If it's Wednesday, after three weeks of chaos, Republicans and the U.S. House of Representatives

have finally elected a new speaker, putting Congressman Mike Johnson at the center of

political dysfunction and wartime turbulence.

Plus, new levels of urgency in the Israel-Hamas war, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

tells his citizens to prepare for a ground invasion of Gaza while aid groups warn they are shutting

down operations tonight due to a lack of resources, and former President Donald Trump takes

the stand in a head-turning moment in New York court, as a judge finds in $10,000 saying the

former president violated a gag order in his civil fraud trial.

Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington,

where more than three weeks of political paralysis in the U.S. House of Representatives are finally over.

Therefore, the honorable Mike Johnson of the state of Louisiana, having received a majority of

the votes cast as duly elected speaker of the House of Representatives for the 118th Congress.

This afternoon, the House elected Republican Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana as the next

House speaker. Johnson receives a speaker's gavel more than three weeks after the House voted to

oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Johnson won by a strictly partisan vote of 220-209,

receiving votes from every Republican lawmaker president. Every Democrat voted from minority

leader Hakeem Jeffreitz. It took four ballots and four speaker designates to elect Johnson,

a key ally of Donald Trump, and a key architect of House Republicans' efforts attempting to overturn

the 2020 election. Johnson is also one of the most inexperienced House speakers in recent history,

and he has been thrown headfirst into swirling conference chaos with House Republicans remaining

deeply divided, now having to navigate the politics of war as the White House urgently seeks

more than $100 billion in aid, largely for Israel and Ukraine, while also facing another government

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