And former white house Chief Of Staff ron mcclain is standing by with reaction to all of it. Plus, as the first aid trucks finally get into gaza, President Bidens new Special Envoy to the middle east, David Satterfield, joins me here for his very first interview since taking the job. Also today, the dominoes start falling as trump idolized plead guilty and agreed to testify against their codefendants. The law firm of it is here, they are back to tell us what it means for the case against a codefendant named donald trump. Later, my oneonone conversation with senator Raphael Warnock. I will get his view on the war in the middle east and that high profile legal case playing out in his home state. This week felt like a real Inflection Point in so many ways. Because we are all living in a country grappling with growing threats of antisemitism, of islamophobia, and deep, deep divisions over how the United States government should respond to a growing conflict in the middle east. And meanwhile, we have Republican Party revealing itself wholly incapable of governing. Even amongst themselves. And as we digest all this and, believe me, its a lot to digest, i keep thinking about something President Biden said in his address to the nation on thursday night. Tonight, there are innocent people all over the world who hope because of us, who believe in a better life because of us, who are desperate not to be forgotten by us and are waiting for us. But time is of the essence. I know we have our divisions at home. We have to get past them. We cant let petty partisan angry politics get in the way of our responsibilities as a great nation. But we cant let petty partisan angry politics get in the way of our responsibilities as a great nation. Unfortunately, thats kind of what is happening right now. We are seeing some small signs of progress when it comes the aid for gaza, with the first trucks making their way across the border, maybe more coming, the House Of Representatives still does not have a speaker. Until they do, they cant pass any laws or allocate a new funding. They cant keep the government open for anything. They cant get aid to israel, they cant get a to ukraine. Their latest candidate, jim jordan, tried and failed three times to secure the gavel. Although he ultimately fell short, his candidacy and how close he came is a reminder of just how broken our system is right now. And this person, jim jordan, he came close to becoming Speaker Of The House, second in line to the presidency. He still denies in the 2020 election was free and fair. Thats where we. Were a number of candidates are now throwing their hats in the ring for the speakership. Many candidates almost hard to keep up with, including minnesota congressman tom emmer. His bid maybe over before it takes off, after donald trump said he does not support him. Pointing in part to his criticism of him following january 6th. Thats, right the former president of the United States, i know we are not surprised, but its worth restating, is getting involved in the election for the Speaker Of The House because he is mad that a leading candidate did not stand on the side of the insurrectionists. Thats whats happening. Ultimately, the gop is now back to square one and holds a closeddoor candidate form today. Regardless where this lands, and the length of the Pressure Campaign reveal something pretty sinister about the rod inside some factions of the Republican Party. Over the last week, as jim jordan continue to lose his support, his supporters lashed out aggressively. Received for Death Threats over his refusal to support jordan. Congressman joe ferguson of georgia said he also received Death Threats. And members of his family have become targets as well. He told Republican Senate closeddoor meeting that in the threats prompted him to dispatch a sheriff to his daughter school. His daughters school. And the wife of nebraska congressman don bacon said she started sleeping with a loaded gun after receiving Medicine Calls and texts. Behind closed doors, an ally of jim jordan framed this as basically the cost of doing business. Ohio representative Warren Davidson said it wasnt jim jordans fault that holdouts are getting Death Threats. They were just getting the threats because they voted against jordan. Well, that kind of response should be called out for what it is. Normalizing Political Violence. It shouldnt take me to say. This about this behavior is not living up to what President Biden called for in his speech. Holding up our responsibilities as a great nation. At the end of the day, although war is raging in the middle east and humanitarian crisis is deepening in gaza, the party in control of the house of representative is basically eating itself from. Within normalizing the threat of Political Violence to their own members. Unable to elect a leader and unable to be a part of any response to multiple crises across the world. So, if you are President Biden sitting in the oval office right now facing two wars and a dysfunctional congress, you have to try to bring another an entire country together when one major party cant bring itself together. Is that even possible . Joining me now is someone who has worked alongside President Joe Biden for decades. Hes been in these rooms, in the oval office, former white house Chief Of Staff and my former boss ron klain. Iran, this is why you are elected president , why you ran for president. I just summarized a pretty dark situation in the world right now. War raging in the middle east, congress paralyzed. You know the president as well as anyone. Youve been in all these rooms. I, mean how is he dealing with these competing challenges behind the scenes right now . I, mean on a personal level as well. I think its a difficult situation, no question. The president has the experience and wisdom to lead us through this. I was encouraged to see senator mcconnell out this morning on tv largely embracing the outlines of the package the president sent to capitol hill. And i think thats a sign it should have good sliding in the senate. We saw this complete dysfunction of the house. The house has to get together and constitute a house and begin to govern. After, all November 17th is coming up when the governor runs out of funding, the president has deployed to carry groups to the middle east to deter the iranians from escalating this conflict. It would be a gross unfairness and horrible if we had men and women serve on those ships and that dangerous part of the world until they are not going to get paychecks because people in washington cant get their act together. I wanted to ask you about, of course, congress, we will get to that. But also about this growing tension in the middle east. The president gave an Oval Office Address on thursday night. We just showed a quote from that. He also said something i thought was pretty