I just dont know how theyre going to do it. I dont think they know it. Theyt dont. Which is worrisome. Thank you, my friend, for all the breakingy news. And thank you for joining on this continuing night of developments. In the last hour there has been unprecedented upheaval in congress specifically among the republican majority in the house. The partys nominee for Speaker Of The House, congressman Steve Scalise, has Just Announced that he is dropping out as a candidate. I just shared with my colleagues im dropping out as a candidate for speaker designee. If you look over the last few weeks and where where our conference is, theres still work to be done. Well have much more on that story in just a bit, but first we continue our coverage with the israelhamas war about to enter its seventh day of fighting. The number of dead has reached 2,800 people. Among that2, number israel repos at least 1,300 israeli lives lost including over 200 soldiers. And the Palestinian Health authority reports more than 1,500 palestinians have been lost. The number of injured israelis is more than 3,300, and the numbers of Injured Palestinians is more than 6,000. The number killed in the conflict is now 27. Secretary blinken also met with the newly formed unity government of Prime Minister netanyahu, and he reaffirmed u. S. Support for israel. You may be Strong Enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as america exists, you will never ever have to. We will always be there by your side. But in those same remarks Secretary Blinken also issued a note of caution for israel. Its so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians, and thats why we mourn the loss of every innocent life, civilians of every faith, every nationality who have been ve killed. Right now the b Israeli Military is amassing troops and tanks along the gaza border preparing for a possible Ground Invasion. Nbc news Richard Engel is on that border and is reporting from there this evening. Israels military is amassing tanks and troops along the border with gaza. Its Chief Of Staff saying now it is time for war and that the head of hamas and all those who operate under him deserve to die. This 22yearold lives in gaza. The media is rarely covering any news because of the situation. Theres no electricity, no connection. Theyre bombing everywhere. Nowhere is safe. 2 Million People live inside gaza without the freedom to move beyond its borders. Half of those people are children, and israel has blocked access to food, electricity, and water. And to that warning of a severe shortage of potable water. The u. N. Also reports 300,000 people in gaza have been displaced as israeli air strikes continue to destroy entire neighborhoods and overwhelm gazas emergency services. Sky news john parks filed this report from one of the hospitals, and just a warning here some of what youre about to see is graphic and involves children. Reporter this is the territorys Central Hospital where theyve treated nearly 5,000tr patients in the past fo days. This 10yearold girl was hit by shrapnel from a blast, the brother lies under a tent on the hospital floor port. They ran out of beds days ago. The ferocity of the attacks, the number of patients, the children that aref brought in e brought in with Crush Injuries from crashed buildings or shrapnel or debris. There needs to stop from the bombing or a humanitarian corridor. That hospitalum expects It Wl Run Out of fuel in less than three days. In the meantime hopes for some kind of humanitarian corridor remain distant at best. Today the president of egypt, gazas best hope for that corridor said that palestinians must stay steadfast and remain on their land. Joining me now is ali velshi, msnbc Chief Correspondent Reporting from ashkelon israel near the gaza border. What is the latest as it concerns the situation on the ground there. Reporter as you were introducing the show were hearing more bombing in gaza. Its 2 1 2 miles in that direction. But youre hearing that bombing, and those aret bombs or missil that aircraft and vessels up in the mediterranean. Here there are rockets and mortars. And rockets can go a little farther. Mortars can go about 5 miles. So something has hit here. You can tell from the shape of this crater, it came in over here, this is the Point Of Impact and what it does is it breaks up the ground and pieces of the ground becomes shrapnel. This whole building, everythings been wiped out. There areev holes all over it, e windows are gone, all the ceilings are gone. If it were bullets, you might think they are bullets, but it looks like that. Take a look at this. Youre sitting in this office, it goes through the window, thats obvious, but it went through the wall behind it as well. It goes through all these types of things, and these were places people are in. Right now this place is entirely deserted. No one is here. Take a look at this car. From the front it looks like bullet holes, but its not. This is the shrapnel that came from that very crater. You can look inside this car. If youve been sitting in a car, driving when a mortar or rocket hits you, this is what happens. It destroys everything around you. So this is one example. Obviously we saw the ferocity and the massacre that happened at the Nova Festival where we saw the things that happened on the kibbutz, the inperson savagery, but there were 2,100 rockets fired, rockets and missiles and mortars and this is the damage done all across here, bout mostly in southern israel you see places that look like this. T ali, are you sensing there a lot of widespread expectation the Ground Invasion is going to begin anytime soon . What can you tell us about the incursions youre seeing from at least the airspace as