happening right now, the suspected leaker in court. federal prosecutors argue that jack teixeira should remain behind bars. plus a sharp slowdown. new data showing the fed s rate hikes could get hamper the u.s. economy. now, that was the plan, but is the fight against inflation going too far? today s news not helping to calm the fears. a furious manhunt in mississippi. three inmates still missing, one inmate debt, but not before killing another man while on the run. authorities worry they could slip through the net now. they re following these major developing stories and many more, automatic coming right here to cnn news central. any moment now the air national guardsman accused of leaking highly classified documents, is due in federal court. prosecutors are set to argue that 21-year-old jax teixeira still poses a great threat to national security and he should be kept in custody. in a late-night filing, prosecutors alleged he may have still have access to hundreds
reporter: all of these options are thorny. if they go to another round of balloting, it s not clear i would be surprised if mccarthy were able to peel off the number of people that he needs from this 20 no vote coalition on his side to actually become speaker on this next ballot. what we are hearing is that the mccarthy team could go for a motion to adjourn until tomorrow. you are right, that would buy them time. it would save them another round of embarrassment if he were to lose on this fourth ballot. as i was walking over here, i tried to find some key members of that 20 no vote coalition to ask if they would support that motion to adjourn. right now, democrats have said they will not represent republicans do that. they are whipping against that motion. republicans would have to go it alone. they would not be able to pass that motion to adjourn unless some of these 20 republicans were also on board and supportive of it. i talked, for example, with congressman andy bigg
he is not only focused on one thing. i don t know anybody that s done more to highlight and talk about the border disaster that is underway right now as we speak. i had the privilege of serving here when jeh johnson was secretary of homeland security. i have a very high opinion of jeh johnson. i think he is one of the finest public servants i ever met. he was asked on one occasion to define what was a crisis on the southern border. he said any time you have more than 1,000 illegal entries a day, you have a crisis. we have 10 or 11 times that every single day. in that tide of humanity that s coming across, there is a boatload of fentanyl coming to kill tens of thousands of all of our constituents. there are human traffickers who are taking advantage of young men and young women and, frankly, predators in our own country, and they are bringing them across, not by the tens or 20s or dozens, but by the hundreds and the thousands. there are amongst that flow of people, people that
number of 217 votes to win the gavel. reporter: do you think you have the votes on the floor today? we feel really good. we need to get a speaker today. we feel really good about where we are at. steve kornacki will be with me to break down the vote from the big board. the latest nbc reporting on the breaking news that president biden will leave tonight for israel and jordan to get humanitarian aid moving into gaza, work on releaing the hostages, and how gaza will look if hamas is removed. hamas released a video of a hostage. the question, is it a signal that the terror group might be willing to deal? good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. a big day where the house is in session and ohio congressman jim jordan is the man of the hour. the judiciary chairman s bid for speaker is gaining steam within the house republican conference. he is closing in on the 217 votes he needs to win. the battle for a man long viewed as the leader of house revolutionarie