olson, a producer and filmmaker focusing on true crime across film, television, and podcasts and bill thomas. the co host of the mind, over murder, podcast, and an advocate for victims. thank you all so much for your time. thank you for being part of the stream today. tara, i would like to start with you, because here on the stream, we often focus on personal stories, and you had a terrific experience with infamous cereal. predatory john, me, hon. known to many of our viewers because of the pod cast and then the series dirty john. i know this may be difficult, but i was going to ask you to share with us that experience and also a major choose to work with survivors. so when i got thrown into this space, it was a lot, but for those that don't know me, i'm tearing you all my step dad during the john me, him came after me and i was able to defend him and a self defense. i took his life and now i start working with survivors because it's really the next step in the healing journey for me is that post progression is helping others. and so it's really great to connect with other survivors. and tha

at the solution they created and maybe, i don't know, patsed it on a -- a passed it on a clean bill. thomasmakes a stand for it every time and loses out on it. rachel: yeah. i think that's a really generous, charitable view of it, joey, in that you thought it just got tucked into the ukraine bill. [laughter] sometimes it's a bipartisan effort, a lot of times that's the, one -- the intel community and the intel motivation and their desire to control the narratives, to control our speech and have those kinds of powers one of the most bipartisan things in government in these things. but we'll see. i think it's an interesting thing. i think, charlie, you bring up an excellent point about what this means. i know, for example, my own daughter does understand what that red note means -- charlie: of course she does. rachel: in an op-ed on foxnews.com, you can catch all of that and her arguments many much more detail than we did here in her segment. but it's a fascinating turn of events of young people saying i'm just not going to listen to the government, and you've got to respect that kind of rebe

authors bill, amy and mike thomas examined carson's nebraska upbringing and off camera dark side. just ask his four wives, god. >> that let me congratulate you. i'm proud to be your son, my boy. you took the words right out of my mouth. i'm ashamed to be your father. >> robert s bader is back with another of his meticulously researched examinations into that iconic comedy team, the marx brothers. groucho, harpo, chico and zeppo. the reluctant marx brother bader focuses on the underappreciated straight man of the group who quit the act after their first five classic movies. i'll admit, i was skeptical, zeppo. turns out, he is worthy of his own biography. zeppo went on to become a successful hollywood talent agent, rancher, and manufacturer of airplane parts for the u.s. military. act now, and we'll even throw in a fifth marx brother, deja vu: it's live with kelly and mark. ♪♪ today, we catch up with kelsey grammer. plus, comedian jay pharoah. and straight from the big screen, actress elizabeth olsen.

conservatives to find 2.5 trillion in savings to rise the debt ceiling and pass the border bill and one member thomas massie says he will not support hr2 and you have no room for error in your margin. so, just to start off with a lighthearted question. how are you sleeping these days? >> well, in the three hours that i'm allowed to sleep, i sleep pretty welcome. >> three hours, is that right? >> that's about right, my average lately. there's been a lot going on. a lot of big ticket items that we have an accomplish, clearly. we have a very aggressive agenda, the first 100 days for us is going to be very busy. how do i manage all that and keep it all calm, it really is my world view. i believe very much in pt hand of providence and i'm not ultimately in charge, i believe there's a sovereign and he's the one in children and we do our duties. onquincy adams, duty is ours, a way to live, do your best every single day and leave the higher. >> and if you see the ground in the chaos and if you don't-- >> i genuinely love the colleagues i work with, every single one, even with those frustrated and even with m

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. >> the house cannot swear in members, debate bills or certify the presidential election without a speaker. kentucky republican thomass johnson. victoria spartz believes he failed to keep promises on slashing the debt aened government funding bills. >> speaker johnson is not able to govern, not actually willing to commit to do his constitutional duty. i was asking him to do anything beyond what the constitution asks. we are a titanic on a crash course with an iceberg. if he is not willing to do it he is not worth being a speaker. >> it could paralyze the house. it took five days and 15 rounds to elect former house speaker kevin mccarthy in 2023. that was the longest speaker election since the civil war. this fight underscores gop schisms amid a narrow majority. >> molly: chad pergram. political drama overshaded with everything serious going on. greatly appreciate it. chad pergram, thank you from capitol hill. >> isis flag was located on the trailer hitch of the vehicle and f.b.i. is working to determine the subject's potential association and affiliations with this terrorist organization. we're aggressively running d

