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happening now, breaking news, were following chaos at the u.s. capitol. republicans huddling behind closed doors tonight after kevin mccarthys bid for the speakers gavel lands with a thud for the second straight day. the next moves for mack arthy and his to popponents are very unclear right now. new information emerging about the terrifying on-field collapse of damar hamlin. the buffalo bills say hamlin is showing signs of improvement although he remains in critical condition in the ...

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...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. Now, she was suspe...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. By the letters, chs. Confidential human source. Now, the trove of documents detail reports of payments to steele, mostly redacted. You can see there, thats a lot of white space. There are two exceptions. The final page is information from a document, from february 2016. Of course, thats long before the russia probe began. It says steele was, quote, verbally admonished by the fbi and that steele acknowledged the admonishment and e...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. They are known as the steele dossier. They allege, among other things, that the Trump Campaign had organized collusion with the kremlin. Quote, this is something of huge significance. Way above party politics, that Intelligence Officer told corn, that would be steele. Quote, i think trumps own party should be aware of this stuff, as well. The official confirmation of the fbi investigation into the Trump Campaigns contacts with ru...

Happen today, some movement needs to happen today. i think thats what theyre spending this intervening time trying to sort out. i wanted to make one point about this group of people exerting undue influence on the process in the republican conference. this has been building even since the trump days. they became empowered because someone like them, a trump figure, became president. but even he stopped being able to control them. i think that control is now totally out the window. you have people...

Color. frankly on racism and discrimination, a top issue for voters of color. and why i believe the biden administration made significant progress, it doesnt matter if progress is made if they dont feel their lives are better. it is a governing problem and messaging problem that democrats have to solve. >> yeah. you know, it could be a messaging problem. i think a lot of people out there are not necessarily consuming the government. people are not necessarily waking up reading eight paupers a da...

Delegation to china in may, he announced on "fox news sunday" that the united states was putting the trade war on hold, but soon after others in the delegation including china hawk peter know vara owe found an alternative audience with dobbs to criticize man uccellini ins message. then dobbss criticism was picked up on fox and friends the following day by host brian kilmeade. before long and on the basis of those media messages, the president made an abrupt change in policy. >> well, this is hug...

Immigrants that wasnt true and attributed it to the justice department data, which doesnt exist. this is a governing problem. democrats in congress pressing the administration on the issue of how this happened and who was involved so they can present it. the wider context is this forced fact checking comes as the president calls the press the enemy of the people and is in a fight with the new york times editor in chief this week over free press. the doj data reveals a separate prong of donald tr...

Wittis kept searching for anything that president claimed was his source. finally he got his answer this week -- there are no such records in department of justice files. that means the president stood up and made a representation to congress about immigrants that wasnt true and attributed it to the justice department data that doesnt exist. this is a governing problem. democrats in congress pressing the administration on this issue, how it happen and who was involved. the wider context is that ...