louisiana congressman steve scalise, house majority leader, happy new year steve.nks for coming back on. >> happy new year, larry around great to kick off the new year with you. larry: great to see you and you look great. so quickly why now? why the endorsement of mr. trump? what key principles were you looking at? >> well you know if you look at last year we had a lot to get through internally, a lot of internal fights within the republican house, a lot of big battles and things we had to deal with in terms of moving our agenda through the house. in 2024 this is the time to be focused on the election in november and i think the more you look at how off the track our country is and what we need to do to fix it, there is nobody better positioned than donald trump to get our country back on track. you were there. i was there working with him on the congressional side. you were in the white house. when we got our country moving again. it didn't take long. donald trump knows what we need to do to get our economy moving again, to help those families who are struggling a

steve scalise said president biden had every tool president trump had.oe biden came in intentionally undid all of that. he showed no good faith to try to step back up to say he was wrong to put back in place the border wall, to begin rebuilding that again, to put back in place remain in mexico, third party safe agreements he has an down all of this. they were in the supreme court, the biden administration was in the supreme court just last week seeking permission to take doesn't the razor wire at our southern border that greg abbott put up. that is not good faith. when the other side is not negotiating in good faith, the time is to step away. what we have thousand is a situation very, very hard to square. >> senator, on these points, the way this bill, we haven't seen the legislative text, i get that, but this trigger mechanism you, 5000, 8500 whatever you believe, do you believe one minute the border will be closed if you exceed those targets? really, after what we've been through the past three years, and it was the mayorkas dhs would supervise this. t

we'll have senator bill hagerty and house majority leader steve scalise to weigh in. no word on what joe biden will do to iran we talk about that with cas kash patel biden's economic am -- no one saw coming. and later in show, journalist matt taibbi writes democrats are campaigning on donald trump sabotaging the election, but the dems are sabotaging trump, brigh we send if over to washington for latest on mayorkas impeachment papers, with chad pergram what can you tell us. reporter: argument is over high crimes and misdemeanor, the constitutional bar for impeachment, whether a president, federal judge or a cabinet secretary. house last impeached a cabinet secretary 148 years ago. >> this is what is going to happen, house of representatives is impeaching secretary may themayorkas there is nothing anyone can do to stop it, not one district in in that is not impacted by the border. reporter: on house floor republicans can close two votes on impeachment, it is about math, there are 2 to 3 republicans who could struggle to impeach. democrats believe that impeachment is a b

we'll have senator bill hagerty and house majority leader steve scalise to weigh in. no word on what joe biden will do to iran we talk about that with c kash patel biden's economic am -- no one saw coming. and later in show, journalist matt taibbi writes democrats are campaigning on donald trump sabotaging the election, but the dems are sabotaging trump, br we send if over to washington for latest on mayorkas impeachment papers, with chad pergram what can you tell us. reporter: argument is over high crimes and misdemeanor, the constitutional bar for impeachment, whether a president, federal judge or a cabinet secretary. house last impeached a cabinet secretary 148 years ago. >> this is what is going to happen, house of representatives is impeaching secretary may mayorkas there is nothing anyone can do to stop it, not one district in in that is not impacted by the border. reporter: on house floor republicans can close two votes on impeachment, it is about math, there are 2 to 3 republicans who could struggle to impeach. democrats believe that impeachment is a bridge to

steve scalise, what is our outlook on this story.nsulting, i would say, position. certainly yesterday we played a tape from the press secretary, which is insulting republicans. saying that republicans are the problem. you all have your hr2, you would love to have a vote on it in senate. where does this lead. the immigration story, the catastrophe the southern border may be most important single issue in american politics. >> this issue is not going away it is a major threat to america's national security, probably most imminent that we've seen in years, you have steps of thousands of people every week coming across the border illegally, joe biden knows about it he created the policies that encourage this. and he won't work with republicans to fix the problem. we passed multiple pieces of legislation, talk about hr2, strong, to secure america's border, that was passed over 6 months ago and has sitting in senate doing nothing, they don't' to fix will problem we passed a homeland security bill to fund our border security, what joe biden

house majority leader steve scalise endorsed trump yesterday.republican house leadership has now endorsed trump which says something. all right. there some good news for nikki haley on the campaign trail. she reported a fund-raising boost in the beginning of 2024. $24 million in the fourth quarter of last year this doubled her cash haul in the third quarter. cnn's ian mcend on the ground in new hampshire where nikki haley is today. what are voters there saying about this? >> well, john, they are raising a range of issues when they show up to her events. many of them telling me that they think she's a strong general election candidate and other people asking her different questions and she was asked about monetary policy and the threat of china. one man told us that he's concerned about how divided we are in this country right now. we caught up with him afterwards. take a listen. >> there is such political divide on both sides, and she didn't answer the question in her whole talk which is how are we going to bring people together? obama brought h

