it was representative michael mccall on the sunday shows yesterday, chair of the house phoned affair committee, asked about his concerns at this time about events in israel and how washington should respond. here's part of his response. >> can you and your fellow lawmakers provide more congressional aid to israel when you don't have a speaker of the house? >> well, it's not ideal. it was not my idea to oust the speaker. i thought it was dangerous. i look at the world and all the threats that are out there, and what kind of message are we sending to our adversaries when we can't govern, when we're dysfunctional, when we don't even have a speaker of the house? i mean, how does chairman xi in china look at that when he says democracy doesn't work? how does the ayatollah look at this knowing that we cannot function properly? and i think it sends a terrible message. with respect to funding, we have appropriated $3.3 billion in foreign military financing that is available to the president through a drawdown -- he can draw down that authority, but we have to get a speaker elected this week

. >> good morning, michael mccall, chairman of the foreign affairs committee. i monitored this briefing on israel. last saturday, terror struck israel, hamas killed thousands of people, injured thousands of people, a hundred hostages, some americans. i was in the came boots, the -- kabus,ed borer of gaza with speaker mccarthy and saw the residents there and the daycare center and it's disgusting to me that 70 hamas killers went into that village and slaughtered almost all the residents there, including the babies at the daycare center, some of whom were beheaded. this is an act of terror that cannot stand. we heard from the administration, there seems to have been a failure of intelligence as well. we're not quite sure how we missed it. we're not quite sure how israel missed it. we know egypt had warned the israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen. we know this has been planned perhaps as long as a year ago. the other concern is escalation in the region we know misblah has a hundred thousand rockets that would overload the iron dome. we kn

i know that michael mccall broke news on the show yesterday saying that he is launching a bill today to make sure that money is permanently off limits for iran but then i spoke with reza palovi, the former crown prince of iran. here's what he said about this quiet agreement that the administration's trying to sell us. watch this. >> they qataris; rejected the notion that the $6 billion was unfrozen. that's not the case. $6 billion released to iran, not to mention the points that were made earlier about how much access iran has to revenue, former speaker mccarthy indicated, if you want to go to the particular freezing of assets, it's a drop in the ocean vis-a-vis the funds they have access to. that's the big picture. maria: he heard qatari's said we're not refreezing anything. why would they? qatar has been supporting iran. >> yes. and been the host country to negotiations apparently between all these terrorist organizations. so -- and by the way, they're the host for hamas leadership. so i'm not sure they're really on our side in this but i would just argue, look, the $6 billion is i

here's michael mccall with me yesterday. watch. >> next phase of this is going to go house to house, that's gogoing to be the most dangerou, bloodiest part where they will rescue hostages, kill terrorists. it's not a matter of days or weeks. it's a matter of months. at the same time they have to worry about the threat from the northern front out of lebanon. hezbollah has 100,000 rockets that can overload the iron dome. the idea the administration wants to sweep iran under the rug as if they have nothing to do with this, while their fingerprints were all over this operation. maria: wow. hezbollah, 100,000 rockets, christian. >> yeah, it's a stunning capability and where did they come from? are they making these themselves? no, they're not. a lot of these are coming from iran and being smuggled in. that is something the u.s. navy could do, the administration has made a big song and dance about aircraft carrier uss gerald ford and her group moving into the eastern mediterranean. they could stop sea born traffic going to gaza, t

would anticipate and would hope -- and that's why i try to make sure with our committee that michael mccall myself sent out a bipartisan and unified letter stating, so that everyone knows that we are together. that we are not going to allow the dysfunction that we're having to prevent us from moving forward and protecting and working with our ally, israel. and so that slog i can assure you is taking place. i know i'm going to have a briefing in the morning. i hope that we have an answer before we get back to washington on monday. >> congressman gregory meeks, thanks so much for your time. >>> coming up, the very latest on the attack on israel. joining us next hour, the former israeli ambassador to the u.s. and the former director of national intelligence.

