now we can go to our proclamation, president mccarthy. >> president mccarthy: thank you, madam secretary, and we're taking this out of order here because our interim director had a meeting this morning and he wanted to be here. so you are here, patrick? >> yes. yes, i am. thank you. >> president mccarthy: i want to read something into the record here if i may. so on behalf of the commission, i wanted to thank and to congratulate deputy director of inspection services, ed sweeney, who is taking his well-earned retirement from the department at the end of this week i believe on december 18th. deputy director sweeney has been one of the department's leadership -- leadership pillars for more years than i can remember, and he has rendered outstanding building code, permit review and inspections and code enforcement and professionalism throughout his career with d.b.i. and with the city and county. ed began his distinguished career nearly 22 years ago with d.b.i. on january 25th, 1999. when he -- if you could mute there, sonya -- when he joined the department at -- as a 6331 building inspector

now we can go to our proclamation, president mccarthy. >> president mccarthy: thank you, madam secretary, and we're taking this out of order here because our interim director had a meeting this morning and he wanted to be here. so you are here, patrick? >> yes. yes, i am. thank you. >> president mccarthy: i want to read something into the record here if i may. so on behalf of the commission, i wanted to thank and to congratulate deputy director of inspection services, ed sweeney, who is taking his well-earned retirement from the department at the end of this week i believe on december 18th. deputy director sweeney has been one of the department's leadership -- leadership pillars for more years than i can remember, and he has rendered outstanding building code, permit review and inspections and code enforcement and professionalism throughout his career with d.b.i. and with the city and county. ed began his distinguished career nearly 22 years ago with d.b.i. on january 25th, 1999. when he -- if you could mute there, sonya -- when he joined the department at -- as a 6331 building inspector

now we can go to our proclamation, president mccarthy. >> president mccarthy: thank you, madam secretary, and we're taking this out of order here because our interim director had a meeting this morning and he wanted to be here. so you are here, patrick? >> yes. yes, i am. thank you. >> president mccarthy: i want to read something into the record here if i may. so on behalf of the commission, i wanted to thank and to congratulate deputy director of inspection services, ed sweeney, who is taking his well-earned retirement from the department at the end of this week i believe on december 18th. deputy director sweeney has been one of the department's leadership -- leadership pillars for more years than i can remember, and he has rendered outstanding building code, permit review and inspections and code enforcement and professionalism throughout his career with d.b.i. and with the city and county. ed began his distinguished career nearly 22 years ago with d.b.i. on january 25th, 1999. when he -- if you could mute there, sonya -- when he joined the department at -- as a 6331 building inspector

overly careful on mccarthy, close family ties with mccarthy especially joe senior, but haven't talked about bobby. we remained close. flew to wisconsin for mccarthy's funeral, remain devoted to the end. it is partly massachusetts politics. irish catholics constitute a large part of the electorate. interesting comparison, right through to the end beyond, in 54 of joe mccarthy. public opinion surveyed, have the support of roughly 40% of the electorate. after the senate begins to move, a lot of americans stay with him to the end. a lot of grief as he instructed sorenson. he was in the hospital for legitimate reasons, went into the hospital to dodge the mccarthy vote, he could have through a procedure called pairing, could ever instructed sorenson to vote and should have done so and why he doesn't is interesting. here's a quick thing about this which is in 56 at the aforementioned democratic national convention he had a meeting with eleanor roosevelt and mrs. roosevelt said, i am paraphrasing, why didn't you come out against the current -- what i puzzle over, maybe you have an explanation

