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making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we ve seen in this chamber is tough. it s tough to watch. it s tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that s why it s important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? madam speaker, i would like to rise to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house. the gentlewoman is recognized. i ve known byron for roughly about four years now. and being that he s from the state of florida i can tell you that i ve come to know him on both the campaign trail and personally. but i want to clarify somethin ....
And she is coming up first. Plus the head of a judges ruling on a gag, order donald trump on the show is more dangerous threats on social media. And he might have committed a felony today in south carolina. Andrew weissmann is standing by with his reaction. Also tonight, we are counting down to the first live interview with the star witness of the january 6th committee. Rachel maddow joins me to preview her conversation with Cassidy Hutchinson. And later, as the president and his predecessor prepare for backtoback visits to michigan, a reminder tonight that one of them has a long history of broken promises to the same people who are trying to pitch. Remember when the Government Shutdown in 2013 . I sure do, my first guest definitely does. In case you dont, let me refresh your memory. Basically, republicans like mike lee and ted cruz, and a bunch of other ones were an ....
Government shutdown. Its every monday night like this . Just asking for a friend. The House On Fire something tells Me Congresswomen and see pelosi has a few things to get off her chest. The speaker emeritus here on set, and she is coming up first. Plus, the head of the july joins knowledge more dangerous votes on social, media and he might have committed a felony today in south carolina. Andrew weissmann is standing by with his reaction. Also tonight, we are counting down to the first live interview with the star witness at the january six committee. Rachel maddow joins me with Cassidy Hutchinson. Later, as the president and his Predecessor Jewel for backtoback visits to michigan, did one of them has a long history of broken promises to the same people hes ....
When this happened, this same crisis happened 100 years ago, they solved it on the eighth ballot. now we re off to ninth and tenth and who knows how many more. let s discuss with our panel. audie, i really i mean, we were talking about this earlier. you and john king were talking about how long could they do this. remind people what you putting it in context, the past times that the freedom caucus or others have been obstructionist, around the debt ceiling or the fiscal cliff, so to speak defunding obamacare. right. it went up to 35 days i think. and i do think it s worth remembering some of these lawmakers remember that. and they re like we ve seen this movie before, we ve been here before and we don t want to cede control to this kind of tactic and approach. the other thing i want to say is we don t have to live this way. like right now the pennsylvania state legislature just came together, some democrats and republicans, and made a unity speaker, someone who s going to c ....
To skip through the procedural hurdles in time. republicans are worried they would be blamed for a government shutdown, much like what happened in 2013 when ted cruz pushed that fruitless government shutdown over defunding obamacare. jake, let me go over to you. talk to me about what your sources are saying about this. there s just a giant off ramp here, hallie. this is not this is not as serious as other shutdown threats, right? i mean, a shutdown threat would be you need to include this in the bill or else we re not funding the government. so, let s take the worse case scenario here. the worse case scenario is the senate has to jump through a bunch of hurdles, and they ll fund the government on monday, limited real world impacts, but still bad, still just shows this place can t work. the best case scenario is they accept this offer from mike lee. mike lee s saying you give this amendment, i ll let you go quickly. this could be over by tomorrow morning or something like that. i ....