how does steve scalise's endorsement of trump and the support of all the house gop leadership play into his strategy for the primaries? >> look, it just creates a sense of momentum. you are going to see this, i think, going forward. he will highlight the endorsements he's got. it is really striking, considering where things were once upon a time. so, again, it just makes it harder for anybody who is trailing him. and this is a pretty small primary field, brianna, at this point, but it makes it hard for anybody who is trailing him to breakthrough. it creates another news cycle all about donald trump for republican primary voters. does this help him in the general election? not really. but it does right now. >> i mentioned that new washington post poll that shows republican support for people that storm the capitol on january 6th has actually grown and so has their loyalty to trump in the past three years. how do you see a conviction affecting that support? >> well, listen, this poll is obviously a direct result of elected republicans and donald trump himself lying about the events of jan

but specifically let's stay with steve scalise. he's an interesting case.. god bless him, i hope they are successful. he voted against federal funding first himself research. so brand wise he's getting the treatment. he voted against it. >> yeah. >> maybe the problem for republicans is irony. >> there's a lot of that. irony in places irony probably shouldn't be. but it's there. and the reality of it is, that doesn't faze them. we watched republicans vote against the infrastructure bill, and yet we are touting the infrastructure money that was coming to their districts. so, yeah. irony is not lost on them. they know what it is. they don't care about it. they figure most people aren't paying attention. so yeah i'm going to vote against the stem cell bill but what i need stem cells i'm glad it's there. >> let's talk about nikki haley. the kayleigh is running for president, apparently on lying about the civil war then saying she didn't mean it and then also pardoning donald trump and also having black friends. roll on. >> i should have said slavery right off th

it's gotten worse since i left. >> and you mentioned gabby giffords and steve scalise, i want to narrow in on today and what 2024 is like and how much different it's gotten. what's it like? i know you're not campaigning right now, but if you were, what's it like to campaign in this moment? >> it's a real challenge. until you have donald trump out there, who's always using incendiary rhetoric, that can incite people. that's another issue. but if you're out there campaigning, i think it actually limits what you will do in your campaign activities. you will often do some type of risk analysis, things are just going to get out of control or there's potential for some type of violence. if you're running a campaign, you're probably weighing security as a factor in your determination of whether or not to even have an event in this environment. that's how bad it is. >> does it limit what you might say and what you might not say? could that be one of the reasons we're not hearing so many direct, i don't want to say attacks, but direct, i'll use attacks for lack of a better word, against the cand

what did steve scalise due today? he endorsed donald trump. this is my pet issue. so thank you for asking me about this. i do note the endorsement race this time. it is over 140 members of the house, senate, and city governors have endorsed, trump and nikki haley has to. last time january to 2016, don trump had a single intimacy in congress, jeff sessions. now he's got all of them. 18 senators. the house majority leader, the speaker the house. this party has united behind. him i call it the new maga establishment. there are a handful of closet normals, the people that don't want trump but don't have the courage or the gumption to say it. and then the people who haven't endorsed anyone but they're not out there helping haley, they're not helping desantis, they're sure not helping christie. so i just think that's why going match your previous question, a lot of these folks, mike lawler in new york, they ran in 2022 acting like they were gonna be a normal republican but then after two years we've seen the evidence and they are no different from t

what did steve scalise do today? he endorsed donald trump.o exactly are the normal republicans? >> this is my pet issue. so thank you for asking me about this. i do note the endorsement race this time. it is over 140 members of the house, senate, and sitting governors have endorsed, trump and nikki haley has too. last time january to 2016, donald trump had a single intimacy in congress, jeff sessions. now he's got all of them. 18 senators. the house majority leader, the speaker the house. this party has united behind. him i call it the new maga establishment. there are a handful of closet normals, the people that don't want trump but don't have the courage or the gumption to say it. and then the people who haven't endorsed anyone but they're not out there helping haley, they're not helping desantis, they're sure not helping christie. so i just think that's why going match your previous question, a lot of these folks, mike lawler in new york, they ran in 2022 acting like they were gonna be a normal republican but then after two years we've see

scalise, and mike johnson was quick to endorsed trump after winning the speakership. there is a schism between the chambers of congress and republican leadership getting behind trump early. a lot of that has to do with the house has more gerrymandered districts, where losing a primary challenge is the biggest threat to your general election. you see a lot of folks getting behind trump earlier in the house. the senate is a lagging indicator. the house is in front with those endorsements or trump. >> why do these candidates seek endorsements from members of congress? >> that is a great question. especially as we see that versus the two early state governors, kim reynolds and chris sununu, who have endorsed other candidates besides trump. i do not know if a senator's endorsement matters, but trump really values endorsements. they are super important to him. he uses them almost as currency and politics. a great example is endorsing j.d. vance in the 2022 ohio primary. j.d. vance won. he was one of the first to endorsed trump, and now trump is backing j.d. vance's preferre

