We make money from ads, but they dont follow you around. Good evening, welcome to join the millions of people taking back their privacy by Downloading Duckduckgo On Mobile and desktop today. Goli, taste your goals. By downloading duckduckgo politicsnation. We are following the breaking news out of israel. Right now, it is midnight there. Several hours, israelis and palestinians will be waking up to their third day of fighting senseless attacks by hamas on saturday. Some of our top headlines at this hour, Israeli Forces are still battling in gaza in their southern territory while marching retaliatory airstrikes into gaza. Leveling several buildings. U. S. Officials say they will be moving ships and aircrafts. Closer to israel in a show of support. U. S. Secretary of state Anthony Blinken says the State Department is working to verify that several americans could be among those killed so far in the conflict. There could be some u. S. Hostages. At this hour, the Israeli Defense force estimates at least 700 people have been killed in israel. The Palestinian HealthMinistry Says more than 400 people have been killed in gaza. We want to get out to our msnbc chief correspondent ali velshi. Host of velshi. He is in amman, jordan this evening. That is across the border from israel. Ali, what do you know at this time . Well, there is a lot going on, as you to, said rev. Not only are there retaliatory strikes going on in gaza by rockets, by helicopter, by drone, but there has just been an explosion in tel aviv. Our Bureau Producer there has confirmed some reporting that we saw that there had been a raid sirens and explosions. In fact, my phone had been pinning with irate sirens all over Southern Israel tonight. Hamas is sending rockets back into israel tonight, despite the fact that there is a very aggressive response from the israeli. That response has been all by air. You have been showing pictures of it. That is known hamas installations. Hamas military installations. Weapon caches. Things like that. That said, there are a number of hostages. We dont know what that number is. It could be a couple hundred hostages. Israeli hostages. They are being held in gaza. The Road Bus Military Response that the israeli army is promising, they have declared war, cannot begin immediately simply because gaza has no Israeli Soldiers in it. So, to go in and rescue hostages would mean israelis going into gaza and going literally house to house and apartment to apartment. Gaza city is one of the most densely populated places on earth. You are seeing pictures of it. Its all buildings. What often happens, hamas has a weapons cache. Some sort of installation in a building in which there are offices or People Living. Thats going to be very tricky. However, the israelis are preparing for it. Columns of Israeli Soldiers are moving south toward the gaza border. They just need to figure out what to do with the Hostage Situation first. Theyre not going to go in until they have a plan. They are amassing. Theyve told people, israelis, living around the gaza border, evacuate. That area is going to be a war zone. All right, thank you, my colleague ali velshi from his jordan. Joining me now is new york congressman gregory meeks. He is the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs committee. Congressman meeks, thank you for joining us. Did he with, the reverend. Now, i want to start with your reaction to the conflict unfolding in israel. We are now in the second day of what president s the Prime MinisterBenjamin Yahoo once will be a long war after a Surprise Attack from hamas on yesterday. You and i happen to be at the weekly saturday rally in harlem. It was in the early hours. You and i and others announced attacking innocent people. What your thoughts on whats happening right now . Well, rev, its clearly devastating. You have hamas with a Surprise Attack. We will find out why. You dont have the intelligence that we should. Israel didnt have the intelligence. Innocent men, women, children being killed and held hostage. Several of pieces of territory were taken over. There are battles that are continuing to go on as we just reported in israel. It is going to go on for a while. This is a devastating attack that has been placed upon israel by hamas. Hamas is a group that does not believe israel has the right to exist. In trying to get peace, which is what we were hoping we would do with jerusalem, with the abraham accords, rather, and working with saudi arabia and other arab states, is to see if, in fact, we could get some concessions in regard to the palestinians and bring some peace to the region. Instead, this clearly was planned months in advance. It seemed to be wellplanned and well positioned with a lot of backing. President biden talked with israel Prime Minister netanyahu today and told him additional assistance for the Israeli Defense forces is on the way. Two u. S. Officials say navy ships and u. S. Military aircrafts would be moving closer to israel as a show of support. What more, i mean, you are the Ranking Member of Foreign Affairs committee in the congress. You were a chair when the democrats had the majority. What more should and could be done right now, congressman . What is happening right now is the president , of course, afraid of bigger escalations in the entire region. So, for the United States, the United States, what they are doing, making sure that we are talking to all of the arab countries and the surrounding areas. Watching when making sure we are looking at it. Making sure they are not having an attack of israel and from lebanon. Those are conversations that are being had. I want to make sure that doesnt happen. If that type of escalation makes takes