new members to ratify national mini woman from alaska and the national committee one for nevada. republican national committee ratified by the republican national committee upon their election by state republic and party. do i hear a motion to ratify election of our new national committee members? is there a second? ratify the election of our new members all those in favor signify by saying i. all opposed, signify by saying no. the i's have it, i'm pleased to welcome all of you to the republican national committee. [applause] if you could stand so we can see you. you are near each other, great. welcome. it's my pleasure to welcome five new state chairman to the republican national committee, nicole harris maryland, cody haven't. alan of ohio and john wick, south dakota. congratulations to each of you on your election and welcome you all as members of the republican national committee if you could stand so we could welcome you you don't quite look like nicole. [laughter] each held elections this morning please applaud until i have announced all the winners, the results are as follows. the fo

i am pleased to announce to ronna mcdaniel has been elected chairman of the republican national committee in the gavel is yours. congratulations. committee and the gavel is yours. congratulations. >> thank you, we have to get mike >> thank you, we got to get mike and harmid up here. thank you for the race he ran we are so grateful for you. where is mike? >> [applause] thank you. i can't say enough wonderful things about mike and hermie we are asked to sing a song together, we all have come to the most unanimous decision of unity that we will not sing a song. but please, we need all of us, we heard you grassroots we know. harmeet and lindell, the democrats will hear us in 2024 when we take the white house in the senate. thank you. thank you. [applause] thank you, all again. we are going to raise more votes for the co-chair race. see, we can change. i will switch to where i'm supposed be in my script. and also, thank you. we love you guys. we will now proceed with rnc co-chair election, we will remind the body that chairman and cochairman of opposite taxes shall be elected id chairman natio

i'm pleased to welcome all of you to the republican national committee. [applause] if you could stand so we can see you. you are near each other, great. welcome. it's my pleasure to welcome five new state chairman to the republican national committee. congratulations to each of you on your election and welcome you all as members of the republican national committee. if you could stand so we could welcome you. [applause] adam, you don't look like nicole, but, just kidding. each region held elections this morning. please hold applause until i have announced all the winners, the results are as follows. the following members were elected to serve as vice chairman. the mid eastern region, for illinois, for iowa, the northwestern, eastern region virginia haynes national committee one for new jersey and john five national committee for connecticut. from the southern region, national committee woman for oklahoma and john, state chairman from alabama. from the western region, cynthia henry national committee woman from alaska and caleb heimlich state chairman from

the results of the cochair race for republican national committee in the second round of voting the number of votes cast was 169 so there was an over vote but it did not back the results of the election because weber need to get the cochair needed 85 votes in the totals are as follows, drew mckissick 69 michael wisely, 48. so at this point neither of them has reached the 85 threshold so we will adjourn for five minutes. , reset for five minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the time has expired in the meeting will now come to order. does any candidate wished to withdraw their name from consideration from the office of cochair? the chair now recognizes michael whatley state chairman from north carolina. i'd like to withdraw my name from the nomination. unless there's an an objection we accept your withdrawal. thank you so much. [applause] we will now conduct an additional vote for cocha

alson c-span two at 1:00 p.m., members of the republican national committee hold their winter meeting to elect a chair and other leadership positions. you can watch everything live on c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. hakim jeffries spoke with members of the press about the republicans proposed 30% flat sales tax. representative jeffries address the recent controversies over committee assignments and the handling of classified documents. [inaudible] >> good morning everyone. great to see all of you. always good to see you. [laughter] it doesn't mean i'm going to call on you. i always do. there's a big contrast between house democrats and house republicans, between the democratic party and the republican party, between team normal and team extreme. what team normal is doing, the democrats led by president biden , is to continue to improve the american economy for every day americans. here's the biden track record on the economy. economic growth, inflation is down. wages are up. gas prices are down. job creation is up more than 10 million good paying jobs c

