. and if so, who was that, or was he guessing. for his part, budowich tried to frame the questions react tifl publicly right after he appeared privately. we ll tell you what he said in a moment. the question we have now is that it? budowich with that decision. and hurt from mark. meadows and testimony from 24 secret service agents. joining me nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and in florida, nbc legal analyst lisa aruba. lisa, let s start in florida.
jeffries. my first vote for speaker of the house was for byron donalds. today i am rising to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house of representatives. now, here we are and for the first time in history there have been two black americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the house. [applause] john: standoff ratcheting up tensions and raising fears of a longer term rift among republicans as the gop leadership remains on hold. sandra: congressman elect donalds will be joining us in a moment, byron donalds is watching for the final vote cast on the float and then hop in front of the camera and join us live. john: first we go to chad pergram live on capitol hill. chad, looks like groundhog day today. well, right now the one thing we know is that they are not going to elect a speaker of the house on this roll call vote. the first vote of the day, the fourth overall in the past two days and kevin mccarthy has not been able to get an outright majority of
host of the beat, ari melber joins us this morning. joe. you know, ari melber, over the past several years, we have been a constitutional republic run by people who have little respect for the rule of law. a former president with his henchman who didn t think twice about breaking the law, didn t think twice about breaking constitutional norms or calling for the arrest of their political opponents, whether it was hillary clinton in 2016 or joe biden in 2020. in 2016 with chants at national conventions for doing far less than donald trump did when he was president of the united states. and then in 2020, donald trump is president of the united states, ordering his attorney general to arrest his political opponents. and i ve heard it. i know you have. so many people, good democrats and independents and republicans asking the same question. is this guy above the law? well we wake up this morning, and we have an inkling. perhaps a belief that in the early morning hours of augus
tonight, whoever comes out ahear left socialist. his name right there, john fetterman, by the way, we wish his health, he is recovering from a serious stroke, we wish him the best. we will have a lot more in my monologue coming up in just a minute. first, joining us now with analysis on all the latest numbers, with insider advantage, the polestar, matt towery, also full disclosure, somebody i ve known a long time from georgia. you and robert cahaly both told me this is a very, very close race, you are both right, you called it, i give you a lot of credit. i have been crunching numbers all day, i have been talking to people all day, i have been checking county websites all day. and i have my belief that worst-case scenario, this comes out in oz s favor, some people might disagree. what is your take? well come i mean, there are different opinions out there. my question is this: where are the votes? my experience, i have been involved before i started news, i was involved in a