place, it would be even worse. There it is. So, we are checking with israel to make sure that what they need, they can receive. There is a number of, as far as ammunition, things of that nature. Much was in the progress. In the process of being delivered anyways. That is expedited moving forward. There will be further dialogue in conversation regard to thats why the ship is coming close so that, number one, when we can get some of the hostages out, especially the american citizens, we noted theres three dead americans already. Theres a place for them to go. You can confirm those reports. You can confirm there are three americans that are dead. You suspect maybe some americans that are hostages . That is correct. That has been confirmed. Secretary of state, it was a briefing that i had earlier today. Im briefed again tonight. Yes, i think that that is correct. The war comes at a time when republicans in the house are engaged in the leadership fight. North carolina congressman Patrick Mchenry is serving as a temporary speaker after Kevin Mccarthy was voted out last week. No permanent speaker in place. Congress might not be able to bring a vote on israeli aid to the floor. How concerned are you about this political dysfunction at such a dangerous time . Very concerned. Fortunately, the administration, ive checked with them, right now they have had the authority that they need to go forward. If you go a week or two or three down the road, i believe they will have to come to the United States congress for funding. This dysfunctioning of the republican party, the magnitude of what theyre, doing what theyre saying now, is disheartening. We need to make sure that, i hope we dont know without a speaker. We cant even get through a resolution. I think a resolution that ive been working on with my republican counterpart on the committee. We cant even pass that on the house floor without a speaker. It is devastating this dysfunction of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Its hurtful and in emergency situation, it threatens our National Security. I hope they got ourselves in order in a short period of time. As you are looking at some Fire Exchange over israel in these live cameras, back here in your city, your home city of new york, also mine, and why pd has stepped up its presence in jewish neighborhoods and places of worship due to the conflict in the middle east. Other cities including los angeles have taken similar programs. What are you hearing from people in your communities . You represent queens. As i, said you are at the National Action network as of yesterday. People were concerned. What are you hearing, not only jews, but muslims, others, what is the level of concern about possible violence, congressman . I want to say, what everyone is doing is condemning the actions of hamas. Thats something that that they have been unified in across ethnicities and religions and et cetera. Do you not agree with the attacks that hamas has put and delivered to israel. Others is hamas has asked for individuals that maybe sympathizers from anywhere in the world to pick up arms. I think that mayor eric adams appropriately had a meeting earlier today with elected officials to say what the city is doing to make sure that we dont have any incidents that takes place in the city of new york around senegal to other places of of jewish warship. I can tell you here in queens, talking to our president and a number of other jewish organizations, people are going to be out tomorrow. They are standing with israel. In orally to say that the United States congress will stand by. Allies in israel. All right, thank you for joining me, as always, congressman gregory meeks. Joining me now is the Anti Defamation League president jonathan greenblatt. Jonathan, thank you for joining me today. To get started, what has been your reaction to what youve watched in these attacks as they unfold . I called you yesterday. You started telling me things that i had not even heard yet. What is your reaction . Tell us what your reaction is. What really started coming . I got a call at 1 30 in the morning, rev, on friday night, saturday morning. The head of my office in jerusalem. Telling me about the volleys of rockets that were being sent from gaza into israel. This is how it always starts. Hamas sending rockets into indiscriminately into sylvan civilian areas. I was up all night with her on the phone, we realized how bad it was. Particularly as the sun came up on saturday morning. So, lets be clear on what this is. I think the framing is important. I have watched the coverage all weekend. I am both pained about the loss of life. I am saddened about the scope of this tragedy. I am mad about the coverage. Even here as i look around, these pictures, the pictures of, like, rockets going off. They dont show whats really happening. So, on saturday, hamas, lets not call them militants. Lets not glorify them as fighters, rev. They are barbarians. They came across the border. They literally massacred civilians at scale. So, lets put a human face on this, right . Lets talk about our family who hid in their homes with reports of terrorists automatic weapons Walking Around the neighborhood. The women who were raped in broad daylight, the elderly people shot and executed at Point Blank Range at a bus stop. The unarmed teenagers, apparently this afternoon, our time, they found 260 bodies. 