Thousands of wounded who carried with them the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured. These traumas never go away. There are many families waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones not knowing if they are, alive, dead. Holocaust survivors have been , now threatened to execute. The brutality of hamas, its bloodthirstyness brings to mind isis, but sadly, for the irish people israeli people, it is not new. The scars left by a millennium of antisemitism on the jewish people. At this moment, we must be crystal clear. We stand with israel. Host that was yesterday from the white house. Today the secretary of state is expected to arrive in israel sending this tweut his visitosrael yesterday. I am going to discuss ways we can support them in the midst of these terrorist attacks. Our support for israel remains. We went to keep you updated on what is happening on capitol hill today. We could have a speaker by the end of the day today. Joining us to talk about it is Catherine Tully mcmanus. Thank you for joining us by whom. Lady thank you for joining us by zoom. How likely is it that we will have a speaker by the time this Program Starts tomorrow morning . Host 90 guest 90 members last night were doubtful that we will have a speaker by the time washington journal signs on tomorrow morning. What we heard from republicans leaving that Candidates Forum going in and out as the 2 candidates Steve Scalise and jim jordan gave the pitches to their colleagues is that neither has the support needed to win a vote on the house floor, but this morning republicans will be meeting once again to do an internal vote within the conference. What they want to make sure within the conference behind closed doors is that they have a speaker candidate they can get behind. What republicans in the house do not want to do is a repeat of january, this floor fight that went on for days and tonights that really signaled too many that the republicans were so divided that they may not be able to function. In many ways, that has come to pass. They do not want a repeat of that, which they fear would display their weakness in leading the house. They will try to coalesce around one of two candidates this morning. How that will work behind closed doors as candidates get put forward folks can nominate mccarthy. They can nominate whoever they want, but the lowest vote getting candidates will be knocked off. It is a runoff system, for folks familiar with runoff elections. What they dont have at this point is either candidate with the 217 votes needed on the floor to secure that gavel. The Development Last night was that both leading candidates said that they would support the other if they were the nominee of the conference, that was not something that was guaranteed in this painfully divided conference. Host this contest between the two of them, there had been a push to change the rules within the republican conference we are hearing to get the member, whoever they may be, the votes needed before they get to the floor. In the past it has been the person who gets the majority of the republican conference, that person is the nominee. Explain how this rule change would impact the floor vote . Guest it would change the threshold needed to bring this candidate to the, floor and move forward to get this person a gavel without those 217 votes. This is not unprecedented. Speakers have been elected in many different ways in the past. Sometimes it has been a resolution with a speakers name to elect a speaker. Sometimes it has been a plurality. This is not upsetting president in a way we have never seen before. It is paving a path to get the house out of this limbo state where because of how they are viewing this temporary speaker pro tempore patrick mchenry, they do not believe they can act on legislation during this limbo period. Closing the book on the speaker race is what effectively that rule change would attempt to do. Host it is 10 00 a. M. Eastern when republicans meet behind closed doors. We expect the house to come in session in some form. Catherine Tully Mcmanus, take us to what you just hinted at, the business of the house specifically, some aid package being pushed for, for israel. Guest we are seeing Different Things in each chamber. In the house, right now we are seeing a bipartisan effort to move aid as soon as possible. Republicans and democrats are coming together in agreement, supporting americas biggest ally in the middle east is a priority right now. In the senate we have not seen a supplemental of procreation or anything move yet, but what we have seen is moderate, centrist democrats calling for a freeze on irans assets. There are reports that iran has aided in this attack, on israel and they would like to see an immediate freeze on those assets do not allow any further funding to go towards hamas. Those are two approaches that each chamber is taking right now. In the house, both democrats and republicans have made clear that they do not believe they can take action on aid to israel until a speaker is finalized, and until they have someone to lead the house forward on this effort, of course there are different interpretations, but none of those are being taken seriously within the house itself. Host we will find out what happens today. You can watch the proceedings on the floor of the house here on cspan. Catherine Tully Mcmanus and her colleagues at politico, starting her day with us. We are taking your phone calls. We are talking about the speaker battle and the israel conflict. Phone lines are split by phone party by party affiliation. Republicans, 202 