captions by vitac www.vitac.com the gloves are truly off in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson t pay little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantie former president openly throwing hay makers. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that. and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn t either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. he s been attacking me by moving left. so, this is a different guy than 2015, 2016. 2 million illegal aliens he wanted to amnesty. we both faced covid-19, and we both responded the way we did. he responded by elevating anthony fauci and turning over the reigning to dr. fauci. he enacted a bill, basically a jailbreak bill. as for mr. trump, there s this. and yes, listen closely, he s deliberately calling the governor rob, not ron. rob desanctimonious and his poll numbers are dropp
Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
day in congress. republicans who howled at republicans or democrats kicked marjorie taylor green off committees now turning around and kicking ilhan omar off the committee after giving green new assignments. congressman george santos who lied his way into congress, no penalties yet. today, he called on congress to fight bigotry and anti-semitism as well, pretty rich coming from a guy who repeatedly claimed to be jewish. plus we re waiting for the release of more than 20 hours of footage of the police beating that led to the death of tyre nichols. the talk in the country is about how policing has to change. the question is will that change come from washington or in a classroom. will we hear it from a local level and police chiefs themselves. and there s an investigation in ohio of an online home schooling network where parents allegedly shared messages of white supremacy and hitler quotes as educational resources for the students. why the state may not be able to do a thing a
report in the washington post that documents about the nuclear capabilities of foreign nations were among those found at mar-a-lago. the former president is also responding. also, this hour we re following that news of an expected indictment for steve bannon. the one-time chief strategist in the trump white house looking to face prosecutors. when bannon could surreturn to thoughts. in tex, a judge gutting a key provision of the affordable care act. he ruled that free coverage of certain drugs that prevent hiv infections violate the religious beliefs of a christian-owned business. i m joe fryer in new york in for hallie jackson. we re going to start with the latest fallout with ken dylanian, the washington post political investigative reporter josh dauce, and paul butler. the fbi found a document that describes, quote, a foreign government s mill tar defenses, including its nuclear capabilities. nubs news has not independently confirmed this reporting, the doj declined