260 bodies, concert goers, kids, who were gunned down in the back as they ran away. Or the woman in her home, the elderly woman who couldnt leave the building. So, the hamas barbarians burned her in her home. They took the corpses, mutilated them, and danced on them. I want to put all this into context. This is an emmet till moment. The clips i want to see on the screen or not sort of, like, you know a video game rocket, rev. We need to see the human faces. The mothers and fathers, the sons, the daughters. The grandmothers. They are the victims of this heinous crime. There is no. Sometimes we have these impassioned conversations. There are two sides to an argument rev, rape, mutilation, murder is evil. Hands down. No two ways about it. This is the thing that really got to me. When i talk to you on the phone yesterday and i started reaching out to others, and you cochaired are march on washington. And you Start Talking about women being raped. Elderly being dragged down the street. This is beyond many of us a twostate solution. We are talking about terrorism here. I mean, i remember, i talk to you about it. After 9 11, i went to israel. I was with the Foreign Minister at the time. Sean perez. He arranged for how do we go from where we can go and talk to both sides to women being raped and people being killed at a concert . Its a great question. There is one word for it. Iran. Erin, the Islamic Republic of iran, which the Wall Street Journal was reporting authorized this massacre. 70 of the budget for hamas. The commitment isnt to a Two State Solution. The commitment isnt to peace with israel. Its to destroy the jewish state. This is why i say, unequivocally, antizionism, antisemitism. Let me tell you what i mean by that. And ideology which is focused on dehumanizing people, because of their ethnicity. Denying them the legitimacy. This is the logical conclusion. When the Iranian Regime today on twitter, homendy, calling israel a cancer. This is where it ends. When these barbarians savagely think they have to take out the cancer. Not cease did this. We saw this again and again. So, lets be clear who these people are. Hamas is not a political party. Hamas is not some popular movements. This is a terrorist organization, rev. Like i, sis like boko haram, like alqaeda. Remember the videos . Remember the videos of the journalists who are beheaded . You will see those videos coming out of gaza. So what i implore you to do, all the hosts on this station, on this network, play those videos. Let me bring you here to the United States. We are hearing the Jewish Community in the United States. And i might say, the Jewish Community northern palestinian community, a lot of people saying, all day, hamas doesnt you have the palestinian authority. I mean, i have been there. There is monoliths there. What are you hearing in the Jewish Community . One thing, the first thing, resolve and strength. Israel has been under siege for 75 years. The jewish people have been under siege for 2000 years. If you think the savages, they make gleefully recorded their crimes on cell phones. If you think they will be daunted, thats another thing coming. , so i think jews walltowall, worldwide, stand with israel. And defend its right to defend itself. But, here at home, we know that complications in the middle east cause confrontations here at home. We saw on 2021, hamas fired rockets into gaza and jews were attacked in broad daylight in times square in West Hollywood and south florida. And we know already. Weve talked about it on your show. Weve seen the three weeks ago, we had a killing of a black woman and two others in jacksonville. Of course i did. Hate crime is a hate crime. A hate crime is a hate crime. Anna haake hate group as a hate group, hamas is a hate group. Just like a crime against a black person, Anti Black Racism is my problem as a white jew. Antisemitism and antizionism is a problem for you as a non jewish black man. Its a problem for all of us. If you are wondering about, that if youre not sure, go to instagram, go to tiktok. And look for these revolting videos. This is antisemitism. This is hate. Thats why all of us, regardless of how, you vote what you look, like to whom you pray, should stand up and denounced. This i must say, i got calls today from moms, i got calls today from reverence. I people on both sides of the aisle from all faiths. Seeing the inhumanity and the depravity. There is never a justification for this kind of grotesque behavior. Thats why when i started seeing, and i called. You thank you for being with us, jonathan greenblatt, im sure we will be talking coming up, we will get some perspective on how americas muslim communities are responding to the attacks. Uniting with neighbors against violence and hate. Stay tuned. Tuned when moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis takes you off course. Put it in check with rinvoq, a oncedaily pill. When i wanted to see results fast, rinvoq delivered rapid Symptom Relief and helped Leave Bathroom urgency behind. Check. When uc tried to slow me down. 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This month join the new Subway Mvp Rewards program and get rewarded. Get 50 off any footlong when you join Subway Mvp Rewards. So many all star options. Its just for subway mvps right . You catch on quick herbert. Join now and get 50 off any footlong. Welcome back to politicsnation. We are still monitoring the latest on hamas Surprise Attack on israel this weekend. Joining me now is deana boo to. She is a palestinian political analyst and a human rights lawyer. Diana, what have you been hearing from muslim communities in gaza . The west bank in here in the u. S. How have they reacted to the conflict . The reaction is the way they should. To say that this is antiearly the result of decades of israels military occupation. The denial of freedom. It didnt begin yesterday for palestinians. Just this year alone, israel has killed 255 palestinians. Including 47 children. To somehow make this into history beginning