Joe: Democrats focused our attention on health care costs, and it was the right move

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Joe: Democrats focused our attention on health care costs, and it was the right move

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0:00.0	Let me first welcome House Republicans back to the Congress after their seven-week taxpayer-funded
0:09.2	vacation. These people have been missing in action, absent without official leave, running scared,
0:19.7	but they can no longer hide.
0:22.6	Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries yesterday on Capitol Hill, it comes as Speaker Mike Johnson.
0:28.7	Today is expected to gavel in the first full session of the House since September 19.
0:35.6	He's also expected to swear in a Democrat from Arizona who won her
0:41.2	special election days after Johnson shut down the house. We'll go through all of that and what it
0:47.0	means. Plus, we'll play for you President Trump's comments on H-1B visas, which have angered some of his MAGA base.
0:56.1	Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe.
0:57.9	It's Wednesday, November 12th, along with Willie, Joe and me.
1:02.1	We have the co-host of our fourth hour, staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire.
1:06.9	Politics reporter for Semaphore.
1:08.9	Dave Weigel is here.
1:10.5	Writer at large for the New York Times. Elizabeth
1:13.2	Bue Miller joins us and, of course, the host of way too early MSNBC's senior Capitol Hill reporter
1:20.1	Ali Vitale. So maybe the end is near Joe to the shutdown. It could be, Willie. And of course, how fascinating that they haven't worked since middle of September.
1:34.9	They're coming back.
1:36.2	And they're coming back and finally swearing in a congresswoman that should have been sworn in months ago.
1:45.2	Yeah, Congresswoman Grahalva was elected on September 23rd, so seven weeks in change, I think
1:51.2	that is.
1:52.0	Obviously, there's been a lot of talk about what her vote means to many votes in the House,
1:56.3	including on the release of the Epstein file.
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