how he felt but bobby's devotion to mccarthy and his service on mccarthy's committee issue think thatvery much inclined to let bobby do what he felt like he should do and a good career move for bobby if the father wanted bobby to have the position i think at mccarthy became more controversial and doing more and more outrageous things it became a problem. by then bobby is no longer at mccar their's employ, but he was still very close to joe mccarthy. that creates more problems, i think, for jack politically, but this is a very close knit family. not a family that screams and yells at each other and so you don't see at least in the records i've seen, any particular anger on jack's part about that continued loyalty on bobby's part to mccarthy. >> let end with this rather ening mat tick question. sense the majority of jfk's thoughts and ideas were never vocalized or discussed by him. a lot of his thinking remained unrevealed. therefore there's lot about jfk the real man, his thoughts and idea, that are mystery and will probably never know. do you agree or disagree and this gets to that qu

for mccarthy's funeral.remain devoted in some ways to the ends. it's partly about massachusetts politics, iris catholics constitute a large part of the electric. by the way interesting comparison to our own day, right through to the end, the on the censure or at least through the center in 54 of joe mccarthy, public opinion survey showed that he had the support of roughly 40% of the electric. i don't to draw the comparison too closely. it's interesting how even after the senate begins to move. even after his attack on the army, a lot of americans stay with him to the end. but i think jack kennedy would have spared himself a lot of grief if he had instructed sorenson, he was in the hospital for legitimate reasons. so those authors who say well he went into the hospital to dodge mccarthy but that is not true. but he could have through a procedure called pairing, he could have instructed sorensen to vote and he should have done so. and why he didn't, is interesting. here's another quick little thing about this.

mccarthy. mccarthy. i think it had something to do with the close family ties with mccarthy, especially from joe, sr. who loved, but bobby, we haven't talked about bobby hit tonight. bobby would remain close, flew to wisconsin for his funeral, remained devoted to i think some ways to the end. it's partly about massachusetts politics, irish catholics constitute a large part of the electorate. and by the way interesting comparison to our own day. right to to the end, beyond the center, or at least to the center, in 54 of joe mccarthy, public opinion survey after public opinion survey showed that he had the support of roughly 40% of the electorate. i do want to draw the comparison to closely but it's interesting how even after the senate begins to move, even after his attack on the army, mccarthy, a lot of americans stayed with him to the end. but i think jack kennedy would have spared himself a lot of grief as he had instructed sorenson. he was in the hospital for legitimate reasons ask of those

mccarthy: thank you all for coming. almost a week ago today, speaker nancy pelosi finally admitted to what every member standing behind me, she sabotaged the covid relief bill simply because of an election. she put politics before people. it was more important for her to hurt president trump politically than to help the american people. and this is the devastation that has happened since speaker pelosi sat on a solution. roughly one in five small businesses have closed. 110,000 american restaurants have already permanently shut their doors. according to a recent survey from the national restaurant association, 500,000 restaurants of every business type, franchise, chain and ip independent are on an economic freefall. these are more than news numbers. these statistics tell the story of real people who are fighting like hell for their livelihoods and livelihoods of their employees. i know how it is like to have a dream. i never thought it would be government that shut you down. but when government made the decision, gover

mccarthy was in the room negotiating this bill, mccarthy signed off on this bill, so how he operates,point, who are the closest allies at the president's ear? kevin mccarthy is still one of them, so watching him throughout this process will be interesting. one final note, brooke, speaker nancy pelosi made clear that tomorrow she will go to the house floor and try to bring up via unanimous consent a bill to basically address what the president wanted, $2,000 in direct payments. mccarthy made clear on this call that republicans believe that's a political stunt. any one person in the house could object to it and essentially kill what pelosi and the democrats will try to do tomorrow. somebody is going to object to that tomorrow. there will not be unanimous consent for the $2,000 checks. it will be a political battle, i'm sure, on the house floor during the pro bono session, but right now i think everybody is waiting to see. >> everyone, as you pointed out for months and months, all those americans struggling who need the assistance. phil mattingly, thank you so much for all the contacts.

