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much. and that is, indeed, tonights reidout. all in with chris hayes starts right now. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >>reidout. all good evening from new york. i am ali velshi, in for chris hayes. happy new year to you. were just hours away from republicans taking control of the house of representatives, and tonight, kevin mccarthy might just be the most nervous man in washington. is mccarthy, he really wants to be speaker of the house. it has been his singular focus in washington for years. and that...

Free you . What do you make of the fact that after attempting to at least verbally say he was going to compete to get you out of russia, donald trump then turns on you . That is tonights the reidout. Inside was jen psaki starts now. Today was day 12 of trumps criminal trial and it started with yet another hearing on his repeated and flagrant attempts and violations of his gag order, which was put in place because he cant seem to help himself from attacking the judge, the jury, or potential witne...

You know, paul ryan, quote unquote, young guns, paul ryan, and eric kanter were seen as more of the policy heft as the ideological part of that kind of tea party wing. both of them have been in congress. given his mom more adept at working with the maga side of the aisle. and they are more ideologically now able. and you just saw that in the hallway interview on the way up. hes glad handing on the way out of the office. that is just to kevin mccarthys. i dont think anybody thinks that hes a grea...

Donald trump and mike pence have been here before. theyre coming back to have the one on one meeting with the speaker and then later with mitch mcconnell. this is about trying to find a way to begin an agenda. i was in wisconsin with paul ryan. we talked about what kind of relationship can you have after all the criticism of the campaign and ryan said hes been able to turn the page. he looks at the stunning victory of donald trump as a real message to washington for both parties that voters do n...

Carson for some of his personal history and the marco rubio/jeb bush battle continues to rage. we can expect to see elbows between the two of those and ted cruz, ted cruz is going to announce in another half hour, his government reform plan with massive spending cuts. this is an attempt by cruz to come to the debate stage tonight armed with substantive policy heft in order to contrast himself to some of the others who have been a little bit thinner on policy and the undercard, the second-tier fb...

The main event begins at 9:00 p.m. the undercard just in about 50 minutes, 7:00 p.m. eastern time. carl cameron is on site in walk tonight. >> for the fourth gop debate its all eyes on ben carson. >> the goal is to actually get some questions, some substantive questions. and give me an opportunity to talk. >> the latest poll has carson leading donald trump in the low 20s within the margin of error. marco rubio is in third. ted cruz and jeb bush are tied for fourth. a "washington post"/abc news p...