while you feel that rage. don't be consumed by it. >> one all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. today, republican congressman jim jordan of ohio is even further from being speaker of the house than he was yesterday. in a second floor vote, jordan ended up with 199 supporters, a net loss from yesterday's tally, as paul cain of the washington post noted, jordan sent a modern record. nice work, jim. earning the lowest vote tally for a majority's nominee to be speaker. now, jordan did pick up three new supporters today, but he lost four members who flipped away from him this time around. in total, 22 republicans voted for someone other than jordan and he can only afford to lose for. so, the congressman from ohio has a lot of work ahead of him if he's going to convert enough votes to win the gavel. jordan is not giving up. tonight, he told reporters, the house will vote again tomorrow afternoon, and will keep voting as long as necessary. >> mr. jordan, is the plan to vote tomorrow? >> -- yeah. we [inaudible] >> how many rounds are you going to do this? >> we got to get a speaker. >> but isn't going to be you? >> i believe so, yes. >> in the meantime, the house remains paralyzed on its 15th day without a speaker. the longest vacancy of more than half a century and that last gap in 1971 only occurred because congress actually convened rather late in january. of course, we are stuck in the current debacle because of the fundamental deepening chaos in the house republican caucus. at this point, it really does feel like they're a mental malfunction roomba vacuum cleaner, hopelessly stuck in the corner, ramming into the wall over and over again, it's sensors have gone haywire. but they keep going, i mean, the current path is pretty clearly not working. jim jordan's 18 votes away from majority. the thing is, not exactly a unifying figure. he's an extreme far-right -- flutter and the politics are voting for someone like that are not going to change in 24 hours from the people that hold out from voting for him and are in vulnerable seats. now, the pressure campaign to bully those members into voting for him, from jordan, from donald trump, from fox news, has not worked. it has failed so far. if the republican party does not want to keep ramming into the wall, embarrassingly, in front of the entire nation of the world over, and over, and over again, they need to change direction. they can find someone else to be the nominee for speaker, although choosing a nominee at the caucus can get behind, obviously, easier said than done, as we are seeing. or they could compromise with democrats. it would only take five republicans meeting with democratic leadership to craft some sort of deal and elected minority leader hakeem jeffries to the speakership. or if they don't like that, which they probably don't, choose someone else, even a republican, under some kind of agree to power sharing pact. so far, they don't seem willing to do that. another option that some people have been flipping would be to expand the role of the temporary speaker, patrick mchenry. at the moment, under the current house rules, his powers are essentially ministerial. basically limited to gaveling in and out until a permanent speaker is elected. but the new york times reports, republican david joyce -- of ohio has been circulating a bipartisan plan that would give mchenry the power to run the house floor through early january. members of the bipartisan problem solvers caucus, made -- , republican david joyce -- of ohio has been circulating a bipartisan plan that would give mchenry the power to run the house floor through early january. members of the bipartisan problem solvers caucus, made up of senator leading members from both parties have also been involved in talks. two former house speakers, interestingly, newt gingrich and john boehner, endorsed the plan last night. now, to be clear, first of all, no one even knows how this would work precisely. that would change rules. elevating mchenry would be completely unprecedented, as far as anyone can tell. it also would not solve the underlying problem of republican party set on sowing chaos, as hakeem jeffries laid out this afternoon, after a democratic caucus meeting. >> can you talk to me about the point of this caucus meeting? is it just to take the temperature on mchenry? >> there are two things that were important for us to accomplish this week. first, stop jim jordan, who is a clear and present danger to our democracy and the poster child for republican extremism. the second is to reopen the house, so we can do the business of the american people. and our preference is to reopen the house in a bipartisan way, so we can govern in an enlightened way, moving forward. >> does that mean mchenry is the path? >> this conversation will not be about any one individual because we are concerned about two things, the institution of the congress and the best interests of the american people. >> i've got to say, the patrick mchenry plan speaks so perfectly to the trajectory of the republican party. back in 2005, mchenry was a freshman congressman. he was a firebrand, one of the furthest right members of the party. he was profiled in magazines as such. 18 years later, mchenry is being floated as the institutional savior to rescue the republicans from their latest iteration of hard right rebels. and this time around, that faction is so dangerous to american democracy and so strong within the republican party, they are threatening to bring the entire institution down on their