claire mccaskill, always good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> so, again, to declare the point, i tend to think it's -- it's one of these who knows? so if that is speaker of the house is not donald trump, and again, i think it likely will not be. if i had to bet, i would bet against it. there are two official declared candidates, the first is congressman steve scalise, and mccarthy lieutenant who wants to clear himself, quote, david duke without the baggage, that's an actual quote, when he was coming up in louisiana politics. he was declaring that is a selling point, just for context. and there's this gentleman, that would be ohio congressman jim jeffries. sorry, jim jordan. [laughter] jim jordan, you probably recognize him. he spent a lot of time on television. he's been doing the rounds trying to sell himself as a serious legislator and peacemaker, as if we have all not been watching his antics for the last five years. here's the thing. the line between that gentlemen, jim jordan, and matt gaetz, is really thi

claire mccaskill, thank you as always for your wisdom and thoughts tonight., alex. >> that is our show for tonight, now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening,. lawrence >> good evening, alex. hakeem jeffries may be on his way to setting the record for getting the most votes for speaker

senator, also an msnbc political analyst, the great claire mccaskill. terms of democrats and how they have handled all of this. is there any chance that democrats do anything to help republicans get out of a mess of their own making here? >> this is the republicans problem to solve. what a message, with what's going on in the middle east. you get another government shutdown looming, urgent questions about how government needs to handle a i, and these folks can't even nominate a speaker. and given what is happening right now, the promises i'm sure scalise is going to have to wait to secure the votes, it should scare us all. >> clare, i wonder what you make of the backdrop of the israel hamas war and the republican, is the right word, ineptitude? in sort of getting their act together to figure out, who's gonna lead the conference and then how to assist in something that i think they understand is of great importance? >> i think what this shows is that this is beyond ineptitude. typically, when there is a crisis, parties satisfied some of their differences

msnbc political analyst my dear friend claire mccaskill.k mckinnon is here and person, former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain. he's also among the co-hosts of the circus on showtime. stuart stevens is, here are a veteran of the mitromney and george w. bush's presidential campaign. he is now at the lincoln project. his newest book which we talked about all summer is now here. the conspiracy to end america. five ways my old party is driving democracy to autocracy. gentlemen, welcome. i am turning to you first, claire. even with a tunnel vote tomorrow, do you see any end in sight with this speaker vote pick? well, i will tell, you they lost some votes when chris christie said he would be great. i think, i think the problem they're going to have it is those three questions that people want to answered, one, did you believe that american voters should have been affirmed? should the government shut down? third, should we find ukraine? and the problem is when you answer those three questions, you have got 8 to 10 people who are going to

. >> claire mccaskill is a former democratic senator of missouri. tim miller, a former rnc spokesman, now writer of -- they join me now. clare, you have seen a lot in politics, but i will, in my political career, have truly never seen anything like this. it really does, they do seem stuck. am i miss reading? what do you think? >> oh no, they are stuck. and by the way, this is a plot that the people would laugh at that was pitch to somebody in hollywood. i mean, let's take a wide lens here. we are talking about a handful of extremists troubling a speaker out over the objection of 90% of the republican party. then they gather and vote secretly to nominate a new speaker. that guy gets one vote and then the radical extremists say, i'm sorry, you don't get any more votes, we are done, you are out. we are going to put our radical extremists in their. and by the way, it radical extremist who doesn't play well with others, chris. and they all know this. he's never passed a bill in 16 years. can you imagine? being in congress 16 years and never managing to g

