Soon as possible. We need to help israel and get the appropriations process movements so the key elements are funded in the right way and get back to our Committee Work and frankly we need to continue the oversight work that i think is so darn important. Jim jordan failed to get through in two votes to become House Speaker. Taking a run at number three today. Struggling to win over two dozen republican holdouts. It could hold a third vote as early as this morning. Well follow that live as it happens. First. [explosions] rockets over gaza as israel prepares to pull the trigger on a full scale Ground Invasion. As we come on the air with tensions high in the region we see smoke rising on the israel lebanon border. Problems to the north as well. Im shannon bream. Bill and dana are off. Were here. Gillian im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. Israel telling troops to be ready for a Ground Assault on gaza. No timetable on the deployment. Israel continues to scorch hamas Terror Tar
It is contingent upon how many people vote to a candidate by name. The number goes up and down depending on how many people are on the floor. During the weekend you have people go away. So maybe there would be a path for jim jordan to be elected if just the right number of people go away on the democratic side of the aisle. Hakeem jeffries said well have all our people here. The flip side of that. There is a danger for jim jordan if he forces these votes and just enough republicans disappear on that side of the aisle or people who support him because then you could be in a scenario where they do, in fact, elect Hakeem Jeffries if just the right mixture of people goes away. If they do that, as they say in the movies, they play a very dangerous game, mr. Bond. So this is kind of where we are right now. Republicans right now who are trying to figure out which is the direction to go. They dont know if they want to maybe put a resolution on the floor to empower Patrick Mchenry. Right now ji