On your screen. Independents on. And if you like to text us, you can do that if you would like to text us you can do that, just make sure to include your name and where youre from. Well start with whats going on on capitol hill. An article here from the Washington Examiner that the house left town for the weekend as jim jordan tries to shore up support for the speaker bid. That written by several of the reporters for the washington xham anywhere and were joined by one of them this morning reesegoerman who is a congressional reporter for the Washington Examiner. For the Washington Examiner. Reese, good morning. Thanks for having me on. Host explain what happened yesterday. Guest yesterday the house went back into a closeddoor meeting. A ballot nomination between jim jordan and offer scott of georgia who got in the race one hour before the candidate form and they tried to nominate a new speaker candidate. Jim jordan came out in the top, receiving 124 votes. And so he is now the republican nominee for speaker of the house. But he is not does not have the sport to become speaker because it requires 217 votes to get speaker. When asked on the second ballot if he would support jim jordan on the floor, that vote was only 152 to 55. 55 people said they do they would not support jim jordan on the house floor. Host go ahead. Guest democrats are not going to be voting for jim jordan so it is up to republicans and he does not have the votes. Host what was the mood among republicans after the vote he did not have enough votes to win this ship outright . Guest there are some people that call on Kevin Mccarthy and said jim jordan would be speaker and would get the votes and there were other people, Thomas Matthew was confident jim jordan would become speaker especially after a weekend to shore up that support. Then there were other members, the more moderate marin moderate members of the Republican Caucus not so confident in him as a speaker. They maybe dont want jim jordan to be speaker, especially the older veterans remembering this older jim jordan from 2016 and 2019 and that is how they remember him by or if you are a moderate you know jim jordan as the same kind of way, might not go back in your district especially if joe biden won the district in 2020. Host scott, a republican who got 81 votes after throwing his name with agreement zero preparation and not much of her to drum up support. What was behind that . Why does that what does that tell you about where the gop is right now . Guest he got 81 votes and went into conference telling reporters i dont want to be speaker. He was just running as a protest vote for people to vote against jim jordan. He got in an hour before the race began and was telling people he did not want to be speaker so 81 votes he got was protest votes, no pro scott votes there were antijim jordan votes. It will be a tough battle that jordan has to climb in order to regain some of that support or get it in general because you need 217 and he has quite a ways away from to 17 right now. Host what are some of the criticism of jordan from those who do not support them . Are they all movable in their votes . Guest yeah. I think it varies a little bit. Moderates, especially those who want president joe biden, resident joe biden when their district. Jim jordan is a guy who is really wellknown, even if you dont follow politics heavily you know who jim jordan is. He i think they dont want to be tied to kind of some of his past policies or whatever and dont want to be tied to that because the districts are purple or blue and boating could hurt them in reelection. They are also worried about some of the votes he might have them take if he is speaker whether speaker. That is one of the worries from some of the moderates. Talking to the veteran members of the House Republican conference, a lot of them will likely support jordan on the floor because they respect the institution but a lot are upset because they see jordan supporters, whether it be thomas mackey, beth miller, however, steve scully said the nomination, they kind of tainted and said we would never vote for Steve Scalise, we are voting for jim jordan, he is our guy, we are the the guy we want. They see it as jordan didnt come out and endorse Steve Scalise but he was unable to have some of the fellow colleagues behind that were supportive supporting him. He said if you cant get them to follow you on some thing like a speaker race, how are you going to get them to follow you on voting for continued resolution, stuff that matters to the country more so than electing a speaker. I think that is also a fear and worry. Host what does jim jordans we can look like in terms of drumming up the support he needs . Guest it will be a lot talking to members oneonone. Members have gone home so he will be making calls. His allies will probably make calls trying to rally up that support and then you also have i think his allies are thinking after they take this weekend, a lot of people know jim jordan and gop grassroots loves jim jordan and that is something he has going for him when these republican members go on to their districts. And they Start Talking to constituents, constituents might start, especially the republican constituents, might be like talk to jordan, try to get them in the air, vote for jim jordan and i think that is something that going home jim jordan would rally for under this public pressure of a, i think that is something they maybe can see, but again it is still, even if we take the 51 vote, cut it in half because of the private ballots, because some of those will probably still support jordan on the floor, you have 25 people that said they will not vote for jordan on the floor. That is a huge decline. What is the plan for a four book ash for vote. Any sense of when that might happen or whether we can expect a multiround situation like we had with the last speaker vote . Guest it is sounding like