it concerns israel to gaza . Reporter yeah, so, yes. It sounds like and richard has been reporting hes closer to the border than i am, hes be reporting theyve Got B Everythg they need inin position to go io gaza. What theyre waiting on at the moment is the hostage situation. Theyre 150 hostages israel believes has been taken by hamas. Theyre using the word taken because they dont entirely know where they are or what condition theyre in. About a hundred families will probably get an update on that shortly, have been informed by the government can confirm their loved ones have been taken. For thosees families theyre worried the minute they cross into gaza their leverage is gone. Their value has expired. They want israel to concentrate on a negotiated agreement, some way to get those people out as many as they can and then deal with hamas, and do whatever what is necessary to do for the moment. Much of israel is anxiously awaiting this Ground Incursion to root out whatever is going on in gaza, the Hostage Families are very, very worried about that and theyre pleading with the government tond sigh do mor whatever youre doing, do more. The Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken was here today. Tomorrow hes going to doja, qatar, where hes going to figure out whether they can help negotiate a humanitarian corridor or hostage release, something of that nature. Because youve got the people of gaza who are stuck there, as you said 300,000 who dont have homes, the water is running out and food is running out and the hostage situation. A lot to deal with on day six. Ali velshi, msnbcs chief correspondent, thank you so much, rrali. Please staymu safe. We appreciate you. Now i want to turn to greg calstrom, a middle east columnist who joins us from dubai. The statistic here that israel has dropped 6,000 bombs. Beyond the end game of the complete and utterly leveling of gaza, what do you interpret as israels strategy, its broader intentions in that kind of initial show of force . I think israel has thrown out of some of the rules it has around restraints over the past week. I p mean, i think the reaction this, Bothk The Public Reactio and the political reaction, israel is of course one of shock and anger after the attack saturday. Andat weve heard some incredib harsh and sometimes dehumanizing rhetoric coming out of the Israeli Government. I think the approach in gaza has been in past conflicts in 2014 and 2008, there have been some restrictions or some safe guards around the Israeli Military has used air power. I think they have thrown those out of the window and they have been much more willing to use military force. I wonder if you could talk a little bit of the sort of inverse of that, which is hamas and its reaction to i know you termed on pod save the world, a podcast im a big fan of, the sort of catastrophic success of this mission. To some degree the initial reports were brutalizing enough, but the staggering brutality that has been revealed in the days since is unlike anything weve seen from anyone with maybe the exception of isis. Doex you think hamas ultimately believed it would be this i guess for lack of a better term, successfultt in this kind of mission . Ill say first no one knows for sure. This k seems like it was planne by a handful of senior hamas leaders in gaza, none of whom have n given interviews and tald about it. I have heard over the past week talking to both israelis and talking to palestinians including members of hamas a belief on both sides that, yes, this may have been to use the term a catastrophic success, something that went much further than hamas expected it to, that there was a strategy to carry out an attack on israel, but no one expected it would go this far, that no one expected that the defenses on the israeli side would fall as quickly as they did. We heard yesterday speaking with a hamas official in gaza who said more or less that, who said there was no expectation the israeli army would be caught as unaware as it was. There was noas expectation that hundreds of militants would be able to streamta across the borr fence essentially uncontested. And people in hamas are now trying to suggest hamas went across and attacked Israeli Military acposts, and then othe people in gaza streamed across afterwards and carried out some of these atrocities. I think thats trying to shift blame. I think thats trying to come up with an excuse here, but that is what were hearing from people in hamas and also some israeli observers. What do you think the effect of that is in terms of how this playst regionally especially ab countries . The idea that at once israels overwhelming response here at the leveling of gaza would seem toga sort of stir support for t palestinian cause, at the same time the brutality, the horror of these b videos that the worl is seeing in terms of what these Hamas Terrorists did to the civilian population in israel would seem to counteract that. What do you think is sort ofun e net result ofo all of this in terms of potential alliances that israel was building with, say, saudi arabia . I think its a bit of a different reaction, and its very hard to say how 300 Million People across more than a dozene arab countries feel about something, but its a different reaction than i remember in 2014, for example, during that war. There certainlye, has been an outpouring of sympathy for the palestinians, and i think that willi grow as we see increasin scenes of devastation in gaza, but therein also has been a Goo Deal Ofso horror in the region these atrocities that were carried out inro israel. And i think for governments in the middle east, thats put a lot of them in what feels like a very difficult position. So saudi