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
Harris the Breaking News continues. Keep keep close on capitol hill, House Of Representatives expected to vote on speaker of the house any moment now. Congressman jim jordan hopes he has enough support. He has gained major momentum, but can only lose four votes. Well follow the action. He had enough votes to get to the nomination. Well bring updates as they happen. In the middle east, President Biden will travel to the middle east later today. The high stakes trip as israeli faces Rocket Attacks from hezbollah on northern border with lebanon. We learned they have 100,000 rockets should they want to engage, another front of war with hezbollah to the north and hamas together to the south against israel, bringing concern the conflict could escalate in the region. 2000 american men and women marines mostly, have been placed on ready to deploy to the middle east within 24 hours notice to aid israel in advisory and medical support roles, but everybody is armed. Im harris faulkner. Here with
3 in every country it will launch in on friday, even if you preordered. you re still going t to have to wait. apple said the devices won t ship until march 19th, three days after they hit shelves. those are the top stories right now, shannon. back to you. peter, thanks very much. shannon: well, the idea of a possible military attack on israel or by israel or the u.s. on iran because of its nuclear program has a lot of folks in washington on edge, but many republicans say a threat of war could persuade iranians to abandon their nuclear ambitions. fox newschannel s chief white house correspondent ed helpry has more. reporter: it turns out israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu brought a gift to president obama with a not so subtle message, the book of esther which tells the story of jews fighting off the genocidal plot by persians. he said this was background reading for the president on the current nuclear threat from iran which the prime minister
resolution authorizing the use of force. that doesn t guarantee that force would be used but it certainly would be a credible step. reporter: democrats are joining the president in insisting everyone should calm down. i m not going to be part of arrushing forward on a declaratn of war. these are things that have to be done very, very cautiously. reporter: as netanyahu returned home to celebrate tonight s start, he celebrated the book of esther. he said jews now have some important allies. we have very many friends that stand at our side and will do so at all times. reporter: the prime minister got more fodder today when unnamed diplomats toll the associated press that satellite images show officials cleaning up a site including a trigger that could set off a nuclear blast. at the white house, ed henry, fox news.