scalise going to be out for health reasons.can, we are told, ken buck of colorado told us he believes that going down this path could be a dangerous precedent. he is not opposed to impeaching mayorkas. the homeland security department is pushing back on this saying the house majority is wasting quote valuable time. they say impeaching him, charging him with a high crime is simply out of bounds and does not line up actually happening on the border. the house gop controls majority. immigration has become a defining issue in 2024. what issue that is unifying republicans which is why many of them believe it is more likely now that mayorkas could get defeated. many have not seen the evidence to suggest that joe biden committed a crime while in office. so that issue is continuing to play out. the investigation into biden. but the chairman of the house security committee expects a handful of hearings not to go on and on. and potentially an impeachment vote. that is the plan at the moment. taking us straight to the floor. will they hav

scalise, and mike johnson was quick to endorsed trump after winning the speakership.here is a schism between the chambers of congress and republican leadership getting behind trump early. a lot of that has to do with the house has more gerrymandered districts, where losing a primary challenge is the biggest threat to your general election. you see a lot of folks getting behind trump earlier in the house. the senate is a lagging indicator. the house is in front with those endorsements or trump. >> why do these candidates seek endorsements from members of congress? >> that is a great question. especially as we see that versus the two early state governors, kim reynolds and chris sununu, who have endorsed other candidates besides trump. i do not know if a senator's endorsement matters, but trump really values endorsements. they are super important to him. he uses them almost as currency and politics. a great example is endorsing j.d. vance in the 2022 ohio primary. j.d. vance won. he was one of the first to endorsed trump, and now trump is backing j.d. vance's preferred

larry: as steve scalise told us, the border, hr2 would be a terrific bill to stop the border catastrophe. the democrats won't pay any attention to it, joe biden doesn't want to talk about it, but that's the solution. i'm telling you, folks, it's the biggest political issue right now. and i'm sure that elizabeth macdonald will be all over it tonight. liz: yes, larry, thank you. welcome deputy i seizure disorders ace at no time form -- assistant former attorney john yu and hans. jon, jen griswald is rapidly deciding that the court decide to remove trump from the colorado state ballot and attended a closed door fundraiser for president bide anne donovan denver two months ago. it's based on remarks that the president made on the white house website giving griswald a shotout. she's hundreds hund hundreds os knobbing with prominent democrats. >> the court needs to intervene so there's not 50 different standards throughout the country on who's not allowed and who's allowed and particularly as you point out when the decisions are being made that some states by elected partisan officials and this

steve scalise, right? >> steve: a new one is out. >> brian: which one?steve: medical. >> brian: really? i didn't know that congressman maxwell frost. you talk about a guy that's tone deaf. he is look at the need to crack down on the border and saying that we don't like immigrants in this country, especially republicans. listen. >> to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. let's be honest with immigrants who deserve better than what you're offering them don't welcome immigrants if you plan to reject them. if you keep pushing your big got h.r. 2 bill, then also pass this bill. i have taken the liberty of drafting it for you. it removes the statue of liberty our largest symbol that tells people to come here. this is who you are. removing the fabric of america. so, i want to know which republican who supports and voted for h.r. 2 will introduce this bill. >> do you know the interesting thing? >> steve: great stage craft. >> lawrence: all his props he has no idea about. it was gifted from france after the civil war. black americans came to the country

>>wa steve scalise tried to win this thing jim jordan and at on. >> multiple weeks and multipleer votesspeaker of the house, representative from louisiana, mike. >> there is isgoa process and me the process in the end is thes party. >> mike johnson picks up the speaker's gavel and from then on nothing but smooth sailing for the republicans. >> month domain three money laundering charges. >> the house change the locks on the doors of santos office. >> that is what happened. >> so hollywood is having a bad summer in 2023. >> not only the writer's strike but the actors striking.s pe >> if the strike would have happened in the '80s, people would be like freak out like oh, gosh, you know. there will not be "the golden girls" tonight? to compound matters in the box office, blockbusters. >> had these huge moviesmovi expected to do amazingly and they bombed.e gr >> you had the latest fast and furious sequel which is called fast x which sounds like a laxative. >> i can still smell it. >> harrison ford's latest indiana jones and search for retirement benefits did not go as planned. disney, stop m

scalise, but polls show his base is growining more loyoyal as the criminalal charges s stack up. accocording to a a washingtotont univerersity of mamaryland polo, gop vovoters are n now more sympathetic to those who stormed ththe capitol l on januy 6th, and more likely to absolve trump of responsibility for the attack than they were right after he fell insurrection. joining me now, we have senior political correspondent for the new york times and cnn political analyst maggie haberman. trump's former white house communications director, alyssa farah griffin, and former trump campaign advisor david irvine. welcome, to all of you. we are officially here in a presidential election year now. maggie, tell us, how do is ski yves scalise's endorsement of trump and also the support of almost all the house gop leadership play into his strategy for the primaries? >> look, it just creates this sense of momentum. and you're going to see this, i think, going forward. he is going to highlight the endorsements he's gotten, they're going to point to the breadth of support that he has within the p

