Morning Joe 1/6/23
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At the end of the day, all we are asking Republicans to do is to figure out a way for themselves to organize so the Congress can get together and do the business of the American people. |
| 0:18.0 | Tip O'Neill got along with Ronald Reagan. Ted Kennedy got along with Oren Hatch. |
| 0:25.9 | Joe Biden got along with John McCain. Nancy Pelosi got along with John Boehner. |
| 0:32.5 | Roof Bader Ginsburg got along with Antonin Scalia. All we are asking is House Republicans to get along with each other. |
| 0:41.8 | First time in a hundred years that there is no Congress. |
| 0:47.5 | Because of ambition or power grabs, dysfunction. |
| 0:53.1 | And this is not a partisan criticism. Understand this. It's embarrassing. It's dysfunctional. It's |
| 0:59.7 | dangerous. It's stupid. Those are the words that Republicans have used. Yep. We still do not have |
| 1:07.8 | a U.S. House of Representatives as the Republican deadlock enters a fourth day. |
| 1:13.7 | We have new reporting about another potential deal in the works that could give Kevin McCarthy the gavel, but no speaker still. |
| 1:22.1 | And how many votes have there been? |
| 1:24.2 | No, no, no, no, no, no, speaker still. I think we're up to about 10 now. |
| 1:27.6 | Willie, what great points? |
| 1:30.1 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Scalia got along. |
| 1:34.1 | Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan got along. |
| 1:36.9 | I mean, people on the four left and far right have gotten along. |
| 1:40.9 | You've figured out how to work for the best interests of America, |
| 1:43.4 | and yet Republicans can't even figure out in the House of Representatives how to get along with each |
| 1:49.0 | other so bad. It's the situation so tough that we have the Democratic leader. They're talking |
| 1:54.3 | about this not happening in 100 years. We are now up to 200 years since there have been this many. But we just, Republicans just broke their |
| 2:04.7 | own record for, for failure by another century. Yeah, when you're going back to the pre-Civil |
| 2:12.7 | war days to find a historical comparison, something extraordinary is happening. It's been 11 ballots. |
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