own heads. nbc news capitol -- correspondent ryan nobles joins me now with the latest. ryan, i mean, you don't want your second vote to go backwards. what do they do now? >> great question, chris. i really do not know what the next step is and it seems, at least at this stage, where we are right now, at 8:00 eastern on wednesday night, that jim jordan is prepared to plow ahead. he has been given us every indication that he's going to attempt tomorrow to bring another vote to the floor. his aides tell me that he is working to try and win over these 22 people that voted against him, trying to hold on to the group of 199 republicans that voted for him, and just play this out as long as it takes, you know? his louder supporters here on capitol hill, i will point out that kevin mccarthy required 17 rounds to become speaker of the house. so, this would only be around three for jim jordan and there is no reason to stop now. but there is a lot of fundamental differences between the experience kevin mccarthy had and the one that jim jordan finds himself in. first of all, the most obvious being that kevin mccarthy had a period of time after republicans won the majority, up until the speaker vote. there are a couple of months there where he had the opportunity to whip votes. jim jordan hasn't had that luxury. and also, the fundamental reasons behind why people are opposing jim jordan are very different than the ones for the reasons that people oppose kevin mccarthy. and they are not all the same. if you talk to the republican delegation in new york, they have very different concerns than those that supported steve scalise and were upset that steve scalise was unceremoniously booted from his opportunity to get a vote on the floor. so, all these fundamental problems make it very difficult to see a path for jim jordan to become the next speaker of the house and if you talk to some of these holdouts, i was in a gaggle earlier with steve womack who said, he believes that there are going to be more people that vote against jim jordan if it comes to the floor again. so at this point, i really don't know what the path is for jim jordan or for that many matter, any republican, in becoming the next speaker of the house. >> i heard that is well from steve womack, a few others that basically, there's a deliberate strategy here for some of the people that do not want jordan to vote for him in early rounds and actually switch against him, precisely to create a direction, the wrong direction to send a signal. this is what john rutherford, who's also opposed to jordan, -- as soon as noon tomorrow. now, that does not mean that a vote is scheduled. it just means that they're holding out the right to vote at around noon, then nothing is going to happen before noon tomorrow. so, there's a lot that could happen here over the next 12 hours, you know? maybe jim jordan does get that reality check and, you know, what i think is interesting about this, and i think it's important to point out to your viewers, is that the jim jordan strategy here was that he knew that he didn't have enough votes to start. but what he expected, what many of us expected, was that when they went to the house floor, these moderates are more establishment republicans is probably a better way to describe them, would cave under the pressure of the institution, crumbling. that they would blink, essentially. that isn't what's happening. in fact, their position is getting stronger. so, if that was his only path to the speakership, it's not clear what, where he goes from here, if that's not going to work. >> right, ryan nobles, thank you so much, ryan, for your reporting tonight. congressman pete aguilar is a democrat in california. he served on the january six committee, he's now chair of the house democratic caucus and leadership, and he joins me now. congressman, i know that you, obviously, folks in the democratic side are not being, you know, -- the plan here, this is sort of a partisan affair or has been up until now. do you have an understanding of what tomorrow will bring? >> well, i'm learning from ryan nobles there to. we know what has been made public, which is we may have votes tomorrow and that jim jordan is dead set on making his colleagues vote. and just as the reporting has mentioned, and we are, you know, we're feet from the house chamber right now, and he keeps losing votes. he cannot count to 217. and so, you know, we are in this position, in this holding pattern, because jim jordan is the most extreme member of that side of the aisle. he is the leader of the insurrection caucus over there and it's just terribly unfortunate that this is the position that we are in, and that republicans have elevated. i just think it says a lot about the group that 199 of them still say, yeah, that is our guy. >> you have made -- of some sort of bipartisan resolution. hakeem jeffries, minority leader, has. but i can't tell if this is, like, rhetoric or you are seeing, it would be nice, or is there any active conversation, plan, back channels happening right now with any republican members about some bipartisan resolution? >> there are always active conversation with members on but she has >> there are always active conversation with members on the other side of the aisle. after 15 days without a speaker, i would hope that there are conversations happening, and i know that they are. and so, you know, our hope is leader jeffries laid out our first primary responsibility this week was to make sure the head of the maga circus, jim jordan, did not