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that in the middle of the insurrection, when house minority leader kevin mccarthy called the president to beg for help, president trump responded, and i quote, well kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. we would like the opportunity to subpoena congresswoman herrera regarding her communications with house minority leader kevin mccarthy, and to subpoena her contemporaneous notes that she made regarding what president trump told kevin mccarthy in the middle of the insurrection. >> the house impeachment managers wanted to call the republican congresswoman to be a witness in their case against donald trump. congresswoman herrera butler was one of the ten republican members of the house who was voting to impeach donald trump a few weeks earlier. she had good reason to. as you, heard congresswoman jamie herrera beutler was a witness to donald trump siding with the capitol rioters over kevin mccarthy while the attack was still underway. in the end, the house impeachment managers did not call congresswoman herrera butler to be an impeachment witness. instead, they entered into the record

>> kevin mccarthy was obviously upset at the time, people privy to the call say. and trump said in response, instead of saying he would call off the rioters, instead said, well, they, meaning the mob, cared more about the election results than you do. >> why did kevin mccarthy call president trump? was there anyone else he could have called? >> president trump was of course -- the people who were storming the capitol were doing so in trump's name. so mccarthy and others felt the only person who could have called them off would have been trump. >> with that in mind, congressman, do you believe republican leaders, especially those that follow trump, folks like ted cruz even and members of congress, marjorie taylor greene, matt gates, others, they're close with trump and doing a lot of things like retweeting and posting conspiracy theories and mocking what happened to pall pelosi. do you think that these leaders could actually help quell the growing political violence we are seeing and will see in this country if they were to speak out directly against it? >> yeah. 100%. this

we're not going to know anything until december 6. >> that may be in part because of donald trump's endorsement. kevin donald trump presided over a poor gop performance in 2018. >> was up and down. this particular election. and republicans have only done okay. so far. he's like of bifurcated bipolar, kind of disposition here in terms of his influence. his influence his influence. his influence is not necessarily eve senate level. and i think you're right about herschel walker and at the house level, it's down ballot election than ayers. the secretaries of state, u.s. states, attorney generals in those places. it's where donald trump it has been operating but he didn't give a lot of money to those candidates. he gave his appearance and his endorsement. so this kind way of searching moving forward and finding relevant, i think will be interesting, especially when ron desantis wins re-election of florida by 20 plus points out of time. but what your thoughts on the well, i think that you can see where it didn't help. didn't do anything with ron desantis and the fact that he backed the wrong the person cha

heard, congressman raskin say, there herrera-butler was a witness to donald trump siding with the capitol rioters over kevin mccarthy while the attack was still underway. in the end, the house impeachment manager didn't call herrera-butler to be a witness. they entered into the written statement describing what she heard donald trump say. and later this same day, donald trump wasr acquitted in the senate and the impeachment trial ended. it wasal not over for republica congresswoman jamie herrera-butler. about a income her home districe in washington state, local republicans voted to censure her for having the audacity to tell the truth about what she heard that day. and former president trump made it his mission to make sure that herrera-butler did not stay in congress. trump opposed her in her republican primary and endorsed this guy joe kent. joe kent. election denier. he claimed the january 6 attack looked like an intelligence operation. he called the january 6 rioters political prisoners. he vowed if elected to congress that he would investigate and defund both the fbi and the justice department. here's

and a trump demands, votes, impeachments, kevin mccarthy will be under immense pressure to support or risk his entire agenda, be bought by trump acolytes or be voted no confidence, back to california. the result is a governing majority, most likely, that is about to become ungovernable. jake sherman is the founder of -- where he falls the congressman closer than anyone and congresswoman pramila jayapal is the chair of the progression caucus. she knows a thing or two about caucus dynamics. they both join me now. congresswoman, let me start with you. i want to get your perspective because you occupied an interesting position here. you're the chair of the progressive caucus, so you have a caucus inside the democratic caucus and the speaker had a narrow house margin. there's back and forth. members want certain things. leadership on certain things, you go back and forth. how do you see that dynamic playing out on the other side of the aisle, as you look at this incoming possible majority of two, three, four votes? >> chris, it's good to see you. i always rejected the idea that there's any

