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up a dramatic night and early morning on capitol hill. >> reporter: out took 14 failed votes, intense negotiations to flip more than a dozen holdouts in a final tally that took place well after mid might. it ended with speaker mccarthy being handed the gavel. he was met with a standing to ovation. >> from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] >> that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought wed get up here. ing....

crisis overwhelms communities there and is felt nationwide. will his visit really help stop flow? and the nfl plans a league-wide tribute to buffalo bills safety damar hamlin who is recovering as the owner of the new orleans saints and pelicans takes measures in her community to address medical emergencies like damars. saints owner gayle benson will join us in just a few moments on that. ♪ ♪ eric: but first, parents who lost their children to fentanyl poisoning are speaking out abo...

tonight on "the reidout" -- >> we have got to get to proceedings. >> there has to be somewhere we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some confidence that government can function and that we can elect a president of the united states. >> its been exactly two years since the january 6th insurrection. and watching nancy pelosis leadership in a crisis is a stark contrast to how we currently have no speaker of the house at all. and while kevin mccarthy ma...

>> and without question in my mind, speaker emerita pelosi will go down in history as the greatest speaker of all-time! [applause] throughout her time, throughout her time, though in congress she has been a legendary legislator. a fabulous facilitator, and a no nonsense negotiator. we know that nancy pelosi is a woman of faith. a loving wife, a mother a five, a grandmother of nine. a defender of democracy. a voice for the voiceless, and a powerful champion for the children, the climate...

area the snowball effect cant keep up to connect crews to aircraft. >> julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. >> there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesnt mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a...

and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. >> any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speakers vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in h...

for joining us this hour, im alicia menendez, alex has the night off. this is something that has happened every day, like clockwork frizzling as many of us can remember. the white house sends out to the media something called the daily guidance. it is a basic schedule for the president that day. heres a recent one for president biden. at the top, there are a few paragraphs describing what the presidentsday will entail, and below, that there is a schedule of the major events planned, ge...

at msnbc, he was a great friend. and like you said, he was one of those people, when you met him, you knew that he was destined for great things. i used to joke with him, to his face, i would say to him, dax, you are gonna be a network news president, and you are going to hire me, a wonderful, wonderful man and i miss him terribly. >> and he would love that made it on air so thank you for that if hes at the justice department is going to indict him. -- so what is donald trump thinking ...

majority in the house. so, its understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. >> all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up "way too early" with us on this thursday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, december 29th. and were going to get ri...

a controversial covid emergency immigration policy remains in place. yet the southern border crisis shows no signs of slowing down and a plan for how to manage a post title 42 border is nowhere to be found, at least not yet. we have fox team coverage tonight, matt finn is on the ground again in eagle pass, texas. one of the epicenters in the migrant encounters in the u.s. we begin with aishah hasnie on the politics at play and the growing blame game on all of this. good evening, aishah...