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as it stands right now, 845 pages of damning evidence, painstakingly collected by the january 6th committee contain therein what amounts to a charging document aimed squarely at donald trump. the results of more than 1,000 witness interviews and hundreds of thousands of text messages, emails and documents hearings and reported combined to provide an incomplete look at what the committee uncovered the newly released final report contains a trove of important new information. so much, in...

elected. well see what happens today. >> bill: im bill hemmer. good morning. the house will resume its session two hours from now. last night 20 republicans voted against kevin mccarthy in the third round of voting. >> dana: without a speaker is house is unable to swear in members or vote on any legislation. congressman elect mike lawlor slammed those opposing mccarthy last hour. >> its shameful and embarrassing and proofing themselves incapable of governing. jim jordans committee on j...

in "the faulkner focus." it is nasty. the battle for the gavel. the first time as i mentioned in a century the vote needed more than a single ballot. resistance to republican leader kevin mccarthy. it got hotter yesterday in the final rounds of votes. he started losing support. now 20 mccarthy defectors going into the second day. they are backing ohio representative-elect -- theyre all elect because they cant be sworn in because they havent chosen a speaker -- those 20 like jim jordan ...

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 ...

tonight on "the reidout" -- >> no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. >> and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled wi...

fabulist -- might as well just are telling people he speaker of the house, because kevin sure aint closing. and that is the reidout and all in with chris hayes starts right now. with chris hayes starts right no>> good evening from ne, im chris hayes. it was a truly remarkable scene in washington state see this afternoon, as the house adjourned after what should have been the triumphant first day of the incoming republican majority. instead, it was an unmitigated disaster, with republic...

candidate for speaker of the house. >> i bet you are going to tell me. >> i am going to tell you, you are on the show. lets see if this video refreshes your memory. watch it. >> this was something kevin mccarthy planned to say on fox news, including the word on trustable un-trustable -- >> when kevin mccarthy said some stupid stuff on tv that just killed -- >> -- >> that killed his candidacy for the speaker of the house. and here we are -- >> seven years later! >> seven years later, an...

will see you again tomorrow. and now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. good evening, lawrence. >> i was wondering if you remember where you were the last time that kevin mccarthy flamed out as a candidate for speaker of the house >> i bet you are going to tell me. >> i am going to tell you, you are on the show. lets see if this video refreshes your memory. watch it. >> this was something kevin mccarthy planned to say on fox news, including the word on trustable un-tr...

reelected senators. senator patty murray of washington also made history when she became the first female senate protons, it is the second highest ranking job in the chamber, not to mention it makes her third in line to the presidency. when marie was first elected to the senate in 1992, there are only two women in the chamber. but many had their eyes today on the incoming suit junior senator, john fetterman. would he wear his signature hoodie in shorts? he ended speculation earlier tod...

needed to be the speaker for a fourth consecutive time. florida republican byron donalds appear to have received just enough support to prevent kevin mccarthy from getting to 218. so what happens now? the house remaining paralyzed this hour. no committees, no legislation, elected members cant even be sworn in. they dont even know if they are getting paid at this point after they have tried and failed again four times to elect a speaker. its a level of dysfunction unseen in modern polit...