Tired of the Drama Questioning why any of this has happened. He worked with the democrats, so what, to get things done, then he gets kicked out, and now nobody can do anything. Thats wrong, stupid. Plus, former President Donald Trump now trying to Short Circuit The Civil Fraud Trial In New York by asking a judge to put it on hold. Prosecutors pushing back hard. Were going to tell you what they said. And then one day after this horrific Missile Attack that killed dozens of ukrainian civilians, another russian attack rips through a multistory building killing a 10yearold boy and his grandmother, the boy found still wearing his spiderman pajamas. Local officials saying dozens more were hurt including an 11monthold baby. Were going to bring you the latest on that in just a couple of minutes as well. We want to start on capitol hill where we see lawmakers on the house floor just for about two and a half minutes or so today earlier, barely time enough for a prayer and the pledge of allegiance before adjourning until tuesday amidst this new uncertainty about whos going to be the next speaker. Behind the scenes the situation is very much in the air, Steve Scalise, jim jordan, theyre trying to twist just enough republican arms to get to the 217 votes they need to win this job, although neither seems particularly close just yet. That could change, though, as republicans absorb this news from last night, donald trump trying to play gop king maker by endoring jim jordan. And then this morning, Congressman Scalise spoke for the first time about why he wants the job, while simultaneously trying to down play the chaos inside his own party. Weve got to get our internal house back in order, and were going to do that. Were going to do that wednesday. Then weve got to go back and let people know the fight in the senate and in the white house, they dont want to engage in this fight, and were going to force them to. Im ready to do this job. Ive got the background to do this job, but you know, theres a lot of people struggling in this country that are counting on us. We got to go back to work for them. Lets talk more about this, want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent julie tsirkin, George Steven ss a Senior Adviser for the Lincoln Project who served as chief strategist, and sam stein white house editor for politico and an msnbc contributor. Julie, start us off, if you will, where are we this hour . Reporter yeah, thats the big question. Well, we have at least two candidates who have officially entered the fold. Jim jordan, weve been talking about him all day, especially in light of that endorsement for somebody he was a big ally to and a thorn in the side of the current president which makes him appeal among hard right conservatives that much more certain. We have Steve Scalise whos also in the running for this. Both men have been working the phones. Im told that theyre meeting today with different factions of the house to try and secure the support, shore up the votes needed to hit that magic 217 number if and when they eventually get to the floor. I did Catch Up Today also with the speaker pro tem, patrick mchenry, an ally of former Speaker Mccarthy who walked off the house floor after opening the house floor very briefly. I asked him if he wants to be speaker. Heres what he told me. Do you think youll want to run for speaker . What is it like being in the job for this temporary position . Asked me once about financial reporter mchenry certainly a joker, hes the chair of the Financial Services committee. Im told thats where he wants to be. Hes only in this job because he was on that short list that mccarthy put him on to try and be the speaker pro tem just in case anything happened to mccarthy, which of course is standard policy. You saw him shake his head and let out a sigh that he does not want to be speaker. Politico reporting there are some real deep divides inside this republican conference in the house and yet you got Steve Scalise, even jim jordan saying they want to unify this party. The question is can they really. I was actually taking a listen to an interview with tim burchett earlier today, one of the eight who voted to out mccarthy from the speakership who does not when it comes to spending seem like hes going to negotiate on that. Is there any real room for negotiations inside that party right now . You said can they get over these divides, the other question is how do they get over these divides. Yeah. What kind of concessions will each side make. What will they do about the rules of the house, including the motion to vacate, which is the procedure by which Kevin Mccarthy was ousted. Will they try to make sure that the threshold for doing that gets raised . Will they make commitments around ukraine age funding and whether that can be brought to the floor. Will they make commitments around Government Funding when its set to run out in 40 days. Those are all major questions, and how will they go about doing it . Rumors of a debate hosted by fox seem to be batted down. Trump diving in last night could have an effect, although it may not. There might be moderates in the ranks who use that as a way to show their independence by voting against jordan. This is to borrow a scientific term, a mess. And its very hard to really see how it actually gets cleaned up. It could be a few weeks potentially before we have any resolution, and it could get pretty nasty, honest lirks honestly, withi the caucus. And then you have the possibility