arabia, for example, which has been talking throughout the year about a possible Normalization Deal with israel, about establishing diplomatic ties with israel, the saudi governments initially came out with what seemed like quite a harsh statement essentially Blamingha Israel for what happed on saturday, blaming the Israeli Occupation and violations towards palestinians for the massacre we sawle on saturday. The saudis will tell you privately that they dont think that this derails these normalization efforts, that they would still like toal move ahea but they feel like they are caught between on the one hand needing to show support for the palestinians, on the other hand, many governments in the region, many countries in the region not supporters ofe hamas privately would not be happy if there was would not be unhappy if there was some kind of political change in gaza. To talk about the politics i think domestically in israel, what netanyahu has formed this unity government. It is fragile. There is already fracturing there, ander i wonder, you know the latest polling shows that 56 , a very slim majority of israelis believe that Netanyahu Mustie resign at the end of the war. I wonder how you think this campaign of extensive bombing and a potential Ground Invasion factors into all of that in his political future. I think this unity government No Matter What, it will be shortlived. Its meant to be there only for the duration of the war, and i think its quite likely israel will head to a Snap Election after the war is over. I think for netanyahu for his political future, some of that will depend on thetu outcome of the war, whether israel has built a Successful Campaign or whether israelis feel it is something that dragged on, didnt achieve its goals, cost a significant number of lives of israeli soldiers, so that peels of it will have to wait and see. And i think the other thing going to happen in the weeks and months ahead is that netanyahu is going to try and shift blame for the profound Security Failure on saturday. Hes going to want to put that blame on the heads of the military, the heads of the security services, which is something hes always done throughout his political career. Hes shifted blame to the military and to the defense establishment. I dont think israelis will accept that argument this time. I think theyre going to hold netanyahu responsible, and hes someone throughout his career has made his pitch to security, on his handling of security. Now hes presided over the greatest Security Failure in israels history. Neveris count him out. Hes a constant political survivor, but i think its very difficult to imagine him surviving this. Thanks so much, gregg, for staying up late. Your thoughts are invaluable here as we work through just an unbelievable moment in a global conflict. Thank you. When we come back, we will turn to the other major story breaking this evening, the catastrophic dysfunction of the House Republican conference, which haspu just lost its candidate for Speaker Of The House. Well have more on that coming up next. House. Well have more on that coming up next. man mm, hey, honey. Looks like my todo list grew. Paint the bathroom, give baxter a bath, get life insurance, hm. I have a few minutes. I can do that now. Oh, that fast . Remember that Colonial Penn ad . 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Republicans met Behind Closed Doors for several hours this afternoon and again late this evening to try and break the impasse. Instead tonights meeting ended with the leading candidate dropping out just one day after being nominated. Joining me now is brandon buck. Brandon, thank you for being here. Help me understand is there any sort of, if you will, Succession Plan here . Is this to jim jordans benefit or maybe even mccarthys benefit . Its possible. At this point you could throw out any name and i would tell you its possible. Weve never seen anything like this. The problem here you have a House Republican conference that doesnt want to be led, so you cant elect a leader. There was a lot of reasons. People were having problems with Steve Scalise, but i think fundamentally the biggest one came down to they didnt come out with things that were going to happen. It shows you no matter who you have in this position youre never going to actually be in charge. People are going to be shooting at you No Matter What you do. I certainly think jim jordan is a possibility at this point, but this is not a job worth having under these circumstances. These people are not reasonable. They dont want to be led. They dont want to govern. They want to play games, and it would be funny if there werent such serious consequences for what could potentially happen in the next few weeks if were not able to get the house back up and running. Its tragic on a certain level. There are 36 days before the government shuts down, funding for israel and its work in terms of the fight its fighting against hamas. There are massive questions about how we move forward as a country, as a governing body, and the Republican Party has created a logjam of epic proportions. I have to ask you is this crisis in particular, the scalise crisis the fault of any particular faction in the party . Or is it just everybody deciding hes not the man . Reporter this is a conference dysfunctional and hard to imagine when the adults are in charge, but right now its been a jailbreak. Everybody is a free agent right now, nobody is in charge, and everybody feels like they have their own certain leverage. Thats whats so hard about scalise and why he dropped out so quickly. He had some conservatives who didnt like him, main Stream Members who had issues, mccarthy allies who didnt like what