national identity to raise $25 million. he has $20 million left. kristen: that is a head start. i want to shift the conversation to the republican side. the republican national committee. normally a committee chairmanship is not that glamorous. >> it is terrible. kristen: they are not household names. >> you get to go on tv and have people yell at you. kristen: true. but this time there is a real battle between ronna mcdaniel and someone from the bay area. tell us about that. >> hartman dell in. kristen: who is she? >> she is a lawyer in san francisco. she is on the conservative side. she has launched many lawsuits. questioning different democratic policies, different democratic laws. she has risen in the ranks. she is a trump supporter. she is an inside play very vocal one and very articulate one. kristen: she got a big endorsement today from ron desantis. talk about that. >> there is another gu there, mike lindel, the pillow guy, he is running for it as well. let's not forget that. we are seeing it in the democrat and were public in party. there is a question now about what are the parties. who are they? who are the republicans that will go to donald trump and say,l

. >>> quick break, and then ronna mcdaniel has secured her fourth term as chair of the republican national committeete a subpar track the record. what does this mean for republican chances in 2024? harmeet dhillon, chair of the republican national lawyers' association, is here with the way forward to discuss that contentious battlehi. a moment. ♪ a moment. to america. right now, the world economic forum and global elites are planning the great reset. this is why i want to send you my exclusive book for a gift of any amount. this book takes you behind closed doors to reveal their radical agenda and arms you to fight back for the future of our country. call or go to tpusa.com right away to get your copy, and let's stop the great reset. >> it is this is my last term as chair. i'm saying it on fox news. it's done. this is my last term. i mow how hard it is to ramp up with a new chair. i wanted to keep that consistency. we've made a lot of changes in my tenure with voter registration, minority outreach. the things that we've done have been historic. we need to continue that into next election, and then i

the question of who will the huge republican party apparatus, known as the republican national committeeskirmishes in this gop battle -- house speaker race, jeff zeleny has details on a fight the pins of trump faithful against one another. >> they're all loyal supporters of donald trump, but critics, years ronna mcdaniel has been the former presidents handpicked leader of the republican national committee. they've sundhage done such an incredible job of the rnc. >> but tonight, a fresh family feud is boiling in the republican national party. as mcdaniel seeks reelection to a rare fourth term, she's locked an unusually tough fight, and yet another identity test for the gop. >> let's stop bashing each, other and let's remember, we are only gonna win as united party in 2024. >> she's not facing an anti trump challenger, but rather to true believers, particularly heated clash with member of the former president's legal team, who believes it's time for new blood in the top republican ranks. >> harvey dylan is a lawyer and committee member from california before the congressional vest again of

>>> so, the question of who will lead the huge republican party apparatus known as the republican national committeele that we have seen in midterm primary races and the chaotic house speaker race. jeff zeleny has details in the fight that pits the trump faithful against one another. >> reporter: they're all loyal supporters of donald trump. but for six years, ronna mcdaniel has been the former president's hand picked leader of the republican national committee. >> done such an incredible job at the rnc. ronna. >> reporter: yet tonight a fresh family feud is boiling inside the republican party, as mcdaniel seeks re-election to a rare fourth term, she is locked in an unusually tough fight and yet another identity test for the gop. >> let's stop bashing each other and remember we are only going to win as a united party in 2024. >> reporter: she's not facing an anti-trump challenger but rather two true believers, who believes it's time for new blood in the top republican ranks. >> reporter: har meet dylan is a lawyer and committee member in california. she represents trump before the congressional inve

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that's the election for the next chair of the republican national committee. an endumb -- incumbent and a challenge her, harmeet dylan. thanks for being here. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: when is the election? >> it's friday, january 27. where we are is we've had a tremendous outpouring of support from all over the country from grass roots voters, members of congress and from some of the party's most significant donors. i'd say over a million e-mails have been sent to the rnc members about this race. that's really unprecedented. wherever you are inside the rnc, which is a vote between the 168 members, we've perfected our messages and gone back and forth. when you sort out the trash talk that is normal, it's fair to summarize the incumbents message is that everything is fine, let's stay the course. we're doing great at the rnc. that's what the her supporters are believing as well. my message is everything is not fine with american voters. we have a responsibility as a party to fix what is wrong so that we can win elections. this is politics. it's all about