who is the frontrunner, steve scalise, this from house, and majority leader tom i' i'me emmer the whip, seems that entire g.o.p. is getting behind donald trump? >> next 10 months will be interesting, you know we have 18 senators, i was first don't dors presid to endorse president trump, i don't know where the others are, i guess they are waiting for a phone -- >> i guess his satellite went down that is senator tommy tuberville, we appreciate it, he taught at all of the big universities, coaches are teachers, he has been through this you could hear him on the harm of all of this racism, and social justice nonsense. anyway. still ahead, here on cud loewkudlow we talk with house speaker mike johnson he will join us live from the border in eagle pass, texas, he is camped out with 60 members of congress, i hope they are getting tough on president biden's catastrophic open border. what is it? 300 thousand illegal immigrants, in the month of december. alone. 300 thousand. >> happy new year. 300 thousand. and i love i' immigrant, legal, that is what this country needs we have to stop this devi

. >> moments ago and aid to senior house gop leader steve scalise telling counterparts the border deal is dead on arrival in the house. ladies, i'm happy to have you both here. i like in an alternate universe because donald trump does not have the gop nomination, maybe he will be presumptive, who knows? but he's not the president of the united states. he's not a current rnc nominee, how is he having so much of an impact on current negotiations? >> he is on the path toward the nomination, and he has had a resurgence inside the gop and that's having a real time impact on capitol hill. it's not the first time that senators have worked behind the scenes on a delicate issue for months only to have trump come and blow it all up because a lot of members are scared of crossing them, and that's the truth on capitol hill. they are worried about being seen as undermining trump, he has reached out to them personally and said i to campaign on this issue in november and i don't want joe biden to have a victory on this issue where he is vulnerable. so that's driving a lot of the discussion on capitol

scalise did yesterday and this comes as trump's top rival, it seems, arguably, top rival, nikki haleyed into the new year raising $24 million in the fourth quarter. haley is in new hampshire today and ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy are in iowa and also in iowa, most importantly, cnn's jeff zeleny. jeff, what do things feel like there? does it feel like this is the final push into the caucuses? >> john, good morning. 12 days until the voting finally begins into this 2024 campaign and it feels like there is no doubt that donald trump is still the overwhelming front-runner, and you mentioned nikki haley's money. she's using the newfound money to put television ads on and right now this is a race for second place. we've talked about this a lot for the last several months and you can feel that taking shape, though, between nikki haley and ron desantis through television ads, through their own messages and what their supporters are saying. it is clear thatteth both of th are trying to slow the others' momentum. in nikki haley's case she believes it could end the candidacy of ron desantis.

who is the frontrunner, steve scalise, this from house, and majority leader tom i i' emmer the whip, seems that entire g.o.p. is getting behind donald trump? >> next 10 months will be interesting, you know we have 18 senators, i was first don't dor to endorse president trump, i don't know where the others are, i guess they are waiting for a phone -- >> i guess his satellite went down that is senator tommy tuberville, we appreciate it, he taught at all of the big universities, coaches are teachers, he has been through this you could hear him on the harm of all of this racism, and social justice nonsense. anyway. still ahead, here on cud kudlow we talk with house speaker mike johnson he will join us live from the border in eagle pass, texas, he is camped out with 60 members of congress, i hope they are getting tough on president biden's catastrophic open border. what is it? 300 thousand illegal immigrants, in the month of december. alone. 300 thousand. >> happy new year. 300 thousand. and i love i immigrant, legal, that is what this country needs we have to stop this devicive racism as

. >> steve scalise just endorsed donald trump. no big surprise there.aley who had momentum going and then stubbed her toe on the question in new hampshire about what was the cause of the civil war, and she never mentioned slavery and then tried to fix that, saying, well, of course it's slavery, that's a easy question having said earlier that that was a hard question as to what the cause was. she's a southerner who got a lot of credit for taking down the flag at the state capitol after the tragic racist killer in mother emanuel church. is this a big issue for her in new hampshire with independent voters who can cross over? >> conceivably. i think you never want to gaffe on the slowest news week of the year, so that was bad for her and the answer was disastrous, and it was a bad answer she gave 13 years ago, and it's taken over a decade and she has not cleaned up that answer. and new hampshire in theory should be a better state for the nontrump candidates because more people can vote, and historically we have seen moderate candidates like mccain win in ne