7488000, republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000 202 7488000 202 7488002 democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. First up is cj out of minnesota. This is teresa, dandridge tennessee, republican. Caller i do not think the rules change will have the votes to succeed. I dont think they will go with that rules change vote. It will not pass. The only thing i have heard, especially about Steve Scalise i s. He spent 112 days as Kevin Mccarthys righthand demand in the field raising money. You are special interest. You owe people favors for the money you take in. Jim jordan is the only choice. I do not want anybody who supports aid to ukraine. This extortion that the democrats and republicans are doing with the aid to israel is awful. They are extorting and blackmailing. We will not give aid to israel unless aid to ukraine is added in the bill. That is the most horrible thing i have ever heard of. Ukraine has gotten enough money from us. It it is time to fund israel now. The money israel has already been allocated, they are not reading the rules right for the speaker pro tempore. He does have the right to pay and make a resolution. The only thing he cannot do is become third inline to be president. He does have the right. They are just doing this because they want to rush through a speaker. Kevin mccarthy is nothing but a lie year. I will run for speaker, i wont run for speaker. The only reason they want Kevin Mccarthy is because he will fund ukraine. Host this is the headline on aid packages for israel. House turmoil complicates the promises of aid to israel. Lawmakers pushing for emergency aid package, including increasing funding and supplies for israels iron dome. You spoke about the speaker battle there, teresa. This is Steve Scalise yesterday after the candidate forum, making his case for speaker outside of the doors of that forum to reporters. [video clip] do you feel like you have the votes to win . We have been building a great. Coalition among Great Coalition among my colleagues. What people have really liked about my approach is i am a unifier. We have delivered big wins. People want to cs get back on track. Tomorrow we need to get people want to see us get back on track. Tomorrow we need. To get back some of the legislation be passed, just a few days ago we passed a foreigna an appropriations bill. Some of those things are needed right now. The senate needs to get to work on some of that legislation. There are things happening in the world that need to be addressed right now. We need to get back to work. We are putting together a strong coalition. We will do this tomorrow. Host the House Majority leader Steve Scalise. That was yesterday morning. Republicans will meet again at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, and the house is said to come in at 3 00 p. M. Taking your phone calls this morning this is walter out of new bedford, massachusetts. Caller good morning. Thanks for having me. I want to point out, i am getting really sick and tired and disappointed to see how this whole thing is playing out. I hate to see people being hurt. I hate to see people dying over war and conflict. If we want to fix the problem, we need to start with the truth. At the end of the day that is not happening here. This conflict started. Something started the israelipalestinian conflict and that is what people do not want to face. You want to stop the wars . The United States needs to stop supporting israel and what they are doing. They are destroying people as well. Palestinian folks have reasons for doing what they are doing. My comment is not about supporting either one. It is about talking common sense. All of this stuff is affecting the american public. Our children will have to deal with whatever financial and moral issues it will cause in the future. We need to stop listening to these politicians getting us all riled up to kill and spend money. This conflict started at that is what americans need to focus on. Host the president pointing out yesterday in that statement that he gave 14 americans killed in the attacks over the weekend, and an unknown ar number ae this point. Does the direct impact to american citizens, does that change your feelings about this . Caller this is what i am saying. I dont care what anybody else wants to say. The reason american citizens are suffering is because of how our leadership is carrying all of this. You want to put our american lives on somebody . Put it on congress. Put it on everybody who has the power to do something, and is not doing it. Our congress is power mongering, money mongering. They are not dealing with the peoples issues. It is sad to hear him talking about protecting israel to the end. There are innocent women and children diane. How does children dying. Host this is steve in marina del rey, california, republican line, good morning. Caller yes. I dont know why the United States needs to financially support israel given the size of their current army. They have 600 warplanes, 300,000 reservists. This is the equivalent of the United States invading grenada. There is no way hamas can compete with them militarily, so i dont know why they need our help at this point in time. It does not seem to be a financial reasoning to all of this. Host now to stephen, democrat in kentucky. Caller i have a couple things to say. Number one, i agree with the young man, the independent from massachusetts was saying about israel. My heart goes out to the israelis and palestinians and americans who were casualties of this domestic terrorist attack, and that is what this is. What kills me about all of