elizabeth l. chaney, but putting the american people over party. >> president biden there, you can see, awarding a presidential citizens medal to liz cheney for her work leading the january 6th committee. her co-chair also honored this-in that celebration today. the ceremony comes just days before the infamous date, january 6th. so, we're starting the year together. i'll give you one more reminder. you can always find me @arimelber.com. i can tell you where i went hiking over the break. that does it for us. t reidout with joy reid starts now.

tonight on "the reid out." >> pretty damn simple. our democracy begins and ends with the duties of citizenship. that's why i worked for the ages. that's what i all of you -- and i mean this -- all of you embody. >> late today, president biden awarding civilian medals to 20 people, including the two representatives who led the house january 6th investigation. meanwhile, this year's electoral certification could face a different, though less violent disruption. it can't happen, it turns out, without a speaker. and republicans face another potentially chaotic speaker election tomorrow. also tonight america's billionaires and near-billionaires are preparing to take power with trump as their front man. having convinced millions of americans for decades that their

own families' financial security is much less important than allowing the very richest to get even richer. we begin tonight with what should be a happy new year. but instead, it's a tragic one marred by violence and death. 14 people were killed and more than 30 injured, when a 42-year-old u.s. citizen and army veteran from texas rammed a pickup truck into a crowd during new year's celebrations on bourbon street in new orleans. details continue to emerge about the victims, as mourners flock to the scene to lay flowers. the dead include matthew -- who according to his mom worked at the new orleans superdome. reggie -- hunter had been with another cousin who survived the attack. kareem, an 18-year-old who had just completed his first semester at the university of alabama, was home for the holidays. his father said kareem was the

youngest of three children and that his 6'5" son was beautiful and still referred to as the baby. another 18-year-old and high school graduate was also killed, according to her mother. this was an act of terrorism, and now my baby is gone. don't go anywhere. it's a line that underscores the seemingly endless age of american violence. these victims, young, diverse, full of promise, out with friends as they should be on new years eve, represent the america we should have. the tragedy also highlights how prevalent disinformation has become in shaping our political discourse, how quickly it muddles the chaos. and from the highest levels. with donald trump blaming the biden administration's border policies for the attack, even

though authorities have identified the assailant as a native-born u.s. citizen, again, from texas. the lies started, as many lies do, on fox, when the network erroneously blamed open borders for the attack, citing anonymous sources that claim the new orleans suspect's truck crossed the southern border in eagle pass, texas, two days ago. trump then issued a statement about criminals coming in, which unleashed even more lies about so-called migrant terrorists from republican members of congress, including house speaker mike johnson, along with the likes of donald trump jr. and marjorie taylor greene, two people who do nothing for the american people and who love posing with guns. the new year we've entered already has violence around us everywhere. as you probably saw on all of your feeds, a tesla cyber truck exploded and burst into flames wednesday morning just outside the entrance of trump international hotel in las vegas, producing this dramatic

scene that seemed like a fitting symbol for our era. instead, a decorated u.s. army soldier believed to be the person killed in the explosion suffered what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound before the truck went up in flames. authorities also say they have found no definitive link between the new orleans attack on new year's day and the vegas tesla cyber truck explosion. we also learned this week about an unsettling story out of virginia, where a man was arrested with what federal prosecutors described in court papers on monday as the largest cache of finished explosive devices ever found in the fbi's history. investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside norfolk. they also found pipe bombs in the man's house loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a

logo reading #nolivesmatter. this is how america rings in a new year. and there is nothing happy about it. in the wake of the new orleans attack, the sugar bowl was postponed and rescheduled for today. notre dame and georgia faced off this afternoon in the college football quarterfinal. the flags outside the superdome flew at half staff. how quickly life goes on because life must go on. but also were those spectators and workers safe? the thing is, crime is actually down in america year over year. but it doesn't feel safe in this, the most violent non-war-torn country on earth. we're frankly terrorized -- numb and terrorized at the same damn time. joining me now is charles blow, "the new york times" alcohol "the new york times" columnist. mr. mayor, i want to start with you. we know there's an interfaith