it will happen around tuesday. Monday is the as they can have a vote but i think what you will see his people back home from the weekend will fly in on monday, probably go to conference, and Start Talking like do we make any change for this weekend, to have more support, can i take to the floor . After that, even if he does not have the support, i think going to the floor, trying to see where who he needs to flip, where he is lacking, and try to hone those people in and talk to them, rally them together. I think that is what we might see so you might see a couple. I dont see jordan not taking this to the floor. Scalise didnt take it to the floor when it was evident he didnt have the votes. I dont see jordan do that doing that. I dont think you will see a 15 round situation like january because Kevin Mccarthy had the support of 90 of the conference. There were a few holdouts that did not want to vote but what you will see what jordan is maybe two to five rounds and then he drops out and he goes we will be back to square one or he gets a vote. That is a possibility he will get the votes. He can rally supporters, may be rally the holdouts, and maybe he can get the votes. The math is tough for them are now so there is a possibility he does get the votes on the second or third ballot. Once he finds out who cast me, get them on the record. Host where are the democrats in all of this . I look at an article in politico that there are some democratic centrists reaching out to the speaker pro tem, seeing if there might be a deal to be made. What are you hearing about that . Guest i think this is a legitimate possibility. There are there is a realistic chance no one in the republican conference can get 217 votes right now with just republicans alone. That is a really four people can take anyones chances. Anyone person could wake up one day and be like i dont a vote for this person. So theres a possibility that republicans are going to have to work with democrats to get a speaker elected. There are already talked about this, we have kind of seen that happen. The Republican Governance Group might try to work through the aisle and talk about candidates and try to get some elected i can get 217 but after a little powersharing agreement. I think thats a realistic thing we could see. Steve scalise can get to 17, maccarthy got ousted by his own members, so i think well have to see probably is some kind of powersharing agreement and that is a realistic thing that could happen. Host what you wrote watching for the next couple days . Guest i will be looking to see if any of the holdouts flip. We know who a couple are, we dont know who all 51 are but i think you could see some of those whether it is reports of people or anything like that, once you start seeing those flip, that is a huge indicator jordans plan is working or even the other way, if people go back and start losing, you got people saying im not voting for jordan , one representative said she would have to reevaluate her support for jim jordan and that was a flip there that people are going to have to watch for and start typing that. I think it is seen when members are saying back in the district and where is the support going. Is he losing support . Is he gaining support . Is this thing the same . Come monday or tuesday, especially monday, we will be able to talk to these members in person and see what is going on and see where we are and where we stand and it is possible he could get to 17. Host rhys gorman, congressional reporter at the Washington Examiner. I hope you can get some rest this morning and thank you very much. Guest i will try. Host we would love to hear your thoughts on this topic as well as the war going on between israel and hamas. Our numbers are 202 7488001 for republicans, democrats at 202 7488000, and independents, at independents at 202 7488002, and of course you can text us at 202 7488003. We were speaking about the democratic role in all of this and House Democrats spoke after the republican counterparts rejected jim jordan as the nominee for speaker or at least for the full floor vote. Heres part of what represented Hakeem Jeffries had to say. Because we are hair as members of the house of representatives to make life better for everyday americans, not play political games. [applause] House Democrats will continue to fight for lower cost, better paying jobs, saver community, reproductive freedom, defend democracy, fix our broken immigration system, protect the rights to vote and build an economy that works for everyday economy americans for the middle up middle out and bottom up. We want to find a Bipartisan Task to reopening the house of representatives. So we can solve problems for the American People. [applause] and with our friends like israel and ukraine and throughout the free world. But the House Republican civil war continues to rage on. My ring the congress in chaos, dysfunction, and extremism. House republicans have chosen the triple down on the chaos, triple down on the dysfunction, and triple down on the extremism. House republicans have selected as their nominee to be the speaker of the peoples house the chairman of the chaos caucus, a defender and dangers in a dangerous way dysfunction and extremist extraordinaire. Host we are taking your thoughts on this as well. Lets hear from tommy in waterbury, connecticut on the democrats line. Caller good morning. Let me say i like the new set. It looks very good. I think you are on a higher floor right now and im waiting for that little spider to show up on the back window. Anyways, i called about the i have been listening all week and watching the protests for israel and against israel but most was centered around the protests against israel. And the threat of violence on the calls that come in. Im a liberal and i dont like any of that stuff, whether it goes for one side or the other. I fought for the last number of years thought from the