interesting the day before, where he basically warrant israel, i heard, of not repeating the same mistakes that the United States made after 9 11 in range. You know him, so all the scope of their military campaign, was it about the potential to overreact to hezbollah . Was it both . How did you hear those comments . I think they were wise words from a wise president. I think hes just reminding the world and the israelis that the u. S. Did things it regretted after 9 11. We did a lot of things that were good. We did things to combat terrorism. We ultimately brought Osama Bin Laden to justice under present obama. But we also launched a war in iraq that was needless, that cost too many lives on both sides, and achieved nothing to promote american security. I think the president just saying in these times of great stress, you need to be careful that your choices and understand the consequences of what youre doing. The president has been very clear from the start that the israelis have a right and an obligation to defend themselves and to combat terrorism and combat this hamas evil brutality. But they also need to respect civilian lives and need to be careful to do it in a way that doesnt take needless civilian deaths, and the president has worked very hard to get humanitarian assistance into gaza, yesterday, thanks to the president s diplomacy with egypt and israel. I know our usaid administrator, ambassador sam power, has been on the phone all weekend trying to get other countries to help with this humanitarian crisis in gaza as well. The president has proposed 100 Million Dollars of immediate humanitarian aid. Hes continuing to press that. He understands the crisis in gaza. Hes talked also about Combatting Islamophobia and antisemitism here in our country. Its a difficult time but we have a wise, experienced president leading the way for us here in america. President biden is not new to divisions within the party. You are not new to divisions within the party either. I think none of us are. Hes not new to being attacked himself. Senator Chuck Schumer said called out members of his own party this weekend called for a ceasefire and are blaming israel for the hospital, strikes saying they are taking hamass position. Thats a pretty intense criticism. Some progressive members are also accusing President Biden of writing blank checks to israel, they are urging him to call for a ceasefire. How should he be navigating this . Is it even possible to bring everyone together in this moment . I think what the president is doing is the right thing, he is focused on one promotes the actual security of the United States, which tries to minimize the loss of innocent life and tries to have the u. S. Stand for freedom around the world. I think thats why the package he sent to congress to fund the defense of israel and help the ukrainians get the russians out of their country is the right thing to do. And while the president has been working so hard on humanitarian aid to gaza also. I think it is time for the voices to come down, and the work to get down done, to join and unequivocally condemning the brutality that brutal evil of hamas and the Terrorist Attack of october 7th. And then to go on with securing israel, helping the civilians in gaza who are innocent victims in all of this, and making sure we are defending our allies and ukraine as well. I want to turn to the chaos in the House Of Representatives. None of that is new to you either. You worked with politics along. Time youve helped people negotiate deals. If republicans ultimately needed democrats to finalize a speaker, and they may, what should democrats be asking for in return . I raise this because i think people think, oh, maybe they will Elect Jeffries as speaker. That seems farfetched. What else could they get through this negotiation . I think its important to have a speaker who was not dedicated to an insurrection, and a speaker who understands the constitution, even if it is a republican we disagree with on many policy issues. I think its also fair for democrats to expect that the president s Emergency Aid Package get a vote on the house floor. And that if there are measures both the majority of democrats and the majority of republican support, we should get votes on the house floor. And that democrats should be treated fairly in the house. The house should go about its business of keeping it together and open. As i said at the outset, we have Men And Women Serving In The Middle East and military bases in the region on ships in the region. And the uss carney, which heroically shut down to terrorist missiles this week. Headed towards israel. And ask those men and women to do their duty while congress refuses, the republican majority in the house refuses to do its duty of funding the government is outrageous. I think im not going to negotiate on behalf of the democratic the democrats, Leader Jeffries is more than capable of doing that. A great leader for our party on congress right now. Leader jeffries and his team will have to work out whatever is possible. Right now, the republicans have rebuffed any efforts by the democrats to find a bipartisan solution. They are left spinning in their own caucus division, a caucus that speaker boehner, a republican, not a democrat, called the chaos caucus. Thats what we are seeing play out at capitol hill. Before i let you, go i wanted to ask you about the threats against lawmakers. Many have come out around this speakers race. Those who didnt support jim jordan. Its easy to become numb to. This do you think this is something that Justice Department should be looking into, even investigating . Its my practice not to discuss specific criminal manners looking into. But what i will say is that, as you said, the normalization of Political Violence in this country has to be completely unacceptable. We can have our great divisions, we can have great debates, we can have divisions, we have elections. The idea that the outcome of any election, the election for the speaker, any other election should be decided by violence by threats is unamerican and no one should have to fear that their daughter is going to school because of the way they voted in the speakers race. And so the threats of violence, the threats on capitol hill need to stop right now. We need to have a rational conversation about who should be the next speaker, Hopefully Republicans Reach Out to democrats for bipartisan solution, the republicans need to start doing it on their own, they should do it in an orderly way that eschews violence and issues insurrection. Ron klain, thank you as always for your wisdom. Thank you for joining me this afternoon. Coming up, the trucks that have made it over the border into gaza, they made it over. They are still just a small faction of a desperately needed. 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