It is now 6pm in Washington DC. Here is a wrap-up of the day’s key events:

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• “I’m not cutting any deals. I want to meet in front of all our members, answer every question,” Steve Scalise said following a closed-door meeting with GOP officials. “The good news is our support continues to grow.”

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• New Jersey’s Democratic senator Bob Menendez has been charged by federal prosecutors with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government. “The new charge was included in a revised indictment filed against the Democratic senator for New Jersey in federal court in Manhattan. His trial on corruption charges will begin in May,” Reuters reported on Thursday.

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• Pennsylvania’s Democratic senator John Fetterman has called on the Senate to expel Menendez. After Menendez was charged by federal authorities on Thursday with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government, Fetterman said: “He should have been gone long ago. It is time for every one of my colleagues in the Senate to join me in expelling senator Menendez.”

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• It appears that Republicans have left today’s closed-door meeting unhappy as they continue to decide on the House speakership nomination. Alabama’s Republican representative Mike Rogers is reported to have left the meeting unsatisfied, saying that eight Republicans were “traitors”, a word NBC’s Sahil Kapur said he used four times.

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• The conflict-of-interest hearing on Stanley Woodward, the lawyer for Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta, in the classified documents case has been postponed. US district judge Aileen Cannon admonished prosecutors after they suggested Woodward should be precluded from making a closing argument to a jury, based on his prior defense of a trial witness.

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• Donald Trump has demanded an apology from Forbes magazine after it removed him again from its list of the 400 richest people in the US. “I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes magazine,” the former president wrote on Wednesday on Truth Social.

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• New York’s Republican representative George Santos said he will not vote for Steve Scalise as speaker, telling C-Span that he isn’t voting for someone “who lacks fundamental leadership skills”. “It’s never Scalise. We’re going to have to find someone else in leadership that comes forward that’s going to be a compromise candidate,” he said.

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• The conservative political advocacy group the Faith and Freedom Coalition has issued a statement announcing its support for Steve Scalise’s House speakership. The group called Scalise “a solid champion for life, the family, religious liberty, and sound fiscal policy throughout his public life”.

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• The former House speaker Kevin McCarthy is reported to have said that “it’s possible” for Steve Scalise to get 150 votes but “it’s a big hill”. According to Punchbowl News’s Congressional reporter Mica Soellner, McCarthy also said that Scalise “told a lot of people he was going to be at 150. He wasn’t there.”

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• Donald Trump’s comments calling Hezbollah “smart” and criticizing Israel’s defense minister were “dangerous and unhinged”, the White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said on Thursday, Reuters reported. “Statements like this are dangerous and unhinged. It’s completely lost on us why any American would ever praise an Iran-backed terrorist organization as ‘smart’,” Bates said.

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That’s it from me, Maya Yang, as we wrap up the blog for today. Thank you for following along.

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It appears that Republicans have left today’s closed-door meeting unhappy as they continue to decide on the House speakership nomination.

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Alabama’s Republican representative Mike Rogers is reported to have left the meeting unsatisfied, saying that eight Republicans were “traitors”, a word NBC’s Sahil Kapur said he used four times.

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🔥🔥 Rep. Mike Rogers leaves the meeting unhappy, says eight Republican “traitors” (he used the word four times) have “paralyzed” the House by removing McCarthy. He tells me Scalise has the same problems and GOP may NEVER get 217 votes for a Speaker. He says Dems must help.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 12, 2023

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Other Republicans said Steve Scalise repeatedly refused to disclose what his plans were, with one telling Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman: “Just rambled and didn’t directly answer questions. No plan. Didn’t unify or inspire the conference.”

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Republicans in the room said Scalise repeatedly wouldn’t tell members what his plans were, including whether he would seek a floor vote.

“Just rambled and didn’t directly answer questions. No plan. Didn’t unify or inspire the conference.”

w/ @JakeSherman

— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) October 12, 2023

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If the morning has been frantic for Steve Scalise and his supporters, as he tries to garner the Republican votes needed to become speaker of the House, for readers it’s been tense.

