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hamas is using these tunnels so widely let's bring in now former military intelligence officer john jordan and john, i wonder if you could talk a little bit to what these latest strikes are all about here. presumably, this is trying to really soften up and take out much of the hamas military leadership that is hiding on the ground right now. >> john. yes. and it's also to disrupt, command, control and communicate as well as negate to the to the extent intelligence permits, ammunition depots and troop storage and troop staging areas. so the idea is to uncouple or decouple all of the different parts of hamas so that when israel goes in, whether they go in piecemeal or all at once, they're fighting independent units, not a cohesive whole, supported, controlled and supplied centrally. >> now, but it's the thought of the kind of urban warfare that the idf seems about to get involved in is a terrifying one, john, that this tunnel network, the amount of planning that hamas has clearly put into this. october 7th didn't happen without months and months of planning. and clearly, hamas was planning f

for more on this, let's bring in foreign military intelligence officer john jordan, who has been with us morning early on this busy news day. and john, for any of our viewers, maybe just waking up, learning that two f-16 fighter jets are struck in eastern syria, specific targets selected believed to be ammunitions and weapons depots of the irgc weapons. lucas tomlinson was reporting that may have actually even been used in the attacks in recent days on. american forces in syria, in iraq. what do you make of this response? >> this is part of an emerging strategy by iran using proxies to force the u.s. into a situation, series of humiliations and embarrassment with the ultimate goal to force out of the middle east so that iran can assert itself as the hegemonic the middle east and reestablish get sanctions relief. as europe gets tired of this and europe as had enormous commercial interests lost in the region. and this what this is part of an emerging strategy. so these these targets that were were hit were self-storage facilities, rockets that were shot against american military personn

allen, jordan. >> john: the voting begins after solidarity by the democrats. they clapped and chanted hakim jeffrey's name standing in contrast to the republicans divided whether or not jim jordan should be the speaker. two failed attempts in the past days have not vaulted him into that coveted position. he will go at it for a third time. chad pergram has been all over this saga since it began. he joins us now with the latest. this is a fait accompli right out of the box, chad. >> we seem to think that jim jordan indicated this morning, we asked if he had picked up any more votes and he said i think so. not really definitive statement here. he has signaled he is willing to fight and continue to go vote after vote after vote if he can maybe into the weekend. i spoke with one senior republican a little bit ago saying it is starting to wear thin if he doesn't show progress maybe he should bow out. in the it's 427. if all 427 still vote for somebody by name, i will say that again. not the most votes wins, it's if they have somebody who votes for a member by name. t

jordan. tony cardenas, voted but was not present. john james from michigan, david joyce from northeastern ohio, a republican, and victoria sparks, republican from indiana, she voted they would not vote to bring jim jordan across the finish line and back and forth in terms of some of her statements whether or not she would vote present or vote or vote for somebody else. you can't rely on her vote what so far, and nobody is clear what her position is. what we do know is that jim jordan, unless something again changes dramatically, it's not final until they gavel down the vote and it appears kevin mccarthy is going to do that right now. they are going to go through the list of people who they did not get on the first round. >> bilirakas. buck. emmer. cardenas. jeffries. james. cole. >> sandra: it appears that buck, the republican from colorado voted for emmer, the majority whip. i assume you heard the same that i did there. >> yes, i did, and actually right as you came to me they called the name of tom cole, the republican from oklahoma, one

changes and if later folks vote present, if we see that strategy come to fruition for the jordan folks. >> john king, i mean, you know, this was basically jim jordan, who is the one who brought this to the floor, forced it to the floor, i want a vote, this was basically his -- remember kevin mccarthy when matt gaetz said i am going to do a motion to vacate and i think i'm quoting correctly that kevin mccarthy said bring it on, is that what he said, bring it on, and he done got brought on and lost and this was jim jordan doing the same thing. steve scalise did not bring it to the floor. >> steve scalise didn't want to have to do what kevin mccarthy did, keep negotiating your power, every leverage, power, voice of authority you have as the, quote, unquote, ceo, the speaker of the republican conference. this person is third in line to the presidency. this is a constitutional officer. not just a leader of house republicans, whether you're a democrat or independent or republican watching in the country or around the world this is a constitutional officer third in line to the presidency. the size of

for more on all of this, i want to go to former military intelligence officer john jordan. john, thank you for coming back with us in these early hours of the morning. what do you make of this statement? we now have from the idf that they have sent ground forces in and for the moment at least, those ground forces are staying inside gaza. gaza. what does that say to you, john? well, first of all, it's a mistake to think that the offensive was ever going to be some sort of desert storm lightning quick, all at once offensive. instead, what the israelis have planned here is a conditions based offensive, based upon a series of steps. once they've achieved certain goals, smaller goals was the neutralizing of certain arms, cash or command and control node based on their intelligence. then they'll make that next step and then reassess. so they're not they're making steps based upon conditions as they see them unfold. so it's a flexible plan that is going to roll out based upon the intelligence gathered and the success they have with airstrikes and during these limited ground incursi