look, donald trump just announced, what, 24 hours earlier, let kevin mccarthy do the job -- >> what do mean -- donald trump just announced he's running for president in 2024 and the next speaker of the house isn't going to tell us whether or not he's going to endorse the next possible nominee for president. >> as we've seen and ali knows this better than i, any time donald trump says anything, every republican gets a microphone put in their face. give him a break. there hasn't been a broad swath of endorsements -- >> but mccarthy -- doug, doug, doug, mccarthy has been in trump's corner for a really long time. and trump is obviously in mccarthy's corner of being speaker of the house. are you going to endorse the former president donald trump for president of the united states in 2024? you can't say "yes" or "no"? >> i think the immediate question that every republican gets whenever donald trump says something is likely unreasonable. look, it just happened. it's 24 hours. let's give the guy a break. he has a job to do. let him try and do his job. everybody doesn't have to make a decision

so if trump called mckathy and said endorse me or else, certainly he would, because he's kevin. ily he could have enough members withhold votes. >> i know you're calling on republicans to walk away from trump. you think that's going to happen? >> i don't know. we've been in this position so many times, my knee-jerk reaction is to say no. this somewhat feels difficult. i guess donald trump is going to have a much harder time probably than he imagined, but it's it depends on who runs, who has the courage not to just speak out, but to tell the truths h. donald trump is bad, dangerous and a stain on our country, but i think it remains to be seen. >> congressman adam kinzinger, as usual, thanks so much for joining us. >> you bet, wolf. >>> coming up, we go live to ukraine for the latest blast that killed two people in neighboring poland. stay with us. from santa claus, indiana to snowflake, arizona. from garland, texas to north pole, new york and everywhere in between. we're holiday ready with fast and reliable delivery, serving every address in america. the united states postal servi

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but mccarthy or my kevin as donald trump calls him faces a daunting challenge of having to wrestle a far right wing within his own party. including marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, matt gaetz. gaetz has said he won't vote for kevin mccarthy in january no matter what. it boils down to the blame game. something that mccarthy's senate counter part is entrenched in. mitch mcconnell was reelected as the republican senate leader after the party failed to pick up seats in the midterm elections. there's a lot of finger pointing over what went wrong, from senator rick scott saying his party didn't stand for ideas. actually, rick, your plan was to slash medicare and social security. you have a lot of republicans, once zealous trump allies blaming the dear leader while others are rushing to his defense. >> i think senator mcconnell's view is trump is largely to blame and republicans have an image problem because of trump. i have to say i don't agree with that. >> some of the senators point the finger at donald trump and i think that is convenient for senate republicans to place the blame some

trump. but even with elected republicans kevin mccarthy needs trump to get the speaker's nomination on the floor. now you have rick scott challenging leader mcconnell in the senate. he's doing that wanting the support of donald trump. and of course elise stephenic came out and endorsed trump. this notion he won't be a serious formidable candidate and there's a non-zero chance he may be president again is something we need to realize. >> also we were talking to manu before and manu was saying a lot of folks on capitol hill are saying they're really looking forward to getting a lot of different candidates out there in the primaries. that all favors donald trump. >> absolutely. it's 2016 all over again. it's trump needing basically 30%-ish, which is what he got last time. >> and picking them off one by one. >> maybe. or maybe they don't all run at all. but a multicandidate field is something donald trump wants if he is going to face opposition. this is not a bad thing for him. also, for all of these republicans on the hill who are saying i think we're going to have a big field of candidates, i can'

trump didn't know who fuentes was. but there's no space for that in the republican party. say more, do more, be a leader. >> mike, kevinmy attention, just talking about the general reaction of republicans to this kind of next round with donald trump. obviously republican strategist. his point was that what he sees and what annoys him is that republicans are breaking from trump in incremental ways, glancing blows. madden says the answer should be emphatically, yes, it is disqualifying. would saying that threaten mccarthy's chances of becoming speaker? >> look, i think donald trump is an announced candidate for president, and the voters in the republican primary are going to make a decision as to whether or not they think it's disqualifying or not. and plenty of the other candidates for president are going to weigh in on that. that's not kevin mccarthy's job as the speaker. his job it to state as a republican leader that there is absolutely no place in the republican party or this country for anti-semitism or white supremacy and that no one should be taking meetings with leaders of that community. that's what he said tod