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call us now or visit getfedupnow.org today. >>> we are back with our dear friend claire mccaskill.issues as a united states senator. you feel these issues as deeply as i do as a mama and a grandma. where are your thoughts today? >> well, clearly, iran was very nervous about the green shoots of cooperation that were emerging between some arab nations and israel. make no mistake about it, nicolle, iran and hamas are not just enemies of israel, they're enemies of peace. iran doesn't want peace in the middle east. they want domination. and they have no respect for democracy or human rights. so, i would leave this hour with this thought. when we do not support our institutions that we need at moments like this, namely our military and our law enforcement, we put our countries at risk. and america needs to take a lesson right now. we need to quit blocking military appointments. we need to quit bad-mouthing our military and undermining our law enforcement. we need to realize that they are essential to protecting us. and it is divisions within internal politics in israel that helped attrac

we appreciate your being on this morning. >>> claire mccaskill, thank you as well.>> coming up, former governor chris christie will be our guest. we'll get his take on the gag order imposed on donald trump and the republican chaos on capitol hill. >>> also ahead, comedian, keegan-michael key will join the conversation for his new book, the history of sketch comedy. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. home runs doing it hisat-bats yesterday. lifting the minnesota twins to a 3-1 win over the blue jays in the opener best of three american league wild card series. the victory also finally halts the twin's record 18-game post season losing streak. that's now over. minnesota can wrap up in game two while toronto aims to losing its fourth consecutive playoff series. the winner goes to houston to play the astros in the a.l. division series. >>> in tampa, the texas rangers bounced back from a weekend chance that sent them on the road now. the team scattered six hits over seven innings taking advantage of sloppy defense by the rays to win their wild card opene

senator, now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. national security and intelligence analyst. good to have you both. >> claire, i want to get your take on the astros and the rangers later. >> no. >> i think right now, we're going to talk about the president's speech. richard brought up a great point about the three markers the president laid down. we always talk about doing two things at once. last night, he told israel, we're on your side. we're going to be with you as you fight this terrorist organization that raped, killed, tortured, and burned israeli citizens. at the same time, he said what, you know, the three markers he laid down, reminded me of what david ignatius wrote in a column a week or so ago, that israel needs to fight this war thinking about the day after. that's exactly what joe biden said. he said, don't repeat our mistakes. limit casualties. know that we're all moving toward a two-state solution. talk about how artfully that speech was crafted last night. so much so, fox news contributors are saying it was a great s

claire mccaskill, thank you as always for your wisdom and thoughts tonight. i appreciate it, my friend. >> you bet, alex. >> that is our show for tonight, now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening,. lawrence >> good evening, alex. hakeem jeffries may be on his way to setting the record for getting the most votes for speaker, more than anyone else who hasn't been elected speaker. >> it's unbelievable to see those vote totals when hakeem jeffries is the leader on the board. shocking. and its side of the time, lawrence. >> we'll see what the board says tomorrow. thanks, alex. >> have a good show. >> thank you. air force one was wheels up at andrews air force base at 5:52 pm. president biden is now four hours into the ten hour flight to israel, where air force one is expected to land about about 11 am local time in israel. a little over an hour into the flight, at 709 pm, the white house issued this statement from president biden on air force one. i am outraged and deeply saddened by the explosion at the al ahili arab hospital in gaza.

senator claire mccaskill joins us. sahil, i heard that -- is it the hannity factor?g progress, nicolle. last week, late last week jim jordan was about 65 republican votes away from becoming speaker of the house. that was after a second ballot where they asked do you have confidence in jordan, would you vote for him on the floor? now his whip count is very different. he's only five to ten votes away from getting that magic number of 217. that's according to the republican congressman larry bouchon who i spoke to as well as a second source familiar with this whip count. this comes after some very aggressive tactics by jordan allies that many republicans have been frustrated with, unhappy with. one senior republican aide told me they've been threatening people with primaries, they've been using conservative media hit pieces. i'm just quoting this person directly. and mean tweets from their influencer army tactics that are described as intimidation and bullying. the question now is not who's going to support jordan, nicolle. it's who's going to block jordan on the floor

senator, also an msnbc analyst the great claire mccaskill.s there any chance democrats do anything to help republicans get out of a mess of their own making here? >> this is the republicans' problem to solve. and what a message with what's going on in the middle east, another government shutdown looming, urgent questions about how government needs to handle a.i., and these folks can't even nominate a speaker. and given what's happening right now, the promises i'm sure scalise is going to have to make to secure the votes should scare us all. >> yeah, claire, i wonder what you make of the backdrop of the israel-hamas war and the republican -- is the right word ineptitude dates getting their act together and figure out "a" how to lead their conference, and "b," assist in something that is of great importance. >> i think this shows this is ineptitude because typically when there's a crisis parties set aside some of their differences and come together to unify around causes that are more important, frankly, than, you know, who's the next speaker,

