This administration has lessened those and we believe that really is a big part of why iran felt emboldened enough to allow its proxies to wage this attack. Neil real quickly. Tom emmer did clear a hurdle by getting republican support, what there was within conference for potential vote on the house floor. That he will be probably shy of the votes that he needs. Do you agree with that assessment . I have to be candid. The closest to 217 votes is our former speaker that was about four votes shy when he left office. As of today, the most popular republican by far is in fact Kevin Mccarthy. That cause as lot of us the question of did we get rid of the right man to get an alternative when theres no alternative. Were going to a conference in a few minutes. As emmer tries to get to 217, a lot of us are asking the question what was wrong with the person to that almost had 217 on the day he left office. Neil do you know whether he or maybe at your behest would try entertaining for his old job . I cant speak for the former speaker. Nobody should accept this job based on the idea that one person can call for your ouster and four can execute with it the help of the democrats. Theres no question at all. We as republicans have to lead a rule change that make it possible for a speaker to have some buffer to do what he or she thinks is right rather than living in fear of the tyranny of four or five people. Neil i dont know whether those four or five people are trump loyal assetses. I mentioned that, donald trump speaking to reporters in the middle of his civil trial as a rino, tom emmer and he might be hurt by his votes on same sex marriage as well as his Election Certification Vote certifying the last president ial election. That stuck in Donald Trumps crawl. What do you think of that . Weve had can kids that were opposed from the left and right. What we have is a system that got broken that we have to fix. Historically i have voted for people that i did not support in the first go round. But i went to them because the majority of republicans did. Thats what you do as part of a party. We have to get back to that tradition. Until we get back, i dont think mother theresa could get 217 votes as a republican. I think thats important. We have to fix the system. The question is, who is best to lead us. I think that will be the person the closest to 217 and with a little nudging, we do the right thing and get back to work. Martha you might get closer to 217. Youll never know. Congressman, thanks very much. Good seeing you again. Thank you. Neil hes rights. Anybody that hey have put up has had a devil of a time, this is the third speaker pick in as many weeks. Were on top of that. Also on top of whats happening in Southern Lebanon regarding hezbollah. You heard so much about hamas. As Steve Harrigan reports, theyre quite a menacing factor themselves. Steve . Certainly right, neil. Iranian backed hezbollah deemed a Terrorist Organization by the u. S. Has more than 150,000 rockets aimed right at israel. We had another warning today to hezbollah not to open a second front against israel. That came from israels president. I think hezbollah is playing with fire. I think their iranian empire of evil that is backing them and operates day in and day out to destabilize the middle east and the region is playing with fire. Weve had skirmishes between two sides. 31 hezbollah soldiers killed, five israel soldiers killed. Hezbollah is containing the fighting using the shorter range antitank missiles. Saudi arabia is now evacuating its diplomatic families and doing so by military planes. Back to you, neil. Neil thanks, steve. Steve in beirut, lebanon. Senator ron johnson of wisconsin kind enough to join us. I did want to get your take on a separate issue that the senate hopes to take up. That is funding combining funding for ukraine and israel that the house cant take up right now because they dont have a speaker. How do you feel about that . We should handle them separately. The support for helping israel is strong. Its bipartisan. Whether you agree or not, the funding for israel has more support in the house. We have to get this passed as quickly as possible. One thing republicans have been talking about is our totally unsecurity border in our own land. The Southwest Border is just a National Security crisis that people need to fix that before we fund more for ukraine. One of the positions that people hold, again, to support israel, but dont combine the two because i think youll make it difficult to pass any support for israel then. Neil the pentagon was confirming that u. S. Forces have come under attack more than a dozen times in the last week, sir. Did you get confirmation of that . The next obvious question would be what do we do about that . Only what i read in the news. Sandra you know, the fact of the matter is, the Obama Administration and now the Biden Administration have funneled tens hundreds of billions in to the largest State Sponsor of terror hoping to appease them, hoping to buy better behavior from them. This has enboldened them. We have to cut off that funding and recognize iran for the maligned force that they are and stop funding them. Neil when the israelis august the about everything leads to iran, can you envision a situation where not United States but israel certainly