TRUMP’S WEAKENED STATE WHEN HE RETURNS TO OFFICE.
"ALL IN" STARTS NOW.
GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK, I’M
CHRIS HAYES.
HERE WE ARE, WITH THE HOLIDAYS
LOOMING, REPUBLICANS TREATED A
MASSIVE CRISIS OUT OF NOTHING
AND BEGGED DEMOCRATS TO BAIL
THEM OUT, WHICH THE DEMOCRATS
DID TONIGHT AND A COSTLY
SHUTDOWN APPEARS TO BE AVERTED
AT THE 11th HOUR. THE PASSAGE
OF A BILL TO FUND THE
GOVERNMENT IN MARCH IN THE
HOUSE THINGS TO NEAR UNANIMOUS
SUPPORT FROM DEMOCRATS HOURS
BEFORE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
WAS SET TO RUN OUT OF FUNDING,
WE ARE WAITING ON THE SENATE,
THAT IS EXPECTED.
THIS ABSURD ROTATION WITH
DISASTER WAS COMPLETELY
PREVENTABLE BUT BECAME
NECESSARY AFTER REPUBLICAN
LEADERSHIP SCUTTLED A ROBUST
BIPARTISAN FUNDING BILL
HAMMERED OUT BETWEEN THE BU
PARTIES OVER MONTHS.
THEY HAD ORDERS TO OPPOSE IT
FROM THE BIG GUY, THE WEALTHY
SHOW MAN WHO IS THE DE FACTO
LEADER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
ELON MUSK, THE WORLD’S RICHEST
MAN WHO USED HIS TWITTER
PLATFORM TO BLAST THE
GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL DOZENS
OF TIMES AFTER HE DECLARED WAR
ON THE BILL, THE ACTUAL
PRESIDENT-ELECT, DONALD TRUMP,
FOLLOWED SUIT.
SAYING, YEAH, YEAH, I DON’T
LIKE IT.
HE WANTED THE FUNDING BILL TO
DO AWAY WITH THE FEDERAL DEBT
CEILING.
OKAY TO WHAT UNFOLDED OVER THE W
LAST 24, 36 HOURS WAS
PREDICTABLE CHAOS, YOU COULD
CALL IT.
REPUBLICAN HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE
JOHNSON STRUGGLING TO KEEP THE
GOVERNMENT OPEN AND KEEP HIS
OWN LEADERSHIP DROP WHILE THE
WORLD’S RICHEST MAN TWEETED
ABOUT HOW A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
WOULD NOT BE THAT BAD, IT WOULD
BE GOOD.
ABSURD SITUATION DEMOCRATS
HAMMERED TONIGHT.
>> AT THE BEHEST OF THE WORLD’S
RICHEST MAN, WHO NO ONE VOTED
FOR, THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS
HAS BEEN THROWN INTO
PANDEMONIUM.
IT LEADS YOU TO THE QUESTION
OF, WHO IS IN CHARGE?
I THOUGHT THERE WAS A
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THIS
BODY.
NOT A PRESIDENT MUSK .
>> GIVEN THE LAST-MINUTE NATURE
OF THE BILL AND NEED FOR
SUSPENSION OF RULES, DEMOCRATS
SWEEP THEM TO VOTE FOR THE BILL
THAT PASSED TONIGHT.
SIMILAR TO THE ORIGINAL BILL
THAT MUSK KILLED, KEEP THE
GOVERNMENT OPEN UNTIL MID-
MARCH, DISASTER AID AND
EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR FARMERS,
ASPECTS OF THE BILL.
CRUCIALLY, WE WILL GET INTO
THIS TONIGHT, IT DID NOT AND
DOES NOT INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL
BILLS $190 MILLION FOR
PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH.
NOTABLY, IT ALSO DID NOT
INCLUDE WHAT TRUMP SAID THAT HE
WANTED MOST, BUT HE CALLED FOR,
WHEN HE SAID THAT HE WOULD
SUPPORT PRIMARIES OVER AND END
THE DEBT CEILING.
THE BUILT IN SPEAKER JOHNSON
GOT THE SEAL OF APPROVAL FROM
THE GUY THAT PULLS THE STRINGS.
QUOTE, THE SPEAKER DID A GOOD
JOB GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES, IT
WENT FROM A BILL THAT WEIGHED
POUNDS TO OUNCES. WE
THE WEIGHT OF A BILL IS THE
MOST IMPORTANT PART OF IT.
WHAT WERE THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES,
THE CONDITIONS?
EVEN AFTER THE VOTE, SPEAKER
JOHNSON ASSURED THAT BOTH OF
HIS BOSSES WERE PLEASED WITH
THE OUTCOME .
>> I WAS IN CONSTANT CONTACT
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP THROUGHOUT
THIS PROCESS, SPOKE WITH HIM
MOST RECENTLY ABOUT 45 MINUTES
AGO, HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WE
WERE DOING AND WHY.