i think jordan is a skeptic. johnituations like this people hear what they want out of lawmakers, and i think this is an example of that. >> certainly white house aids telling me they're not exactly looking forward to a possible jim jordan speakership. jordan, of course, one of the driving forces behind the impeachment inquiry into the former president. if he's short, if this vote goes south on him today, we certainly can expect mccarthy-esque style multiple votes. if he's not going to get there, what happens next? are there other people with their hands up? what's your read on the continuing chaos? >> it will be there will be two things that happen. people will start thinking about kevin mccarthy once again. i don't think mccarthy could get there. i think the mccarthy speakership is over although who knows. i think the other thing that will happen is much more talk around a bipartisan speaker, someone who gets republican and democratic votes, maybe a temporary speakership for patrick mchenry of north carolina. i thin

boehner, who jordan helped push out of the position in 2015, dubbed jordan a legislative terrorist. >> johner probably would have rather set himself on fire than given jim jordan any position of authority. lisa: in recent years, jordan became a staunch ally of former president donald trump, who even awarded jordan the presidential medal of freedom in the closing days of the trump administration. the former president endorsing jordan in his bid for speaker. >> i think jim jordan will be a great speaker of the house. lisa: their strong ties were on display in the days after the 2020 presidential election, when trump claimed the election was stolen. jordan echoed and amplified those doubts. and worked on plans to keep president trump in power. >> something doesn't feel right here. our president got 9 million more votes this time than he did four years ago. lisa: in the days leading up to the january 6 surrection, jordan, trump and other freedom caucus members held a discussion on strategies for delaying the certification of the electoral vote, according to the house january 6 committee report.

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jordan. steve scalise got five of those votes. a couple of those votes, vern buchanan and john james voted for jim jordan the first time. don bacon and ken buck, again consistent in votes not for jim jordan. after today's vote, chip roy, republican of texas, caught up with reporters on the capitol steps. here's what he had to say about the process. >> he's at 199, kevin was dunn to 200 at the low point of his voting in the 15 votes. i'm sticking with jordan through the process. the number is not dramatically different. with the four lost, two gained, plus one who came back. >> jordan said earlier he asked leadership to go ahead and put the resolution on the floor to keep mchenry in power because he wants to see where people are. what do you think -- mr. roy: i think what jim is doing is calling a bluff of people saying they're going to deal with democrats. good luck explaining that back home, that you're cutting a deal with the democrats. never in the history of this institution, to the best of my knowledge, have we ever appointed a speaker pro tem with ethis full pows of the s

you look at some of the other votes against jim jordan, john james from michigan. this is a trump district that he represents, but it was a very small margin for donald trump in that district. less than five points. that was a potentially difficult politically difficult vote for him to make here. mike lawler comes from -- won by a narrow margin from new york, voted for mccarthy here. so, again, that's another one of those politically difficult votes. but there are some others on this list who are from safely republican districts. john rutherford from florida, who voted for scalise, mike simpson from idaho, who voted for scalise, victoria spartz from indiana, reluctant back to january in all of these votes to side with her party's nominee on the floor. she ended up not voting for jim jordan in this one. steve womack, he had been sending indications that he wouldn't vote as well. so you've got a couple different blocks here. you got some republicans who are from safely republican districts. they may have an issue with jordan. they may have an issue with how this proc

joining us now, cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller, and casey jordan, criminalologistavioral analyst. john, the cell phone found a note left behind, but it does not explain a motive, according to evan's sources. what does that add to this, help or complicate? >> well, the fact that they recovered a cell phone, and the fact that there was a note are both indicators of preplanning. now, most active shooters have a planning arc. this is just the statistics across the genre, but have a planning arc of 3 1/2 weeks. placing a note means he knew what he was going to do before he got ready and went out that night to do it, leaving the phone behind tells us more. he knows that's a way that people can be tracked. if he left it behind and he's a planner, he maybe has a burner to account for that. and that raises the question, is his plan to go near or far, or is there something else that he has planned? >> yeah. it raises more questions is what it does as part of this. there are now -- we were talking before the commercial break about the 18 people, we're learning more about some