later mccarthy has in his calling for eric swalwell to be removed from the intelligence committee., we are told, will not participate in discussions in the details of this story out of concerns about possible classified information. that is kind of interesting, isn't it? hasn't it already gotten out of the barn doors? >> i think the horse has gotten out of the barn doors. fbi has reasons to protect sources. i doubt eric swalwell well is withholding information to protect sources, rather to protect himself. jon: eric swalwell well not only ran for president of the democrat but also was quite critical of president trump regarding the russia probe. here is house minority leader kevin mccarthy on that. >> this is also the same man when you asked him, a part of this committee, the question he raised, what he said about russia and others. many of the questions he raised to people are made, accusations about people is actually what happened to him. jon: is what happened to him. so in your view, he ought to be booted? >> i don't think based on that alone should he be booted, i do know he r

mccarthy, congressman mccarthy? has he called speaker pelosi? he done anything to lift a finger not only to keep the government functioning so it can send out checks but to get people the desperate need that they have, get them any check and then get to that $2,000. >> we just heard from kevin mccarthy now, the house republican leader who has said that they are not going to join democrats in a unanimous consent motion to get this $2,000 done. it's a dear colleague letter. david jolly, help me with this one. long after the bill was passed in congress october 1st, mitch mcconnell kept saying, without naming names, he said, i've got people in my republican congress and senate who will not go for a lot of money for americans, either because they don't want to encourage the laziness, i suppose, the signal that sends o they don't want to run up the debt. not the problem they had with the tax cuts. what's happening now? what has happened here? because mcconnell and trump have been in lockstep for the better part of four years, and now they're entirely

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mccarthy's role. or not! "the new york times" is reporting in her new position mrs. mccarthy will be empowered to direct agency heads across the federal government to enact climate policies from emissions rules at the epa to financial rigs on companies. translation, your life is going to get more expensive. and then there's climate envoy john kerry who has a lot of practice selling us out to the ccp. the south china morning post noting that john kerry is a climate czar may cool u.s. and china tensions. finally, in the role of u.s. ambassador to china, the ccp obviously prefers a mouse. it looks like they're going to get one. or at least the guy who headed up the mickey mouse disney empire, bob iger. as disney ceo, he criticized the trump administration for leaving the paris climate accord and threatened to move business out of georgia after they suggested strong pro life legislation. >> i think if it becomes law, it will be very difficult. we will -- i think many people who work for us will not want to work there. we'll have to heed their wishes in that regard. >> la

the mccarthy hearings. people are growing tired of the act, tired of being scared for no good reason. mccarthy went too far. he questioned loyalty in the u.s. army. that's when someone with true courage stepped in, army council joseph welsh in 1954. >> you have done enough. have you no sense of decency, sir at long last have you left no sense of decency? >> it worked. it's what people were feeling and thinking and they praised that moment, republicans went bad on mccarthy, censored him. that was then. now trump has the whole party in a place far scarier that mccarthy musterred. what will take them from their frie theirztheirz treer frenzy? make the restoration of decency? that's what we need, right, it's not about left or right. it's about reasonable. being reasonable is about listening, being opened. maybe that will come in the act of faith by one man. the man at the top. that's what joe biden president-elect of the united states is banking on. today he announced his plan for the first 100 days and showed

andy mccarthy, thanks very much.y and safe christmas. >> thanks, same to you, neil. >> neil: we're learning that the house appropriations committee has filed a stop-gap funding bill to keep the government essentially going through just shied of midnight sunday night. maybe this is an early sign that they're working against the clock, trying to get something done and avoid what could be otherwise a shut down tonight at midnight if nothing were to materialize. we'll keep an eye on it. more after this. ♪ i'll be home for christmas ♪ you can count on me ♪ i'll be home for christmas ♪ if only in my dreams ♪ looking to save money this look at allstate.n?ams drivers who switched & saved, averaged $718 dollars. saving is easy when you're in good hands. call a local agent, or 1-800-allstate for a quote today. new projects means you need to hire.gers. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, w