arguments, and this is what we saw play out last week, is the chip roys and thomas massies are against one, big, beautiful bill on anything. they'd be against two of them. the reality for the republican majority is, as you're trying to do these things and told leadership has to change, those members don't want to change. they want to go through this process still voting no against every appropriations bill and so forth, and just somehow think leadership will bend to them. this is where trump is going to have to weigh in, too. if this is donald trump's republican party, it's also his republican majority. he's not going to just have to make statements and speeches. he'll have to work the phones on this a lot. >> we can look back at this a year from now, and yesterday could have been one of the most important days of the trump presidency. the thing is, they are now putting this -- like, first, we have april. you always pick the over on how long a bill is going to make its way through congress. >> yes. >> by making it bigger, it is going to delay this process. a lot of people on capitol hill were expecting the tax

i said, bill, would george washington and thomas jefferson recognize this building if they were to come in today? he said fundamentally, yes, of course, some rooms have been shifted. the art would probably be very contemporary to them because they would have their minds would have been fixated on a very specific period of time. but on the whole, it would be a house that they would still recognize today. but when you read histories of early presidents, it was full of people regularly. oh, my goodness. on new year's day, there was an open house and come one, come all hundreds, thousands of people would just be crawling in and out of the white house. it really wasn't until world war two anr that security began to be tightened and more regimented at the white house. and people take samples with them when they left. oh, they would try to do that. you know, just say, oh, i'm sorry to hear that. carolyn, it's in tulsa, oklahoma. as we talk about the history of the white house with stewart mclaurin. hi, carolyn. you're on. we had extreme weather during the month of june, july in august. if we w

. >> bill: johnson can really only afford to one lose single vote. so far there is one republican hold-out thomas of other republicans who have said they are undecided. some weren't too happy with speaker johnson last month when the spending bill drama was going on. are you worried there could be some late surprises that come in later today? >> you know, i wouldn't use the word worried. i'm hopeful there is not any late surprises. i know that speaker johnson has been working tirelessly over the holidays and over the last few days talking with these members, having conversations with these members that have concerns, that have issues, that want to see change. i don't -- you know, i really don't think it is going to be that messy. my hope is that we get it done on the first round so we can deliver the agenda that president trump and the republicans have set forth that the american people have demanded. >> bill: can anyone other than mike johnson get to 218 vote in your opinion? >> absolutely not. i just don't see. like you said, one vote. that's really difficult to do. i don't see anyone other than

bill does it state girls or women would be subjected to these exams. you are kind of disgusting. you don't need to be a daughter to guess what leah thomasfeel free to ask her make a quick that thing could put your eye out. so how crazy is this rationale that more predators would be created by a bill to protect the girls from dudes and locker rooms. >> the way she talks i watched the clip several times and i kept rewinding there's a way if you disagree with it or don't think the government should be involved but she says the reason the g.o.p. wants this is because of examinations that's what she said they thought there is no way she said that but she did. i think that is one accusation to make there's no way you would potentially have a reason for wanting sports to be limited to biological stuff are for any scientific reason the reason you want to look at kids to me that's unhinged and she said it was predatory and these kind of things she could just have conversations with each other or like to know dishy it or not. >> you think she believed because the way she was saying the foot but it just makes no sense to me michael you often imper

kentucky's thomas massie, south carolina's ralph norman, and texas' keith self, who opposed some of the large spending billsnson asked to avoid government shutdowns last year, voted for someone else first. president-elect donald trump who endorsed johnson intervened and called two of the defectors peered norman and self then switched their votes to put johnson over the top. >> what did the president say to you? >> i'm not going to divulge my conversation with the president. we needed more input from members like myself, not a chairman, not in a leadership position. and i think that is what we have done. >> we got together. mike gave us his assurances he's going to fight for thing supported to the country. and was it worth taking another hour? yes. >> reporter: for johnson, tougher sliding lies ahead. the house must raise the nation's borrowing limit in the coming months and avert another government shutdown in march to keep trump's presidency from being derailed. but he might need democrats to help if johnson again suffers defections. meanwhile, republicans officially took charge of the u.s. senate today. v

thomas. on thursday and a few moments the lake in riley act will become the very 1st bill that i proudly signed into law as the 47 at present i don't want to, i'm scientists 1st law on immigration to allow the detention of and documented migrant accuse obsessed in violent crimes, and tens of thousands, flea violence, indecent democratic republic of congo is rewind the fact, fight is expand control of game and sport. 18 champions league matches currently on the go as the league phase draws to a close. plenty at stake. top parties, cliffs to avoid elimination. manchester city are one of them. they're losing at half time to call me please. the so syria is defined to anita. i'm sure it has been declared the interim president months off to his opposition fight as toppled the countries long time at president bush are all a side. all alone functions have been dissolved and so has the constitution. the inter and president would also be tasked with for me, a transitional legislature, a serial authority is also disbanding the once ruling breath policy. let's girl service right away to is on been job a be

thomas on thursday. and a few moments the lake in riley act will become the very 1st bill that i proudly signed into law as the 47 present.

