‘This is not complicated, America’: Sen. Booker condemns 'Hitler-like' Hamas

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Guests: Sen. Cory Booker, Ali Velshi, David Jolly, Jen Psaki, Yousef Hammash, Fadi Abu Shammalah Republican Congressman Steve Scalise announces he is withdrawing his name from the race for House Speaker. MSNBC Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali joins Chris Hayes to break down the latest. Then, Sen. Cory Booker joins to discuss the Israel-Hamas war. Plus, a Gaza resident gives an account of the “terror” of war on the ground.

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0:00.0	Good, even from New York on Chris Hayes, we have some breaking news.
0:06.0	We have of course following developments in the Israel Hamas War, but from breaking news
0:10.2	in the U.S. Capitol, Steve Scalise, the man elected by the Republican caucus to be the
0:15.6	next speaker, but who was short of the votes, to do so has just announced apparently inside
0:21.4	the Republican conference that he's withdrawing his name from the speakership.
0:27.0	We don't know why other than the whip count vote against him within the Republican
0:31.8	caucus today had ballooned to 16 or 17 votes.
0:35.0	There were people saying that he could not get to the 217, needed to be elected speaker
0:39.3	of the House.
0:40.3	Of course, this comes a week after Kevin McCarthy was deposed by a far right mega caucus,
0:46.6	which initiated a motion to vacate the chair that was successful with eight members voting
0:51.3	eye along with all the Democrats.
0:53.2	There's been a speaker, pro temp, Patrick McKenry, since then, serving in a kind of custodial
1:00.7	fashion.
1:01.7	This is all totally unprecedented in American history.
1:05.2	We haven't had this before.
1:06.2	It's 100 years since we had a motion to vacate the chair, amidst a unfolding global crisis,
1:13.5	the second in line to the president and constitutional office of speaker of the House remains vacant
1:20.2	with no clear path for this House Republican caucus to rally behind anyone for an election.
1:26.1	I believe we have Ali Vitale joining us now to fill us in.
1:29.9	Ali, I literally just learned about this before we went to air.
1:32.5	What is going on?
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