We want you to bear with us for a moment and take a trip all the way back to 1910 when the speaker of the house was a guy named Joseph Cannon. If there's one thing you should know about this guy, it's that he was tough. He was known to rule over the House with an iron fist and he had a bunch of unflattering nicknames that representatives would whisper behind his back.It's pretty much impossible to overstate how big of a deal he was. His face was the cover of the very first ever Time magazine. They even name ...

We got some new reporting about Democratic Congresswoman elect Graalva. Will she finally finally get sworn in. >> It sounds like yes.My colleague Michael Schnel says that sources on the Republican conference call said that the speaker said one of the first orders of business is going to be to swear in the congresswoman elect from Arizona. Uh better late than never, I guess, but she's been sworn in for more than a month. Of course, the House, she has been elected and waiting to be sworn in for more than a mo ...

Democrats are ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in California Congresswoman elect Adalita Grahalva because it's been 22 days since she won that Arizona 7th district. Yesterday, a group of House Democrats went straight into Speaker Johnson's office chanting, "Swear her in." And now Arizona's attorney general is threatening to take legal action. MSNBC's Kevin Fry is reporting from Capitol Hill on this.What is the latest. Because there was some commotion yesterday. Yeah, I mean qui ...

Joining us now, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin, Punch Bowl News co-founder and MSNBC political contributor Jake Sherman, former Virginia Congressman and former senior adviser on the January 6 select committee, Denver Wrigleman, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Elaine Kmark. So, how much is this affecting Congress, Jake. >> Well, it is to a large degree.I mean, this has taken over Capitol Hill in many respects. I mean, there's this discharge petition floating out which needs to get 218 s ...