but senator mccarthy went on to say that he is going to ask the f.b.i.of eight. he wants to know more. he has questions and he is concerned about swalwell now jeopardizing things that he is hearing on that committee at this point in time. i hear you saying he shouldn't be sitting on that committee. what threat does that pose? >> again, this is why he needs to answer these questions. he said in the last day or two he doesn't know what happened to this woman or have any ties with them. apparently his brother and father were social media friends with her until yesterday. so he needs to come forward and give a full explanation of what his relationship with her was, when the f.b.i. alerted him that she was a literal chinese spy. >> sandra: why hasn't he done that yet? >> i don't know but i can tell you it is not because he might reveal classified information. there is nothing classified about eric swalwell's social life or fundraising practices. >> appreciate you coming on with us, thank you. >> thank you. >> trace: democrat senate candidate warnock's campaig

democrats, saying, "i the president wants to join usf in $2000 payments, he should call on leader mccarthy to agree to our unanimous consent request. we are scheduled to go in for a pro forma session tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. we are awaiting word from leader for your as to whether leader mccarthy will agree to or reject our request." congress approved $600 and the bill passed this week. we will have live coverage of the house pro forma session tomorrow, where democrats may try to pass a bill increasing the checks by unanimous consent. and we will be looking for a similar attempts in the senate at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. an update this afternoon on covid-19 vaccine distribution across the country. we will have live coverage of that operation warp speed briefing from the defense department at 3:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. also online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. with covid-19 relief legislation approved by congress, and vaccines being administered, use our website c-span.org/ coronavirus to follow the federal response to the outbreak. watch our searchable video an

exactly what joe mccarthy was pushing against the boogey man. mccarthy would have been a trumper. he was a diluted demagogue who justified talks of leverage. fear of others outside the country was the cold war in the '50s, the reds, their infiltrating us. infiltrating our institutions. his enemies within speech sparked nationwide hysteria, conspiracies. trumpers have taken it a step further now. now it is that the enemy within actually comes from within. we have seen the enemy, and it is us. remember that line? borrowed from the military in the war of 1813 but made famous by pogo, a cartoon character. the cartoon was about identifying the source of littering in nature. now we're destroying everything that holds us together, not just the forests. how do we stop it? let's look to history. the mccarthy hearings, people are growing tired of the act, tired of being scared for no good reason. mccarthy went too far. he questioned loyalty in the u.s. army. that's when someone with true courage stepped in. army counsel joseph welch in 1954. >> you have done enough. have you no sense of dec

mccarthy. chief of staff of the army, general james c. mcconville. sergeant major of the army, michael a. grinston. director of the national museum of the united states army, ms. tammy call. accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c. miller. and chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. millie. now presenting the colors is the third united states infantry regiment, the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. the national anthem will be performed by sergeant first class jesse meeks from the united states army band, pershing's own. ♪ ♪ >> present arms! >> ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, oh the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ >> ri

mccarthy: thank you all for coming. almost a week ago today, speaker nancy pelosi finally admitted to what every member standing behind me, she sabotaged the covid relief bill simply because of an election. she put politics before people. it was more important for her to hurt president trump

kevin mccarthy after the briefing said, you know what?swalwell has to go from house intelligence. why is nancy pelosi letting him still sit there? >> well,. >> she may need the donations that she brings from silicon valley. he was targeted not because he was some great guy, he was targeted because of where he is and the district he represents which is silicon valley. it is where the two national labs are. he was targeted from the beginning. but, liz, let's just think about this for a minute. it's eric swalwell, right? so he's targeted by financial donations to husband campaign, you have hunter biden who's got a business relationship with the chinese. where are the -- the chinese are all over this stuff. they have penetrated our elites the same way the russians have penetrated the government e-mail systems. again, we need to stop being so naive and figure this out and really come to -- you know, face it. face it and get rid of it. elizabeth: right. and, you know, russia and china play the long game. you've talked about that. they don't jus

