The house of representatives convenes in about 30 minutes as members attempt to elect the 56th speaker of the house. The vote comes two weeks today since Kevin Mccarthy was ousted from the job. The house judiciary chairman jim jordan would be nominated by republicans. Democrats will nominate their leader and then a roll call vote will be held. Multiple ballots are expected. We went to you from usb away todays votes hear from you as we await todays votes. It is 2027488001 for publicans. For republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for anyone us. It was jim jordan on how many votes he thinks people have. [video clip] the house of representatives is working. You cannot have that until we have a speaker. Plus we need to see how i just colleague, israel, we need to help them. We have a few more people we want to listen to and then we will have more tomorrow. Host we know jim jordan has been talking to individuals, listening to those in visual since yesterday. We want to hear from you again as we await this roll call vote on the floor of the house. Lines for republicans and democrats and all others. Return to anthony of politico, a congressional reporter joining us from capitol hill. What is the latest on the speaker . Blood count does jim jordan have in the votes . Guest we expect mr. Trump does not have the votes come at least on the first ballot. We have half a dozen or so people you would have to deem as hard nos and a bunch of other folks that are undecided or soft nos. He has some work to do. If the first ballot goes as we expect, i expect some frantic cuddles huddles and mr. Jordan looking to win over those votes. He needs to get over the top and get the speakership. Host we are expecting 432 members on the floor of the house today, meaning how the math adds up is that jim jordan would need 217 funds today 217 votes today to get the gavel. As viewers are watching this play out, it is an alphabetical order vote, but will be the early tell what will be the early tell that this is going sideways for jim jordan and he is losing more support than he thought he had . Guest great point. I think we will see a lot of members who have been skeptical of mr. Jordans ascension to the speakership early on. People like bullard, don bacon, those will be the early tells. As you alluded to, he can only lose a handful of votes here. If you lose two or three early on, that will be indicative. We may really see a lot of retail politicking to trigger twist arms to get him over the top to get the speakership. I think we will get an alarm quickly as to whether or not these folks who have been skeptical and opposed his candidacy are to follow through. The floor is a much more public space then the hallways of capitol hill or the statements people have made. It is a sign for the nation to really see how this members are going to vote. We should get a good sense for the on as to how it is going to go. Host we are expecting 432 numbers on the floor, two hundred 20 republicans, 212 democrats. The number needed to win is to 17. Is 217. We will tell you if that changes. According to the latest reporting, that is the number to get the majority to win the speakers gavel. You talked about the public on the floor, the trading that might go on between rounds of votes. Take us behind the curtain of what has been happening in the past 24 hours when it comes to jim jordans with operation whip operation. Guest theres a campaign by conservatives to get mr. Jordan over the top. A lot of pressure from conservative media, conservative lawmakers to back him on the floor. There is the sense that oftentimes the more moderate members do tend to fold when push comes to shove. This is going to be an important test case for that. There are folks who are uneasy about mr. Jordan, how it will play into theres been a lot of members who have blushed at the tactics that have been used in this campaign. It will be an interesting test case to see how this plays out on the floor, if those moderate members host we will all of together in about 20 minutes here. Anthony of politico, congressional reporter, we will let you get back to your reporting. Guest thank you. Host we are asking for your thoughts ahead of this vote to potentially elect the 56th speaker of the house of ribs and this. 2027488921 for publicans, for republicans, 2027488922 for democrats for everyone else. Caller i dont want to see jordan in there. Anyone else but him. Host you would prefer matt gaetz to jim jordan . Caller no, i heard bad things about matt gaetz. I want someone who is not in the maga party in there. I want all of them out of there. Host what do you think of Kevin Mccarthy . Caller he was okay. He worked more with the democrats. He worked more with democrats i think he would still be speaker of the house. Host this is linda, the line for republicans. Caller i am calling to let you know that the deadly think they should go for jim jordan. It is a sad thing they got rid of Kevin Mccarthy. He had flaws in him, but i think it is terrible that the Republican Party did this through matt gaetz and others, especially at a time like this. We cannot look to the democrats for our answers because if we let them in at all in any way, it is to turn back to where we lose the house. Keep this in mind, we have to get this settled. No matter what we do, go for the republicans. We should be scattered together as a Republican Party and finish the job we started. I think jim jordan has very much with all of the things he is done and he is working on, he is a good one to put in. Many dont want him in there. We need the truth in government. I think things will be accomplished if we do what we should do. What i say to everybody, thank you very much, god bless everybody. Host this is mike in naperville, illinois, independents. Caller i am 78 years old and i was republican 15 years 50 years or more. I was a conservative. I am not a republican