trump. i still don't believe that this is going to be a clean, smooth transition for kevin mccarthy. >> you think? >> when you get to late december, early january, donald trump may have a thing or two to say about who the next speaker is going to be. >> if past is press department he will use social media. >> how many years have we been talking about kevin mccarthy how he worked with donald trump in the white house. this is like for him, years in the making. >> and all the arrows he's taken. >> all the arrows. but the second piece is, you've already heard some of the tell from the freedom caucus folks who like a jim jordan or someone else, to brendan's point how do they leverage to get and extract something. keep in mind, when we had a more significant majority in the house, republicans took out not one, but two republican speakers in paul ryan and john boehner. >> i think he remembers that. >> you have a narrow majority here. the power shifts inside that caucus tremendously. >> to jake sherman, co-founder of punch bowl news and msnbc contributor and no one better to ask this question about

the reality is, the biggest loser is coming out of election night is donald trump and kevin mccarthy.t of these republicans who might want to distance themselves from trump individually, they can't really do it because they're going to get primaried. doesn't it have to be a group effort? how do you get the republican conference to as a group say, we are tired of donald trump? >> you can't eject donald trump. donald trump cannot win. he has proven that in '18 and '20 and '22. republicans can't win without him. this is actually what someone like ron desantis is facing. how do you -- >> you need trump to bow out on his own. >> you have to keep him on the team. right? we will face a microenvironment of this in the georgia runoff. georgia republicans and mitch mcconnell do not want donald trump to be an issue in the georgia runoff. but you can't offend him or he will make himself the issue. republicans got a hard spot on this one. donald trump is an anchor but you can't win by alienating his voters. >> caught between a rock and a hard place. >>> president biden is set to speak in a few hou

trump. and, again, kevin mccarthy and other leaders within the republican party are now required to make a decisionut whether they're going to try to rid themselves of donald trump and his toxic influence on the party -- >> but these 155 house republicans are his constituency. kevin mccarthy, if he wants to be leader, needs to be consider -- >> right. it's a problem for kevin mccarthy now because there are certain pro-trumpist within his house caucus who refuse to accept that he's really with trump and they want to get rid of mccarthy. they have names early in the alphabet, biggs, and they might just vote for trump when they take the roll call for speaker. we know the hard right freedom ca caucus people are in search of another candidate. one potential candidate is donald trump himself. the speaker of the house does not have to be a member of the house and they're talking about putting trump right there. >> that's not a real option, though. >> well, they talk about it repeatedly. and if trump decided he wanted to do it, it would pose a profound problem for their party because they refuse to do the

mccarthy, who is not exactly a scold to donald trump and his allies, keviny received his own leadership challenge on the grounds that he is insufficiently pro trump. the man challenging kevin mccarthy for the speakership's republican congressman, andy biggs, one of the people who reportedly requested a pardon from donald trump for his role in trying to overturn the election results on january six, 2021. today, in a closed-door vote among members of the republican conference, leader mccarthy managed to lose 31 votes to andy biggs. kevin mccarthy will now have to convince all or most of those defectors to back him, as speaker, in order to win a vote in the full house, which comes in general. there is almost zero chance that republicans would manage to settle their disputes about trump's role in the party by then. especially now, that he appears to be embarking on a third run for the american presidency. trump, for his part, is unconvinced his influence had much to do with the party losses. he has instead blamed republican leadership for not being more enthusia

trump was wrong to give them a seat at the table. and today, kevinthy, the top house republican, had this to say -- >> i don't think anybody should be spending any time with nick fuentes. he has no place in this republican party. president trump came out a few times and condemned him and didn't know who he was] he said he didn't know who he was, but he did] not condemn his ideogy will condemn his ideology and he has no place in society. laura: laura: to unravel this we are joined by a bbc correspondent. republicans are usually pretty reluctant to criticize donald trump, even after the assault on the capitol on january 6. but dining with an outspoken anti-semite, is that a bridge too far? gues i don't know, i think you are seeing their attitude towards donald trump layout again. some republicans like chris christie and mike pence specifically named donald trump and said he should not of done that, lack of judgment on his part. kevin mccarthy did n go that far. he condemned nick fuentes buhe did not criticize donald trump. he said he could have whoever

