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But first donald trump is now weighing a trip to capitol hill, this time without the violent mob, though is injecting himself into maybe what he knows best, chaos. This one is stirred up by republicans who have brought the house to a standstill as they mull over who should be their next speaker after they got rid of the last one. Lets get right to cnns Manu Raju Live On capitol hill. And manu, longtime republican lawmaker Steve Scalise and jim jordan seem to be the frontrunners right now but theyre taking quite different approaches to this race. Yeah, jordan has been a bit more visible in this race. Hes done some media appearances. Scalise has been very quiet. Hes been moving mostly behind the scenes. Although this is mostly a behindthescenes effort that both men are waging, Trying To Go Member by member to lock down the support. Talking to various factions, various groups within the larger House Republican conference and making the pitch about why they believe they can unite this badly divided conference. There are many questions that members have about their policies, the decisions theyre going to make, how to avoid a Government Shutdown and how to avoid what happened on the house floor just two days ago when Kevin Mccarthy became the first speaker ever ousted by his own colleagues on a floor vote. All these questions come as these two men are trying to essentially get a majority of the 221 House Republicans to vote for them in a Secret Ballot Election next week. That will be the nominating contest. After they are nominated by their conference then they go to the house floor for a full vote. And thats when things will get tricky, jake, because right now the house is 433 members with two vacancies. That means they can only afford to lose four republican votes on the house floor and if there are more than four we can see what happened to Kevin Mccarthy happen to either of these candidates, which is why these discussions right now are so critical, to lock down the support and make some promises to these members. Otherwise, if these members dont like what theyre hearing, then they may undercut that bid for the speakership, jake. And manu, youre talking to republicans who say that the threshold to bring a vote to kick out the speaker, the motion to vacate, or mtv, that should be much, much higher than just one person. How much of a factor is that going to play in their votes . This is a huge factor, jake. A number of these more moderate members, a number of these members who are close to Kevin Mccarthy simply do not want to see the matt gaetzes of the world use this again for another speaker, are calling on the changes to the house rules to make it a majority of the House Republican conference who could actually call for such a vote ousting the speaker. But jake, also were hearing from some of those hard right members that say they are willing to get rid of the socalled motion to vacate if jim jordan is their preference, if he becomes elected speaker. But it may be different if Steve Scalise gets it. He could potentially be in the same situation unless theres agreement among the conference to change the rules here. But a big issue for a lot of these members as they weigh their vote. Cnns manu raju, thanks so much. Joining us now to discuss, republican california congressman david valadao. He was one of the ten republicans who voted to impeach then President Trump over the january 6th insurrection. Congressman, so your district borders that of congressman mccarthy, the former speaker. Youre friends. Mccarthy says hes not going to run for speaker again. So youre going to have to make a decision. Have you decided if you are team scalise or team jordan . No, i have not. I think weve got a few great candidates running. Obviously im going to try to take as much time on this as possible. But obviously us not being in d. C. Has not changed the amount of communication. I mean, the amount of phone calls going on right now, the amount of Zoom Meetings that were having amongst our groups. Theres just a lot going on. Politico reports that mccarthy and scalise have been at odds with each other for years and during mccarthys january bid for speaker, which went to 15 ballots, quote, Mccarthy Allies privately vented that scalise wasnt doing enough to help mccarthy. If thats true and mccarthy starts helping jordan out, could you be convinced to be team jordan because of your friendship with mccarthy . You know, ive always made my decisions based off what i thought was best. Obviously, kevin has been a really strong ally, and i dont think id be in Congress Without him. But i have to always do what i think is best for me and the district that im elected to represent. Yes, we border but our districts are very, very different in the way that their politics play out. Ive got to always do what i have to do. So a lot of your colleagues, as i dont need to tell you, are very, very frustrated with not just the eight members of congress, republicans who voted against Speaker Mccarthy but also just the degree of deference that mccarthy gave the more extremist elements of your party. Take a listen to your fellow republican Congressman Dusty Johnson on cnn earlier today. We dont change the foundational problems within our conference, its just going to be the same stupid clown car with