happened here. Its all over the place, and nobody feels any real obligation to anybody. Thats why i struggle to see anybody moving forward and getting 217 votes. Maybe this will become so unbearable and painful theyll throw in the towel and rally around somebody. I use the word rally around loosely because i dont think anybody is going to have legitimacy in the conference. You may end up having a situation where the house may have to act without a speaker. And Patrick Mchenry is empowered either through a vote or just on his own taking action. If we dont have a speaker in a month, well have to fund the government somehow. In the meantime itll continue to be an embarrassment because nobody feels any responsibility to the team or to their basic fundamental obligations, which is to fund the government, to do the work. They all want to play their games instead. Does trump matter here . I mean he endorsed jim jordan as speaker. He lost effectively in the secret vote to Steve Scalise. But a lot of folks are citing trumps comments yesterday talking about Steve Scalises serious trouble relating to his Blood Cancer Treatments and casting aspirations on his health. Do you think that factored in at all here . Leadership elections are really member to member. Theyre really inside baseball kind of stuff. I dont want to say donald trump doesnt matter in the House Republican conference. Hes the biggest voice, but i dont think this is what took down Steve Scalise by any means. I think its just members dont feel any obligation or they dont fear anybody at this point. I dont think they fear donald trump as it relates to he endorsed jim jordan and jim jordan lost. People are trying to nominate donald trump to be speaker, and as far as i can tell theyre serious about it. Theres no order here. We could be looking at this chaos for weeks i think. Do you think theres any sort of shame or embarrassment within the party . You say theres no allegiance to the party, no allegiance to actually doing ones job, but its so obviously a disaster to the party not being able to pick its own leader. Do you think theres any sort of contrition here about whats happening . Reporter in my long history of working with House Republicans, one thing we are really bad at is learning lessons. I dont think that there is. And the reality is, and weve talked a lot about the broken incentive structures. For a lot of these members who are blowing the place up, they dont pay any price for it. Its good politics where they are. And all of them have convinced themselves theyre doing the right thing and standing up against the swamp, whatever language they use to justify it to themselves. You would think in the context whats going on in the world and everything you just talked about, you would stop for a second and think, gosh, were being really petty. Look at the scale of the problems in the world and look at how were responding. Certainly there are people saying that, but those are the people who arent causing trouble. The people who are causing trouble think theyre cruseders, they think theyre on the right side of history somehow, and theyll never really learn their lessons. I think at some point itll come down to pure fatigue. Maybe theyll allow somebody to have the gavel, but again that person wont actually be in charge. Whenever we have to fund the government in 36 days, i assure you whoever is holding the gavel at that point is going to have their job threatened. Well, they sure are exhausting all of us in the process. Brenden buck, thank you for joining me tonight. I appreciate it, my friend. As when we come back as wu await israels threatened Ground Defensive in gaza well hear from the mother of an israeli hostage. That is next. Mother of an isra hostage. That is next hi, im jason. Ive lost 228 pounds on golo. Changing your habits is the only way that gets you to lose the weight. And golo is the plan thats going to help you do that. Just take the first step, go to golo. Com. Goli, taste your goals. Before he was taken by hamas, he wrote a series of messagesch he wrote, mom, i love you, thats it, it is over. And that was the last his parents heard from him. 19yearold ron sherman is an israeli soldier serving his mandatory military service, but his role is not to fight. Sherman hopes local palestinian traders move goods from israel into gaza. He doesnt speak much arabic. He talks with the palestinians in english. His mother says he loves his job. His post is at a base by a Border Crossing at the Northern Edge of the gaza strip. As you can see in this video released bihaw maus, which blurred the face of the attackers just after daybreak on saturday, Hamas Terrorists bombed that base and attacked killing some soldiers and taking others hostage including ron sherman. But rons parents have hope he is still alive. A few hours after that last text from their son, rons parents saw another video filmed by hamas. They again blurred the face of the terrorists kidnapping their son, but the image shows ron after his capture still alive and uninjured. That all happened nearly a week ago, and now all rons parents can do is wait and hope. Joining me now is ron shermans mother. Thank you so much for talking with us right now at this very, very difficult time. Could you first tell us what kind of conversations are you having with the Israeli Government . None. We have really good support from around but not directly from the government. No, nothing. Did they give you any information about your son or was your has your assessment of his condition been from what youve heard from other networks . They dont know anything. They know exactly like i do and probably i will know before them. This is something we know today with