prayer service for the victims and their families. that's going to be held on monday. the quote was to bring peace and community to our community. talk to me about your community and how they are recovering from this awful, awful tragedy. >> joy, thank you. it's nice to see you. charles, i'm sorry i can't be with you. it's an awful time. it's a very sad time. for people that know the people of new orleans, our hearts are always open to having millions of people come into our homes with food and music and fun. and we troy y to celebrate the of life. when something like that happens in our hometown, every person in new orleans is hurting. our thoughts and prayers out to the families. the pictures you had of the folks that got hurt, those are our people. so, our hearts are broken. we also want to thank the first responders, those police officers who ran to the terrorist and ran to the fire rather than against it, actually saved more lives as well as all the law enforcement folks that

helped medical personnel. you saw today -- joy, you just mentioned it -- that we got back up and 60,000 people went to the superdome today because the people of new orleans are never going to bow down to terrorism and people who are going to try to stop us from enjoying the freedoms and the joys that we of life. and we have to figure out a way through this. you see this -- you saw it after the boston bombing, after 9/11, after the mgm grand, you cannot let the terrorists win. it's critically important. but it's equally important to be honest and truthful about where the threat is coming from. this was an american citizen who was from the great state of texas. this was a domestic threat. it did not have anything to do with the border, not withstanding what our speaker said or the president intimated. the reason it's important to be clear about that is so you know where the threat is coming from so you can figure out how to, a, stop it, and b, make sure you respond to it in the appropriate way. i'm sure president biden has

been working on this around the clock. i'm sure the trump administration will think through this as well. federal, state, and local authorities have to really work together to secure the streets of america in a thoughtful way that actually honors the truth and is transparent. >> yeah. well said. and, you know, charles, mayor andrew mentioned the speaker. let me play him. this was his reaction. and we're not sure when in the timeline this is because fox did have to walk back their claims about this having anything to do with the border. here's speaker mike johnson. >> the congressional republicans, we here in the house and the senate, have repeatedly asked the dhs under the biden administration about the correlation, the obvious concern, about terrorism and the wide open border. >> nope, nope, nope, nope. there is nothing -- this has nothing to do with the border. and yet, you know, there's a dual since here where, dang, young people can't enjoy anything. you can't go anywhere. you either have a threat of a mass shooting at school or at a

parade or at a concert. you can't go anywhere. and now you can't even enjoy bourbon street without the fear of not even just mass shootings but this kind of terrorism. and then on top of it, you have what's supposed to be a news organization lying to their audience because they can never miss an opportunity to tie any bad thing to the border because that's their tick, right? everything is the border. everything is immigrants. everything is the border, the border, the border. and now they have lied so much that donald trump is repeating it and the speaker of the house is repeating it. your thoughts? >> well, welcome to the next four years of america. i mean, this is -- >> yeah. >> what we have to brace ourselves for, people -- you know, one particular news entity not being rigorous enough with its facts but also a president and a party that is going to be, kind of, slavishly devoted to that version of truth, even when they make the mistake. listen, i think, you know, we are in the news business. people make mistakes. you clean it up as best as you can. that's part of the business. i'm not trying to come down on

them that that's the only -- they're the only people that have ever made a mistake. i am saying, however, that, you know, there is -- you cannot escape the fact that this is a brown suspect with an exotic name, an arabic name, and that that was so convenient for people. you know, they wanted to desperately to be right, they didn't slow down enough to be righteous. they wanted so desperately for this to confirm everything that they were saying about immigrants, what they were saying about people in the middle east, what they were saying about the biden administration. and so they swallowed this hook, line, and sinker, and got out over their skis. and the president is the kind of person who has yet, as far as i can see -- i have not seen it. but he has walked back what he said, which is the most dangerous part of the information environment that we are in now, which is that the first initial statement gets -- carries the most weight. and even if they do walk it

