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good evening from new york, im chris hayes, youre looking at a live image of the well of the house of representatives, the nations capital, where theyre set to reconvene out there about three and a half hours pm journey, when they do reconvene, theyll be setting about the business of electing a speaker of the house, for the 118th congress, something they have failed to do for the first time in 100 years. today, kevin mccarthy, the house leader of the republican party, long expected to ...

Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. The war in The Middle East at this hour appears to be expanding as it steps up the gaza offensive. Israel has now formed an Emergency Wartime government in response to the hamas terror attacks that have killed at least 1200 people. 22 or more americans. The Israeli Government is accusing the Iranian Regime of giving the green light to hamas which is funded to carry out the attacks over the weekend. A statement that differs...

Leadership with control of that, do you see those soundly good ideas to you? >> theyre not great for a functioning body, no, and when five members can call for, the removal of the speaker, it takes basically means makes you as a speaker beholden to any small interest group in your caucus, which isnt great, i think the other one that caught my attention was basically cutting the house ethics committee. i dont think theres anyone who feels like we should be getting the ethics committee in the u.s....

>> and of course he made an indelible mark when it comes to areas around the filibuster as well, which is a very important aspect given the reluctance, shall we say, to actually change it or amend it or alter or eliminate it in any way to address voting rights. how do you feel about the legacy in terms of the filibuster and what can be done now for this very issue? >> when it comes to the filibuster, the goal is to make the senate work, to restore the senate to a functioning body. and weve seen ...

We dont have -- i agree actually that we need to get rid of the entire filibuster but i understand the protective nature saying its one of the few mechanisms we have because we have power switches in the senate but we need to restore the senate and that means restoring it to a functioning body, not held hostage by minority of minority and that is what we have to work on. when ten people can decide the future of our nation, we have to restore the functionality of the senate and i believe that the...

Maddow show" the other night. he is reluctant to do it. obviously manchin and sinema have wrapped their arms around the filibuster as if its a christmas present. theyll never let it go. i wonder if democrats are not even willing to change the filibuster. i feel like were at an impasse. what do we do? theyre not willing to do anything. >> we have seen carveouts of the filibuster before. i argued in an op-ed a few months ago that a carveout for democracy is one that should not be only tenable but ...

>> paul ryan had a unique role in this and sometimes i was frustrated and sometimes i was extremely sympathetic and he had to make sure that the house of raptive h representatives was to stick together as a functioning body, and from his comments and trumps reaction to it is something i would counsel every republican member that i see hustling to pick up points with donald trump. he doesnt give points. he only takes them one at a time and republicans should be mindful of that. this time its paul...

. three quarters of the members of a keyboard have quit over issues with the trump administration. nine of the 12 people in the national park service advisory board resigned on monday. they advise on managing national parks and leaves that without a functioning body to designate national historic or national landmarks. the board chair tony knolls wrote in the resignation letter, our requests to engage have been ignored and the new department team are clearly not part of the agenda. joining us ...

Did the joy of preschool so you must enjoy your friscos ideas of immortality as we will during and fascinated i mean that he did but im not convinced by the idea of uploading my consciousness onto a computer to the brain i think that im also a body not just a brain cancer but a that im not sure i could live without my body or. accept m.s.e. i just say because ive got a functioning body to work with and its not true im going to say that. virtual life in a replacement body or a robot might be wond...

You cant lose very many. so on the verge might be giving it a little bit more credit for where it is. thats a very narrow and steep curve. >> well you can only lose two members. two members out of 52 because youve got to get 50 to pass this with the vice presidents vote. >> im not sure how much the white house has really thought about that and gamed it out. i was really struck in my conversations with white house officials that the house vote was about getting the process started more than anyth...