all the media and the social media and videos you get, you know everything before everybody else. You know, its the government tells us nothing at this stage. What do you make sort of what are your feelings as you watch the Israeli Government and the bombing of gaza, the destruction of the buildings and the water and food and Electricity Crisis with the idea that your son may be in gaza . Youre right. This is now our second concern because we have so many concerns that, you know, first we hear it because we just live 40 kilometers from the gaza strip. All the time our house moves from the bombings, from what we are doing, our army does now in the gaza strip. Were very worried because ron is inside with other hostages inside the gaza strip. And, you know, we can do nothing, just hope that he will survive it, somehow. By the way, our first concern is that ron is asthmatic, and this is the reason why he wasnt a combat soldier. He can hardly breathe even in his own house. He needs his inhaler, and we are very worried because we assume they are inside, you know, tunnels underneath the gaza strip. And he he wouldnt be able to survive without his medicine. Were trying to get to the red cross, you know, just to to solve this problem, this first problem in order to to survive the first week we didnt receive any we dont think the gazan, the terrorists will let us cross inside the gaza strip. We dont know if ron is Dead Or Alive right now, but as you can clearly see in the videos hamas filmed, he was seen as you said alive after the kidnapping. How are you making it through these days . Are you speaking with the families of other hostages . I just as a mother myself, i cannot imagine what you are suffering through. And how do you find the strengthen and the resilience to go on and to continue to talk about this . Because this is the only thing i can do. I really think that, you know, to raise Awareness Among the world to other people around the world who see whats going on here in israel. Im talking to the press all day. My Husband Talks to the press all day. You know, were having conversations with other Hostage Families. This is what were doing all day. Were trying our best to we cannot sleep, we cannot eat. Its unbearable situation for us. The worst of the worst i wouldnt its nothing that i wouldnt even think about in my worst dreams that could happen to us. But we still have hope, and this is why i see our family you know, we see ourselves as lucky at this stage because other families have already received, you know, what their loved one is dead, and we still have hope. Well, may your hope be met with good news. Thank you so much for telling us your story. We wish you strength through this awful time. Thank you for your time tonight. Thank you very much. Thank you. Joining me now is someone who has some idea of what the hostages and their families are going through. David was reporting for the Afghanistan War in the New York Times in 2008 when he and several others were kidnapped outside of kabul. They were held for seven months and ten days before escaping. And david is now im very happy to say a colleague. Hes the National Security editor for nbc news. David, i was i was listening to some of the accounts of people who had lost their children either as hostages or who have been killed. And Clirissa Ward spoke with a this morning who said this really stuck with me. He said they told us they just found our daughter emily and said she was dead. And i said yes, she was either dead or in gaza. If you know anything what they do to people in gaza, it is worse than death. What do you make of that just unbearable logic there . It shows that the victims and the people who suffer the most in many ways include the hostages, but its the families. I mean you saw that with mrs. Sherman. This is such a cruel and cowardly crime. Im clearly biased about it, but my mother my spouse id just gotten married at the time, my siblings, my editors when i was kidnapped, it puts the families in this impossible situation. That father would rather have his daughter pass away. The shurmens are doing Tv Interviews talking to these other families, and it creates this false sense of families they literally hold the lives of their loved ones in their hands if they can just get Prime Minister netanyahu to see me on tv, hell do the prisoner exchange. And the families feel like they can save the life of their loved one, and they dont really have that power. American families are trying to get an Oval Office Meeting with president biden. The fault here and youll see the families not get very angry with the u. S. And Israeli Government, but the party at fault here is the kid nappers. Of course. Its a slow motion cowardly crime, and plays out over months and years and obviously tortures the hostages but it tortures these families. What do you you look at the absolute destruction in gaza and i wonder what you as a former hostage think of that given the fact theres no food, theres no electricity, theres no water. Thats for the people of gaza. What does that mean for the hostages, you know, the absolute leveling of that strip. How can that portend anything but the worst news . This sounds awful, but they consider these hostages incredibly valuable. I think theyre underground, theyre in very deep bunkers. I think theres food and water, you know, that hamas has stored for a long time, so they will keep them alive. It became very clear to me in my kidnapping they were asking for millions and dollars and all these prisoners from guantanamo. So thats on the positive side. The other thing, too, theres a large enough number of them, thats not a good thing but they at least have each other. Im still in touch with