I'm Lou Doves with the Great America Show Update for Tuesday, October 17th.

President Biden headed to the Middle East, meeting set with Netanyahu, Abbas, King Abdullah

of Jordan, and Egyptian President Al-Sisi tomorrow in Amman.

Meanwhile, the Biden White House is cloaking what it knew about the Hamas terrorist attacks

on Israel, and why it took no action against Hamas' sponsor Iran.

The question now is, why is the Israeli retaliation seemingly on hold?

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley calling for the United States to bring in as many

as a million Palestinian refugees.

Haley, after all, was just the Trump administration spokesperson at the United Nations.

She never set policy and thank goodness.

In Washington, the debate for the nominees for Speaker of the House set with a vote to

follow later this afternoon.

At this hour, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is reportedly still short of the

217 votes needed to become Speaker.

He and his supporters working energetically behind the scenes to pick up the necessary remaining

votes, hoping to win the vote today on the first or second round of voting if possible.

Congressman Ben Klein of Virginia, saying this about the historic importance of this vote,

and Jim Jordan becoming Speaker of the House.

We are truly at a crossroads in this country.

Between going down the same path, we've always gone of deficit spending, woken, weaponized

government, getting run over by the Biden administration, by the Senate and Chuck Schumer.

But we've got an alternative choice to put Jim Jordan in the speakership, and I actually

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