mr. mccaul: mr. speaker, i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlelady from california, mrs. kim, from the chair of the indopacific. the speaker: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. kim: i rise in strong support of this resolution to demonstrate this house stands united with israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by hamas and other terrorists. on october 7, we watched in horror as hundreds of terrorists poured across the israel-gaza border and massacred, kidnapped and raped israelis. it's abhorrent. this is at the hands of hamas and hezbollah terrorist groups backed and funded by the iran regime. they want to wipe israel off the map. thousands of rockets have fallen on israel and continue falling as we speak. this has been the worst attack on jews since the holocaust. i visited israel last year and i felt a constant threat of attack that the people of israel face. and it reminded me of my time growing up in south korea as a young girl after the korean war, and i felt that constant thr

mr. mccaul: right. yes. i don't think i can quote the exact number but there are dozens and so we have -- we're working with the israelis and we have obviously our special forces good with this and we have hostage rescue teams, the f.b.i., and will provide assistance to israel to get them out of there. it will be very difficult going house to house like in 2005 to rescue these hostages when they use them as human shields. the bombing you're seeing is to defeat command and control operations. the second phase will be going in to clear house by house. it's very dangerous doing that. and it's very dangerous but we have to get the americans out and we have to get the israelis out. i saw a video of toddlers in cages like animals, 2 and 3-year-old children in cages as hamas was laughing at them. laughing at them. it's just sick. reporter: i was going to leave mr. miller and mr. kustoff to continue answering questions. reporter: what extent can you add on a resolution with a speaker in place, is that delaying your

mr. mccaul: i think they'll be in that room for quite some time. reporter: is it scalise or has it shifted towards congressman jordan? mr. mccaul: jim went to the mic and reiterated his support for steve scalise. he's letting his supporters go over to steve. i've been up here 20 years and never seen anything like this. first in history, we've never seen a vacate of the chair but usually when we go to a speaker designee it goes for the floor and there's not an issue. i was just trying to make a point how dangerous this is because we can't govern without a speaker and it runs in the face of democracy itself. reporter: the israelis say -- let me put it this way, what's the time line under which you have to pass a supplemental? mr. mccaul: we're talking weekss. we can't drag this out any longer. host: steve scalise and mike mccall earlier from capitol hill. if you're watching those clips over scalise and mccall's right shoulder was the congressional reporter katherine actually mcmahon us. we heard about this meeting behind closed doors about an hour ag

mr. mccaul: mr. speaker, i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlelady from california, mrs. kim, from the chair of the indopacific. the speaker: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. kim: i rise in strong support of this resolution to demonstrate this house stands united with israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by hamas and other terrorists. on october 7, we watched in horror as hundreds of terrorists poured across the israel-gaza border and massacred, kidnapped and raped israelis. it's abhorrent. this is at the hands of hamas and hezbollah terrorist groups backed and funded by the iran regime. they want to wipe israel off the map. thousands of rockets have fallen on israel and continue falling as we speak. this has been the worst attack on jews since the holocaust. i visited israel last year and i felt a constant threat of attack that the people of israel face. and it reminded me of my time growing up in south korea as a young girl after the korean war, and i felt that constant thr

mr. mccaul: it's a dangerous game that we're playing. just proves our adversaries. our adversaries is watching and israel is watching. they have my help. i have my resolution condemning hamas. we can't vote on that until we put a speaker in the chair. and remind my colleagues about how dangerous this is. israel is going to need an aid package. if we don't have a speaker, we can't help israel in this great time of need. we are playing with fire and need to stop playing games in politics and vote a speaker in. reporter: indiscernible question] host: the care of the foreign affairs committee talking to reporters as he heads into a closed door with his party what they do next. you heard him talking about how the house is paralyzed and cannot function and pass any legislation until there is a speaker. and he noted he has a resolution waiting to get to the floor in support of israel and that has over 400 co-sponsor support. bipartisan push happening behind the scenes. robert, thanks for waiting in massachusetts, democratic caller. go ahead. caller: maga faction in the rep

mr. mccaul: next we have the parents of jared schmitz. mark and jacqueline. ms. schmitz: thank you, chairman mccaul and other members in attendance today. we really appreciate it. my name is jacqueline. i'm the step-mother to marine lance corporal jared schmitz who was killed at the age of 20 on his first deployment to kabul, afghanistan. at the abbey gate bombing on august 26, 2021. let me share a little bit about jared first. i remember the day i first met jared. a shy 6-year-old walked in to greet me with a white stuffed bunny. he never spoke a word that day but when i thanked him, his smile melted my heart and his shy eyes gleamed at me. and it's that smile, even in new or uncomfortable situations, that has warmed the hearts of so many people and that's a smile now that we can only dream of. through the year, jared knew no stranger. he was an easy going kid and embraced friends from all walks of life. he never had any judgment and always found commonality. growing up he had a step-brother that was one year younger than him and two little sisters, all of which