yesterday. To Dehumanize Palestinians and Tuesday Humanize our experience. To deny 56 years of military occupation. There is no occupation and gaza. Yes there is. Absolutely, absolutely there. As the only way a person can get into the gaza strip is with israeli permission. The only way you can get, out with israeli permission. Israel control im talking about in gaza excel for. Absolutely. Correct. There is an occupation. Israel controls the electricity. It controls the fuel supplies. It controls the water supply. Every aspect of Palestinian Life Inside Gaza is actually controlled by israel. It doesnt mean that there isnt an occupation. Just in the same way that if you look at a prism, in the prison context, the Prison Guards are the ones that are controlling the perimeter of the prison. It doesnt make it any less of prison if the president s themselves are controlling it inside. It is that outside, its the part theyre controlling every movement that makes it a prison. So is the case with gaza. Gaza is an open air you have seen some of the pictures. We just had jonathan rosenblatt. He was talking about women being raped. Elderly people being killed and dragged down the streets. 200 and some People Killed at a concert. Does that, in your, judgment mean that the behavior that we and a lot of people around the world are looking at is justified . What im saying, it is the National Concert i didnt ask you that. Are you saying that action is justified. Those actions are justified. Im saying its the natural consequence. I didnt do it. Im talking i didnt accuse you of doing it. What im trying to say, one of the things i hear when people are speaking with fellow religious leaders is the need for Common Ground against hatred and violence. Even if we may see the politics of the situation differently and im trying to get to how the jewish and muslim communities and others can find a Common Ground by common definition of what is not acceptable. One is not acceptable is the idea that some people are afforded rights and other people are not. In israel, there is an ideology of jewish superiority. As a palestinian who lives here have fewer rights than the jews who are living in this country as well. Its that ideology of superiority that has to be broken down and gotten rid of. Its the same ideology that says that the only way that israelis are going to be safe is if palestinians are unsafe. What we need to really address is this idea of everybody having rights. Individual rights, rather than superior rights for one group. I think a lot of people would agree would equal rights. I think that many of us that have gone back and forth have supported that in a Two State Solution. I think that the whole world is looking at now when you are talking again about what i have described as elderly and people of being raped and children and you see hostages. Some are american. The question is, is that going to result in a two state . Does it hurt in terms of the world dealing with this . You have been highly critical of the israeli response so far to the attack from hamas. What are your suggestions on how they might handle the situation differently while also at the same time protecting civilians . When do you think the u. S. Should play in that . The Israeli Government is what has fueled this in their actions of wanting to continue this occupation. Continue this apartheid. Its whats fueled this. And this is why they should be looking at themselves and saying, does it really make sense in the year 2023 for us to continue to deny freedom to an entire population. You are talking about 2 million palestinians in gaza that live in a space that is most densely possible aided pace on earth. They actually hail from the communities who hail from historic palestine. These are People Living lang would you go would you go to us Two State Solution . Look, i was somebody who worked for a Two State Solution. How do we get from fighting for a Two State Solution to where we are this weekend. How did this happen . I mean, as i said to jonathan greene, i went there. I met with perez. I met with yasser are fast. People want how do we get to where it doesnt matter that youre shooting people that have nothing to do with the policy. That women are being raped . How do we get there and back from their . Reverend, i think you are conflating things. You are not understanding that this is not a twoway occupation. It is israel that is occupying the palestinians, not the other way around. The key rests with them. They have the ability to take their boots off of my neck and allow us to be free. They have chosen not to. Are you saying that they should do that, maintaining the State Of Israel . I think that is the contention. Im not conflating, im really breaking down what we are saying. Are you saying that if, as you say, if they dont occupy that land are you saying now that hamas and others that are doing these acts would not then fight for the continued State Of Israel as is . We are seeking our liberation. You are not answering my question. Are you saying that when you say you support a Two State Solution. So you dont support the enemy . What i believe now is that people must be given their rights. The system of apartheid must come to an end. So you think they should allow them to dissolve it. How its gonna form and shape at the end is something that is at this point fantasy. What we need to do is make sure peoples rights are being respected. All this talk of two state one state whatever it is. Its all fantasy. Right now we are on the cusp of seeing a genocide that is about to be committed in the gaza strip, funded by the United States. Already israels the regional superpower and has more weapons than any