trump. will the media, people like you ask kevin mccarthy outright. you're running for speaker, will you denounce what trump has done and what -- ask tell members of your caucus that you should not be appearing as they have with this guy? will governor desantis who is supposedly the leading potential candidate against donald trump and it happened in his state where he's governor. would he be questioned about this. i'm concerned about where the mainstream republican party leadership is going to be given. if we're going to entertain desantis as an alternative to trump. let's see if you're an alternative to trump. let's see where you are, kevin mccarthy where you are as speaker and nobody should get a break here and nobody should get a pass and there's a history of republicans fearing losing this base of voters that donald trump was able to turn out in his 2020 election and they legitimized going after these very voters in 2022 because we saw in the numbers that the years of recognition in rural parts of arizona and rural parts of ohio that they turned ou

the fascinating part there was kevin mccarthy did not -- he criticized nick fuentes. he did not criticize donald trumpas going to say that cheney tweet still stands because, yes, i'm sorry, if there's anyone out there defending nick fuentes, i mean, my goodness, it doesn't seem hard to do that. the challenging piece for him is to say, no, you former president of the united states should have been able to take responsibility for knowing who was at your dinner table or somebody should have told you and you should have had the presence of mind to say, no, he was willing to buy donald trump's excuse he had no idea what was going on. >> if his views are not welcome within the republican party or the country itself why can't you add a sentence so i wish president trump would say it was a mistake and apologize. >> i mean it's a really familiar pattern with former president trump where he meets with someone or does something and says he didn't know who he was and people blame the staff. you've seen a number of republicans condemn the fact that he met with nick fuentes and even some kanye west but trying to bl

i mean i will say this, though katy, if anybody doubts kevin mccarthy's loyalty to donald trump, you haven't been watching, and not you, but one has not been watching kevin mccarthy going back to january 6th of 2021, where he was the first person down to mar-a-lago to help in a sense rehabilitate donald trump after the insurrection. so i don't doubt mccarthy will stay loyal to trump. i don't know that trump will stay loyal to mccarthy. but i don't doubt mccarthy will -- >> we will have to see how donald trump reacts to audio like that where kevin mccarthy declines to fully endorse him and what that results in. quickly, mcconnell, staving off his challenger, but getting a challenger? that feels like a big deal considering his grip on the gop in that upper chamber, it has been locked for so many years now. >> 16 years, he's going to become the largest-serving senate leader of any party. in january, beating mike mansfield. somebody finally had the gumption to go after him, unfortunately rick scott, the nrsc, the republican senatorial committee failed to get the majority in the senate so

now, mcconnell has been much more willing to criticize trump and his antics than kevin mccarthy, who is in a battle for speakership, where he has a four-vote majority. that's not an excuse. they both should have called out trump by name. they did not. now, yes, i do see a bit of a difference. i think people are sick of trump. i just do. but it's never enough, right? it's not going to be enough for the people who are anti-trump and want to see republicans forcefully call him out. >> jake, you spoke of all the reasons that kevin mccarthy might just stick with donald trump for now because he wants to win the speakership. you know the count better than anyone. do you think that he actually is going to have the votes at the end of the day to win house speaker? >> open question. this is a very extremely difficult path to 218. remember, he could lose four people at 218. he's got 222. so he could convince people to vote present or otherwise show up. my guess sitting here today is he probably does get there in some way. they feel like, based on their own analysis and the people i talk to in mc

trump. >> i'm victoria, last question to, you if republicans do take the house, there are some people that have argued, you know what, kevinpeaker. you don't have to buy into that matt gates line that donald trump should be made speaker the house, though i do not rule out anything in american politics. kevin mccarthy doesn't have control over his caucus, it's actually gonna become speaker? >> i think a lot of it is going to depend on donald trump, as well, at the end of the day, we know that the republican party has really centered itself on donald trump, so he's going to have to make that decision, we'll see how much to kevin mccarthy can lobby donald trump. >> we will have to leave it there, but before we leave it there, david jolly, a little bird tells me you are celebrating a landmark birthday tonight. i believe it's your, what 30th birthday? 40th birthday? >> mehdi, i get my arp card today, i get to go trick-or-treating with my -- and spend it with the un the team in the 11th hour, thank you. >> we had $11 a happy birthday to you. thanks so much david jolly, victoria francesco soto, appreciate you both. coming up, a h