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The Louisiana congressman is, so far, getting nowhere fast amid deep divisions among the House GOP conference.

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Meanwhile, there’s court action involving Donald Trump. And overshadowing everything is the terrible conflict between Israel and Hamas in southern Israel and Gaza. We’re bringing you the main US developments in relation to the war here, but detailed live coverage is in our global blog, which is currently running around the clock and can be read here.

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Here’s where things stand:

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• Steve Scalise appears to be struggling to convince several hard-line Republican holdouts to throw their support behind him for his House speaker candidacy. His prospects at this moment look grim.

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• Texas Republican congressman Michael McCaul, who is chair of the House foreign affairs committee and on Sunday said the GOP conference was in a state of “civil war”,said today that the House speaker nomination process is a “dangerous game that we’re playing”.

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• New Jersey’s Democratic senator Bob Menendez has been further charged by federal prosecutors, this time with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government.

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• Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said that his mother called him to say that the Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer had upset her by telling her friends that Kushner would go to jail.

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• Florida’s Republican representative Matt Gaetz is joining Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene in her calls to move the House speaker discussions onto the House floor.

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• A federal judge was expected on Thursday to weigh whether the lawyers for Donald Trump’s two co-defendants charged with trying to obstruct the US justice department from retrieving classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago club had conflicts of interest and should be ordered off the case.

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• And, where we started today: Louisiana congressman and House majority leader Steve Scalise has a fierce battle on his hands among warring House Republicans as he tries to scramble enough support from his own party to be elected speaker.

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Buckle in: House Republicans are going to be in turmoil and deadlock for a while longer.

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Steve Scalise appears to be struggling to convince several hardline Republican holdouts to throw their support behind him for his House speaker candidacy.

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On Thursday, at least 19 Republicans, including Florida’s Anna Paulina Luna, whom Scalise is reported to have flipped yesterday, appears to have indicated they won’t vote for him. Luna told CNN’s Annie Grayer:

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Yesterday when I talked to him, I wanted to see where he was at. But right now, again going back to the unification needed in the conference, we didn’t have that in that room right now. We need someone who can unify the party.

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👀LUNA is back to NO per ⁦@AnnieGrayerCNN⁩

She was one of the few SCALISE flipped yesterday… but not for long pic.twitter.com/OeQglCavqq

— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotcnn) October 12, 2023

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“Yesterday when I talked to him, I wanted to see where he was at. But right now again going back to the unification needed in the conference, we didn’t have that in that room right now. We need someone who can unify the party” Luna tells me. https://t.co/8UgbAv5ouv

— Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) October 12, 2023

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House GOP officials are continuing to meet behind closed doors to decide on the House speaker nomination.

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New Jersey’s Democratic senator Bob Menendez has been charged by federal prosecutors with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government.

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“The new charge was included in a revised indictment filed against the Democratic senator for New Jersey in federal court in Manhattan. His trial on corruption charges will begin in May,” Reuters reported on Thursday.

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Last month, Menendez and his wife were charged with bribery offenses in connection with accepting various gifts including gold bars, cash and a Mercedes-Benz in exchange for protecting three businessmen and influencing the Egyptian government.

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Since then, Menendez has faced resignation calls from across the aisle. Following revelations of the charges, the Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said that he was “disturbed” by them and said that Menendez “fell way, way below the standard”.

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Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy is reported to have said that “it’s possible” for Steve Scalise to get 150 votes but “it’s a big hill”.

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According to Punchbowl News’s Congressional reporter Mica Soellner, McCarthy also said that Scalise “told a lot of people he was going to be at 150. He wasn’t there.”

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MCCARTHY says it’s a “big hill” for Scalise.

He said Scalise was telling people he could get 150 votes — which he obviously fell way short of in the closed-door election.

“He wasn’t there,” McCarthy said.