i heard you asking the same question as kevin mccarthy. we will have more on that up any possible leader vote. senator we appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you, sandra. >> sandra: thank you. >> we finally got our fbi briefing. it was speaker nancy pelosi and myself. it was a very thorough briefing. no one that was in that room could walk out and say eric swalwell should be on the intel committee. >> house minority leader kevin mccarthy demand eric swalwell kicked off intel committee for ties to a suspected chinese spy. mccarthy also requesting that every member of the committee be made aware of any allegations against swalwell. this comes after he and house speaker nancy pelosi were briefed by the fbi on this matter on friday. let's bring in fox news contributor byron york, chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner." byron, good morning to you. kevin mccarthy wants really the entire intel committee to get this fbi briefing because he intimates there is a compelling argument to have eric swalwell removed from the

republican house minority leader kevin mccarthy of california accusing democratic house speaker nancy pelosi of purposely holding of the paycheck protection program because she simply wanted to hurt the president's reelection chances. >> more than 40 times the republicans have brought to the floor the ability to vote to bring assistance, 40 times the democrats said no. >> know, said mccarthy, despite the fact that there is more than $138 billion still sitting there for small businesses and the ppp program, to pay their employees we debt issue, money and protection. democrats want at least $160 billion for state and local governments, republicans are fighting for liability shields for companies and organizations against potential covid-19 related lawsuits. a nonstarter according to mitch mcconnell who set a soft bipartisan deal like the one just mentioned is doa, dead on arrival from lack of gop supporters republican senator josh holly of missouri, an independent senator bernie sanders of vermont pushed colleagues to vote for a second round of standalone stimulus checks to help struggl

that are translating into death threats is more cowardly and craven than the early 1950s to joe mccarthy. he has gotten to this point because he believes he'll not be held accountable by his party and we learned one party alone cannot uphold democracy if the other party is willing to acquiesce. >> that mccarthy comparison, aman did, you didn't really -- i was like, wow. you didn't flinch at that at all. because you think it's true? >> here's the thing i'm thinking about, for the last five years we asked, how many -- are republicans going stand up against trump? they never do. we have to come away with they're fine with it. i'm not going accept the talk of privately they have concerns. i've come on and explained the politics of their decisions and why they're staying strategically silent. let's forget. that they're fine with it all as long as it keeps them in power and they're fine with it all even as the president lost because they're making the calculation that it would be good to delegitimatize vice president joe biden. >> amanda, when you talk about the concern thing privately, they'l

republican candidate for president privately knew what mccarthy was doing was reckless and dangerous. he thought it was expedient for the party because initially he was targeting the truman administration. the problem was that it kept going and he went after the eisenhower administration and had these reckless charges of communist infiltration everywhere. in much the same way they are making the calculations in the senate and house that it is in their interests to let trump poison the system this way both because it makes it tough for biden to get a second look. others like dan crenshaw has said this could be the basis for a new round of voter suppression. it goes to a point where you are saying we're going to look at the short-term party interests over what is clearly a danger -- >> craven. >> they're dealing with death threats. >> greedy and craven. john, i think your answer is going to be. i think i know where you're going. let me play this. one of georgia's top officials happens to be a lifelong republican weighing in on chris krebs being shot. >> joe asked for chris krebs, a patr

kevin mccarthy coming up. investigating hunter biden, subpoena for joe biden's son looking for info on his time with ukrainian company barisma as new emails surface for keys to be made for jill and joe biden along with chinese partner, all questions arising on why none of this does disclosed before the november election. big fight against coronavirus, pfizer's vaccine rolling out to americanican hospitals today wih over 100 million expected over the coming 3 months. hear from louisiana senator and medical doctor bill cassidy, operation warp speed scientific head doctor. futures this morning are rallying on the vaccine news. we are expecting gain at the start of trading, better than 200 points on the dow industrials, nasdaq up 52 and s&p higher by 22 after markets snapped a two-week winning streak. compromised by china. we are following congressman eric swawell's ties with chinese spies new york on lookdown once again. indoor dining in the big apple closed for business. how sustainable is that, we discuss? morn