in fact, i just reported that a senior leadership aide to steve scalise, the number two house republican, he informed a group of republican chief of staffs in the senate that if the deal comes over the way they think it is shaping up to be that it is going to go nowhere in house. so what you have here is that senate republicans are going have less incentive to back this deal knowing that trump is against it and that it is going to go nowhere in house. >> coming up, breaking news. it has been quickly changing. about a republican resolution to declare the former president the presumptive republican nominee before the race is even over. we have new details that the former president knew about the resolution in its current status just ahead. >>> first, the former president's allies wanting to effectively end the contest behind the former president against nikki haley as the presumptive nominee. after that, the former president announced he didn't want that. he said he wanted to win quote, the old fashioned way and now, breaking news. new details about his support for that resolution and abou

steve scalise is now backing trump. he made the a announcement on x, vowing republicans will fight for struggling families. this comes as we are less than two weeks away from iowa caucuses. here we go. this is going to be the key test. all the polls aside, we're now going to find out what voters have to say. >> that's true. you hear trump's opponents talking on social media how they believe they have a chance to win iowa. i don't buy it. i think the endorsements were a matter of time. a lot of the senators were kind of holding their fire with caution trying to see who ended up rising to the top of the ticket and with trump performing so well, 30, 40 percentage points ahead in iowa and a new hampshire, it's inevitable they have to throw their support behind him. why not now. cheryl: new hampshire, it looks like it's going to be make or break in iowa and new hampshire for nikki haley. nikki haley has been pick be pip new key endorsement as well. even though donald trump is the frontrunner, the polls say that, what do you

scalise, the house majority leaders has been unde undergoingtreme for cancer and out for a about and it is growing even thinner. but we're learning is that republicans are more open to impeaching mayorkas than they are biden. there is a shift in the thinking in the last self weeks. what do you make of that shift? >> well it is related to the border deal negotiations. because frankly they're not going well and into the getting very far. and the border an immigration is such an animating issue in republican -- >> it is dominating the campaign season right now. >> right. so they're clamoring for something. and they view this mayorkas impeachment as sort of low hanging fruit. it is kind of surprising it is taken this long because it is something that a lot of republicans camed on doing immediately if they took back the house in the midterms. now as for the biden impeachment, you know, republicans have been pretty up front that it is designed to weaken biden in the presidential. and there is a little bit of a sense that maybe that is not that important any more given how weak he looks or

scalise majority leader, both endorse trump this week, and mike johnson was fairly quick to mr.o endorse trump after winning the speakership. so there's a definite schism split in the two chambers of congress and republican leadership on getting behind trump early. a lot of that is due to the fact the house has more gerrymandered districts where losing a primary challenge is the biggest threat to your general election and so you're saying ang lot of folks whose constituents are pro-trump getting kind of earlier in the house. the senate is a bit of a lagging indicator. the house is in front with regards to getting this endorsement to president trump. >> why do these candidates seek endorsements from members of congress? >> that's a greatat question. especially as we see that with the two early state governors kim reynolds and chris sununu candidatesed of the beside trump. i i don't know an individual senators endorsement matters between who wins especially if it's from someone not from the state but trump really values endorsements. they are super important to him. he uses an alm

he got steve scalise yesterday. pretty good that the trump machine is running pretty well right now. i don't expect they're going to stumble in iowa. but it could be a big fight in new hampshire. whoever finishes third here in iowa drops out. >> that's exactly why we watch all of this. and iowa is going to be exciting and new hampshire, of course, to . vaughn hillyard, fred upton, thanks to both of you. >>> breaking news from several state capitals across the country now. authorities were for to evacuate capital complexes in georgia, kentucky, mississippi and michigan after a series of . no explosives have been found. similar threats were also made in connecticut, montana, and minnesota. we're monitoring the situation and we'll bring you anything that we get from investigators from our teams as the investigations continue. >>> and border breakdown, the house speaker leading a delegation to the border to raise the political heat on the white house after migration reached historic levels last month. you're watching "a

the number two republican in the house, steve scalise, will have a stem cell transplant as he battles cancer. he will not return to washington until february. that makes the republican's slim majority even slimmer. the u.s. supreme court said it will allow idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban even in medical emergencies. the court will hear a biden administration challenge to the law in april. federal law requires medicare funded hospitals to provide abortions in emergency situations. still to come, the food and drug administration allows florida to import pharmaceutical drugs from canada. david brooks and jonathan capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines. extreme drought threatens to create a crawfish shortage and a new musical on broadway explores the connections among autistic adults. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: with the longtime leader of the national rifle association, wayne lapierre, is stepping out after more than three decades. a corru

in fact, i just reported that a senior leadership aide to steve scalise, number two house republican, who sets the floor agenda in the house, he informed a group of republican chief of staff in the senate that if the deal comes over the way that it is shaping up to be, that it is going to no go nowhere in the house. what you have here, senate republicans are going to have even less incentive to back this deal, knowing that trump is against it, and knowing that it is going to go nowhere in the house. >> melanie zanono, thank you. breaking news, a republican resolution to declare the former president the, presumptive republican nominee before the races even over. we have new details about the former president what he knew about the resolution and his current status, just ahead. if you■re happy and you know it clap your hands. if you're happy and you know it, ride your bike if you■re happy and you know it then your face will surely show it if you're happy and you know it's smile big and bright. thousands of kids just like me are happy every day and it's all because of generous people lik

