Moment, jim jordan has indicated if he gets the votes to become nominated as speaker, he wants to ensure this wont go ballot after ballot after ballot that he can get 217 votes on the floor. Simply to get nominated by the conference, you need a majority of the 221 members. Jordan does not want to go to a situation like we saw with Speaker Mccarthy in january, 15 ballots, that messy process. Which why is theyre trying to sort this out Behind Closed Doors. The question is, can either jordan or scalise get there . The expectation is that they can. Well see if they ultimately can. Manu, thanks so much. Coverage continues with wolf blitzer and the situation. Happening now, Breaking News. Gaza under fire as israel unleashes new air strikes and says hamas Terror Attacks have killed at least 1,000 people in israel. The war taking a rising toll on both sides with at least 900 now reported dead in gaza. Hamas launching a new barrage of rockets toward israel as gruesome details emerge about the t
concerned about at the pentagon, whom i m speaking to. if they continue to push toward kabul and take it over, the government would fall. but then the question is do they with really want to take over kabul, or is their real effort here to take over as much of the country as they possibly can, that they re able to create an instability, be able to create what could be a very strong insurgency, maybe even a civil war in the country, and then be at a stronger negotiating point to take over the government with some sort of a negotiated settlement even. very complicated. courtney, the other complicated piece for the president and the country is how to protect all the people who spent years helping the united states over the course of our involvement in the conflict there, translators, but, of course, there are so many other people who helped our troops. what s the latest in terms of
welcome back. as promised, joining us now, courtney kube. thank you for joining us this morning. we heard from the president yesterday and he said he doesn t think that the taliban taking over the country is inevitable. i m wondering from your perspective and from your reporting, does the pentagon agree with that assessment? reporter: it depends on what you mean by the taliban taking over the country. so they re already taking over large parts of the country and they have been for some time now, but they re more focused on the rural areas. that s because they don t have the same strength and support they have as they do closer to the capital in kabul. the taliban has large swaths of land, large percentages of land around the country, but they don t have kabul. that s what people are really
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