leader mccarthy, thank you. a good to have you here tonight. >> thank you, think is much, merry christmas. >> martha: you too, merry christmas. peter king spent ten years on the intelligence committee and ten of those come out four of those years alongside congressman swalwell. congressman, good to have you here tonight. why specifically -- the whole op-ed why you believe he needs to be removed from the committee. why do you feel so strongly about it? what does the committee know? how does it work that makes this such a difficult situation for him in your mind? >> martha, the committee is a sequence that virtually nobody else knows. the president and a few people at the top, but other than that, the secrets are not made known to others in congress while future operations being planned, intelligence operations, bout leads we have gotten. the people have been tracked overseas. what we can expect next. these are the crown jewels. these are the top secrets of the united states. the committee itself is down 2 feet be

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norah o'donnell exclusively sat down with army secretary ryan mccarthy and asked him what happens next. >> what you'll see is one of the most comprehensive steps in accountability in the army history to get after this. >> the most comprehensive and accountability in the history of the u.s. army? >> it will be among one of the largest, yes. >> you can hear more of this exclusive interview with army secretary ryan mccarthy coming up on "cbs this morning." >>> off to california, where crews rushed to stop the spread of a brush fire in southern california. this was the scene last night in a riverbed near oxnard, located just northwest of los angeles. the 50-acre blaze dubbed the perkin fire broke out shortly after 4:30 p.m. firefighters said they had a handle on the fire less than two hours later with crews working on containing flare-ups. no injuries were reported. an investigation is under way. >>> so coming up on the "cbs morning news," why los angeles police are facing backlash after busting a massive underground house party. >>> and caught on video, where a hiker captured this dramati

>> well, i agree with kevin mccarthy, david.bers of the house intelligence committee should get this one hour briefing on exactly what happened. you can imagine that the fbi could have entrapped congressman swalwell. instead of being warned off, he could have been arrested and prosecuted. so that is a very lucky break he got. we don't know the details of what this fbi one hour briefing might be. obviously it is serious enough that kevin mccarthy is invoking a clash now with nancy pelosi. why did she do this? why did she appoint such a junior member of congress to an important post usually discretion and prudence is required of all members. because they don't have security clearances. it is assumed because they were elected that gives them access to secrets if they're on that committee. david: it's a very, very select committee. they usually appoint people with years of experience in foreign policy. this guy had none. zero, zero experience in all dealing with intel material, how people gather things, certainly not what he should

he called mccarthy, kevin mccarthy, the leader of house republicans, kind of wanted him to do the sameo run for speaker in 2022. wants the backing of donald trump. knows his members didn't exist in a pre-trumpian era. mcconnell is the man because the power he has in the senate, regardless of what happens in georgia, obviously if republicans win one or two seats, he has more power. in a 50/50 senate, he is the central force, and has been by the way for a long time in terms of the legislative might of the republican party. >> so jim, obviously it's going to be tougher to enact his agenda if mcconnell continues to control the senate. with that said, the incentives are a little bit different if he is in power, and trying to maintain it than if he is in opposition. how do you think this game changes for biden if mcconnell does lose the senate. does in some ways, i realize it's kind of counter intuitive. are there ways in which that could make biden's life harder? >> at the end of the day, you want as many votes as you can possibly get. you want more power to control a 50/50 senate with a ti

kevin mccarthy, marco rubio, would they have protected small-"d" democracy? and i don't think we have language for what is happening in the republican party and its willingness to run over democracy to maintain power. >> and i've been told i sound like i'm the biggest skeptic, and a debbie downer. i hope it does work. no, i really do. i hope joe biden can work with the other side. but given everything that susan and ron just said, how does he do it? i hope it works, i really do. but how does he work with republican legislators who want to turn over and -- i hope he can do it, again. let me just say for anyone who is watching. but i have also been doing this job for the last 12 years. and i see what is happening. go on. >> well, i think your skepticism is well justified, and the record of the last 12 years is one of blowtorch opposition from republicans to democratic presidents. first of all, though, joe biden is a white man. barack obama's race played a role in the intensity of the grassroots and the opposition in washington to what he was trying to do. so th