anymore. Jim jordan, i would never pick him to be speaker of the house. I believe he is a compulsive liar. He committed treason on january 6. He cannot acknowledge the winner of the president ial race as being joe biden. That either makes him a complete idiot or a total liar. Ohio state university, he claimed he did not know anything about the sex abuse of the Young Athletes and some people say it is because he is a participant in the sex abuse of those athletes. I dont know about that. He has no integrity, his word is worthless. As far as mccarthy goes, it was unbelievable. I have been following parsons politics since 1952 when i was in second grade and eisenhower won. As far as mccarthy, he was against trump, he blaine trump for the problems on january 6. Host this is usa today. Their brief bio on jim jordan entering the house in 2007. They described him as a conservative bomb thrower. He was a Founding Member of the ultraconservative freedom caucus. He served as the first chair and remains a member. Now he is considered a close ally of republican leadership, having back to Kevin Mccarthy in january having backed Kevin Mccarthy. He is one of the few lawmakers spearheading the impeachment investigation into president biden. He is an ally of donald trump and voted against certifying bidens victory in the 2020 elections. When it comes to the ohio state story the viewer brought up, this story from nbc news from last week. Four Ohio State University resolution accusing jim jordan of failing to protect them from a predator when he was assistant coach in the 1980s and 1990s say he has no business being the speaker. Of the house. The wrestlers adding in as a new dimension. A path continues to hang over the ohio republican. The story noting jim jordan has denied anything. His office vigorously denying it as well when it comes to those allegations. That is some of the latest reporting. We want to hear from you ahead of this vote. This is debbie in hilton head, south carolina. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. Host what are your thoughts . Caller i agree with the republicans who called and gave you the reasons why they will not vote with the Republican Party as a democrat in south carolina. Jim jordan is way too rightwing and it is like putting donald trump in s speaker of the house. He agrees with everything donald trump says. He would be a mouthpiece for donald trump. I dont think he would be the right choice for the Republican Party or the united states. Host this is charlotte, republican. Caller i believe that jim jordan will do a marvelous job. I do not agree with all of the people before me. I do believe he will do the right thing for a change because we have a corrupt government and i hate that i am 82 years old and that our government is so full of the devil. Host to jim jordans home state, the buckeye state, this is nancy, independent. Caller i am from maximal ors congressional max millers congressional district. I have heard of jim jordan. He is a different district. I dont care who are speaker is going to be. I think our wonderful country has people who have trouble paying their bills and buying little offtopic, but at the end of the day, these speakers are going to be footnotes in history. Whoever they choose is going to be another paul ryan. I am interested in the functioning congress, that is why i am an and did and i want to see my country back on track working for the American People. These guys are prima donnas. There going to come and go. The American People will stand forever. Host that is nancy in ohio. As we noted, one of the key votes here could be don bacon, republican of nebraska. According to most lists, he is in the know category the no category. His name being high up in the alphabet, it will be an early tell. Don bacon spoke with reporters yesterday about where he was. [video clip] your concern about of vote for speaker . I think people can disagree on this. Very few things are zero or 100. On one side, we need a speaker. We have israel that needs help. We have a november deadline and i feel all of that. I dont feel any joy saying this and my heart is broken. I cannot overlook the fact that there is a small group of people that violated the rules in january and then vacate the chair and then ski sillies and then steve scalise. We have 15 votes where our rules were violated and nothing is done, vacate the chair, eight people, nothing was done. Had 98 of the vote. He should be the speaker. Steve scalise won the vote and we have five people loyal to jim so they would not about for steve so they would not vote for steve. Steve was true. You cannot play game where no one is playing the roles. 95 of us pay by the rules. 5 dont and they have been orchestrated this since january to get to this point with mr. Jordan. I think is unacceptable. Host , rissman don bacon last night with reporters. He will be a key vote to watch today. The election of the 56th speaker of the house set to begin around noon eastern time. We will have gavel to gavel coverage here. Taking her phone calls ahead of that vote, this is just in spring valley, california. Caller thank you for taking my call. A bipartisan aid should rise up and vote for Hakeem Jeffries and the country will move along. Thank you for taking my call. Host this is thats this is in virginia, dennis. Caller morning. I have been a republican my whole voting lifetime. I am 69 years old. I have never been more embarrassed of a group of men. It is like watching a bunch of schoolyard children on the playground. If they cannot get together, they should remember there are people watching all over the country and voting time is coming. That is all i have. Host this is dwayne in jamaica, new york, independent. Caller congress has become a reality show. You have them come in television giving their thoughts come on television giving their thoughts. It has become frustrating for voters like myself who