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letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. hi, noig nicolle. thank you so much. the first vote of this new congress under this new speaker is slated for this hour. it s the rules package for the 118th congress. a rules vote is not typically coveraged but assist last week showed washington is not taking typical for granted under speaker kevin mccarthy, who begins the job in a diminished posture as it took 15 ballots over four days, or five if you count saturday at 12:00 a.m. to even get the votes from his own party. it s a public squabble we all witnessed. no speaker has had to go through anything like that since 1819. as we track the rules vote, we begin with something special i want to show you, if unusual bruising way we got here. a speaker has not been elected. this dramatic day that is not turning out remotely the way kevin mccarthy had hoped. a speaker has not ....
Letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. hi, noig nicolle. thank you so much. the first vote of this new congress under this new speaker is slated for this hour. it s the rules package for the 118th congress. a rules vote is not typically coveraged but assist last week showed washington is not taking typical for granted under speaker kevin mccarthy, who begins the job in a diminished posture as it took 15 ballots over four days, or five if you count saturday at 12:00 a.m. to even get the votes from his own party. it s a public squabble we all witnessed. no speaker has had to go through anything like that since 1819. as we track the rules vote, we begin with something special i ....
England does it that way, as does ireland, which recently held that no confidence vote. in today s gop, people many experts expect this kind of vote only to lurch right, but it s possible imagine another pandemic with no rules or talk of war william a razor thin coalition and you only need five votes to spring it, these could spur no coalitions. before you say, ari, you re trying to find a silver lining. you may be right. they might only use this to hurt. but let s be clear work all intellectual humility, history is full of changes that brought unintended consequences or changes and recent american history is full of overconfident beltway predictions proven wrong, so we may have to follow the facts and see how these powers are used. ....
so, it means that it s time. it s time for her to reach her decision about whether she will prosecute, who she will prosecute, and what she will charge. she will have the grand jury s recommendations, but more importantly, she has this phone call between the former president and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. it s january 2nd, just a few days before the electoral college vote is due to be certified, and it s remarkable. i reviewed the transcript again, ari, to make sure my memory was correct, and it is just a remarkable conversation where raffensperger patiently shoots down point by point every single one of trump s allegations of fraud, and all that trump can do at the end is bully, cajole, and threaten him to find the vote he is needs. i tell you, what joyce, let s take a listen to that. so, look, all i want to do is this i just want to find ....
Spent any time in front of the news last week. this is an order of the previous question, but they re on their way to the vote on the rules deal that saved kevin mccarthy s speakership. usually mundane, but after all the fireworks, anything could happen tonight. even s watching this a little more closely than usual, and as promised we return to a man who knows all the washington alligators. michael steele is back with us in a moment. hi, michael. but first, reporting live on all this. what can you tell us about what we re about to see? zwlrchlts ari, this is the first big best for kevin mccarthy. the house is going to vote on a major rules package, which yes, it s ordinary, money din in previous congresses, but it s anything but in this congress, because it includes a series of concessions mccarthy made to 20 right wing holdouts to win their votes. this was after they dealt 14 humiliating votes to him and they finally agreed to either ....