kevin cabrera. >> [applause] mr. trump: kevin.terrific job for the republican party, matt schlap. what a great guy he is. and, a man i just happened to catch half of his speech, i said who is ripping it up there? it was a person named don trump junior. >> [applause] mr. trump: and he is great. you know i have to tell this -- he has probably heard me tell it a couple of times, not much -- to show you how evil these people are. don went to the wharton school of finance, a good student, no problem whatsoever, just a good, young guy. and, i decide to go into politics. i said life is too good, every thing is perfect, let's screw up your life a little bit, ok? >> [laughter] mr. trump: so i take my family along and they really suffered, when you think of it. they don't have any second questions or doubts because we have done so much for this country and we can do more but we will do a lot more. to show you how evil -- the russia, russia, russia hoax turned out to be a total scam. everybody admits it, it was a scam. we eventually caught t

professor of economics whose business school serving as chairman counsel economic and kevin hassan on the president trumpthe american enterprise institute. thank you for being here. austin, inflation, do you think inflation has peaked? how quickly will it come down to a level with regard as total? >> i hope is peaked, we got one good month of inflation data but let's be circumspect, it happened a few months ago in july we got a decent month of new inflation but kicked back up in the summer. i think a lot has to do with how much inflation you think came from demand or from supply. if you were a person over the last year who thought too much demand and stimulus cost inflation in a way you become the optimist because demand is going away, not new stimulus going out the door and the fiscal drag pulled on demand. if you look at what's happening in china and covid shutdowns, the war in ukraine, there could still be more supply shocks to come so i hope we speak but i think the rate at which it comes down might not be as rapid as everyone wants. gerry: kevin, we are in a strange situation, the fed raised interes

kevin, thank you. so donald trumpnnounces for the white house and then just a few days later the department of justice announces a special counsel over his papers. rachel: it's the weaponization of our federal law enforcement and the doj and it looks bad because it is bad. it feels like a persecution and it has huge implications for the credibility of our law enforcement at the federal level but also we talked about this a little bit earlier, who would want to run as a conservative knowing that if, you know, this could happen to you. you could have beyond the time you're in office, they're still going after him. will: as you mentioned in the previous hour, rachel, it still come withs no appetite from the department of justice. we'll see about republicans potentially taking -- i say potentially and i'll tell you why later but control of the house. i do think there's investigations that they'll try to focus on that as well looking at house members and seeing if there's other ways to take control of the house. the point

the people who signed that letter challenging kevin mccarthy, they urged alt trump electors. it is the most fringy extreme part of the republican party. do you have a josh hawley and a ted cruz. but the thrust of the members in the senate who are republicans are pretty loyal to mitch mcconnell and for good reason. >> margaret hoover gets the last word. sorry, john. good to have you both on. >> it always happens that way. >> i'm sure it is not the first time. >> it is not the first time. it is okay. be well. >> coming up, a reminder that vice president mike pence will join jake tapper for a live town hall this wednesday night at 9:00 eastern time. >>> and this hour, president biden meets xi jinping for the first time since biden took office. he admitted it is not all kumbaya and but he had a good exchange. and a university of virginia honor student is on the run after shooting five people. he killed three of them. we'll bring you latest on the manhunt. >>> plus ftx, one of the most reputable platforms for cryptocurrency is under investigation for potential criminal miss ccondu

it's hard to imagine donald trump trashing a deal that kevin mccarthy cuts with democrats and make it really hard to pass those things. it's another wild card on their ability to govern next year. >> it's going to be interesting. thank you all for getting this started. >>> right now, president biden and vice president harris are actually at the department of interior in washington, d.c. to speak at a white house tribal nation summit. we are learning to these comments here. we will bring you any news the president may make. >>> on the world stage, andrea's interview with secretary of state tony blinken. what he told her about the u.s./iran world cup match, russia's war in ukraine and the protests in china and iran. that's coming up. the "andrea mitchell reports" sitdown with the secretary of state, only here on msnbc. ♪ ♪ enough was enough. i talked to an asthma specialist and found out my severe asthma is driven by eosinophils, a type of asthma nucala can help control. now, fewer asthma attacks and less oral steroids that's my nunormal with nucala. nucala is a once-monthly add-on inje

i think a lot of republican also think trump wants kevin and that may help him with some of the rowdierna meeting. it's getting a lot of criticism in that pindz, it appears ben, is taking a soft approach. we don't think that fentanyl came up. we don't know that covid came up, and his comments on taiwan are directly opposite on what he said on "60 minutes." >> the way this administration has botched china policy and problems what we are going to be seeing in the future need to be sending a strong message to china right now not just on taiwan but other questions. it's pretty clear that joe biden did not do that and, frankly, it's at odds with the approach that i think the country generally favors. it's not just a republican issue to be strong on china. i think it's a bipartisan issue. it's something that should unite both sides of the agenda and, unfortunate to see that he did not send that kind of message today. >> bret: what about the investigations that if republicans take control as we expect will they try to link policy decisions with past dealings with china? >> well, they should. i