scalise going to be out for health reasons for the next month. he'll have to limit to only one vote if it comes down to it. and one republican, we are told, ken buck of colorado, told us he believes going down this path could be a dangerous precedent. he's not opposed to impeaching mayorkas. homeland security department is pushing back on this, saying the house majority is wasting, quote, valuable time in going after mayorkas. they point to what he has done at the border and they say i peaching him, charging him with a high crime, is simply out of bounds, simply does not line up with what is actually happening on the border. but the house gop controls the majority and immigration has become a defining issue in 2024, one issue that is unifying republicans, which is why many of them believe it is more likely now mayorkas would get impeached than joe biden, where a lot of republicans say they have not seen evidence yet to suggest joe biden committed a crime while in office. mark green, the chairman of the house homeland security tells me he expects

. >> tara, we learned this week that representative, steve scalise, is having a stem cell transplantcer treatment. it's likely he'll be out of washington for a time. and that means that there is a period after he steps down that republicans will literally only have 218 -- in the house. they won't be able to lose not one vote on legislation. do you think that leads to instead of zero productivity coming off of the least productive congresses we've had in history. or is it possible that somehow, new year, new you, is it possible that the republicans might use this as an opportunity to try and figure out how to get things done in a bipartisan way? >> one of the republicans ever done this in the last five years, six years. >> i had to ask. >> you know the answer to this, okay, this is gonna be an absolute disaster, do nothing congress this year. first of, all in a major election year like this, presidential election, your congress doesn't get much done anyway. everyone's fighting for their political life. this dysfunction in congress has added one -- it's really remarkable, when i cautio

steve scalise, leader mccarthy. they both blamed trump for what happened that day. drawing a blank. mitch mcconnell. on the senate floor. he blamed trump. they had the ability to keep him off the ballot. they said they were done with him. they knew he was responsible for it but yet, they all backtracked and now they're all supporting him again. >> what do you think about this whole question of whether trump should be on the ballot? do you think he's an insurrectionist? do you think he should be kept off the ballot or do you want to beat him on the ballot? >> i could answer that with my personal bias towards him, but that doesn't fly in the court of law. so legally, he needs to have his day in court. he needs to have his day in court. he deserves that. that is his right. when and if and when the court finds out, finds him responsible as being an insurrection supporter or instigator of insurrection, then yeah, the letter of the law of the constitution is clear. he doesn't need to -- it's plain and simple. he needs to have his day in court and then we go from there. the law is simple a

still the house plans to hold the contempt vote next week house majority whip steve scalise posted ine does not get to play by a different set of rules he is not above the law. ranking member in the oversight committee fired back stating it's time for calmer and jordan to call off this truly absurd wasteful proceeding taking us for an answer hunter biden's of businbusiness during have finany benefited his father, the white house and hunter had denied this. eric: are right alexandria thank you. arthel? >> big crowds in d.c. today. thousands taking part in a march on washington for gaza pro- palestinian demonstrators calling for an immediate cease-fire and for the u.s. to stop giving aid to israel. mike emanuel is live at freedom plaza in d.c. mike, what is it looking like? >> arthel, good afternoon for a brisk general day in our nation's capitol tens of thousands of people turned out in support of the palestinian people we heard some passionate speeches including from one woman who talked about the impact the military campaign in gaza is having on the palestinian people. >> israel has

scalise said enough of his stunts, he doesn't get to play by a different set of rules, he's not aboveember on the committee, democrat jamie raskin, it's time for chairs comer and jordan to call off this absurd ap wasteful contempt proceeding and finally take yes for an answer. house republicans believe that hunter biden's business dealings financially benefitted his father. the white house and hunter denied it. griff: for more on hunter biden's legal woes. joining us today is former acting attorney general matt whitaker from des moines, i should point out by the way, braving the weather to get inside. and let's pick up where alex left off in her reporting. and that's the question of whether or not hunter biden will appear for this deposition. the letter, which was put out, it's crafty and a lot of footnotes suggesting he wants to talk about a hybrid option. regardless of it, as you heard from alex's report, it looks like republicans are going to move forward with the contempt charge. my question to you is, do you believe if they do issue that, that merrick garland will charge him and