really, every member we spoke with who left the room, said they were still uniformly opposed to jim jordan. johnaid the issue was for the holdouts to change jordan's mind about continuing to run. >> our mind is set. he needed to know there is no way forward for the speakership. he missed his moment of leadership when he failed steve scalise. that was pretty much everybody's opinion. >> reporter: now on the second round, jordan failed to get support of 22 republicans. that last time earlier in the week, several members say he will get less support on a potential third ballot. they are signs jordan could be settling in for a fight. warren davidson tweeted last night that votes are expected throughout the weekend. while things look bleak for jordan, there is no clear step for ruepublicans. they had a four-hour meeting on wednesday. remember, congress is soon going to need to vote on the white house package of $100 billion of aid to ukraine and israel and also taiwan. remember, government funding runs out on november 17th. lawmakers will have to decide to put a stop measure in place. frank, there is

so let's hope that jordan gets it and if not, we will find somebody else. >> john: 55 of your colleaguese conference said they would not support jordan on the house floor when it went to that second valid. white not, do you think? what is their issue? >> well, because people have different issues but there is a sense of urgency within our conference, the 221, 212 member perez of the gop and there's a sense of urgency that by next week, we need to solve this problem because there are too many things happening in the world that you were reporting a fantastic coverage was listening to the show, what is happening in israel and we need as a united front the republican congress and the white house, we need to sent a message to our enemies that we stand with israel, that we are going to resupply any type of weapons that they need, and that -- and specifically send a very strong message to iran that they cannot touch american lives, that they cannot kill any of the hostages. american hostages. and if they touch american personnel, they will pay a very, very big price for doing that. and that is

the next anti-jordan vote from yesterday is john james from michigan. he had a meeting yesterday with jordan. he said they would get things worked a cryptic statement. he comes from a district that donald trump won but by only a few points, less than five points. he is coming up in two votes. this is one i think -- he voted for tom cole yesterday. if there's a chance here for jordan to be flipping, he is about to come up. let's see how he votes. he continues to be -- you will see it here. john james choosing not to vote for jim jordan. you have 11 who have voted, more than half who voted no yesterday, not a single one has flipped. next up is mike kelly from pennsylvania. red district, very conservative. kelly in the republican conference has floated the idea of giving patrick mchenry more expanded, elongated powers as speaker of the house. that potential movement we have been talking about. kelly has been somebody who has been talking that up. two new no votes so far. the other name to watch, we are aways away, omalfa from california suggested he will mo

. >> plus, jim jordan has never passed a single piece of legislation, and john boehner calls him a legislative terrorist, yet, jordan appears to be on the verge of becoming the next republican speaker. >>> but we begin tonight with israel and gaza on the brink. thousands of israeli forces continue to amass on the gaza border in the wake of the deadly terrorist attack by hamas more than a week ago. approximately 2,000 u.s. troops have been told to prepare for possible deployment in the middle east if given orders. they will go to a nearby country to be prepared to support israel. these troops have not yet been activated and the u.s. government insists it does not mean american boots on the ground. the number of americans killed in the hamas attack is at least 29. israeli defense forces updated the number of people being held hostage by hamas to 199. the military wing of hamas claimed to be holding between 200 and 250 hostages. in tel aviv today, secretary of state antony blinken was warned by israel's defense minister that the upcoming war would be, quote, long and the price for peace, quote, h

not the no votes early on jordan but you remember the john boehner 2013 election very well. blackburn not present and we were nervous because parlor games going on within and outside of the chamber. that would happen here as well. >> she said in her office to bring the threshold down to make it easier for boehner to win did you. >> once it was clear that john boehner was clear to win, here we are, fully supportive. >> scott, you are close with the leader on the other side of the capitol, mitch mcconnell. you worked for him. what is idoes this tell you whe the republican party is right now? jim jordan made his name as flame-thrower and disrupter and now the guy trying to convince enough of his fellow republicans he is mr. unity? >> it's interesting. two things come to mind for me. one is the nature of the job changing. if he gets it, essentially, he has been a television personality for most republicans. that is why he has such a large natural following because of his appearances on fox news. he is not known on the hill as governing tactician. he is also not a political tacti

john: mr. ambassador, one more quick question. president biden instead of flying home was supposed to go doing to jordan for a summit with king abdullah, president el-sissi and abbas. that did not happen because of three days of mourning, according to john kirby, they canceled the meeting. what was the meeting going to be about? some were looking at that as the leaders getting together to sketch out a way forward for gaza after hamas is eventually gone. what do you know? >> well, i think we have to start to think about the day after what will happen in gaza after we eradicate hamas. we know the people in gaza, they suffer under the hamas regime, and now is the time to start to think out of the box about the future of the people in gaza after hamas. i think the right approach. i know it will not be easy. we heard president el-sissi speak about that and the king of jordan but the long run, people in the region start to understand the future in the region will be without hamas in gaza. >> john: i wanted to ask you also about the nominee for u.s. ambassador to israel, jack lu. some republican senators are saying they may not go forward, t

