Now. Good morning, glad you are with us. Were following three big stories breaking overnight. There is a new designee to be house speaker. Overnight republicans nominated louisiana congressman mike johnson. This morning many more are sounding much more optimistic than they have in the past three weeks ahead of the expected vote at noon. And israel says no to a ceasefire. Were learning new information about how the u. S. Is urging caution looking at Lessons Learned from iraq. And also mark meadows reportedly strike as deal with federal prosecutors. Abc news reporting that he is offering up testimony about the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in exchange for immunity. We start with a new name could soon hang over the house speakers office. Kevin mccarthys name just taken down last night according to our hill team. And were now talking about louisiana congressman mike johnson who the House Republicans have chosen as their fourth speaker desk tdesignee. Democracy is messy sometimes but it is our system. This House Republican majority is united. [ cheers ] seems like he has momentum behind him ahead of a noon vote today. Lauren fox is joining us now. Lauren, what happened overnight . Reporter there was an abrupt change of plans last night. They were expecting to come back this morning and have a vote Behind Closed Doors to see if mike johnson could get the 217 votes that they needed. They ended up doing that in the room and expectation is that he will go to the floor today at noon, try to become speaker of the house after more than three weeks now since Kevin Mccarthy was soused. Can he be that consensus candidate . All signs are pointing to the fact that he likely could be. But we have to wait until thoon because as weve seen time and time again, a lot can change in just a couple of hours. But it yesterday you had tom emmer temporarily the speaker designee only to then bow out when it became clear that he couldnt get there. And now mike johnson is the guy who has that speaker designee title. He will head to the floor again at noon. That is when we could see this resolved. Again, a lot can change, but they are headed to the floor at noon. Stay with us. Lets also bring in kasie hunt. Seems like overnight there is a lot of momentum behind him, hope, what do we need to know about mike johnson and does he pull this off . Yeah, it is pretty remarkable. Im aware hope is not a strategy by the way. Hope is not a strategy. You are correct. But it does seem and i think that you could tell behind him as you heard the cheers for him and the way he was talking in that sound bite that you played that the mood around him right now i think is different. And if you listen to some of the members of congress who were talking to lauren and manu and those on the hill late last night, you heard matt gaetz on one side and The Other Side mike lawler who led the opposition to jim jordan, they are actually singing off the same hymnal. And im so excited to elect him. I did not support the removal of Kevin Mccarthy. I think that it was arguably stupidest move ever made in politics. But we have to move forward. So well rally around mike johnson. Republicans agenda will be back on track. Were unified and i think that were happy to be where we are. So when you have those two saying the exact same thing, you know that you have fixed at least a lot of the problems that exist here. And i do think that there really is this sense of exhaustion that has set in, like we got to fix this. And mike johnson quite frankly doesnt have like a hell no conference right now. And i think without that, his path is the smoothest that weve seen so far. Again, to laurens point, we shouldnt get ahead of ourselves. That is the bar by the way, not having a hell no conference. Which is a big win i guess to some degree. Lauren, there were i think 20 plus absences last night and i think the question that continues to come to mind, it is not like a hell no conference, a lot of people dont know him, people like him generally, he is a social conservative, but he also led the House Republican efforts to join the texas lawsuit to try to overturn the 2020 election, talk to trump constantly about that, used his personal email to try to urge and whip lawmakers to get behind that lawsuit that was thrown out by the supreme court. Does that have any effect at all . I think for a lot of House Republicans, that actually was tom emmers position on supporting the Election Results was the death knell in his ability to become the speaker. So im not actually sure that johnsons position there is going to be a detractor for him with a lot of House Republicans. Again, i just want to urge that we have to wait and see because so many can change when they go to the floor today at noon. You know, one of the other major questions i have about mike johnson is where does he stand on policy, where does he stand on the fact that there is going to be a Government Shutdown on november 17 if they dont pass a government funding bill. And likely he will need some democratic support to get that across the finish line given the fact that he has to work with the democratic controlled u. S. Senate. So i think there are a lot of questions. Some reporters were trying to press him if he assumed more aid for ukraine and israel and he said this is not a moment to talk about policy. More aid for ukraine and israel and he said this is not a moment to talk about policy. He wont have much time on the job to figure it out because that Government Shutdown is coming very quickly and it will be here before he really knows it. And kasie, can you speak to that point . Is he going to work with democrats on a plan most urgently to, you know, pass funding for ukraine and israel but