become speaker or second objective is to make sure that we open up the peoples house, so we are having conversations, private conversations, with our colleagues to make sure that that happens. they control the votes here. and so, it's up to them to see what the path forward looks like, but this is more than just, you know, empty rhetoric and talking points. this is a real desire to want to make this place function, make the congress, make the house function again, and to make sure that we are caring about other people's business, because we have such urgent priorities. we have to make sure we avoid government shutdown, we have to make sure we are providing aid to israel and ukraine. those are the things that, by the way, have 300 votes plus in congress. let's just make sure that we have an opportunity to deliver for the american public. >> yesterday or i think it was yesterday, maybe the day before, hakeem jeffries explicitly reference the current speaker -- patrick mchenry as someone that he respected, that democrats respect. there is clearly some plan being circulated to extend the powers of the speaker pro tem, you know, through the end of january to basically run the house like the speaker. it was interesting to me that both newt gingrich and john boehner endorsed that plan, not that they have any say in it, either way. what do you make of that? what do you think of it? >> well, this is not just about one person. i think a lot of us have respect for patrick mchenry and how he's trying to conduct himself, and organize this election that can't be an easy job that he was elevated to. you know, our primary responsibility is to make sure that the house functions. so, it's not about one person. we will wait to see if a republican introduces a resolution to do that. i've read the public reporting that you have as well, but the details matter. for house democrats, the language of these policies and proposals matter, and so, we will see what it says. >> can i ask? this is, like, super in the weeds and you may not know, and i don't know if anyone knows. but how does that even work under the rules? like, are the rules that every recess, you come back and vote for speaker? or can someone introduce a resolution? like, i don't even actually understand, procedurally, this liminal space in which you currently exist. >> sure. potentially, this could be, right now, the highest order of business is electing a speaker. and so, someone could offer a privilege resolution to move to an election, just like elise to phonic as done to have the republicans nominate jim jordan again, or someone else could offer a resolution that does this. and there is precedent for it. there used to be a speaker pro tem designated, at times, when the speaker was out of session for a week or month, that has not been done for us since the 90s. but that individual would function just as the speaker does for a limited time period, until a speaker came back from vacation. and this is, you know, precedent from years ago. >> all right, congressman pete aguilar, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> claire mccaskill is a former democratic senator of missouri. tim miller, a former rnc spokesman, now writer of -- they join me now. clare, you have seen a lot in politics, but i will, in my political career, have truly never seen anything like this. it really does, they do seem stuck. am i miss reading? what do you think? >> oh no, they are stuck. and by the way, this is a plot that the people would laugh at that was pitch to somebody in hollywood. i mean, let's take a wide lens here. we are talking about a handful of extremists troubling a speaker out over the objection of 90% of the republican party. then they gather and vote secretly to nominate a new speaker. that guy gets one vote and then the radical extremists say, i'm sorry, you don't get any more votes, we are done, you are out. we are going to put our radical extremists in their. and by the way, it radical extremist who doesn't play well with others, chris. and they all know this. he's never passed a bill in 16 years. can you imagine? being in congress 16 years and never managing to get a bill across the finish line? because he just likes to blow stuff up. so, and then he recruits a cable news star on their network, sean hannity, to be his whip. and whip votes, and go after the holdouts with hammer and tongs. and that clearly, i mean, i don't know where they found their backbones, but there clearly 20 odd republicans have found a backbone today, and i have a feeling that number will be bigger tomorrow. >> yeah, that number bigger tomorrow, it's like you say stop, it's like when you're trying to get a car out of the mud or the snow and you can see that it's getting worse. like, you're wearing down further into the mud. i feel like that little sense of panic as i watch this, sort of threw osmosis. and here is something that's much less funny, but part of this has well, tim. an undercover, underappreciated aspect of the forces of conformity towards the maga wing of the party is the fear of violence and threat, and disruption to life. even if it's not violence, it's like, the security you're going to have to get and all of that. representative mariannette miller-meeks of iowa reported that after voting against jordan, she's received credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls. other people have talked about, i think, don bacon's wife talked about getting people threatening her, not physical violence, but threatening her. what do you think of