Too early on this friday morning and all week long. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, october 13th. We are following fastmoving developments out of israel. The countrys military is telling us more than a Million People telling more than a Million People to leave their homes this morning as it prepares a potential fullscale Ground Invasion in the wake of the Terror Attacks by hamas. Well have a live report for the very latest on the ground there. Plus, an update on the Biden Administrations efforts to prevent further escalation in the region with top officials on the ground this morning in israel and jordan. Also ahead, the republicanled chaos on capitol hill reached yet another level last night when the partys nominee for speaker just dropped out of the race. Well talk about how that impacts the country and world events. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemir
Capital. Steve scalise, the man elected by the Republican Caucus to be the next speaker but was short of the votes to do so as just announced, apparently, inside the republican conference, that he is withdrawing his name from the speakership. We dont know why, other than the whip count a vote against him within the Republican Caucus today and ballooned to 16 or 17 votes. People were saying he could not get to 217 either to be elected Speaker Of The House. This comes a week and a half after mccarthy was deposed, successful with eight members voting i along with all the democrats. Theres been a speaker pro tem, Patrick Mchenry since then, serving in a custodial fashion. This is all totally unprecedented in american history. We havent had this before. Its 100 years since we had a motion to vacate the chair. Amidst an unfolding global crisis, the second in line to the president and Constitutional Office of Speaker Of The House remains vacant, with no clear path for this house Republican Ca
Of Jewish Community leaders. We will bring it to you live when they get underway. And communities in Southern Israel seems to be under relentless fire. Nbc news caught this barrage of rockets in ashkelon, near total darkness, as the sole power plant there has run out of fuel. Israel has been amazing soldiers near the border. The scenes comes out of gaza strip, will be, quote, different to understand and cope with. Ahead, a more devastating stages of wart, Benjamin Netanyahu and benny gantz, have announced an Emergency Government to put it on a wartime footing, even as the recallis are coming to grips with the heinous nature and scope of the Terror Attacks heres what one soldier tells nbc news. I never saw in my life. Its something that we used to imagine as or grandfather and grandfather who grew up in other places. Complicating israels war efforts, the harrowing Hostage Situation. At least 150 men, women, children have been kidnapped by hamas. Hamas is threatening to execute them one
Intent of killing innocent civilians, women, children, babies, beheading babies. This is a barbaric, disgusting, vile Terrorist Regime that needs to be eliminated. And israel has every right to defend itself and its right to exist. And they should take any and all action necessary to do that. Congressman mike lawler, we appreciate the overtime with you in having a very broad conversation. Please keep us posted on whether you plan to support speaker scalise if you wind up speaking with him later today or not. Thanks so much. Thanks. Of course. Still plenty more news to come. Stay with announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Im Boris Sanchez live in washington, d. C. Alongside anderson cooper, who is in tel aviv, israel. And we are tracking major developments on capitol hill and in the middle east. Republican congressman Steve Scalise has just locked down the republican nomination for House Speaker. A full vote to determine if he will become the 56th Speaker Of The House is potentially comi
Carley you are watching Fox And Friends First on wednesday morning, im carley shimkus. Todd im todd piro. Gaza strip on the brink of fullblown humanitarian crisis. Electricity is expected to go out any hour. Ammo arriving overnight. Trey yingst along the border with the latest. Trey. Trey todd and carley, good morning. We are along the israel gaza border watching the Israel Art Til Tillery trying to hit the eastern part of the gaza strip for a massive Ground Invasion in the coming days. Thousands of troops are staging. The air force striking targets overnight in a variety of neighborhoods in northern and eastern part of the gaza strip. Out of Northern Israel with lebanon, Lebanese Group hezbollah appears to have fired at a group of israeli soldiers. We do not have information other than we have an incident on the border that is under censorship from the israeli military. A lot is happening and a lot of numbers are going to cha change. The latest death toll is 1200 people. I want to sho