>> not close. i'm erin burnett here in gaza where everyone is waiting on edge. trucks carrying medicine, food and desperately needed water on the rafah crossing where they need water, water, water, and hundreds of navy reservists are waiting to invade those along that border as missiles are ricocheting across today from yemen. looking at the picture now in yemen. people are packed shoulder-to-shoulder as far as the eye can see, and thousands upon thousands upon thousands of them in sanaa in the south, jake. >> looking at the pictures, let's start here in d.c. with the coverage at the u.s. capitol

where we are expecting action on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives and cnn's manu raju is there. i have been speaking to the house republicans, as you have, and i am not expecting a different result. is jim jordan? >> it is probably going to go poorly for him in a matter of moments here, jake. we expect the republican opposition in fact to grow, and remember that the first vote he lost 17 and then in the second vote it was 22, and they are believing it is close to 30, and some believe it is 29 republicans, and we will see if that is the case, but no one is believing he is going to be getting the votes to become speaker, and he can only afford three, because one of the supporters is in israel to bring down the total of what he needs raising so many questions and anger within the gop ranks of

how to get out of this crisis that they themselves caused. if jim jordan does not get the votes which is widely expected, then some decisions to make, and does he continue on with another round of ballots which he can do as a speaker nominee, and does he continue the call for the votes trying to get him to get the people to come his way, and the supporters are urging him to do that and jordan is threatening to do it through the course of the weekend and if he bows out, that could lead the way to another speaker race for other candidates who are considering to put their name in the rink. the other thing that is discussed is to try to prop up the interim speaker, patrick mchenry to put his name on the floor to give him more powers, but the republicans are wildly opposed to that idea, and the democrats support that idea for the most part, and the republicans are badly divided over this, and they have shelved the idea of temporarily propping up patrick mchenry which is

leading to so many more questions about this, and how to get out of this. if they can't figure that out, that means that so many huge issues to deal with and mainly aid to israel, aid to ukraine which is being pushed hard by the president pshg and trying to avoid another government shutdown by mid-november, and those can't be acted upon until the house republicans can get behind the speak per and find a way out of the leadership crisis. at the moment, jake, there is no way out, and so we can see one ballot fail for jim jordan after another as frustration and anger is mounting within the house gop. >> thank you manu raju, we will be coming back to you several times today i suspect. last night, president biden said that the world is at an inflection point, and at stake is billions of dollars of support for government and military support for ukraine and of course, the government cannot

consider the pick until they pick a speaker of the house. arlette ette saenz is at the wh house, and what are they hoping for? >> the white house is hope, jake, to submit the official request for additional funding for ukraine and israel for congress, and we expect the details to come out shortly. two sources briefed on the matter say that the proposal is expected to top $150 billion of national security funding, and $60 billion coming to ukraine and another $50 billion going to israel and those to last for a one-year period in order to avoid the incremental fights going on when it is coming to funding these types of issues. the administration is to provide or request 10 bil$10 billion in humanitarian aid and also border security which the republicans

have been pushing for, and also indo-china security. and so for israel, reality is securing that funding on capitol hill is going to be very, very difficult. there is a poll that americans are unsure how much the americans should be involved in the war in israel, and waning support for providing additional support to ukraine. that is a sentiment shared by the majority of the american people as well as hardline conservatives up in the house. then there is the issue of the broader paralysis facing the house of representatives at the moment. they are unable to consider or pass any type of legislation putting into real question of how soon the administration could get this aid to both ukraine and israel across the finish line. >> all right. arlette, thank you so much. and while the acts speaker patrick mchenry is beginning the morning with a prayer, we go to

the panel, and there are no signs that jim jordan can get to 217 votes, and in fact, he might even fall shorter today than he did yesterday which is even shorter than the day before, and yet, we are in matters of moments of crisis in ukraine an israel. there are not only innocent people dying in gaza, in israel and ukraine, these are american allies, and there are americans dying in those places. what is this if not narcissistic act of self-regard. >> i don't mean to laugh about this, but it is unimaginable that this is day 17. you know, to say it is groundhog's day, it is really too light. but, look, one of the things they am told, and two of my republican sources just texted me and said they expect jim jordan more noes. it is going in the wrong direction for him.