are in the middle of the road who wanted the country to move forward. When you have people like matt gaetz, jim jordan, and sitting on the sideline, donald trump, it is so frustrating to have them not do their job. I california and new york when they did not vote to keep congress. When nancy pelosi moved everything forward, she had disgruntled voters in her caucus, but she kept them in line. Mccarthy could not do it because he sold his soul to the donald trump. That was the end of him. Host this is paul in c petersburg, florida in st. Petersburg, florida. Democrat. Caller i am sitting here chuckling because everything i would have said about jim jordan has already been said by some of my fellow democrats and also some former republicans. I am 82 years old, florida native, stuck in this state with desantis and matt gaetz representing us. Now the possibility of jim jordan who Lawrence Mcdonald said is mesmerizing me mesmerizingly incompetent and not to be trusted. Host back to california, this is eric, republican. Caller thank you for taking my call. I just want to say that this whole thing is amusing. For republicans to fall for the tricks of the democrats where they all get together, vote speaker who was willing to work with them and the whole thing was done so they could put in Hakeem Jeffries. That is not going to work. I know the republicans have fallen for many stupid tricks, but it is time for republicans to get together once and for all, get this speaker elected and get about the peoples business. That is what we put you folks in there for and get our country back in shape. Everything is a mace a mess under this president. Name one thing going better today than it was when President Trump was in and i will give you 100. To do that we have got to stop this. We have to unite the Republican Party get this country back on the right track again and get jim jordan speaker of the house today. Host 217 votes will be needed on the house floor to obtain the speakers gavel. An internal replican Conference Meeting last week, 55 repuicans said they would not vote f jim jordan on the floor. He can only lose three today. If democrats stay in opposition, he will not have the speakers gaffer speaker gavel. Yesterday, a trio of highprofile republicans we had no vote split to yes and did so publicly on the formerly known as twitter x platform. It seemed like momentum was in jordans favor. Mike rogers is one of them, from aba. Ying jim jordan and i had two conversations the past two we agreed on thefor congress to pass a reparations act and a farm bill. I have decided to support jim jordan for speaker of th house. And waggoner was another one of those republicans, and calvert, a third highprofile name who had been a no. This was his tweetping america safe is my top ready. Having a conversation with jim jordan about how we must get theouse back on a path to achieve our goals, i will be supporting him for speaker on the floor. It is unclear whether jim jordan has narrowed down those numbers even more but we will all find out in a few minutes. This is christina in huntington, pennsylvania. Independent. Caller my sister calls in a lot. She has got me hooked on your show. I have never called in so please be patient with me. I am an independent. I was a democrat. I am here visiting my sister. I am from florida. Then i went to the Republican Party. After i saw what unraveled, i left them. This speaker of the house debacle is like watching a cartoon. Being a floridian, matt gaetz might as well pack up his office. They have got to be able to work across the aisle. We dont need Hakeem Jeffries. We dont need to spend more money on green energy. All of that needs to go to the side. We are sending billions to ukraine. We are going to start sending billions over to israel and god knows i support israel 100 . You have the squad asking for a ceasefire. They want to call everybody who does not support hamas antisemitism at all of this other stuff. This has got to stop. If they cannot do the job, put it on a ballot and let us elected the speaker let us elect the speaker. This has turned out to be a complete crap showed. It is embarrassing and god knows with our borders open, who knows who is here. Now they are talking about refugees coming over and making space. Where are we going to put them . Host you mentioned you are visiting your sister in pennsylvania today. You plan on watching the speakers vote this afternoon . Caller absolutely. I am sure we will both be tweeting about it because it is angering. They work for us. I dont know about your bank account but my bank account has suffered the past three years. Host we will stay in the keystone state, then in reading, democrat. Caller thank you very much for taking my call. I think this whole thing is a complete joke with the republicans and what they are doing. I am really happy the democrats are sticking behind Hakeem Jeffries. Any moderate republicans left in congress, they should look at what jim jordan has done, they should look at his record and realize he is a far right extremist and some of these moderate republicans should come together with the democrats and put Hakim Jeffries in the speakers chair. I dont think that will happen that is when i feel like should happen. I feel like Hakeem Jeffries could unite the house together with the ongoing conflicts in ukraine and israel. Host are there any republicans you would be okay with moderate democrats supporting for speaker . Is there a republican you feel like you would be okay with them supporting . Caller maybe patrick mchenry. There are not many republicans left. I wish liz cheney was still in congress. Host the house getting ready to come in. This is fremont, republican. Caller i am actually from jim jordans district. I would have never voted for the man. I think him being speaker of the house will spell disaster for the country
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