released. we will have the key takeaways and how the facts compare with a largely fictitious claims from of the former president. then, we will kevin mccarthy be speaker of the house in 2023? the republican body entering the new year divided. pressure to expel a freshman member over his lies, and clinging onto loyalties to a certain florida resident. and new concerns of tripledemic illnesses, with covid hospitalizations on the rise again, as the year ends, as a special early edition of the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. how much did you pay in federal taxes in 2020? i bet you paid a fair bit of your income. i know i did. we now know the former president of the united states, a self proclaimed billionaire, played zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2020. in fact, donald j trump claimed a refund of more than $5 million. that is part of what we learned this morning from the house ways and means committee, whi
a year ago, right? and what was the reason? what was a difference between cawthorn and desantis? well, wasn t useful anymore. okay? cawthorn was actually a problem. he was a troublemaker. meanwhile, kevin mccarthy needs every vote he can get to be speaker. yes. to get to 218 votes, he needs george santos desperately. so, even in this republican party that has gotten completely comfortable with charlatans and morons like herschel walker and dr. oz and all these other freaks that lay in in the midterms, even then, they might say, this guy is a step too far if they didn t need him. but kevin mccarthy needs him and kevin mccarthy has shown that if he needs somebody politically, he is willing to debase himself in order to defend him, and we have seen that plenty of times with president trump and we are seeing it right now with george santos. we are indeed. victoria, the gop might try, but it cannot deny that without trump, he would be no george santos. here s how santos himself desc