and try to keep members here and vote after vote after vote to try to wear the other side down. he had a meeting with the 20 or so opponents that he has last night and made 0 progress. they say there is nothing they can offer. they said you have gone a bridge too far for us in terms of how you treated steve scalise. he had one of his allies this morning, scott perry, basically poe poeing some of the death threats the members have had. he said we're members, this is what scott perry said. we get death threats all the time and called it a red herring why some of the members were unwilling to support jim jordan. the number could grow later today. the danger for both sides, democrats and republicans. it is dangerous and what i asked hakeem jeffries a few minutes ago if he would be able to have all of his members here on every single roll call vote throughout the weekend because it is about the math. we don't know the magic number on each roll call vote.

it is contingent upon how many people vote to a candidate by name. the number goes up and down depending on how many people are on the floor. during the weekend you have people go away. so maybe there would be a path for jim jordan to be elected if just the right number of people go away on the democratic side of the aisle. hakeem jeffries said we'll have all our people here. the flip side of that. there is a danger for jim jordan if he forces these votes and just enough republicans disappear on that side of the aisle or people who support him because then you could be in a scenario where they do, in fact, elect hakeem jeffries if just the right mixture of people goes away. if they do that, as they say in the movies, they play a very dangerous game, mr. bond. so this is kind of where we are right now. republicans right now who are trying to figure out which is the direction to go. they don't know if they want to maybe put a resolution on the floor to empower patrick mchenry.

right now jim jordan does not have the votes. they will have the third roll call vote in a few minutes. last night we talked to john ruther ford, an opponent of jim jordan and he is locked in. listen. >> this is not leadership when he expelled steve scalise. that was pretty much everybody's opinion. >> did he say he is still running? >> he said he has apologized for that. but look, apologies are fine and accepted but you still have to have accountability. >> this is where you have republicans like carlos jimenez also opposed to jim jordan saying this conversation is over. there is nothing they can offer us. i was told there was anger during that conversation but jim jordan is determined to stay in the race. listen to what he said this morning. >> you all said we would lose

between the first and second vote and said we would lose 10 to 15 votes. we picked up a view, lost a few. i think the ones we lost can come back. multiple rounds of votes for speaker before. we all know that. i just know that we need to get a speaker as soon as possible so we can get to work for the american people. >> jim jordan did himself no favors in that meeting last night trying to get some of those folks to come his way. the other problem is that you had these members who are very upset about the threats their families have gotten and this is what i alluded to a few minutes ago where scott perry, a jim jordan ally was at that press conference, did not speak and standing in the back of the room and down played some of these death threats. listen. >> all of us in congress receive death threats. i don't know if that's a news flash for anybody here. people in the world dislike and threaten us. nothing new to any member of

congress. that's a red herring. >> right now jim jordan can only lose four votes. the last voted on wednesday and lost 22. he only lost 20 on tuesday. so this will be the first vote since then and we are told those numbers should go up. we do know that one jim jordan ally is not here today already, a republican from wisconsin. he announced he is traveling to israel for a fact finding mission. this is why that number always toggles back and forth and always about the math. >> shannon: as you said with the quorum calls. they could run the risk of electing hakeem jeffries. matt gaetz didn't want that when he pulled the motion to vacate. what is that faction now saying about where they are and who they could agree on with

moderates? >> he said that essentially. this is where you have had a lot of people come back and say maybe we need to move this resolution to empower patrick mchenry. you are right matt gaetz and others didn't seem to have a plan who they could arrive on and elect as speaker to empower the house and make the house operational. the house can't vote on anything right now. funding the government in four weeks here trying to deal with this aid package to israel and ukraine that the president announced last night. so this plan that jim jordan was for for five minutes yesterday would be to vote to empower patrick mchenry, elect him as the speaker pro tem and then the house can go about its business. it has been in that position before. this happened back in the early 1960s when sam rayburn, the house speaker fell ill and what they did they first appointed somebody the acting speaker and elected john mccormick of massachusetts, the speaker pro

tem and the house throughout the fall continued to do business including passing the piece of legislation for president kennedy's peace corp came through that. a major piece of legislation and passed with a speaker proper team. this is someone elected by the house versus just appointed by the house. the status that mchenry is in now. you might have heard the buzzers going off. that's signaling the house of representatives is coming into session and going through the pledge of allegiance, prayer right now. housekeeping and then they'll go into an actual live quorum to determine how many people are here. that's the universe of votes. we know the house has 433 members. we'll see what the magic number is based on how many people report to the vote. >> shannon: chad, thank you very

