it was a republican drafted bill that was posted by house republicans. and then one or two puppet masters weigh-in and the extreme maga republicans decides to do the bidding of the wealthy, the well-off, the well-connected millionaires and billionaires. not working-class people. all across america. >> one of the changes elon musk and donald trump made to the bill was to eliminate support of research on children's cancer. and donald trump at the last minute decided he wanted to add a dramatic increase in the debt ceiling, an unprecedented increase in the debt ceiling to the bill, even though the government won't come close to reaching its debt limit until june. donald trump actually wants to pass a bill that will completely suspend the debt ceiling, just totally eliminate it. there is no debt limit for the united states for two years, so the donald trump can run up the debt to any level at all with his tax cuts for billionaires like elon musk. >> the provisions in this bill particularly as it relates to suspending the debt ceiling for two years, are desig

republican.his is from john bresnahan. kat cammack, one of the republicans who voted no says republicans will come up with a government funding bill after voting no on the cr. cammack ducked a question if whether johnson can remain speaker. no one is thinking about that right now, is what she had to say. senator mike lee, on the benny show last -- yesterday floating this idea. [video] >> how do we go forward and do this? we are going to need new leadership. we have got new leadership in the senate coming in the coming year. i believe the writing is on the wall, unless i'm just mistaken. it seems that new leadership in the house is almost inevitable. if that is the case, we need to go outside the box. we need to look to a different place. the constitution and house rules require the speaker be a current member of the house of representatives. i propose -- the doge movement is enormously popular the house. new house members that are republicans, they can't get enough, including the people part of t

republicans are going to control the house of representatives, republicans are going to control the senate, by very tiny margin, and donald trump knows he will not be able to get every republican in the house and every republican in the senate to vote for a debt ceiling increase next year, even though donald trump knows he needs one. so he now actually publicly calls on democrats to do it for him today. raising the debt ceiling beyond the end of joe biden's administration is one of the brilliant tactical accomplishments of president biden as a negotiator with congress. a republican house of representatives agreed to do that for joe biden. we reported on that negotiation in detail on this program. it was one of the stunning negotiating triumphs of president biden and his budget staff that was not well understood at the time but donald trump really understands it tonight for the first time. donald trump understands that joe biden brilliantly extended the debt ceiling beyond the end of his own term in the presidency in such a way that donald trump will not be able to cut taxes for billionaire

not republicans -- not republican or billionaire friends. that's something we have said many times from here that that was a prior fir this president. certainly we wan to continue to implement the key priorities of the president has had, meaning bipartisan infrastructure legislation, the chips and science act, we want to make sure those investments, that continues, and we want to accept on that. we talked about continuing to lower costs as it relates to prescription drugs, but lowering costs more broadly certainly for the american people. that's our focus. that's what we've been doing. and we're going to continue, certainly, to do that. reporter: we can expect more announcements on some of those fronts in the next few weeks? karine: i would say stay tuned. we are trying to truly, truly run through the tape here and get as much done as we can for the american people. we know the american people want us to continue to work on behals what the president will be focused on. >> since you menged the shutdown, a different angle on that question. pot

interests, it was a republican drafted bill posted by house republicans. then 1-2 puppet masters white in. >> we reached a agreement, we came to modest achievements. and a tweet changed all of it? can you imagine what the next two years will be like if every time the congress works its will and then there is a tweet from a individual that has no official portfolio that threatens members of the republican side with a primary and they succumb? >> they write the bill, they post the bill, they agreed on a bill. you know what? they got scared. because president musk told them , president musk said do not do it. do not do it. shut the government down. >> trump got completely rolled by musk on this so he needed to make up a excuse why he opposed it as well and he landed on the debt ceiling for some reason. so trump got a little victory because he got the debt ceiling in there, it extends the deadline, no money for kids with cancer and then he took to truth social to boast he did it, trump swooped in right? the bill which immediately died signaled success in washi

