It is one of the last great salmon runs. Bear 747 is the one to beat. He is estimated to weigh. The news continues with kaitlyn collins. Tonight, a new fight is erupting in a Speakerless House with a fractured gop. Candidates are now emerging to replace the only speaker who has ever been ousted from that job. One of the republicans who voted to Boot Mccarthy is here. And attacking the judge who just placed the partial gag order on trump. And she is saying she wont be bullied. And Rudy Giulianis legal problems are piling up. Another attorney has just left his legal team as the man once known as americas mayor is denyingly Drinking Habits have prosecutors attention. This is the source. Tonight the race is on to replace Kevin Mccarthy. Republicans have given themselves one week from today to find a new leader. While speaker hopefuls are working the phones, others in the gop are working overtime to punish those who pushed mccarthy off the cliff last night, throwing the party into expletive
Out the door. I think one of the key votes i would look for going up on the board early on is andy biggs. Andy biggs, not only has i think a reasonable mind, i think he can step back from this. He will also be very influential on others. As goes biggs, i think a number of them will also go. I really do. And for, you know, Matt Rosendale has to look people in the mirror and say you are criticizing the speaker for working with democrats but you are the one that will be voting with the democrats today. So john yeah, an interesting point to make. We wont have to wait long when the roll is called to find out how biggs voted, at least his name is not zimmerman. Might have to wait a long time if it were. Jason, good to see you. Thanks so much. Really appreciate it. Thank you. John at this hour, House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy fighting to hold on to the gavel with the house set to vote on a motion to oust him. Breaking coverage continues with hour two of america reports. John roberts in washingto
Sake. Theyre not talking about the budget or the millions of americans who will lose paychecks in a Government Shutdown, including members of the military and air Traffic Controllers and tsa workers. Instead, the house gop is focused on hunter biden, spending this entire thursday morning and afternoon, again, just two days before the government shuts down on saturday to open their Impeachment Inquiry into his dad, the president. Theyre looking into hunter biden as well. We ask, is this time well spent. Joining us now capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and Punch Bowl News cofounder and msnbc political contribute jake sherman. There are 52 hours or so before the government shuts down. Is there anything else happening that were not currently watching on television . No, not really. There are a couple of things worth noting. Number one, the senate is trying its best to cobble together a Border Security package to ride along
including the nation meeting its new speaker from the house from the very real questions facing the real mike johnson to the saturday night live debut what you see there in a mock meeting with president biden for halloween. we have more on that and a special guest on that longtime biden chief of staff, ron clain is here and it s the first time on the program since leaving the white house and also later tonight, a report from the middle east, but our top story right now is a new procedural victory for doj prosecutor jack smith and the legal loss for defendant donald trump who got in trouble for his own recent aide turned dishing doj mark meadows. they re-gagged trump and that s a technical legal way to put it. you may have heard about this, i ll walk you through it right now. basically late sunday the federal judge overseeing that open coup case reinstated a partial gag order that bars defendant trump from attacking witnesses and others and that order had been on hold basica