i rise today to nominate the gentleman from california, kevin mccarthy, as speaker of the house. i rise to nominee kevin mccarthy for speaker of the house. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy. i rise to nominate the gentleman from california. madam speaker, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. madam clerk, to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. gaetz. donald john trump. trump. after ten ballots and now into an 11th, there is still no speaker. they even nominated donald trump today. but as usual, he lost. and that is where we begin tonight, on jet another day and night without a speaker of the house. it wasn t lucky enough seven for kevin mccarthy o
grabs, dysfunction and this is not a partisan criticism. understand this, it s embarrassing, it s dysfunctional. it s dangerous, it s stupid. those are the word that is republicans have used. 11 rounds of voting and we still don t have a house speaker. as the deadlock enters a fourth day we have new reporting about another potential deal in the works that just might give kevin mccarthy the gavel. plus, we get the latest from the war in ukraine as russia calls for a brief cease-fire to observe the orthodox christmas holiday. ukrainians leaders are dismissing the idea. some good news, damar hamlin is showing improvement after collapsing on the field during monday night football. the buffalo bills safety is alert and responding to commands. we ll show you what his doctors are saying. good morning, and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire on this friday, january 6th. it is, of course, the second anniversary of one of the darkest days in our nation s history and we wi
speaker. we do know house republicans joined a conference call to talk about a possible new deal on the table. but multiple people on the call tell nbc news, kevin mccarthy acknowledges he still does not have enough votes to become speaker after 11 rounds. we spoke with kevin mccarthy ahead of that call and this is what he this is all leaving one-third of our government functionally paralyzed just as the nation marks the second anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol. politico making the note that, quote, a handful of republicans who remained in the january 6th sights throughout its investigations are now leading the effort to deny mccarthy the speakership. one officer who defended lawmakers on january 6th pointed out the irony of what s happening on the hill right now. no matter what anybody s thoughts about which way it s going, the right that think the fact that they have the right to be able to do that in a safe environment is kind of what we provided
Hunter biden about to appear in Federal Court in delaware. We expect he will plead not guilty on that felony gun charge. At the same time, here in new york former President Donald Trump about to head downtown. It is day two of his civil fraud trial. Also in new york, the crypto king, Sam Bankmanfried, appears for day one of his fraud trial. Well watch it unfold together coming up. Breaking news from overnight. Sitting u. S. Congressman carjacked at gun point in the Nations Capital. Good morning. Im bill hemmer. Dana has the day off today. Welcome to a big show to our colleague and friend, gillian. Gillian im good. Thank you for having me back for day two. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The victim identified as henry cuellar. As he was parking his car tonight three armed assailants approached and stole his vehicle. He wasnt harmed and working with local Law Enforcement. Thank you to metro pd and Capitol Police for recovering the congressmans vehicle. Lets go live to Gr
least press pause on this for a little while. i think you ve seen that reflected in the vote total here. i think that s what we re watching, but the clock is ticking down and these numbers are making their choices known in the seconds you and i are talking. we are in, us but not on part of the democrats, the democrats scream, know they re quite loud, it sounds like they could do this all night. they could but even still, you look at, this so far our friends in the chamber are confirming with the count up on the screen says, which is that no republican so far are voting against adjourning. i do think it s important to note what they re adjourning, for how long. right now, the voting on a journey until tomorrow at noon, and that doesn t help them avoid the problems we are talking about at the beginning of the, show which is they could start running into attendance problems. for all the number of reasons you and i talked, about there are people who have funerals, their people have new