also keep the government running here . Dont forget that doing that, working with democrats to keep the government open, is what threw Kevin Mccarthy out of a job. So the bottom line is he has to do it. There is not really an option. There are members of his conference who will not vote to do those things. And he will need democratic votes to get it across the finish line. And if he does get the job, he will be the most inexperienced speaker really in more than memory. And that experience is what you need when you are dealing with really tough situations like what lauren laid out here. So he has been if you look in the archives to kind of get a sense of how he talks about people and, phil, you called him affable, i think that is a good word for him. He has been more affable towards democrats, people like nancy pelosi, than has recently been accepted as, you know, how to handle yourself if you are a conservative leading the contentious right wing especially in the house of representatives. There is kind of the sense that he is willing to be, you know, magnanimous in terms of how he talks to and about his opponents. So there may be some hope there. But there has been no one who has been able to successfully govern this conference in a significant way in recent years. John boehner bailed on it. Said im out abruptly one day. Paul ryan resigned from congress after trying to do the job. We saw Kevin Mccarthy get thrown out. And it has taken them now three weeks to try to find somebody new. While they seem to be happy with nems right now, none of the fundamental dynamics are changing. And they have 23 days to fund the government, funding for ukraine and israel currently on the table. Lets hope affable works to some degree. Lauren, kasie, another busy day ahead. In the next hour well talk with one of the republicans who voted to oust Kevin Mccarthy from his speakership and well also with hakeem jeffries. Overnight israel rejecting calls for a ceasefire launching large scale strikes. Well live with the latest. And also form measures of Donald Trumps inner circle appear to be turning on him under legagal heat. Well talklk about thahat ahead. Israel is rejecting calls from some nations for a ceasefire and launching large scale strikes on gaza overnight. This is video of a palestinian man asking about his wife while buried in rubble. Explosions can be heard in the background and bombardment coming just hours after the head of the United Nations called it collective punishment of the Palestinian People and demanded a ceasefire. Listen to this. Relentless bombardment of gaza by Israeli Forces, level of civilian casualties and destruction of neighborhoods are deeply alarming. And that led to a sharp response. And the white house is pushing for humanitarian pauses but not a complete ceasefire. We want to see all measure of protection for civilians and pauses in operation is a tool and tactic that can do that for temporary periods of time. That is not the same as a ceasefire. We believe a ceasefire benefits hamas. And were learning more about how hamas may have been able to plan its attack without israel even knowing. Intelligence suggests a small cell of hamas operatives used a network of phone lines beneath gaza to communicate and plan the attack for more than two years. The humanitarian crisis is deepening for the roughly 2 million civilians trapped inside of the warzone. The United NationsRelief Agency inside of gaza says it will need to shut down operations today if they do not get more fuel. Lets go to erin burnett in tel aviv. This has been the key focus of the last 24 hours is fuel. And the Israeli Government has been adamant absolutely not, we believe it falls in to the hands of hamas. But hospitals are literally closing because of no fuel. They are. And you know when weve spoken to doctors, some doctors arent even basically able to record i hear some explosions in the background able to record what they are hearing. And you can hear the explosions happening around the same time near that hospital. So the situation there is obviously dire from the medical perspective. They are saying they need more fuel to even function. As you know, operating without morphine, the situation dire, we also have now images of egypt using these giant cement slabs that they have been putting back in front of the Rafah Crossing that they say that they can lift when they need to do let aid in. But nonetheless the images is not lost on anyone. I remain struck by what we heard from Yocheved Lifshitz yesterday one of the hostages released about her frustrations about how little they seemed to know about the idf even though there were signs. New reporting that we have is extensive planning for this attack is staggering in its entirety. It absolutely is. And you know, you heard from Yocheved Lifshitz her frustration. And i spent about 45 minutes with her grandson last night. And he shared that incredible frustration. That why would his grandmother and all of these npts people h innocent people be put in this horrific situation because of this failure. And pamela brown saying that they were using land lines, he they were deep underground. And when they were actually doing the preparations above ground, right, like actually the dry runs, that israel saw it and didnt recognize it for what it is. Thought it was more of the same. So sort of sometimes that something is staring you in the face and you dont necessarily recognize what it is. But weve seen the battle plans. Ive seen them from two of the kibbutz found on the hamas soldiers. They are dated a year before and extremely specific. But the numbers are in the documents. You see sort of an extension almost like a Corporate Office type of thing, it is truly staggering. And