but jim jordan, john, says he is still running for house speaker. >> john: well, we saw back in january that there were about 20 or 21 people who were against kevin mccarthy and he managed to convince enough of them to vote for him that he made it to the magic number. can jordan do the same thing? interesting to note that when mccarthy was running for speaker, the number of opponents was either constant or got smaller. for jordan, the number of opponents has grown. he may have a bigger hill to climb than mccarthy did and we saw mccarthy kind of gave away the farm for gaetz' demands for the one-member threshold to vacate the chair, ended up to be his ultimate undoing. >> sandra: that is a lot of news, and covered a lot the last two hours. and i know your coverage from there will continue. >> john: it will, i'm coming up with martha the next hour. don't forget the big presidential address tonight. coverage at 7:55. the address at 8:00. see what the president says about all of this. the message and the tone will be very, very important for the way it goes forward. >> sandra: i'll see you a

that has many of jordan's own party furious. john of florida said it's time for representative jordan to understand this race is over. representative jordan is fiddling while the world is on fire. a number of republican lawmakers that voted against jordan are also reporting they and in some cases, their families, are getting death threats from anonymous callers, including a congresswoman that voted for him on the first round but changed her vote to no on the second round saying it was time to move on. jordan said we condemn all threats against our colleagues. stop it. and we got here because matt gaetz moved to kick kevin mccarthy out of the chair with no plan to replace him. remember, these are not my words but the conservative "wall street journal." what kind of identify nut cake oefrz the man-of-war, tosses the captain overboard and then spends two weeks pulling ropes at random hoping the things will somehow drift ashore before supplies run out. >> we will watch for the president's speech and we will have it right here on nbc bay

jordan to somebody else? >> no. it is just another vote -- this is john james from michigan. he just -- he's continued to vote against jim jordan, so now you have, again, every previous antijordan vote now, now down to the js, john james continues to vote against him. you've got mike kelly coming up next. alphabetically in terms of previous anti-jordan votes. kelly from a very pro trump district, around erie, pennsylvania. jen kiggans will be shortly after. not expecting any changes here. the question, i believe -- was that jim jordan voting? dave joyce is about to vote. let me tell you how he votes. dave joyce from ohio just voted for jim jordan. if you remember yesterday, dave joyce was pushing that resolution to extend patrick mchenry's tenure as house speaker. so there was even some question of how he might vote here. but he's continued to vote for jim jordan on that last one. tom kaine from new jersey, one of the ultimate swing stricts, he's voted for jordan twice, he voted for -- he just switched his vote. there is another change. so we now have two previous anti-jordan

and now she is voting for mchenry, and one more vote against jim jordan and his hopes for the speakership are going down in flames. and john king, you were just saying that kevin mccarthy in the nominating speech was describing somebody who for no resemblance to jim jordan whatsoever. >> and kevin mccarthy's speakership, and it is a difficult job and he has a tiny majority, and a group of republicans who don't want to govern, and give kevin mccarthy some grace, but the speakership was a failure. he was unable to get them together, and saying that we need to govern, and set things aside, and he just nominated someone who has less of a record of achieving compromise than kevin mccarthy did. and the question is that kevin mccarthy failed, and lost the speakership, and almost three weeks ago now, and two weeks plus. they have been unable, and israel needs an aid package, and ukraine needs an aid package, and do the republicans want to govern or continue this, and circus is not a word for it. >> demonstration, and incapacity to govern. >> and so he is about to lose. he is short the votes again, and the opposition is not melting

. >> according to the former republican speaker of the house and fellow ohioan john boehner, jim jordan is a political terrorist. >> you call some of these members political terrorists. >> oh, yeah. jim jordan especially. my colleague from ohio. [laughter] i just never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart never building anything. never putting anything together. >> so can and should apolitical terrorist lead the house of representatives? can and should someone who has failed to comply with congressional subpoena from the jerry six committee leave the house of representatives? every publicans and washington shoes jim jordan as their speaker, they would, in fact, once again, prove themselves to be the anti-democracy party, which is exactly what party leader trump wants. listen to more about what liz cheney said earlier this week. >> and if the republicans decide jim jordan should be the speaker of the house, there were no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected republicans could be counted on to defend the constitution. >> now, republicans could be making

jordan has worked his career against. that's where the two things are going to clash. you cannot be a bomb thrower and only tear things down. my old boss johnhner said, he has never seen anybody tear things up more and not build up as he did with jim jordan. you can't operate like that. what j jordan has done his career has amassed a lot of power without any real responsibility. this is a change for him. now the weight of the country is on him. people will be looking for him to get things done. i think he is going to find out the hard way just fighting doesn't do anything. eventually, you have to get in >> fred, you served for more than 35 years in the house. take us inside the caucus. what we are hearing from our reporter inside the chamber watching the vote count is that there are moderate holdouts. >> i would say that that's pretty accurate. there will be others that may vote for somebody else and not for jordan. i expect -- it's going to be, as i say, a squeaker speaker election here. i don't think jordan is going to get it on the first vote, first ballot. i'm not sure he is going to get it on the second or third, either. a lot to be de