takes on iran and tries to deal with iran on its own . Would you support that . First of all, if Iran Goes Nuclear that is a existential threat to israel. One of the things that america should have done awhile ago is provided israel with Bunker Busting bombs and refuelling aircraft to be able to deliver those to deter iran. To deter iran so they never have to be used. By not doing that, iran continues to rush toward becoming a nuclear power. They have never abandoned that goal. Theyve been emboldened and were watching the results by this barbaric slaughter from one of their cutouts, hamas. Neil let me ask you in a different way about iran and how you deal with them, sir. Another issue that has come up is this provocative behavior wont stop unless not just israel does something about it but the United States. We have advisers in israel now were told that are helping out. Im just curious what you make of that and how far they should go. Well, again, were dealing with a big mess created by the obama and Biden Administration coddling and funding hundreds of billions of dollars in to the largest State Sponsor of terror. Now we have to deal with it. It starts with stop funding them, recognize them for being terrorists and deal with them. Neil thanks, senator. I apologize to leave you right now. Breaking news concerning tom emmer, the majority whip. The third choice to be speaker by The Republicans, but hes out as well. Taking himself out of the unaring. Chad pergram has more. What happened, chad . Republicans just met in their conference meeting. They took a twohour break. Tom emmer, the republican from minnesota, he did not leave the room. He heard from members that were against him. He got 117 members of the House Republican conference voting for him earlier today. Thats a far cry from needing 217 to win on the floor. He was able to get that number somewhere in to the low 200s. But finally he felt that he just could not bridge that gap. Remember that steve scalise, the majority leader dropped out after 30 hours here. Tom emmer has dropped out after about 3 1 2 hours. He left rather abruptly. We never saw him come this way. He left the office building. Republicans are now back to square one. I want to go back to something that was said. There was a statement that was put out by former President Trump shortly after tom emmer secured the nomination. Keep in mind he didnt have the full support of President Trump or tries versa. Trump said hes out of touch with republican voters. Voting for a globalist rino like tom emmer would be a big mistake. I speak a little bit against with eli crane, a republican representative from arizona. He said that he was starting to hear on the Telephone Lines and emails and Everything Else from the base that they did not want tom emmer to be the speaker of the house. You had jim banks, republican from indiana, who was running for the senate indicated that he would never vote for tom emmer, viewed him as a moderate. He said we dont have a conservative person to be speaker of the house. So tom emmer is out. So tom emmer is out. Neil could Kevin Mccarthy be hit it it takes two to make a thing go right it takes two to make it outta sight it takes two to make a thing go right it takes two to make it outta sight one, two, get loose now it takes two to make a. It takes two to make a. It takes two to make a. It takes two to make a. It takes two to make a. It takes two to make a. Stay two nights and get 5k bonus points. Book direct at bestwestern. Com. Ameritrade is now part of schwab. Bringing you an elevated experience, tailormade for trader minds. Go deeper with thinkorswim our awardwining trading platforms. Unlock support from the schwab trade desk, our team of passionate traders who live and breathe trading. And sharpen your skills with an immersive Online Education crafted just for traders. All so you can trade brilliantly. Are you guys watching . This is my favorite part. Youre watching. Okay, time to get your own bed, hank. Chewy has great prices. Hope you like plaid. I do. Who wants popcorn . Shop and get a 30 egift card through november 5th. At chewy. Rich has more. These types of attacks have been ongoing several days now. The pentagon here sees irans fingerprints all of these types of things. Asked whether the pentagon or the military will retaliation, officials refuse to say, but they say they do reserve the right to respond in a time and place of their choosing. The pentagon sending the u. S. S. Carrier strike group, thousands of troops are also on stand by to deploy to the region if needed. A senior u. S. Defense official confirms the administration has sent marine lieutenant james glenn and several other officers to advise israeli leadership of operations in gaza. Axios reported this. Glenn ran the Marines Special operations and worked on the fight against isis. Theyre temporarily with their Military Expertise to just go through and discuss the hard questions that the idf should consider as they plan various scenarios. Then theres the diplomatic push with Antony Blinken at the u. N. Security council this morning. He was in israel last week. Hes urging china to play a constructive role in the region. Members of this council, permanent members in particular, have a special responsibility to prevent this conflict from spreading. I