>> i mean -- why won't kevin mccarthy acknowledge reality? >> i don't know. i have been grappling with this trying to figure out exactly what allowed independent elected officials to be this way. i can't figure this out. donald trump is one person, participated in a process that's designed to keep this country together for decades. and all of a sudden elected officials seemed to be unable to exert their responsibilities and recognize what the constitution is laid out for us. i am having a real problem trying to figure this out. i saw what the president is doing. i do not believe this man plans to give up office. i said it back in february 2018 and it has come true. there is something about the things he was saying that a lot of people laughed at. i just took it seriously. i don't believe he's stopping. he's going to make some attempt to have some of his minions pull some shenanigans on the sixth of january. >> the fact that so many of your colleagues are in this way, kevin mccarthy skittering away from manu raju. i am glad he's wearing a mask but you know he

kevin mccarthy going that route to tackle another of the president's complaints about the bill. >> mccarthyng republicans he's going to seek unanimous consent to revisit parts of the broader spending bill including foreign aid. he's following the president's lead on this, but a point of fact, almost every line of foreign aid in the spending bill that congress passed matches exactly what the white house asked for nearly dollar for dollar. trump is just complaining about getting exactly what he asked for here. remember, covid relief was tied to the larger spending bill. unless trump changes course and signs the bill, entire government could shut down early next week. >>> also this morning, a dangerous deja vu between president trump and iran. the president and iran's foreign minister baiting each other on twitter, days after a rocket attack near the u.s. embassy in iraq. cnn's arwa damon is live in istanbul. nice to see you this morning. do you think this is just all bluster and talk or do you actually see things ratcheting up here? all right. i think we may have technical difficulties with a

we begin with house minority leader, kevin mccarthy. [inaudible] >> it is very possible. [inaudible]

last week the fbi held a classified briefing with just nancy pelosi and ken mccarthy -- kevin mccarthy swalwell's suspected ties to a member to have chinese minus party. congressman mccarthy was on "sunday morning futures" telling us what he learned. here's mccarthy sunday. >> we finally got our fbi or briefing. it was just speaker nancy pelosi and mousse. the one answer -- and myself. the one answer i got out of that briefing was there is no way eric swalwell should continue to serve on the intel committee. and the challenge here is the leaders of both parties are the only people who select to go on the intel committee. that is why today, maria, what i'm going to request? that every single member of the house intelligence committee gets the exact same briefing from the fbi that i did. because if this individual is sitting on this committee, eric swalwell, they've got to know the background of what has gone on. maria: pretty extraordinary, congressman. your reaction. >> it's alarming, maria, that eric swalwell's till on the intelligence committee. it raises even more questions about wh

>> you know, who knows what kevin mccarthy understands. i think we do know that he is a full on trumper. he hasn't been one to stand up to this president even as he lies about this election. so you have what looks like a pretty good number of people in the house, people like mo brooks, possibly someone like jim jordan as well who want to take a stand, what they see as a stand against essentially democracy. this he wouldn't call it that but that is what it is if they object to seating the electors into electing joe biden. listen, they are still the party of donald trump even though donald trump lost this election and he is holding on to them with an iron grip and they're happy to be in his embrace. >> john? >> what spineless cowardice. mitch mcconnell is trying to corral his folks and what mccarthy is doing is the opposite of leadership because he is afraid of the autocrat caucus even though he knows what the stakes are, even though he knows what's right and if folks don't -- you can't pretend to be a patriot if you try to actively undermin

