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Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes o...

Two, how do you set up rules that are fair which is a highly debatable thing. your view of what were seeing on the floor? >> this part of the process is most similar in the criminal system to the part of a grand jury which as we all know happens in secret, but that doesnt mean that there arent rules and procedures for how that works. so i think right now, what theyre doing is sort of shedding sunlight for the american people on how things have worked in the past and how its going to be going for...

Powerful thefrmt have a lot of money to throw away. no different than the credit card lobby, brokerage firm lobby. they have members and the members want results nand this case you have a mallable administration that looks at business of the business, and what theyre supposed to focus on and not what the effects are on the consumer. so now we have a consumer financial protection bureau that quite frankly is working harder to remove regulation than to enforce regulation. just one more example. >>...

Against these republican leaders that are so adamantly going after a beloved institution, namely planned parenthood. >> what do you make about the latest investigation about planned parenthood to move forward even though republicans, they say the organization didnt break any laws, this was during wednesdays debate. so why do you think this lingers? >> well, i think that the arch conservatives in the republican party and by the way, these are the men and almost all men, who want to take over enti...

And so when you have 153 republican members voting against the budget of the united states and voting against the leadership position, thats the number that the press ought to focus in. the group of 30 to 40, we put up dan webster, he doesnt have the highest conservative score. he was speaker of the florida house, and hes a process guy. and all we want -- and the whole conference was making huge progress last week after jaurn boehner stepped down in moving toward regular order. and thats not a h...