i think we're four votes away from brian fitzpatrick voting. so, take a listen here for fitzpatrick. that's one who looked like he could flip. >> okay. so we will keep listening. we'll let everybody know if fitzpatrick also flips. but the bottom line here is that it doesn't look like the math is there for jordan at this point. nothing is a done deal until the vote is official. but, ali, you're there on capitol hill, and you reported earlier that the expectation today is that jordan isn't likely to pick up new support. is that still what you're hearing or could there be a surprise here? >> reporter: yes, that's definitely still what we're operating under, not the idea that jordan is going to lose this vote, which he is, but the margin by which he's going to lose it. i'm looking down at my phone, because steve was right to call out brian fitzpatrick, who, of course, has now just voted for patrick mchenry. that's another loss in the jordan column. but that's also not the only new no vote that we're expecting. i spoke to new york congressman mark mo

congressman brian fitzpatrick, just trying to make congress work. u bet, thanks, brian. >> brian: we reached out to the minority leader's office for a statement on the deal that would have saved kevin mccarthy but did not receive a response. meanwhile, go other to carley shimkus with the other breaking news. >> carley: turning to america's fentanyl crisis. a bronx day care owner and two other suspects are due back in court next month. all three pleading not guilty to murder charges yesterday in connection with to the fentanyl poisoning death of a 1-year-old boy. prosecutors say the suspects hid drugs in the floor boards and were using babies as shields to protect their operation. and in another part of the bronx, federal agents raiding a suspected fentanyl pill mill. four men are ace facing charges in that case. g.o.p. presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is back on the campaign trail today in new hampshire one day after an incident at a stop in iowa. according to his campaign, protprotesters were yelling and swearing at vivek before one of them ju

we got a statement from brian fitzpatrick, republican from pennsylvania, our viewers may be familiarh him, the republican who heads up the problem solvers caucus. he is as much of a moderate as anyone is inclined to think exists. this very lengthy statement, he makes the case that he will grudgingly vote for jim jordan for a lot of the same reasons i explained. the government needs to get back to whatever kind of functionality it can by electing a speaker. he goes to great lengths to describe the problems in this country that he thinks need to be solves, border, israel-hamas war, the war in ukraine, issues that congress needs to address and can't without a speaker. he also continues to attack the eight members who forced republicans and the country into this situation by voting to oust mccarthy. that irresponsible action he places at the root of this. tries to express the frustration we have heard from a lot of republicans who don't want to be in this moment, don't want to face what to them is a choice that -- in some cases almost untenable between jim jordan and hakeem jeffries. in

this is the group led by brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania. what i am hearing from moderates and really from democrats across the spectrum, including progressives is that they are looking to hakeem jeffries right now. you laid out earlier how it would work, and the numbers, and the fact that kevin mccarthy would need some democratic votes in order to survive, or he would need some democrats to vote present to lower the threshold in order to survive. what democrats have told me is they are looking towards their leader hakeem jeffries to give them direction, give them marching orders about how to proceed. certainly, there would be in that event conversations between mccarthy and hakeem jeffries. i think a power-sharing agreement is something a little too far out of a west wing episode, a little too cute, but democrats would want to extract something from mccarthy. what that is remains to be seen. if it is it an up or down vote on ukraine aid, that may not be enough for democrats to get on board. kevin mccarthy is someone who democrats do not tru

patrick mchenry, and two people vote for him, bacon and i think that dreamer, and now we have brian fitzpatrick flipping from jordan to mchenry. >> and going back to the conversation of dan crenshaw, and he said, the conference said he is our nominee, and so that is what he said, but now members crenshaw who said one more vote. >> and now, garbarino. >> jeffries. garb garbarino? >> zeldin. >> zeldin. >> they are sending a message to jordan that we have to stop this. >> and they are saying, enough, enough. the math is not there, and we have been loyal republicans, and i need to go home to explain this to my constituents while we are on the verge of it, we have this. >> jimenez of florida coming up. listen in. >> jeffries. jimenez. >> mccarthy. >> another mccarthy vote for jimenez, and he sis a 11th for no. >> and that is a no vote, because people are sort of saying, that he might be the solution. >> the patrick vote was a switch, but b, it is a biden district and we talked about the 18 republicans who are currently in the districts that joe biden won, and six of them initially, one-third had bee