another thing to point out, and i have said it a couple of times over the last couple of days is kevin mccarthy. his name, if you go, he would not let the architect of the capitol take his name off of the door. so when you are going to the speaker's office, there you go. it still says kevin mccarthy. he is not the speaker of the house. he is not the speaker protem of the house. >> well, how does he have the power to tell the architect to not take it off, and how does he have the power? he is no more the power than i do. >> and he is mchenry has the power more than he does. >> if you go to house.gov, it also says that kevin mccarthy is the speaker of the house. >> you never know. >> and look, as gloria's point over the last couple of days, people have tex ted me and said

that his name may go back in because he only lost by eight votes, and the reality is that as long as there is no one else as speaker, kevin mccarthy is to your point, david, really controlling patrick mchenry who he put in this job. i just, it is sort of hard to figure out that jordan had a press conference this morning, and he tried to literally fly above, you know, 30,000 feet by talking about the wright brothers, and clearly trying to raise the level of discussion here, and re-make himself into kind of a statesman. you know, we all need to unite, and so you can scratch your head and say, is this the jim jordan that i have watched for the umpteenth years who has never been the prime sponsor of a piece of legislation that has passed the congress, and we all know that, you know, john boehner called him a legislative terrorist, and et cetera, et

cetera, and now he is kind of trying to change the tenor of the debate. this is the problem. they don't know who they are, and so they are changing who they are. kevin mccarthy was a chamber of commerce central republican, and then a trumpee, and then jim jordan is a guy who tried to cut deals, and you can't lead if you don't know who you are, and they don't know who they are. >> so for the people watching on the left side of the screen, it is a quorum call, and basically taking attendance to know who is there. the speaker vote will require a majority of those there, so then you can know how many are there and they need 216 votes or 217 votes to win the speakership. however much jim jordan may want to be a statesman, wright

brothers when the rights were stolen, it was not stolen, and he is a liar/deny-er. >> i think there are all kinds of problems with the 2020 election, and i have been clear about that. >> his name is all over or the select house committee's investigation into the january 6th as a main conspirator according to the vice chair liz cheney, and defied a congressional subpoena, and if he does win, which it looks like he won't, but he would be the first to defy a subpoena. >> and a constitutional officer and you would be third in line to be president, and so jim jordan has 19 or 20 people voting against him so far, and that is going to tell you everything about the party, and why not more, and have the

courage the say, we need to break from this. donald trump lost the election, and joe biden was duly elected and look at the way it was done, but it was all upheld in the courts, and when the referee blows the whistle, it is over. they refuse to say game over. so why aren't more republicans standing up to say, we need to break from this, and move on. normally the parties set the agendas through the presidential parties and there is one of them playing out, and trump does not have one of those left, but this is a challenge for the republican party, stay there and denying the integrity of the election or break it and move on. >> it is break from this trumpism, but the other option is to stand up for democracy, which he refuses to do, right?

he gave lip service, but the other day when asked that, he stayed silence. and the president gave him the medal of freedom five days after that in a private ceremony the white house by trump. >> and he was wills at one point t -- willing at one point to allow patrick mchenry going with temporary speaker until one of the republicans in a private caucus knocked it down and held up the constitution and said, this is not the way that democracy works and we can't put him in, because it would be awful if we had to actually work with, oh, my god, democrats on the other side of the aisle which is one of the reasons that is of course they threw out mccarthy. because he dared to compromise. >> when you are talking about what the republicans could not

stand up to donald trump, and it occurred to me what jim jordan is doing right now is putting the country through this, and dragging the country through this, and dragging the republican conference through this and refusing to accept the facts that he does not have a votes is a mini version of what donald trump is still doing for the country and refusing to accept that he lost. >> he predates trump with the tea party, and adopted the tactics of bully, bully, bully. >> and he refuses to accept it, and regardless of the conference and regardless of the house of representatives and regardless of the united states of america and the world and because of his brittle ego, he is putting the united states of america through this. and there are other republicans who can do the job, patrick mchenry, steve womack, and paul emmert, and fiscal conservatives and people who will do individual appropriations bills, but it is so important to him that he is putting us through this just like donald trump did with the election loss that we

are all still going through, and continuing to watch the quorum call ahead of jim jordan's third attempt for speaker. we will go to erin burnett in israel where tensions are high ahead of the ground incursion. stay with us.