elizabeth: steve scalise told larry kudlow he's u.s. protection secretary and supposed to protect the border and it's driving polls to the worst in the modern era according to gallop. listen to what happened today. watch this. >> we have not approached this day or process lightly. secretary mayorkas' actions have forced our hand. we cannot allow this border crisis to continue or allow fentanyl to flood across our border, or criminals to waltz in undeterred and cannot allow cabinet secretary with no regard for the separation of powers or the rule of law to remain in office. that is why today we present this committee with articles of impeachment against secretary alejandro mayorkas. >> second of all, there's no room to detain everyone that comes over. dhs would need significantly more funding in order to be able to even do that. elizabeth: that's congressman dan goldman, a democrat. there's no room to detain everybody so just release everyone into the interior and not bring back the trump policies that protected the border. there's a gro

a lot of new endorsements for donald trump who is the front-runner this from the house of course, steve scalise, majority leader, tom emmer the whip, senator tom cotton, elise stefanik led the way, you endorsed trump. seems like the entire gop is getting behind donald trump? >> next 10 months, larry, will be very interesting but you know we have 18 senators. i was the first one to endorse president trump. i don't know where the other 31 are. i guess they're waiting -- larry: i think his satellite went down or something, anyway. that was senator tommy tuberville. we appreciate -- i would say, folks i especially, he taught at all these big universities. coaches are teachers and he has been through this and you can hear him on the harm of all of this racism and social justice nonsense. anyway, still ahead here on "kudlow," we're going to talk to house speaker mike johnson. he joins us live from the border in eagle pass, texas, where he is camped out with 60 members of congress i hope they're all getting tough on president biden's catastrophic open border. what was it, 300,000 illegal immig

this follows the house majority leader steve scalise endorsing him yesterday, the house speaker mikeson has already endorsed trump, all republican house leadership has now endorsed donald trump for president. so the party apparatus really rallying behind donald trump. this comes as there is some positive news for some of trump's opponents. nikki haley's campaign reported raising $24 million in the fourth quarter. that is more than double her third quarter haul. haley is in new hampshire today, ron desantis is in iowa, that's where cnn's steve contorno is live for us now. what do you expect to see today, steve? >> reporter: well, that money that nikki haley is getting, that's going to be a nice injection of cash into her campaign and giving her more firepower to go after ron desantis. she has spent since november 14th almost $30 million between her and her super pac attacking ron desantis on the airwaves and supporting her campaign in new hampshire and iowa. just to put that in perspective, desantis' campaign and his allied super pacs have been virtually dark in new hampshire since mi

i watched steve scalise almost _ gunman.th him — is free — much as i disagree with him — is free speech free speech when you didn't — is free speech free speech when you didn't actually commit the crime, — you didn't actually commit the crime, or— you didn't actually commit the crime, or not? that's something long-term — crime, or not? that's something long—term that can be very detrimental. long-term that can be very detrimental.— long-term that can be very detrimental. ,, , ., �* detrimental. stephanie, you're an attorney _ detrimental. stephanie, you're an attorney and _ detrimental. stephanie, you're an attorney and had _ detrimental. stephanie, you're| an attorney and had experience in baltimore. your views? i in baltimore. yourviews? i wish we could answer the question that you asked. should we be concerned if donald trump is re—elected that we'll have another — or if he's not — that we could have anotherjanuary 6? to me, we should just answer that question. the answer is — yes, we should be concerned. we should be con

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among them is majority leader steve scalise who also endorsed trump's 2024 campaign this week.mp derailed scalise's membership in october suggesting he was too sick to hold the position after scalise had been diagnosed with cancer some months before. joining us now co-founder of punch bowl news, anna palmer. she's also an msnbc contributor. anna, great to see you this morning. we see this time and time again, that republicans who seem like they might stand up to trump, they might keep their distance from him come crawling back. we're seeing now is more mainstream republicans coalescing around him again. tell me, i mean there's nothing surprising about this, i suppose, but give me your analysis about what this means right now for the pen party and the state of the gop primary race. >> to your point i don't think it's surprising that you see house republicans in particular lining up behind trump. as you point out tom emmer embarrassed by trump when he was running for that speakership and the leadership race, comes now and is the last of the gop leaders to decide to back trump. i

scalise bitch please ♪ ♪ lloyd smucker that mother-[ bleep ] ♪ >> jimmy: hey, hey, woah, stop, stop,iq trotter, everybody tariq trotter. [ cheers and applause ♪ hey, i saw that today president biden and vice president harris held their first joint campaign appearance of the year. yep, apparently biden's new year's resolution was to meet new people [ light laughter ] "hey, where you been for four years? switching gears, today the nominations were announced for the 96th oscars. ryan gosling was nominated for playing ken. [ cheers and applause he's gonna pick up the statue like, "huh, something about this looks familiar. i -- i" -- [ laughter ] some business news apple just rolled out a new security update to protect user's personal data from thieves. apple put out a press release like, "we wouldn't have to do this if you idiots wouldn't stop making your pass code one, two, three, four some more business news. wendy's just added breakfast burritos to their menu [ scattered cheers ] i don't know, i just worry it won't be as authentic as the breakfast burrito i get from taco bell. [ laugh