a different driver. I dont think the pyromaniacs are going to be satisfied after theyve burned down one house. I think theyre going to have an itching to go burn down a couple more. Do you agree that there are, quote, foundational problems, the clown car, the pyromaniacs, whatever you want to call them . And if so is a week enough time to solve them . I dont know if a weeks long enough. But the issue is we dont have a whole week to waste. Weve got to get back to work. We were given a 45day window to get the government funded. Weve got a farm bill. Weve got faa reauthorization. Weve got National Defense reauthorization act. Weve got a lot of really important topics that the American People need us to solve. So we need to get this, as dusty said, clown car going again as quickly as possible. So your colleague from florida, whos one of the eight, matt gaetz, says he is open to raising the threshold to kick out a speaker if republicans are willing to negotiate on some of the anticorruption reforms laid out by one of your other fellow californians, democrat ro khanna. And this includes a ban on congressional stock trading, a 12year term limit for members of congress, a ban on political donations from lobbyists or pacs. Seriously, i mean, might you be open to some of those . I dont know if a ban on congrea ban on political donations from lobbyists or pacs sounds so crazy. No, none of those ideas sound that crazy. But the reality is theres always a way for people to have their crazy way of making their decisions to make their decisions. And sadly, a lot of these guys are Making Decisions because they like to see their faces on the tv like i am right now. And sometimes they do it because of online political fundraising. I mean, we saw that even with the vote this weekend. Or earlier this week with mccarthy. We had people as they were speaking on the floor sending out fundraising texts. Even some of my democrat colleagues who were unhappy with the outcome and claimed to be unhappy were sending out their own fundraising things on the same topic. I mean, i think the only thing thats ever going to solve washington is the American People just paying a little more attention to whats going on and being a little more cautious of what they vote, who they vote into office. Because bad people can make bad decisions for whatever reason they want. And the fundamental changes, i mean, honestly we could change the rules, we could change the fundraising, we could change a lot of things, but someone who wants to do bad things is always going to find a way to do it. And i think weve learned that with a lot of the things were dealing with today. Bad people, bad things . Like what . Like who . Well, i mean, you just had a story on a minute ago talking about some of the Crime Situations weve got going on around the country. I just had a friends fatherinlaw murdered in a store a couple nights ago here in my hometown. And it was a bad person that did something. And these people are going to find ways of doing it. This guy was standing behind a counter literally looking at a Birthday Card for a friend and some random person walked up to him and stabbed him for no good reason. Why was that person there . He didnt have a gun. He still murdered someone. 80yearold veteran. And its a sad situation. These are bad people. And so the decisions are being made, especially in washington. Youve got people Making Decisions i think for the wrong reason. What we saw with matt gaetz and the democrat colleagues love sending out their fundraising emails saying hey, this is a huge problem, these people are crazy. Well, every single one of them voted with him. So dont call him crazy if youre voting with them. There was only eight of them and theres 210 republicans that voted the other way. We knew this was a bad strategy, we knew going in, and a lot of us are furious were getting sent home too. But there was a lot of anger in that room. And i think What Garrett Graves said is absolutely right. Theres a very good chance that there was going to be some fists thrown because people were so angry with the situation. And now were losing a week of our time when we should be talking about funding the government. We shouldnt be holding the government hostage. People at home who are saying oh, just shut down the government. So you want us to hold our military pay so that people are still having to show up to their bases, to their facilities and continuing to do their job but not get a paycheck . Thats a horrible strategy. Our strategy should be exactly what some of my colleagues and i disagree with on, passing those appropriation bills, getting those to the senate, negotiating and finding a way to compromise with a Democrat Senate and democrat president to get these signed into law. These side games and as dusty called it a clown car, its a sad situation but the reality is we need to get back to work as quickly as possible. Do you think donald trump should come up to capitol hill as hes talking about doing . No, i dont know if thats going to help the situation much right now. I think weve got a great bench of candidates out there. I know a lot of them really well personally and some of them im getting to know a little better now. But i think weve got enough candidates in the conference to get to find someone who can lead us and work with the our colleagues and get