of the former president visiting capitol, were getting reports on tuesday. I want to pick up where sam left on on that in that if you have former President Donald Trump, who has been indicted now four times facing 90 plus criminal counts endorsing jim jordan, im wondering if that endorsement could actually be, as sam alluded to, a negative thing for him in this vying for speakership. Yeah, i dont think so. Donald trump is the most popular figure in the Republican Party. He dominates the party. You know, there are people that like to say that donald trump hijacked the Republican Party. A lot of us who work in the party would like to be able to say that, but the thing about that is hijackers are never popular with the passengers on the plane, and donald trump is very popular in the Republican Party, and you know, what really strikes me here is one of the key elements of the Republican Party was at least the image of being the grownups in charge. Theyre the ones that were, you know, calm, stability, no drama. And all of that has just been completely shredded with this absurd spectacle of a party that just clearly is not a governing party. Who are the grownups now, stewart . Listen, i spent 30 years pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party really is the only prodemocracy party in america now. You think about what we used to argue about, things like what should the Capital Gains tax be. It just seems so trivial. Both scalia and jordan, they didnt vote to certify the election of the president of the United States. So that means that they wanted to throw out the votes of a president elect, he got more votes than anybody else in the history of america. What do you do with that . Thats not a party that supports democracy. Sam, i want to play for you some sound that we just heard from the president. He was at the white house obviously touting on the latest jobs numbers out earlier today that were going to get into later on in the show, but he was asked about the fight for speakership, and heres what he had to say. Whomever the House Speaker is, im going to try to work with. They control half the congress, and im going to try to work with them. Theres some people i imagine its going to be easier to work with than others, but whoever the speaker is ill try to work with. Who can in your reporting and you alluded to this a little bit earlier, be worked with at this point, or is this just an optimistic president right now looking at a very difficult moment for the body of the house . I mean, i think theres obviously differences between jordan and scalise, right . Scalise has been in leadership to this point. You know, say what you will, they did agree to a debt ceiling deal, which sort of precipitated all this drama, but he was there. Jordan is at the tip of the spear of investigating joe biden and hunter biden, an impeachment. Those are fundamental distinctions between the two men as it pertains to who biden could work with. But i think sort of at the end of the day, were kind of missing the forest from the trees here because whoever gets the speakership on the republican side is going to be under immense pressure not to cut a deal to fund the government in 40 days time. Thats exactly what precipitated Kevin Mccarthys ouster. Its hard for me to imagine that this person will win the speakership and then allow for a Government Funding bill to come up on the terms that mccarthy and biden negotiated. And so yes, one can be worked with more than the other potentially, but on the big sub stantive issues, its just going to be gridlock. Of course biden has to say im going to try and work with them. He has no other posture he can take. Its hard to imagine real substantive things happening in the next 14 months. Julie tsirkin, you think about the prospect of that, what we were just facing last weekend, avoiding a Government Shutdown. Youve got this 45day stopgap, a speaker pro tem, will they, wont they choose a speaker between now and then. They also have to fund the government, and youre up against these eight individuals who want to possibly see a Government Shutdown in order to not fund the government because they see the government as spending too much right now. I wonder what are the powers of the speaker pro tem and the worries on the capitol right now about the possibility of that hang . Reporter i got to be honest, yasmin, this is a chamber that likes to do its work right before the deadline. They like to study for the exam the night before. These 40 plus days seem like a short time to us and its right to be concerned, but the reality is they are very use ds to conducting their work until the last minute. When you talk about the power that the speaker pro tem has, not much. Mchenry doesnt want to be in this role. But the fact that he is in this position its because it was created with the continuity of government in mind post9 11. Theres a reason this list exists. He does have a set of legislative days. Right now we actually just finished the first legislative days because its in the process, if something does happen where he needs to act, theres some kind of emergency and the Government Funding right now is not one of them, he can certainly act and have that power to do so. The question is, though, if the house stays without a speaker for weeks to come, that becomes a problem not only on funding the government but also on these negotiations over ukraine funding, over border security, all of these policies that even some of those hard