that's what hakeem jefferies and chuck schumer agreed to. and that bipartisan compromise is exactly what elon musk submarined because he did not want his own conflicts of interest to be affected, his own interests in the government with his own government contracts, and i got to tell you lawrence, it's scary that you have the world's wealthiest man who supported donald trump with nearly $300 million, is rumored to be ready to give donald trump a financial windfall by using his x company to purchase truth social, having so much influence, this is an unelected oligarch who appears to be running our government. >> so just to clarify, this is kind of a breaking news item, for me, anyway, i don't think it's been out there, that it's your understanding that the republicans put the congressional pay raise into this bill. >> yes, my understanding is that the republicans are the ones who want to pay themselves more. now, there's a good argument to be made for this, which is that there should be -- there could be a raise for members of congress becaus

i want to thank speaker mike johnson and minority leader hakeem jefferies for working bipartisanly to set up this task force. they both told us, me and the chairman, they said how they wanted this to go, that they wanted it to be serious, that was their intent, and they set that tone themselves at the very outset of this. in fact, the chairman and i -- neither the chairman and i were seeking these positions and these appointments, but i'm glad that they partnered me with chairman kelly who was a wonderful partner and it's been one of the best experiences, actually, in my time in congress working with the chairman, working with the other members in a very serious and robust way. this hearing was actually one of the best hearings that i've been a part of in my time with congress with the seriousness, the professionalism and the attention to detail that everybody brought to it. so with that, thank you again and i look forward to the remainder of the business meeting here in releasing this report in due time to the public. >> thank you, mr. crow. do any other members seek recognition? no?

i also want to thank speaker mike johnson and hakeem jefferies for working together to launch and support this investigation. this support includes the passage of house resolution 1470 in september, following the second attempt to assassinate president-elect trump on september 15th in west palm beach, florida. our work has underscored that there is bipartisan ground for working together to protect our democracy from threats of violence. i'm especially proud of the work the task force has completed to get clear and complete answers about the security failures that occurred in butler, pennsylvania, on july 13th. this report, and the transcripts we will release, explain the multiple points of failure that occurred that day. it's also a road map for addressing the issues that contributed to and reveal problems inside the world's premiere protection entity. the task force received cooperation from the secret service, as well as state and local entities, allowing the task force to make clear findings and recommendations. however, the same cannot be said for all questions about july 13th. shoote

hakeem jefferies holds a lot of cards here.ey, donald trump, and elon musk, you screwed up the deal, no democrats are voting for this, then donald trump owns the government shutdown very likely. >> amazing. all right. stay with us. we are going to turn to the pete hegseth pick. trump, at least as of 4:48 in the east, is standing by firmly behind pete hegseth. hegseth may be losing the support of republican senators on the armed services committee, which is of course vital to moving hegseth's candidacy forward. politico is reporting this. at least a dos senators are pushing to see the fbi's background check on hegseth. donald trump's embattled pick for pentagon chief a rare move for the committee that oversees his confirmation and a sign the former fox news host will face hurdles in the senate. hegseth is faison a battle for confirmation due to revelations that he has been accused of sexual assault, of having a drinking problem, by ten of his former colleagues at fox news, he engaged in financial mismanagement at the veterans or

that's why hakeem jefferies is getting it. mike johnson couldn't pass a three-month cr on his own. a 3-month cr he couldn't do on his own so jefferies got a lot of stuff. if they can set up another cr, there are times where hakeem jefferies can ask for things. >> right. particularly because that margin is 222 minus 15, stefanik, waltz, you can only lose one vote. that is tough sledding for anyone, for the best, most gifted, you know, wizard of all time. i'm not sure mike johnson is that. brandon book. thank you very much. >>> coming up, the ginned up excuse president trump is talking about, the show trial threat. where can nfl fans get a great deal that turns christmas day into game day? x marks the spot. the nfl is streaming christmas day games exclusively on netflix, and you don't want to miss a moment. gather round the game because nothing says holidays like family and football. now xfinity customers can add streamsaver including netflix, peacock, and apple tv+ for just $15 a month. stuff your stockings with tons of entertainment and tons of savings. bring on the good stuff. xfin