of the companies combined. Pass and is not a state and the fact the Biden Administration is sending even more weapons in a way that we know israel has never use these weapons it perpetrates war crimes. Its just simply going to facilitate more and more and more violence. , im out of time but i really wanted to have you back then wanted to push you on how you went from two state to where its a fantasy now and whether you think the israelis are just going to walk away is the solution. I dont agree with violence and i dont agree with what is happening historically that is why went there. But raping women and holding hostages. I could not do it my own Community Without saying that publicly. Diana thank you for being on and we will certainly have you back. Lets go now to tel aviv israel. Nbc Kelly Kobe Of Is Standing by. Pay mightve messed up your last name so correct me. But its not half past midnight there. Weve been Hearing Reports of explosions throughout israel. Including in tel aviv what can you say. There is yet another barrage of rockets fired from gaza just within the past hour. Many of them intercepted you could hear the booms here in tel aviv where we are there was at least one direct hit and ashkelon in the south and the center of this massive incursion over the past 24 to 36 hours now. Unclear how much damage was done. We really dont know much more about that at this hour but yes very much still active in terms of the skies here in tel aviv the idf in the Israeli Military is still engaging hamas militants, according to the Israeli Government. Several pockets in the south still trying to secure a lot of those areas where israelis live along the border with gaza and we heard tonight that 240 bodies have been recovered from the side of where that Music Festival is taking place, early in the hours of saturday morning. All of this started. I spent the evening speaking to Family Members of people who are still missing. Mothers, Brothers Friends and colleagues of people. Many of whom are at that Music Festival. One mom told me that she was on the phone with a 23 year old daughter until after 10 00 in the morning yesterday. She could hear her yelling, shes begging your mother for help nothing she could do. These parents are in turmoil and agony not knowing still at this hour what has happened to their loved ones. The brother of a young man showed me a picture of him and he was bloodied and being bandage he said. It was on the phone with his brother while he was being banded with the person that was helping him said they are coming back and then the phone line dropped. So these are the kinds of just really horrific stories were hearing from his Family Members. And i think the theme at this Press Conference with at least a dozen family relatives and colleagues said theyre not hearing anything from the government either they are incredibly frustrated and devastated at their potential loss and are just not getting any answers. Not we are working, on our trying to figure it out. Theyre just coming silence. We will certainly be coming back to throughout the evening to get updates. That is very disturbing what your reporting. Thank you kelly in tel aviv. I want to bring in Martin Flesher a bureau chief and author of numerous books about the region. When you covered israel and its conflicts for 15 years. 26 years is nbc correspondent and 15 as bureau chief as well. So what is your reaction to what we are seeing today. The retaliatory strikes by israel destroying several buildings and gaza. A brief exchange of strikes with lebanons has villa militant group. And the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu who is declaring the country is at war. 700 People Killed according to the Israeli Military. And gaza more than 300 people have been killed. How do you assess all of this . Its so sad reverend having been for 40 to 50 years covering the region, this is probably the second worst its ever been in my experience. The worst being when egyptians syria surprised israel with a tank from the north in the. South i was there at the time. I think i need to focus on two things here. What does israel do now . They invade on the ground they smashed gaza from the air . How do they get their hostages back. Now was bothered in the north join the fight, person i dont think they will. Israel now is experiencing an upheaval and the psychological disaster as well as a military physical disaster. I believe its never really experienced before. The idea of hamas coming into the country and as youve explained on your program the horrific things that hamas fighters are doing to his release as you mentioned. The kidnapping of grandmother and childrens ive never heard of this before and if you allow me to like to go back to one of your previous guests, they end up back to i have to speak frankly, she was a propagandist for the palestinian cause. She would admit that yourself. What she was telling he was completely wrong. I think purely from the Point Of View of accuracy we need to understand what is happening in israel and gaza. Giving false information does not help. Diana said that israel controls all access to gaza. Thats not true gaza border with egypt, egypt controls the border and the palestinians can come in and out through egypt, lets not only israel. One thing we have to bear in mind this conflict about what the future can hold, hamas mountain we are clear that she represented on the sleigh that she speaks on behalf of that. I tried to ask other questions but im dealing with the morality of that. I think there needs to be a Two State Solution thats why when there. This attack didnt happen in a vacuum i think the level of whats going on its what is disturbing a lot