senator ted cruz, a quick break, ronna mcdaniel has secured her fourth term as chair of the republican national committeeespite aa track record, what does that mean for republican chances to take back the white entered white housree in 2024, harmeetia dhillon chair of the republican national white entered lawyers association with the way forwaro to discuss the contentious battle, back in a moment. they may not be able to take just anything for pain. that's why doctors recommend tylenol®. it won't irritate your stomach the way aleve® or even advil® or motrin® can. for trusted relief, trust tylenol®. ("this little light of mine") - [narrator] in the world's poorest places, they're shunned, outcast, living in pain. you can reach out and change the life of a suffering child right now. a surgery that takes as little as 45 minutes and your act of love can change a child's life forever. please call or visit operationsmile.org now. thousands of children are waiting. >> it is this is my last term as chair. i'm saying it on fox news. it's done. >> this is my last service chair, i'm sateds my on fox new, this is my

very same things yo are seeing in dc, they are some of the same issues we have at the republican national committee and it's because there's been no debate for so many years. i think we can only go up for here. we haven't won the last several election cycles, but i think if we acknowledge our failures and tighten our belts, stop wasting donor money, focus on election integrity and making sure we ge people's ballots into the ballo box is pretty basic. then be more forward-looking on technology involving younger voters. don't patronize them and cut ou that middlemen of consultants who are running congress and running the republican national committee. we would be so far ahead, our ideas are superior our candidates are better, there is no reason we can't win if we make the necessary challenges brickey get you mentioned money three times. the truth, and anyone who lives in washington knows there is a lot of corruption. a lot, so it would be nice to have somebody. harmeet dhillon, thank you for being here. >> thank you,. >> one father trying to stop hi ex-wife from turning his son into his doctor. amazi

the head of the republican national committee. now, ronna mcdaniel is the current chair.eking a fourth term. but after not only not winning the senate in november's elections but also the 2020 white house defeat and a narrow victory for the u.s. house last november there are calls among some republican national committee members for change at the top. you've seen harmeet dhillon who is running against ronna mcdaniel. there is a third candidate in the mix. that would be mike lindell the ceo of mypillow but he's having a tough time cobbling up support here and that is the question here over the next 24 hours. the biggest question coming out of california is who is going to be the next leader of this republican party. >> and then i know another question is what about the debates, the presidential debates. they're considering changing rules for presidential debates for the next go-around? >> reporter: that's absolutely here on the table as well. in fact i was talking last night with now former governor of arkansas, asa hutchinson, who is here. and he's openly talking about ru

we're waiting to find out who will be the head of the republican national committee. ronna mcdaniel faced a leadership challenge after the mid-terms when the red wave that lots of people predicted didn't happen. we will speak with reince priebus, the former rnc chair and doug schroen, former adviser to president clinton. first to william la jeunesse live in the rnc meeting in dana point, california. william? >> voting is almost done. they're on virginia. a few more dates to go. that's it. the voting is taking place over my shoulder. each state and territory has three votes. those will be counted and observers to witness, if you will, the counting of the ballots. they're put in three piles like clubs, spades and hearts. bam, bam, bam. the magic number is 85, which is half the number of members here. ronna mcdaniel has been for six years the chair woman of the party. she was expected to win this thing going away. that is not the case. it's going to be closer than anybody expected. harmeet dylan is a trial lawyer from california. she has put on the full court press in ab

then, a campaign reporter previews the republican national committee officer elections.also, main democratic congresswoman talks about federal spending and the debt limit. watch "washington journal" live on c-span, or c-span now, our free mobile app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> saturday, former president and candidate donald trump announces the leadership of his campaign team during the march of t ste capital in columbia. he jnsindsey graham and henry mcmaster. watclive coverage on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. >> >> "american history tv", saturdays on c-span 2. exploring the people and events that tell the american story. at 7:00 p.m. eastern, the discussion of a book, the politics of smallpox and the american resolution which looks after how inoculation became and how americans achieved independence from great britain. then, an author talks about his book "jimmy and rosalynn carter," the second of his