republican. more of your phone calls coming up. join the conversation here on the "washington journal." a reporter with the associated press. what have you learned this morning? guest: always good to be with you. this seems to be continue tinnually evolving situation. we are used to seeing this when we come up on these government funding deadlines and scramble to get things together. hearing the speaker does expect there will be votes today, we weren't sure what that situation looked like at the end of yesterday, they are going to keep trying again and coming with just hours to go before funding bill expires and a shutdown would begin. it's down to the wire. we have been here before. sometimes we talk about situations having to feel different. this one does, particularly given the back and forth between republicans, their incoming president, and the insertion of elon musk into the conversation. host: we heard this morning that conservatives who met with speaker johnson and vice president elect j.d. vance coming out, members of cong

it was a republican-drafted bill that was posted by house republicans. and then one or two puppet masters weigh in and extreme maga republicans decide to do the bidding of the wealthy, the well off, the well connected millionaires and billionaires, not working class people all across america. the bill that is before us today is just part of an effort to shut down the government unless we as representatives of the american people bend to the will of just a handful of millionaires and billionaires, because the provisions in this bill, particularly as it relates to suspending the debt ceiling for two years are designed to bring about a massive tax cut unpaid for for wealthy donors and for wealthy corporations, for millionaires and billionaires for clearly some in this congress are working for. and this bill is validation for it. now it's been interesting to me that for decades the republican party has lectured america about fiscal responsibility. about the debt and the deficit. it's always been phony. this bill proves it. one thing we do know is that every

republicans know this is coming and so in the face of that oncoming change, republicans took this billking various changes to the laws of dentistry. they took the laws of dentistry bill and they turned it into something very much not that, which is probably good news for drunken dentists. bad news for mannequins, but it is also really big news, audacious news for what republicans are apparently trying to do in north carolina on the way out the door. this is footage from the north carolina state legislature, people being cleared out of the gallery in the state legislature for protesting against what the republicans are trying to do with this bill that started off a dentistry bill, and has turned into something much more radical. republicans took this laws of dentistry bill. they got it. they took out all the dentist stuff. they then decided they would call it the hurricane relief bill. you remember all the horrible storms in western north carolina right before the election. they said it would be there hurricane relief bill but what the bill actually does is changes the state government

and we hope republicans want to do that and republicans in congress want to do that as well and there's still time. reporter: we talked about how the president has not been a player at all in these negotiations. i understand he spoke with schumer and jeffries today but what's the strategy behind this, perhaps having him involved at this moment would do more harm than good? karine: i got a formulation of this question moments ago. the president knows how to deal with congress. he's been around for some time, as you all know. this is not the first time we've had this strategy where we've said it's congress' -- one of their number one jobs is to keep the government open. in this particular instance, you saw what republicans did with speaker johnson obviously leading thousand this mess where we are right now. they need to fix it, period. it's their mess to fix, it is. there was a deal, a bipartisan deal. there was. just days ago. and they created this mess. speaker johnson needs to fix this. republicans in congress need to fix this. it's their mess to fix. and they allowed this bipartisan d

the votes you lose there are republicans. the republicans don't lose that. we're right back there. the outside influence of elon musk is real. it dictates a lot for the next four years, dictates injuries to our democracy. >> if there isn't a total combustion that happens between musk and trump. >> right. hakeem jeffries has decisions to make, but mike johnson does. if mike johnson wants to keep the speakership, he has to shut down the government. >> thank you both. please stay close as we monitor the developments. >>> we'll have more on how donald trump and elon musk steered capitol hill into chaos and why is trump giving elon so much space to have so much impact. >>> plus, washington's worst job, could the cost of this chaos be speaker johnson's gavel. >>> also, the financial fall out of a government shutdown. >>> behind bars in a brooklyn jail, luigi mangione's legal mountain to climb just got higher. we're back in 90 seconds. ck in s new alka-seltzer plus cold or flu fizzy chews. chew. fizz. feel better fast. no water needed. new alka-seltzer plus fizzychews. (vo) this holiday,