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if it continues, there is interest among the problem solvers like brian fitzpatrick for the republicans. it would deafly not to put hakeem jeffries in the speaker chair. they will not vote for a democrat. could it be mchenry getting powers through to conduct business as a temporary speaker? democrats want to see something for that. what they are looking for is maybe one more seat on the rules committee. it's balanced for republicans. they could see the change on the suspension calendar. they could argue they have someone on there and they may still be popular. there is talk about doing that. i think it's a last resort and would only really come up in a situation where the next nine candidates all failed and chaos was persisting. host: let's go back to what you are saying on the next deadline of november 17 when the government would not have any more funding. there would be a shut down november 18. what are the chances of that and what needs to happen before to keep the government open? guest: chances remain high. i thought jim jordan would get the speakership and he would reduce the cha

he's become a conservative negotiator, and brian fitzpatrick of the problem solvers. they had the idea let's decide who has 217 votes behind closed doors. this sort of multistep process before going to the floor. that was defeated. 130-88 i believe the tally was to defeat that idea. this could create a secret veto. early stages would be secret ballot. resulting in more of a public within the conference vote to pressure the hold outs. it was tabled a motion by steve womack. that was an early sign of scalise would have significant report. he would try to prevent this from getting into the rule. host: steve scalise has been serving as majority leader. if he becomes speaker of the house, what happens with the rest of leadership? eric: we are hearing tom emmer, majority whip is interested in moving up. my eye on elise stefanik, an ambitious, talented, and trump loyal conference chairwoman who could try to go for that position. kevin hern is also someone who could go for that position. he was considering a run for speaker. he's head of the republican study committee. more p

if it continues, there is interest among the problem solvers like brian fitzpatrick for the republicans. it would deafly not to put hakeem jeffries in the speaker chair. they will not vote for a democrat. could it be mchenry getting powers through to conduct business as a temporary speaker? democrats want to see something for that. what they are looking for is maybe one more seat on the rules committee. it's balanced for republicans. they could see the change on the suspension calendar. they could argue they have someone on there and they may still be popular. there is talk about doing that. i think it's a last resort and would only really come up in a situation where the next nine candidates all failed and chaos was persisting. host: let's go back to what you are saying on the next deadline of november 17 when the government would not have any more funding. there would be a shut down november 18. what are the chances of that and what needs to happen before to keep the government open? guest: chances remain high. i thought jim jordan would get the speakership and he would reduce the cha

brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania. thank you for being here. congress woman, about the reaction to the attacks in israel and what we as a country should be doing. >> it is terrific in my prayers go out to everyone who has been injured. i have friends who i do now. we have to unite as a country and we have two stand behind israel on all costs. introduced a bill to bolster the iron dome and to give israel more safeguards. this is the worst that we have seen in 50 years in this country. >> bret: is it a tough time that the house is frozen in the midst of all of this? >> unbelievably ridiculous. we are in a situation. i'm not sure that they are not related. the house is paralyzed right now. speaker cannot do anything, we have no clear leader in the race, don't know when we are going to have one. world this is in crisis. ukraine under assault, israel under assault, taiwan under crosshairs. >> bret: here's what the secretary of state said about the funds and whether the house needed to act quickly. >> tremendous amount of aid and assistance already i

congress member brian fitzpatrick told nbc over the weekend that spending time fighting if mccarthy shoulds attention away from bigger issues. >> it will grind operations to a halt. we have a lot of threats. china, russia, iran. internal challenges with the border and inflation and crime. that's what we should focus on, not this. >> reporter: congress this week is expected to continue moving ahead with bills that will fund the government in the long term. the house and senate democrats are also prepared to make additional push for aid to ukraine which was not included in the stopgap measure over the weekend. mccarthy said any aid to ukraine has to be paired with policy changes at the border to limit immig immigration. they averted a shutdown, but they have a long way to go at this point before the government is funded for next year and this kicking the can down the road is no longer something to do. >> emily, i have a couple questions. any market implications to the drama with speaker mccarthy? what is the future for the house speaker? we have a short-term deal with the shutdown, but the l

