two people have dropped out of the race, congressman dan muse -- dan meuser and congressman gary palmer. and now, one of these people is hoping to be the next speaker, and whether they can win on the house floor is another thing. political commentator congressman kinzinger, and s.e. cupp, and i wanted to start with jenna ellis, this is another plea deal in which jenna ellis pleaded guilty to the aiding and abetting of making false statements alongside rudy giuliani, and you were there in the house subcommittee investigation, and i want your reaction now that four people have pleaded guilty before our eyes in the case? >> well, it is vindicating for the house january 6th committee, and vindicating for the country, and i am glad that the case is falling in line and i would be worried if i were donald trump, but contrasting to d.c. that people are running for speaker that won't say that the election was legitimate, and this is how they don't care about the circles of the gop, and with the exception of a few running, it is incredible dichotomy, and i'm glad that jenna ellis is facing justic

with representatives austin scott, jack bergman, byron donalds, kevin hern, and pete sessions, gary palmer of alabama dropped out of the race in the last hour. at this morning's meeting set for 9 a.m. eastern, membe vote in multiple rounds until a

with representatives austin scott, jack bergman, byron donalds, kevin hern, and pete sessions, gary palmer of alabama dropped out of the race in the last hour. at this morning's meeting set for 9 a.m. eastern, membe vote in multiple rounds until a candidate win as majority of all votes cast. the u.s. house has bn scheduled to meet at 11 a.m. eastern with a flo vote on elect agnew speaker possible. as always watch live coverage of the house here on c-span. -- "w" continues. host: henry olson serves as the senior fellow and columnist for the washington post. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: back to the speaker race. what is the lesson most are getting? guest: cast, disarray. a more extreme version of what they have come to expect. the americans show great distrust for congress and it has been going down and if you are the average american, you just toss your hands up and safe these people can't get it together. i suspect right now they are saying it is just dysfunction in more of the same. host: are there common themes a wide publicans can't get a candidate to

, including house majority whip tom emmer as well as representatives byron donalds, kevin hern, gary palmer, mike johnson and dan meuser, pete sessions, jack bergman and austin scott. there's new information tonight about a plan to build a new town in solano county. still ahead with the mayor of fairfield says is in store for thousands, thousands of acres of land near travis air force base. >> hey, everybody. chris alvarez here in minnesota getting ready for the 40 niners and vikings monday night football on abc seven while the live pro review coming up in moments. abc seven news continues we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. great on their own, even better together. try cretors, handcrafted small-batch popcorn. 1,000,000,000 billion worth of solano county farmland to build a new city is sending out a new survey this week. starting tomorrow, california forever ceo jan sramek will send a letter to residents along with a survey asking questions about long term projects that could be considered. things like new parks and solar farms. but t

gary palmer from alabama, he is a republican policy committee chair man, deeply conservative but a quietigure. it could go to someone like palmer if the conservatives and moderates get into a deadlock and look for someone who is in the middle. host: keri in virginia, independent. you are next. caller: i was listening this morning, i find this to be a very important subject. i wanted to say to you, moderator, i'm disappointed for your ableist mention of antidepressants. for all of those people out there who have a situation with disability regarding suicidality , -- host: you are right, i should not have. i'm sorry. i should not have joked about that. william, republican in pennsylvania. caller: you keep calling jim jordan an extra must. nancy pelosi is an extremist. she still has her speakership for some reason. for all of these moderate so-called republicans, you keep calling people extremists. you guys will never be in office ever again because primaries are coming up in 2024 and i have a feeling that all of you will be gone in 2024. that is my extremist opinion so i will leave it at t

seven are left after congressman gary palmer dropped out just a few minutes ago. we're getting down there and we have seven. a vote could happen as soon as midday. bring in panel josh and fox news raid yes political analyst and editor in chief of jewish insider and fox news contributor james freeman and editor of "the wall street journal" page. headline from the new york post, america needs a house speaker that was written by former congressman. josh, are they going to elect a speaker and do that today? >> dana, i don't think they're any closer than last week or the week before or after they ousted kevin mccarthy as speaker and shows how much dysfunction there is within the house republican caucus. i mean, you basically have a coalition of government of republicans with more traditional republicans that make up majority of # review of systemser and eight heps ragaini wanted to blow everything up and making governance very, very difficult and there's a score card that you need to follow all the candidates writing for the speaker right mow and seven in the mix and h