— Mica Soellner (@MicaSoellnerDC) October 12, 2023

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Tweeting a screenshot of the meeting notice, the Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene – who said she will vote for Jim Jordan as House speaker – said:

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“Let’s do this on the House floor instead of behind closed doors … Stop dragging it out.”

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Let’s do this on the House floor instead of behind closed doors.

Stop dragging it out.

If Kevin McCarthy had to go 15 rounds then the next Speaker should be able to do the same or more if they have to.

Our job titles are REPRESENTATIVES of the American People.

Let’s go. pic.twitter.com/yc4vGY66WB

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) October 12, 2023

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A federal judge was expected on Thursday to weigh whether the lawyers for Donald Trump’s two co-defendants, who are charged with trying to obstruct the US justice department from retrieving classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago club, had conflicts of interest and should be ordered off the case.

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The hearings – at 1pm and 3pm ET – are notable because an adverse decision by US district judge Aileen Cannon could have major ramifications: Trump’s lawyers are in an informal joint defense agreement with his co-defendants’ lawyers, which could be upended if new lawyers were to come in.

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At issue is the fact that the lawyer for Trump’s first co-defendant and valet, Walt Nauta, and the lawyer for Trump’s second co-defendant and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker, Carlos De Oliveira, have also represented people that prosecutors are considering using as trial witnesses.

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Trump and Nauta were initially charged in an indictment alleging the former president retained national defense documents and conspired with Nauta to obstruct justice. Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira were then charged in July with additional counts in a superseding indictment.

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You can read the full Guardian report here.

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The Florida federal case is just one of Trump’s many legal woes. The civil fraud trial in New York involving his business empire is ongoing.

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House Republicans voted behind closed doors on Wednesday and chose rightwinger Scalise over his more hardline rival Jim Jordan of Ohio to be nominated for the speakership.

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But the vote was pretty close, 113 for Scalise v 99 for Jordan, despite Jordan then endorsing Scalise. It’s unclear this morning whether the nominee can win enough support to get through the definitive vote of the whole House.

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A small but decisive number of hardline holdouts within the Republican conference are currently blocking Steve Scalise’s passage to the top job.

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With Republicans’ razor-thin majority over Democrats in the House, Scalise can only afford four defections within the GOP conference and still win the speakership, assuming all 433 current House members participate in the vote.

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As of Wednesday evening, at least 11 House Republicans had signaled they would not support Scalise on the floor, with several more still undecided. A full report on this from the Guardian’s Joan E Greve is here.

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Hello, US politics liveblog readers. Another lively news day is unfolding in Washington and we’ll bring it all to you as it happens.

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House Republicans may have picked the Louisiana congressman Steve Scalise as their nominee to become speaker, replacing Kevin McCarthy, who was abruptly ousted by hardliners in his own party eight days ago, but Scalise doesn’t yet have the support he needs in the bag and it’s unknown whether or when a full floor vote will happen today.

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There’s action in the Trump Mar-a-Lago criminal court case in Florida and, in the crisis in Israel, US secretary of state Antony Blinken has been meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu there this morning. We’ll keep you up to speed, while suggesting that for more detail you follow all the news on the ground from Israel and Gaza in our global live blog here.

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Here’s what’s afoot:

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• Steve Scalise, having beaten Trump favorite Jim Jordan to be nominated by House Republicans to become the next speaker of the lower congressional chamber, which the GOP narrowly controls, has much work to do to win enough support to be awarded the speaker’s gavel.

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• The House is still in recess and due to commence business at 12pm ET – if the GOP is ready to put House majority leader Scalise forward for a full floor vote on the speakership after his narrow victory over Jordan in closed-door voting on Wednesday.

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• Democrats will nominate the House minority leader and New York congressman Hakeem Jeffries to be their nominee for speaker. They don’t have the votes to elect him as speaker, of course, but it’s a strong signal of their unanimity and rejection of the GOP’s antics.

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• Republicans will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the embarrassing spectacle in January where McCarthy had to menace and wheedle his way in real time through a record 15 rounds of voting.