>> they are back at the drawing board and we know that congressional republicans, house republicans in particular , have been huddled all morning in the office of mike johnston with different stakeholders coming in and out all morning long as they tried to come up with a proposal that would get enough votes to pass the house of representatives. the question that we're wondering, how much democrats have been in the process because there can be no legislation that ultimately passes to avoid a government shutdown tonight unless it has at least some level of democratic support. ralph norman, a member of the rules committee, has been a part of these negotiations and signaled there could be a vote on the rule of a new deal as soon as sometime this morning. that is a procedural step that needs to take place before the legislation makes it to the floor of the house. we have no formal notification of that happening yet but it is an indication they are, at least republicans, are getting closer to coming up with something they feel comfortable moving to the house for. they tried to take a stab at

and this republican on republican battle will be ugly. musk and ramaswamy made their voices heard. these two men, private citizens. and dear friend of mine bill cohen is a funding partner. republicans might have the majority but does it matter if they can't agree on everything. if republicans voted were democrats the likes of marjory green would say you're not a republican, you're part of a unity party. >> what i think in these days, going from republican versus democrat, but some of the biggest republican voices are actually not actually in congress or technically in the republican party at all. because of course you have mar- a-lago. a lot of the real power jostling is happening. you have congress and this was a week when the mar-a-lago court went full gun against essentially the congressional republicans and in particular speaker johnson. i think, you know as speaker johnson is going to survive for long he's going to have to be incredibly deft. >> what do you think? >> first of all, i mean, they're not even, donald trump isn't even pre

but is that what the republicans propose? no. what the republicans say is. mm. let's just do a little period of time of getting rid of it long enough to be able to grease the skids, to be able to pass a big, big tax giveaway to billionaires. >> so you don't think democrats should step in to help republicans here? but but on the debt ceiling deal, on the debt ceiling, which is, you know, the max that the government can borrow. it's something that, you know, we almost saw how catastrophic that could be not long ago when they had to avert defaulting on the nation's debt. you said that you agreed with trump when he said that congress should terminate the debt limit, not have to govern by hostage taking, as you put it. but then when when republicans put forward this idea of raising it for two more years, you said that that would be it would grease the wheels for his tax handouts for billionaires in a terrible deal. what do you want to see happen here? >> well, look, i want to see us get rid of the debt ceiling. i've wanted that for years because year after year after

so this time, 170 republicans heard that threat from donald trump about primaries, and 170 republicansically shrugged. that is very, very notable. for trump, it is very, very embarrassing. still after that series of bills passed on friday night, i was kind of waiting and wondering how trump was going to try to spin it as some grand victory. i was wondering how would he take an embarrassment like that and somehow make it seem like it's what he wanted all along, but it never came. nothing. no tweets, no truths, no reaction whatsoever. that's pretty notable, too. now elon musk did send out a tweet taking credit for turning a bill that, quote, weighed pounds into a bill that weighed ounces. to be clear he is referring to the number of pages. also to be completely clear here, here are a few things that were cut from the original bipartisan bill that -- that were in the original bipartisan bill that you would have appreciated. i'm going to pull this up to make sure i get this right from the actual list of things. first of all, a fix for stolen food stamp funds. cracking down on junk fees lik

the republican party look good, does it? >> no, it doesn't. >> plus, the difference between determined opposition and what democrats are doing now. >>> and about all of that media coverage and campaign hysterics about record crime >> crime is at an all-time high. our country is a crime pot. we have to get rid of crime. >> the actual truth about america's falling crime rate. when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. trump will not be sworn in until next month but he and his billionaire co-president, charitable is sending the government into disorder. the government is going to shutdown tomorrow night. the vote on their latest plan just failed for two thirds majority did not come close. nearly 40 republicans voted against their own plan. it did not get a simple majority. frankly, it is not clear what comes next. you might be thinking didn't congress already put a plan together to fund the government? the answer is, yes. i talked to you last night. there was a plan to fund the government.

it was a republican-drafted bill that was posted by house republicans. and then one or two puppet masters weigh in and extreme maga republicans decide to do the bidding of the wealthy, the well off, the well connected millionaires and billionaires, not working class people all across america. the bill that is before us today is just part of an effort to shut down the government unless we as representatives of the american people bend to the will of just a handful of millionaires and billionaires, because the provisions in this bill, particularly as it relates to suspending the debt ceiling for two years are designed to bring about a massive tax cut unpaid for for wealthy donors and for wealthy corporations, for millionaires and billionaires for clearly some in this congress are working for. and this bill is validation for it. now it's been interesting to me that for decades the republican party has lectured america about fiscal responsibility. about the debt and the deficit. it's always been phony. this bill proves it. one thing we do know is that every