this is netanyahu propped up hamas to begin with. Lets not forget about that. What kills me more than anything is mike lawyer went on television and talks about how the Biden Administration are responsible for enabling this extremism. Really . You want to go there for this moment . Their party is as extremist as it can be. How can we eliminate terrorism abroad when we have it fostered here by mike lawyer, jim jordan, Steve Scalise, and the front runner himself, donald trump . Just so we are on the same page again, i heard his remarks yesterday. He makes it all about himself. All of these people who are gone right who are on recess at least biden and harris are trying to remedy the problem, whether you agree with it at this point in time. Where is congress right now . They are on vacation . They cant even pick a leader and they want to sit here and offer advice, for heaven sake . It is ridiculous. Trump is the one who started giving money for the hostages. That lady calling in from minnesota, i believe that is what i heard once before that he got this process started. Biden continued it. Lets set the record straight for a minute. Host i got your point. You mentioned netanyahu. William galstons column in wall street journal calling what is happening now the beginning of the end for netanyahu and his leadership in israel, saying throughout his career is strong suit was security and that ended up in disastrous failure here. The events of the past few days have undermined that claim, and i suspect his political career will end soon after the war does. We mentioned Antony Blinken is expected to arrive in israel today. He spoke briefly yesterday about his trip to israel. [video clip] you heard President Biden speak very clearly to the pure evil that we see inflicted on israel over the last few days. We stand with israel. That is a message that he has asked me to carry directly to our israeli partners when i travel to the region later this week. We are very engaged with partners throughout the region, as well as looking out for american citizens, families who have had loved ones killed or have loved ones missing. I well have more to say about that in the days ahead. Host if you minutes left in this first segment of the washington journal. A shorter first segment of the washington journal today. That is because we will be joined by two members of congress. First Sheila Mccormick the democrat from florida, and then later today we will be joined by republican congressman don bacon. Michael has been waiting in pittsburgh, republican. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Thanks for cspan. I love this forum. I im highly in favor of jim jordan. I want to echo that first republican womans remarks about Steve Scalise who is a top lobbyist together lobbyist getter. Jim jordan is well respected among republicans. I think he will do a good job. He has some strong principles, which are american principles which are american principles. I do not like this narrative when they say they are far right extremists, the republicans on the far right. All that republicans like jordan and trump are advocating our line item bills. I think that is the right way to go. I think jim jordan will be a strong advocate for israel. I think we have to have israels back. They are the one country who is with us in this fight. Host you talk about calmness im the bis bills omnibus bills and your concern about them. How do you feel about efforts on capitol hill to combine aid for ukraine and age for israel aid for israel in one bill. Caller we have to do things that are good for america, not always things that are good for ukraine. We got too involved with ukraine before during the Biden Administration, and pushing for nato, to join nato when they knew that would be a tough call for russia. We cannot fight russia and china and all of these countries and iran. Iran is a big problem and has to be contained. The Biden Administration has done nothing. Host that is michael out of pittsburgh. Two manhattan to manhattan. This is carl. Caller this israeli thing is crazy. In the south china sea, israel shot up an american spy vessel i n the south china sea. The president couldnt bring ship back until they killed about 400 sailors. Aerial drones killed 1800 palestinians at one time. Nobody says nothing. Host carl, historically you have concerns about the u. S. Relationship with israel . Caller do i have a problem with it . Host it sounds like you do. Caller of course i do you know why . Because they do not see the truth. Let me say this before i go, they turned the iron dome off. This was the opportunity for netanyahu to go into gaza and murder 2 million people. Host this is lanita out of for pain, alabama fort payne, alabama. Caller do you reair this Program Later in the day . Host we often do, if there is time between congressional schedules. Sometimes we dont if congress is in throughout the day. It depends. Caller i am making a suggestion to the people who called in. Maybe they need to listen to what they said on your program. I will make this quick. People need to stop namecalling and pointing fingers. They need to open their bibles and read about israel. That is why people support israel. You better get on your knees and pray and open your bible, and you will see that the last days are near. You better quit pointing fingers and looking at other people. You better look to god, open your bible, get on your knees, and pray. Host lanita out of alabama, our first caller in this first segment of last caller in this first segment of washington journal. 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