back, which they haven't, that just does not get the same amount of coverage. >> yeah. i mean, and, you know, mitch, mayor landrieu, what's challenging about this is that, you know, elected officials have a different set of responsibilities than even those of us in the news business. this is a breaking news story. so, you're going to -- to charles' points, you're going to get facts wrong. the fbi has been flipping their story. first they were like not terrorism, then they were like terrorism. they have been shifting their narrative too, let's be clear. but now you have elected officials, people like the speaker of the house, people like the incoming president. they don't feel any tether to truth or facts because their whole business is around demonizing the border. facts complicate narratives. there was a guy in vegas sitting in that truck when it blew up. he was a white guy, army veteran too, the guy in virginia with all the bombs, not brown, not

black, white guy, lots of bombs, problem with the narrative. >> let me just mention a couple of things. first of all, i was the lieutenant governor when katrina hit. so, in my life as a lieutenant governor and as a mayor and executive, i've been through -- all of the things that i was mayor, shootings and now of course this terrorist attack. and when an event happens, whether it's a terrorist attack or a natural disaster, the most important thing that the american people want and need are their leaders, federal, state, and local, whoever they happen to be at the time, some democrat, some republican, to put aside all of the political jargon and to focus with a laser on, a, how to stop it and prevent it from happening, but if it does happen, responding well, and making sure you learn from your mistakes. and in this thing, the searing truth is the most critically important thing you can do. post-9/11, there was a report

after 9/11 about, you know, some deficiencies in the response. you saw it after katrina and hopefully you'll see it after this. it's really important that everybody really, kind of, gets stuck on what the truth is so that we know how to get better next time because everybody in america has a right to be safe and secure in their homes and in their communities where they live. and i would just, you know, double check all the elected officials now and stay focused on what the facts are. and let's move from the facts. and we have some domestic problems in this country that we have to keep an eye on. >> yeah. and last word to you on this, charles, because this is the challenge. it's very difficult to feel safe when on top of everything that mayor landrieu just said, you have politicians that have a self-interest in lying about everything because it helps them with the political narrative, not concerned about the human narrative that could actually be really helpful. >> and that is the tragedy of all of this, right? there are real tragedies. there will always be crime. you know, unfortunately what we

try to do is keep the crime as low as possible. all different kinds of people will commit crimes. the problem here is that you jump on one sort of crime, one crime committed by one name that sounds exotic, one brown face, rather than looking at all of the domestic terror that we face, including what the -- says is a really big problem, which is young white men in american. we need to look at all of our domestic terrorism and say, this all is a problem. >> indeed. exactly. and it is americans that we need to be talking about. this is about us. charles blow, mitch landry, thank you both very much. up next, there are a lot of questions surrounding the attack in new orleans and the explosion in las vegas. we'll have the latest reporting next. l have the latest reportin next

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investigators are trying to figure out why two army men decided to take violent measures on the same day in two different cities. investigators in las vegas now say they believe that the man who died in the tesla cyber truck outside the trump international hotel was matthew allen littles burger. he served as a member of the army's elite special forces unit. he was still on active duty and was on approved leave at the time of his death. he rented the tesla truck in colorado springs, which he

packed with firework mortars and gas that exploded outside the hotel. police say he shot himself in the head before detonating the explosion that injured others. fbi officials provided an update on shamsud-din jabbar, a u.s. army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people in new orleans, killing 14 before dying in a fire fight with police. according to officials, there was no definitive link between what happened in vegas and what happened in new orleans. they insisted that jabbar acted alone, reversing their position from a day earlier, that he likely worked with others. however, they stressed the investigation remains in its early stages and findings could evolve. they also confirmed that the new orleans attacker who recently was a real estate broker, posted a series of videos that declared his support for the islamic state, aka i.s.i.s., which he claimed to have joined before