mr. mccaul: i've been in touch with the administration. we're talking weeks. can't drag this out any longer. reporter: thank you. >> the house remains in recess as republican membs continue negotiations to resolve the open house speaker seat. the republican conference will be meeting shortly behind closed doors at 6:30 eastern in an attempt to get more member support for majority leader steve scalise. he's the current nominee for eaker. we have cameras outside that meeting and will brg you remarks from lawmakers should anyone speak to reporters. watch live coverage of the house when members gavel back in here on c-span. >> mr. secretary, my good friend, tony. thank you for your important visit here today. thank you. thank president biden. thank you to the american people. american people for your incredible support for israel. in our war against the barbarians of hamas. i thank you in english. i want to thank you in hebe row as well. [speaking in hebrew] >> mr. secretary, your visit is another tangible example of america's unequivocal support for israel. hamas

mr. mccaul: we are living in a dangerous world. the world's on fire. our adversaries are watching what we do. and quite frankly they like it. and chairman talks about how -- chairman xi talks about how democracy doesn't work and we are proving him right. we need to filth chair with a speaker. every day that goes by gets more dangerous. i was on the phone with our friends from israel. they are going to need a supplemental and aid to replenish the iron dome. they can't do that if we don't have a speaker in the chair. i see a lot of threats out there. one of the biggest i see is in that room because we can't unify as a conference and put a speaker in the chair to govern. i can't get my resolution, 416 co-sponsors condemning hamas, and supporting israel without a speaker in the chair. i can't get that supplemental aid to israel without a speaker in the chair. it's very dangerous what we are doing. host: i will invite our listeners and viewers to join the conversation for our guest. professor jordan tama of american university. calm us on our onlines by par

mr. mccaul: we are living in a dangerous world. the world's on fire. our adversaries are watching what we do. and quite frankly they like it. and chairman talks about how -- chairman xi talks about how democracy doesn't work and we are proving him right. we need to filth chair with a speaker. every day that goes by gets more dangerous. i was on the phone with our friends from israel. they are going to need a supplemental and aid to replenish the iron dome. they can't do that if we don't have a speaker in the chair. i see a lot of threats out there. one of the biggest i see is in that room because we can't unify as a conference and put a speaker in the chair to govern. i can't get my resolution, 416 co-sponsors condemning hamas, and supporting israel without a speaker in the chair. i can't get that supplemental aid to israel without a speaker in the chair. it's very dangerous what we are doing. host: i will invite our listeners and viewers to join the conversation for our guest. professor jordan tama of american university. calm us on our onlines by par

mr. nathaniel towels. --dowels. >> 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 hon

mr. mccaul: i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ctober 7, the israelis woke to rockets raining down on the

mr. mccaul: we are living in a dangerous world. the world's on fire.dversaries are watching what we do. and quite frankly they like it. and chairman talks about how -- chairman xi talks about how democracy doesn't work and we are proving him right. we need to filth chair with a speaker. every day that goes by gets more dangerous. i was on the phone with our friends from israel. they are going to need a supplemental and aid to replenish the iron dome. they can't do that if we don't have a speaker in the chair. i see a lot of threats out there. one of the biggest i see is in that room because we can't unify as a conference and put a speaker in the chair to govern. i can't get my resolution, 416 co-sponsors condemning hamas, and supporting israel without a speaker in the chair. i can't get that supplemental aid to israel without a speaker in the chair. it's very dangerous what we are doing. host: i will invite our listeners and viewers to join the conversation for our guest. professor jordan tama of american university. calm us on our onlines by party. re

welcome in the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee texas republican congressman michael mccaul. mrairman, thanks for the time. you know, that question posed by scott pelley on "60 minutes" and the answer received by the president really raised some eyebrows i'm told in the foreign policy and intelligence community. what was your thoughts when you heard it and what can you tell us about it. >> i don't understand this attempt to down play iran's role and sweep fund the rug. iran is behind all of this. their fingerprints are all over. this iran provides $150 million per year to hamas and weapon systems that they use to kill innocent civilians in israel. of course they are behind this. all their proxies, hamas is a proxy of iran. hezbollah is a proxy of iran. and the iran-backed she a militias in iraq and elsewhere are all backed by iran. so, the idea that they are somehow not behind this really defies common sense. what i don't want to see is more funding. today i'm introducing my bill to freeze those $6 billion of assets through sanctions so that we don't fund more of this terror tha