much. we'll stay tuned to what you have to say. >> gillian: let's bring in dan crenshaw, republican who serves on the intelligence committee and former navy seal. congressman, which way do you think this third round vote on jim jordan is going to go this morning? >> it's not going to get better. so you played some comments down playing the threats against these members. everybody gets threats. nobody has been a target of crazy online backlash like me. i'm like click bait for people and get a t-shirt that says click bait. this stuff is different. what i'm seeing against these members and their families and the things being said by right wingers, that's different. so this is the problem. i've said this a week and a half ago that if jim jordan's allies went down this path he wouldn't become speaker. they would entrench opposition.

they're not moving. that's the facts. i'll vote for jim jordan on this third round because i am a stickler for process. he won the majority, vote for him as long as he is running but the facts aren't changing. people should understand the facts aren't changing. trying to push us into the weekend and force votes and -- this is going to fake nobility of getting the job done will backfire. i want people to understand, too, sitting around the room up here arguing about who is the most popular is not working for the american people. i don't like it when people come on fox and say we have to get the work done. that's not work. i want to remind my fellow legislators that work up here is your committee work. it's legislating. writing bills. you need somebody in the chair to bring bills to the floor. that's the actual work for the american people. too many have forgotten that. we do need to get back to work but not the kind of work some of these folks are saying. i was in favor of the temporary

empowerment. jim jordan was in favor of that. you need someone to bring bills to the floor. we need a reset. stop yelling at each other for a little while and see who can consolidate some support. it doesn't have to be this hair on fire type of conversation, which is what we're engaging in at the moment. the real work is the legislation and no reason why we can't keep doing that. >> shannon: that mchenry plan stalled yesterday. if the jordan vote fails again we'll see if it is resurrected. this is all against the back drop of serious domestic and foreign policy issues. i want to read something like tom cotton. he says this. there have been multiple attacks against americans by iran's proxies in the last few days. biden must warn iran any attacks

by its proxies as americans will be treated as a direct attack by iran against the u.s. and met with massive retaliation. where are you on exactly what this administration needs to be signaling to iran at this moment? >> you could have read my tweet. i think i tweeted something similar. i agree with senator cotton on this. there needs to be very clear consequences laid out for iran and hezbollah. people don't understand this because they are very uncomfortable with the concept. if you want to prevent war you have to threaten it credibly. it takes statements that make people uncomfortable. president trump did this all the time. he had an intuition for what deterrence was. president biden whispering don't do it into the microphone is not effective. there needs to be clearer statements. i appreciate them moving the carrier group into the eastern mediterranean. you need very clear statements that say there will be retaliation.

what's happening right now is iran and hezbollah are actively in the decision making process about whether they will open up that multi-front war. they have always talked about this war to end all wars. the final war against israel. it may not have been expecting it to turn out like this but actively making that decision. it will be dependent what they think will happen to them in return. if you want to prevent war you have to make it clear you are willing to beat the crap out of your enemies if they try something. >> shannon: senator graham is saying we'll tell iran we'll physically strike at your oil manufacturing, those kinds of things. are you talking about physical strikes within the borders of iran? >> if they invade israel. if they do direct attacks on israel. if they do that, now you have an a threat against israel. absolutely yes, president biden needs to put it on the table that there could be physical strikes in iran if they do physical strikes inside israel.

if they are threatening the existence of israel that has to be on the table. we have to be saying that. us saying that is what prevents it from happening. people have to understand that. >> shannon: okay. you mentioned the carrier groups and what we have in the region there. we think more broadly about the drone attacks are the things that have come on where we have u.s. troops in uniform on the ground. do you equate that with iran's -- if they had a direct attack on israel or, you know, the proxies, the strikes at u.s. interests. where does that fall in categorizing us pushing back and taking action physically against iran? >> it wouldn't fall in the same category necessarily. where we're at now is what they're doing is testing us. they are testing us and what we'll say. so clarity from the president is paramount here.

