The possibility of himself serving in that position before he has indicated he is opposed to that and this shows a desperate moment that republicans are in, jake and there are other possible candidates who can yet emerge and try to run for the Spook Speakership and they will run into the same problem, and nationally with Kevin Mccarthy who was pushed out of The Speakership that they would have a difficult, if not impossible time of getting to the 217 votes needed to be elected speaker given the significant divisions that are still within this badly divided republican conference traying tra tra traying to figure on the a way forward and jim jordan could lose the vote by potentially a worse margin than yesterday. It is unprecedented and frankly, embarrassing. Well get back to the vote that well see happen soon, but now lets go to israel and the american president and President Biden and the Anger Rippling across arab capitals specifically about that incident at the hospital. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is in tel aviv where President Biden just wrapped up his trip and kaitlan, we just got this consequential statement from the National Security council. We should note it is not unheard of for the palestinian authorities, the hospitals and the Health Ministry which are controlled by hamas which the u. S. Government does label a Terrorist Organization. It is not unheard of for them to misfire and kill their own people accidentally and blame it on israel and it does seem as though that is what the National Security council believes happened here. Yeah. And jake, this comes after a lot of uproar and unrest that happened as a result of that explosion at that hospital in gaza with a lot of governments and even some lawmakers blaming the israeli government, as, of course, you saw palestinian authorities also doing similar yesterday, and now we do have a clear statement and one of the clearest that weve gotten yet from the u. S. Administration saying that they do not believe israel was responsible for that explosion. This is from the National Security council, President Bidens National Security council, and the Spokesman Says in a quote, while we continue to collect information our Current Assessment based on analysis of Overhead Imagery Intercepts and open Source Information is that israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in gaza yesterday, and jake, that is the most clear statement we have gotten in writing yet, but of course, one just came from the president himself standing over my shoulder a few moments ago when he said that they did believe based on what they have assessed that it was an errant rocket that was fired by a Terrorist Group in gaza that was responsible for what happened at that hospital yesterday, and obviously, that is hugely consequential of a statement for the president of the United States to back israel up in those denials based on not just what israel has said and he said based on his own pentagons assessment, jake, given what we have seen happen. Part of this trip is not happening because of that. He was supposed to go on to jordan and meet with the leaders there. The president of egypt, as well. Those are meetings that are not happening. Hes going back to the United States now, and that is certainly significant, jake, and of course, this entire trip was intended to not only just come here and show solidarity with israel and also to meet with other leaders in the area to figure out the path forward and of course, he only met with one world leader and that was the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu here and those meetings centered on humanitarian aid which he said israel had agreed to let him come through egypt expect to let it come into that and into gaza and that was significant that they have not been able to get any aid through the crossing so far. We havent heard comments from the egyptians yet jake and that would be consequential and its a wait and see situation to see if gets through and weve seen in the past few days where they said the Rafah Crossing was going to open only for people to rush there and for it to not open and thats a question of the followthrough here what this is going to look like and also what are the tangible achieve ams coming after this visit with the president saying it wasnt israel behind that explosion and that humanitarian aid is going to flow into gaza. Right. One of the things thats important for this visit, i believe, that President Biden was hoping to talk to the leaders of jordan and other arab countries about is what happens after israel achieves its goals from gaza and after they decimate the leadership of hamas and what happens for the Palestinian People . Can arab countries be part of the solution and obviously, if you cant talk to the leaders of jordan, egypt and other countries, he cant come up with those solutions. Yeah. Hell have a phone call with the president of egypt on the way home and the leaders of jordan. You heard President Biden, he said it in his own words and actually having the white house has acknowledged that it is a setback that those meetings are not happening in person and for a u. S. President to come here, jake, to the middle east and to have those leaders cancel on him and say that that is why they cannot come, that is a remarkable statement in and of