was in business as a congressman, as ambassador to the united nations, chairman of the republican national committee. i was ambassador to china, and i ran the intelligence community, the cia, for a year. i must have done some things pretty well in this job because they kept giving me new ones. and i was also a husband and a father. and how'd i do with that one, gang? >> great. great! >> i just want to ask you to listen to what i have to say as i spell out my goals for the future. >> jon, as you know, bush lost his bid for a second term. but you write about the fundamental decency he possessed. >> mm-hmm. >> is decency on hiatus in politics? or is it gone for good? >> no, it's not gone for good. and he would -- president bush would be the first person to say that. as long as democracy is a human enterprise, which it is, then human virtue have as strong a chance as human vice to prevail. and politics wasn't all that pretty in 1987-88, in that period. president bush did not always do the gentlemanly, gracious thing. ask governor dukakis about that. but here's what he did do. however he amassed power, o

the republican national committee confronts party infighting as it chooses a new leader. and a new exhibit showcases puerto rican artists reflecting on hurricane maria. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: as we reported, today was the deadliest day in the occupied west bank in two decades. israeli forces raided jenin this morning and killed nine people. in response, the palestinian authority cut security coordination with israel. and this evening, there were reports of rocket fire into israel from gaza, which is controlled by the palestinian militant group, hamas. the west bank raid coincided with an announcement that secretary of state tony blinken will travel to israel and the west bank next week. nick schifrin looks at u.s. policy priorities, and the tense holy land he'll soon visit. nick: in the west bank's most volatileity, a most violent day. palestinians carried out gunshot victims. th chanted the names of those killed in a fierce battle and r

we're waiting to find out who will be the head of the republican national committee.llenge after the mid-terms when the red wave that lots of people predicted didn't happen. we will speak with reince priebus, the former rnc chair and doug schroen, former adviser to president

john, real quick, you've been very outspoken about who you would like to see lead the republican national committeeu think there's a crisis of confidence with conservatives around this country when it comes to the rnc, we've seen our donations be squandered and spent like rock star the living out there. we've seep -- seen them promise toot things and not do it, so there's a lot of work ahead to try to rebuild that confidence. there's millions of us out here that have zero confidence right now, so i'm really curious to see what she does in the future to try to build that back. maria: john, it's great to talk with you this weekend. thanks so much. john rich. >> yes, ma'am. maria: all right. we will see you soon. i've got one important thing you need to know about ahead of next week. don't miss it,st next. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey, man. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance... so you only pay for what you need! whoo! we gotta go again. only pay for what you need. ♪liberty liberty liberty♪ ♪liberty♪ hi. i'm charlie kirk. i started turning point usa to do the w

quick before you go, you've been very outspoken about who you would like to see lead the republican national committeedaniel has been reelected. you wanted her out. reaction? >> you know, i think there's a crisis of confidence with conservatives around this country when it comes to the rnc. we've seen our donations be squandered and spent like rock star living out there. we've seen them promise to do things and not do it. so there's a lot of work ahead for ronna to try to rebuild that confidence. there's the millions of us out here that have zero confidence right now, so i'm really curious to see what she does in the future to try to build that back. maria: john, it's great to talk with you this weekend, thanks so much. john rich are. >> yes, ma'am. maria: all right. we will see you soon. i've got one important thing you need to know about ahead of next week. don't miss it, it's next. ♪ muck ♪ i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan from sofi. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and borrow u