thomas massie, one of the biggest fiscal hawks in congress, he threatened to oustjohnson last year over frustrations with the costly foreign aid billt after pre—christmas government funding, negotiations looked pretty sour forjohnson. he, of course, ended up coming to a solution that ended up funding the government through mid—march. but there are a lot of frustrations with the length of the initial bill and the costly provisions and a bipartisan deal with democrats. and, of course, the second attempt, at the urging of trump, johnson tried to muscle through a debt limit extension, which infuriated fiscal hawks even more so, as you mentioned, a lot of hardliners in addition to massie. it's unclear what the vote will look like today, but a lot of hardliners are really hoping for promises for spending cuts and payfors in legislation this cycle if they want to give him the gavel. they want the spending reigned in, is it down to horse trading or will it be trickier than that, more fundamental? it will it be trickier than that, more fundamental?- will it be trickier than that, more fundamental? it is tricky because recall _ more fundamen

johnson for cooperating with democrats to pass key bills as factions of republicans fought over spending and aid to ukraine. at least one republican, thomas massie of kentucky, is already on the record. oh, no. you can pull all my fingernails out. you can shove bamboo up in them. you can start cutting off my fingers. i am not voting for mike johnson, but johnson has one key backer to get a successful vote. he's a good man. he's a very he's a wonderful person and that's what you need. the contentious transition is playing out as washington braces for several high profile events that could strain security efforts, including the january 6th vote certification, the funeral for former president jimmy carter, and the inauguration of donald trump. now, the house does have a few days to get this done, but if there is no speaker in place on monday, that would delay the certification of the november election, the election of donald trump, and could push back the timeline for the transition of power. scott. all right. ironic. well, chris, if not mike johnson, who are they thinking? it's hard to say because no names have been floated as an alternativ

thomas massie. but what -- speaker johnson told us president trump wants all of the priorities in one bill, and he iso put that bill on the president's desk at the end of april, worst case scenario memorial day. joining me now on whether this is a sign of a battle to come and in executing president trump's agenda given that slim majority is florida congressman byron donalds, a key member of the house oversight committee. congressman, thanks so much for being here. >> good to be with you, maria. good morning, everybody. maria: mike johnson says he's going to have a bill with energy permitting, the border as well as tax extensions on president trump's desk by the end of april. lindsey graham just said he's worried it's likely not going to happen that way. >> well, look, there's going to be a lot, a big lift are, a lot of stuff has to go into this bill. i'm not going to get caught into whether it's one bill or two to bills. i think the job specifically in the house is putting together the overall package, and then your political dynamics on capitol hill, the calendar in the house, the calendar in the se

get to bills across, we assume that house republicans, a faction of them who are very willing to make things political, there are a handful of them for even into buck trump on some issues. thomas massie was willing to still vote against mike johnson despite the fact that trump said that he was the one he wanted for speaker. so you are going to see these conservative voices continue to have power in one of their biggest things is spending cuts. it is going to be a key thing to watch. however, there is a chance that some of these republicans are going to feel more comfortable falling in line with trump. republicans are going to be even more willing to push back and not let things go through. there is a chance we see more cohesion working together when trump is the one calling the shots. host: three republicans, to members getting private meetings behind closed doors that every vote is going to cap for mike johnson. guest: making sure everyone is in attendance will count. if you are missing one person for other reasons, that is going to completely ruin the chances of getting legislation passed. mike johnson has been you'd to give more insight into the bills, more time to look at

thomas jefferson said that the tree of liberty has to be awarded with the blood of every generation. we don't have to die to preserve our bill of rights. we have to be willing to make sacrifices. the sacrifices we're being asked to make are very trivial compared what they made in 1776. we're being asked to endure the scolding of the public, the defamation of the press, the antipathy of our government. but that's not a big deal. we all need to be able to put self-interest aside if we're going to maintain these rights for future generations. all of you who come here for the libertarian party, you disagree with many things, many of you don't agree with me on a lot of stuff, but we all agree on one thing, which is we have to fight without the bill of rights. we have nothing in this country. we all need to be united because there are a lot of people out there that don't understand what america supposed to look like. and the people in this convocation do. our public officials have forgotten that vision for america, and it's time that we remind them. we can only do that by electing leaders who understand the necessity for personal