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• Scalise can only afford to lose four of his own party’s votes to secure the 217 majority he needs, and right now there are too many hardliners shunning him and too many Jordan voters who haven’t committed publicly to know whether or how he can make it.

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• The Mar-a-Lago classified-document-hoarding criminal case against Donald Trumpwill be back in a Florida court today, where the federal judge is expected to weigh whether lawyers for two of the former president’s co-defendants had conflicts of interest and should be ordered off the case.

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It’s now 6pm in Washington DC. Here’s a wrap-up of the day’s key occasions:

• “I’m not chopping any offers. I need to meet in entrance of all our members, reply each query,” Steve Scalise stated following a closed-door assembly with GOP officers. “The excellent news is our assist continues to develop.”

• New Jersey’s Democratic senator Bob Menendez has been charged by federal prosecutors with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian authorities. “The brand new cost was included in a revised indictment filed towards the Democratic senator for New Jersey in federal courtroom in Manhattan. His trial on corruption expenses will start in Could,” Reuters reported on Thursday.

• Pennsylvania’s Democratic senator John Fetterman has referred to as on the Senate to expel Menendez. After Menendez was charged by federal authorities on Thursday with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian authorities, Fetterman stated: “He ought to have been gone way back. It’s time for each one in every of my colleagues within the Senate to hitch me in expelling senator Menendez.”

• It seems that Republicans have left at present’s closed-door assembly sad as they proceed to resolve on the Home speakership nomination. Alabama’s Republican consultant Mike Rogers is reported to have left the assembly unhappy, saying that eight Republicans have been “traitors”, a phrase NBC’s Sahil Kapur stated he used 4 occasions.

• The conflict-of-interest listening to on Stanley Woodward, the lawyer for Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta, within the categorised paperwork case has been postponed. US district choose Aileen Cannon admonished prosecutors after they advised Woodward must be precluded from making a closing argument to a jury, based mostly on his prior protection of a trial witness.

• Donald Trump has demanded an apology from Forbes journal after it eliminated him once more from its checklist of the 400 richest individuals within the US. “I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes journal,” the previous president wrote on Wednesday on Fact Social.

• New York’s Republican consultant George Santos stated he is not going to vote for Steve Scalise as speaker, telling C-Span that he isn’t voting for somebody “who lacks basic management abilities”. “It’s by no means Scalise. We’re going to have to seek out another person in management that comes ahead that’s going to be a compromise candidate,” he stated.

• The conservative political advocacy group the Religion and Freedom Coalition has issued an announcement asserting its assist for Steve Scalise’s Home speakership. The group referred to as Scalise “a stable champion for all times, the household, spiritual liberty, and sound fiscal coverage all through his public life”.

• The previous Home speaker Kevin McCarthy is reported to have stated that “it’s potential” for Steve Scalise to get 150 votes however “it’s a giant hill”. In line with Punchbowl Information’s Congressional reporter Mica Soellner, McCarthy additionally stated that Scalise “instructed lots of people he was going to be at 150. He wasn’t there.”

• Donald Trump’s feedback calling Hezbollah “good” and criticizing Israel’s protection minister have been “harmful and unhinged”, the White Home spokesindividual Andrew Bates stated on Thursday, Reuters reported. “Statements like this are harmful and unhinged. It’s fully misplaced on us why any American would ever reward an Iran-backed terrorist group as ‘good’,” Bates stated.

That’s it from me, Maya Yang, as we wrap up the weblog for at present. Thanks for following alongside.

“I’m not chopping any offers, I need to meet in entrance of all our members, reply each query,” Steve Scalise stated following a closed-door assembly with GOP officers.

“The excellent news is our assist continues to develop. We’re persevering with to work to slim the hole and that’s happening and we’re going to proceed the conferences. There are another members that need to meet as a bunch, individually,” Scalise stated.

“I’ve requested that we convene these teams in addition to members who expressed particular person considerations on the ground in order that we are able to cope with these earlier than we go to the ground…. I took each query that everyone introduced and we’re going to proceed to undergo this course of as we develop our assist,” he added.