. >> including just now as you were talking, brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania. one of the key republicans from a biden district just voted for johnson. he was one of the ones that had moved away from jordan in the last round that we saw here of speaker votes. look where it says others. zero. we haven't been here before in this whole process. zero numbers are voting for somebody other than the two nominees. folks at home. this is actually what a speaker's contest usually looks like in the house of representatives. we haven't seen it for a while. we have not seen a republican speaker candidate win on the first vote since paul ryan did so in 2017 more than six and a half years ago. to kasie's point about the intense rifts within the republican party, and how this moment comes to be, and yet is not a solution for their larger problems. kasie mentioned the vacate vote. i would go back to mccarthy's 15 rounds. it took kevin mccarthy 15 rounds at the beginning of this area to become speaker because of the real divisions that existed. >> i think that's why it is so impo

and brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania and mark mollinaro of new york. concerns are the members that this chaos could cost them their seats in the republican majority? >> their very concerned. but the reason a lot of them voted for jordan was because they had a built in belief that, while jordan is probably going to win this, we think, and they want to stay loyal to the guy who is going to be speaker. they're from districts that are around new york city, los angeles, philadelphia, these are really expensive media markets. and they don't know what to do. they're afraid, because there are five of them up in the new york media market and, well, whoever is speaker next, might only have money to finance three of the five campaigns. >> yeah. >> and so they just sort of were just -- a lot of them were basically trying to hide as they were casting their votes for jordan. >> and you can't overstate the significance of mccarthy's fundraising machine. he raised so much money for these members an now he's stepped aside, the next speaker will have to do what mccarthy

he lost 22 ballots, voted on speaker on thursday, he's down to 25, brian fitzpatrick, republican pennsylvania, kane of new jersey and mark molinaro, republican from new york. they are tabulating the official ballots. patrick mchenry, acting speaker pro tem , i spoke to kevin mccarthy, former house speaker and asked what is next. and have a conference meeting probably around one:00. it is unclear what they are going to solve. by the time they have these meetings. yesterday morning, let me tell you how much whiplash there's been on capitol hill. they had a meeting at 11:00. prior to that, the plan was to go into the floor and look for jim jordan, that supposed to be the third roll call vote. they had a meeting and jim jordan said he was behind the plan to elect patrick mchenry, the speaker pro tem, so he could do things on a more permanent basis and get the house running. jim jordan dialed back from that and said i want to go to the floor, there was not a floor vote last night. they came out and said jim jordan was going to have a press conference. he had one at 8:00 in the morning, he indicate

stated they don't support him are ann wagner, mike rogers, mario diaz and don bacon along with brian fitzpatrickting a speaker in place. >> we have a global crisis that we didn't have when the speaker process started playing out two weeks ago. now we have a lack of confidence in the administration. republicans are doing themselves no favor by not coming together and getting behind in this case jim jordan. you're supposed to have the fight in conference behind the scenes, that's supposed to happen and that did happen. jim jordan came out victorious. it really is up to those members of congress who might have personal disagreements with him to now rally behind him because the country is at stake. i hope more stations have some of these holdouts on the air and ask them what is their problem. do they have a real ideological difference with jim jordan or is it something simple like he snubbed me at the water cooler. are they holding off for better office places and stuff like had that. america can't wait for those kind of personal hiccups to get in the way of appointing a speaker. maria: yeah, i'm tr

he and his new york colleagues and brian fitzpatrick from pennsylvania, these are the people who by and large have a huge -- they're going to have a big say when it comes to the next speaker and i can't see any of them -- i don't know about any of them. i have a tough time imagining all of them would support jim jordan or scalise. we'll have to see who the other candidates who are that get into this race or are dragged into this race. remember paul ryan didn't get in on his own. he got in after he was dragged in by most of the conference. i think you might see that again in the coming weeks. >> so certainly some news there that scalise and jordan, at least jake doesn't think he'll be the favorites. jake, give us the feeling among republicans. the house writ large particularly those in the gop now a couple days after mccarthy was ousted, like what's the mood there? and what's the sense as to how could they govern going forward? >> they can't, to be frank with you. it's very -- it's very confused. it's very frustrated. it's very listless, and i think, listen, most of congress is gone toda

one is brian fitzpatrick. he is from bucks county, pennsylvania. district, right outside philadelphia, he voted for jordan twice in the first two rounds. his district voted for biden by six points. he sent indications he was ready to move on maybe to mchenry that didn't go anywhere. he defected away from jordan. the next one was mark molinaro, a freshman from new york. lower catskills, southern tier, if you can picture that. very politically competitive territory. voted for biden by five points, that district under its current configuration, in 2020. the third to break is from new jersey, tom kane, son of the former governor. a freshman republican. had voted jordan on both of the first two ballots. his district voted for joe biden by four points in 2020. kane is a target in 2024. a lot of folks were surprised he had been with jordan. on the third round, he moved away from jordan. this means that of the 18 biden district republicans in the house, nine of them, with the addition of these three, nine of them have now voted against jim juror dan. that

