Page 2 - Future Speaker News Today

Coming back to congress. will democrats end up supporting nancy pelosi. >> youre exactly right. nancy pelosi is a leader we need during these challenging times. she was terrific as minority leader. she was amazing as a prior speaker. she will do a phenomenal job as our future speaker. on november 28th, nancy pelosi will get the overwhelming support of the house democratic caucus. we then send her to the floor june 3rd as our nominee and by january 3rd im confident she will get the votes she need...

Ballot, of the vote. there is no evidence that we have all of these illegal votes. what we have instead are votes that are being counted. so in california, for example, you can submit an absentee ballot on election day, mail it in, and three days later it can still be accepted. thats a valid ballot. it just takes time to count those ballots, and when all of those ballots are counted were going to increase from three in california to six, at least six flips in california. >> yeah, the president a...

She does read and get up to speed she could be a challenge but she hasnt. >> dan: just have some grasp of the numbers. what she says is totally irrational. >> kennedy: two things one she gave the worst nondefense of nancy pelosi and showed that its not just the moderate democrats who have a problem with the potential future speaker but its also the comeys. they also dont like her. and then when she was asked how they were going to pay for medicare for all? she said well save so much money not ha...

An ideology, or a color, this is about selling our values. >> are you a democratic socialist? is that what you call yourself or you dont want that label? >> its part of what i am. its not all of what i am. thats an important distinction. im an educator and organizer. >> you defeated a potential future speaker. should nancy pelosi be the next speaker of the house or the next generation? >> once again, i want to see the options on the table. im not an i elected member of congress yet first of all....

Impeachment. >> of course, keep in mind, the reason he was in the hot seat was because, i know house republicans feel that the irs unfairly targeted conservatives and members of the tea party and denied them special tax status. right? >> originally, david camp, the chairman of ways and means sent a letter in 2011. by the time we turned the corner in 2013 the inspector general came back and confirmed that this was the case. the president of the united states went before the american people and sa...

Nine-year veteran of the house is the least experience speaker, future speaker, in over a century. he will be the next speaker of the house, and he is already the worst public speaker the speakership has ever had. >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee. what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. why? because shes untrustable. but no one would not any of that had happened -- >> i agree. i give you...

To the president after the vice president. air force one took the president from florida to nebraska on 9/11 to keep him out of danger until washington was safe. the vice president was locked in a bunker below the white house, and the speaker of the house was safely helicoptered, as i said, to an undisclosed location. all of that done to preserve the office of the presidency. the speaker of the house is the second most important elected official in the washington. the speaker of the house is usu...

Volunteers signed up for a new war. shiite clerics called the faithful to arms. and promised those who died fighting isis, a place in paradise. there is concern all over the world about what is happening here in iraq, so much so that today irans president said his country would consider working with the united states to fight terrorism in iraq. richard engle, nbc news, kirkuk, northern iraq. >> that was nbcs richard engle in iraq. we turn now back to politics at home and the political surprise o...

So carefully screened you rarely see anything like this. the white house took it in stride. they said the president likes to get out in the country, jay carney joked it sort of perked up the morning. he said the president was not miffed about it but it was -- >> what were they singing? what organization did they damage the credibility of by doin? >> one of the linesn there was wheres our change? we look at those headlines you were seeing earlier, very glum nation. re weing to hear a lot of that....