Number of 217 votes to win the gavel. Reporter do you think you have the votes on the floor today . We feel really good. We need to get a speaker today. We feel really good about where we are at. Steve kornacki will be with me to break down the vote from the big board. The latest nbc reporting on the breaking news that President Biden will leave tonight for israel and jordan to get humanitarian aid moving into gaza, Work On Releaing the hostages, and how gaza will look if hamas is removed. Hamas released a video of a hostage. The question, is it a signal that the terror group might be willing to deal . Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A big day where the house is in session and ohio congressman jim jordan is the man of the hour. The Judiciary Chairmans bid for speaker is gaining steam within the House Republican conference. He is closing in on the 217 votes he needs to win. The battle for a man long viewed as the leader of House Revolutionaries to become second in
And can another candidate get 217 votes and this is a huge question as the leaderless house. He is using other to pressure the members of congress to vote for him. Yeah. That is exactly right. That is the hope that, ultimately that these members will come to his side. Expect there could be breaks in between each of these votes. We will see exactly how this plays out but a lot of uncertainty at the moment but there could be meetings that happen to try to pick off these members onebyone. We will see if they decide to recess longer a few hours or maybe come back the next day. We will see. They hope they can eventually get the members by tonight to come their way and perhaps that Pressure Campaign they believe will get them to come to their side. One said i will close out entirely if they pressure him. We expect him to vote for Steve Scalise on the floor and not jim jordan. Dana, what are you hearing . I want to underscore, based on some reporting that im doing, one of the aspects of jorda
Votes cast by surname, the speaker has not been elected. Wahwah, jim jordans maga dreams of holding the speakers gavel come up short. Tonight, the house is still without a speaker. This kind of incompetence would never have happened in Nancy Pelosis democratic caucus, and tonight, the speaker emaitous joins me live, plus, horrific bloodshed in Gaza Ozhundreds of people are killed in a powerful explosion at a gaza city hospital. But we begin tonight with an unprecedented juxtaposition of crises. An intensifying Israel Hamas War with President Biden en route to the region, and with the House Of Representatives trying to elect a speaker after two weeks without one. Were also one month from a potential Government Shutdown. The chaos on capitol hill has stalled any attempt at congressional funding for the middle east or ukraine or anything else the federal government might want to deal with, while republicans try to get their act together. Earlier today, jim jordan fell short of the 217 vot
Harris the Breaking News continues. Keep keep close on capitol hill, House Of Representatives expected to vote on speaker of the house any moment now. Congressman jim jordan hopes he has enough support. He has gained major momentum, but can only lose four votes. Well follow the action. He had enough votes to get to the nomination. Well bring updates as they happen. In the middle east, President Biden will travel to the middle east later today. The high stakes trip as israeli faces Rocket Attacks from hezbollah on northern border with lebanon. We learned they have 100,000 rockets should they want to engage, another front of war with hezbollah to the north and hamas together to the south against israel, bringing concern the conflict could escalate in the region. 2000 american men and women marines mostly, have been placed on ready to deploy to the middle east within 24 hours notice to aid israel in advisory and medical support roles, but everybody is armed. Im harris faulkner. Here with
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