and you are looking at the floor of the house of representatives as we await congressman jim jordan's third attempt to become the speaker of the house. they are now in a quorum vote, which is basically an attendance vote. the house needs a speaker before they can vote on any more new

aid for israel and ukraine. and this is sparking more need as we go to erin burnett who is tel aviv. >> yes, the palestinians in the west bank and we have seen them in sanaa and israel and the west bank as they have been getting out. and sara is in the city of ramallah, and a large and angry demonstration where she is as people left the mosque. sara, a moment when somebody came up right in your face and they said, you are not welcome here, and we don't want you here. can you tell us what you are seeing? >> sure. look, the tension, as i understand this, the tension is beyond high. there isn't a word for it, because of the images that people are seeing coming out of gaza, coming out from all over

the gaza strip, children being killed, familying being wiped out, and the bombings happening, and the air strikes happening from israel, and the anger is very, very high. they do not like the coverage done by us or other international stations often. but there is this sense that there needs to be a place for people to explode their rage, because what can they do otherwise. where can they go otherwise to try to deal with the trauma they are seeing of their people. some of them have family members who live in gaza. some of them are experiencing this on a very different scale than the rest of the world who is just looking in on this tragedy that is happening. there is also a sense, you know, from the israeli side of the perspective that they are also dealing with a huge tragedy that needs to be recognized by the world, and this existential fight that they have been having with hamas for as long as hamas

has been around and as long as israel has existed. so this is going to be a natural course of thing, and did i get caught in middle of it, and sometimes it happens with journalists. other journalists who watched it happen, and to be fair of them, they pulled me towards them and a little bit out of the fray. but it is completely understandable, because you are talking about 3,000-plus people killed in gaza, and talking about more than 10,000 people injured, right. and there a humanitarian crisis, and this is just the explosion of anger, and it came at me, and it happens sometimes, erin. >> all right. thank you very much, sara, who was in ramallah, and the protests earlier today. nic robertson is in sderot, israel near the border, and gaza has been using that area up and down the gaza strip as a staging ground as the military incursion, and i know that last time, nic, we were in a position

anywhere remotely close in, the first action happened there, and so what is the situation there right now? >> yeah, the military is poised and ready to go according to politician, and they have a green light, and the military has a green light, and up to them when they choose to go in but it is an uncanny, and odd day, erin. it is the quietest day we have experienced since the 7th of october. very, very few fighter jets if any. even the drones are silent. the drones are often a lot of them and low, and they make a lot, a lot of them making a lawnmower type of noise, but it has been quiet, and very, very few detonations that we have heard from gaza today. i don't think that we have taken, and there was actually a couple of incoming rockets earlier this morning, but it is isolated. it has been a very quiet day,

and srt of the impression that while the military is poised for action behind the scenes, you would believe that there were some sort of diplomacy or talking ongoing about the hostages, about the humanitarian aid that is poised potentially to come in. so you are getting a feeling that the situation is poised here. but i know from the military perspective, when they have the troops forward deployed, they can't keep them out there forever, thane have ey will hav a decision about them. >> as nic said, we found out from the id, if that the majority of the hostages are alive and to be able to say that and put out statement to say that is extremely significant and maybe it indicates that more is going to on than we know, but it is a quietest day where nic is and the quietest day that we have seen either. and so i am joined by the

spokesman for the israeli defense forces, and so for what nic has seen and our team has been seeing, the quietest day so far, libby. >> well, i don't know if there is anything to read from that, because israel is still under the rocket fire, and people are still sort of in mourning right now, and not to say they are reading anything into that, and from the military perspective, we are increasing the readiness force, and awaiting the final decisions from the government. >> and the protests are going on as you and i speak. in yemen, and looking at the pictures in sanaa, tens of thousands. in cairo today, protests as well, and the chance o displacement, and no homing, which is a reference no refugees

