Welcome to the second hour of Chris Jansing reports live at msnbc headquarters in new york, and right now, about 115 minutes since the House Gavelled out for recess. No solution in the speaker stalemate, but just in the last 30 minutes, since we last spoke about this, a lot has changed and were getting a new glimpse into just how high tensions are Behind Closed Doors within the republican conference. Heres what happened. Moments ago, republican Congressman Matt Gaetz confirmed that former speaker Kevin Mccarthy yelled at him in that gop conference meeting. Passions are a little inflamed, i think hes working through the stages of grief. Did Congressman Lunge at you as well . I think he was pretty animated. I dont know if i would describe it as a lunge. I said having a speaker light is a bad idea. I think republicans ought to stay in the conference until we elect a speaker. I think we have a lot of great folks. Im supporting jim jordan. That will be how it goes. Okay. Kevin mccarthy, you
welcome to bbc news. i m lukwesa burak. france s hard right is in pole position after the first round of parliamentary elections that confirmed their dominance in french politics. supporters of marine le pen s anti immigration national rally cheered as she said the president s macronist bloc has been all but wiped out. marine le pen s far right national rally party came top, with more than a third of the vote, followed by a surge in support for the left wing coalition, with around 28% of the vote with president macron s centre right alliance of parties relegated to third place. final results won t be known for another week with a second round of voting next sunday. from paris, here s andrew harding. a dramatic win yesterday for france s national rally. the party was for years considered too extreme for most french voters with its anti immigration, eurosceptic platform and its links to the kremlin. but last night, the rn, as it s known here, secured more than a third of all v
set for them at $100,000, and that came after a federal judge blocked separate requests by both men for an emergency stay to prevent their arrests in this case on the grounds that their prosecution should be removed to federal court. now, the question of removal has not yet been decided but the judge declined to grant their emergency request to block their arrests so they will have to go forward with the booking process like everyone else, chris. ken dilanian, thank you for that. meantime, security ramping up ahead of donald trump s surrender in georgia. nbc s gabe gutierrez is following that piece of it, hey, gabe. reporter: hey, there, chris, over the last few hours, we have had a ramped up security presence here outside of the fulton county jail. several dozen trump supporters have been out here. nothing unruly at this point, but local officials aren t taking any chances. they set up extra barricades over the last couple of hours. we have seen this entire street blocked off si
motivation, this changes things, certainly for many reasons. because then you start looking at not only a hate crime but terrorism and having talked to some law enforcement officials, we have not seen a situation like this before here in the u.s. so that is why there is so much concern and you are seed stepped up security. she is thought to be this brilliant woman, a neuroscientist. she got accepted to m.i.. the. t. and a terrorist for quite some time have been trying to force this u.s. to release her. this is why you see the reaction from the fbi. they are working through this investigation now, jim. so this has a terrorism link to it. obviously, we will be following the latest. you will be working on all of
u.s. would not use ill many tear action. the general defending those calls. reporter: he is. he said the calls to his chinese counterpart were perfectly within the duties and responsibilities of his job, saying the calls are routine and done to reassure allies and adversaries. in this case, he said, in order to assure strategic spabic staby and said he ll mount a vigorous defense when called to congress. thank you, martha. now to the nation s capitol. authorities warning of violence in threats of chatter. rachel scott on the hill tonight. reporter: tonight washington, d.c. s police chief warns they ve picked up chatter about possible violence tomorrow, and they re taking no chances. we saw block of new fencing, new surveillance cameras, beefed up security. we have a strong plan in place to ensure that it remains peaceful and if violence does