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no path to becoming speaker of the house because a bunch of conservative members of the republican conference have dug in against him. what has changed this morning? why should today be any different after the three failed votes yesterday? a couple things mccarthy is doing like send his allies fanning out across the conference, trying to get some members voting present instead of no. well talk about that in a second. keep in mind, the numbers here. mccarthy can only atord four defector...

going to ritual actively declassified, or whatever i took home had the effect of the declassifying them, is absurd, the nonetheless, the statutes, the justice department are asserting in the search warrant, dont even require that they still be classified if they would be damaging to national security. its a problem. >> would isnt arguably a problem, that any former president would handle such sensitive documents the way trump reportedly has. nbc news shedding light on how trumps final ...

Wednesday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Yeah, we do. I dont know whats the problem. 200 representatives voted today keep mccarthy in power. The number of member in his own party that wanted him as Speaker Of The House vastly outnumbered those who didnt. Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. Today in the Fulton County election interference case Rudy Giulianis lead lawyer asked the judge if he could be removed from that case. Now, that is the second lawyer to leave giulian...

Well. Tonight, pena looking unbeatable, and just nine months to go until the paris olympics. Megan fitzgerald, nbc news, antwerp, belgium. It is absolutely awesome to see simone back in action, feeling good and kicking butt. And on that note, i wish you a very good night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Ill see at the end of tomorrow. Today, in the Fulton County election interference case, Rudy Giulianis lead lawyer asked the judge ...

I dont know the solution. But thats the problem. 200 representatives voted to keep Kevin Mccarthy in power. Right, yeah. The number of republicans in his own party who actually vastly outnumbers those who did it. Yeah. Maybe some of them can talk to him about it at some point we will see. Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. Today, in a Fulton County election interference case, Rudy Giulianis lead lawyer asked the judge if he could be removed from that case. Now, that is the second la...

Very key moments. when we saw that there might be a year or so ago a deal perhaps on the dreamers, all of a sudden the president reverses himself almost within the course of 24 hours. miller has proven to be a very skilled bureaucratic player. i think he picked some of that up from his time in the senate but also some of it is understanding hes not a typical capitol hill player. i think capitol hill players tend to be consensus builders, tend to be trying to cut a deal, especially at the staff l...

Home over the weekend, saying is it further proof, rebecca, bad news, elijah cummingss home that forget about diversity, if was robbed, too bad. you disagree with the republican president, there is no room for that elicited a response from nikki haley who said it was completely unnecessary and you in congress any more. president trump defended himself because that is what a lot of saying that it was not meant to people have raised that fear. be in his words, a wise guy >> absolutely. tweet about...

Look, howard schultz is a multibillionaire. my contention, craig, is that -- its yet to be proven. because weve talked a long time about we need a businessman, a ceo mentality to run the government. the government is not a business. donald trump has so far disproven the theory we need a ceo. ceos, they execute orders, they give orders and things happen. thats not the way the legislative process works. presidents are consensus builders. they have to work with the other party. they need to have to...

Is local. in election -- congressional elections, a lot of times they are not nationalized as much as we in the media like to make them. it does come down to whats going on in those specific districts. >> i would say, alice, one point that we saw in wisconsin this week. leah vukmeier was very anti-trump and she pulled it off. the fact that you look at, for example, minnesota. you look at southern minnesota. you have carla nelson running there. she told "the times" all the good old boys begged me...

>> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> mitt was a disaster as a candidate. >> hes playing the members of the american public for suckers. >> romney let us all down. he was a very poor campaigner. >> he gets a free ride to the white house and all we get is a lousy hat. >> romney choked like a dog. he choked. >> do you think they could actually work together? >> i do. and i think what happens with consensus builders and good negotiators and successful businessmen, who know you have to take the co...