itself. The white house will not deny that when you talk to officials. Youve heard some of them on the record talk about why theyre not doing that and what that looks like and they do acknowledge, jake, that it is a setback and meaningful. The last time the president was in israel i was with him and he went to saudi arabia after that. You are not seeing meetings like that happen and this is an each more heightened period of time given the conflict and the war that we are seeing play out right before our eyes. Kaitlan collins in israel. Thank you so much and now over to dana who has been talking to House Republicans all morning. Do your sources believe jim jordan has the votes . No. Nobody here that im talking to and especially people close to jim jordan believe that he suddenly has the votes to become Speak Speaker in this vote today. You earlier used the word embarrassing. For more than two weeks a speakerless congress in that dome behind me, most republicans who are serving in that House Of Representatives agree with you that it is embarrassing and yet, jake, i have spoken to House Republicans. These are members who have used similar language even though they sit on different part of the conservative question and that is the question right now, how much pain do republicans in the house need to take . How much do they want to endure before they get to the place where they have a house speaker, and manu mentioned some of this in his reporting, what we are looking for today is whether first and foremost, whether or not jim jordan has fewer republican votes than he did yesterday which was probable even beyond possible. The other is david joyce. Jim jordans fellow republicans from ohio who has said publicly that he wants to make a motion to give Patrick Mchenry who is the temporary speaker who has virtually no powers more powers. The question at this point is when will he strike with that . Will he do it after the second vote that jim jordan is expected to lose . Will he be a little bit longer . Nobody knows the answer to this because the threshold for pain, political pain, perception, the pain of perception and all of that seems to be quite high when youre looking at these House Republicans, despite the very real situation that this world is in and again, so many republicans who are serving behind me. They understand how bad this looks. All right, dana bash, thank you so much. On capitol hill, i think we can all agree on that, looks bad. It looks real bad in the immortal words of elaine bennis. Let me start with you. We do have some news here from capitol hill, jim jordan says he wants to put two measures to a vote this morning, electing him as speaker and whether more power should be given to interim speaker Patrick Mchenry. So those are the two measures he wants to put forward. I think yi have a feeling of which way you think it will go, although ive been wrong before. Rarely. Rarely. I think the house is inclined to deny jim jordan The Speakership, right . Again and again and again. He sort of bullied his way here. That didnt leave many friends or much support for him, so hes seen he has a majority of the majority and he does and well see what happens today f its 25 or if its 30. People didnt take too kindly to the way that he has conducted himself up until now, right . With the bullying and the pressure campaign, and also he doesnt have much of a record, right . If you think of the people who are in this seat before him, they had legislative accomplishments and theyve been in leadership and hes been an outside agitator and so now people dont want to see him in that post and well see what the other measure gets. I imagine this will be more popular and people like Patrick Mchenry and it is ridiculous that he is in that spot with no power and they clearly need to get something done in the house particularly given the State Of The World right now. You know, the great irony here is that jim jordan has to negotiate with people he used to call corrupt members of the establishment, the cartel that is Running Washington and suddenly now and about a handful of them desert him yesterday and now hes got to go to them and say to them, id like your vote after a long tenure of doing nothing, but deriding them and saying that they dont belong in the Republican Party anymore, that its a new Republican Party and a lot of them are saying, you know what . Sorry. We kind of remember the way things went with you and we dont trust you and he doesnt have that kind of well, that reservoir of trust as someone who has raised a lot of money for people. As nia points out as someone with a great legislative record, he has none, and you know, these socalled moderate conservatives are saying, you know what . I dont think so. Why do i feel like somewhere, john boehner is a glass of wine having a glass of wine. Neck deep in a jacuzzi full of merlot just watching this all and relishing it because these are a bunch of people who made his life so difficult when he was triing to be an effective speaker and work with the reality of a political system that had two parties and checks and balances. And what did he call jim he called Jim Jordan A Legislative terrorist and apologies to people dealing with real terrorism in another part of the world. In addition to what nia and fl gloria just said, he is too controversial and he is too