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midnight. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is friday, december 30th. new year's eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we'll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and...

hi, there, everyone. it's 4:00 in the east. it took years and one court ruling after another, appeal upon appeal and even a trip to the united states supreme court, but today the american public finally has its hands on something donald trump has so doggedly sought to conceal -- his tax returns, six years' worth. an unprecedented window into his financial picture. this public release, which among other things shows that donald trump paid very relatively in taxes in the years before and during his presidency, is the end product of an effort undertaken by the house ways and means commi...

"ac 360" meantime starts now. and good evening. it is another night of drama and uncertainty in washington tonight. in a little less than two hours the house will reconvene and test congressman's kevin mccarthy confidence he can win the remaining hold outs he need to become speaker elect and avoid this fate for a 14th straight time. >> a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. >> after that losing effort which saw him flip 15 no votes over to his side, the house adjourned to allow time to deal with the rest. what exactly got him this far is unclear. we know some...

speaker after four days and 15 rounds of voting. this was the moment that the longest speaker contest in 164 years came to a close. [ cheers ] but before the house selected its new speaker, the cameras captured a stunning political soap opera playing out on the house floor just before midnight. mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes locked up in round 14, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the end of the ballot process to vote present even though mccarthy needed just one more yes vote to win. a stunned mccarthy walked up the house floor to confront gaetz. as ...

. . >> temperatures the longest speaker contest in 164 years, but before it ended, the house floor turned into a stage for some stunning political drama, the 14th vote should have been the clincher as mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes in the bag, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the very end of the balloting process to vote present, even though mccarthy needed just one more yes vote to win. mccarthy appeared stunned and walked up the house floor to confront matt gaetz himself. mccarthy walked away dejected. it almost came to blows. armed services commi...