this summer. in what authorities call a strange coincidence, both individuals rented their cars from a website called touro, which is known an airbnb for cars. joining me now is fbi special agent bobby chacone. the challenge, in the olden days before there was the internet, i assume the fbi could go about its investigation and just report its findings whenever they could. there is now this pressure to constantly report in realtime what you know, and disinformation is flying. and then people mistrust what they're hearing from the fbi because they keep changing their story. how hard is it to figure out things like, are there a link between these crimes, in that kind of an environment? >> it's very -- well, it's not hard to figure it out, but it's difficult to make it public, joy. and that's the problem. i am never a fan of making things public. but this constant harping for transparency means that we have to put out things as soon as we get them. and i tell you, i have

investigated crimes where i thought i had a number of suspects that looked good for the crime, and you go down the road and you realize that person's not the criminal. so, no harm, no foul, because that information stayed in my file. and even though there was some derogatory information about that person, it never got made public because i didn't -- you know, because he wasn't guilty of the crime that i was looking into, and the derogatory information was not criminal. but now in this day and age, everybody is constantly harping on transparency, transparency. so, you're going to get not maybe disinformation but bad information that comes up in an investigation. you follow leads, and they turn into nothing. and you know, so everybody says, oh, that's -- they have to reverse their feel. if you want transparency, total transparency, you're going to have to deal with the early stages of an investigation. often times, we have conflicting information. and it gets put out there now unfortunately. and then people lose faith and

confidence in the investigating agency. and it's, kind of, a double-edged sword. it's almost a no-win situation. >> well, then add to that america is beset by conspiracy theories. it is america's favorite thing. you've got amateur investigators online before the fbi probably even has it, they've got videos of the guy from new orleans doing his real estate thing. they're circulating photos of him dead on the ground. there is so much information out there and people think they know better than authorities how to put it together. the fact that these two vehicles were electric vehicles turned into a thing online. the fact that they were rented from the same turo, the same rental company, which is probably just total coincidence they were both in the army. and people started to try to put them together. so, i wonder how this -- does this get worse? i assume it gets worse when we have a much more politicized fbi, which we soon are going to have, one that is going to respond to what the boss wants. and the boss wants this to be

about the border. so, when the boss says it's the border, do agents get to keep their own independent thoughts and try to investigate, or are they then now investigating for an audience of one or an audience of their fbi director and the president? >> in my opinion, in my 27 years as an agent, 14 years under a republican and 13 under a democratic president. i was street level my whole career. it never influenced how i did my job or the facts as i found them. and i was insulated by a number of levels of not only supervising the fbi but people over at the u.s. attorney's office who actually prosecute our cases. they belong to the justice department. and they're insulated to some degree as well. so, it never really rose to that -- i didn't -- i wasn't involved in the more political investigations in d.c. >> sure. >> i was involved in more terrorism like we have now. but, you know, i hope it doesn't -- it never did in my

situation, and i hope it doesn't now. i don't see it. the workers in the fbi, the street level agents are still going to do their jobs, still going to chase the facts. we have no other avenue because we have to present facts in the u.s. attorney's office whether or not we get a grand jury and they're either going to indict or not indict. i think that down in the weeds, i think we're, kind of -- we've always been immune to that. i don't see how we could get that rough for them. i hope it doesn't. >> i hope not. i can recall there was investigations of people in miami who were prosecuted for terrorism because there was a lot of pressure to find terrorist groups and people who were playing, you know, whatever, pickleball out in the woods are suddenly getting scooped up. that's the kind of political pressure i think we have to worry about going forward. former fbi special agent, please keep your phone near you because we're probably going to be calling on you a lot in the coming year. >> any time. >> cheers. >> cheers. coming up, my take on the ultra wealthy who are poised to

