This week, lawmakers return to washington, with a bloated and urgent to do less ahead of them. On the agenda, an Emergency Funding Request from the Biden Administration for disaster, eight following the fires in maui, and hurricane a dahlia. Passing a reauthorizing the fa, the debate about more money for ukraine. More and more. And most critically, staving off another government shutdown, by a federal budget, by September 30th Deadline now, you are forgiven if you didnt realize that Congress Passed such a stacked docket, considering republicans like Kevin Mccarthy, well, it seems they are focused on an entirely different priority. Maybe on a different planet. Right now, they are focusing on impeaching president biden. You have, you heard that correctly. Despite the fact that the house is only scheduled to be for 11 days before the end of the fiscal year, youve got representatives Marjorie Taylor greene and ralph norman, among those pushing to open Impeachment Inquiry into the commander
the republican party slow march into autocracy, led by donald trump. the one day dictator wannabe. in a speech last night at the new york young republicans club gala, the gop front runner did not back down from his comment last week that he would only be dictator on day one of a possible second term in office. instead, he doubled down on it. baker today, in the new york times, he said that i want to be a dictator. i didn t say that. i said i want to be a dictator for one day. but the new york times said, and you know why i want to be a dictator? because i want a wall, right? i want to wall, and i want to drill, drill, drill. reporter: for all the lying that he does, there is no reason not to believe him when he says he wants to be dictator for one day, what is unbelievable about it is that trump, who is not known for his restraint himself discipline, we only want to be dictated for a day. it is significant and disturbing escalation of rhetoric even for donald trump, becau
the same outfits. putin is basically ruthless dictator barbie. all right. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, december 6th. we ve got a lot to get to this morning, including donald trump s response to questions about his promise to use a possible second term to seek revenge and retribution. we ll show you what he said. plus, republican senator tommy tubervillle finally drops his hold on hundreds of military promotions. but he s trying to spin it as both sides not getting what they want. let that breathe. also ahead, the partisan fight over the senate s foreign aid package. one contentious issue is threaten to sink the bill. we ll have the very latest from capitol hill. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. congressional investigations reporter for the washington post, jackie al mayny and white house editor for politico, sam stein. good to have you all with us this morning. our top story this hour,
heard. we are excited. he is excited. tonight, how congressional republicans became accomplices to the criminal ex-president. this is an outstanding group of people. i am with them 1000%. they are with me 1000%. as trump pressures a speaker of the house to overturn his felony conviction. new reporting on more undisclosed luxury gifts to justice clarence thomas. and why the ruling on abortion pills is just the beginning of the battle when all in starts right now . good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a lot has happened on capitol hill since the last time donald trump was there. there was the deadly insurrection he incited. there was the biden inauguration he skipped. the record-setting second impeachment he faced for the deadly insurrection he incited. there was a time in the immediate aftermath of all of that, late january, february, march it seemed he may never be welcomed back. but we know how that turned out to. today, the former president and is 34 fel
So we havent had a chance to digest it. But the Attorney General in his Confirmation Hearings was very clear with a oneword answer when asked by a senator whether he had contact with the russians in any way, shape, or form. He said no, period. No condition, no modification. So obviously that turns out to not be accurate there is no reason to believe that Jeff Sessions in the Confirmation Hearing was trying to hide something. He may simply have forgotten. But it does mean two things. Number one, it adds to the incredible weight of evidence that the administration is not credible on these issues. Remember a couple of weeks ago when we heard that Michael Flynn was talking to the Russian Ambassador simply to wish him merry christmas. And of course that turns out not to be true. And Michael Flynn is no longer National Security adviser. So this white house has a very, very significant credibility problem. And its with respect to Attorney General sessions, what this means, and again, its too