kevin mccarthy is going to deal with will be a problem for him moving forward. and that presents problems for mitch mcconnell and for rick scott and donald trump is going to rain over all of that chaos. and that is something that where he wants to be. but he also have to remember all of the money that came in kevin mccarty gives money to candidates. mitch mcconnell gives money to $100 come in for donald trump and he gave last cycle this past cycle that just ended $12 of every 100 race. the candidates he kept the other $88 around 90% on average. it goes to him so that his legal defense fund, it's a variety of different things. it is and that gripped is going to continue moving forward. >> a lot to digest there. try to get you all to send the we've got about 20 minutes to go before we actually see the show. i know you'll behtalking with that with us throughout the coming hours and days that we saw that live picture from our when trump speaks, we will bring it to you live. >> here right around the top of the hour, david mcewan, chair of the political science department at sonoma state university. always appreciate your time. have a great night. >> thank you very much.

well, the gop swift snap back to true form was quicker than when kevin mccarthy denounced trump after january 6 only to resurrect the former president's political career weeks later by flying down to mar-a-lago. just today after clinching the house, former trump adviser stephen miller was spotted walking into mccarthy's office at the time that pe hosy gave her speech. yesterday came this news conference from house republicans who said during the campaign they were interested in tackling crime and inflation. >> this investigation will be a top priority. the biden family's business dealings implicate a wide range of criminality from human trafficking to potential violations of the constitution. hunter biden isn't a bad guy with a drug problem, the investigation is about joe biden. >> will you confirm that your committees are investigating speaker pelosi and the department of justice for the treatment of defendants jailed in connection with january 6, promise that speaker -- that potentially speaker mckarnly made to the house freedom caucus this week. >> we're focused on how political ou

but trump is doing everything in its power to make sure that does not happen starting with kevin mccarthy endorsing him otherwise pulling his speakership endorsement from him. >> yeah. my free advice for what it is worth to anyone listening, i think trump should be in georgia every day, i think you should be driving every news cycle, and really trying to work on that race down there for the republicans. jacqueline alemany and tim miller, have a great weekend, thank you. >> thanks, chris. >> coming up, fox news in the republican party begin to see donald trump for the loser that he is. >> the republican party needs to do a really deep look in the mirror right now because this is an absolute disaster. >> it looks like in all likelihood, we could be at the status quo, 50/50 senate again. if that happens, donald trump cost us the senate twice in a row. >> that is sad. the republican party finally pushed the disgraced ex president to the side, plus, the callous that couldn't see what the republicans win the house by just a few votes. and then you youngest member of congress, congressman-elect

that the republican party has really centered itself on donald trump, so he's going to have to make that decision. we'll see how much kevinve to leave it there. but before we leave it there, npr david jolly, a little bird tells me that you are celebrating a lead mark birthday tonight. i believe it's your, what, 30th birthday, 40th birthday tonight? >> mehdi, i got my arp car today. i get to go trick-or-treating with our three year old, my one year old, my wonderful wife laura, and spend it with you and the team in the 11th hour. an incredible 50th birthday! thank you. >> well, we at the 11th hour, it's a happy birthday to you, david. thank you so much, david jolly, and victoria defrancesco soto, appreciate you both. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> coming up -- a hugely important supreme court case with affirmative action in college admissions on the line. we'll break down what we heard today and which way the supreme court is leading. you'll be shocked to hear which way it's leaning. it's important case, when the 11th hour continues. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're

kevin mccarthy gave donald trump the benefit of the doubt today, even after knowing that trump said this. >> the proud boys stand back and say goodbye. >> that was the then president and republican presidential candidate in 2020, giving the far-right nationalist group the proud boys their so-called marching orders for the january 6th attack on the capital. the same attack that killed five people, the same attack that nick fuentes, you just heard him call awesome. the same attack that today yielded a guilty verdict on the extremely rare and serious charge of seditious conspiracy. listen to what mitch mcconnell said again today. >> first, let me just say that there is no room in the republican party for antisemitism or white supremacy. and anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the united states. >> all right, the reason that we played that again is because, i think what mcconnell means is that anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of th