. >>> let's get to all of the breaking news with republican congressman michael mccall. he's the chair of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for joining us. i want to get to the vote for house speaker in a moment. let me start with the truly awful situation still in israel right now. you received a briefing on the hamas terror attack earlier today. what stood out for you from that briefing? >> i think what stood out was what we didn't hear. you know, the idea that ron had no fingerprints on this operation. we all know that iran provides $100 million to hamas every year and the weaponry and rockets involved. also on the intelligence failure, which i asked questions about, how did we miss this? how did the israeli intelligence miss this? we know the egyptian intelligence service handed this off days before the terrorist invasion, if you will, or attack. so there's a lot of questions about that. we're most concerned about, wolf, an escalation in the region and that being not just containing gaza and hamas and gaza. by the way, the next phase will be house to hou

it was representative michael mccall on the sunday shows yesterday, chair of the house phoned affair committee, asked about his concerns at this time about events in israel and how washington should respond. here's part of his response. >> can you and your fellow lawmakers provide more congressional aid to israel when you don't have a speaker of the house? >> well, it's not ideal. it was not my idea to oust the speaker. i thought it was dangerous. i look at the world and all the threats that are out there, and what kind of message are we sending to our adversaries when we can't govern, when we're dysfunctional, when we don't even have a speaker of the house? i mean, how does chairman xi in china look at that when he says democracy doesn't work? how does the ayatollah look at this knowing that we cannot function properly? and i think it sends a terrible message. with respect to funding, we have appropriated $3.3 billion in foreign military financing that is available to the president through a drawdown -- he can draw down that authority, but we have to get a speaker elected this week

last night, house foreign affairs chairman michael mccall talked to a group of us and said it is dangerous not to have a speaker in p place at this point and limits the ability for how congress can respond. >> every time you project weakness you invite aggression, we saw it after afghanistan, with russia and ukraine, with china and taiwan and now iran and hamas and israel. >> if you actually look at the house rules, it basically says the speaker, acting speaker, they can't really do anything unless it's to help elect a new speaker. but republicans have also kind of said if we need to move, who exactly is going to stop us here. you heard it from patrick mchenry here, he told reporters if the government needs to act we will act on this particular point. but at this point the white house hasn't sent congress any request for funding or materials or different things. so we don't have that in place yet. at the same point republicans are hopeful they could get a speaker in as soon as tomorrow. they're having a candidate forum later today with steve scalise and jim jordan who have announced they'r

this morning we're getting into it and we are talking about all of this with michael mccall, the houseffairs committee chairman. he's going to be breaking news on the program, he's working on a bill which he's going to launch on monday. we'll tell you about that. mike pompeo is with us, former secretary of state who engineered peace in the middle east with his abraham accords can that be a prospect going forward? we'll talk with the former crown prince of iran, he was exiled of course, his father exiled. we're going to talk with him about the backdrop of iran and their threats and then of course we're talking about the united states and the impact here with a wide open border. we've seen people come in and get apprehended on the terrorist watch list. kari lake is living i she will join us as well. we'll focus on the impact to america in these dangerous times and you've been reporting. your conversation with mark levine, you were spot on to bring up china and to bring up the issues around this nuclear debacle here because china, if i'm china and i'm sitting in beijing and i'm xi jinping

but rep he sensitive michael mccall says the president must start leading with strength. >> we're seeingdificatoin of china, russia and iran. >> there are now more than 1,000 entities connected to iran and proxies that have been sanctioned. >> almost immediately after the horrific y attacks of october 7th hamas solicited donations to fund continued terrorist activities. our goal and the goal of our allies and partners in this effort is to cut off those financial resources while ensuring that humanitarian aid can flow to the palestinian people in gaza. >> reporter: bringing it full circle, he says the gulf cooperation council with the saudi's co-chair with the united states is working on getting that terrorist funding and ending it and getting the aid, humanitarian aid into gaza, something the white house would like to see. cheryl: edward lawrence line at the white house. thank you so much. customs and border be troll borl revealing 900,000 illegal immigrants were release intoed tinto theunited states. nearly 156,000 migrants allowed to enter the country, in september border patrol encoun

for about the last hour and a half we had gotten word that foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccall was asked to come to the white house. we can now confirm that mccaul is indeed at the white house to discuss that national security package. this is a live stake out camera that we have outside the white house and told there's a possibility that he may come out and speak to the cameras after this meeting concludes. but obviously this is any developments. >> don't see a marine standing outside the door there. >> bret: this would be the place that lawmakers come to talk to the press in the northern lawn area. it'll be interesting to see how they deal with chairman mccaul and he has had real concerns, not only about what's happening overseas obviously and making sure that israel gets everything it needs in the middle of a house uproar and trying to find a new speaker. also concerns about border and gaza boarder and southern border and what happens there and chairman mccaul was former chairman of the homeland security committee and he knows all too well how many people have come over the