he's a republican.ouse, he literally drew himself a district in congress and wiped out the three of the democratic districts to get there. that is incredibly wrong, and it's reshaped the balance of power in congress. it's wrong, and we've got to end this practice. >> congressman wily nickel, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thanks so much for having me. >>> tonight's last word is next. . >>> tonight's last word is next. sometimes it takes someone who really knows you to make you feel seen. gifts that say i get you. etsy has it. i was stuck. unresolved depression symptoms were in my way. i needed more from my antidepressant. vraylar helped give it a lift. adding vraylar to an antidepressant is clinically proven to help relieve overall depression symptoms better than an antidepressant alone. vraylar is not approved for elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis due to increased risk of death or stroke. report changes in behavior or suicidal thoughts to your doctor. antidepressants can increase t

this reckless republican driven shut down can be avoided if house republicans will simply do what is right for the american people and stick with the bipartisan agreement that they themselves negotiated. i yield to our distinguished whip, katherine clark. ms. clark: thank you, mr. leader. the 118th congress is going out just as it started. it is the g.o.p., the majority in the house, leading with chaos. who is left on the sidelines? the american people. and the leader set forth all the impacts in the short term of a government shutdown. it will impact government workers. our military families, all the small businesses and farmers and communities that are are waiting for this disaster aid. it will impact our community health centers and the ability to deliver health care that is affordable and accessible. and it will rise the costs of everyday items. whether that's childcare, to the groceries anti-price you pay at the supermarket -- and the price you pay at the supermarket. what for? because elon musk, an unelected man, said we are not doing this deal. and donald trump followed along.

in today's republican party? it seems strange on the face of it that they are. the former leaders of the republican party are now stigmatized as republicans in name only. that's weird. how did that happen? but i think the reality is that the moderates that i was writing about were dwight eisenhower style republicans who believed in the legitimacy of the new deal order. so they were in some sense, new deal order republicans then along comes ronald reagan and brings and what we now refer to as the neo liberal era. and even the democrats came around to that. i mean, bill clinton was someone who actually operated under the term set by ronald reagan delta. now maybe moving us into a kind of populist era which is different from the other. so in that sense, all previous models of republicans are outmoded and they're going to have to decide whether they find a better home in trumps populous republican party or with the democrats. as we know, donald trump once to deep court, undocumented immigrants. he wants to stop immig

republican house. some saying it was a dysfunctional blank show. what we put on as an s show. this is still a family broadcast. those are the republicans. if you get in over to the democratic side or the independent or -- with all due respect to voters who spoke loudly last month. they spoke about tion, immigration, broken politics. none of this addresses that. some falls into the incumbent trap. there are voters who may have voted for thchange, look at thi and say, this isn't the change i voted for. even they went more red as we saw in certain places. i want to vote juanita, a fox host, who said trump and musk shot down the first bill.manded bill. johnson produced up with. it failed. this is i mrefsh believe sarcas. way to go. if you lost and the thing you you were trying to get, how are you doing? what's your grade for those house republicans? >> what's funny about this is that outhis is exactly what the asked for. this is what what they xaped for, what they supported. someone like donald trump who t

versus republican.urse you have got mar-a- lago, essentially run as an alternative court of donald trump where a lot of the world power is happening. you've got congress and this was a week when the mar-a-lago went full gun against essentially the congressional republicans and speaker johnson. i think a speaker johnson, if he is going to survive for long he will have to be incredibly deft. >> first of all, donald trump is not even president, right? >> can you say that again. isn't that the most important thing? >> elon musk is not elected to anything, neither is vivek ramaswamy. i am trying to figure out what's going on here. but i get what is going on. donald trump is going to be president and elon musk is the world's richest man. but him having a tweet storm or a x storm -- >> here is the question. so many wall street people say you may not like elon musk's personality but he is so brilliant and he will be great. did he hurt any of his credibility this week? two days ago it was like 120 tweets in a da

house going to republicans.hy manning, were turned into safe republican seats, where democrats had zero chance to win. had north carolina since the three of us back to washington, under fair maps, the new york representative hacking jeffries would be our next speaker of the house with a one seat democratic majority at 218- 217." joining our discussion now, democratic congressman wiley nichol of north carolina, a former north carolina state senator. congressman nichol, this is really a stunning turn in the effect of gerrymandering, to actually have it end up deciding control of the house. >> absolutely. you know, hakeem jeffries ought to be speaker right now, democrats ought to have a seat at the table with donald trump and that is what gerrymandering has cost our nation. it has literally changed the course of our nation's history, the three seats that republicans gerrymandered with surgical precision in north carolina are the difference in control of the next congress. it is a big deal, and it is something that

