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good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, you're looking at a live image of the well of the house of representatives, the nation's capital, where they're set to reconvene out there about three and a half hours pm journey, when they do reconvene, they'll 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 be the next speaker, should republicans take the, house was put up for speaker, and failed to o...

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 from sources familiar with u. S. Intelligence. If you thought this seriousness of this all, the dea...

Leadership with control of that, do you see those soundly good ideas to you? >> they're 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 isn't great, i think the other one that caught my attention was basically cutting the house ethics committee. i don't think there's anyone who feels like we should be getting the ethics committee in the u.s. congress, whether that's for democrats or republicans. there's a number of things in those role...

>> 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 we've seen glimpses of what that can accomplish when we have a functioning senate, we solve problems. we have ...

We don't have -- i agree actually that we need to get rid of the entire filibuster but i understand the protective nature saying it's 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 appetite is there among democrats to have the conversation about how we restore the senate. that ...