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Will be the next speaker of the house. But who can get the votes needed to seal the deal . Right now, the biggest Healthcare Strike in u. S. History is now in its second day. How it is already affecting patients. And in new york city, day four of the trump Civil Fraud Trial under way. What his lawyers just did in an attempt to get the case dismissed. We begin this morning with a major update at the southern border. Overnight, the Biden Administration announced it will wave 26 federal laws in sou...

The scenes to succeed Kevin Mccarthy. Already two declared candidates in the race. Steve scalise, the House Majority leader, as well as the House Judiciary Committee chairman, jim jordan, meeting with colleagues and trying to secure commitments, suggesting to them that they could unite this badly divided republican conference, but the question is can they get that . There is ample anger, still at those eight republicans who voted to oust kevin kevin mccard congressman matt gaetz, as some calls w...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. So that was the answer. Thats the tension on the intelligence. Then there is a separate tension about how do you investigate, indict and punish the people identified by that very intelligence for Attacking American Democracy . We all know, there is a busy Special Counsel that trump has denigrated and at sometimes lied about. So a question on that was posed to the fbi director who of course, lets not forget has this job because hi...

U.S District Judge Aileen Cannon finally began to consider the conflicts of interest that some of the defense attorneys have in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

Somebody in name a lot of people thought couldnt get the votes to be speaker, even though he was nominated yesterday, the precedent of the house you cannot withdraw your name. if he is ever able to get the votes or anybody else, i mean, its anybodys game at this standpoint. we might have somebody come out of the woodwork who might be that consensus candidate. thats where you have to have those back room deals. so far those back room deals have not yet happened and that horse trading dont forget ...

Again. on the left side of your screen in covington, kentucky, the bridge behind president biden leads from kentucky to se cinc cincinnati, ohio, in which bipartisanship is being celebrated. it is democratic president joe biden, republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in his home state across the river, of course, in ohio, that is a largely republican state with a governor who is republican and outgoing or former senator who helped negotiate this bipartisan infrastructure bill. this is...

But the deals that mccarthy cut to get to try to get the votes, some of those more modern members werent aligned with mccarthy and say they wont support those concessions if theres another speaker candidate. you cant just come up with another candidate -- theres no consensus candidate like paul ryan was, when mccarthy stepped aside and ryan succeeded boehner. there are more than four votes that could subtle any one speakers bid, and theres a lot of questions ahead. >> congressman, knowing all of...

That comes down, maybe getting most democrats to support a speak r or some democrats and getting most republicans to support a speaker candidate. just getting 218 votes for somebody, thats something that congressman don bacon who you heard suggesting thats an area that is only on first base at the moment. maybe theyll get all the way to home plate if and when kevin mccarthy is unable to get the 218 votes to become speaker. anderson, the members acknowledge it is a very difficult scenario to see ...

Earned it, but those in her party want to take it away. how is this anything other than a trolling operation? you could easily argue that nancy pelosi is this villain for him he uses as a foil. how is that not what you and some republicans might be doing here? >> we have been working on this for six months and reform the rules of the house. i will tell you, there are members on both sides and they are so committed to row forming the rules and get the institution working again, this is not a ploy...

They seemeded to have forgotten what happened to them in the 2006 midterms when there was a cover-up of the mark foley page scandal. a lot of them obviously werent in congress then but you would think they were politically aware. they seem to be unaware of the larger moment in american history where you have got all these sexual abuse revelations, starting back in the penn state case and the joe paterno team. more recently michigan state. this seems like an untenable thing for jordan particularl...