Rep. Scalise on the continued social gathering battle to safe 217 votes and change into speaker: "Our assist continues to develop. We're persevering with to slim the hole." He shared that he wished to reply all questions in entrance of the convention fairly than have particular person conferences and minimize offers. pic.twitter.com/qfBwHCBwlG

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 12, 2023

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Rep. Scalise on the continued social gathering battle to safe 217 votes and change into speaker: “Our assist continues to develop. We’re persevering with to slim the hole.” He shared that he wished to reply all questions in entrance of the convention fairly than have particular person conferences and minimize offers. pic.twitter.com/qfBwHCBwlG

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 12, 2023

The Illinois governor JB Pritzker has denounced Donald Trump’s reward for Hezbollah, saying:

No true buddy of Israel, the Jewish individuals, or of peace would reward Hezbollah simply days after what President Biden and Jewish leaders have referred to as the deadliest day for Jews because the Holocaust.

Proper now could be the time to face with Israel as they confront unimaginable loss and the continued risk from terrorists looking for to hurt their individuals.

Donald Trump’s feedback are disgusting, harmful, and underscore a easy reality: he’s unfit to guide our nation and would make the USA and our allies all over the world much less secure.

On Wednesday, Trump referred to as the Iran-aligned and pro-Hamas militant group Hezbollah “very good” amid the continued battle between Israel and Hamas, prompting widespread criticism, together with from the White Home.

Pennsylvania’s Democratic senator John Fetterman has referred to as on the Senate to expel New Jersey’s Democratic senator Bob Menendez.

After Menendez was charged by federal authorities on Thursday with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian authorities, Fetterman stated:

Senator Menendez shouldn’t be a US senator. He ought to have been gone way back. It’s time for each one in every of my colleagues within the Senate to hitch me in expelling senator Menendez.

He added:

We can’t have an alleged overseas agent in the USA Senate. This isn’t an in depth name.

Republican lawmakers go away closed-door assembly disgruntled

It seems that Republicans have left at present’s closed-door assembly sad as they proceed to resolve on the Home speakership nomination.

Alabama’s Republican consultant Mike Rogers is reported to have left the assembly unhappy, saying that eight Republicans have been “traitors”, a phrase NBC’s Sahil Kapur stated he used 4 occasions.

🔥🔥 Rep. Mike Rogers leaves the assembly sad, says eight Republican “traitors” (he used the phrase 4 occasions) have “paralyzed” the Home by eradicating McCarthy. He tells me Scalise has the identical issues and GOP could NEVER get 217 votes for a Speaker. He says Dems should assist.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 12, 2023

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🔥🔥 Rep. Mike Rogers leaves the assembly sad, says eight Republican “traitors” (he used the phrase 4 occasions) have “paralyzed” the Home by eradicating McCarthy. He tells me Scalise has the identical issues and GOP could NEVER get 217 votes for a Speaker. He says Dems should assist.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 12, 2023

Different Republicans stated Steve Scalise repeatedly refused to reveal what his plans have been, with one telling Punchbowl Information’s Jake Sherman: “Simply rambled and didn’t instantly reply questions. No plan. Didn’t unify or encourage the convention.”

Republicans within the room stated Scalise repeatedly wouldn’t inform members what his plans have been, together with whether or not he would search a flooring vote.

“Simply rambled and didn’t instantly reply questions. No plan. Didn’t unify or encourage the convention.”

w/ @JakeSherman

— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) October 12, 2023

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Republicans within the room stated Scalise repeatedly wouldn’t inform members what his plans have been, together with whether or not he would search a flooring vote.

“Simply rambled and didn’t instantly reply questions. No plan. Didn’t unify or encourage the convention.”

w/ @JakeSherman

— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) October 12, 2023

Hugo Lowell

The conflict-of-interest listening to on Stanley Woodward, the lawyer for Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta, within the categorised paperwork case has been postponed.