look forward to continuing to work with my counterpart from the peoples republic of china to do precisely that when he visits washington later this week. Chinas top diplomat is expected to come to washington to meet with senior u. S. Officials in an attempt to diffuse the tension between the u. S. And china. Neil thanks, rich edson at the pentagon. To adam smith of washington. Sits on the House Armed Services committee. Very good to have you, sir. Your take on this delicate balance we seem to have with china throughout this. They are supposedly signing ships to the area. We already have ships in this area. This could easily escalate. What do you think . I think theres a huge risk of that. The reason we moved our Carrier Battle Groups in to the area and the reason we have upgraded our forces is to protect the forces in the area as you pointed out in syria and iraq. We have troops there primarily to keep isis at bay, which is still an issue. So we need to send a clear message that we will defend and protect those troops and to stop this conflict from spreading to discourage hezbollah from getting it to it in the north and to keep iran from starting a broader war. Thats the strategy. This could spread out of control in to something very dangerous not just for the region but for the world so we need to be in a position to deter that. Neil theres been a growing call from the u. N. , countries say a cease fire is a good idea rye now. The israelis are not for that dedefer to the israelis on this. What do you think of a cease fire . I dont think that makes sense right now. Look, you saw the hundreds of hamas militants that went in and slaughtered people in its israel. Those militants are still in gaza. The people that supported and planned that attack are there as well. To say to israel at this point that if they can take out those people that just carried out that attack, that they shouldnt . That doesnt make sense. You cant have a cease fire. What israel needs to do is be concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza. Its a mistake to block humanitarian aid, to block food, water, medical supplies and even fuel. Blocking fuel creates a humanitarian crisis and undermines the mission to defeat hamas. So no, there shouldnt be a cease fire. But the world needs to Work Together as the pie den administration has led to get humanitarian assistance in to civilians in gaza. I know theres risk in that. The risk is that some of that will wind up in the hands of hamas. The risk of having to world watch as the people in gaza suffer horribly is also a big risk to israel that i hope that they will properly balance. Neil you probably heard the news that tom emmer has taken himself out of the running as speaker. The third time weve seen this play out in as many weeks. There is a building sort of school of thought that the only way for this to be resolved is for democrats to weighin and maybe vote for one or other of the republican names that have been mentioned or new ones to come. Would you ever consider that . Certainly. Weve been open to that for some time. If the Republican Leadership works with democrats on issues that are important to us. Were not going to vote for like a Speaker Mccarthy who is going to govern from the extreme right wing of the republican party. Were not going to do that for practical reasons. We dont support those policies. We dont support the partisan impeachment that has been launched. We dont support 30 cuts in housing and education and healthcare. Neil would you have support add tom emmer, sir . He obviously voted for that certification of the electoral result. He voted for same sex marriage. T the former president called him a rino. Would you consider Something Like that or its a moot point . Its a moot point. We could consider it. We want some promises, if you will. We want some legislative things to move forward. We want dont shut down the government. Honor the appropriations deal. The bipartisan appropriations deal that we did last may and that Kevin Mccarthy lied about and went back on and pass the bills and give us a vote on a supplemental for ukraine, for the border and israel as well. If a republican speaker candidate said he he or she, but at this point its only been hes would give us those things, yes, we could consider it. Were not going to empower a republican speaker who is just going to shut down the government and continue to not honor the appropriations deal. So if they reached out to us, yes. Thus far every candidate has refused to do that. So The Republicans have to get to 217 on their own. Neil the reason why i mentioned Kevin Mccarthy, at least he did find a way to work with democrats and get enough votes for a way to keep the government lights on. No, he didnt, neil. Neil would that work for you . He didnt. You saw what he did. He tried absolutely everything and couldnt get it done. He jammed through that deal, didnt tell us about it. And then blamed us for wanting to shut down the government after we provided the votes to keep the government open even though he didnt consult us at all. So no, Kevin Mccarthy did not work with democrats. I understand how this place works. If you want to govern that way, you can govern that way. Different people have done it that way. 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