it was a republican-drafted bill that was hosted by house republicans and then one or two puppet masters weigh in and the extreme maga republicans decide to do the bidding of the relty, the twell off, the well-connecd millionaires and billionaires, minot working class people. >> let's be clear, republicans efforts to blame democrats here in bad faet. they had agreed to the original deal. it was republicans who awalked away from it, and even yesterday democrats weren't the only members of the house who opposed hthis new spending bill. 38 republicans voted against the trump-backed legislation defying the president-elect. one of bathem included republic congressman chip roy of texas who slammed his gop colleagues ahead of the vote. >> it's embarrassing. it's shameful. yes, i think this bill was better than it was yesterday on certain respects, but to take this bill, to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter in pages sebut increases the debt $5 trillion is asinine and that's precisely what republicans are doing. i am absolutely sickened by a party that campai

it was a republican-drafted bill that was posted by house republicans. and then one or two puppet masters weigh in and the extreme maga republicans decide to do the bidding of the wealthy, the well off, the well connected millionaires and billionaires, ndnot working-class people. >> democrats were not the only ones lining up against this bill. a here was republican congressman chip roy, again, republican congress, congressman, speaking before the vote. >> what we're doing right now is to continue to double down on the things that are destroying the republic. i am absolutely sickened by a party utthat campaigns on fisca responsibility and has the at that merit to be forward to the mamerican people and say you think this is fiscally k responsible. it is absolutely ridiculous.si this side of the aisle is profoundly unserious about actually reducing deficits. >> in the end the bill failed because 38 republicans broke with their own party, their own speaker of the house, to oppose his bill. republicans so far cannot manage to organize themselves enough to oke

a cardinal sin. >> in some ways what it shows is republican versus democrat to republican versus republican the biggest voices are not in congress or technically in the republican party at all. of course, you got mar-a-lago, essentially run as an alternative court of donald trump where a lot of the real power jocking is happening. you have congress and this was the week when the mar-a-lago court went full gun against essentially the congressional republicans and in particular speaker johnson. and i think, you know, speaker johnson going to survive for long he will have to be deft. >> what do you think? >> first of all, i mean -- they are not even -- donald trump is not even president, right? >> can we just say that again? isn't that the most important thing? he is not even president. and elon musk is not elected to anything earth is ramaswamy. i am trying to figure out what is going on here. i get what is going on here, donald trump is going to be president. elon musk is the world's richest man but him having a tweet storm and killing a . >> a tweet storm. snow or an x storm. killing a bill

yeah. >> jonathan: romney republican, mccain republican. where do you fit? >> the best description for me is normal. i like that. it's kind of a shortcut to stereotype somebody. we like to have this very quick, oh, you fit into this, and therefore i don't have to know anything more about you because you are moderate, right? and the reality of it is, it's not that simple. a moderate in salt lake city is different than a moderate in st. george or a moderate in massachusetts. so to try to say somebody is a moderate or something just doesn't fit and i really like to align myself with core utah values and the best way to describe those are pioneer values. >> jonathan: now you ran for the senate and trump endorsed one of of your opponents. >> that's correct. >> jonathan: actually did a campaign ad. really got into it for one of your components and you still won. >> so i'll just brag for a minute. i won in a four-way primary with almost 50%. >> jonathan: yeah. >> and as the non-trump endorsed candidate. >> jonathan: was it a double-digit lead? >> it was a substanti

any republican judicial vacancies will now have to be filled with another republican.g democratic attorney general will not be allowed to argue in court against any laws passed by the republican controlled general assembly. and authority over north carolina state board of elections will be transferred to that one statewide office that will be controlled by a republican. the yes. elections will now be overseen by the state auditor. democrats and supporters of small d democracy have worked tirelessly for weeks to keep the spotlight and the political pressure on republicans here to try and shame them from going forward with this just abundantly obvious anti-democratic power grab, but republicans in north carolina today passed the bill under the guise of hurricane relief while they still had the super majority. what do democrats do now? the chair of north carolina's democratic party has some ideas and she joins me next. hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. customize and sa— (balloon doug pops & deflates) and then i wake up. and you have this dream every night? ye