dan meuser dropped out, and gary palmer dropped out, and then the second round jack bergman was out, and now we have learned that pete sessions was out, and now jack scott is the low vote getter of the last round so four candidates left as they go into the fourth round of voting, and we were told that tom emmer is the leading vote getter. we were told that he has 100 votes at the moment, and we need to get to 110 or 111 depending on how many are voting to secure the republican nomination as it were for house speaker. so that is what is going on in the republican world right now behind closed doors. we will bring you the update when we get new information on the fourth round of voting. in the meantime with me is democratic congressman and former house majority leader steny hoyer, and congressman, how close are the republicans getting to figuring this all out? >> well, when you are mentioning that tom emmer has 100, of course, they need 217. so they have some ways to go, and of course, this has happened before, but we need to have a bipartisan path forward. and republicans need to keep

gary palmer were all no votes representing the split that is very clear within the conference.t about the 2020 election? well, that's a little bit more aligned. now voted to certify the 2020 election back on january 6th, two republicans, tom imer and austin scott did vote to certify. six chose not to at the behest of trump and many of his allies. but, before you say tom imer, austin scott very much aligned with actual democracy, not necessarily as much. when you look at who signed on to the texas brief asking the supreme court to consider overturning the election, the initial lawsuit, well, all of them who are in congress at the time, including imer, including austin scott they signed on. they voted to certify, scott and imer did sign on to that lawsuit to invalidate the 2020 election. what about actual votes recently, fiscal responsibility act, the debt ceiling bill that really launched this entire breakdown, implosion of the republican conference? four of those who are running voted yes on that bill, four voted no. kind of highlighting the conservative split to some sort. whi

. >> gary palmer is the lone holdout on the pledge.lecting speaker pro tem patrick mchenry too get the house operating once again. charles? >> charles: thanks, chad. let's get to texas gop congressman pete sessions. one of the nine republicans running for that speaker's job. congressman, what will happen at this closed door meeting tonight? >> charles, each of the members will talk about their background, what positions them to be successful and move forward with an agenda. i intend to do the same thing. i intend to run on the record, which i have established as the chairman of the national republican congressional committee when we brought people together, when we were 40 seat back and won by 63, stayed after it and won. never lost a vote on the rules. we had differences of opinion back then. milk mulvaney, mark meadows. we have strong people that have great ideas. i'm also going to announce that i bring the fund-raising ability. my national fund-raising chairman and i got off the phone this afternoon. we're going to agree to raise $5

the short list of contenders are down to five after congressman gary palmer dropped out and two othersted in the first two ballots. joining us now, cofounder of punchbowl news, jake sherman, and also an msnbc contributor. jake, take us into the activities going on this morning. >> activities is a good way to put it. they are for the third time trying to nominate a speaker candidate. tom emer is probably the favorite in the last round, which was the second ballot. he got 90 votes. up 12 from the first ballot. does he squeak by and get the bare majority, and then he has to go to the house floor. the interesting thing, josÉ, is the democrats are taking a walk, quote, unquote, when it gets to the speaker. they would do that because emers, they see him as the least objectionable candidate. you will see some angst, and the reason is because he voted for federal protections for same-sex marriages, and that's a disqualifier for some. >> of course, we have got the continuing cr that runs out in short order. i mean, there are kind of like a lot of things happening that need to be dealt with in s

. >> reporter: there are seven candidates running for speaker, gary palmer of alabama dropped out.s soon. it's about the math. the winner can only lose four gop votes on the floor. it's a tight turning radius even in the best of circumstances. >> >> i'm just wondering if we get to see punxsutawney phil or we're going to have seven more weeks of winter. we've got to deal with government funding, israel, ukraine, the farm bill extension. we've got a lot to do. >> reporter: nerves are frayed as the house enters its third week in a deep freeze and unable to legislate. republicans are starting to worry about what their constituents think about this turmoil heading into an election year. gop members are embarrassed. >> their as frustrated as we ars as we are, and they're angry. in fact, week i showed some of my anger, and the folks i represent want a solution. we owe it to them. if anything, we have to the act like mature adults and come to a conclusion. >> reporter: now, held be the third the secret ballot -- this would be the third secret ballot in as many weeks, they hope the third is

in an action movie so the hero would know which one to shoot. [ laughter ] alabama congressman gary palmer before today's republican conference meeting that he has dropped out of the race for speaker though i'm not sure that merited an announcement. that's like calling wendy's to cancel your reservation. [ laughter ] a kremlin spokesman today dismissed long-standing rumors that russian president vladimir putin uses body doubles and said, quote, "this evokes nothing but a smile. and then he tried so hard to smile -- [ laughter ] -- that a little pee came out. [ laughter ] new york mayor eric adams announced yesterday that another 16,000 city employees will be permitted to work from home. unfortunately, they're all garbage collectors [ laughter ] [ audience ohs ] [ laughter ] the justice department yesterday filed a civil forfeiture claim for a super yacht, reportedly belonging to a sanctioned russian billionaire. "hold up let me disembark first," said clarence thomas. [ audience oohs according to a new report from uber eats, the most frequently paired food and alcohol were ribeye steak and