it's the basis for a book, the abcs of democracy and hakeem jefferies joins me now. is the book. this is a good idea you decided to take that speech. did you memorize it or did you say it off the tome or did you have it written down? >> it wasn't written down and there is no teleprompter with the exception when the president delivers the state of union address. my gut told me to go there, so i just did it. i am thankful i made it through without making any mistakes. >> you did a good job. so you start off with american values over autocracies. let's talk about. christopher wray said today what i think a lot of people would describe as complying in advance to an incoming autocrat. he could have tried to stay through the 2027 term. what message does that send to democrats who are willing and trying to fight for -- and, you know, normal republicans that want to fight for democracy? >> he could have stayed and fought. so there is some disappointment on the hill. but i do have great respect for christopher wray and haven't always agreed with him, but he has been a princip

that's if all democrats vote for hakeem jefferies.im. again can only lose one. we don't know what trump's gonna say. johnson has been working very hard to be in trump's good graces. he wasn't to mar-a-lago. we saw him in nicolas maduro. he went to a ufc fight with trump. he has been trying. what we saw happen in the chaos before they left for the holidays and funding the government mike johnson knows it's going to get challenging for him. i asked him if he even wants to be speaker before he left for the holidays and he said it's not a job that's fun all the time, but it is an important one. i think there are some lying in wait if johnson doesn't get the gavel. certainly nobody that can get to 18 votes. >> if not him, who are the others being watched right now? >> somebody like jim jordan. he is the chair of the judiciary committee. he is somebody who was an ally of pump, a firebrand from ohio. he likes his position atop the judiciary committee. if they see johnson having trouble, he might just pop up as the fy to get the 218. i don't

house democratic leader hakeem jefferies said the lines of communications have been reopened. my understanding is democrats hadn't exactly been keyed in yet as to what this plan actually was, let alone been able to talk it over with their members. i think that's why we're now sort of in this quiet waiting period. we did hear from top republicans who said there was going to be a vote today, maybe this afternoon, but here we are squarely in the afternoon playing the waiting game and waiting thto see how this ultimately plays out. >> ali vitali, why did elon musk kill the bill? >> and that is the excellent question here because you would think that trump and thusly musk had been apprised of what johnson was negotiating over the course of these last several weeks. johnson has been at him -- with him at mar-a-lago but also at every sporting event from wrestling to college football.ve it's not like these two guys haven't been in touch, and suh the fact that musk came in first and started sewing the seeds of discord and say he was going to primary members for those who voted on this

you know, hakeem jefferies ought to be speaker right now.have a seat at the table with donald trump. that's what gerrymandering has cost our nation. it has changed the course of our nation's history. the three seats republicans gerrymandered with surgical position in north carolina are the difference of control of the next congress. it's a big deal, and it's -- it is something that i think as we're talking about this congress, it's important to point out they don't have a mandate from the american public, they have a gerrymander that put them in power. >> this is the kind of thing that cannot happen in california, for example, the state with the most congressional districts because they have taken redistricting out of politics and given it to an indepent body to do it. >> we've got to get the tower draw maps out of the hands of politicians. i have a bill for that. you hear folks like me talk about, you know, voters are the ones who should be choosing their politicians, not the other way around. i want to give you a name, and i want to put a

that leaves hakeem jefferies in a spot of anxious negotiating. they weren't good faith actors.man charlie dent, thank you. meagan hayes, you are going to stay with me. >>> breaking news now about that plane that crashed in kazakhstan. the u.s. has intelligence about russia's apparent role:nbc senior national security correspondent courtney kube has the reporting. tell us about it. >> yeah, chris, we heard from a u.s. official earlier this week that the u.s. had some early indications that a russian air defense system could have brought down that aircraft on wednesday. well, now we are hearing according to two u.s. military officials that in fact there is u.s. intelligence that the russians may have mistaken that plane for an incoming drone and shot it down for that reason. now, of course on that day, and frankly in many days recently, ukraine has been firing drones into russia. sometimes with great effect. in fact, only about 70 miles where this aircraft went down a ukrainian drone was shot down by russian air defenses, sparking a fire on the ground below. one of the military o

it's going to be with the consent of hakeem jefferies and the rest of the democratic members of congressa majority of those members. doesn't matter if that's speaker johnson or any other speaker. those same dynamics will be in place because you have the 20 or 30 members of the republican house that are basically want to burn the house down. that's their nature. does not matter who the speaker is. >> yeah, definitely something that we will be watching closely. thank you so much. former congressman max rose for coming on. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >>> and next we are live in atlanta where volunteers at an assisted living center are dishing out some holiday cheer. >>> mr. pus, christmas in the holy city. raf sanchez visited bethlehem to get a look at the celebrations amid the brutal war. money is tight, so we must make sacrifices. i give up my bespoke shaving subscription. and i'll stop ordering everything that's trending on instagram. and i will no longer agree to the add-ons at the oil change place just because the mechanic called me "ma'am." it really is a top-of-the-line f