coming to imman, and we saw them in the west bank, and are you concerned and is that legitimate to think of what the escalating protests may bring to the conflict? >> of course, we are monitoring everything that is happening, but i have to say that we are, we have no choice but to make sure that hamas can never do this again. i don't know what to tell you, and i certainly leave it to the diplomatic level of how it is going to impact our activity, but the idf has no choice at this stage, because we have to make sure that hamas does not have any more chance of terror and using gaza strip as a launch ground for terror. >> i want to ask you about the hostages, because you did say earlier in the day, that a majority of them are believed to be alive, and when we called them, we wanted to know how they found out this information, but

from the idf, at least 20 of the hostages are children. are there any current negotiations going on? i understand that you won't tell us anything about the status, but are there conversations going on between israel and anybody in hamas or proxy for hamas about the hostages? >> i will let the diplomats do their very important work, and i'm not in a position to comment on that, but what i can say is that hamas is a terror organization, that is entirely committed to wiping israel off of the map. they say it themselves of course, and it is something that we have to consider, but i will let those who are in a better position to comment on nonnegotiations. >> is there any hesitation at all by israel? we know that we hear from gaza, fear and terror from civilians and dire shortages of everything, and everybody that we speak to, and i have talked

to, they need water. they are drinking toilet water, and do you as israel feel any responsibility for ameliorating that or alleviating that before any ground incursion? >> that is going to be decided before a ground incursion. hamas is responsible for taking care of its civilian population. we understand that they have spent more than a decade taking resources that are intended to the civilians and using it for their own purposes. we have called it out, and we have said it on every possible platform that is what they are doing and raised flag. we understand that hamas has a responsibility to care for the people within the gaza strip, and of course, we will implement whatever decision the government makes here about humanitarian

aid. >> all right. major weiss, i appreciate your time very much late afternoon here in tel aviv here the morning of more distongues going on in the u.s. government in washington, and we will have much more on the situation in gaza, and right now, back to the washington morning and the house speaker debacle that continues. jake? >> thank you so much, erin. with me is the texas republican dan crenshaw who is also a member of the house select committee on intelligence. congressman crenshaw, good to see you. i am not sure why we are having this next vote, third vote, and congressman jim jordan does not appear to be gaining many more votes, and in fact, from the whip counts on our own, he seems to be losing them. do you believe he can win the next vote? >> no, the next vote, he is not going to win it. the whip vote is correct. i will vote for him stickler for the process. whoever wins it is like a

process, that you vote for the guy, but there are no votes, and they are not changing. we talked a week ago a week and a half ago, and i told you that if jordan's allies, the online influencers and they are often paid, and nobody should think that they are principled people. these attacks have become extremely vicious. i have been the subject of a lot of attacks from far right. these are different and they have entrenched the opposition, and they are not moving. those are the facts as they are right now. it is questionable if we should have more votes through the weekend, because he will definitely lose more votes. and the question if they should

empower the protem mchenry, but some say he has that power with the way that the rules are written, and that would allow us to reset, and stop pretending it is the people's work yelling in the room who is the most popular, and that is not the people's work. the work is what we do on the commit tease and legislate and vote out of committee and go to floor, and the speak ser there to manage the process. the process already exists, and that is the work. too many people up here believe that the real work is yelling about the personal grievances of who is supposed to be the speaker. >> you should watch out, because you are making too much sense, and you may not have much of a future in this business. and so it was just sunday when we spoke, and it feels like two week weeks, but it was sunday. there was an article of how jordan's allies with the

apparent blessing of jordan that there would be a pressure campaign and it was not until wednesday, that jordan issued a statement to call off the dogs. and in the intervening time, it was not just pressure that was please support jordan or why aren't you supporting jordan or the rest, but it was very, very hostile phone calls and texts. i want to play a little bit, which is a voice mail message for the wife of one of your colleagues who did not support congressman jordan, and take a listen to this. >> i think i have seen it. >> [ bleep ], warmongering piece of [ bleep ], and you are going to continue to get phone calls and emails and putting all of your information on the internet and everybody else's, and you will not be left alone, because your [ bleep ], [ bleep ] husband. jim jordan or more conservative for you will going to be [ bleep