congressmen and senators can say what they'll say and give an indication what we would vote for, but the president needs to be very clear. when it's tit-for-tat surrogate warfare which is what iran has been doing forever. launch rockets, iranian backed militias in iraq. we've dealt with it before. it would be different if they opened up a multi-front war against israel. that threatens the existence of the jewish state. we have to be clear about the differences. >> shannon: we appreciate your time. good luck in finding resolution, getting things back to work in congress for the american people and as always we thank you for your service in this country on multiple fronts in many different ways. thank you, sir. >> thanks. >> shannon: they have to get things resolved. that's a conversation like a broken record we're saying over

and over again to move legislation. you heard congressman there say it's -- if you can get a framework in place to do legislation. if it involves mchenry have some kind of powers equating to speaker people seem open to that but clearly folks opposed. >> gillian: if you pan out wider you see it is very difficult for the u.s. to project strength abroad helping to deter this israel/gaza conflict from becoming a middle east war, it is hard to project strength in support of ukraine when our own house of cards is not at order here at home. >> shannon: does it magically get in order in the next two hours? >> gillian: a lot of hope but no chance. >> shannon: we're pulling for the resolution. >> gillian: israel's military leaders ordering troops to be ready for a ground invasion to gaza that could happen at any

moment as israel continues to pummel hamas targets from the air. trey yengst joins us on the ground in southern israel. tell us what you are hearing and seeing this hour. >> absolutely. we just saw new rocket fire from the northern part of the gaza strip targeting southern israel. the israelis are responding with tank fire and air strikes. i will step out of the frame so you can have a look inside gaza. cameraman will zoom in here and see the black smoke rising. sunset is in an hour and the fighting continues here in southern israel. we also have images from deep inside gaza. our cameras were able to zoom in earlier today looking at some of that destruction along the border between israel and gaza. all of this is taking place as the northern front heats up as well. thousands of israeli troops in the house here anticipating what comes next an expected ground operation in the coming hours or days. i want you to listen to israel's

defense minister who spoke earlier today at the meeting where he talked about how long this expected operation will take. >> we reached the point that there is a completely different security regime here. we have complete freedom of action and that there is no threat from within the -- this will not take a day nor a week. unfortunately not a month. >> not a month. that's what we're hearing from top colonels on the ground in southern israel saying it will take months to complete. they have a three-step idea how it will get done. ultimately entering gaza rile air strikes continue and limited operations inside to get different islamic and hamas cells and pass over leadership to the egyptians or palestinian authority. israel has made clear they don't want to occupy gaza for the long

term. it would make it challenging for the israelis. the country's defense minister saying it will likely take months. back to you. >> gillian: trey yengst in israel. >> shannon: israel bolstering defenses on its northern border with lebanon in response to the rocket fire from hezbollah. concerns are growing that a potential second front could open up against hamas. greg palkot is live in northern israel for that part of the story. hello, greg. >> shannon, yeah, it has been a very active border here as hezbollah and other groups test israel from next door lebanon behind me two miles. we have been hearing a lot of drones overhead and a lot of outgoing israeli artillery headed towards lebanon. one side there were militant mortars and missiles hitting one town. they were taken out.

another side an israeli drone targeted three hezbollah militants trying to make their way over. right here earlier there are a few clashes as well. look at what we saw and what we heard. here in the israel/lebanon border town, authorities are telling people to leave. terror is creeping in on all sides. >> yesterday saw six militant rockets rain down on the town. there was a militant that injured an israeli soldier. the uptick in activity up here is about the invasion down south. >> i recommend all people leave this town. get out fast, not take a risk. we have in the war area a lot of bombs, a lot of terror attacks. >> a lot of bombs and a lot of terror attacks, shannon.

the mayor told us one other thing saying we aren't fighting hezbollah, we're not fighting hamas, we're fighting iran. the big brother to both groups and more who could be calling the shots up here. back to you. >> shannon: greg palkot at the northern border of israel. thank you very much. [sirens] >> shannon: israeli groups getting green light. military planes getting final approve all as the prime minister warns this will be a very long war. >> gillian: a group of volunteers from texas are on the ground in israel providing thousands of meals to people affected by the hamas attacks. >> shannon: keeping an eye on action in the house.

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>> gillian: welcome back. you look live at the house floor now. members are preparing to hold a third round of voting for house speaker, jim jordan facing a very uphill battle right now in its effort to get to 217. the number of votes he will need to clinch the speakership. we'll bring any new developments from the floor live as they happen.

