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night, she -- after this deal because mccarthy did not allow the extreme wing of his caucus to win. so, what might mccarthy be facing for the mtg's and the matt gaetz's of the world? the very people he had to concede so much to, in order to gain the speakers gavel? with us, msnbc news contributor, almond novels. chief correspondent at pbs news hour and back with us. matt dowd, ahmed, talk us through how all of this is playing out among house republicans. >> alicia, credit where credit is due to kevin mccarthy for what he was able to accomplish with that debt ceiling bill. let's just talk about those numbers for a second. across the republican conference, you can see 17 senators on the republican side vote for that bill. two thirds of house republicans as well. but dozens and dozens of house republicans voted against it and i remember back on the day when that bill was making its way through the rules committee, and there were a lot of questions about whether or not it would even past that first hurdle. i was speaking with the freedom caucus chair, scott perry, and even at that very moment, he was saying, they did not
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parts of the great lakes and a massive snowstorm across areas just to the east of any of the lakes. get ready for a lot of snow and cold temperatures continuing. griff, back to you. bev give rick, thank you very much. meanwhile, a hiking trail named after michelle obama, a hip-hop knew. seem in the bronx and border security in the middle east, all of that included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill which is headed to president biden's desk. now, 9 republicans you see here helped pass this massive spending bill, but florida congressman michael waltz budget one of them. he joins us now to react. congressman, merry christmas eve to you. thank you for taking time weekend. you guys have $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, what was your reaction? you voted against it, but what was your reaction to it, and why did 9 of your colleagues on the republican side vote for it? >> well, griff, i think just to take a second, it's important to understand how this is supposed to work. this was a combination of 12
these are temporary policies switching between presidents. >> and building a coalition. and not just having your side vote for you. >> keeping your eye on the ball here. we even sue senator merkley doing the whole crowd size thing. side show thing of sean spicer yesterday. executive orders and policies being pushed through here which some might see as chilling where we need to keep our eye on the ball so what is really important here. it's hard to do. it's hard to do. president trump put the power of his office behind pipeline projects that were blocked by the obama administration and put off for years in terms of a decision. the application for the keystone pipeline will be reconsidered on a fast track basis with the secretary of state to decide within 60 days and the army will review and approve in an expedited manner the dakota pipeline. the president signed an order to
out of it. >> bob, what would you say to that? >> i couldn't agree more. dave is absolutely right. you put in hundreds of thousands or not at all. you have to have a comprehensive political strategy, which we don't have either. this is going to end up continuously like this piecemeal into a worst catastrophe than what we have now. >> a sobering conversation but thanks you both very much. bitter complaints of media bias at the last debate, our special report. plus, marco rubio turning heads by turning up for a side vote. the heavy criticism of his poor attendance record getting to him. and ted cruz fleshed with cash. tonight you'll meet the billionaires backing him. ty of a property is that you can create wealth through capital appreciation, and this has been denied to many south africans for generations. this is an opportunity to right that wrong.
sign-ups. 4 million, 5 million people who would be eligible for medicaid if 20-plus governors hadn't refused to take the medicaid expansion. there is a lot to talk about here. but turnout is the issue, the democrats lost big in 2010 because the other side was energized, mobilized and angry, and the democratic side wasn't ready to fight. and the real question this year is if they will do something a little bit differently than they did in 2010. >> e.j., historically, not to date you, you have covered politics for a long time. there has never -- >> i'm used to it ed. >> okay. there's never been this level of obstruction. and i think that, you know, if representatives on the republican side vote for minimum wage, it's not going to hurt them. if they vote for equal pay for women, they can go home and make a case that there is no war on women. if they vote for long-term unemployment, it's affecting
argument. >> that's not right. >> he's tapping the life force of certain set of conservatives, right wing elites. the conservative base is a lot of white working-class voters who have received tons of entitlements spending. >> for the last three years when i was on the hill i watched vote after vote in which the majority on both houses on the republican side vote on extending unemployment -- >> lot of toughing going on. >> separate you guys. >> the point is, like i -- look, there's definitely a dog whistle, an argument that's become totemic for conservatives for right wing conservatives. one of the things that david brooks points out that is a fact that is what is crazy about this politically if you look at those people, who is it that are the majority of the beneficiaries of the entitlement society? those are white working-class voters, that's the republican base. who are actually not paying income taxes, elderly voters. the only segment of the electorate voting for mitt
the state a good time to vote usually because the weather you see is going to be on the way. so lock what happens throughout day today, starting off temperatures are fine but by around 10:00 or 11:00 the storms move in across the mountains and by this afternoon and evening, it gets worse out across the eastern side, and down toward the shoreline but you will be better across the western side later on. so, if you are on the eastern side vote early on the western side vote late. that is how you avoid the storms. it will not rain all day. other storms across the rest of the country, same system to the north but it is all snow and we have around 1" to 5", potentially to upstate and the hudson valley and higher elevations seeing pore of that snow. this is the entire system on the eastern part of the cup, snow toward the north, severe weather including the threat for tornadoes across the southeast and out across the west, a major
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