Live Breaking News & Updates on 16th congress

Stay informed with the latest breaking news from 16th congress on our comprehensive webpage. Get up-to-the-minute updates on local events, politics, business, entertainment, and more. Our dedicated team of journalists delivers timely and reliable news, ensuring you're always in the know. Discover firsthand accounts, expert analysis, and exclusive interviews, all in one convenient destination. Don't miss a beat — visit our webpage for real-time breaking news in 16th congress and stay connected to the pulse of your community

Velshi

measure some of what you are talking about here, which is where is he taking a stand and how often is he offering rhetoric in a direction. we can have suspicions, but we don't know that yet. but that is what to watch for. that's what we saw was indeed a battle and what we are looking for now is to understand who won that battle, how, and what are we going to imply from it. >> intriguing, because the selection of the speaker on the 15th vote isn't actually a sign of who on the ballot, it becomes very unclear, so we will have to watch to see how this happens. good to see you again, thank, you as always, joe and freeman is a professor of history of american studies at yale university. author of a field of blood, violence in congress and the road to the civil war which is always a great read, but it became suddenly relevant on saturday morning. still ahead this hour, president biden is going to make his way to the u.s. border, the u.s. mexico border, after

Some , Direction , Stand , Suspicions , Rhetoric , Battle , Professor , Author , Blood , On-the-15th-vote-isn-t , Professor-freeman , Yale-university

Velshi

congress. after 12 ballots, he was ousted from the position and replaced by philipp barber, a slave owner from virginia. and then in the years leading up to the civil war, the fight over slavery would become even more of a central issue in the contest for speaker. the three other times when the contest for speaker took longer were 1855, 1849, and 1859. those were the years when the rancor over the issue of slavery was reaching its peak, and as a consequence, bitterly divided congress even those who were even in the same party. obviously this is a very different situation from what we witnessed in the house last week as far as anyone could tell, matt gates and his troop of mccarthy hard-liners didn't appear to be ideologically opposed to mccarthy's agenda or that of the rest of the party, but they used the opportunity to broker some sort of deal that you are not entirely sure of yet, for more power and influence for a chance to drag the republican party further to the right. and that is a consequence of the republican party inability

Issue , Speaker , Slavery , Ballots , Contest , Position , Fight , Civil-war , Philipp-barber , Slave-owner , Virginia , 12

Velshi

and i think this is the biden administration attempt to do that within the administrative channels, that they have available to them, again the complete absence of congress coming to the table on this issue. >> and what you are watching right now by the way is president biden getting out of his vehicle at delaware, ready to board the helicopter which will be designated to the island as soon as he gets to it. as soon as you will see it you see there is a number of helicopters the flight together, you never know which one he's going to get on to once he gets on to it he will be great once you can fly to join the case campers from which he will fly to el paso to try to address this. but part of the problem is that he said, i will sit down with anyone who wants to have a meaningful conversation about this. >> everyone in conversation wants to have a conversation about -- migration, but the meaningful comprehensive migration solution is so elusive, but we are a country with a three

Speech-biden , Way , 16th-congress , Issue , Administration , Channels , Table , Absence , Number , Helicopter , Helicopters , Island

Velshi

not simply a democracy at. we're but something that could actually destroy american democracy, another hour of velshi begins right now. hi begins right now. good morning, it is sunday january the 8th. i am ellen -- kevin mccarthy's new election as the speaker of the house, it was a historic one if not exactly for the best reasons. the first time for a speakership was divot sided on a multiple, ballots are where occurrence in the scope of all american history. mccarthy's bid this year was only the 15th time that has happened, it was 15 ballots but it was only the 15th time that it is happened. there were only four other instances when the volker shut -- went on for longer, all of which were in the 1800s, which was an era in which political parties were influx and factions were ideologically split over the issue of slavery. take the 16th congress as an example. henry clay was initially elected as the speaker at the start of the term and 1819 but,

Something , U-s- , Democracy , Hi , Velshi-ahead , One , Speaker , Speakership , Time , Election , Kevin-mccarthy , Reasons

Velshi

Current events and sharp analysis of top trending topics.