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or a mega-millionaire who owned major corporations that controlled everything from oil and agriculture to how americans shop and what they drive, how we access health care, the devices we use, how we get information, the price of housing, food, and more, and you were using your massive wealth not necessarily to make life easier or more affordable for ordinary americans but rather to just make more money, how would you handle the inevitable backlash when average americans figure out they're getting played? how would you keep the anger at pay? storm the bastille revolution. one thing you could do is build high walls to live behind, higher private security, and travel around in an armored car. that might keep you safe from the masses. or you can get millions of average americans to take your side, root for you, and even

fight harder for you and your wealth than they do for themselves, get them to make your priorities their priorities. maybe even get them to fight other non-rich people, immigrants and minorities and anybody but you and your fellow billionaires. okay. well, how would you do that? because that would be one hell of a magic trick. back in the 1980s, rush limbaugh became a radio powerhouse by enthralling mainly white working class men -- truck drivers and cops and other non-educated people who spent their work days in their cars or other places they could tune in to a.m. radio for hours. a.m. networks saw the potential profit in this and syndicated his show the hundreds of rural and small town a.m. radio stations to pump the limbaugh show for hours a day, so rush hudson limbaugh iii could lean

into his golden microphone and tell his audience of ditto heads, as he called them, that real americans like them were having their pocketed picked by the welfare queens. the brown immigrants and the femi-nazis. it's the poor who are the problem, not the rich. he was so good as a broadcaster, one of the best ever in the business frankly. he even helped radicalize clarence thomas, according to a documentary by pbs "frontline." >> he would listen to rush limbaugh as he was doing the long commute, and he would have court staff tape record it so he could listen to it when he was commuting. >> limbaugh, who ultimately became a billionaire, fit the '80s and '90s perfectly, the lifestyles of the rich and

famous era, even making a star out of pretend billionaires like failed real estate developer donald trump, who was born rich and squandered his fortune on failed real estate deals before he was bailed out by banks and russia, allegedly. rush -- a slew of copy cats, sean hannity and more, each of whom had the same message, brown immigrants bad, feminism, definitely bad. but the wealthy and oil companies and big business? good. >> charles koch and david koch have been outspoken of the free market for years. >> this should send chills down the spines of everyone watching fox right now because you might not have the money to defend yourself. >> rush was followed by roger ails who are went to work for billionaire rupert murdoch building fox news, which took his same message, that white american voters should focus on

crime -- no, no, not mass shootings. black crime, brown crime, sexual minorities that make them uncomfortable, and illegal immigrants, not billionaires like rupert murdoch. they deserve the tax cuts. we promise it will all trickle down. we've got to get rid of the welfare, equal action, reaffirmative -- as long as we keep focusing on that, we are good. in the modern era, billionaires branched out from bankrolling talk radio and cable news to right wing ventures like breitbart news. there's also conservative organizations and think tanks active on college campuses like turning point usa, the federalist society, the young america foundation, and americans for prosperity, which was the coke money fueled pro-corporate backbone of the tea party movement. as well as up and coming podcasters like charlie kirk and

ben shapiro who offer the same message, poor is bad, brown immigrants, bad, feminism, bad, black lives matter, bad. insurance companies, drilling, and rich people, good. while hating on immigration is a core part of the right wing media ecosystem, these right wing outlets have found a form of immigration they do like. namely the migration of rich born nationals with inherited welt into the u.s. where they can buy up tech companies, gobble up small businesses into giant conglomerates and create monopolies while eating up taxpayer subsidies so billionaire owners can buy more companies, lay off people, and traffic in stock uybacks. in the process, a small group of superwealthy families have gained breathtaking -- over the

courts -- and over politicians the supreme court cleared the way for in the citizens united foundation. they control what we eat, how we shop, and how much we pay for housing because the super rich own literally millions of acres of farmland and million of units of housing through private equity firms making them america's biggest landlords. they also increasingly control information, what americans are allowed to know. jeff bezos doesn't just control a lot of what we buy via amazon. he controls "the washington post." ditto, the south african billionaire who owns "the los angeles times," who is even more aggressive about pushing a friendly, pro-rich point of view. of course there's rupert murdoch, the billionaire who controls the single most powerful -- fox news. the small group of families, the mercers, kochs, bradleys, wilks, and more, plus america's