bill: star saturday afternoon at the white house president biden awarded 19 people the presidential medal of freedom but the ceremony of course did not come without controversy lucas thomas slide from the white house with more on this part lucas, he certainly raised a few eyebrows were some of his choices today, didn't he? was he sure did was about two weeks ago his presidency president biden's working weekends now hosting that you mentioned 19 people were in the presidential medal of freedom the highest civilian honor in the country the event was not without controversy. first president biden honored his vice president on the second gentleman. >> weoriginal by incredible vice president kamala harris second gentleman doug doug is a heck of a lawyer. he's finally going to practice again. >> might've been a d and dig thr the second gentleman. among the recipients josÉ, hilary clinton, michael j fox, jane goodall, magic johnson five-time nba champ there ralph lauren, bill nye the science guy david rubenstein george soares, denzel washington. some eyebrows are raised in hilary clinton was given the award along with george soros his son alex accepted on his father's behalf of

george washington thomas jefferson i and you build monuments to them and their words become really sacred words. we talked about how the declaration and the constitution and the bill of rights is display made at the national archives in washington. and there's a hush over it and it looks like a baroque altar from from a church. and we may not even think about that. i think that's part of bella's point about it just being just being part of the background. but but once you see it, you it and you think, well, this just an ordinary everyday we're doing we are elevating these documents to pretty much a as one historian called it, an american scripture, an american scripture. there's a canon of that american scripture. and we might argue about what belongs in that in that canon, and especially in the 19th century, we start calling our heroes the apostle stars, the disciples, martyrs. we talk about the temple of our liberty. we talk about the of our liberties. now, some of that goes back to classical antiquity. if we speak of the sacred fire of liberty that goes back to antiquity, either. yeah. on page 47, bella says declaration of independence is the constitution, the

bill koch, a member of the right wing mega rich koch family. richard uihlein, the wisconsin billionaire who happens to be a major funder of election conspiracy groups. and thomas klingenstein, the head of the ultra conservative claremont institute, which he founded. with trump's election denying coconspirator john eastman. and all of that money appears to have been well spent, it has paid off. at today's hearing, senator ernst began her questioning by entering into the official record a letter of support for pete hegseth, and from there it was pretty clear where this is going. ernst spent half of her time asking about hegseth commitment to auditing the pentagon, before asking some perfunctory questions about women and sexual assault in the military, largely agreeing with hegseth dancers on both. it was not an adversarial line of questioning. in fact, it was hardly questioning. at the same time, the new yorker reports that senator ernst turned down offers to hear privately from hegseth sexual assault accuser. now, earlier tonight, senator ernst denied that reporting, saying she never received a request from the accuser or her lawyer. either way, any meeting bet

store from the thomas family, multi-generation prior to us, he is the one that got up there and found that the store was just fully engulfed in flames and we weren't going to make it. >> billogram two hours ago with a gentleman from your community by the name of robert. he probably shopped at your store and this guy was shattered. he was in shock. sometimes it was hard for him to answer. he broke down twice, i think, in a period of five minutes. you, however, have said you are 100% committed to rebuilding. where are you now mentally and emotionally with this not even a week into it? >> well, i mean, i want to be fair in the sense my brother is the other half of this business as well. he manages and does so much for it. so speaking for both of us, i mean, we're -- it's a rollercoaster, up and down. in tears at one moment because the community, like robert, has been so supportive of the store for so many years and that was something i noticed when we first bought the store, when my dad bought the store in 2010. it was a joy to serve the community. and so i think that's part of why we are so committed to come back. i mean, i love altadena, i grew up there. i went to grammar s

guest: there are a number of bills that in the rules packaged will be authorized to be brought up quickly. one of those is something that representative thomas massie said he didn't like, sanctioning the icc for how it hindered -- handled matters regarding israel and gaza. there are a number of republican pieces of legislation that passed the house of the last congress they will quickly bring up for a vote. really, it is not so much the first piece of legislation that will be the marker for house republicans. it will be the major reconciliation bill that will include a lot of trump agenda items, potentially, tax cuts, border policies. even, as they were talking about in december, potentially, a debt limit increase coupled with $2.5 trillion in spending reduction. that's a huge piece of legislation. it will bypass the democratic filibuster in the senate. it will need a unanimous republican support almost and it has to pass there. it will be very difficult to get there. host: emily brooks, will you be out of the chamber for the speaker vote? guest: i will. host: what is it like in the chamber for a consequential vote like that today? guest: it