line conservatives want to be able to weigh in on, especially as we get closer and closer to next years election. Republicans dont want this to be the story. They want the story to be the Biden Administration, and they cant poke holes in it if theres no speaker to run the conference right now. I want to talk about this possible removal of the motion to vacate. There was th aicle written About Thatuoting republican Thom Tillis Sayingarstically this. You get more conservative and that attracts more liberals to work with you on Consensus Policy . I havent read that book. I know mcconnell has been advocating for getting rid of this motion to vacate with whoever becomes the next speaker of the house. Do you think any kind of senators have sway over House Republicans in making this move . Yeah, absolutely not. I think that the house resents the senate. I think that the senate resents the house. Look, the idea that mcconnell who still wont say Donald Trumps name, its just so telling that he looks to some sort of inside procedural issue here that is at the problem, when he had a chance to vote to convict donald trump for sending a mob into his office to try to kill his colleagues, and he still wouldnt do it. So hes talking about a procedural motion being something thats needed . It is just so absurd and so sort of Inside Baseball that has nothing to do with the larger cancer that is eating at the american democracy and is at the heart of the Republican Party. Stuart stevens not mincing words and because of that, were keeping you around for the next hour. Thank you, sir. Julie tsirkin, sam stein, thank you, guys, as well. All right, some breaking news, everybody, just moments ago, the former president s civil new york fraud trial just wrapped up for the week. The new details about how much maralago is actually worth and the key admission that just happened on the stand, live outside the courthouse when were back in just 60 seconds. J. , why did you get vaccinated against Pneumococcal Pneumonia . I help others. But i need to help protect myself. Honestly . I couldnt afford to get sick. I want to be there for this one. I cant if im sick. Pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung disease. You may be at risk if youre 19 to 64 with certain chronic conditions. Or if youre 65 or older. Dont pause a moment longer. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about getting vaccinated against Pneumococcal Pneumonia today. Breaking news, everybody, Donald TrumpsCivil Fraud Trial just wrapped up in new york city with the former president still trying to stop it in its tracks. Trumps legal team filing this request for two stays during day five of the trial, one to stop a judges order that could gut his company and the other to pause the trial, Attorney GeneralLetitia James responding this morning saying the court should not upend an ongoing trial. For now, though, that trial is going to remain ongoing and pick back up tuesday when former trump cfo Allen Weisselberg is expected to testify. Today extrump organization controller Jeff Mcconney was back on the stand being grilled over valuations of trumps properties. Joining us more to talk about this msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin who has been inside that courtroom, along with a barbara mcquade, an msnbc legal analyst. Lisa, pick up for us what you saw inside that courtroom, some of the major developments today. Reporter yasmin, the hubbub outside the courthouse has largely toned down without former President Trump here, but inside it ratcheted up to a rather fiery level at the end of the direct examination of Jeff Mcconney. Thats because andrew aimer was taking him through some of the most egregious examples of exaggerated valuations, whether it came to telling people in his statements of Financial Condition that he wasnt incorporates, for example, the Valuef The Trump Brand but actually assigning 30 , 50 Brand Premiums to his golf courses or treating maralago as if it could be sold as an individual residence when there is, in fact, a deed on it saying it can only be used as a club. He got mcconney to admit that the values of those properties were set in all sorts of inappropriate and deceptive ways, but really, the fireworks were left for the end when mcconney was forced to admit that not only did he engage in much of the conduct that the Attorney Generals Office has alleged here, but he also assisted former trump cfo Allen Weisselberg who as you noted is expected on the stand Tuesday Morning in the tax fraud for which he was convicted after pleading guilty to 15 Felony Counts last year. Mcconney said that he not only assisted weisselberg in the fraud, that he knew it was illegal, and most importantly, that he did it because weisselberg was his boss and he feared for his job. Yasmin, it was quite an explosive day to end the trial date. We know mcconney wont be cross examined by the trump side. Barbara, i need you to react to that, the three major things im hearing from lisa there is that the admission that he assisted weisselberg because it was his job, that he knew that they were essentially breaking the law and the deceptive ways in which they valued maralago, your reaction to some of what came out of the courtroom today. Thats an incredible admission that is powerful evidence in favor of the Attorney Generals case, and really quite surprising in light of the way so many of these Insider Trump employees had been very loyal to donald trump and the organization, but