classrooms. many are questioning why. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and that major announcement by president biden about who will succeed supreme court justice stephen breyer when breyer retires at the end of this term. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. now, biden says he has not yet made a decision on just who that person will be, but he is going to invite senators from both parties to hear their opinions, their points of view. biden says he expects to choose a nominee before the end of february. as cnn s m.j. lee reports, some have been lobbying the president on just who that nominee should be since back in february, 2021. this is sort of a bittersweet day for me. justice breyer and i go back a long way. reporter: a momentous day for the joe bide
speak with ukrainian president zelensky last hour as tensions along the border persist. a source has told cnn zelensky is expected to tell president biden he s concerned about the rhetoric from the u.s. and other allies about the situation in his country. the united states reportedly made no concessions to russia in its written responses to the kremlin s security demands, and the russian foreign minister said there is, quote, no positive reaction, end quote, because it fails to address his government s main concern. sam kiley is in kyiv for us. do we know any more about this call from the ukrainians? reporter: well, no, we don t know any detail yet. we haven t had a readout from that call. there are indications of what the substance of it it would be, as victor was saying about some of the rhetoric. now we unpick how president zelensky has been reacting to some of the statements made by the united states and others, particularly the united kingdom over the last couple of
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
199. the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [laughter] trump s pick to lead the house goes down again. no amount of election denying is going to take away from those vote totals. tonight, the excruciating failure of the maga candidate, the democratic push for a bipartisan solution, and what we know about a timeline for a resolution. the time for democracy in our country that an insurrection was rejected by the republicans again, as their candidate for speaker. and tensions soar in the middle east after that deadly hospital blast. there is new hope for humanitarian aid flowing into gaza, as the president meets with families of hostages in israel. the call for caution continues. justice must be done. 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 wa
there has been unprecedented upheaval in congress, specifically among the republican majority in the house. the parties nominee for speaker of the house, congressman steve scalise has just announced that he is dropping out as a candidate. i just share what my colleagues that i withdraw my name as a candidate for the speaker does a country. as you look at over the last couple of weeks, there is still work to be done. we are going to have more on that story in just a bit. but we continue our coverage of the israel hamas war which is about to enter its seventh day of fighting. a number of dead from this conflict has now reached more than 2800 people. among that number, israel reports at least 1300 israeli lives lost, including over 200 israeli soldiers. the palestinian health ministry reports more than 1500 palestinian lives have been lost. those same authorities report that the number of injured israelis is more than 3300. the number of injured palestinians as more than 6