] molested like you cannot imagine. again, nonviolently. >> gann -- again, nonviolently, and you say that pressure campaign is the dumbest thing that you can do, and that is one of the reasons that he is losing worse and worse. >> it is. it is certainly entrenched that they are not going to be moving, and this is fact that you can take to grave because of people like that, and the beta mail who makes the threatening calls, and he is beta mail, and all of these, and warmonger, and they call me that, too. they have never been in a fistfight in their life. they should know that i am calling them beta mails right now. i want to make it clear, because anyone who threatens women like that is beta male.

it has entrenched the opposition, and we need a reset. >> so, can patrick mchenry do the job until january, and i don't need to tell you that there is actual serious business that needs to be done in terms of the appropriations bills in ukraine and on and on. >> it needs to happen, and if patrick mchenry does not want to do it, and he has state voir dire cl-- stated very clearly h does not want to do that. and that list was public, and it was made by speaker mccarthy that mchenry has the powers when he goes to the floor, and nothing in the house rules that says he needs that power. it is a myth that has been

perpetuated, and he has decided that is the limit of his powers. and so if that vote takes place, he may say, i don't want it and go to the next person in line. that could happen. that is the best option now, and we need a reset on figuring out who can get to 217, and there is talk about candidates, and that is fine. jordan would have to wait until jordan decides to step down. we take a breath, and have that conversation, and i think that we should have that conversation while there is a speaker who can bring the bills to the floor while there is a process. i am unclear why anybody is opposed to that. >> i am unclear of a lot of the business, but i appreciate your time. >> you are watching the house floor, while there is going to be another vote, and the republicans will nominate jim jordan, but it is always fun to see what he has to say.

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welcome back. i'm dana bash on capitol hill where we are waiting for jim jordan's third try to become the speaker of the house. this is day 17, day 17 with no speaker of the house, and there is no indication that jordan has flipped enough republican votes to win. in fact, the endcations are that he is going to other way. now, right now what you are seeing on the screen is the

house of representatives to taking a roll call, and gather everybody for the vote that we are going to be seeing ahead, and we are going to another part of the capitol where lauren fox is. lauren, you have been talking to members all morning about where we think that this end up today, and i know that i have heard pretty strongly from some of jim jordan's fellow republicans who think that 22 with the last vote, the second vote, that number votes against him is likely to go higher. >> yeah, that is exactly right, dana, and that is why there is debate in the conference among the supporters of jim jordan if he should try to force repeated votes today and into the weekend. you heard from some of his colleagues yesterday that is potentially something that he was looking at doing. i talked to one representative

mallika tkaki, is that he should try to keep them on the floor to grind them down essentially, but we know that strat segy can absolutely backfire. i spoke the another representative molinari who is not going to be voting for jim jordan on this ballot, and he should go back to conference and have another closed door meeting, and sort out who should be the next candidate. so many varying opinions of what the strategy should be, but dana, if it is round after round today and tomorrow and into sunday, that is probably not going to help jim jordan warm himself to any of the colleagues who are saying and have told him over the last several days, they are not voting for him. they are never voting for him, and he needs to step aside.

dana. >> yeah, lauren. at what point is that the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different result. let us know, lauren, if you learn anything new as you hear the members coming in and milling around waiting for the vote on the house floor. aim joined by the experts and scott jennings, you are a republican, and this is your party displaying a stunning example of i think chaos, and we need a much better word for chaos, because this is just beyond. >> yeah, and it is another example of refusal to accept outcomes. jim jordan has been told that he won't have the votes, and he doesn't look like he is having the votes, and what about the people who you are saying that we will keep you here all weekend and punish you until you change your mind, and this is what is hurting him. this attitude of we will punish you and bullying that has taken

place. you are hearing from all corners of the hill that this bullying, and the people who are voting for him are highly uncomfortable with this, because some of the folks are their friends, and they don't like members of congress are harassed with this. >> and their families. >> and that voice mail that jake played for congressman crenshaw. >> for one of the congressman's wife. >> and why they come here, and all of that is on hold so we can bang our heads against the wall. ridiculous. >> but it is speaking to what has happened in the house of representatives with gerrymandering and with the fact that you have so many dug-in districts, and blue, blue, blue, red, red, red, and so what has happened, and particularly on the republican side is on