there's a couple of conservatives, kevin hearn of oklahoma, mike johnson of louisiana, and gary palmerama will eat away at each other's bases. you asked the right question, chris. the floor can any of these people get to 217? to be honest with you, i have not seen any evidence thus far that there will be a candidate that people rally behind by the end of this week. >> matthew, if there is such a thing as a front-runner, consensus is tom elmer. i wonder if you think trump's influence is waning in this fight or does it still hold enough weight if not to elect someone, to keep someone from being elected? >> well, it's a bit like a "game of thrones" episode where if you win the gladiator fight, then you get eaten by the dragon which is donald trump in the course of this. this is the result. donald trump still has great powers, probably the most powerful person in the house caucus today. once the fraternities took over campus which is what seems to have happened in the house caucus with nobody in charge of settling things down in this, this is the result of this. i don't think any of us --

the republican from alabama, gary palmer is out of the race for speaker.aves seven candidates in a secret vote is taking place as we speak. a potential floor vote perhaps taking place later today. stay close to c-span2 to watch that and you can follow along on the app at c-span now and you can follow along on your computer at c-span.org. nancy is up first in this open forum from massachusetts, democrats line. caller: good morning, yes, i am wondering if anyone has noticed that the religious conflict in the middle east. one of the main religious tenets of almost every faith is thou shall not kill. how do you justify going against your religion to prove your religion is superior? that's my point. thou shalt not kill is still that shalt not kill. host: republican line from fargo, north dakota, hello. caller: good morning. thank you for having your previous guest. i learned a lot. one of the things that really impacted me as a young person in the u.s. was the pool attack at the olympics, the munich olympics in 1972 when we had the massacre of israeli athletes

kevin hern of oklahoma gary palmer of alabama austin scott of georgia. and pete sessions of texas but it is still unclear if any of these nine men have what it takes to get to 217 on the floor. of course, if they can't do that, we will remain speakerless for the near future. >> okay. so they will have an internal meeting tonight. then when might they vote and go to the floor and get a speaker >> yes they will huddle behind closed doors again. it's worked so well up until this point, but they're trying again. they'll have a candidate forum and then multiple rounds of voting, hoping someone will emerge as the candidate. that could go tuesday morning is when the voting takes place. the hope is another vote on the floor as early as tuesday afternoon. then the hope that they can start to move some of this very critical legislation through congress, we're talking about a budget showdown looming in november and of course aid to ukraine and israel. >> ryan, thank you very much appreciate it. >> good to see you in person, by the way, too first time meeting you >>

they are now one man down with gary palmer dropping out.eard about byron donalds, the florida congressman, a guy whose name was put out there a good bit when kevin mccarthy first ran to be speaker earlier last year, i guess. it's been a long time. from what i hear, he hasn't made a lot of enemies. again, he's had a lot of people putting him up in the past. i'm curious what are his prospects right now compared to the others. >> reporter: he is one that i'm watching really closely and not just because he's a fellow florida native, but largely because the members i've spoken to say while emmer is the frontrunner, donalds is bringing in new perspective. he's literally a freshman here. that being said, he's someone who has worked the inside/outside game well when it comes to playing in congress by going along with leadership but also being in touch with the more fringe and factionalized elements of this conference. he's taking this whip operation seriously. they have a war room in effect. he has been making calls all weekend. i think he's spoken

>> i think i will put gary palmer out there.er of leadership, and he's the policy chair and within mcca mccarthy's inner circle, but is not somebody that has stood out, and he's a policy guy and he has flown under the radar but has proven he can get the support from the majority of the conference. >> you are totally in the weeds to know all that stuff. >> and we appreciate it. this is stuff we need to know. >> i am going home to watch it. >> we are getting back into the weeds today. >> great. thank you both. >> thank you so much. >>> when we come back, we will check in with alina croft joining us from the desert. volume. the competition of deals is likely to change over the next 12 months. the assets in the market are healthy but under invested. >> why now? what is going to drive that uptick? >> there really has been a recognition that they are a tool and not a failure. you can outperform the market by roughly 6% over a two-year period. >> what should ceos do now to prepare for later? >> one, do they understand the buyer needs i