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the republican national committee challenger not ready to -- he has the edge but dylan's people are workingo sway voters. this is ahead of today's republican national committee gathering in dana int, california. they will elect the rnc chair and other officials. we have coverage of today's meeting at 1: p.m. eastern time on c-span2. you can also watch on our mobile app. it isree. it is called c-span now. you can watch it on the go or demand at c-span.org. mark in wesley chapel, florida, republican. good morning to you. caller: yes ma'am. my fellow americans keep talking about tax cuts. it is so disturbing. $31.5 trillion national debt. not one penny of the national debt has anything to do with tax cuts. anytime i hear anybody say we can't afford tax cuts, i don't know what these people are thinking. tax cuts have never resulted in one penny of a yearly budget deficit or the overall national debt. every penny of the national debt we are looking at is the result of the government spending money it does not have to spend. tax cuts simply means people are allowed to keep or where the money they

we've seen this typically happen in the republican national committee. the party structure never within the halls of congress has it. has the tension come to the surface in this way? and that makes this really difficult for mccarthy to remain speaker the next 2 years, joe solicit less, trying to break down exactly what happened between kevin mccarthy and the dissidence. so he has given them consensus particular when it comes to the spending bills of the funding of the government and the financing of the federal departments . now, is this an indication that we are not likely to see any bi partisan deal in the near future if southerly. the speaker himself is beholden to a bunch of ultraconservative people who are determined just to do anything that goes against the very spirit or the what the democrats than for you know, house and i hold out hope that there will be some moderates who will are cross that line and want to work with democrats in order to get things done for the american people that want to actually see things other than, you know, these kind

. >> friday the republican national committee meets with the election of its officers. candidates for our teacher include incumbent ronna mcdaniel, my co-ceo mike lindell. watch live at one p.m. eastern on c-span2, on c-span now are free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> on tuesday, february 7, president biden gives the annual state of the union address tlining his priorities to lawmakers a the nation. this will be hisirst speech to a jnt session of congress since republican won back control of the house. watch live coverage from the capita srting at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now are free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> a very good thursday morning to you. you can go ahead and start calling in now as we show you more from president biden from the white house yesterday. capability is general austin what day you has been critical. that's why the united states has committed hundreds of armored fighting eagles today including more than 500 as part of his assistance package we announced last friday. and today, today i'm announcing that the un

she was the the first woman on the republican national committee a powerhouse in fundraising. decided she'd had enough and she turned her book her back on hoover. she resigned from the republican party and she started the women's organization for national prohibition reform. one per what a acronym but again, she was in the same mold of the lady who ran the wctu. she could organize anything and they made because she and her wealthy lady friends and their rich husbands are writing the checks to make the thing run any woman in the country could join for free so they had this huge coalition of shop girls and housewives and factory workers who were all working for national prohibition reform. the interesting thing is they use the same argument. the the temperance movement folks had that we are protecting families because since there was no alcohol in the country. there was no reason to regulate the alcohol that wasn't there. so young girls and teenage boys were going to speak easy and there were no rules against it, you know a decent woman would not have gone in a bar before prohibi

the republican national committee also got news of this and released a cryptic statement.there was no choice. the media had to report the story. >> okay. 1981. nbc nightly news. you describe a shocking report on that network. trying to infiltrate d.c. homosexual alcohol at the aim of blackmailing their clients. >> there was not any evidence for it. you see this a lot. the sources were not there. a lot of rumors. a lot of speculation. >> anyone on the record? >> nobody on the record by name. you see a lot of these homosexual scandals back in the day. it lent itself very easy to conspiracy theories. >> legal services corporation director became the highest ranking government official to come out of the closet in a profile published by the new york times. >> he resigned the same day. he basically announced he was coming out of the closet while he was resigning. he figured it was the reagan administration. it was illegal to be gay until 1975. you could not be openly gay. you could not even be closeted gay. if they found out, you lost your job. it was not until 1995 that they c

for six years, ronna mcdaniel has been the former president's hand-picked leader of the republican national committeeob at the rnc. ronna! >> yet tonight a fresh family feud is boiling inside the republican party as mcdaniel seeks reelection friday to a rare fourth term, she is locked in an unusually tough fight in yet another identity test for the gop. >> let's stop bashing each other and let's remember we only are going to win as a united party in 2024. >> reporter: she is not facing an anti-trump challenger, but rather two true believers, in a particularly heated clash with a member of the former president's own legal team who believes it's time for new blood in the top republican ranks. >> harmeet dhillon. >> she represented donald trump before the congressional investigation of the january 6th attack on the capitol and placed blame for gop losses in the last cycle not on trump, but on mcdaniel and the rnc. >> they're really, really eager for some change. and i provide that change and a vision of how we're going win in 2024. >> reporter: it's far from the classic establishment-anti-establishment

