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event, control of the house of representatives is all but gone. democrats can feel the house seats slipping through their fingers, as some experts project republicans could pick up maybe even 30 seats, and they only need five to win back the majority. some in the democratic party are already performing free autopsies. >> sometimes people want to just not feel as if they are walking on egg shells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. >> i am worried about the level of v...

wonderful, wonderful, laura, is a reference to steve martins great film "l.a. story" when he says hes falling in love. >> and here i thought it came to mind because you saw me in canary yellow. >> thats what inspired it. anyway, it was a cinematic theme. >> i like the trivia. i like the fun facts to start the show. thats awesome. >> next ill work on a pop up video for it. >> very good. and youre awesome too, jake. good evening, everyone, im laura coates in washington. >> and im allis...

and some of the most extreme far right members of the gop will have real power in the house thanks to kevin mccarthys desperate deal making to become speaker. and also ahead, another tragic scene in ukraine. well have the latest on a deadly helicopter crash outside kyiv. good morning, and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, january 18th. im jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin in washington where the white house is making efforts to tamp down cr...

doors to get the gavel. those holdouts who were keeping the the speakership from him now have some plush committee assignments. lauren boebert, scott perry, and where they got assign and why the white house is watching so closely. our congressional reporters are here to explain what those members will now be able to do. they also learned about, more about why congressman marjorie taylor greene might have gotten so close to mccarthy, becoming one of the loudest supporters for him to get...

pre-autopsies. >> sometimes, people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. >> i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people, working people, who will be voting democratic. i think again, with democrats have got to do is contrasts their economic plan with the republican. >> tonight, we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican that out of representatives might actually look like. the h...

mayor says air defenses have been shooting down russian missiles all over the city. were going to get an update on all of it for you. meanwhile here at home, the economy and politics are on a collision course. gas prices are up 20 cents in the last month. just 20 days from the midterm elections. in two hours, president biden will put the economy and energy front and center as he is set to announce hes releasing 15 million more barrels from our strategic reserve due to opec cuts and e...

virginia. >> a rising star in the gop hits the road to put his party over the top. virginia governor glenn youngkin joins me exclusively ahead. hello. im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is jittery, anxious about the economy and news overseas including north korea, iran and ukraine. the risk of, quote, armageddon, because of vladimir putin is the highest since the cuban missile crisis almost exactly 60 years ago. red russia suffered a major blow, a truck bomb sl...

were now about an hour away from the house reconvening and hopes to vote immediately or eventually will make him the next speaker of the house. spending the night trying to twist these arms belonging to the six hard right republicans that you see on the screen. it was so close, that absent members some of them came out of surgery or other medical provide tour procedures making they are way to the chamber. all of this has extra resonance. manu, so, we talked to you in the last hour, i...

conservative or chaotic members of their conference who have put us in this position, but they honestly cant afford to wait around, let this come out and potentially risk not being able to get a set of rules to govern the conference going forward. >> speaking of transparency, jamie gangel, what about the fact weve had so much transparency we havent been in legislative business so the c-span cameramen and women have been able to shoot anything they want as opposed to the government seiz...

we should be prepared to be back here doing this same thing when that happens. because especially considering some of the things that mccarthy clearly gave away. i mean in the past theyve been able to do it with democratic help, and mccarthy in theory could do that. but it seems like theyve tried to hold his feet to fire here and say, no, what kevin mccarthy can decide to do is not put it on the floor. >> without getting into the specifics of all the ugly fights that are going to come,...