i spoke today to congressman brian fitzpatrick who runs the swing district in pennsylvania. he said that if this motion to vacate continues to persist, and matt gaetz continues to make these threats, he doesn't think that gaetz is going to succeed and removing mccarthy. he says the republicans should revisit that rule package. the problem with, that is not clear if the votes are there in the republican conference to change the rules at this moment. there are several right-wing members that forced mccarthy to give his concession, allowing any one member to go to the floor and force a vote to where the house could overthrow. it's not clear, several dozen members want to change the rules. they still like the idea of keeping him on a short leash. broadly, cases and -- he's going to call this motion to vacate. it has, as luke indicated, possibly been going down to democrats. they've been keeping their powder dry. it is not really clear what they're going to do. they are at least open to a conversation about how to move forward. then you have this push and pull, which makes it ver

brian fitzpatrick, moderate from pennsylvania has said he will not vote for jim jordan. i don't know what's going to unlock this, katy, but let's take a step back here. this is now a crisis. this is now a government or a branch of the government in the middle of a massive crisis. there's no speaker. there's no third in line to the president. there's no way to pass a government funding bill in less than a month. no way to get aid to israel, to ukraine. the house has been closed down for 16 days aside from a few speaker votes, and they have no way out. zero way out. they can't elect a speaker. they can't elect a speaker pro tem. they can't elect a former speaker. this is a disaster for republicans. if you're a democrat, katy, to be honest with you, and who knows how long this holds over and if it has sal yens, forget chew gum and walk at the same time, they can't even walk. that is conference in massive crisis with no way of fixing it. >> the government shutdown deadline, the continuing resolution lasts until november 17th. it might seem like that's a few days away but the

as a matter of fact, you saw brian fitzpatrick, someone who doesn't hold my view on a lot of things ande republican endorse jim jordan, my hero and mentor and judiciary chairman. so i think we're actually going to come together quite soon. i think we've got two great choices and i think that you're going to really see an invigorated republican party. we were in the doldrums with kevin mccarthy. we had no budget and we've not had a budget in this country for decades. it's time we follow the law and work with the senate and the president and divided government to meet our priorities. >> there's no guarantee that either of the two candidates running for speaker that they'll get a new budget, given that you are dealing with a divided congress and that you don't have the number, quite frankly, congressman. >> we have the numbers to pass appropriations bills to fund 70% of the government and for the criticism that i'm knowa agent of chaos, i voted for those appropriations bills, for our military, our veterans, our department of agriculture and our department of homeland security and the borde

mark momolnaro from new york pu out a similar statement, brian fitzpatrick from the philadelphia suburbsut out a similar statement. a lot of republicans in the last two days were putting out statements trying to get a movement going to move away from jordan and move towards that idea of patrick mchenry as an extended interim speak e. that idea seemed to blow up in the republican conference yesterday. how many of those republicans are now just going to be no votes on jim jordan. so again, there were 22 total republicans who voted against him last time around. he only had a total of 199 to be speaker. is that number going to get close to 30, the number of republicans against him on this next ballot? is it going to go over 30? how much frustration is there on the republican side that jordan continues to push forward with this? how much frustration is there that that idea of putting mchenry in there for an extended period kind of blew up in the conference yesterday. is that frustration going to be reflected in the votes we're about to see? is there a group of republicans who want to send a m

some names for instance, brian fitzpatrick from pennsylvania, mike garcia, tom kaine jr.m california, dave schweikert, arizona, david valadao from california, they represent biden districts, they voted for jim jordan yesterday, does this potential idea that is now in circulation of, hey, maybe it doesn't have to be jordan, maybe there is a way to get mchenry in there to make this look more bipartisan politically speaking, just in terms of their incentives in their home districts, the politics of their districts, that might be appealing to them. if they see in voting against jordan on the second ballot a potential pathway to get to that, is that something they feel politically they would be comfortable with, i think that's one group in particular i would look for here in this new no votes category. again, that is the question here. how much ground has jordan succeeded in making up from the no votes and how much new ground has he lost, if any, in terms of other voters? i stress, kevin mccarthy, took him 15 ballots, but kevin mccarthy never took a major step backwards in his