john avalon. if scalise or jordan becomes the speaker, i mean, at some level this is actually just a continuation. you would potentially have an election tonight in the highest office of the house. to be fair, kevin mccarthy was similarly questioning the results of the election, telling donald trump to fight, even when there was no evidence of fraud. what does this say about republicans right now? >> it says the republican party still has a very muddy moral compass when it comes to basic fact about the next election. that said, jim jordan was someone who was by all accounts involved in trump's attempt to overturn the election. scalise is parroting that party line, i'm not excusing that, but he was less directly involved. and the idea that jordan could somehow reunite the conference for the congress -- is 90 minutes earlier today, is self evidently nonsense. >> isn't it interesting trump endorsed jordan and it had no effect, it seems? >> that's extraordinary. because it is the first crack we are seeing and trump's complete control of the republican party. and i think crucial that it occurred in a s

it's unacceptable. >> john: so you and chairman jordan and comer sent one letter to alejandro mayorkas asking for some transparency and information regarding illegal migrants with ties to terror. dhs failed to produce that information. now you send another letter threatening to somebody, says instead of producing the requested documents and information the document directed the committees to publicly available information and offered a classified briefing to address the questions. the department response is unacceptable. initial letter sought specific and easily identifiable records the department should be able to readily produce. why in the world are they not giving you this information? >> i think he thinks he's above the law. he doesn't believe in, you know, co-equal branches of government very clearly. immigration and naturalization act, he's thrown that to the curb. does not agree with the judiciary having any power. at least two judicial demands to conform to laws and he chose not to go by. they think they are king over there. they do whatever they want, they disregard the laws

jordan. admiral john kirby joins us to discuss the president's decision.s coming up next. ♪ . >>> this morning israeli forces continue to pummel gaza with airstrikes as president trump prepares for his high stakes diplomatic visit to israel. defense officials tell cnn that a unit of 2,000 marines has been ordered head to waters towards israel on top of the u.s. carrier strike groups deployed. the israeli military getting ready for the next phase of their campaign. mark hertling is here to walk us through all of it. when you talk about the scale of what the u.s. has put into place assets-wise, what does to tell you about the u.s. posture? >> it is a lot. it is to prevent other nations and potentially terrorist groups from entering into this conflict. it's not going to contribute to the fight in gaza, but it will try to contain the area so there are no other actors coming in to influence what israel is trying to do. >> wondering if you think this is significant. one of the idf spokespeople we have had on, colonel richard hecht said, we are preparing for the

boy, this trump endorsement of jordan will make the vote next week pretty interesting, chad. >> absolutely, john, and depends who you ask. who it hurts, who it helps. some republicans wanted a clean break from the former president, he is radioactive to some republicans, but it means others will gravitate toward jim jordan. >> i said boss, that's what you think, that's what you believe, you are the leader of our party, i will support that. so if we can't get there after a few days, maybe a week, maybe we need to look at somebody outside the conference. >> in exact, may take some time to elect a speaker. republicans plan to vote in private off the floor next wednesday. but the winner among house republicans may lack support to win in the house itself. it's about the math. so republicans may not vote on the floor for days, at least until they have someone they know can win. >> it has to happen. we shouldn't go to the house floor until we have 218 votes for the speaker of the united states house of representatives, shouldn't have to go through what we did in january. >> members are starting to get n

but jim jordan was to john boehner the way matt gaetz was to kevin mccarthy. he the idea that jim jordan could ascend to the speakership, i mean, a great conservative that would be in that position, i think do fabulous, but a few years ago the idea that he would be speaker, unbelievable. nobody would have thought that would happen. howard: yes. things move quickly in politics, and sometimes things unimaginable become imaginable, though it's going to be tough for either one of these guys to get to 218. stick around, we'll have you back later. >>> when we only back, the battle for the house leadership has become a story about donald trump. ♪ ♪ dry skin is sensitive skin, too. and it's natural. treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. formulated with nourishing, prebiotic oat. it's clinically proven to moisturize dry skin for 24 hours. aveeno® sometimes jonah wrestles with falling asleep... ...so he takes zzzquil. the world's #1 sleep aid brand for a better night sleep. so now, he wakes up feeling like himself. the reigning family room middle-weight champion