>> yes, this is also tied into donald trump in a sense because kevin mccarthy is a slows ally of donaldwill have a four-seat majority. 222 members of the house republican conference. which gives mccarthy a four-seat cushion to get the votes he needs to become speaker of the house. he has six people right now expressing various levels of discomfort with his candidacy. so the question will be for mccarthy is how many, what deals can he cut, how many deals can he cut, to get those people's support, and when he cuts those deal, how much support does he lose on the moderate side? he's hoping none. but we're in basically uncharted territory here, because when democrats were against pelosi, they just didn't vote. they just doesn't vote for pelosi. they didn't vote against her. they voted present. that helps the person running for speaker win. republicans are not willing to do that. there are people like matt gaetz and other folks who disdain kevin mccarthy, so it is going to be a very messy, we imagine, january 3rd, and keep in mind, the new congress cannot get started until republicans have a

so you're going to find people like kevin mccarthy in a really difficult position. think about if trumphat's kevin mccarthy's stance going to be at the likely incoming speaker if they win the majority? does he endorse trump? you'll find people in really difficult positions, and that's going to be a question that a lot of leading remdesivirs will have to face -- republicans will have to face if we expect on his reporting from his planning actually does happen. >> jonathan lemire. >> so, a few other events on the calendar that could factor in. president biden would be overseas at the that time at the g-20. tiffany trump, is getting married that weekend, happening at mar-a-lago, so hosting responsibilities. the senate, there's a good chance we won't know who has control on the 14th because they're still counting ballots in some places but the georgia runoff which is in december. if that's still up in the air, could that cause trump to delay? >> yeah, it could affect the timing. a source i spoke to said that's one of the factors -- run of the reasons i make clear in my story this is not set

god knows what trump will say from the outside. if kevin mccarthy decides this is the schedule and trump weighs in, what does that look like the next day? that is not a normal situation. to be fair, put more mainstream republicans say i'm not going to go along with ukraine, that's irresponsible and then what happens? the degree we are used to aid nancy pelosi-run house, it is not going to look like that. in the democratic party will not have nancy pelosi in charge. the democratic party has had nancy pelosi in charge for 18 years. whatever the math is. what does that look like? there are capable people lined up to replace her. the degree of chaos, not in policy, which i think stays on course, but in politics in 2023 is going to be a little bit jarring. >> great and i think your point about pelosi's right. she ran day -- she ran a discipline caucus, which her counterparts in the rebellion party could not do for years. given your writing on the senate, including your first book, the last great senate and your new mcconnell book and your servic

mccarthy who is not exactly a skull for donald trump and his allies, the man challenging kevin mccarthy for the speakership is republican congressman andy biggs. one of the people who reportedly requested a pardon from donald trump for his f role until tryi to overturn the election results on january 6th, 2021. todayry in a closed-door vote o the republican congress, leader mccarthy managed to lose 31 votes to andy biggs. and kevin mccarthy will now have to convince allil or most of the defectors to back him as speaker, in order to win a vote in the full house which comes in january.me there is almost zero chance that republicanse will be able to solve the dispute. trump for hisso part is unconvinced his influence had much to do with his party's losses. he's instead blaming republicanb leadership for not being more enthusiastic about his losing slate ofic candidates. trump was fairly blunt about this over b on truth social.th it's mitch mcconnell's fault spending money to back great republican candidates instead of blake masters and others was a big mistake. he blew the midterm

trump himself. but the most important response came from republican house leader kevin mccarthy whose response is veryt his party is willing to overlook. >> i don't think anybody should be spending any time with nick fuentes. president trump came out four times and condemned him and didn't know who he was. >> he just said he didn't know who he was. he didn't condemn him or his ideology. >> i condemn his ideology. >> the whole i didn't know who he was bit. a form of republican gaslighting, the same tactic made by marjorie taylor greene when she spoke ought the nick fuentes white supremacy prom. she spoke at his conference and joined him on stage before he called young white men their secret sauce. >> you know who marjorie does know? her former intern, milo yiannopoulos, remember him, the misogynist transphobic, steve bannon gave him a platform when hire yean opilous. he kind of disappeared and the world moved on. well, guess what. milo is back. a source told nbc news that the entire dinner was an elaborate scheme orchestrated by him. he is anti-trump and an adviser to ye, told nbc news, quote, i wanted