michael steele, msnbc political analyst, former chair of the republican national committee, and host of the michael steele podcast. michael glassless, nbc news presidential historian -- president and ceo of voto latino an msnbc contributor. i feel -- in this company. >> impossible. >> so i'm just gonna throw it out there. let's start with the -- president biden has got a lot accomplished. it was a historic midterm performance for a first year president. if you could just lay out for us how unusual it is that biden comes away with a split congress rather than an overwhelmingly republican one? >> as you well know, usually, in a midterm election, the president owns the white house, two years later, this is a lot of seats in congress. oftentimes 60 house seats. that's the kind of thing that happens. or eight senate seats, which has happened in history, such as the 1994. despite predictions of the so-called red wave, not only did it not happen, but joe biden, who was so underestimated by so many people, turns and the best midterm performance of any american president with the exception of

for senate government in kentucky minority leader, mcconnell, and former chairman of the republican national committeeieutenant governor of maryland. amy, i turn to you first. these committee assignments, what are we in for? there was a week and a half ago, lauren boebert was on the show with me saying, she could not trust kevin mccarthy, he was not a man of his word, and he did so tara. >> you know, and i know, we're talking politics here, but i want to bring it to national security. it was marjorie taylor greene on the homeland security committee, and it was a slap in the face ever who wears a uniform, that's where it's to protect this country. this was a known insurrectionist, who said, if she were in charge of january 6th, they would have succeeded. this is somebody, who regularly, amplifies vladimir putin, and russian propaganda in ukraine. who encourages violence against her fellow members of congress, against democrats, and her fellow americans. to be on the homeland security committee. with michael steele, who is with you tonight, and within charge of the republican party. it is concerned abou

today marks two years since someone placed pipe bombs near the republican national committee and democraticmmittee headquarters in the nation's capitol. it happened on the night before the january 6th capitol riot. now the fbi and other agencies are offering $500,000 for information leading to an arrest. cnn's paula reid live for us in washington with more details. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, don. as you noted, today marks two years since these bombs were placed. no arrests. they're hoping half a million might make a difference here. this reward has increased significantly. it started out at 50,000, now 100,000 and now this. in a statement the dc fbi field office says that with significant increase reward we urge knows who may have previously hesitated to contact us or who may not have realized they have important information to review our website and come forward with anything relevant. don, i want to remind people exactly how this played out. according to the fbi, back on january 5th, 2021, these bombs were planted between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. the security footage t

. >>> three candidates are gearing up for a fierce fight to lead the republican national committee. in more than a decade the vote may go to multiple ballots. >> that sounds familiar. the rnc meetings begin today. ronna mcdaniel being challenged by my pillow ceo mike lyindell. are any of the challenging candidates going anywhere? >> it's really between two candidates here. no one is taking mike lindell seriously. this puts the fractures of the republican party in full view. whether or not mcdaniels is trouble, it seems no. 100 members have public endorsed mcdaniel. this is a secret ballot election. dillon's people believe there's a possibility they could change people's votes when they're casting their ballot and vote for dillon. it's become an ugly race. there have been accusations hurl l hurled. it's gotten more nasty. mcdaniel says she's in the best position to unite the party. as with everything in the republican party, donald trump is looming. that's not endorsed either candidate. it's no secret he's close to mcdaniel. however, dillon is one of his attorneys helped to deal with