>> shannon: israel's defense minister telling ground troops to be ready to invade gaza as officials warn the battle to eliminate hamas will be difficult, long and intense. ultimately victorious they say. let's bring in lieutenant colonel peter learner with the israeli defense forces. good to have you back with us. >> thank you. >> shannon: i want to play something from president biden last night when he talked about appealing to the american people for further aid for a number of foreign policy issues but especially the people of israel. here is a little bit of what he said last night. >> president biden: when i was in israel yesterday, i said that when america experienced the hell of 9/11 we felt enraged as well while we sought and got justice we made mistakes. i caution the government of israel not to be blinded by rage. >> shannon: heard similar language also from the senate majority leader chuck schumer saying don't let your anger guide you. you most certainly have a very righteous anger and indignation

what happened. how do you balance that with carrying out operations in a way that abides by all laws relevant and how do you take that advice coming from americans? >> well, very grateful for the support of the u.s. and that will be president biden was visit to israel was a core component of that. i would say that we are not on a mission of retribution but an a mission of justice. i would say also the challenge is one where we understand that this is an existential threat. this terrorist organization conducted atrocities unfathom atrocities we make sure never, never happen again. when we embark on our operations from air and ground operations it will be based on three core

principles. distinction. we differentiate between the civilall population, non-combatants and terrorists. that's a core role of our operations. second would be military necessity. our operations are targeted against the specific threats that hamas poses as an organization, as individuals, as an institute of terror, and finally the proportionality. weighing up exactly what is required in order to achieve the military goal while remaining proportionate in the use of force and taking that into consideration the civilian impact of our strikes. so yes, we take very carefully and listen and learn from allies and friends around the world but ultimately this is our existence and we need to be sure that israel's security and the people's security of israel is

guarded. >> shannon: the israeli people are well trained and courageous and now warned multiple times by leadership this could be a lengthy process. i know you have called up hundreds of thousands of reservists and others on active duty. how concerned are you having to deal with another front if hezbollah becomes more active on your northern border? >> we are concerned and have seen over the last 14 days now a constant increase by hezbollah of attempts to attack including anti-tank guided missiles fired on forces around the border. rockets, mortar and sniper fire and gunshot fire. they all happened in the last two weeks. you have reported about them and you have reported earlier about the evacuation of a town of around 25,000 residents. we also already evacuated some

28 other communities in the north. so we are obviously concerned that hezbollah will be challenging us under the instructions of iran in order to divert our attention from the south. but i have two messages for lebanon. first of all the government of lebanon, they are the sovereign responsibility. it is theirs. if they want to maintain the lebanese country they need to stop hezbollah from combating attacks from southern lebanon. the second message is to hezbollah. see how we are dismantling hamas and destroying their infrastructure, see how we're targeting hamas's leaders and think if you want to cross that threshold. that's a very, very clear message to them. >> shannon: colonel, america is with you and the men and women in uniform and those fighting these very courageous and lengthy and drawn out battles. that will not waiver as the u.s.

continues to help. thank you for your time. >> gillian: volunteer group from texas is on the ground inside israel providing thousands of meals to victims of last week's hamas terror attack. they're trying to keep faith alive as the war in the middle east ignites. they're trying to help israelis and palestinians both. casey stiegel is in dallas. >> they've been serving communities for more than 55 years and now it has grown to become the third largest disaster relief network in the nation. but their presence has grown tremendously overseas and dallas baptist men jumped into action the moment this conflict began in israel. they have approximately 20 volunteers on the ground cooking and handing out three meals -- 3,000 meals every single day. 21,000 a week. aside from just feeding those

who have been impacted they are also there to provide emotional support. letting people know that americans stand behind them and they are in it for the long haul. >> that's part of our mission to provide help, hope and healing. more than just the food we hand out to somebody. our presence and trying to give them comfort and help them through what they're going through. >> the next round of workers from across texas and other states are preparing to travel to israel to swap out with the volunteers who have been there since the conflict began. they are doing two week stints rotating in and out and poised to help anyone regardless of their faith. >> since we're there offering humanitarian relief we're feeding anyone that needs food in this time. that's who we are there to help. >> texas baptist men served the