essentially, there was democrats saying to brian fitzpatrick and other leaders of the caucus, we will help you if you make changes to the rules package, basically getting rid of the motion to vacate, which allowed matt gaetz and the far right insurgents really take the gop conference hostage. you know, even outside of congress, democracy scholars, a lot of people have agreed that the rules package as is, you know, is really corrosive to the system and penalizes people for working across the aisle and doing anything in a bipartisan basis. essentially, what they were told in return is, we don't have time to do this. the vote to vacate mccarthy is happening today. we can't get a new rules package done. it's not realistic. democrats threw their hands up and said, well, you know, this problem is much bigger than today and the rules package. there are a number of things that mccarthy has done down the line to betray us. we can trust you guys. mccarthy can't be trusted. we're not going to bail him out. but you make a really valid point. i mean, dan lipinski, former congressman from illinois,

republicans are in good shape to defend their seats because brian fitzpatrick is able to represent thetisan balance of the district effectively. he's going to pitch his vote for mike johnson as saying we needed to simply reopen the house. i was sick of the house being locked down. that is his counter to the argument that he supported an extremist. but there are other republicans who will be in tougher shape who don't have as well established a brand as fitzpatrick. he's been in office for more than a decade. so you got mike garcia in california's 27th district. a lot of freshmen in new york like mike waller in the 17th district and anthony d esposito on long island who represents a district biden won by 14 points. all of those are republicans are more vulnerable to the attacks that they campaigned one way in the midterms and voted differently. host: by last analysis there were 22 tossup seats now you're saying there is 24. who are the two additional? guest: this week we are making a couple of ratings changes. in california's 22nd district, one of the only surviving -- you seen a couple

still has the support of the bulk of his conference, and lawmakers like republican congressman brian fitzpatrickhat spending time fighting over whether mccarthy should be speaker takes lawmakers' attention away from bigger priorities. >> it's going to grind operations here to a halt. we have a lot of threats. china, russia, iran, we have internal challenges here in the united states with our border, with inflation, with crime. that's who we should be focusing on, not this. >> it remains to be seen what happens with mccarthy's speakership and government funding, but there is a real possibility that come mid-november we're going to be right back to where we were last week with lawmakers needing to move another short-term funding bill. guys. >> yeah, unscheduled fire drill, emily. here's the post's take on it. does this look like a door handle? congressman from the bronx said he thought that would open a door. he was a high school principal, a school principal that actually did have fire drills. so he probably -- that probably isn't a real light, not exactly what he was trying to do, i don't think.

. >> that was brian fitzpatrick on "squawk box" yesterday dishowin the disappointment of the ouster ofi guess i was going back thinking, wow. this is the group of 34 who work across the aisle. 64. 32 of each party who work across the aisle and who have always been able to talk to each other. i wondered how much tension this put on all of your relationships with each other. this exercise. >> it was an emotional few days. i understand that. i'm really lucky to have great colleagues on both sides of the aisle to work with. brian is a phenomenal leader. these are tough times. we will get through them. i have been on the phone with my colleagues on the republican side and talking about how we move forward and what steps we need next. i guess the 38 days from now we are facing a government shutdown. we have a lot of work to do to protect the country and we avoided the country working together this past week to help ensure our veterans and activity duty military and seniors and children are protected. now we get back to the table. we are already talking about how we change the rules of the ho

if it continues, there is interest among the problem solvers like brian fitzpatrick for the republicansfly not to put hakeem jeffries in the speaker chair. they will not vote for a democrat. could it be mchenry getting powers through to conduct business as a temporary speaker? democrats want to see something for that. what they are looking for is maybe one more seat on the rules committee. it's balanced for republicans. they could see the change on the suspension calendar. they could argue they have someone on there and they may still be popular. there is talk about doing that. i think it's a last resort and would only really come up in a situation where the next nine candidates all failed and chaos was persisting. host: let's go back to what you are saying on the next deadline of november 17 when the government would not have any more funding. there would be a shut down november 18. what are the chances of that and what needs to happen before to keep the government open? guest: chances remain high. i thought jim jordan would get the speakership and he would reduce the chance a bit. the

this is the group led by brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania.i am hearing from moderates and really from democrats across the spectrum, including progressives is that they are looking to hakeem jeffries right now. you laid out earlier how it would work, and the numbers, and the fact that kevin mccarthy would need some democratic votes in order to survive, or he would need some democrats to vote present to lower the threshold in order to survive. what democrats have told me is they are looking towards their leader hakeem jeffries to give them direction, give them marching orders about how to proceed. certainly, there would be in that event conversations between mccarthy and hakeem jeffries. i think a power-sharing agreement is something a little too far out of a west wing episode, a little too cute, but democrats would want to extract something from mccarthy. what that is remains to be seen. if it is it an up or down vote on ukraine aid, that may not be enough for democrats to get on board. kevin mccarthy is someone who democrats do not trust at