of people. Walker viewers as briefly as you can through some of the decade long history between pat sign how did we get through this moment . You know, the question is where to begin. The conflict between israel and palestine predates israel. Joseph hepburn evacuated because they had the mandate at the time succinimidyls to buy the palestinians before the State Of Israel. Obviously, in more recent years hamas i believe has gone through wars with israel, theres a terrible frustration and rage in gaza and large parts of the west bank. Not saying dianes wrong branding means. Shes right, but the way to express that, as they wanted to express it through peaceful negotiations. Hamas doesnt want, that its in their charter. To talk about peace at the feet of israel, its not true. The president conflict wrapped, it i believe, simply because the present government of israel always refer to it as some representatives were so extreme as young people, the israeli army would not allow them to join the army. So, this is been going on for a very long time. Theyve exacerbated the problem, Prime Minister netanyahus approach for about 15 years now has been to basically ignore it and hopes it will go away. Its not going away. So the present government under netanyahu you feel has helped to intensify a situation that is that where we are now . What about trying to ask diana, when i was there it could never believe that you would have people sitting down talking about two state weekend up here. Martin fletcher, thank you for being with us. Still, ahead were going to look at the politics. Ceasefire in the civil war, within their party in order to ignite behind israel. Stay tuned. Stay tuned your ancestry is so much more than names and dates. cmon its the story of your family then and now. A story that made your name mean something. A story youre still writing. So discover your heritage. Preserve your traditions. Represent all that makes you, you. welcome back to politicsnation, we are continuing to follow all the breaking news in the conflict in israel. I want to discuss some of political implications of my panel. Democratic strategist michael hot and formal republican congressman, david jolly who is also an msnbc contributor. Michael this is a new test for the administrations Foreign Policy team. It also continues to back ukraine and its fight against a russian invasion. How would you rate the white house is handling of the situation so far. I know that the Vice President and the secretary of defense in the National Security adviser have all been on the phone across this weekend guarding its support for israels capacity. He spoke twice, yesterday morning and this morning. The secretary of defense has been leaving it up to make sure they have the resources it needs, as it responds here. So far, they get in a. If you look at the way the congress has handled this in their response, that has been a sad response. But i think that the president and the white house in the administration have done a fantastic job and responding in the first 72 hours. David, republican candidates for president were quick to blame President Biden for the attack in israel. The white house is pushing back on one claiming advance for the republicans. It is making the attacks for the Six Billion Dollars in iranian oil revenue that was on the frozen after the prisoners swapped last month. The Administration Says the money can only be used for humanitarian purposes. And it is being strictly monitored. Are any of these republican attacks fair . A war in the middle east is not good for any income but. Incumbent white house, incumbent congress. Its simply not good for Domestic Politics. Does it really impact the Domestic Politics . From what we know about history when it comes to elections and while to form peoples voters, it really has to be personal. We see economic insecurity. There is war in the middle east. As a royal the markets . Do we see an escalation of the rules of russia and iran and therefore the United States having to account for that . And is there a feeling of National Security being compromised in the u. S. . The events of this weekend of change the. World dont think theyve changed Domestic Politics. Always painting joe biden as weak on the world stage, despite his accomplishments and restoring credibility of the u. S. They will continue to do that into this week. David, sticking with you the political reports and moderate republicans are working behind the scenes on a push to reinstate Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. They are worried that the Leadership Vacuum that has emerged after mccarthy was ousted last week, could complicate delivering aid to israel. What do you make of this . Its not going to happen. Mccarthys not coming back. However, the world changes. Weekend congressional politics change this weekend. The parameters of the Budget Negotiation that is doing 45 days has now changed medically as well. I do think you will see an urgency among House Republicans to find that leader. This might have gone on a couple of, weeks i think we might see some acceleration towards a successful speaker candidate this week. The raw politics in terms of the partisanship, Leader Jeffries is having a moment as a leader of the house. Republicans dont want that to happen. I think you will see them wrap up the Speakership Race sooner rather than later. Your thoughts, david on that same question about mccarthy. Michael in the same question. I dont see it, happening i also think the two leading republicans in the House Congress are not real candidates. I dont think hes your guy. I certainly dont think either one of them can do. 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