billionaires and megacorporations own so much. and you've probably never even heard of most of them, which is kind of great for them. and then there are the tech entrepreneurs like peter teal, the born rich immigrant from south africa who invested in paypal, got even richer, and went into private equity where he employed a yale graduate who wrote a book ditching appalachians, who changed his name to j.d. vance. the government surveil you, yea. and there's vivek ramaswamy, the first generation son of immigrant parents who took soros money but reps a party that hates billionaire george soros. he lectured americans about our culture of mediocrity, ranting a culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math champ or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers, a culture that -- in "saved by

the bell" or stefan over steve erckal in "family matters," will not produce the best engineers. which is weird because the culture he described produced the internet and facebook. the winkle voss and -- zuk dropped out of harvard. ramaswamy, who graduated from harvard, once had a failed company to supposedly cure alzheimer's. here he is selling it on cnbc. >> i think the potential opportunity here is really tremendous for delivering value to patients. >> yeah. that company failed. though, somehow vivek and his mom made a lot of money by cashing out. and did vivek try to replicate steve erckal along the way? nah. here's vivek mimicking a key aspect of american culture he finds so mediocre on the

campaign trail. ♪ better go capture this moment ♪ ♪ you better lose yourself ♪ >> yeah, lose yourself, indeed. he also did that act as a college student at harvard long before running to be president of this supposedly mediocre nation. and there's vivek's partner in the pretend agency to cut government spending, elon musk, who controls the app formerly known as twitter, and used it along with $200 million to put trump back in office. he's now gotten trump to come out for visas for lower paid workers to replace americans in silicon valley, jobs because he's the richest man in the world and trump needs the money. and what value has elon created? he was born rich in south africa, came to america after apartheid fell, and he and his brother got $3 million to invest in their tech company called zip two. ever heard of it? me neither.

-- working illegally in the u.s. at the time, which musk disputes. >> when they did fund us, they realized we were illegal immigrants -- >> well, i say it's a gray area. >> illegal immigrants. >> ha, ha, ha, it's a gray area, ha, ha. okay. while his superfans worship elon, elon didn't create teslas or technology behind them. elon became the company's ceo. he became the ceo and he bought the company out, which was actually created by two american engineers from california, martin -- and mark, who probably grew up watching "saved by the bell" in the '90s. and those billionaires and multimillionaires of america who now control your government mind the best deal, now want to take away jobs from you and change the culture to benefit them even

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the maga civil war over h 1bvs has revealed rare cracks in the alliance between the superrich and the loudest voices from donald trump's nativist face. billionaire elon musk and

megamillionaire vivek ramaswamy defended the thesis, while breitbart news and steve bannon called h1bs a total scam. >> we're going to get hb1 visas out root and step and all the workers you brought in. we want them all -- just like we're deporting 15 million here, we want them deported out and give those jobs to american sids today. and we demand they get reparations. you stole from them. you stole their live from them. >> you want reparations, do you? joining me now is david -- msnbc political analyst. david, we've been doing this a long time, my friend. we have lived to see the day when the same crowd that's been telling particularly young american men that college is trash, that it's woke garbage full of dei and affirmative action, that you should forget

about college, are now mad that they aren't getting the jobs requiring a college degree that h1b visa people are taking and getting paid more money to work in silicon valley jobs that working class trump supporters would never get. where do we go? they want them deported along with the farm workers, right? >> you know, it's even bigger than that. you have -- trump, steve bannon, maga, for years, they've been attacking the elites. you know, they say, they're the populists. the corporations are too woke. and the people don't care about folks in ohio when trains go off the rails. and yet who is trump putting in his cabinet? almost a dozen cabinet and high level positions, billionaires. billionaires. i mean, what's more elite than being a billionaire? and these guys are coming in there and they want to e vis rate government. why do they want to --

