me snickering and chortling through the conversation you were just having. you know me, i like when i get a laugh. the idea that you just said, we are going to have a speaker and odds are that person probably will be a republican. that s where we are right now. i want to cover my bases because that s on tape. the fact that it s even a possibility that it might not be someone from kevin mccarthy s you never know. tells us where we are at. thank you. thank you to all of you at home for joining us. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. and that appears to be exactly where we are right now. in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned with the third day without selecting a speaker of the house. the lower chamber held five votes for speaker and congressman kevin mccarthy failed to cinch the nomination on all five of those bringing the total number of time
grabs, dysfunction and this is not a partisan criticism. understand this, it s embarrassing, it s dysfunctional. it s dangerous, it s stupid. those are the word that is republicans have used. 11 rounds of voting and we still don t have a house speaker. as the deadlock enters a fourth day we have new reporting about another potential deal in the works that just might give kevin mccarthy the gavel. plus, we get the latest from the war in ukraine as russia calls for a brief cease-fire to observe the orthodox christmas holiday. ukrainians leaders are dismissing the idea. some good news, damar hamlin is showing improvement after collapsing on the field during monday night football. the buffalo bills safety is alert and responding to commands. we ll show you what his doctors are saying. good morning, and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire on this friday, january 6th. it is, of course, the second anniversary of one of the darkest days in our nation s history and we wi
texas decided to deposit migrant asylum seekers, some o them children, on a freezing cold sidewalk north to go. three buses filled with more than 100 migrants arrived in d.c., late saturday night, where they were unceremoniousl dropped off outside the vice presidents official residence. they were sent there by th republican governor sent texas greg abbott, to make a political point of what happening at the souther border the buses were filled with families, with children, man of them wearing nothing warmer than a tee shirt we have it did not tell anyone ahead of time that he was gonn do this is the relief agency me the migrants from the vice president s home when they arrived. welcome them with food, warm clothing, and blankets they had been tipped off b another ngo working along th border, who made sure th migrants did not arrive in the freezing cold, on christmas eve, with no one to help them once they, arrived volunteer drove all of them to shelter to nearby church to wel
preparations for, it the january six committee went ahead and. it they published the long awaited final report, th products of 18 months of work, nearly 1000 pages long the parts that i ve read are shocking and revelry laying out the crimes of donal j trump and his coconspirators in a clear and dramati fashion. crown for one of the off - he told in interviewer tha trump could quote, spend the remaining days of hi misanthropic life behind bars. presumably secret servic agents that s a crazy numbers show madeleine. a bold statement from someon who is fairly measured so, what makes the report make raskin say that given the sheer volume of material, those of us who haven t read through all of it can be forgiven. i assume that you re not - using the same boat i am that s why we re gonna g through the final report here. looking at who s read it closely. obviously a ton of information we re gonna get to we want to start tonight with particularly revealing section it s chapter fi
t. alex waonight starts with alicia menendez in for alex good morning, chris i m alicea menendez, alex is off, christmas eve, one of the coldest nights in our nation s capital. by the time the sun went down, temperatures were hovering around 18 degrees. it was this night, one of the coldest nights of the year, the season all about welcoming the stranger as the republican governor of texas decided to deposit a number of migrant asylum seekers, including children three buses filled with migrants arrived in d.c. late saturday night, where they were unceremoniously dropped off at the vice president s official residence. they were sent there by the republican governor of texas, greg abbott, to make a political point about what is happening at the southern border. the buses are filled with families and children, many of them wearing nothing warmer than a t-shirt. governor abbott did not tell anybody ahead of time he was going to do this, but agents met them in front of the vice