that dynamic? what does it mean as this kind of hinge point for this to be playing a role in this vote, one way or the other? >> yeah, it is real. in this case, it seems to have backfired, which is encouraging and i think it's good that these members, republican members, spoke out. you know, before it's sort of started to spiral out of control. you may remember the impeachment vote. there have been reports of several members saying privately that they, you know, told adam kinzinger, anthony gonzales, or others who voted for that they didn't vote for second impeachment because they were worried about their security. and anthony gonzales left congress because of his concerns over security. the republican from ohio voted to impeach trump in the second impeachment. so like, there have been real consequences from this domestic, these domestic terror threats, and then there's just the plain old bullying that you see from the maga media, you know? encouraging people to call into these folks. so, i do think that this is having an impact, but so far, it's backfiring a little bit on jim jordan. i think some of that is because of the inter personal thing and they don't have the specter of trump really hanging over this, he endorsed jordan, but he isn't pushing his own people. that might bring a different level of intensity to this, but i agree. -- nobody has 217. so, like they can bully, they can threat, and the reality is there's just no member that has 217, and just one thing that -- a point of personal reference listening to rap aguilar, i think that democrats should be all these guys out, right? mchenry, you know, without serious concessions from mchenry, i don't think he wants this job, by the way. >> why would you? >> i don't think they will have them anyway. >> no, i mean, i think any votes, i think that democrats are savvy enough that there will be some sort of formalized power sharing agreement, right? it wouldn't just be like okay, that is fine. there's also, you know, to ryan's point at the top of the show, clear, there are different factions within the 21 votes, but one thing if we put up the republicans not voting for jim jordan, there are a few here i think that, you know, mike lawler, anthony d'esposito, andrew garbarino, nick lalota, like, those are those new york biden district folks where, you know, the basic political gravity does seem to be applying, even if it doesn't apply to most of the caucus, clear. that, like that's just a brutal vote for those people who don't want to lose their job and want to be reelected, right? >> absolutely and keep in mind, chris, 12 members of congress that were elected from districts that went for joe biden voted in favor of jim jordan. >> and they now have that vote. you can't take it back! they already did that! >> you can't take it back and think of what jim jordan encapsulates in a biden district. you know, national ban on any abortions, no gun safety, wants to fill around with medicare and social security, refuses to say that donald trump lost the election. i mean, this is a guy that you can really use effectively against those 12 members. and you know, i've got to say, the split screen at this moment, i know i'm a little biased here, but the senate, down the hall, the senate is working in a bipartisan way to put together an a package for israel, taiwan, the southern border, and ukraine. and the republicans are sitting down with the democrats and fashioning this piece of legislation. it is possible to do this. they just have to break the fever of crazy in the house. >> tim, that vote, which is just one of those votes. i mean, that seems like a bad vote from those folks, those 12 that claire mentioned. you don't get anything out of it -- and you've got to wear it in the next election. i don't think anyone's really paying super close attention right now, but they will make sure in that reelection. >> yeah, they're making all these guys walk the plank over and over again. you know, they have rights to democratic -- their writing the democratic ads for them and i think there's been, i think it was tom coal that made an insightful point that said, like, this fight is all about the political interests of the safe members, right? 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>> we spoke to some people who are inside of gaza tonight about president biden's visit to israel, and about the news that there is an agreement, at least between israel, egypt and the united states to allow aid to cross into gaza via the sole land crossing that goes into a place that is not israeli territory, into egypt. and there was immense frustration from people inside of gaza. one person we spoke to, he said, he was disgusted by president biden's visit. and in terms of that humanitarian aid, he said, number one, he will believe it when he sees it, and number two, he said, that's not what they want. listen. >> if you could speak to president biden about this current situation, what would you want him to know. >> i want him to know that i feel disgusted -- comforted the families of the victims and talked so passionately about them, and about israel, the friendship to israel. the same country that has been oppressing us, killing us for 75 years. of course, humanitarian aid is desperately needed. however, this -- will happen on the ground, i don't know. as a palestinian living in gaza, as a citizen of -- i honestly don't give a damn about -- we want this violence to stop. president biden should focus his effort on that and not -- >> that man and his family there, they