Did he change any minds . Also ahead, President Bidens prime time address to the nation. His message with israel on the version of a Ground Invasion of gaza. Plus, the desperately needed humanitarian aid ready and waiting at gazas border. Will that border ever open to let it through . Good morning, happy friday, its 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting alongside my colleague and friend jose diazbalart for more continuing special coverage. And we begin with some Breaking News from capitol hill. The house about to gavel into session preparing to hold a third vote for speaker. So republican jim jordan is struggling to save his bid for the gavel, holding a News Conference just hours ahead of this vote. I think the American People are thirsty for change. I think they are hungry for leadership, and frankly, they know that the white house cant provide it. We have our capitol hill reporters gathering the latest information, our Steve Kornacki is standing by at the big board. Also with us is
Business news and analysis. For, and the russians provided. So it seems in all fairness if youre looking at the Trump Campaign, youd want to be looking at the other side too if you want to know what russia is up to. Why dont they . Trish, in all fairness, what youve seen the special counsel do is follow the facts where they lead. You have publicly indictments, evidence that the Russian Intelligence Services tried to infiltrate the Democratic Campaign to release emails to help the Trump Campaign. Fbi agents have corroborated, brought it to a grand jury. I dont think you can criticize that piece of this investigation. Why are they not looking to the hillary side . If youre going to talk about collusion and believe that somehow that russian Attorney Meeting at trump tower with jr. Equating to collusion, why wouldnt it be by the way, they werent paying for anything in that meeting. That meeting happened out in the open for everyone to see. There were security cameras, security guard, an em
an average person swipes their phone 2,000 times a day. that s wild. that is crazy. trish: have you ever can you go without your phone? i can t go for longer until this segment is over. i love my phone. we re best friends forever. i can talk to friends on my phone. i can be on twitter, watch teen mom ii on my phone. i can do all of these things that are better than a conversation. people say cat, get off your phone. i ll be like you should try to be more interesting. maybe i will. trish: i hear that. do you ever worry because you re spending so much time on your phone that you re not connecting as much face-to-face? you have that concern? yes. i m a difficult person to have a face-to-face conversation with as mike knows. i m like yeah, okay. cool. because my phone and i are so close that it s hard for me to get close to another person.
when he said, you re pretty smart but i m pretty smart too. the system works. it s not working. sam? i understand. i understand. when o are you picking this morning? for my aussie league football draft or baseball draft or tennis draft? what a millennial! he does this and multitasks in between being on facebook with his right hand and x-box with his left! you re baseball fantasy league, sam. i got to think who my keepers are and i got to see what the league scoring rules are. as mike knows, each league has different scoring rules. barnicle and i will assess who we should draft and maybe look at the years ahead for future picks. you know the difference between you and mike barnicle when you pick your leagues? one of us has hair? sort of. i m not kidding you. mike is such a cheater that he actually calls general managers.
indicate you ll be held accountable. that is the individual mandate, is it not? it s a variation on it. he s given some cover here and this is the biggest issue for republicans. that got less attention, but he said he s not going to go after romney on health care. if romney can deal with the health care issue, and he hasn t yet, then romney does become the last man standing and mitch daniels being out of it, huckabee being out, of course, opens up that whole space for a family values social conservative, which is why michele bachmann looks so good for iowa right now. but romney then could be the alternative if huntsman proves what a lot of candidates have proved in the past, that if you re new to politics, it s not that easy to become a national candidate with all the exposure and intensity of that stage. gene? i just want to point out that this is real confusion and chaos in the republican field. however, when push comes to shove, as mike knows, the republican party s goin