mrs. mindy gray. >> the honorable antony j blinken, secretary of state. >> ms. valerie biden owen. >> the honorable bonnie jenkins. >> the honorable katherine clark , united states representative from massachusetts. >> the honorable michael mccaultates representative from texas, and mrs. linda mccall. >> i think 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 se

futures" exclusive is the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, or congressman michael mccaul. mrrman, thank you very much for joining us this morning, and i want to get to this message sent to israel over the weekend. but before we get there, you have been given a briefing in the situation room. can you assess where we are in this war right now? >> well, it's getting very dangerous. i think the concern, maria,ing is an escalation beyond the gaza strip. right now we're trying to contain it, trying to get the innocent civilians south towards egypt and open up egypt so they can go in. but thes escalation from hezbollah is real, the role of iran is very real in this. you know, hezbollah has 100,000 rockets that could overload the iron dome itself in israel. we do not want that two-front war. and so that is a great concern. in addition to isis and syria and iran-backed militias in iraq and the taliban is making noise about coming in as well. we don't want a global jihad in jerusalem. maria: unbelievable. let's get to this message that iran sent to israel on saturday night stressing th

mr. president -- >> martha: we thought he was making a comment about iran. he's talking about the case that he's involved in makes no sense. i apologize, chairman mccaul. i go back to you. what is israel being told about whether or not they need to pause, whether or not they should be going in, are they listening to us? how involved are we in that decision? >> we have our top generals from centcom that conducted the iraqi house-to-house firefight, if you will. it will be very similar to what they'll have in gaza to help train the idf forces, the israeli forces before they go in. also, with respect to the air strikes, they're being very effective in taking out command and control and top leadership as well. also finally, part of the slowness of this is to help get the civilians south in gaza, get the hostages out before the ground phase begins. most importantly, it's to preposition our assets and that would be these carrier strike groups that are -- that have moved in to the eastern mediterranean, now moving in to the persian gulf. once they're prepositioned, the ground game will probably begin. it will start fairly eminently. >> martha: why do you say

mr. secretary, thank you for this. chairman mike mccaull three days prior an event like this could happen. we don't know how we missed it. we don't know how israel missed it. can you tell us what really the u.s. knew before this attack? >> what i can tell you is that if we had known or if we know of a pending attack against an ally, we would clearly inform that ally. but what we're focused on now, soloman, we're focused on making sure israel has what it needs to defend its sovereign territory and to protect its citizens. the minister and i spent a good bit of time talking today about what those requirements are and what we need to do to urgently meet those needs. [ speaking a non-english language ] >> so, again, we're listening to secretary of defense lloyd austin with his israeli tell counterpart in tel-aviv. they were asked the question about iran, and he gave the answer we caught right there. richard, your thoughts? >> the question is how you can prevent war widening, and that's the danger between what we've been discussing and that. if

mr secretary. thank you for this house foreign affairs chair mike mccaul said that we know that egypt had warned israelke something like this could happen. we don't know how we missed it. we don't know how israel doing. you israel was doing. so can you tell us what really the us knew before attack ? before this attack? >> what i can tell you is that if we had known or if we know of a pending attack against an ally, we would clearly inform that ally. but what we're focussed on now, suleiman , is focussed on now, suleiman, is we're focussed on making sure that israel has what it needs to defend its sovereign territory and to protect its citizens . and and to protect its citizens. and the minister and i spent a good bit of time talking today about what those requirements are and what those requirements are and what we need to do to urgently meet those needs and anas sannar is a team at monsummano terme at cal gam emma raducanu the zahawi israel mission come kristian niemietz ma'am. >> i finish catacutan , said >> i finish catacutan, said derek medini . derek medini. >> well, another question in hebrew the

mr. mccaul: we talk about, they're airing these grievances. at the end of the day we elected the speaker designee. and we may just have to bring it tooth floor and have another episode bikelike we had with mccarthy. i don't know if he's going to get the requisite votes right now. reporter: what are the odds of of that happening today? mr. mccaul: i think they'll be in that room for quite some time. reporter: is it still scalise leading or has it shifted to jordan? mr. mccaul: jim went to the mic and reiterated his support for steve scalise. he's letting his supporters go over to steve. i've been here 20 years and never seen anything likethis. first time in history we've seen vacating the chair, but normally voting for speaker it goes to the floor and there's not an issue. i was just trying to make the point how dangerous this is. we can't govern without a speaker. and it runs in the face of democracy. >> what is the timeline under which you're going to have to pass the supplemental? mr. mccaul: i've been in touch with the administration. we're