john boehner. mccarthy thinks jordan can still win, others are skeptical.arlos gimenez of florida voted for mccarthy. >> i'm pretty confident that the next ballot you'll have more people drop. those numbers to me indicate that he has a really big problem, you know, with our conference. or that our conference really is looking for somebody else. >> democrats embraced jordan's defeat. >> they are trying for democracy in our country delay insurrectionist rejected by the republicans again as their candidate for speaker. but today and yesterday, that was an assault on our democracy as jim jordan assaulted our democracy on january 6th. >> no vote for speaker until after 12 tomorrow at the earliest, if at all. jordan will not drop out. speaker pro tem patrick mchenry says he will give jordan, quote, as long as he needs to get the votes. bret? >> bret: chad pergram on the hill, chad, thanks. former president donald trump says israel would not have been attacked if he were still in the white house. he spoke outside the courtroom at his ongoing civil fraud trial in n

republicans in the us house of representatives have decided that ohio congressman, jim jordan, one get another john said to come and speak of the house. they failed to get the majority for the 3rd time and a vote on friday. the house was not to be able to pass laws on to the next, and then you speak of to months of heavy rains or authorities in gonna say that being forced germany's water from a major reservoir. the aim is to prevent, to damage from testing and creating further devastation along the vault or the basement with the people downstream that lives meant that will be the same as catherine solely. and i expect modules meet the area in eastern gonna is on the water. heavy rains in the volta revoke base and forcing thousands of people from the homes that's of the managers of the state electricity company for that accessible. so for me to don to be spilled to prevention from boston, the bad the fact on neighboring communities is devastating. more than 26000 people have been affected. that number could go up. dora joe, who is gathering what she can from her home. she and her neighbors happening

. >> john: and he's heading to jordan from israel tonight, and likely he will not be going home any time soon. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, john, gillian, thank you. israeli officials notifying the families of 199 hostages that their loved ones are being held by hamas terrorists. the white house says more than a dozen americans are also still unaccounted for and hamas says it will kill hostages in response to unannounced israeli strikes on civilian targets. lieutenant colonel darren gobb, former army commander and blackhawk helicopter pilot. sir, thank you very much. obviously this is going to be an incredibly challenging situation. what can you add to it so we can understand fully how israel will go about this knowing there are right now 199 hostages being held by hamas of which a dozen could be americans. >> yes, sandra, this is, i guess, the easy description, this is one of the most difficult environments to operate in, specifically when it comes to hostage rescue in the entire world. what you see in the pictures is an environment that used to have roads and other ways for people to

jordan can bring as a conservative. and so even if he's 11 votes short, 15 votes short on the floor, that's still short. >> john, you saida that jim jordan could get to 217 is in your words, should be absurd. >> yeah. >> but is it more -- if he gets there, is it more the moment than the man? this is a moment of global crisis and the house still has no speaker. >> it should not be because ultimately the man is the person who is going to lead this conference, this congress. the idea that jim jordan can somehow unify the republican conference and lead congress is a sick joke. i want to be really clear about that. this is somebody who directly implicated in the plot to overturn the election that led toon attack on the capitol. liz cheney said he was working with members of the trump administration to overturn the election which led to ta tack. on the day of the attack, she said you did this. this is someone who has one of the lowest legislative records of anyone in congress. in terms of passing legislation, let alone working across the aisle. someone who primarily described by john boehner as a legislative terrorist because

. >>> now, let's turn to national security reporter for "the washington post" john hudson who joins us from amann. jordan traveling with the secretary of state. jordan, great to see you this morning. let's take that piece of it. a little bit of caution to america's ally there, but the second part of that trip which was going to take place in amann canceled. >> it was a really dramatic moment here. >> he was monitoring the situation and trying to get his finger on the pulse of what was going on. while this process started emerging including outside of jordan where the israeli embassy was surrounded by protests as this started occurring that's when abas announced he's canceling on biden. a key part of biden's visit meeting the palestinian president just fell apart, and the real question is this going to imperil his entire arab itinry the second half of his trip? of course it did. secretary blinken made a phone call to abbas. during that phone call secretary blinken professed condolences for the deaths at the hospital. at that point the damage was done and half of the itinerary fell apart. as we heard in th

john: from its very founding, the state of israel has been shaped by modern war. and ancient narratives inscribed over thousands of years about who controls the land between the river jordan the mediterranean sea. >> saudi arabia. no. soviet union. yes. united kingdom, abstains. united states, yes. john: in november 1947, in the aftermath of the holocaust, the united nations voted to partition what was then the british mandate of palestine into two independent states -- one jewish, one arab. jerusalem, fought over for centuries, was to be under international administration. the city is central to three major religion-- judaism, christianity, and islam. a small area is one of the most sacred sites for both jews and muslims -- the western wall, the remnants of the first and second jewish temples. and above it, temple mount, also hallowed ground for muslims, who refer to it as al haram al-sharif, the noble sanctuary. in 1948, israel declared independence, which was followed by the first of what would be many wars between israel and its arab neighbors. hundreds of thousands of arabs were evicted. an event known in the arab world as the nakba, "the catastrophe." more than half