speaker johnson could pass it with nothing but republicans if republicans were unified. that is the curse of being a republican. now they have to figure out how to get unified and do it fast. >> harris: the most powerful person just won the house, white house and the senate. that's donald trump. he told them reportedly not to do this. he reportedly said give them a little more time at the beginning of the year. this was supposed to be a cr, measure that gets you a few days out. kicks the can down the road a little bit. this looks more like an omnibus. have you seen this thing? it's this thick. >> that's correct. and it looks like an omnibus because it didn't get enough republicans to support what they were working on and went to the democrats. >> harris: quick thing with that. marjorie taylor greene said this. i don't know of a single republican member who negotiated this deal. it was only leaders at the top. did they talk to the rank and file and should they have? >> i suspect it was the leaders at the top and members of the appropriations committee. appropriations runs

republican dysfunction. republicans have proven time and time in recent memory that they simply cannot govern. not a single house democrat voted against the bill. however, 34 republicans voted against their own bill. against elon musk and donald trump. again. donald trump made one demand. a debt ceiling sis tension. republicans ignored him. after trump had threatened to primary any republican who voted against the bill. 170 republicans in the house defied him anyway. donald trump is yet to make a statement about today's vote, but the congressional bureau chief reports trump is not happy that the spending bill doesn't include the debt ceiling according to a person who spoke with him this afternoon. not clear that he will publicly try to stop the bill in the senate. but trump is not thrilled that the bill doesn't contain his main ask. elon musk who is smart enough to not want to be a loser quickly pivoted to pretending this was in fact a win. the speaker did a good job here given the circumstances. it went fro

>> not republicans killed it, but they'll always do it. >> republicans. there are more republicans who are not for raising it. that's an ideological fact. the debt ceiling, the loss suspended it until january 1st. that's just days away. it is germane to do it right now. democrats have always supported it. they've said, don't let it go to the last minute. don't jeopardize our credit. only this time the democrats oppose it because they wanted to oppose donald trump. they hate him. they hit animates everything. >> the only thing that was stripped out of bill. >> but it's also but it's also the idea of the the full faith and credit is part of it. but there's also this underlying issue of having no guardrails, no ceiling whatsoever to the amount of debt that you could incur for future generations. that is something that people have campaigned on for a very long time about republicans versus democrats, people feeling comfortable with debt and those who did not. the debt ceiling can be a shorthand way of saying democrats don't care about the future debt of ameri

republicans and 16 senate republicans who voted against raising the debt ceiling.hat does all of that mean? that means that republicans in a few months will either have to get democratic votes to raise the debt ceiling, or risk the country going into default, which could have catastrophic impact on the economy. in the past, democrats have been willing to give their vote to raise the debt ceiling without much on the other side. but i'm guessing that history is over. after watching the way republicans used it against obama and biden and what democrats achieved, if anything. obviously, they avoided a government shutdown, but they kept this point of leverage that will be available at some point in a few weeks. a few months john thune and mike johnson are probably going to need democratic votes to raise the debt ceiling. almost certainly. and that will give democrats an opportunity to ask for something we don't know what yet in return. >> and leading up to this point, we really got a close up view of the limits of donald trump's power and influence in washington. some l

manu, do republicans have the votes to avoid a government shutdown republican leadership is confident, jake, that they will have the votes to avert a government shutdown after a frantic several days of negotiating behind closed doors prompted by donald trump's intervention in the 11th hour, making demands and scuttling a separate bipartisan deal to try to avoid a government shutdown, trump demanding late that there should be additions to this proposal, namely, the very complicated issue of raising the national debt limit, something that doesn't have to be dealt with until next year, but one that he wants done now so he doesn't have to worry about it when he's president. >> however, because he does not have the votes in the house that failed yesterday, his efforts to try to do just that raise the national debt limit. now, republican leaders have agreed to push that aside into next year. now they're trying to move on a separate course, extend government funding past midnight tonight until mid-march. included as part of that disaster relief, providing money for communities hit hard by na