last number of years that it was the whites of premisess that hated the jews or the jewish regional jewish religion. Now i see colleges and liberals in liberal towns are writing and the hatred you see in their faces and words im sure you are going to get this after i hang up as well but is it maybe they have something in common or does the whole world hate the jews. What is it . I hear on this program and all my other stations i watch, the White Supremacists hate the jews and they are out for them but im questioning it now. I see these colleges so you have a nice day. Host jonathan in brooklyn, new york, also on the democratic line. Jonathan . Go ahead. Looks like we lost jonathan. Lets hear from yesterday in tel aviv actually, never mind, lets go to some tweets here back on the topic of the house dysfunction. We have congressman micah zell who responded with the ongoing war in israel and the chaos on our southernorder, America Needs leadership, saying that we shouldot be leaving washington until we have an elected speaker and we get back to work for the American People. Then we have represeate jamie raskin, when i came in thiss lated to the fact that some members of the republican pay were saying that they were hesitant for Steve Scalise due to his cancer diagnosis. Jamie raskin says when i came down with cancer, my carcass colleaguesaled around to support me as a rankingemrat on oversight, i am dumbfounded that gop members andrump used Steve Scalise his cancer to abandon him cancer is a reason to abandon him on abandon him after electing over the cause. Caller we got into the israeli, Palestinian Conflict. All my life i heard the United States has been a supporter of israel. We give them the best weapons, they have the advantage in the middle east over every other army, then a group of prisoners is able to overrun their army. I dont understand that. And we have to give them more help . How is it that they can with the resources they have with an ordinary prison group . Secondarily, regarding this idea that people from gaza have to move from one place to the next. If you have a whole group of people, one point something Million People from one part of a country into another part, it is such a small area and you say after we have gone that far because were looking for hamas and hamas moves in, what are you going to say . You have to move them back into the south or the borders of the society . Second and thirdly, Israeli Military is nothing more than [indiscernible] you have over hundred something thousand in gaza, you have hostages, and just because somebody in gaza has a rifle, they have to stay up in the air and upon the people . That is ridiculous. We can have them go in and rescue the hostages. Lets say you have 10,00030,000, half a million israeli troops and going underground right now . Host lets go to jack in mississippi, also on the democratic line area did caller i believe in that line. Caller i believe in the constitution and democratic and republican representatives should be working for the good of the government, not of their political powers, of concerning the war in israel, israel is a country. Hamas is a religion. This is basically a religious war against israel. We have the same condition in the United States only by individuals considering what attacking hamas or attacking any other religious group. The third subject im interested in is the war in ukraine done by putin. Putin is worse than hitlers. Host thank you, jack. Roy in at worth, georgia the republican line. Caller listening to the democrats the other day on israel. This has kind of come together. Israel has a rich history and we should realize that history and israel had several conflicts, but the thing that happened is that when israel relied on a third country to support them, oftentimes they displeased god. My thing is this, democrats call themselves christians are believers and we know republicans say they are so this is the time the democrats and republicans need to get together and pray for the country of israel that they will turn and trust that their god will deliver them out of this and not just trust on the United States because we are flawed and we know we are flawed. Israel, i hope and pray, their return back to their source, that the country will play not pray not that the United States will deliver them but their god will deliver them and if we can do that and if we as a country, the United States, who has those christian values would also pray because we have a history and we know how god works. He showed us how he works in his bible. For those that know how god works, they need to also pray. Host thank you. Donetta on the democratic line. Caller yes. These are all abrahams kids. But still abrahams kids. The thing i really dont want to see is jim jordan as speaker of the house. Host ok. We have tweets here we can look at from a representative austin scot who said hily respect jim jordan. He iansset to the republican partan nominee for speaker. Our conference has spoke and now we musune behind jordan wcan get congress back to work. One of many ofheesponses from members of the house in response to what has been happening this week. One more time with the numbers, you can call 202 7488001 for republicans, democrats at the same number, 202 7488000. Independents 202 7488002. Lets hear from our next caller on the independent line. Caller good morning. Im a little overwhelmed but by the diversity of opinion but i wanted to mention a few things. When we had a war against isis in the middle east, we had russians, we had syrians, we had americans, we had hezbollah technically on the same side as the United States against the group called commonly isis. Hamas is not associated with iran. Hezbollah is. Hezbollah is working with the russians and hamas is basically like a pirate group like isis is , and i dont know what anyone thinks in the United States because i get really messed up he