hardest hit areas of the region and been assisting in ukraine, uganda and countless other countries. their funding is through donations. if you want to help head over to the texas baptist men's website. >> gillian: thank you very much. >> shannon: take you back to the house floor within the next 30 minutes the house will meet to take a third vote about jim jordan potentially making that run for speaker. chad pergram is digging around talking to folks and essentially finding that some who are growing weary potentially of this may continue to vote for speaker designate jordan. chad, it sounds like they're growing weary of this process and whether it makes sense to keep going with this particular candidate. >> the reason is because they

don't see a path, an obvious path for jordan to win. i spoke with a senior house republican been here for a long time who voted for jim jordan and that member said this is starting to wear thin. it might be time to move on at some point. we'll see if jordan makes any progress today. he was asked outside his office if he was able to pluck off a couple of people who voted against him. he thought he might be able to. the proof will be in the house. they will establish how many members are here today and then we'll know what the magic number is. if all members vote for a candidate for speaker by name. remember, it is not just the person with the most votes who wins. you have to have an outright majority of the entire house on that particular roll call vote casting ballots for somebody by name. they're doing the quorum call and have nominating speeches for jordan and jeffries.

i asked jeffries a half hour ago if this goes into the weekend are you determined to make sure you have all your members here so you can continue to block jim jordan? he said yes. he called jim jordan a danger to the country if he were to assume the speakership. hakeem jeffries has tried to work and establish rather a pretty good rapport with kevin mccarthy. they would start with the roll call vote where each member is called alphabetically. rise and vote orally and go through a roll one by one. take an hour's time. the other thing when they do start is we'll know early on whether or not jim jordan has the votes. in each of these two previous roll call votes we've been able to determine well before they close the vote if jim jordan would come up short because there are a number of people voting early in the alphabet.

look at don bacon from nebraska who has been one of the most ardent members against jim jordan. the other thing is some of these members don't like that jim jordan and allies have not responded to these threats that they've been getting from some of these jordan allies. you better vote for him or else. outside groups or people threatening members and their families. that has not set well as all. scott perry, one of jordan's biggest allies said look, guys, this happens all the time. he made an equivalencesy saying it's not that bad. it didn't help members if they were willing to turn and vote for jim jordan today. what happens if jordan fails? at the press conference this morning i tried to ask him will we go through the weekend? that is unclear. he kind of has insinuated that but here is the one thing to watch for. this is very important. david joyce, republican from

ohio has a special resolution that they could put on the floor to elect -- underscore that -- elect patrick mchenry the current acting speaker pro tem as the actual speaker proper team. the house has gone through other periods in history without a speaker. so long as they have elected a speaker pro tem, then they can go about the business and start to pass bills, deal with funding the government, deal with the president's aid package to israel and ukraine and taiwan. they can't do anything until they do that. that could be in play if this vote fails later on. back to you guys. >> shannon: chad pergram staying on it as the clock ticks down and wait to see how the dust settles this time around. we'll stay in touch. thank you. >> gillian: thank you, chad. it's been 13 days now since hamas carried out terrorists attacks. idf leadership says the goal is

to completely destroy hamas this time around. is that possible? mike tobin joins us from ashkelon, israel. what are you hearing and seeing this hour? >> defense minister said that this operation to destroy hamas will happen in three stages. the first one will be military like we see now. it will get more intense and take a long time. the second stage will be lower intensity targeting pockets of resistance and the third way he described it involves disengaging by the gaza strip and israel won't be responsible for water, power and crossings. we're two weeks away from the october 7th massacre. had the ability to have a conversation with an american-born commando who fought in his own neighborhood. >> basically what we did was anywhere from the gaza border to the settlement itself, when we

identified terrorists coming in or going out with hostages, we attacked them. >> that complicates thing. >> you don't know if anyone who is going out has civilians with them. children, women, things like that. so every attack has to be very precise. we also had times where we went into a place and the terrorist was dressed as a soldier in order to confuse us and surprise us. >> you would have to make an instant decision. >> exactly, shoot or be shot. i'm a fire support officer, because of the whole complicated situation that was going on over there i also took on an aspect of rescuing civilians. >> your job is to paint targets. rescue isn't what you trained for. >> you're right. the situation was -- even though we train for war we didn't expect something like this. this wasn't war it was massacre, burning bodies, people being dragged through the streets

naked. this wasn't war, this was a massacre. >> have you had any time to deal with the emotions of what you have been through? >> so over the last couple of days we've been preparing for what's coming ahead and i'm just trying to make it out to the other side and later we'll have time to think about what happened really. >> we're keeping a close eye on the rafah crossing from gaza to egypt. 200 aid trunks are ready but haven't gone in. egyptians say it is not their responsibility. u.n. secretary general held a press conference day saying the trucks aren't just aid. they are the lifeline for the palestinian people in gaza. back to you. >> gillian: mike tobin. >> shannon: more attacks on u.s. forces in iraq. two bases were shot at. one in iraq and one syria. no major injuries or deaths.