are originally from gaza city. that's where they live. they evacuated south. he has a nine year old daughter and a six-year-old. they are staying in a house with a bunch of other families, where everyone is sheltering. there is one room where 22 children are sleeping, piled in there together, because it is the closest thing they could get that to something that would be safe. he told me his oldest daughter, she turned 93 days ago, and the other children staying where they are found little packaged cakes -- like, hostess type cakes -- and put a candle in it for her so she could celebrate her birthday. he said, aid is desperately needed. he sent us -- lines of people in gaza just waiting for a piece of bread. -- they have to go fill buckets with that water enable order to be able to flush the toilet. but he said, think about the situation here. roads have been bombed out. there is a fuel shortage. so, even if that aid is allowed to cross, how is it going to get to people who really need it? we have to remember that when we are hearing these discussions, it's not just egypt, israel and the united states who have to allow to agree aid inside, there are people on the other side of the rafah crossing that also have to say that this is going to be okay for it to get in. so far, that border crossing has not been open. president biden told reporters traveling back with him on air force -- possibly thursday or friday, but people inside of gaza say, well, there was this time a few days ago, where we were told that aid was going to be allowed in and for nationals were going to be allowed out. and it did not happen. so, they don't have a lot of confidence that -- and they also feel like that is really just scratching the surface surface of the problem. and they wanted to see a more robust discussion about the decades of conflict and the decades of disagreement over this area of territory. at the same time, there are people inside of israel right now who are so frustrated that this next phase of war, a possible ground assault into gaza, has not started yet. they have seen videos of israeli civilians being brutally murdered. there are those hostages you mentioned that most families know nothing about right now. and the people who are believed to be abducted inside of gaza right now, among them are children. some believed to be as young as nine months old. i spoke to someone in israel yesterday, who is in the idf, and he is from this area. i asked him if he knew anyone who was killed or hurt in the massacre that took place on there are those hostages you mentioned that most families know nothing about right now. and the people who are believed to be abducted inside of gaza right now, among them are children. some believed to be as young as nine months old. i spoke to someone in israel yesterday, who is in the idf, and he is from this area. i asked him if he knew anyone who was killed or hurt in the massacre that took place on october 7th. and chris, he almost winced when i asked, and he almost whispered, and said, yes. i'm 32 years old. me, and other -- take us, but let the elderly, let the women and children go. there is so much pain here and president biden's visit, while significant inside of gaza, it does not seem like it was well received at all. chris? 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(bright music) last night threat today protests broke out through much of the middle east, after an explosion a hospital in gaza. that killed 700 people. more violent protests near the evans city in lebanon, the forces -- in amman jordan thousands of protesters marched through the street, riot police clashed with people tried to storm the israeli embassy. istanbul turkey demonstrations were held forth its tralee u.s. consulates, and iran government officials are worry of the possibility of a widening war with multiple fronts against israel. >> israeli defense forces say it was an air rocket from assam jihad that landed on the hospital, we cannot can firm either stories, but biden said preliminary intelligence backed israelis. the hospital explosion maybe e flame that lit the fuse a possible grand infusion into gaza by israel it will further the. outrage that maybe just what hamas montes. as we've seen israel's walking into a trap. hamas sault on southern israel was desneto provoke an emotional equally more outrageous response, the go these rails into gaza for a prolonged confrontation. >> senior resident and scholar of the institute in washington. some of his writing i've read for a long time. it's good to have you on. >> tell me the basic view of your understanding, the strategic goal of the atrocity in southern's trio. i >> think hamas found the bold status quo with israel controlling gaza from the outside, controlling the airspace and the electric magnetic spectrum, and all the crossing several small controlled by egypt. they controlling the streets of gaza, and being de facto power there, it wasn't working for them anymore. their choices were getting constricted, and they want to break out of it. so by attacking southern israel is so much ferocity, they were trying to do what insurgent guerrilla and terrorist groups always try to do when they engage in spectacular overkill, which is to destabilized this orient, the targeted greater power, and make them do something dumb. make them inflict damage on themselves, which the insurgent group would not be capable of doing. we experienced that with 9/11, which the bush administration went nuts and invaded iraq, and did lasting damage of