him love. if he ends up running against donald trump, how accurate will the so-called approval numbers be. because it still looks like it will be donald trump as the republican nominee. he just raised gobs of cash. polls show him trouncing ron desantis, who is by far his nearest competitor, and despite the indictments, the alleged carelessness around classified documents, and the potentially criminal carelessness for this country s democratic process, republican voters are clearly still on his side. but is anyone else? or to put a finer point on it, will any general election that includes donald trump be anything more than voting for or voting against donald trump? joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. punch bowl news cofounder and msnbc political contributor, jake sherman, and former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst, michael steele. jake, as somebody who knows mccarthy best, can you give us a sense of why he has not endorsed the
here. now, the hard work begins. i may not know all of you, some of you are new, but i hope one thing is clear after this week: i never give up. pete: that s the truth. it happened just after midnight last night after 15 rounds of voting, the house elects california republican kevin mccarthy as the speaker of the house. emily: mccarthy taking the gavel in a late night session as the gop looks to get to work. will: alexandria hoff is live in washington with more. good morning, alexandria. reporter: good morning. it took 14 failed votes flipping more than a dozen holdouts and a final tally taking place just after midnight but speaker mccarthy has the gavel and we have the 118th congress sworn in early this morning. that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter so help you god. i do. congratulations, you are now mcellroy members members of the 118th congress. reporter: it is conclusion of drama-filled four days of vo
Good evening, we have got Breaking News tonight, gaza is under intense bombardment by israeli and strikes tonight. The Israeli Air Force was pounding targets all across gaza with punishing airstrikes ahead of a potential ground operation. With Hundreds Of Thousands of troops that are massing at the border. We know that there is at least 1500 people that have been killed in gaza according to the palestinian hope that number is rising. Since the assault on israel that killed 1200 people. I want to go right now live to cnns Elliott Gotkine who is on the same force and talking about these issues has been really staying aggressive on all of these issues. What do we know about the strikes tonight . I think it is just a continuation of israels retaliatory strikes in the wake of this attack by hamas, which began in the early hours of saturday morning. Israel has repeatedly said that it is targeting infrastructure, weapon storage facilities, and also individuals, and members that it holds respo
the chair of the house oversight committee sent a letter to the secret service looking for more information about how this cocaine got there. here s nbc senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell. reporter: a new turn in the white house cocaine mystery, a precise location of where the drug was found. this is the secure ground entrance on west executive avenue used by the president, senior officials, staff and visitors. sources familiar with the investigation say the small plastic baggy of cocaine was found in a storage cubby, just past those doors on sunday night. a short distance from the tightly secured situation room. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house, west wing, i should be more specific, west wing visitors come through this particular area. reporter: catching the culprit now considered unlikely.