it's ways and means chair jason smith, house foreign affair chair michael mccall and representative derrickohnson with us last night. what do you make of this letter? >> honestly, liz, i think you'll get it right far more than the others out there and you're trying to be dedicated to the truth and having said all this. we need 218 votes to get anything passed and we need 218 votes to elect a speaker and democrats not going to help us nor do we want their help. in order to do that, this happened and it's unfortunate. we are where we are and we need to -- we're going to have conference meeting on monday and candidate forum and election -- selection process through the conference. we need to honestly let -- i mean, kind of forgive but don't forget. let by gones be b bygones rather than obsessing about yesterday. elizabeth: thank you, your check is in the mail. thank you for your generous comment. have a great weekend. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: this big story, dr. marty mccare rendition of my here and 43 of the u.s. servicemens and discharged for refusing biden's covid mandate rejoined and tha

here's what congressman michael mccall said. he called the situation dangerous.o you worry it makes the united states vulnerable on the world stage that we don't have a speaker of the house, senator? >> it could be. we had a meeting two days ago with senators ranking member and chairman with the white house. here's what's come out of the senate very soon. a big package for ukraine to my house colleagues, if you strip out ukrainian aid russia will keep going and there will be a war with nato and russia and it will be a green light to invade taiwan. and to the republicans in the house, if you pull the plug on ukraine, you will create more war in europe, and china will go after thailand and to the biden administration, you don't need lindsey graham saying we're coming after iran. you need to say it. >> do you hold former president trump responsible for that? he's leading that charge. >> i think it should be transparent. you know, president trump -- >> do you hold him responsible for that? >> no. every member of congress will vote. here's what will happen. we get an

foreign affairs committee chair michael mccall stressing the importance of speeding it up. >> when youpeaker, by wednesday, and the first bill on the floor will be my resolution condemning hamas for these terrorist attacks in israel. if we don't have a speaker, he can we can't put anything on the floor and we're paralyzed. that's a strong message that regardless of your differences, we need to come together and nominate and elect a speaker so we can move forward as a country at a very dangerous time. >> and joining me now is nbc capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. and brendan buck, former aide to house speakers paul ryan and jim boehner. what are you hearing? you had an interview with kevin mccarthy last night and he made a lot of news. >> reporter: he did, andrea. effectively not taking him out of the possibility of returning as speaker of the house. that does seem like a pretty unlikely proposition. but i pressed mccarthy on whether or not he would put himself into the ring in this conversation as to who would replace himself as speaker of the house and listen to how he responded

. >> congressman, the chairman of your committee, michael mccall, describes the number of american hostages this way, as being, quote, dozens. does that match with your understanding? >> yes. i don't know about dozens. but i know somewhere in the neighborhood of 20, 22, or something of that nature from what i heard someone from the administration say publically. there is, like the president said, we can't say everything publically, because there's things being worked on. i did hear and get clearance from the state department and others about 22 dead and several -- they didn't mention a specific number, but several americans that are held hostage. i want to be clear, the 22 number is 22 americans that are dead, but several americans hostages are believed to be being held by hamas. >> okay. that's a little different from what mr. mccall said. that does match up with some of the public members. i wonder if you can speak to your understanding of -- i don't want to call it an intelligence failure. but the -- the former cia director john brennan said on this show that this is not the hamas of ten

. >> chair of the foreign affairs committee, republican congressman michael mccall of texas.of what he had to say? i think he is right. >> i think the chairman has been right on so many fronts over the past six months, including ukraine, where we hear from the isolationists who want the united states to turn ukraine over to russia in the republican party. michael mccall, the chairman, has always been strong and forceful, said, not only do we support what the administration is doing in ukraine, we think they should do more. send weapons sooner. again, that's a good balance, and that's a good debate to have. here, chairman mccaul is exactly right. the members of the house of representatives who just get more hits on tiktoks, donations from donors. the real winner here, chairman xi, as mike mccaul said, are chairman xi, vladimir putin, kim jong-un, hezbollah in iran. all the people who say freedom doesn't work. all the people that say american democracy doesn't work. that is what they say. and they do use moments like this to talk to our allies in europe and say, "see, the unite