toxic. If he became the next speaker of the house there would be a political backlash. This is what republican members of congress are saying to me, they are afraid they would lose the house. They would lose power. Theres one other person, i think, we need to discuss here and that is Kevin Mccarthy. Yes, Kevin Mccarthy who predicted jim jordan would win yesterday on the first ballot, just fyi. He also predicted he would win his speakership on the first ballot. Bring it on. He would be closer than jim jordan. He was only minus eight and jim jordan was minus 20, and i am told the numbers are going in the wrong direction. Kevin mccarthy supported jim jordan, he endorsed him and he voted for him, but my republican sources on the hill say behind the scenes, Kevin Mccarthy is not too sad about this because at the end of the day misery loves company. If he cant be the speaker why should jim jordan be the speaker . And this is all moving toward Patrick Mchenry as this compromise, and lets not forget, Kevin Mccarthy is the person that picked patrick mcm mchenry to be in this job. It was 2000 i dont even know the year and it was at some point over the last few years, i was talking to a democratic member of congress, and we were talking about the mccarthy era that was to come. It was before the republicans took dcontrol, but we all saw what was happening and she told me, this democratic member of congress that as soon as mccarthy was elected he was going to have to worry about jim jordan. I mean, it was not a secret. He brought him in. It was not a secret that he was going to have to watch jim jordan over his shoulder the entire time. Not steve scalise, that jim jordaj jordan was the threat, and im not sure what Machine Eggations going on behind the scenes and this democrat was getting this from her republican friends. It was always kind known within the caucus and the Democratic Caucus that jim jordan was the threat. This is Like High School in a way because theres also this bad blood between mccarthy and scalise and theres bad blood between jordan and scalise and who likes whom and who can get along with whom and whos going to help you get elected . And i think youre right about mccarthy. I think mccarthys kind of sitting back and saying, you know, ive got about as many votes as jim jordan did oh, weve got more. Right. And im not, you know, and im not the speaker so theres no solution to this problem other than going in a totally different direction. But the issue youre right about all those players and the relationships, but what is being put on display for the American People is the Republican Party incapable of governing. That is what is being put on display and yes, this is a problem for the Republican Party to solve, but its obviously impacting every american no matter which party youre in because the House Of Representatives is not open for business and you saw in israel, President Biden talking about an unprecedented request for aid to israel that hes putting to congress and theres not a functioning congress. And not a funkctioning legislative press. What you see is President Biden saying goodbye to officials in tel aviv as he is getting ready to depart and getting on Air Force One following a trip that was successful in one regard with israel and unsuccessful in the sense that all of arab leaders with whom he was planning on meeting canceled the trip and canceled their part of the trip. On the right, they are taking attendance just like they do in the beginning of the day in grammar school. They are doing that in the House Of Representatives because they are trying to see who is there so they know what exactly the threshold is in terms of how many votes jim jordan needs to achieve to win The Speakership which we do not anticipate he will do on this second ballot for The Speakership in this latest incarnation of republicans in disarray. Well have more cnn special live coverage after we squeeze in this quick commercial break. Well be right back. At any moment the u. S. House of representatives, the republicans in the House Of Representatives will give it another go. We expect Nomination Speeches to start soon and jim jordan will get another up or down vote on whether republicans want him to use the speakers gavel. Well go live to the house floor the second that starts, but first on to israel and gaza. The white house National Security council is siding with tel aviv in a global fight to assign blame for the horrifying hospital tragedy. Sara sidner is live for us in tel aviv. Sara, President Biden is now on his way back to washington, d. C. , after a consequential day. Yeah, a very consequential day. If you look at what he did here. First, he stood very, very strong with israel making that unequivocal. Then he talked about the humanitarian aid that he says is being worked out to try to get aid into gaza where you have some 2 million people, more than 50 or about 50 of the population are children there under the age of 18 who are suffering without water. Theyre suffering without electricity. They do not have fuel and theyre running out of food, and so that is one of the things that theyre trying to get into the country with some caveats. I did just about an hour ago speak with the Prime Ministers Office Spokesperson here in tel aviv. The israeli Prime Ministers spokesperson and she told me that deal