US district choose Aileen Cannon admonished prosecutors after they advised Woodward must be precluded from making a closing argument to a jury, based mostly on his prior protection of a trial witness.

Cannon appeared livid, saying that prosecutors had advised an “absolute bar” on the final minute – on the listening to itself – and had no case regulation authority from the southern district of Florida or eleventh circuit.

“We can’t proceed with this Garcia listening to,” she stated, referring to the title of a listening to that addresses battle of curiosity.

Hugo Lowell

Listed here are the most recent developments within the Donald Trump categorised paperwork case in Fort Pierce, Florida, from the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell:

Trump co-defendant and Mar-a-Lago upkeep employee Carlos De Oliveira instructed a choose he needs to maintain his lead lawyer, John Irving – who’s being paid by Trump’s PAC.

De Oliveira was requested whether or not he understood Irving’s potential conflicts arising from his prior illustration of three individuals the particular counsel may name as trial witnesses, and he stated he would transfer ahead with Irving anyway.

De Oliveira, who didn’t full highschool and instructed the choose he may learn English higher than he may write, struggled to explicate the precise nature of the potential conflicts in his personal phrases, although he affirmed repeatedly when the choose walked him by questions.

The defendant’s grasp of English has been a difficulty that the previous Trump attorneys mentioned amongst themselves beforehand – they’d puzzled whether or not he even understood the questions from the FBI in the course of the interviews the place he’s alleged to have lied.

New from the federal courthouse in Ft Pierce: Trump co-defendant and Mar-a-Lago upkeep employee Carlos De Oliveira instructed a choose he needs to maintain his lead lawyer John Irving — who’s being paid by Trump’s PAC

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) October 12, 2023

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New from the federal courthouse in Ft Pierce: Trump co-defendant and Mar-a-Lago upkeep employee Carlos De Oliveira instructed a choose he needs to maintain his lead lawyer John Irving — who’s being paid by Trump’s PAC

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) October 12, 2023

Decide AileenCannon will run by the potential conflicts for Trump’s different co-defendant and valet, Walt Nauta.

Abstract

If the morning has been frantic for Steve Scalise and his supporters, as he tries to garner the Republican votes wanted to change into speaker of the Home, for readers it’s been tense.

The Louisiana congressman is, to date, getting nowhere quick amid deep divisions among the many Home GOP convention.

In the meantime, there’s courtroom motion involving Donald Trump. And overshadowing the whole lot is the horrible battle between Israel and Hamas in southern Israel and Gaza. We’re bringing you the principle US developments in relation to the battle right here, however detailed dwell protection is in our international weblog, which is presently operating across the clock and might be learn right here.

Right here’s the place issues stand:

• Steve Scalise seems to be struggling to persuade a number of hard-line Republican holdouts to throw their assist behind him for his Home speaker candidacy. His prospects at this second look grim.

• Texas Republican congressman Michael McCaul, who’s chair of the Home overseas affairs committee and on Sunday stated the GOP convention was in a state of “civil battle”,stated at present that the Home speaker nomination course of is a “harmful recreation that we’re taking part in”.

• New Jersey’s Democratic senator Bob Menendez has been additional charged by federal prosecutors, this time with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian authorities.

• Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner stated that his mom referred to as him to say that the Senate majority chief Chuck Schumer had upset her by telling her associates that Kushner would go to jail.

• Florida’s Republican consultant Matt Gaetz is becoming a member of Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene in her calls to maneuver the Home speaker discussions onto the Home flooring.

• A federal choose was anticipated on Thursday to weigh whether or not the attorneys for Donald Trump’s two co-defendants charged with making an attempt to impede the US justice division from retrieving categorised paperwork from his Mar-a-Lago membership had conflicts of curiosity and must be ordered off the case.

• And, the place we began at present: Louisiana congressman and Home majority chief Steve Scalise has a fierce battle on his palms amongst warring Home Republicans as he tries to scramble sufficient assist from his personal social gathering to be elected speaker.

Buckle in: Home Republicans are going to be in turmoil and impasse for some time longer.