senator claire mccaskill here and msnbc legal analyst andrew weissman is back.ant to get into the spectacle, whether or not it's what trump was trying to do or not, what was clear to everyone watching was his barely contained rage and humiliation. >> we've all seen him speak in front of cameras a million times, right, and there are times when he seems to be kind of feigning anger, producing anger and frustration, but this was really unbridled, really, i think, a different level that happen we've seen from him and it's just remarkable, as you said, just historically to think about a former president, a front runner who is in a courtroom in manhattan facing possible fine of up to $250 million and existential threat to the things that matter to him most, these businesses that he built and that in his mind were the reason that he should be president, showed the best of him, that could all be taken away from him. that a receiver could be running it is clearly like really feeling the weight of this weighing down on him as this thing just starts. >> your line of report

senator, now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill.house correspondent for "the new york times," peter baker. peter, i'll start with you. we've been talking about the remarks we just saw by the secretary of state and also benjamin netanyahu just moments ago. but yesterday, president biden made it very clear that he wasn't giving up on trying to bring hostages home, american hostages, israeli hostages. can you talk about the complexity of that right now? >> very complex, obviously. we don't yet know exactly how many americans are being held. the last number the white house gave us was that there are 17 americans unaccounted for. it's unclear whether some of those now may be included in that revised death toll that secretary blinken just gave us in jerusalem of 25. that's three more than they gave us yesterday. it's possible some of these 17 are not hostage but are, in fact, simply still being identified as casualties. in fact, john kirby, the white house spokesman, told us yesterday that the number, even within the 17 who are actually b

there will be times as claire mccaskill used to say, the door swings both ways in washington. let's think very carefully about whether we want to set a precedent where the united states senate defunds public servants with whom we disagree. this amendment should be rejected. the presiding officer: there is no further debate, the question is on the amendment. is there a sufficient second? there appears so. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler. ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cardin. the clerk: mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuch

and for claire mccaskill watching right now, what happened to the cardinals ts year?you're aolutely right. i was lucky enough to be a part of that organization in '09. i think for me it got off to a terrible start right out of the gate. there was some manager/player kind of dustups early, guys sent down that didn't think they should get sent down. an adjustment to willson contreras. molina covered up a lot of flaws for a lot of people in that organization. you bring in a new catcher, the pitcher is working with him, got off to a little bit of a rough start. but when the dust settled for me when you looked at the st. louis cardinals' roster, the reason they struggled, today's games are about high velocity, nasty, exploding pitchers that strike guys out. st. louis didn't really offer that. a lot of balls in play. a lot of contact all over the place. their starters got off to a tough start and they were never able to really regroup. >> mark is amazing. throw a team at him, he will break down the whole thing. >> there you go. >> before we let you go, you manage the wbc, t

claire mccccaskill. richard haass, katty kay, jonathan lemire, and mike barnicle are still with us, as well. >> senator mccaskillommittee, these are the issues you would be not only very familiar with but that you dealt with when it involved the u.s. forces. i'm curious, you're hearing from "the new york times," senior administration officials, saying that, right now, it doesn't seem that israel has an achievable military goal in gaza. a lot of calls for them to sit back, wait while the hostage crisis is resolved. what would your recommendation be, not only to the israeli government but also to our government? what should we be advising them to do? >> well, certainly, we have experience with trying to clear and hold territory, frankly, that is maybe not as densely packed as gaza in terms of population and places that didn't have all of the tunnels that allow such an asymmetrical warfare. i do think they have got to figure out if the objective is to destroy hamas, they've got to put more on that. because i certainly support destroying hamas. i think most americans do. but when you destroy hamas in a war, it isn't