. >> the honorable michael mccaul united states representative from texas and mrs. linda mccall. >> condemning him on supporting israel and it passed overwhelmingly. and i think we will pass our appropriation bill and the around bills and my committee next week, and then we have the national security aide pack that i think will link the major threats in the world and that would be russia's threat to ukraine and europe, china's threat to the pacific, the ayatollah threat to the middle east and securing the border throughout the united states. >> they will be, the reason why we are linking all the threats together i think it is a good way to do things. >> to have a message for president biden today? >> yes, work on it is in the interest of the american people and it is all about national security. and what is happening in israel right now, we have to stand together and we did on the house floor. it was a great contrast to all the infighting to the first bill on the floor. uniting the united states and israel. collects the honorable dr. jared perkins dean -- >> the honorable dan ne

. >> the honorable michael mccaul, united states representative from texas, and mrs. linda mccallnk we will pass our appropriations bill and the israeli -- iran bill, and then the security package. that will be russia's threat to ukraine and europe, china's threat to the pacific, the threat to the middle east, and securing the border. the reason why we are linking the threats together, -- >> do you have a message for president biden tonight? >> [indiscernible] it is all about national security. and what is happening in israel, we have to stand together. we did on the house floor. it was a great contrast to all the infighting from the first bill on the floor. uniting united states and israel. >> [indiscernible] >> the honorable mark wahlberg. >> [indiscernible] >> the honorable gregory meeks, united states representative from new york. >> [indiscernible] >> individuals have their own determinations to send a clear message that the house of representatives stand by our ally israel. >> [indiscernible] >> united states senator from idaho. >> [indiscernible] >> eventually. it's great t

mccall. he is a voice of reason. host: michael mccaul of texas? caller: yes. but anyway, back on the israel thing. israel has every right to defend themselves. what i would like people to also realize is that hamas is another name for isis, as netanyahu said yesterday. it is another name for isis. people talking about palestinian, etc. hamas is not doing the palestinian people any favors. they have also killed palestinian people. people need to realize that not all palestinians are backing hamas. that is like saying all californians and new yorkers are all democrats. that is not the case. host: let's hear from ulysses in texas. democratic line. caller: good morning c-span. it is right in front of you. you're looking at a people that are shows -- that are so scared of producing something they cannot get together and come up with a leader. people have been there five, 15 years. they are not eligible to be a leader? everything the republicans have led on, you can go back through history, back to obamacare. they did not want to do obamacare but they did not have a

michael, good evening? caller: how are you? host: doing well. caller: i'd like to speak to the independents, you heard representative mccall explaining the world is on fire and one of the republicans i respect is ken buck who said he cannot vote for either scalise or jim jordan because they refuse to say that joe biden was elected properly. until that happens, all this party has proved they can't govern and maybe we're better off they can't elect a speaker until november 24th when they're all booted out. thanks for the attention. host: michael from arizona as we show you members entering the house on the east front of the house there. the cameras catching members going in. this is diana out of sanford, maine, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. thank for you taking my call. host: what's your comment of the speaker's race? caller: the speaker's race, i'm 73. i have paid attention to politicks so much since my son who was a political journalist told me to pay attention. so here i am. and retired, having more time to pay attention and follow everything, i wish the younger people could do this, get off right wing, news max, all these channe

mccall. he is a voice of reason. host: michael mccaul of texas? caller: yes.ut anyway, back on the israel thing. israel has every right to defend themselves. what i would like people to also realize is that hamas is another name for isis, as netanyahu said yesterday. it is another name for isis. people talking about palestinian, etc. hamas is not doing the palestinian people any favors. they have also killed palestinian people. people need to realize that not all palestinians are backing hamas. that is like saying all californians and new yorkers are all democrats. that is not the case. host: let's hear from ulysses in texas. democratic line. caller: good morning c-span. it is right in front of you. you're looking at a people that are shows -- that are so scared of producing something they cannot get together and come up with a leader. people have been there five, 15 years. they are not eligible to be a leader? everything the republicans have led on, you can go back through history, back to obamacare. they did not want to do obamacare but they did not have an