Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Gabe Gutierrez reporting in Washington where the White House

is ramping up its criticism of UN members and others in the international community asking

them point blank at the UN today where is the outrage and the revulsion over Hamas's

attacks against Israel?

We'll get to the very latest in the Israel-H Hamas war, including new developments

tied to the humanitarian and hostage crises inside Gaza in just a moment.

But we start this hour with a grim question facing our government here at home.

As new developments today on Capitol Hill further escalate concerns of a prolonged state of legislative

paralysis.

Right now, House Republicans are meeting as Congressman Tom Emmer, the third nominee to be Speaker in recent days, is scrambling to find the votes to become Speaker.

But he faces incredibly long odds after 26 House Republicans signaled their opposition to Congressman Emmer's speaker bit, according to Republicans on the hill.

Just five would be enough to derail his candidacy entirely.

And that was before former President Donald Trump weighed in with a scathing

statement this afternoon against Emma on social media calling him a rhino and questioning

his loyalty. As former Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters today,

his conference is in a very, very bad place. We've been three weeks without a

speaker. We let eight people work with every

single Democrat to put us in here to go directly against what our conference

rules say that if you do a motion to vacate you have to have 50% of the

conference and so now we're in a situation where

remove the speaker remove the majority leader from being speaker remove

Jim Jordan from being speaker every single person that's won and now that we just

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