billionaires and big transnational corporations. just a few years ago, everyone was mad that washington, d.c. didn't do enough about the safety of trains when the train derailed in palestine, ohio. well, here comes vivek ramaswamy and elon musk, the big billionaires who want to cut, you know, a third of the federal government away. they're not there to make the government run better, to do better with train safety or to oversee crypto or financial crimes or to enforce labor by regulations, workplace safety regular regulations. no. the billionaires are being put in there who are there to protect their own interest but to basically weaken government so that the people out there, consumers, citizens, people who eat food, for instance -- a pretty large group in america -- they are going to have less influence and less power in the face of these giant corporations and billionaires. >> i mean, the thing that's so

perfect, the southern strategy that kevin phillips launched in 1968 was to get white working class essentially democrats to switch parties by saying, don't focus on what we are doing. focus on blacks. focus on civil rights. you've now had this era from rush limbaugh on -- here's rush limbaugh getting the medal of freedom from trump, melania handing it to him. he and right wing media really have trained conservative working class people to believe that the rich deserve all the things they get. what the rich get are government subsidies, government welfare, welfare for the rich. if you try to give the working class anything, it's called socialism. steve bannon can say, we want reparations. but if black people say reparations, that's a irty word. you might as well drop the f bomb. bernie sanders and steve bannon agree on getting rid of h1b

visas. i feel like there are -- that are scrambling these alliances. do you? >> slightly. the far right, the populist light, has always been somewhat skeptical of corporate power, as has the left and liberals and centrist. but yet what you have under trump is trump bringing in these people on culture war issues, talking about the border and crime and trans issues. this is part of the 687 strategy. focus on culture war issues. do not let particularly working class voters see the democrats as doing anything for them. so, when joe biden and barack obama provide broadband to rural areas, you know, you and i don't need it living in the washington, d.c. area. but they provide broadband to places like west virginia and idaho. and the people there benefit from it. and what do they do? they either watch fox news on broadband and think the people who are doing this are elitist

who they should be voting against. it's not just that this is a government of billionaires, it's a government for billionaires. and that's what we're going to see -- i think you'll see some of these conflicts come up. but as long as republicans are a personality cult, that will stay under wraps. >> yeah. and that's why their a personality cult. if you can get people just focused on loving trump and worshipping trump, they won't notice that you're robbing them. folks, if you have a fox news friend, tell them. these billionaires are not here to help you. they're here to rob you. they're here to take all the money, get government subsidies from you, the taxpayer. they don't give a damn. trust me, they do not care and they're about to run your government. my friend, thank you very, very much. y'all, wake up. stop letting these billionaires lie to you. dang. coming up, the latest from d.c. where president biden just awarded the presidential citizens medal to 20 people,

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late today president biden awarded 20 people the nation's second highest civilian award. the presidential citizens medal is given to u.s. citizens who the white house has performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or fellow citizens. included in this year's

recipients are betty thompson and former congresswoman liz cheney who served as chair and vice chair of the now defunct house january 6 committee. cheney was singled out for putting the american people over party and first speak into recipients. biden praised their devotion to our democracy. >> today we celebrate a new group of americans who dedicated their careers to serving our democracy and and other essential ways. you are elected officials, you served in difficult times with honor, decency and injured our democracy. >> it comes as the party that has during the last midterm election is on the cusp of once again showing its inability to perform such exemplary deeds as it heads into another potentially drawnout floor fight during tomorrow's speaker vote. you remember the embarrassment two years ago when it took kevin mccarthy 15 rounds to win

the gavel only to lose it nine months later following a revolt by his own members. for some reason speaker mike johnson wants to remain in the position and has donald trump's endorsement. with a paperthin majority in the new congress all it will take is just to republican defectors to block his control of the gavel which appears to be the case. kentucky republican thomas massey has said he will not support johnson and another republican has raised their concerns as well. >> i remain undecided as to a number of colleagues. >> i don't believe he has the votes on friday. >> and if the house does not elect a speaker by monday when it's scheduled to certify november's election results it could delay the finalization of trumps white house win until a new speaker is elected. i'm sure trump is absolutely thrilled by that. at least there will be violence. theoretically.