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started. a new era on capitol hill. house republicans are back in charge but are they capable of governing? >> it doesnt matter whether we have a 30 or 5-seat majority. well use it in the manner that the american public wants us to. welcome to "inside politics sunday." thank you for spending new years day with us. we begin in politics as we begin with most questions than answers. what will the legislative priorities actually be? at the white house can president biden beat back the ...

a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthys focused on two holdouts right now. can he change their minds? one congressman who did change his mind is "outfront." plus, who are the final holdouts? one of them just arrived in washington for the first time, has never held elected office and was a contestant on "shark tank," a successful one. and another top story were following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way...

>> good evening, chris. >> what a ride. >> i mean -- >> history, day three, we hadnt today three of history. >> they, as rebecca saying on friday, big british parliament energy without the intelligence and the phone. she did say that part, but i will. >> i do love british parliament energy. >> i -- >> i like the rockets this. im into it. >> theres something into the rockets in this, although this is just uncontrolled chaos. nobody is driving the bus. and here we are. thank you, as alwa...

set to hold the seventh vote for speaker of the house, but within the past, hour the house voted to adjourn, to close up shop for the night and come back tomorrow, because why not check this thing out another day. now that vote to adjourn was on par with the rest of the chaos and confusion that as characterized this entire speaker debacle. majority of republicans voted to end the session and wait until tomorrow, while all democrats voted to keep the session going. but since right now n...

Above the law. Also, deeper dysfunctions. Speaker Kevin Mccarthy had to turn to democrats to avoid a shutdown just hours before the midnight saturday deadline. Will democrats rescue him from the hard rightwing move to punish him by taking away his gavel . If somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it. There has to be an adult in the room. I am going to govern with what is best for this country. The latest on the effort to end his speakership with Congress Matt gaetz set to take the hou...

synagogue leader found stabbed multiple times outside her home. what were now learning about the suspect. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we start with rudy giulianis trial nearing the finish line in d.c. ryan reilly has been following it for us. the jury deliberations got underway in the last hour. whats the update? >> reporter: yeah, so the jury now has this case. they had lunch delivered to them. they will be able to begin starting deliberations ...

under trump this kind of government will perish from the earth. >> in a surprise move the biden campaign sent a surrogate of its own to lower manhattan yesterday. two-time academy award winner robert de niro. well have more of the actors warnings about the dangers of a possible second donald trump presidency. and of course well go through what happened inside the courtroom as well. during closing arguments in the former presidents criminal hush money trial as we are now just hours aw...

A handful of House Democrats say they’d step in to help Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) keep his gavel in the face of a potential conservative revolt — but it wouldn’t come free. Democrats willing to consider the matter said Johnson would first have to forge an agreement with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) ensuring…

The primary. that became a big sticking point, and some of the freedom caucus people became very angry about that. its very tricky legal terrain there. you really cant, as members of congress, tell independent super pacs what they can and cant do. i gotta be very tricky and how they word things. but by a green thumb not sort of go into those primaries, and the safe republican districts, theyre trying to basically tell the freedom caucus types, look, were gonna stay out of this, itll be a fair fi...

Up with them. the question is whether theyre willing to play hardball and to use their leverage and buck their party. >> this could be -- we used to talk about the blue dogs back in the day. now were going to be talking about the red dogs, i guess. >> mccarthy has spent so much time appealing to the more freedom caucus types. youre absolutely right. its easy to forget theres this other potential voting bloc that could dictate republican policies. >> theres 17 joe manchins. its not quite analogou...