but u.s.s. carney shot down three cruise missiles in the red sea believed to be launched by militants in lebanon. >> this happened moments before president biden gave that oval office address to the nation last night. we know that two rockets hit u.s. and coalition forces in baghdad. the good news no casualties but injuries on the ground. this comes as it three separate drone attacks hit also in areas of syria and iraq. two drones targeted a garrison in syria. one destroyed drones and one holted in minor injuries to u.s. forces in western iraq. they shot the two drones, destroyed one and damaging the second resulting in minor injuries to coalition forces. one american contractor died of a cardiac arrest while seeking

shelter from the attacks. other troops sustained minor injuries. separately in northern iraq u.s. forces engaged and destroyed a drone resulting in no injuries or damage. >> we'll take all necessary actions to defend u.s. and coalition forces against any threat. any response should one occur will come in a time and manner of our choosing. >> on thursday the u.s. naval destroyer the u.s.s. carney shot down three land attack cruise missiles and several drones fired by houthi militia in yemen. they view the incidents separate despite the attacks taking place after the hospital bombing on tuesday where hamas immediately blamed israel. a group of naval vessels en route in the area of israel to try to keep hezbollah, hamas and any other terrorist organizations at bay and they

can jump into command if needed. back to you. >> shannon: david spunt at the pentagon. thank you. >> thank you. >> gillian: in israel the idf continuing with intense bombing campaign of gaza killing three senior hamas leaders there as it prepares to launch a ground envision. rareian backed terror group one of many surrounding israel committing to destroying the jewish state. we have a reporter from the times of israel. thank you for taking time for us. what are you hearing from your sources there about the timing of a potential ground invasion? >> the potential ground offensive that israel has announced it would undertake at some point, the timing can be affected by a few things. one of them is the palestinians were still in northern gaza.

israeli army is calling them to evacuate south to safe areas. as far as i know somewhere between 600,000 to 700,000 of the 1 million or so have already evacuated. israel appears to be waiting for more to evacuate south. and then it would launch this ground offensive. additionally there is a concern that hezbollah attacks in northern from lebanon could escalate. we we've seen several rockets launched and towns and rocket atakes on israeli towns in northern israel and if this does escalate it could divert attention. now it wants to devote attacking hamas. this could become a major

distraction should hezbollah escalate these attacks. >> gillian: what about one of the other major priorities the idf has told us about during these early days of the bombing campaign, we know they are targeting hamas infrastructure, the tunnels that run underneath gaza, targeting weapons depots, are you hearing about their progress with those targets? >> so far the israeli force has been carrying out quite a significant amount of air strikes. talking about thousands of air strikes and munitions targeting pretty much everything connected to hamas. the command centers, infrastructure, tunnels, sort of assembly areas where there are members of hamas that are planning to carry out attacks. and there has as well been, as you mentioned, several senior members killed. i wouldn't put them as the most senior members, the moderate to high senior members of hamas

because there are still many other sort of top leadership of hamas that israel is interested in killing in this campaign, so for now we've seen a number of members of hamas's political bureau killed. and there are several military commanders israel has struck. most notably israel has focused its efforts on targeting hamas terrorists who participated in the october 7th massacres in southern israel. so the military has identified those who participated in the attacks from footage and then has carried out strikes against them. those included commanders of brigades in hamas and also lower level operatives as well. >> gillian: thank you for taking time out of your own reporting to join us and share what you are finding on the ground. we really appreciate it.

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>> shannon: they are getting ready for nominating speeches on capitol hill. it looks like the former speaker, the one we have the vacancy no longer the speaker kevin mccarthy will take the podium to talk about jim jordan. let's listen. >> for speaker of the house. [applause] . >> now listened to the speeches this week and i can already tell you what my friends on the other side will say using their poll tested phrases. let me correct the record. jim jordan is an effective legislator.