but we also have a breakdown of why john boehner's back in the news. if jim jordan's makes mccarthy look like less of a failure, what does that say about john baner? transtive republican math later on. stay with us. stive republican m on stay with us . (all) ♪ toooo youuuuu! ♪ (sean) ♪ i wish for the amazingle new iphone 15 pro! (jason) sean! do you mean this one - the one with titanium? (sean) no way i can trade this busted up thing for one. (jason) maybe stealing wishes from the birthday boy is not your best plan -- switch to verizon and trade in any iphone and get the new iphone 15 pro on them. (sean) what!? (jason) yup, and on an amazing network (sean) and i don't have to ruin anymore birthday parties! (jason) yeah, that ship has sailed... let's go get you the iphone. here we go, come on hon. (vo) it's your last chance to trade in any iphone for a new iphone 15 pro on us. only on verizon. j.p. morgan wealth management knows it's easy to get lost in investment research. get help with j.p morgan personal advisors. hey, david! ready to get started? work with advisors

big day ahead of us, sean. >> john, if i may ask you, the cancellation of meetings with the leaders of jordan egypt and fatah, president abbas, the palestinian president, how is that being interpreted, if i may ask, on the ground. >> i think it's probably part of the universal condemnation which was initially believed to have been an israeli air strike. none of the arab nations have dialed back on that. even the united nations came right out and blamed israel for the air strikes. so we'll see tomorrow how powerful the evidence is that the idf puts out there. but if they can coordinate drone footage. you know, let me just say that we have seen some video footage that was taken by a news organization that does show a rocket malfunctioning in mid flight and an explosion occurring on the ground shortly after but if the israeli defense force can come up with compelling evidence through radar, through drones and, again, they have them flying all over, and these communications intercepts which are said to be between militants blaming islamic jihad for this, they may be able to make a compelling case

when i was covering congress when john boehner was speaker, jim jordan was the bain of his existence. jim jordan was one of the flame throwers from the outside, the last thing he wanted was unity. he wanted chaos because it helped push his ideals at the time it was tea party or freedom t caucus which was lowering spending and things of that nature. fast forward to the trump era and part of why the republican moderates are reluctant on jim jordan is because of his role -- alleged role in the january 6th insurrection on that very building where they all work and just a reminder, this is just reporting from december of 2021, a text that jim jordan forwarded to mark meadows encouraging mike pence to overturn the election. on january 6, this is the day before, on january 6, 2021, vice president mike pence as president of the senate should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. this is something that pence many times since has said was not his role to do. >> and we know from jordan himself that he spoke to former president trump seve

in january with jim banks when he wanted to be whip, and jimenez is the core of the jim jordan opposition with johnlorida, and mario diaz balart, and these three florida ones will stick together. and there's don bacon of nebraska, and there's ken buck of colorado. there are a bunch of people who have said they will not support jim jordan on the first ballot and the outside pressure is only ticking people off more. i will say this. there's a lot of differences between kevin mccarthy and jim jordan. even if you oppose mccarthy, a lot of people liked him. jim jordan does not have the same favorability in the house republican conference. lot of people think he's emphrau emblematic of the problems the house has had over the last couple years. >> thank you. >>> up next, the mother of a woman being held hostage by hamas begs for her daughter's return after seeing her on a video. we will talk about what the hostages are going through, what they are feeling. you're watching special coverage of the israel hamas war on msnbc. as someone living with type 2 diabetes, i want to keep it real and talk about some r

jordan. >> kamlager-dove? >> jeffries. >> kaptur? >> jeffries. >> we just heard two significant votes the. the first is john james, republican from michigan, who yesterday voted for tom cole, not jim jordan. the hope inside the jordan camp that he would change and vote for jim jordan. he did not. he voted for kcandace muller mooex, so a different republican. and then dave joyce, the republican who is prth openly trying to coordinate this notion of giving patrick mchenry the temporary speaker, more power. but in this particular vote, where they are right now, he said he would vote for jim jordan. he cast his vote for jordan. i want to bring in manu raju to talk about what we have seen so far. what does that tell you as we see this game going on with the votes taken and the conversations behind the scenes? >> reporter: very bad news for jim jordan with congressman james not voting for him. yesterday we had spoken to him and he was open to supporting jordan on the second ballot. that did not happen. he's going in the wrong direction losing two additional republican votes and counting as republicans are startin