THIS IS A GOOD OUTCOME FOR THE
COUNTRY, I THINK HE IS HAPPY
ABOUT THIS OUTCOME AS WELL.
ELON MUSK AND I TALKED ABOUT AN
HOUR AGO AND WE TALKED ABOUT
THE EXTRA ORDINARY CHALLENGES
OF THIS JOB.
YOU WANT TO BE SPEAKER OF THE
HOUSE?
I DON’T KNOW.
HE SAID THAT THIS MAY BE THE
HARDEST JOB IN THE WORLD, I
THINK IT IS.
WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS.
>> I TALKED TO TRUMP, I TALKED
TO MUSK.
THE LATEST AND STARKEST
REMINDER REPUBLICANS NOT
CAPABLE OF SMOOTHLY GOVERNING
FOR YEARS, EXACTLY WHAT THEY
HAVE BEEN DOING THIS CONGRESS,
THE MOST DYSFUNCTIONAL CONGRESS
IN ANYONE’S MEMORY.
THE ONE THAT STARTED JANUARY
2023 WITH THE LONGEST MOST
CONTENTIOUS VOTE FOR HOUSE
SPEAKER SINCE THE LEAD UP TO
THE CIVIL WAR.
IT TOOK FOUR DAYS AND 15 ROUNDS
OF VOTING FOR KEVIN McCARTHY TO
REALIZE HIS LIFESTREAM OF THE
COMING SPEAKER AND ONLY LASTED
A FEW MONTHS BEFORE OUSTED BY
HANDFUL OF COLLEAGUES.
IT WAS LED BY FORMER
CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ,
AWAITING THE RELEASE OF HIS
POSSIBLE ETHICS REPORT ABOUT
ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL
IMPROPRIETY.
SOMETHING McCARTHY SAYS WAS
ABOUT POLICY GADISAGREEMENTS AND
SOMETHING ELSE ALTOGETHER.
>> I WILL GIVE YOU THE TRUTH
BECAUSE WHY I’M NOT SPEAKER,
BECAUSE ONE PERSON, A MEMBER OF
CONGRESS WANTED ME TO STOP
ETHICS COMPLAINT BECAUSE HE
SLEPT WITH A 17-YEAR-OLD.
ETHICS COMPLAINT STARTED BEFORE
I BECAME SPEAKER AND THAT IS A
LEGAL AND I WILL NOT GET IN THE
MIDDLE OF IT.
>> THIS IS STILL THAT
REPUBLICAN PARTY, SHUTDOWN MESS
IS PART AND PARCEL OF THEIR
SIGNATURE INCOMPETENCE.
ONE NEW TWIST, HOUSE
REPUBLICANS USED TO TAKE
MARCHING ORDERS DIRECT FROM
DONALD TRUMP, THIS VERSION OF
TRUMP IS 78 YEARS OLD, ENTERING
OFFICE AS THE OLDEST MAN TO
EVER ENTER THE OFFICE IN HISTORY
. HE SEEMS LESS ENERGETIC THAN
EVER AND THERE APPEARS TO BE A
NEW, MORE POWERFUL PARTY BOSS
IN TOWN IN THE FORM OF THE
WORLD’S RICHEST MAN, WHO IS
DECADES YOUNGER, OWNS AN
INFLUENTIAL PLATFORM,
UNOFFICIAL COPRESIDENT OELON
MUSK.
HE HAS VERY LITTLE
UNDERSTANDING OF HOW CONGRESS
AND THE CONSTITUTION WORK.
WHATEVER MUSK IS UP TO, IT IS
ONLY POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY’S LONG-
STANDING INCOMPETENCE, SELF
FIGHTING, INABILITY TO
ARTICULATE COHESIVE VISION OF
THE PUBLIC GOOD.
THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN THIS
YEAR, THEIR INCOMPETENCE WAS
PAPERED OVER, FORGOTTEN, DID
NOT REALLY PUNCH THROUGH.
THERE WAS THIS GATHERING IDEA
THAT MAGA POLITICIANS
HEATHERING THEY HAD GOTTEN
SMARTER AND MORE SOPHISTICATED,
PROJECT 2025.
A BIG PART OF THAT IS TRUE, IT
IS REALLY OMINOUS, THIS NEW
ADMINISTRATION DEVELOPED IN
THESE FOUR YEARS WHAT SEEMS TO
BE DETAILED PLANS FOR MASS D
DEPORTATIONS USING THE TOOL OF
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST
POLITICAL RIVALS AND OPPONENTS.
OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, THE
FIRST TEST OF THEIR COMPETENCE
AND IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THEY
SPENT A LOT OF TIME PRACTICING
SO THEY CAN BE GAME READY WHEN
THEY CAME OFF THE BENCH.
SENIOR NATIONAL REPORTER FOR
NBC NEWS AND JOINS US LIVE FROM
CAPITOL HILL.
IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE THE
ULTIMATE THING THAT ALWAYS
BRINGS THESE TO A RESOLUTION,
EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET OUT OF
TOWN FOR THE HOLIDAYS, WAS WHAT
ENDED THINGS HERE.
>> Reporter: THAT IS PART OF AR
IT, QUITE THE TURNAROUND FROM IT
TWO DAYS OF PRESIDENT-ELECT
TRUMP AND ELON MUSK BLOWING UP
THAT EARLIER DEAL TO THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES, PASSING A
SLIMMED-DOWN VERSION OF IT.
IT IS VERY NOTABLE THE HOUSE RY
PASSAGE OF THE BILL ONLY CAME
AFTER SPEAKER JOHNSON WENT
THROUGH SEVERAL ITERATIONS, ON
PLAN D, STRIPPED OUT THE SINGLE
AUGUSTINE AND DONALD TRUMP HAD
MADE AT THE 11th HOUR, THE
CURVEBALL THAT HE THREW, WANTED
THIS CONGRESS TO GET THE DEBT
LIMIT OFF HIS PLATE SO HE COULD
COME IN THE OFFICE AND PURSUE
HIS AGENDA INCLUDING MAJOR TAX
CUTS.
DEMOCRATS SAID, NO WAY THEY
WERE GOING TO DO THAT, BASED ON
THEM ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPET
JUST AS HE WANTS TO PASS A BIG
TAX CUT THAT THEY ARGUE WILL AT
PRIMARILY BENEFIT THE WEALTHY.
IN THAT END, TRUMP THREATENED
ANY REPUBLICAN WHO VOTED FOR A
BILL WITHOUT THAT EXTENSION AND
170 REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR IT.
ONE OF THE TAKEAWAYS IS
REPUBLICANS HAVE AN EASIER TIME
SAYING NO TO TRUMP WHEN THEY DO
COLLECTIVE ACTION.
NOT JUST A FEW THAT HE GOES
AFTER INDIVIDUALLY AND TARGETS
THEM.
WHEN IT IS 170, HE WILL NOT
COME AFTER THEM AND PRIMARY
THEM.
IT CREATES MASSIVE LEGISLATIVE
TRAFFIC JAM IN HETHE EARLY PART
DONALD TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY NEXT N
YEAR.
THEY PUSHED THE DEADLINE RUOF
MARCH 14th, COME RIGHT BACK TO
THE TABLE, CUT ANOTHER DEAL
DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CANNOT
PASS A BILL LIKE THIS WITHOUT
DEMOCRATS CAN EVEN NEXT YEAR, AT
WHEN THEY HAVE FULL CONTROL OF
CONGRESS.
THERE IS ALSO THE DEBT LIMIT LS
DEADLINE TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH
NEXT YEAR, NOT DEALT WITH IN
THIS ONE, MAJOR PARTY RENTALS
AND IMMIGRATION, ENERGY, TAX
CUTS THAT REPUBLICANS ARE
TRYING TO PURSUE.
IN ADDITION TO CONFIRMING
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CABINET
NOMINEES AND PERSONAL THROUGH
THE SENATE, THAT IS A LOT TO DO.
THE WEIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN
MARGIN INTO THE HOUSE, THE
FIRST THING YOU HAVE TO DO IS
ELECT THE SPEAKER, MIKE JOHNSON
WILL RUN FOR SPEAKER AGAIN.
WHEN THEY TAKE OFFICE, TAKE
THEIR SEATS ON JANUARY 3rd, THE
MARGIN WILL BE TO 19-215, MATT
GAETZ WILL NOT TAKE A SEAT. AK
SPEAKER JOHNSON WILL LOSE ONE
REPUBLICAN, SECOND DEFECTION TO
PREVENT HIM FROM GETTING THE
SPEAKER JOB. THE ENTIRE
REPUBLICAN AGENDA INTO DISARRAY.
THAT IS WHERE THEY ARE NOW, HE
HAS TWO WEEKS TO MAKE SURE HE
GETS THE VOTES AND KICKOFF WHAT
IS LIKELY TO BE THE BEST CASE
SCENARIO, VERY ROCKY, NEXT YEAR
PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP AGENDA.
>> YOU MADE THE POINT, ON O
WEDNESDAY TRUMP THREATENED TO
PRIMARY AND REPUBLICAN THAT
CALLS FOR CLEAN CONTINUING
RESOLUTION WITHOUT DEBT LIMIT
EXTENSION.
HIS DEMAND WAS, I DON’T KNOW
WHAT ELON IS DOING, HE IS DOING
HIS THING, MY DEMAND IS THAT
YOU DO THE DEBT CEILING.
BUPKIS, LOSS OF OAK ON THE DEBT
CEILING, 38 DEFECTIONS AND THIS
PASSES WITH 170 VOTES, ON
FRIDAY, 170 REPUBLICANS VOTE
FOR LINCOLN TOWING RESOLUTION.
WHEREAS THE SPENDING MUSK WAS
FOCUSED ON DID KIT -- GET CUT