[applause] to legislate is about more than the name on the bill. it is about reaching compromise and working long hours behind the scenes to get the job done. the house will come to order. when you are the chairman of a committee, you are responsible for dozens of bills passing the house and being signed into law. so let me tell you a few facts that don't come into the polls. as the leader of the judiciary committee jim has passed more bills through the house in just three years than the entire democrat leadership team that has their collective 28 years in congress. [applause]

. mr. hag lair has a whopping one whole bill signed into law. a post office in san bernardino. i guess that's good enough to be caucus chair. jim jordan on the other hand has a hand in drafting bills like the rains act to curb unaccountable bureaucrats. he helped negotiate and pass hr2, the strongest border security bill this house has ever passed. [applause] . many of you know because you were in the room watching jim find compromise. watching jim listen to your

position and finding a bill that can pass. and let's put this in reality. we have had large majorities but we never could pass a border security bill. that takes leadership. now they will get upset by it. why? every single democrat voted against securing our border. democrats are attacking jim because they don't want the american people to remember that they voted against securing and keeping a wide open border. they may not want the american public to know the number of people we catch on the terrorist watch list. they may not want people to know what the future holds in the security for our nation based upon their policies. name me one bill democrats a passed that would secure our border. i'm waiting. you can't because they haven't.

mr. speaker, the truth is if we measure lawmakers by how many bills have their name on it, we're using the wrong measuring stick. some of my members, i know, with the most bills to their name are the most selfish. jim jordan on the other hand is one of the most selfless members i've known. [applause] . i've known jim a long time so i want to do something different. i actually called the freshman members on his committee and asked them what do you think of your chairman? here is just a few. i quote, jim empowers every member of judiciary to pursue what interests them. a quote by another he lets each of us take the lead on the

issues that are important to us even letting freshmen and junior members take important roles. another one, he trusts our judgment on how we handle issues and witnesses and always seeks our input on key issues. another, as a freshman, he had me lead off a hearing that related to my subject matter expertise and he goes out of his way to highlight member successes. he is straightforward, honest, and reliable. that is who jim jordan is and that's what being a speaker is all about. [applause] . some of you might not know this but jim and i have a long history. we created because we take our

job serious. [applause] . i first met jim as a candidate, i traveled to ohio, remember pulling up for breakfast at a bob evans in ohio. there was jim having a meeting listening to constituents. i traveled with him throughout the day from rotary to farm bureau, to just listening to people that had concerns. and i watched them the same jim jordan i see today. he was a leader, a listener, and a fighter. we were actually elected to congress that same year and became close friends. it was a small class. there is only 13 of us. one of the smallest republican classes in modern history. over time, we took different routes. jim actually ran against me for leader in 2018.

it was a hard fought battle. but i never once questioned his skills or commitment to this conference or this country. after the race i became leader and we had an opening for the ranking member on house oversight. jim didn't even apply for the job. i walked in to steering, didn't tell steering. i walked into the other room and i picked up the phone and i called jim. i said i know you aren't running for the job, but i believe in what jim collins says in the book good to great. you put the right people in the right seats on the bus. jim, you and i may have challenged one another but you were right for the seat.

it was right again when i asked jim to join the intel committee and democrats turned the intel committee into an impeachment committee and right when we asked jim to step up and be the right person to lead judiciary committee as chairman. and jim is the right person to take that seat behind me to be our next speaker of the house. [applause] . mr. speaker we have an important job to do. the american people expect us to focus on the most pressing issues. we've watched what the democrat majority has done and brought us inflation not since the 70s and opening up our border. bringing fentanyl, killing

americans each and every day. and now we have a war in israel. this country is too great for small visions. trust me, being speaker is not an easy job especially in this conference. but i've seen jim spend his entire career fighting for freedom no matter what, no matter the odds, and i know he is ready for the job. and so it is my honor to say as a member of the republican conference i am direct i had by the vote of that conference to present for the election of office of the speaker of representative the honorable jim jordan, a representative from the state of ohio. i yield back. [applause]

. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman woman from massachusetts, miss clark. >> thank you, mr. chair. 212 is a new york area code and it's our call for a speaker of integrity, intelligence, and inclusion. 212 is our call for a speaker who will protect our children, our veterans, our planet. 212 is our call for a speaker who will grow the middle class, lower costs, create good paying jobs, and make healthcare affordable. 212 is our call for a speaker who will secure liberty, justice, and opportunity for everyone.

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