lines of communication between house speaker mike johnson's office and house minority leader hakeem jefferies, they were open this morning. they were talking once again, and so it sounds like he may have gotten, he being speaker johnson, may have gotten input from house democrats before bringing this to the republican conference, but you're right. this doesn't change much from yesterday. all it does is remove that provision related to the debt sealing, and maybe that's enough to get some democrats on board, especially time is of the essence here so time certainly gets more people on board as well. liz: the one thing i'm sure democrats don't want is to own a shutdown going right into christmas week, and we'll be watching it. literally second-by-second so grady come back to the camera, interrupt us if you get any more information on the actual timing here. reporter: you bet. liz: thank you very much. okay, so folks, this green you see on the screen was all red late last night. futures cratered after the plan b vote went down in flames, but with 55 minutes left to trade before the close on this

is aoc, hakeem jefferies, the squad members, ill an omar who are the center, the heart of their party, are they going to change? no, bernie sanders has walked off the stage. he did his job and got his nose under the tent and now his policies, his thoughts are now mainstream in the democrat party. hillary clinton recognized that a large part of her base when she ran against trump were socialists, so the democrats are stuck there for sometime but that also means a significant resistance they are going to continue not just against trump but really against the country and their complaints about billionaires, they have their own billionaire, so many others, so -- david: there were more billionaires supporting kamala harris than there were supporting trump. >> i had a list of 88 prime wall street players that were supporting harris, so they are not going anywhere and part of the money is acquire the power and hope to build the next base. david: all right well, you said that it was all the old school and you're right. we had joe manchin and we were going to run the sound bite but we won't. i

. >> congresswoman-elect, you had hakeem jefferies noting that, you know, democrats were out there fightingo what he had to say. >> house democrats have successfully stopped the billionaire boys club, which wanted a $4 trillion blank check by suspending the debt ceiling in order to enable them to cut social security, cut medicare, and cut nutritional assistance while providing massive tax breaks for the wealthy, the well off and well connected. >> as a newly minted member coming into the congress, how does that resonate with you, and how do you think it will resonate with your constituency as the next administration comes in to starker focus? democrats position themselves along the narratives regarding working families, working mom and dads, and particularly those who are in the social security and medicare, medicaid networks. how do you see that language working and helping make the case for democrats? >> well, look, i think a lot of what we saw in this election cycle is that families are still hurting. the congratulations of living is a really top concern it was a top concern in my distri

i want to thank speaker mike johnson and minority leader hakeem jefferies for working bipartisanly to set up this task force. they both told us, me and the chairman, they said how they wanted this to go, that they wanted it to be serious, that was their intent, and they set that tone themselves at the very outset of this. in fact, the chairman and i -- neither the chairman and i were seeking these positions and these appointments, but i'm glad that they partnered me with chairman kelly who was a wonderful partner and it's been one of the best experiences, actually, in my time in congress working with the chairman, working with the other members in a very serious and robust way. this hearing was actually one of the best hearings that i've been a part of in my time with congress with the seriousness, the professionalism and the attention to detail that everybody brought to it. so with that, thank you again and i look forward to the remainder of the business meeting here in releasing this report in due time to the public. >> thank you, mr. crow. do any other members seek recognition? no?

so this seems like a good time for hakeem jefferies to basically increase his power base because all won't happen. what's the strategy that you would propose right now for the democrats in the house? what do you think their approach should be moving forward? >> well, look, first of all, i do think that there's going to be incredible unity among democrats even though there are some differences. when it comes to opposing this kind of radical agenda, democrats are going to be united and they're going to be united in a way that republicans can't possibly be. you saw that on the -- in, you know, the budget fight just as we were closing the end of the year, and i think you're going to increasingly see things like that. janet yellen today announced that the debt ceiling, that we're going to hit it january 14th through the 23rd. that is going to be another opportunity for democrats to stand tall and for republicans to fracture. but i do think that the democratic leadership has to -- i mean, it is already a generational change and that has to begin to flakes across the caucus as well. it's in