the afghan journalist kidnapped with me and the driver who helped me escape. Thats a positive thing, but this could go on for a very, very long time. The last time hamas had a hostage was one israeli soldier. They held him for five years in gaza. Israel could not find him. And eventually they traded 1,000 Palestinian Prisoners for one soldier, so thats what hamas expects. And were looking at maybe 100, 150 people. Extraordinary and extraordinarily sad. David, your sort of assessment of this is invaluable. I know its probably i can only imagine difficult to talk about given your own experience, but Thanks For Sharing Tonight and coming on the set. National security editor at nbc news. When we come back as images of continued fighting and destruction spread across the globe so too are the potential spread of hate crimes and threats. What authorities here are doing to allay those fears. Thats coming up next. Are doing to allay those fears thats coming up next. Your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel nothing beats it. New pronamel active shield actively shields the enamel to defend against erosion and cavities. I think that this product is a gamechanger for my patients it really works. man mm, hey, honey. 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Theres no obligation, and youll receive a free Beneficiary Planner just for calling. Last night at 5 40 p. M. A 19yearold allegedly assaulted a 24yearold israeli Student Outside of columbia Universitys Library in New York City. The victim had posted fliers around campus with it names and photos of israelis reportedly held hostage by hamas. The victim alleges they saw the suspect ripping those flyers offthewalls and confronted the suspect. They say the suspect then yelled obscenities at them and beat them with a stick breaking one of their fingersch the victim told columbia newspaper this is because of me being an israeli these days. Then at around 8 00 p. M. Last night a 34yearold man Holding A Palestinian Flag was attacked in South Williamsburg in brooklyn he claimed men wearing traditional jewish clothing grabbed from the flag from him. The young men shouted back Something Back to the effect of free palestine. Some of the men in the cars got out and attacked the youngest arab man punching and kicking him repeatedly. The events in both gaza and israel have raised tensions that transcend borders. There is now heightened concern about an uptick in hatebased violence against jewish and Muslim Americans right here in the United States particularly tomorrow. A former leader of hamas issued a statement this week calling for a global day of rage, urging followers to protest against israel around the world on friday. Law enforcement across the u. S. Is increasing patrols of jewish houses of worship and jewish owned businesses. Police in New York City and los angeles have been instructed to report for duty in uniform tomorrow at protests or large gatherings. In washington, d. C. The police, the fbi, homeland security, the secret service, and Capital Police are all stepping up their monitoring of potentially vulnerable sites including the embassy and capitol hill. 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He spent several hours today meeting folks who were either never going to vote for him or said they were never going to vote for him but hadnt been spoken to yet. Those meetings didnt yield him anymore votes in a positive direction. That being said people in the room were surprised and frankly so were supporters when scalise ultimately dropped out tonight, and that really does put republicans back to the drawing board. No official names in the mix tonight. The first name we all thought of was judiciary chair jim jordan because he was the person who garnered 99 votes Behind Closed Doors yesterday when they all met. Jordan told me out of respect for scalise, he wasnt going to make anything official, no announcements tonight. We widely expect jordan the next person to beat. The reason i say that is everyone here has a math problem. When members were going in and out of the first meeting they had today, one of them joked with me if i saw smoke coming from the room it wasnt because they elected a speaker, it was because they decided to burn the place down. Thats a little bit of gallows humor, but ultimately it does feel where we landed, complete chaos and no idea whats next. It sounds officially like the House Republican conference is ungovernable. And my question to you given the looming government shutdown, given the situation were all witnessing unfold in the israel, hamas war is there going to be a conversation with House Democrats anytime soon . It does not look like republicans can do this on their own. Ive been so struck those conversations havent been happening sooner. Im talking to several democrats who would at least be open to that. Whether its making the pro tempore speaker official speaker so he can move the bills on the floor. But republicans would rather argue among themselves than look across the aisle and try to do something to fix this amendment of chaos. And it sort of makes sense as to why when you consider the fact the only reason theyre casting about for a new speaker right now is because mccarthy ended up having to do the thing republicans wont do now, which is work across the aisle and avoid a shutdown. Democrats more than republicans voted to avoid that shutdown a few weeks ago. Another one is looming. It wasnt look bipartisanly but we have to stay within our own house. It seem like the lesson theyre going with. House of delusions. Way too early with Jonathan Lemire is coming up next. Theyre terrified. They told me yesterday this could be the end for all of us here in