Shannon i am a Shannon Brame countdown to the Ground Invasion tens of thousands of israeli troops under Northern Gaza with the stated goal of eradicating the Group Responsible for the worst massacre since the holocaust. As Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinian try to flee the area ahead of the offensive food and water running out fueling fears of a humanitarian disaster. Separatist state en antony blinn meets with saudi crown bridge in an effort to meet with the unrest from spreading throughout the southeast. Works as is an unrelenting agy not knowing the fate of their loved ones. Death toll rise americans unaccounted for a more held hostage as the world watches the catastrophic scenes pour in from the israeli hamas war. Pressure is on the white house to bring the nation own back home. We are working aroundtheclock to secure the release regrets we sit down with National Security Council Communications coordinator jon kirby on the administrations plan to save those stranded in the middle
Steve scalise, the man elected by the Republican Caucus to be the next speaker but was short of the votes to do so as just announced, apparently, inside the republican conference, that he is withdrawing his name from the speakership. We dont know why, other than the whip count a vote against him within the Republican Caucus today and ballooned to 16 or 17 votes. People were saying he could not get to 217 either to be elected Speaker Of The House. This comes a week and a half after mccarthy was deposed, successful with eight members voting i along with all the democrats. Theres been a speaker pro tem, Patrick Mchenry since then, serving in a custodial fashion. This is all totally unprecedented in american history. We havent had this before. Its 100 years since we had a motion to vacate the chair. Amidst an unfolding global crisis, the second in line to the president and Constitutional Office of Speaker Of The House remains vacant, with no clear path for this house Republican Caucus to r
Capital. Steve scalise, the man elected by the Republican Caucus to be the next speaker but was short of the votes to do so as just announced, apparently, inside the republican conference, that he is withdrawing his name from the speakership. We dont know why, other than the whip count a vote against him within the Republican Caucus today and ballooned to 16 or 17 votes. People were saying he could not get to 217 either to be elected Speaker Of The House. This comes a week and a half after mccarthy was deposed, successful with eight members voting i along with all the democrats. Theres been a speaker pro tem, Patrick Mchenry since then, serving in a custodial fashion. This is all totally unprecedented in american history. We havent had this before. Its 100 years since we had a motion to vacate the chair. Amidst an unfolding global crisis, the second in line to the president and Constitutional Office of Speaker Of The House remains vacant, with no clear path for this house Republican Ca
The iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks. The political attacks starting almost immediately based on that interview all over the country and the world. A lot of criticism on one side and praise on the other. Its getting complicated quickly. Some in israel and the israeli um far right elements saying hamas loves biden. Some people saying hamas loves biden or some saying michigan over israel a lot of credititique over ther. I dont want to weigh in on it i know whats going on i think its horrific. Its horrific. When you at the beginning know what is clear what israel had to do now one of our greatest allies and the most stable ally in that region of the world and important region of the world and were pulling the rug out from under them. I do. I agree. It goes to what we showed yesterday with that clip the great conundrum of war an to is you have to do it quickly and get in and out the politics of doing it he was making a moral argument he said all of this is questionable he
Helpful to turn to ray smock who served as the historian of the house of representatives for decades. Good morning to you. We possibly could see a second speaker vote in less than 11 months. The houses operating under an interim speaker pro tem and one of americas closest allies is now in a state of war. In historical terms that there some analogy you would point to or what is your thinking about today as we watch this go down . Guest as we know this is unprecedented. We have never had a speaker rejected by a motion to vacate in the history of the country. We have had many occasions where there is been turmoil on the floor of the house and difficulty electing a speaker. Probably the longest and most contentious speaker contest was that the annual banks before the civil war. They took 133 ballots before he was elected and it took two months to get a speaker elected. At that time there were multiple parties. The Republican Party was a new party. There was a lot of tension over the issue