bills. that, plus his support for ukraine and its war against russia and other stances have created republican skeptics, including kentucky's thomas massey, the only republican to publicly claim he won't pull for johnson today. >> you can start cutting off my fingers. i am not voting for mike johnson tomorrow, and you can take that to the bank. >> if all decmocrats vote for hakeem jeffries as expected, all it takes is one vote against johnson to block him. johnson met with trump on new year's day, now touting trump's support and proclaiming he will claim victory on the first ballot. >> every single republican can put aside their preferences every day and work together for the team. >> reporter: johnson and allies arguing that congress can't start the work republicans were elected to do or even certify donald trump's election until the party rallies around a speaker. ideally him. >> everyone understands the importance of the moment, and i think they will come and get along. >> reporter: now, part of johnson's challenge here is many of the members withholding support for him want different things. promises he makes to some on the ri

bills. that, plus his support for ukraine in the war against russia have created skeptics including thomas massienson today. >> you can pull all of my fingernails out and shove bamboo into them. i am not voting for mike johnson tomorrow and you can take that to the bank. >> reporter: if all democrats vote for hakeem jeffries as expected it'll only take one republican vote to block him. meeting with trump at mar-a- lago in new year's day, now touting trump's support and he will play victory on the first ballot. >> every single republican can put aside their personal preferences every day and take one for the team. >> reporter: arguing republicans can't start the work or certify donald trump's election until the party rallies around the speaker. ideally him. >> everyone understands the mandate we have at the moment and i think they will come along. >> that was nbc's garrett haake with that report. let's bring it to the conversation from the washington post jackie l amini, ief whithouse correspondent for the new york times peter baker, and special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast po

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get to bills across, we assume that house republicans, a faction of them who are very willing to make things political, there are a handful of them for even into buck trump on some issues. thomassie was willing to still vote against mike johnson despite the fact that trump said that he was the one he wanted for speaker. so you are going to see these conservative voices continue to have power in one of their biggest things is spending cuts. it is going to be a key thing to watch. however, there is a chance that some of these republicans are going to feel more comfortable falling in line with trump. republicans are going to be even more willing to push back and not let things go through. there is a chance we see more cohesion working together when trump is the one calling the shots. host: three republicans, to members getting private meetings behind closed doors that every vote is going to cap for mike johnson. guest: making sure everyone is in attendance will count. if you are missing one person for other reasons, that is going to completely ruin the chances of getting legislation passed. mike johnson has been you'd to give more insight into the bills, more time to look at legi

guest: there are a number of bills that in the rules packaged will be authorized to be brought up quickly. one of those is something that representative thomasassie said he didn't like, sanctioning the icc for how it hindered -- handled matters regarding israel and gaza. there are a number of republican pieces of legislation that passed the house of the last congress they will quickly bring up for a vote. really, it is not so much the first piece of legislation that will be the marker for house republicans. it will be the major reconciliation bill that will include a lot of trump agenda items, potentially, tax cuts, border policies. even, as they were talking about in december, potentially, a debt limit increase coupled with $2.5 trillion in spending reduction. that's a huge piece of legislation. it will bypass the democratic filibuster in the senate. it will need a unanimous republican support almost and it has to pass there. it will be very difficult to get there. host: emily brooks, will you be out of the chamber for the speaker vote? guest: i will. host: what is it like in the chamber for a consequential vote like that today? guest: it i

thomas. who's that? well, it's miller williams. miller williams is. it was a poet of the year. i've forgotten exactly what he wrote in the nineties. he gave the inaugural poem when bill clinton was inaugurated the second time he's from arkansas. a personal friend of mine, and he came here to plains, georgia, one night to in a cafe to read some of his poems. and i sat with him during meal and i told him i had written some amateurish poems. and he said, how would you like to write some more adequate poems? i said, i'd like it very much. he said, well, would you be willing to go to the discipline of art, of a rapid college course, a course on porter writing? i said, yes. so he organized it well, another one or two poets at the university of arkansas they put me through a terrible discipline and and sometimes scoffing at my efforts. the only rule i had was that they couldn't write a single word in a single line of my poems. so i would send my early versions to them and. they would take great pleasure in criticizing what i had written. did it help your writing? oh, yeah, virtually. i wrote poems. i'm very proud of the poems, my book. and as i say, the book's been a good s