it was a republican drafted bill that was posted by house republicans. and then one or two puppet masters weigh in, and the extreme maga republicans decide to do the bidding of the wealthy, the well-off, the well-connected millionaires and billionaires, not working class people. >> there is so much to sift through here in terms of the politics, the impact on the incoming trump administration. let's start, ali vitali, with the basics. what is the latest you're reporting? is the government going to shut down tonight? >> it seems like lie, especially because the speaker and other top republicans aren't sure what plan c looked like. we watched speaker johnson, leader scalise, and other top members leaving the building, questions if they're going to have a vote on anything today. it's bad news when you're hours to go until a government shutdown deadline and you don't know if you're going to have a vote because you don't know what you'd vote on. if they did have a vote, they don't know if it can pass. the iterations of, okay, is it a clean continuing revolutio

what happened is 38 republicans stood up to elon musk and to trump. this is a, you know such a loss for this incoming president. he has been weakened by musk. because it's clear that musk is the one that is calling the shots. so he says what the game plan should be. trump catches up a few hours later. and then, johnson backtracks from the deal that was struck. and again, this is another piece. you did a wonderful wonderful job laying out how we had been here again and again and again. and the other thing that i want people to understand is, we do not know who we're negotiating with. because we make a negotiation and then, the deal is signed. we have to come to the floor. this was just hours away from where we're going to vote on the floor. and then everything changes. so we can't rely on johnson. he is not a man of his word in the same way that mccarthy was not a man of his word. and so, as jeffries has said, who are we negotiating with. it sure seems like we're negotiating with a boy billionaire who's playing. why is he doing that? because he has $50

it was all republicans. they don't have that authority. it is to remind the american people that we hold ourselves to a higher standard. if you elect us into this job, you should expect us to comport ourselves under a higher ethical standard. i frankly find it offensive that gaetz would say, because i was single and in my 30s, i conducted myself in ways and befitting of a member of the united states house of representatives. nobody else gets a pass and nobody else asks for that pass. as you noted, my decision not to prosecute is not, does not say he is innocent. >> yeah. we know from good reporting that the justice department has also been very close lipped about their investigation, is that some of the hesitation is from reporting, some of the hesitation from the justice department stems from the kinds of witnesses they could have available to them and, you know, the kind of people that matt gaetz was mixed up with. my bigger concern here is, um, that, the report, this investigation, all of it, it didn't se

and i have talked to a lot of republican members, senior republicans.ey are at a loss about how they resolve this issue because of the late demands made by donald trump, namely, to suspend the national debt limit that for two years. that's something that republican conservative members in johnson's own conference say they will absolutely not accept. they want deep spending cuts. and we have democrats who say they're not going to allow to move ahead with that, because they believe doing so will make it easier to advance the trump agenda next year. so then what does that mean? that means donald trump will either have to change his posture, back off his demands. maybe mike johnson will have to try to defy donald trump, but that could come at some major risk for his own speakership. or perhaps there's some sort of bipartisan deal that can be reached in the 11th hour. that is going to be a huge question as we head into tomorrow, where house democrats are planning to convene behind closed doors tomorrow morning, jim, to try to figure out their strategy going

republicans are not for higher taxes. republicans are for more people having jobs.e we immediately cut those taxes,, we don't have as high rates, more money came into the treasury. almost overnight there was 500 billion dollars that came from overseas investment into america, investing in jobs and opportunity. i will take it for what it is. the dent of the country rose but it was not because of the tax code, it is because we had people turning 65 and 78 moving to social security and moving out of the workforce into retirement, where the government would have to pay that. that is not something necessarily that the president had to deal with. that is them -- had to do with. that was demographics. the question became are we going to replace those people who retired and moved to social security with younger workers. and that answer was overwhelmingly. so america i believe is better off. we not only made investments but added new workers. so many workers that we had jobs . at one point, 6 million more jobs were available then people were signing up for it. so this was wh

and republicans know that.ng congressman that they gerrymandered out of his seat in the federal legislator right now, jeff jackson, who's coming in as our next attorney general. but also just looking at the other positions on the council of state that republicans have disenfranchised. our superintendent losing power from the office that we just elected mo green to and also consolidates judicial offices across the state as well. >> it is just a stunning authoritarian-style power grab. anderson clayton with the north carolina democratic party. thanks so much for your time tonight. we will be following this story. hope to have you back soon. >> thank you. >>> that is our show for tonight, it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> we have a senate quorum. sheldon whitehouse, jon ossoff, andy kim, and future senator maxwell frost who some time in the next 50 years is going to be elected to the senate surely. >> is it the tip o'neil thing? how do you get these senators that everybody -- what is -- do