. >>> since taking over the republican national committee, rana mcdaniel has overseen the gop losing and losing the white house. and yet, on friday, top rnc members re-elected her for an historic fourth term. >> nothing we do is is more important than making sure that joe biden is a one-term president. but in order to do that, we have to be unified. we have to be unified in that effort. >> mcdaniel easily beat a credible challenger by earning 111 votes to dylan's 51 votes. conspiracy theorist my pillow ceo mike lindell got four. former president trump declined to pick a favorite in this contentious race, which ended up becoming a proxy war between the grassroots and the gop establishment, but he seemed pleased with the results and he congratulated mcdaniel on her, quote, big win. now, you were out there in california for all of this as it went down. leading into this, things got really hot and really contentious between these two sides. and it would be probably, i think, honestly, a little confusing to people on the outside, really what the difference is, at the end of the day, betwe

donald trump, but for six years ronna mcdaniel has been the hand picked leader of the republican national committee seeks re-election, she is locked in an unusually tough fight and yet another identity test for the gop. >> let's stop bashing each other and let's remember we only are going to win as a united party in 2024. >> she's not facing a trump pick. >> great lawyer, harmit dillon. >> reporter: she represented trump before the coming nal investigation of the january 6th attack on the capitol and placed blame for gop losses in the last three election cycles not on trump but on mcdaniel and the. >> referee: -- it's far from the classic establishment/anti-establishment divide that separated them. now trump loyalists fighting one another even as others call for a new direction. while trump is at the center of it all, he has taken a back seat to the fight. >> i get along with both of them. i haven't taken a stance. let them fight out. >> i think we need to get some new blood in the rnc. i like what harmit said getting the rnc out of d.c. >> my pillow ceo is a long shot candidate. >> with all of my

the fbi is still searching for the person who planted pipe bombs on the democratic national committee and the republicanl committee headquarters, upping the reward to $500,000 just this week. the search for that particular suspect is personal for me. i was at the democratic national committee headquarters on january 6th. i was with vice president harris and a number of my campaign colleagues and i was there when the secret service came in and told us there was a bomb. they told us we had to evacuate and in that moment, we did not know if the bombs were alive but now we know for a fact that they were. so as a new congress begins, a reminder i shared on twitter that date still stands. i wrote, if we don't know by now, words have power. leaders have a responsibility. we should never brush words under the rug because somebody could be waiting in the wings to act on them. next, we will break down the presidents border plan with biden's former lead migration advisor. plus, an orthodox christmas, how some ukrainians are trying to shake their [inaudible] of moscow. our latest from a reporter in kyiv. stay with

intelligence, with regards to national security, that that expertise, which is the reason he was appointed to the intelligence committee, as the ranking member, the republicans ought not to be afraid of that. frankly, they ought to embrace people that have the experience and knowledge of what to do when it comes to national security issues. i'm concerned that that happened. but i wish adam the best with regards to his race for the senate. he is a very distinguished leader from california. >> would you endorse him? >> pardon me? >> would you endorse him if that seat opens up? >> adam and i are very good friends. i will wait and see what diane feinstein ultimately decides. if she decides to step down, then i certainly would support adam. >> thank you very much, leon pennetta. good to see you. >>> over classified? a closed door briefing by the top intelligence officer as we have been reporting about the biden/trump classified documents, she was asked about it, now fuelling bipartisan frustration. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. nbc. greatest roster ever assembled. the monster, the outlaw... and you can't forget about the boss. sometimes- you just wa

to help find out who was behind laying pipe bombs down outside the headquarters for the republican national committeeocratic national committee. this was on january 5th, the evening before the attack on the capitol. the f.b.i. and partners have done more than 1,000 interviews on this specific pipe bomb case. agents visited 1200 residences and collected 39,000 video files while vetting 500 tips and still no luck. authorities have yet to find the pipe bomber but touting 1,000 people arrested with many more to go. according to the latest stats from the justice department 950 defendants have been arrested and nearly all 50 states and in d.c. 351 have had cases in front of a judge and received sentences. 192 sentenced to periods of incarceration. this number when i say approximately about it can change based on a daily basis. there are still many more people, bill and dana, that need to go before judges. you have to remember thousands of people were outside and inside the capitol and right now d.o.j. two years in has taken care of around 1,000 of them. this investigation will go on for at least another fe