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
Americas longtime ally. And get humanitarian aid into gaza and get trapped americans out. Plus, hamas releasing the first video of the Hostage Group saying they have as many as 250 people. We will take you inside the desperate effort to free them. Israel managing to kill a major hamas leader, and israel told palestinians to flee. Then is anybody capable of leading the House Of Representatives . We begin this hour with the latest on the situation on the ground in the middle east. Joining us now, Kelly Cobiella in southern israel, and retired admiral, former nato Supreme Allied Commander and msnbc chief analyst. Israel told palestinians to flee ahead of a expected ground invasion, and what do we know about the efforts to get the humanitarian aid into gaza . Reporter well, they were striking hamas targets overnight. Hamas headquarters as well as a hamas operative, and what we saw on the ground in southern israel is more tragic scenes, people being carried out of crumbled buildings and chi