Thats what u. S. Bank is for. Huge relief. Yeah. Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart alongside my friend and colleague ana cabrera for a second hour of Special Coverage. Were following two major stories this morning. And right now the fate of the House Of Representatives is up for grabs with another vote to decide the next speaker of the house. Beginning any moment now, we have live pictures of the house floor we want to show you, where jim jordan is trying to convince a group of holdouts to cast their vote for him after his attempts to secure the speakership yesterday ended in failure. 20 republicans voted for someone else. This is all happening as President Biden is wrapping up his visit to israel to show the United States support among israels war with hamas. Were also keeping an eye on beirut, lebanon, where a scene of protests and some violence is playing out as propalestinian protesters gather outside the u. S. Embassy in the lebanese capital
Districts and dont want to be seen as being overly supportive of jim jordan. That said, they might vote differently on the second or third ballot. I think the first ballot is kind of posturing. A sense of where everyone is. And now as you have reported, jim jordan knows who is left out there, who opposes him. And well see if hes there to pull them over. I dont think the party wants a repeat of either what happened two weeks ago or what happened, you know, when mccarthy was first elected. All those ballots. Right now i think there is a sense, its more important to have a speaker at this time than maybe your first choice as speaker. John well, better some speaker than the one you want, interesting way to put it. Right. John if i was curious to note that the number of people who voted no for jim jordan was about the same as voted no for mccarthy back in january. He eventually won them over after extraordinary amount of Horse Trading, including a measure that ended up being his demise. Kin