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Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the...

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the...

Price of prescription drugs. these are all things that we were able to get done under democratic control. so, when i was on your show three months ago and i said, you know, people like to say that democrats are in disarray, but guess what? we are in a ray. array. republicans are in ruin. but, the chaos is not just limited to the house floor. really, it will extend to the american people. there is a lot of work that needs to be done, so they need their act together, and we need to get to a functi...

How does that make sense? >> heres how it makes sense. hes the masthead of the lobby core. i resent to which kevin mccarthy utilizes the lobbyists and the special interests to be able to dictate how political decisions are made. how policy decisions are made, how leadership decisions are made. kevin mccarthy has been in the leadership for 14 years. hes sold shares of himself to special interests, to political action committees, and thats why i dont think hes right. >> laura:: why is trump -- >> ...

What were trying to achieve. ite not the end of the world we take a few extra days or weeks to sort it out. there are some days in congress where the only thing we vote on is the changing of the name of one post office. were deciding whos second in line to the presidency. and the construct of the rules concessions functionally term the speakership to a ceremonial position. if my colleagues get what they want from mccarthy, the freedom caucus will be more important, amendments were process and wh...

Midterm elections does contribute to what we have now. and i do understand that this is a little disconcerting to have this kind of fight. but really whats far more embarrassing than a healthy debate about who should be speaker and what the rules should be is that there was never a debate in the senate about who should lead the republicans on -- you know, in that body after a couple rounds of failure from the current leader, mitch mcconnell. im actually pretty glass completely full on this debat...

Congressman matt gaetz who has voted 11 times for candidates other than mccarthy. great to see you tonight. i love seeing you with congresswoman jayapal. any scoop that you can give us? that was funny. what are they talking about? >> my conversations with democrats have been about making sure they dont leave the floor for dinner or fundraisers or whatnot. we need them to stay there so that the denominator in the equation on the election of the speaker allows us to have leverage to push for many ...

Home for the day. i think the pro-mccarthy votes, pro-house order folks, are willing to stick this out for kwooil quite a while longer, too. >> the noon to 6:00 schedule makes it easier garrett and you have to wonder how long it will last. >> thank you, friend. >> ryan nobles, let turn to you. and if the reporting holds and there are question marks and things hold as the plans that we think are going to hold do and by 6:00 tonight, we will probably be done, right? if in fact the house does vote ...

Have. its called medium sour crude. its the easiest to process. >> were giving it away to a government whose whole goal is to displace us on the globals stage and crush the chinese would be cruel masters when they run the world. theyre not like us at all. by the way, that country, china also happens to be a longtime business partner of the biden family. now a functioning congress would investigatemi this immediately. the last president was impeached forte what ? a having a phone call with some c...

Right now and its beyond its beyond the wild that theyveey only been granting religious waivers to members who are already separating already out that thats that does no good for the memberr. a member is already gone.e. and i think its very ironic that secretary state was given a waiver by congress to serve. yet he refuseses to give any of us waivers to keep serving. >> oh,ve you mean the board member from raytheon who now - runs the military? no, i appreciate im heartbrokent, to hear your story...