something done. I know there are a lot of moderate republicans that dont want jim jordan running as the speaker. I mean, everything keeps praising both of them, but i mean, jim jordan i mean, jim jordan voted against the cr on friday. He voted in favor of shutting down the government. So you really think that hes a broadbased appeal for the republican conference . No, thats a great question. Yeah, there was some frustration there. But even in his speech Defending Mccarthy On The Floor the other day he spoke about how that was literally the only option we had left. And i saw a few members in conference that morning when it was being talked about, just the republicans, who got up and spoke in support of that resolution and ended up voting against it. And they make their decisions. And as a person thats taken some tough votes in my career and understands fully what its like to do what you bleeb is right no matter what, sometimes it sucks to see it. But im sure if we look back into scalises record or im sure if we look into kevin herns record or whoever else, Kevin Mccarthys record or even my own, youre going to find something you disagree with. My goal is to try to find the best candidate to get us out of this mess. Republican from california david valadao. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Coming up next that disturbing arrest in wisconsin after a man allegedly showed up to the State Capitol with a gun not once but twice in one day. Also ahead Donald Trumps newest political target, nikki haley. And he made his plans pretty public knowledge. Stay with us. In our National Lead a terrifying story out of the wisconsin capitol building, where a man allegedly brought a gun and asked to see the states governor, only to be arrested, post bail, and then show back up with a rifle. Cnns Whitney Wilde joins us live. Whitney, walk us through how all of this unfolded. Reporter so heres what happened, jake. This man went to the madison capitol at 2 00 wednesday. He didnt have a shirt on. He had a gun in a holster and he had a dog on a leash. And he told security there he wanted to talk to the governor. They took him into custody because it is illegal to have a firearm inside the wisconsin State Capitol. So he went to jail, he was processed. He posted bail. Seven hours later he showed back up at the madison capital, this time with an ak47 style rifle, again demanding to speak with the governor. Police have not expanded on his comments. They have not said whether or not they were threatening. They said only that he wanted to speak with the governor. They took him back into custody, again without incident. He consented to a voluntary search of his backpack, which showed that he had a collapsable basically a Collapsable Police Baton in his backpack. And Capitol Police consider that a weapon. And said that he does not have a concealed carry permit for that weapon. So again they took him back into custody. He was at least charged with that. The latest information we have, jake, is that he was they were going to try to get limb to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Many more questions here to learn, jake. But certainly the diligent police at the madison capitol protecting the governor from what could have been a much scarier and much more dangerous incident. Tony evers, the governor of wisconsin, saying just that, saying this is not something you ever want to see but hes very grateful for the diligent work of the Capitol Police in madison. Reporters asked him today whether or not the Security Posture at the madison capitol is going to change, and the governor said that is something he believes that they are certainly looking into, jake. Showing up the first time wasnt enough of a red flag, apparently, for the psychiatric exam. Whitney wild, thank you so much. Appreciate it. In our Law And Justice lead, new moments new movement in the Fulton County election subversion case in georgia involving former President Trump and 18 other codefendants. Attorneys for former Trump Campaign lawyer Sidney Powell in court today arguing several motions including to dismiss her case. Joining us now is cnns sara murray. Sara, what came out of todays hearing . Well, the long and short of it is Sidney Powell and kenneth cheseboro, this other protrump attorney, are still on track to go to trial in this case in just a couple of weeks, later on this month. Sidney powells attorney, you know, sort of presented an early preview of what his defense is going to be as he was trying to get the charges against her dismissed. The judge didnt exactly rule but he very strongly signaled that he was not going to buy powells motion to dismiss, said she really didnt meet the procedural bar here in terms of alleging some kind of misconduct or whatnot when it came to bringing the indictment. So its full speed ahead for trial. Did you hear when parlatore was on the other day, represents bernie kerik and said he has testimony to share that would help with that . Yeah. I think its going to be interesting to see the wrangling with the various witnesses. Were starting to see some of that. They mentioned in court today that the prosecution had just offered up a preliminary list of 174 potential witnesses who may come up at trial, and we saw some Court Filings earlier today with the judge overseeing this case essentially approving the d. A