although for mccarthy, he says this.right for every legal challenge to be heard. he has the right to go the supreme court with that." that suit, as you know, brought by texas attorney general ken paxton aims to block electors in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, and georgia from certifying the biting victory. paxton also alleges the states mail-in voting efforts during the pandemic were unconstitutional and attorneys general from 18 other red states have joined in that lawsuit. now, to be clear here, and i want to make sure i point this out for you, martha, critics of this case often suggest that simply violates the principle of federalism and frankly could set a dangerous precedent by having one state asking federal courts to police the voting procedures in another state, and just a button it up with this example, in his brief, pennsylvania state attorney general josh schapiro, he is a democrat, he called the trump suit "a seditious abuse of the judicial process. one that will play out for the entire nation to see very

this is after he and mccarthy met for 90 minute-s and mccarthy, i said, are you getting a deal tonight? and he said, we are close. it's going well, he said, i think we have built a lot of trust, i think we are moving in the right direction and there's a possibility of getting it finalized and getting it done as soon as possible. he said that they are exchanging last minute proposals. now, the question still is, what is in the deal and the republicans are talking so is favorably about. they have had the outlines of the deal, they are talking extension of jobless benefits particularly the ones expiring and discussion of $300 a week in jobless benefits and discussion of $300 billion for emergency loan for small businesses. as well as money for vaccine distribution. and money for schools as well, other issues also important extending the federal eviction moratorium, and deferring student loan payments. those are the main issues. the big sticking points have been whether to provide money for state and local governments for, that have aid for some of the cash strapped local governments, demo

kevin mccarthy said "why would i do that? i will wait until it is over to find out, every legal vote has to be counted and every legal challenge has to be heard,". profile encouraged right there. it is all funny and a little bit of sad until it is not. our white house correspondent, jim acosta, is joining us right now. the rational for making this to the supreme court is to keep money flowing in as long as there is some sort of challenges going on. he can raise money off of this and take his followers for suckers. >> he can't handle the fact that he lost, anderson. the president's election denialism is endangering the american people. this attorney who's representing the president in that texas lawsuit, the same attorney who's arguing kamala harris was not eligible to be president. president trump said in a briefing room that he thought there may be something to that. he was intrigued booy the idea. and now he turned to ted cruz as we confirmed he agreed to represent the president and his gress before the supreme court if he

leader mccarthy and i have been in discussions with the secretary of the treasury and the president's chief of staff to ascertain what the president would actually sign into law. i think we have a sense of what that is. a call we hadt in just a little while ago. we will send that out to all the offices and get some back to see how our members react to a proposal we can say for sure would be signed into law. i think the one think we agree on is we don't have time for messaging games. we don't have time for lengthy negotiations. the issue is do we want to get a result? i would like to remind everyone the way to get a result is you have to have a presidential signature. i felt the first thing we needed to do was find out what the president would in fact sign. we believe we have the answer to that. that on ourng side and we will let you know if we think there is any way forward. certainly we know we can say, i hope, this is something that would be signed into law by the president. be done quickly. deal with the things we can agree on now. i think we all know after the first of the year th

mccarthy tweeted this, quote: i have asked the fbi for a every briefing on respective swalwell's tieso a reported spy from china. twice it has been scheduled, twice it has been canceled by the fbi. swalwell is a national security liability. this is too important for the fbi to continue to stonewall. well, so much is too important for them to stonewall, but stonewall -- [laughter] they continued to do. our next guest sits on the very same house intelligence committee as does eric swalwell. he's also been briefed on the cyberrer attack being carried out by russia against our federal departments and agencies. it's an attack that also breached los alamos' laboratory defenses, that, by the way, the national, the national repository of our nuclear stockpile designs and secrets. it also may have been an attack that has now are vealed to the russians -- revealed to the russians and other perhapsal lieus in this attack -- allies in this attack on the ways in which they could disrupt our electricity grid. joining us now, congressman chris stewart. as i said, a member of the excellence -- intell