the united states and every way. so, they got their way. in this case, i think it is clear hamas wants israel, first of all, to come back into the gaza strip, so that they could have close quarter urban combat, which really favors guerrillas over regular forces. >> yeah, that last point, i mean, osama bin laden and the writings of folks and al-qaeda, it was clear that this kind of blowback effect is what they were doing. and of course, the spectacle, i mean, joe biden today referred 50 9/11's. the sheer rage and grief of the spectacle of the slaughter at the music festival and, you know, the phone calls at 9/11. like, it incites, understandably, a society. >> this is the purpose, this is exactly the intention, because these groups like hamas or al-qaeda, other groups in the past, the mao mao, the indian rebellion, et cetera, they know they can't inflict the kind of damage on the dominant power that the dominant power can do when it is induced to behavior rationally. and i think there is also a broader plan on the part of hamas to get the fighting to spread into the west bank and east jerusalem, to bring the holy places in play, then get hezbollah involved, maybe -- and others, as you are just mentioning. iran's threats of a broader or. the way they do that is to get the israelis to go so far in gaza that it inflames the streets all over the middle east, especially in the west bank, especially in jerusalem, and pressure comes on hezbollah, which wants to hold back. hezbollah needs war with israel like being a congestive heart failure and i think iran would rather have keep as well as a deterrent against an israeli attack on iranian nuclear facilities that the sort of ways that powerful deterrent on a relatively marginal place like gaza. but if it spreads, if the unrest spreads, they all may recalculate and you can see how that is starting to play out now. >> i want to play the jordan's foreign minister, emmitt safadi -- lester holt today and again, this hospital explosion has been a kind of trigger point, although it, in some respects, obviously is horrible, the hospital was scorched, but the amount of death and destruction in gaza independent of that is enormous. being broadcast across the region. this is his response to joe biden saying, preliminary intelligence supported the israeli account. take a listen. >> nobody is buying that narrative in this part of the world. the only way that people would entertain a different narrative is if there is an independent international inquiry into the tragedy that has happened, with impeccable evidence that it was not israel. >> and to your point, hussain, this is just one moment, flash point in the first week, a ground invasion, a larger incursion is going to produce more such moments, almost as a matter of -- >> 100% sure, chris. look, we've seen this film before. both involving israel and lebanon and in gaza before. if israel was not responsible for this hospital attack, as it may not have been, it will be in the future. i mean, they do this stuff all the time. it's not just israel. the united states had the same experiences in vietnam and afghanistan. the soviets had the same experience in afghanistan. the saudis have had that experience in yemen. this is what happens when major powers go to war against insurgent groups that are embedded in civilian populations because that is where they come from. and there is no way to unscramble those eggs. >> so, final question to you. i mean, i've spoken to a bunch of people over the last week and someone said to me, look, there's not a nation on earth that would not militarily respond to what happened in southern israel, not one. what is the alternative to that? >> it's a very good question and i do think that is true, although that -- the fact that there's been this occupation in gaza from the outside and in the west bank, and easter slum on the inside, since 1967. , minor detail. but yes, any country would respond and that is the point. hamas knows that. the alternative to giving hamas what it wants, which is a protracted ground presence in gaza that yields to an insurgency that kind of turns into a killing field, bit by bit, drip by drip of israeli -- and whatnot is to show restraint and work with the americans and the saudis to deny hamas that sort of insurgency and get back on track with negotiations to normalize relations with saudi arabia. deny them what they want and force upon them of the thing that they want it to sabotage. that's the smart thing. >> thank you very much, i really think a lot about your piece. we will be right back. >> thank you. meet the portable blender we can barely keep in stock. blendjet 2 gives you ice-crushing, big blender power on-the-go. so you can blend up a 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"alex wagner tonight" starts right now. good evening, alex. thank you my friend as always thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. >> for days now a line of more than 100 trucks filled with food and fuel and medical survives and water, that line of trucks has been waiting at the rafah crunching on the egyptian side of the gaza. because of israel's blockade, these trucks have been unable to cross into gaza. for more than 2 million people have been without many of those basic necessities for 11 days. until now. after arriving inafter arrivingi president biden announced that the uu.s. had convinced israel to bring humanitarian aid into gaza via egypt now, the deal is strict and it is fragile all of the aid must be inspected before entering gaza