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. Im 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 Chairmans 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 Revolutionaries to become second in
Line here and then over here is really for the press. And like i said, we might start seeing people within the next few hours because people are anticipating Michael Cohen to take the stand and i have to point out, we have actually met people from all across this bucks an hour for the line sitter. Hes a busy man. All right. Thank you so much im going to let your husband know your birthday present erik. Thanks so much to all of you for being with us. We appreciate it. Its time for anderson good evening. Welcome to our continuing special prompts on coverage of the trump at new york hush money trial. Dave, 14. So im prosecutors focused or a current bookkeeper and a former white house staffer on how closely their boss watched every dollar, including far smaller sums in his jackson Michael Cohen also de, two of crossexamine emanation for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest, whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify the gag ord
Gathered the fourth straight day met by counter protesters overnight no known individuals painted free gaza on the base of the George Washington university. The White House Correspondent attended by President Biden shouting shame and harassing members of the media as they entered the e event. During his speech he didnt address the protests. He skewer former President Trump. Hello lucas. It was a night of jokes, some came at the president s expense. I was excited to be up here onstage with President Biden tonight to figure out where obama was pulling the strings from. I have to admit, its not easy following President Biden. Its not always easy following what he was saying. Hundreds of angry protesters gathered on Connecticut Avenue outside the correspondents center. Some chanted genocide joe. Some blocked traffic and briefly disrupting the entering of the party. Some protesters managed to slip inside the dinner. These two from code pink faked a medical emergency and screamed when person
fatigue sets in, that s sort of the question that they re taking with them as they head home later, laila. kevin liptak reporting for you from hiroshima, japan, thank you so much for your continued coverage. after months of bitterly contested fighting, the russian defense ministry and the wagner group of mercenaries are claiming to have captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. russia s defense ministry issued a statement touting the, quote, liberation of the city. and the kremlin released its own statement on behalf of president vladimir putin congratulating the wagner group. while kran cannot independently verify russia s claims, is ukrainian military said in its daily update that, quote, battles for the city of bakhmut continue. but wagner group chef prigozhin said his forces would hand over control of the city to the russian military on thursday. cnn s scott mcclain joins us now from london. scott, wagner s boss prigozhin
wore masks. we wore masks but sometimes you d get into a place, oh, wait. didn t get it. then got this last one, and i will say you get it, boom, it wasn t horrible. but the fatigue sets in and stays in. just kind of you know, myself and a lot of other people said you ve got to just lie in bed. really take it easy. relax. don t fight the fatigue. that s something that s hard to do. you had a relapse. we ll be talking about that. we begin, though, in georgia, with some politics where the polls are opening this morning for the start of early voting as turnout in the state could reach record levels for a midterm election with more than 4 million voters expected. let s go live to nbc news correspondent blayne alexander, live at an early voting location in the suburbs of atlanta. blayne. reporter: early voting is officially under way and people