Noon eastern here oat cnn. Our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer snt situation room. Ill see you sunday morning. Happening now, Breaking News. A first look at two americans who were just freed by hamas. A mother and daughter now safe in israel. Were learning more about this initial release of hostages as dozens of others are still being held by hamas in war torn gaza. This hour, trucks packed with lifesaving aid to gaza remain stuck in egypt and may not get through the crossing for at least another 24 to 48 hours. The crisis in gaza at a desperate new level as angry crowds take to streets across the middle east in protest. Also tonight, House Republicans are starting over in their search for a speaker. Extending two weeks of chaos and paralysis. Jim jordan forced to drop out after losing a third floor vote and a Secret Ballot that sealed his face. Plus a Huge New Development into the Georgia Election subversion case. Lawyer ken chesebro accepting a plea deal and admitting into o
Where we are expecting action on the floor of the u. S. House of representatives and cnns manu raju is there. I have been speaking to the House Republicans, as you have, and i am not expecting a different result. Is jim jordan . It is probably going to go poorly for him in a matter of moments here, jake. We expect the Republican Opposition in fact to grow, and remember that the first vote he lost 17 and then in the second vote it was 22, and they are believing it is close to 30, and some believe it is 29 republicans, and we will see if that is the case, but no one is believing he is going to be getting the votes to become speaker, and he can only afford three, because one of the supporters is in israel to bring down the total of what he needs raising so many questions and anger within the gop ranks of how to get out of this crisis that they themselves caused. If jim jordan does not get the votes which is widely expected, then some decisions to make, and does he continue on with another
Tem Patrick Mchenry which we have been talking about for a couple of days now is now dead, according to multiple gop lawmakers who have spoken to nbc news, like Kevin Mccarthy and Steve Scalise, the option did not have enough votes. Today in their socalled family meeting, the room got so emotional, matt gaetz confirmed that mccarthy started yelling at him, and Punchbowl News reports another lawmaker nearly lunged at him. Passions are a little inflamed. I think hes working through the stages of grief. Did Congressman Boss Lunge at you at well . I think he was pretty animated. I dont know if i would describe it as a lunge. I said that i thought having speaker light was a bad idea. I think republicans ought to stay in our conference until we elect a speaker. We have a lot of great folks, im supporting jim jordan. That will be how it goes. Joining us now, nbc news capitol hill Correspondent Ali Vitali and Punchbowl News cofounder and political contributor, jake sherman. Ali, what is going
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
And can another candidate get 217 votes and this is a huge question as the leaderless house. He is using other to pressure the members of congress to vote for him. Yeah. That is exactly right. That is the hope that, ultimately that these members will come to his side. Expect there could be breaks in between each of these votes. We will see exactly how this plays out but a lot of uncertainty at the moment but there could be meetings that happen to try to pick off these members onebyone. We will see if they decide to recess longer a few hours or maybe come back the next day. We will see. They hope they can eventually get the members by tonight to come their way and perhaps that Pressure Campaign they believe will get them to come to their side. One said i will close out entirely if they pressure him. We expect him to vote for Steve Scalise on the floor and not jim jordan. Dana, what are you hearing . I want to underscore, based on some reporting that im doing, one of the aspects of jorda