display is that it is the outside group, and the ecosystem, and the echo chamber, and pick your word, and also the groups that make money off of this. they are continuing to do this, and saying, okay, give patrick mchenry the power as speaker to get something done, and the conservatives and i don't know if you would call them that, but the matt gaetzes of the world who want to blow things up, they say no. >> well, scott, when you were talking, that makes me think, where is the adult in the room? you are talking about bullying and the threatening calls that we have, and i think that your point is right, what has happened to the house, because of gerrymandering, but let's also remember that the democrats

had this same slim majority under nancy pelosi. and whether you like the speaker pelosi or not, she was able to keep a very diverse group of democrats together to become speaker and together. and it is not politics, but right now, there are not adults in the room to call the questions to force jim jordan to come down. and it is absurd and embarrassing to call a vote right now to know that you are going to lose and probably worse. >> yes, i want to go to manu raju, and calling votes over and over again, and he had a conversation with former speaker kevin mccarthy 17 days ago prompting what is happening now, and he is going to give a nominating speech for jim jordan and what is he is going to tell

you? >> he is counseling patience and what happened on this vote. i pressed him time and time again about the expectation that he is going to lose more republican votes, and he did not want to entertain it at this moment, but that is what is expected at this moment. he said this is chaotic, and we need to elect a speaker, and he went on to criticize the eight democrats who ousted him. he calls them the crazy eights. i said, well, if jordan can't get there, what is next? well, who can get 217 votes, and that is the key question. dana, i talked to several republicans on the way to vote, and including mike garcia of california who said he is sticking with jordan, but if he is losing votes they have to reassess the candidacy, and jordan, himself, he should reassess it. so you are seeing the jordan supporters who can no longer stay in the race if he is bleeding support. so expect the pressure to mount

after this vote if he does in fact lose 22 republican votes for him to not continue in the race from the people who are now backing him. that is going to be a real issue that he has to navigate even as the most ardent supporters are telling him to battle on and take it into the weekend and next week to get there. and a number of the members are weak-kneed and tired of the bitter process that we have seen unfold for the last couple of weeks. this is the huge challenge in the days ahead. will it be time to step aside or continue on. that is a question for him, and a number of members are losing patience, dana. >> patience left the building a long time ago. manu, thank you. i want to go to former congressman charlie dent and bring you into the conversation. do you think that kevin mccarthy really believes what he is saying, that jordan can grind it out? do you think that he really

believes it? >> no, i don't. and frankly, what we are witnessing here is the fight that i hoped that the party would have had years ago, the fight between the institutionalists, and the trump populists, and the battle lines are drawn. what is interesting is how many are going to join the institutionalist, and the party is fractioned for the world to see. jim jordan talking about making appropriations process work. he was speaking to the detractors, and granger, and pillar and womack and simpson, and these are the serious people who want to govern. they must have been looking at this fight, because they are immovable objects. >> and forgive me for breaking n but patrick mchenry is gaveling

in. >> if the tellers will come forward. okay. as we are waiting for them to get the ducks in a row as they are waiting to give their nominating speeches, again for jim jordan, and again for hakeem jeffries. you know, we are looking at patrick mchenry, scott jennings, and this time yesterday, we thought that it was likely that he would end up being a temporary speaker. in this meeting that house republicans had, they blew it

up, because clearly, patrick mchenry does not want that role, and he does not want that position to get it with a lot of the democratic votes. and let's puts a side what that says about the institution, and god forbid that you have support. >> the house comes to order. >> that is where we are. and dan crenshaw said earlier that there is -- forgive me. let's listen in. mr. speaker, i rise to nominate jim jordan for the speaker of the house. [ applause ] now, i have listened to the speeches this week, and i can already tell you what my friends on the other side will say using their full tested phrases. but let me correct the record.

jim jordan is an effective legislator. [ applause ] to legislate is about more than the name on the bill. it is about reaching compromise and working long hours behind the scenes to get the job done. >> the house will come to order. the gentleman may resume. >> when you are the chairman of a committee, you are responsible for dozens of bills passing the house and being signed into law. and so let me tell you a few facts that don't come into the polls. as the leader of the judiciary committee, jim has passed more bills into the house in three years than the entire democratic

leadership team in their 28 years in congress. [ applause ] mr. aguilar has a whopping one whole bill sign into law. a post office in san bernardino. i guess that is good enough to be caucus chair. jim jordan on the other hand has a hand in drafting bills like the rains act to curb unaccountable bureaucrats. he helped negotiate and pass hr-2, the strongest border security bill this house has ever passed.

