and when i was doing that research, i came across that 18th century count by john byron.and let me just say the account was written in this stilted english. the fs were printed as essays. i mean, the essays were printed as fs and and it was kind of written this convoluted prose. and i'm thinking how what is this? what is this? but i kept pausing over these arresting passages, the perfect hurricane scurvy madness, shipwreck, cannibalism. although he only describes it as that last extremity and and i realized that this account held the clues to one of the more extraordinary sagas of survival and adventure that ever come across. and then, as i did, more, i began to see those other dimensions to the story that this was story about the search for truth, about the nature of truth, the nature of leadership, about imperialism, and and also about the way we tell history. and so that's what drew me to it. thank. mr. grand. yes. the stories you tell, places you go, and the way that caught danger. i wondered whether or not, you were still married, so you so you did answer that questi

and, should john james, byron donalds, should this mayor get together with tim scott and say let's justt and let's maybe start doing appearances? you hop on "the view." you hop on charlamagne tha god instead of it happening organically. >> carley: that move has started. that question how do voters feel people are thinking wait a second, i'm not a democrat anymore, either. do you see a major party switch happening where republicans are now -- there is a lot of union workers. minorities that are trending red. and the college educated and rich folks are trending more blue. and that's a switch. >> ultimately, the proof is in the pudding. dallas is -- you get off the plane in dallas, you feel safe. everything is clean. everything works. it's beautiful. >> and it's cheap. >> steve: cheaper. >> ainsley: supported police and you didn't see democratic mayors do this. >> brian: do you think this is it for higher office? >> lawrence: i don't know. i take him at his word because he is not the type of republican that is going to give this elaborate speech. is he very simple. maybe not now but in the

. >> john: thanks, byron, so much. that will wrap it up for our first day here in jerusalem. more to come this week. >> thanks so much for everything, john. set your dvr. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with more that is now. >> martha: all right. thanks. we have breaking news right now just coming to us from the state department. u.s. troops being told to be "ready to deploy" for further defense for israel if needed. we're working on how many troops have received this message. there's some reporting from the "wall street journal" that its in the neighborhood of 2,000 american troops told to be ready. we're going to dig into this for you this hour. mike tobin is standing by. rich edson will be available moments away. we'll go back to john roberts who is reporting live from tel aviv this week for us. we will continue on top of these stories as we continue to get new information. right now it is 10:00 p.m. in gaza. we are now ten days in to this war. there are 199 individuals who somewhere are being held at this moment in the hand

not americans are positive to his response to this will not change his overall standing. >> john: thanks, byronour first day here in jerusalem. more to come this week. >> thanks so much for everything, john. set your dvr. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with more that i

still gonna be a difficult road every time they have a piece of controversial legislation. >> john: all right. byron, we'll see if we get a vote this afternoon or as chad was suggesting, maybe later in the evening or even the wee hours of tomorrow morning. thanks, byron. >> all right, thank you, folks. >> sandra: thanks for jumping on with us, now florida republican congressman mike waltz with us. thank you and you are on camera. appreciate that. what can you tell us about what's happening right now and what's going to happen this afternoon? >> well, here is what i can tell you is that we have a nominee, the majority of the republican conference has voted. it was 113 votes for scalise, 99 for jordan. eight voted for others, and then three voted present. so, by my math, 214. look, the question is -- two-fold. one, i supported jim jordan, i thought he could pull the conference together. he stated to the conference that he was behind mccarthy, he will get behind scalise, but importantly, and i think this is where he's at, jim jordan is absolutely right, what's the plan before we go to the floor. we als

paul mauro and john yu and nate foye and byron york and professor jonathan turley. we move on, gillian, right? >> gillian: hard to move on from that. >> bill: this was quite a moment over the weekend. democrat jamal bowman facing a house investigation for pulling the fire alarm inside the capitol complex on saturday morning right before a time-sensitive vote on the government funding bill. chad pergram has the fallout and what's next on the hill. chad. >> good morning. there is an investigation by the capitol police and there may be an ethics investigation. he said it was a mistake. the new york democrat said he usually uses the dor that was blocked and closed because of the weekend. gop members don't buy bowman's excuse he did not mean to induce panic and force an evacuation of the cannon house office building. he was a former principal. he knows what a fire alarm is. he has yelled and members and his behavior has been unbecoming. if it was an accident when the capitol police came to interview you why would you lawyer up right away? why wouldn't you say i made a mi

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byron: as the u.s. moves another military ship to the eastern mediterranean near israel, top national security council spokesman johnby sending a clear message to lebanon and other countries in the region. >> don't get involved. do not try to widen or deepen this conflict any more than it already has. >> byron: tonight, 2,000 u.s. troops prepare to be on alert for possible deployment to the middle east. as israel continues its counteroffensive in gaza, civilians are caught in the crosshairs. in the last week, more than 2,700 palestinians have been killed and nearly 10,000 wounded. hospitals already overwhelmed, now on the brink of collapse. this ice cream truck turned into a makeshift morgue. >> they have been bombing for 12 hours, from 9:00 to 9:00, with no stop. >> byron: the israeli government urging millions, more than one million people to evacuate northern gaza. the questions remain how and to where. my colleague matt rivers is in egypt. >> it's important to remember that if you want to leave gaza by land, there is only two ways to do so, one is by crossing into israel. of course that's not happening. and the