people that do not want jordan to vote for him in early rounds and actually switch against him, precisely to create a direction, the wrong direction to send a signal. this is what john rutherford, who's also opposed to jordan, -- as soon as noon tomorrow. now, that does not mean that a vote is scheduled. it just means that they're holding out the right to vote at around noon, then nothing is going to happen before noon tomorrow. so, there's a lot that could happen here over the next 12 hours, you know? maybe jim jordan does get that reality check and, you know, what i think is interesting about this, and i think it's important to point out to your viewers, is that the jim jordan strategy here was that he knew that he didn't have enough votes to start. but what he expected, what many of us expected, was that when they went to the house floor, these moderates are more establishment republicans is probably a better way to describe them, would cave under the pressure of the institution, crumbling. that they would blink, essentially. that isn't what's happening. in fact, their position is getting stronger. so, if that was his only path to the speakership, it's not clear

and there is jim jordan, the former speaker john boehner once told a legendary terrorist. by the end of the week there may be more republicans lining up to be third in line for the presidency. joining me now is congressman garret graves. when liz cheney was on capitol hill, you worked with her on several issues. here's what she said recently about one of the contenders for the next house speaker. >> jim jordan knew more what about that donald trump had planned for january 6th than any other member of the house of representatives. now, somebody needs to ask jim jordan, why didn't you report to the capitol police what you knew donald trump had planned? if they were to decide that, there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected republicans could be counted on to defend the constitution. >> congressman, what do you make of what liz cheney is saying there about jim jordan possibly becoming house speaker? >> look, i don't know anything about what liz is talking about. i know that obviously there's a bit of animosity there with her and some house repub

jordan at this point? i don't think there is someone out there. >> john: that was my next question. does tom emmer throw his hat in the ring for the nomination, and chad pergram has been talking about the potential to adopt a new measure in the house to allow for patrick mchenry to become temporary speaker so congress can do whatever it needs to do to help out our closest ally in the middle east, israel, to get a budget resolution going, or continuing resolution, however they might do that. do they need to adopt new rules here if they can't all get on the same page with who they like and it stands, bill, in sharp contrast with the democrats of the person who voted for hakeem jeffries. >> that's a good point. if you go back to nancy pelosi, she had a very small minority in the house but the democrats in the end were able to keep party discipline and she was very successful in getting liberal stuff passed because she kept the party disciplined and i wish the republican party would show that, too. this is not good for the party. and the way we know that, democrats are not coming to the

people that do not want jordan to vote for him in early rounds and actually switch against him, precisely to create a direction, the wrong direction to send a signal. this is what john rutherford, who's also opposed to jordan, said. it's time for representive jordan to understand there is this race is over. i suggt u either go to conferences showman -- back to the floor to show it in public. -- filling while the world is on fire, so that no votes want successive votes over and over, to sort of make this clear. so, as of now, we're going to come back and try this again tomorrow, that is the plan? >> well, i want to be clear, chris. nothing is scheduled, right? at this point, the only thing that we have heard is a warning, i guess, to members of congress to be prepared to vote as soon as noon tomorrow. now, that does not mean that a vote is scheduled. it just means that they're holding out the right to vote at around noon, then nothing is going to happen before noon tomorrow. so, there's a lot that could happen here over the next 12 hours, you know? maybe jim jordan does get that reality check and, you know, what i think is interesting about this, and i think it's imp

soon expected to head to jordan where he will meet with the palestinian's president and jordan's king. joining me john finer. i appreciate your time. start with where poppy left off. very powerful interview. the death toll the secretary announced has gone up from 22 to 25. you have expected that. awful as it is, do you have any more information about the number of americans who are detained or could be held hostage right now and their condition? >> i don't have any more detailed information about that other than that is the number one area of focus for our embassy, for the experts we have sent to the region to consult with their israeli counterparts and advise them on hostage recovery efforts and, you know, this is, obviously, an area of great concern to all of us. people who are stuck in this situation. it is about the worst condition you could imagine being taken frb a place where you are either traveling or live and dragged across the border into a hostile situation like this. this will remain area area of secretary blinken's meetings in jerusalem today. >> another focus of the secretary's meetings

jim jordan is the architect of the chaos that the republican house is living. i told you about johnin 2015, it was jim jordan, his allies, who worked to undermine boehner. it was jim jordan and his allies who were a headache for paul ryan when he was speaker for three and a half years. and it was jim jordan, and his allies, or at least those who he inspired, it will ultimately took down kevin mccarthy. so a lot of these republicans, even though publicly, they do not want to get sideways with the republican base, they do not like jim jordan, they resent that it is members like him who have put them in this embarrassing, difficult position. >> let me ask you, i've heard so many different scenarios laid out here about how this could move forward. we have minority leader, hakeem jeffries, telling nbc that he believes a bipartisan path forward is still possib to elect a speaker, because, quote, there are still reasonable republicans on the other side of the aisle. your thoughts? >> well, it is true. when there is a secret ballot election, you find out that it is true. unfortunately, a lo