D-don-t , Show , Velshi-ahead , Channels , Friend , People , 16th-congress , Something , Lot , Everything , 15th-ballot , Speaker-vote

Velshi

walrus, this is an example of two countries on either side of the border who they're actually people who live in el paso whose children live or go to school in el paso. their families live on either side of that border. these are integrated cities, families and businesses on both sides, people who do business on both sides, so really the tightening of borders in places like these border towns is remarkable imperative for them because they don't want to stop the kind of congress that goes on between those countries in the interchange of people. so this becomes a very historic issue, this becomes the first time that joe biden is visiting the southern border as president. we will continue to follow the story as it follows, you are watching msnbc. (woman 1) so i just switched to verizon business unlimited. it is just right for my little business. (woman 2) we switched, too. (woman 1) unlimited premium data, unlimited hotspot data. my point of sale is on point. (woman 2) you know it's from the most reliable 5g network in america?

People , Border , El-paso , Example , Countries , Side , Families , Cities , Children , School , Two , Places

Velshi

argue that biden's new plan is not all that different from chart trump's harsh immigration, efforts among those critics democratic representative joaquin castro released a statement on friday expressing his dismay. quote, instead of making concessions to the same reactionaries who have spent decades posing immigration reform, the biden administration should work with congress to develop smart with immigration policy that meets our nations economic needs uphold our fundamental values and addresses the roots of causes >> of migration. >> i use limitation in that because i kind of agree with him. joining me now to aggress the -- staff writer at the atlantic covering the border, covering this and knows more about it than almost anyone i know. plus it is really a complicated issue. and part of it is that we have a tainted the immigration with border crossings and criminality, when in fact as congressman castro says, it is actually an economic embarrass

Speech-biden , Plan , Immigration , Joaquin-castro , Statement , Quote , Making-concessions , Dismay , Efforts , Chart-trump , 16th-congress , Administration

Velshi

to deal with the drawing extremism in its ranks. it is fracturing their party and we are witnessing it in realtime. joining me now is joanne freeman, she is a professor of history in american studies at yale university, she is the president of the society for historic indians of the early american republic, she is the co-host of the public now and then and the author of the book field of blood, violence in congress in the war to the civil road. professor freeman, it is good to see you, i have to tell you it was probably one in the morning on saturday, stephanie ruhle and i were sitting on tv. and suddenly in the corner of the screen, we saw someone lunge at matt gates and someone grabbed, ended up being mike rogers a congressman from alabama, and someone grabbed him and pull him back. and then the camera panned over, i wonder if we can put this on tv, but the camera pans over to mccarthy who was walking back to his seat, heard something turned around and walked back. and we definitely thought we were going to come back and see a brawl on the floor of congress, and the first thing i thought about was i need to

Joanne-freeman , The-party , President , Professor , History , Extremism , Realtime , Drawing , Society , Indians , Ranks , Yale-university

Velshi

statement to say that at least some of those migrants had not properly identified themselves or applied for asylum and we're availing capture essential. so this was a part of the increase of force of the part of the administration, today however, president biden set to arrive in el paso, and he will have a tour of entry in terms of a migrant process set up. but does this mean that republicans have been calling for since he took office and, now republicans have criticized about the administration for what they seek as last immigration policies that show a record number of border crossings over the past year. however, the biden administration points out that congress is actually gotten in the way of increasing funding for the border, and so that battle over immigration, one that has taken administrations from both political parties for decades, that is not playing

Migrants , Part , Statement , Asylum , Availing-capture-essential , Administration , El-paso , President , Republicans , Office , Tour , Calling

Velshi

he opted to step down in the middle of his term shortly after congress negotiated the missouri compromise which resulted in the admissions of missouri as a slave state and maine as a non slave state. in the course of the debates for the missouri compromise, john w taylor, an abolitionist and a congressman chriesman from new york emerged as a leading voice against slavery. he gave passionate speeches, he wrote essays against admitting that missouri is a slave state, he even offered up the amendment to the missouri compromise that would have outlawed slavery anywhere west of the mississippi. taylor was on the loser end of that issue, his amendment was not adopted, but his peers recognized that he was a skilled politician. and when henry clay stepped down as speaker in 1820, taylor became the anti slavery groups favorite candidate to replace him. but it took 22 ballots before taylor was elected as speaker, as political factions realigned and coalesced around him. but he faced greater odds a year later when he ran to be reelected speaker of the 17th

16th-congress , Slave-state , Term , Course , Admissions , Non-slave-state , Missouri , Debates , Maine , Middle , Missouri-compromise , Slavery