the battle for votes and mccarthy s first big test all happening right now on capitol hill. lawmakers meeting over this debt deal with some hard line republicans and the speaker isn t just fighting for support on his agreement. he could be fighting to keep his job. and moscow is rocked. drone attacks hitting residential buildings in the residential capital, at the same time kyiv is facing a bombardment overnight. we ll have the latest from the front lines. and this could turn your stomach a little bit. a new report from the cdc is highlighting how restaurant workers who handle food while they were sick themselves are actually one of the leading drivers of food borne illness outbreaks. we are following these developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. in just minutes, a deal to raise the debt ceiling and avert a catastrophic u.s. default will finally be in front of lawmakers. a cankey house committee is tak up the bill but all afternoon
Of funding in a few weeks, and also because the white house will be asking congress presently for an aid package for israel, one that by all accounts so far cant pass without a speaker. Lets goat that story first, and then right back to israel where things are rapidly unfolding as well. Jake sherman, Cofounder Of Punch Bowl News and msnbc political contributor. Thanks for being with us. What exactly is going on . So scalise, katy, won the republican conferences nomination to be speaker. This is the initial process by which the republican conference caps their candidate to be the speaker for a house floor vote. As you noted, he only won with 113 votes. That is nothing. That is more than 100 votes shy of winning the speakership and in an alarming sign for mr. Scalise, he has several republicans already saying that they will not vote for him on the floor. Now, some of that could be bluster. We dont know, but tom massey of kentucky, max miller of ohio both have said they have not committed
the sort of gross failure to negotiate this competently, it s got to be dealt with for republicans to be able to resume that. but the first thing that can happen is more than half the republican conference can vote against this legislation so we ve got a core around which we can reform the unity. they told us we couldn t pass a plan on the floor with 218 votes because we re so fractious. only when kevin goes in to negotiate with joe biden does he get his head handed to him and we ve got to clean up from that. it s got to be dealt with. so i want you to listen to part of what we just heard speaker mccarthy say. we isolated a very important part and here it is. i m not sure what in the bill people are concerned about. you said it vocally and specifically you said it right here. you ve said it before, a number of things. you oppose the irs money. the things that are not in the bill, the lack of real spending