the republicans and democrats are meeting. it has to start in the house to see whether or not the government gets funded past midnight tonight. the republicans are filing out of their meeting. and when they come up to the podium and talk to reporters. we want to hear your voices on a potential government shutdown. about half hour ago, the "wall street journal" had this report on the latest potential plan for votes. republicans float novel idea to avert government shutdown. johnson plans to huddle with rank and file to lay out a plan to avert a government shutdown while reopening while they are still steaming. discussions in the g.o.p. focus on holding separate votes on different positioners of the package. two people familiar with the party's thinking said the votes will be likely divided, funding federal agencies for three months, i.e. a clean continuing resolution and providing disaster relief and aid to farmers. they would raise the debt ceiling and cut spending next year. president-elect trump has demanded that they raise

so it's interesting to watch republicans and conservatives fight with each other.sk way in, creating the chaos, if that begins to wear on people, the person to watch is jd vance. he sits at the axis of trump, musk, donald junior, the senate and the house. how he operates, going to the speaker's office, he as the powerbroker will be one of the key angles in terms of how members feel about the outside influence going forward. >> that is a good point, are you hearing concern from congress, specifically republicans about elon musk and his power and influence and the potential of a billionaire to shape policy to his own financial benefit? >> absolutely. even in the days after president-elect trump won the election, republicans, especially those who live to the first trifecta in washington member how trump himself would pressure them to fall in line, so they were expecting that. the fact that we have someone else who has a very big platform, who can just go and as we saw, ramp up a lot of the frustration that the far right flank of the house republican conference date, m

republicans own it. they control everything.e house. they have the supreme court. it is all around. you cannot lay the blame at anyone else's feet. but that doesn't just magically happen, people assigning credit and blame where they should. democrats will have to continue to be very disciplined not just in how they vote, but how they message. they will have two important opportunity to do that. the obama care subsidies coming up that millions of people rely onto be able to afford health care in this country. and second, the tax cuts. democrats have a golden opportunity to show the american people what they really stand for. the working people of this country. >> yeah. and you already heard, rebecca, a member of congress said we will extract our pound of flesh. i'm interested in the dynamic you pointed out at the top. the republicans in congress. the conventional wisdom was that donald trump is such a mocker. he is such a king maker that he will control this party. they will be the ones ton leash. he is a lame duck president. i w

blocked by republicans. but it didn't stop there. 67% of bipartisan amendments, proposals that could have brought this house together and delivered results for the american people, blocked by the republicans. they actively rejected bipartisanship. and here's the most shocking number. republicans blocked 57% of their own amendments. they didn't just box out democrats. they boxed out a lot of their own people. who wanted to bring amendments to the floor. and have debates and have votes. they blocked more than half of their own amendments. if i were republican i'd be asking, what the hell is going on around here? why is this majority so afraid of debate? and we haven't even touched on their incompetence and dysfunction yet. multiple times this congress we heard from republican witnesses, you know, on bills that they never brought to the floor. multiple times they passed something through the rules committee only to never bring it up for a vote on final passage. they still have not sent 13 bills they passed over

trump would tweet or something and house republicans or senate republicans would scramble. this is the tail wagging the dog. congress is now falling into line. there is serious t. looked like we had a bipartisan deal, biden still president, there was a bipartisan deal hashed out and literally in the middle of the night elon musk went on a tweet storm. he spread falsehoods and threatening members of the republican party. trump got on board, j.d. vance got on board, how republicans have a new beale, present today, talking -- new bill, presented it today, and they are claiming it to be the musk/johnson bill. now we are watching to see how many votes republicans can disbet. because of the way it is falling? >> we are first going to have a vote on suspension of the rule which is just means this would need two thirds majority to pass. so, in order for this new bill which, again, strips some of the provisions that democrats fought hard to keep in there. in order to get this through republicans will need democrats to join them a significant number. but you heard hakeem jeffries say