. >> john, we appreciate your candor today we'll see you again soon. >>> sad news to share, byron weem, from blackstone, has passed away. always plainspoken byron was familious for releasing his so-called ten surprises each year where he gave his views on the economy for the upcoming year. prior to joining blackstone, he spent more than two decades at morgan tstanley. his final thought in an essay, never retire i know there's a bunch of biological evidence against the theory, but i'm going with it, anyway mr. wien, was 98 years old, very avid skier, we will miss byron people are excited about what ai will do for them. we're excited about what ai will do for business. introducing watsonx a platform designed to multiply output by training ai with your data. when you watsonx your business, you can build ai to help coders code faster, customer service respond quicker, and employees handle repetitive tasks in less time. let's create ai that transforms business with watsonx. ibm. let's create. ameritrade is now part of schwab. bringing you an elevated experience, tailor-made for trader minds

byron, we have to leave it there. thanks for taking time with us, appreciate it. >> john: get ready for the national alert test coming up. 160 people on the terror watch list caught trying to enter the united states illegally this fiscal year. that all-time high adding to house republicans concerns over how the biden administration is handling national security risks at the border. and with the house currently without a speaker, what happens now? let's bring in tennessee congressman mark green, chairman of the homeland security committee. i want to put the statistics on the screen, not official yet, but told by sources, more than 260,000 illegal immigrants crossed the border in the -- i'm sorry, it says august, it should say september, my bad. 2,466,000, a little more than that. growing number of people on the terror watch list were among those who crossed, got-aways more than a half million, no idea who they are. what kind of security risk are we looking at here? >> this is the greatest national security risk in the history of our country. i mean, you look at the number of people in the got-away category, we have no

i think the rep publicans should steal their thunder and nominate somebody like john james from michigan or byrononalds or wesley hunt out of texas, a decorated military veteran, put them up and make them the first black speaker of the house. host: got the point. i apologize for that, but we appreciate all the calls coming in. if you are on the lines, please stay on the lines. we have been asking congress people to join us for a few minutes this morning to give their perspective on both of those 2 front. joining us now is representative pocan. representative pocan good morning. guest: i'm the republican from wisconsin. host: my apologies. we had an earlier speaker talk about the appropriators for jim jordan. were you surprised by that? guest: we are the last bastion of sanity in this city during the trump administration. we usually do not run to the camera like i am today. in this session kevin mccarthy ruined that. we have not done anything that we normally do in the appropriations process. a lot of people who respect this institution more than perhaps their party were speaking out, rightfully s

. >> reporter: johnson defeated byron donalds in a late night, closed door vote. only hours earlier tom emmer bested both john out after four hours. only 204 republicans voted by secret ballot last night, that led some to question whether johnson can win on the floor today. >> he's got his pulse, i think, on where the american people are. and, look, there was a lot of unity in that room. there's people who were absent, it was late. but looking at the list, i don't see any serious hiccups there. we'll see tomorrow, but i don't see any obstacles tomorrow. >> reporter: gop arizona representative ely crane was one of the eight republicans who voted to out former speaker kevin mccarthy earlier this month creating the impasse. crane said his constituents opposed tom emmer. >> change is difficult. i've been saying it the whole time, it's uncomfortable. but when you get yourself in a mess like we've got ourself in as a country, it's going to takl to get out of it, right many i'm just grateful that i think we got a speaker nominee that my voters can get behind, be proud of. >> reporter: so the vote could come shortly

john: we'll keep watching the vote tally. back to what i was talking about. back in january, alternate names were floated, byronds, andy biggs, jordan, steve scalise -- i've heard repeatedly emmer, that mccarthy has not done the outreach that they expected him to do. he was a good along, get along guy, and usually good at friendly with folks. people expected him to be very different than john boehner was. not always friendly with his enemies. emmer is in there in the negotiating room and trying to work things out. but that of course would be the reasonable compromise candidate. does not seem like the folks next door are looking for reasonable compromise, at least today. >> aishah: i've been covering capitol hill two years now, during the time kevin mccarthy is speaker, and pattern of behavior with him. a great fundraiser, very optimistic, great leader. pattern of behavior when we saw with the debt ceiling and the speakership bid and now the government shutdown that he waits 'til the very last second to reach out to these folks, do wind up becoming an issue in getting something moved across. there has not been,

byron donalds. you turned that over to mike johnson. tell me about your level of support? guest: mike johns the right time. the conference is united in a way i have not seen since i have been in washington. sometimes you have to go through difficult times, get in axle together, go through some -- get in the foxhole together, go through some painful times together. i think that happened. it was incredible to see the conference at this ethically behind mike johnson. his feet solidify the support and respect members across the conference have for him. put him to get approximately 200 votes yesterday evening with no votes against him, about 20 mentors -- about 20 members had been missing. half a dozen candidates --hopefully you will see us united on the house floor and we will be able to move forward. host: are you concerned there will behold that's -- there will be holdouts? four or five people against him? guest: you can always be concerned of the unknown until we get it done. i am reasonably confident we will. the enthusiasm was incredible. the connectivity of the members behind mike johnso

byron donalds, one. tom, who is in leadership, one vote. another republican voted for mike garcia. candice miller also receiving one. john boehner, the former speaker of the house also got a book yesterday. katie granger of texas, the appropriations committee received a vote. bruce westerman, hakeem jeffries , democrats united behind him. 212 votes for him each and every time, including in january. charlotte and alabama -- in alabama, democratic color. caller: the truth stands alone. i want to speak on yesterday's house of representatives elections. i pray hard that jim jordan does not receive the speaker ship -- speakership because it is going to open the door for donald trump. we think we are in trouble now, but just watch. as a guy in photo center, you have not seen nothing yet -- as a guy in florida said, you ain't seen nothing yet. i agree with that. it will open the door for donald trump. host: robert in ohio and independent. caller: how are you doing today? host: good morning. caller: i just want to say that i think they need new young leadership not from republicans or democrats. i think it is to be an independen