and many of you know, because you were in the room. watching jim find compromise. watching jim listen to your positions and finding a bill that can pass, and let's put this in reality, we have had large majorities, but we never could pass a border security bill. that takes leadership. now, they are going to get upset by it, and why? because every single democrat voted against security reform. democrats are attacking jim, because they don't want the american people to remember that they voted against securing and keeping a wide open border. they may not want the american public to know the number of people that we catch on the terrorist watch list. they may not want people to know what the future holds in the

security for our nation based on upon their policies. name one bill that democrats passed that would secure our border? i am waiting. you can't, because they haven't. mr. speaker, the truth is if we measure lawmakers by how many bills have their name on it, we are using wrong measuring stick. some of the members i know with the most bills to their name are the most selfish. jim jordan on the other hand, is the most selfless members i have known. i have known jim a long time, so i want to do something different. i actually called the freshmen members on his committee and asked them what do you think of your chairman?

here is just a few. i quote -- jim empowers every member of the judiciary to pursue what interests them. i quote by another, he lets each of us take the lead on the issues that are important to us, even letting freshmen and junior members take important roles. another one, he trusts our judgment on how we handle issues and witnesses, and all he seeks is our input on key issues is. another, as a freshman, he had me lead off a hearing that related to my subject matter expertise, and he goes out of his way to highlight members' successes. he is straight forward, honest and reliable. that is who jim jordan is and that is what being a speaker is all about.

now, some of you may not know this, but jim and i have a long history. we created it, because we take our job serious. i first met jim as a candidate. i traveled to ohio and i remember pulling up to breakfast at a bob evans in ohio, and there was jim having a meeting listening to constituents. i traveled with him throughout the day from rotary to farm bureau, and just listening to people who had concerns. i watched them, the same jim jordan i see today. he was a leader, a listener and a fighter. we were actually elected to congress that same year and became close friends.

it was a small class. there were only 13 of us, and one of the smallest republican classes in modern history. over time, we took different routes. jim actually ran against me for leader in 2018. it was a hard fought battle. but i never once questioned his skills or commitment to this conference or this country. after the race i became leader and we had an opening for the ranking member on house oversight. jim didn't even apply for the job. i walked into steering, and i didn't tell steering. i walked into the other room, and i picked up the phone and i called jim. i said, i know that you are not running for the job, but i believe in what jim collins says in the book "good to great," you put the right people in the

right seats on the bus. and jim, you and i may have challenged one another, but you were the right person for that seat. and it was right when he took that job. it was right again when i asked jim to step up and join the intel committee when democrats put politics over people, and turned the intel committee into an impeachment committee. it was right again when we asked jim to step up and be the right person to lead judiciary committee as chairman. and jim is the right person to take that seat behind me to be our next speaker of the house. mr. speaker, we have an important job the do, and the american people ask us to focus on the most pressing issues, and

we have watched what the democratic party has done to bring us the inflation like we have not seen since the 1970s and we have watched as the democrats are bringing an open border bringing fentanyl and killing americans each and every day. and now we have war in israel. this country is too great for small visions. trust me, being speaker is not an easy job, especially in this conference. but i have seen jim spend his entire career fight for freedom, no matter what, no matter the odds, and i know he is ready for the job. and so it is my honor to say as a member of the republican conference i am directed by the vote of that conference to present for the election to the office of speaker of the house of representatives name of my friend, the honorable jim jordan, a representative from the state of ohio. i yield back.

[ applause ] >> the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from massachusetts, ms. clark. >> thank you, mr. chair. 212 is a new york area code, and it is our call for a speaker of integrity, intelligence and inclusion. 212 is our call for a speaker who will protect our children, our veterans, our planet. 212 is our call for a speaker who will grow the middle-class, lower costs, create good paying jobs and make health care affordable.