pa lasmelas reporting thay were me meeting deep unde underground. And new reporting today that says that American Military officials are trying to use lessons that the United States learned with its own serious failures in the iraq war to help Israeli Forces game out different strategies to defeat hamas. And so the u. S. Is trying to steer israel away from endangering hostages and civilians with the fullscale Ground Assault and instead urging them to use Precision Airstrikes which they have been doing, several overnight, another commander, two more every day commanders are killed. But the u. S. Wants more of that in special operations raids. Natasha better trtrand is joini. What are you learning about what the u. S. Is pushing . It obviously consistent with what israel is doing so far, but are longer term plans changing based on this . Reporter a western source did tell us that the israelis are being cautious in how they plan their next move because they dont necessarily want to lose any moral high ground amongst the international community. You could argue that it is a little too late for that. Certainly critics have already. But a senior israeli official also acknowledged that we appreciate what the u. S. Is advising of us because of course the u. S. Has a lot of experience fighting insurgents in iraq including in fallujah and mosul more recently. And so they understand what the u. S. Is trying to communicate to them, but still the sentiment across the u. S. Government is that israel is likely to move forward with a large scale Ground Invasion. And that is something that the Biden Administration and u. S. And military advisers are trying to discourage. So to that send, they have sent these military advisers over to israel, including Three Star Marine Corps general james glenn who has so much experience leading troops during that Battle For Fallujah which was extremely bloody fighting. And basically he is telling the israelis this is not the kind of strategy that you want to deploy in gaza. It is very difficult, it is bloody and of course learn from our mistakes essentially. And so the u. S. Now saying that you dont want to go into this without a fully baked strategy. And right now the u. S. Does not see the israelis as having that, a key part of that strategy of course as the u. S. Learned from its War On Terror is to have an exit plan. Dont get bogged down. And dont engage in a prolonged occupation of the gaza strip. The u. S. Is not so sure that israel is heeding that advice but doing what they can to provide it. And certainly we see what the numbers, hundreds of strikes a day, and that they are listing hamas commanders that they are getting in each would be. They have been doing the Precision Strikes with great success, about you thus far every time weve questioned them of course they refused to say how many what percent of hamas commanders have you killed, what percent of your capacity have you taken out. They have not answered that. But the United States also, you know, you have these protests around the region, you have rising tenses. And i understand from your reporting that there has been at least 13 attacks on u. S. Interests in iraq and syria over just the past few days. What do you know about that . Yeah, these attacks by the iranian proxy Militia Groups according to the pentagon, they have ramped up significantly over the last week over a dozen on forces in iraq and syria at u. S. And coalition bases there. And the u. S. Is taking this very seriously and they are surging air defense assets to the region to try to protect the u. S. Troops who are based in iraq and syria as part of the antiisis coalition. So they have deployed thaad and patriot batteries and doing everything they can to preempt a possible larger escalation of the attacks by of course positioning a lot of firepower in the region including those aircraft carriers. And so something the u. S. Is very concerned about, but taking all the steps they need to say to prevent any escalation and further harm to troops. In ta natasha, thank you ver. And well be coming back to you shortly, but we want to focus on another major story. Mark meadows reportedly cooperating with federal investigators in exchange for immunity. And also Michael Cohen squaring off against his former boss. The details of that testimony also ahead. Cmon, were right there. Cmon baby. Its the only we need. Go, go, go, go ah Touchdown Baby touchdown are your neighbors watching the same game . Yeah, my 5g Home Internet delays the game a bit. But you get used to it. Try these. Theyre noise cancelling earmuffs. I stole them from an airport. Its always something with you, man. Great solid greek salad . Exactly dont delay the game with verizon or tmobile 5g Home Internet. Catch it on the xfinity 10g network. Welcome back. In the federal election interference case against donald trump, mark meadows has been granted immunity by the special counsel jack smith, this is a big deal. Weve learned from abc that he has met several times with smiths time. Meadows allegedly said that he did not believe the election was stolen and talked about this moment on election day, this was november of 2020. Listen. Frankly, we did win this election. Meadows specifically refuting that reportedly telling investigators earlier this year that he believed that trump was being, quote, dishonest when he said that. Kristen holmes is joining us. This raises a number of questions about so many people have been wondering what about mark meadows. Now we know who he has been talking to. Yeah, this has been a big question. It has been a big question in trumps orbit as well. This just joins a growing number of these deals that are happening in the trump lawsuits, in these trump leg