police and his -- steve scalise and his team, i know him. the personal relationships do matter. whatever it takes to get through these next few weeks, we are willing to do. it baffles the mind that there was no acknowledgment the talks -- that talks are happening on the capital. >> jonathan from the pittsburgh post-gazette. at the outer table. >> thanks for coming. i know we are talking about the shutdown, but you're also preparing the budget for 2024-2025. dir. young: don't remind me. >> is there concern when you are looking at the budget, are you talking about new security steps, funding you think you will need for the election and the postelection, for counting the ballots and recertification next year? director young: there is always this time of year. even last year, we started funding leading up to just the normal planning around inauguration, which includes security funding for the election, for candidates, so that is a normal course of action for 2024 and 2025 budget, and we work closely with secret service to make sure they have what they need and make sure we are budge

the number two republican in the house -- steve scalise -- will have to have a stem cell transplant asles blood cancer. the louisiana congressman's office said today he will not return to washington until february. that makes the house republicans' slim majority even slimmer -- with decisions on ukraine aid and government funding pending. and, on wall street -- stocks drifted into the weekend with modest gains. the dow jones industrial average added 25 points to close at 37,466. the nasdaq rose 13 points. the s&p 500 was up 8. still to come on the newshour. the food and drug administration allows florida to import pharmaceutical drugs from canada. david brooks and jonathan capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines. extreme drought threatens to create a crawfish shortage. and a new musical on broadway explores the connections among autistic adults. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: the longtime leader of the national rifle association is stepping down after more than th

you have steve scalise, the majority leader, announcing the house will vote on the resolution to holdss sunday. your thoughts on what they continue to do here with hunter biden? >> there is a right way and wrong way to go about an investigation. i think looking at hunter biden 's past business dealings, something that could be a congressional matter of inquiry, the same way with jared kushner and his two billion dollar investment from saudi arabia after he served in the trump administration. so, i don't think this is off limits, but the way you do that is by doing it. you hold an investigation, and it don't make an impeachment inquiry, when they have yet -- there is not a single republican out there who can tell us, can name a crime or potential crime, and alleged crime that joe biden committed that is worthy of an impeachment inquiry. so, it's a bunch of boces running around, trying to get on fox news or newsmax, or if they can, oan, to feed the beast with all of this hyperbole that has no basis in fact. james comer, the republican from kentucky, who runs at the committee here, still

house majority leader steve scalise announced that a floor vote on holding hunter biden in contempt of week. on friday, hunter biden's attorney said in a letter obtained by nbc news that hunter would comply with congressional subpoena, only if house republicans issued a, quote, new and proper one. i want to play for you all that sound from dr. jill biden with our colleague, nika prusiensky, about hunter biden, for some. >> i think what they are doing to hunter is cruel and i'm really proud of how hunter has rebuilt his life after addiction and i think, you know, i love my son, and it's hurt my grandchildren. that's what i'm so concerned about, that it's affecting their lives as well. >> i think it was important that the first lady said that because oftentimes, i think hunter biden has become a political foil for republicans, right? >> -- >> yeah, people just want to throw it out there, but he is a father, he's a husband, he's a son. and he never worked in the white house. most importantly. he was not a government employee, unlike, you know, jared kushner, ivanka trump, and impeachment

steve scalise said they will take up this impeachment vote against alejandro mayorkas next week. that does suggest that republican leadership appears to think they have the votes that this thing can pass. we're working with a very tight majority here, they can lose two votes because that is all that they can afford right now. there are at least two house republicans who remain on the fence about whether they want to vote to impeach alejandro mayorkas. we heard from chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, that chamber is going to have to take this up in the form of a trial once the house processes this. let's hear what he had to say. >> house republicans have not shown that he has violated the constitution. house republicans have failed to present any evidence of anything resembling an impeachable offense. instead, what house republicans are doing by advancing the sham impeachment effort is denigrating our constitution, all for the sake of appeasing one person and one person only, donald trump. >> reporter: now as we wait for the bipartisan partisan deal to emerge from the sena

. >> tara, we learned this week that represents steve scalise is having stem cell transplants as partt's likely he will be out of washington for a time. and that could mean there is a period after bill johnson steps down that republicans will literally only have 218 lawmakers in the house. they won't be able to lose not one vote on legislation. do you think that leads to a log jam in congress in terms of just zero productivity coming off one of the least productive congresses we've had in history? or is it possible somehow, you know, use a new year, new york, is it possible that the republicans might use this as an opportunity to try to figure out how to get things done in a bipartisan way? >> when have the republicans ever done this in the last five years since they were -- six years? >> i just have to ask. >> i know. you know the answer to this. this is going to be an absolute disaster do nothing congress this year. first of all, a major election year, presidential election year like this, congress doesn't get much done anyway, because everyone's fighting for the political life. thi