Donald Trump has demanded an apology from Forbes journal after it eliminated him once more from its checklist of the 400 richest individuals within the US.

The Guardian’s Martin Pengelly reviews:

“I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes journal,” the previous president wrote on Wednesday on Fact Social, the reportedly struggling social media platform he arrange after being expelled from mainstream platforms over the January 6 assault on the Capitol.

Forbes launched its Trump-free checklist final week, saying the his internet price was down $600m from a yr earlier than. Trump has been on the checklist because the Nineteen Nineties, aside from in 2021.

In response, Trump complained about “actually dumb writers assigned to hit me arduous” and bragged about enormous leads in Republican presidential polling he holds regardless of going through 91 prison expenses and various civil threats.

In that put up from Monday, Trump concluded: “A lot for Forbes!”

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In line with Arkansas’ Republican consultant Steve Womack, there are not less than six arduous no’s towards Steve Scalise, Punchbowl Information’s Jake Sherman reviews.

“Primarily based on what I’ve heard, I don’t [think] there’s going to be a vote this week,” Womack stated, including that the six arduous no’s are the one individuals who spoke up in the course of the GOP closed-door assembly at present.

“There are loads of causes for varied members to be objecting to what the play name is for Home Republicans. And the play name is Steve Scalise,” Sherman reviews Womack as having stated.

“Primarily based on what I’ve heard, I don’t there’s gonna be a vote this week” https://t.co/fkbgGTZJhu

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 12, 2023

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New York’s Republican consultant George Santos stated he is not going to vote for Steve Scalise as speaker, telling C-Span that he isn’t voting for somebody “who lacks basic management abilities”.

It’s by no means Scalise. We’re going to have to seek out another person in management that comes ahead that’s going to be a compromise candidate.

Should you’re in management … you speak to everyone. I’ve reached out quite a few occasions to congressman Scalise and me reaching out and asking him for his steerage in management and him not reaching again out, that’s a dereliction of his obligation as a pacesetter so I’m not voting for him,.

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) on why he is not going to be voting for Rep. Scalise (R-LA) as Speaker: "I'm not voting for somebody who lacks basic management abilities" pic.twitter.com/rrZvwq64cR

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 12, 2023

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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) on why he is not going to be voting for Rep. Scalise (R-LA) as Speaker: “I am not voting for somebody who lacks basic management abilities” pic.twitter.com/rrZvwq64cR

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 12, 2023

The conservative political advocacy group Religion and Freedom Coalition has issued an announcement asserting its assist for Steve Scalise’s Home speakership.

The group referred to as Scalise “a stable champion for all times, the household, spiritual liberty, and sound fiscal coverage all through his public life,” and went on to explain him as an “unapologetic defender of conservative ideas from the second he arrived in Congress.”

“We’re grateful to our buddy Jim Jordan for agreeing to appoint Speaker-designate Scalise as a gesture of unity. Now that Republicans have chosen a speaker-designate, it’s time for the Home to get again to work,” it stated.

“Republicans have to unite behind Rep. Scalise to allow them to tackle the important points going through American households and our longtime allies. We strongly urge Republicans to vote posthaste to make Steve Scalise the subsequent Home speaker,” the group added.

Scalise seems to battle to persuade hardliners to assist his speaker bid

Steve Scalise seems to be struggling to persuade a number of arduousline Republican holdouts to throw their assist behind him for his Home speaker candidacy.

On Thursday, not less than 19 Republicans, together with Florida’s Anna Paulina Luna, whom Scalise is reported to have flipped yesterday, seems to have indicated they gained’t vote for him. Luna instructed CNN’s Annie Grayer:

Yesterday after I talked to him, I wished to see the place he was at. However proper now, once more going again to the unification wanted within the convention, we didn’t have that in that room proper now. We want somebody who can unify the social gathering.

👀LUNA is again to NO per ⁦@AnnieGrayerCNN⁩

She was one of many few SCALISE flipped yesterday… however not for lengthy pic.twitter.com/OeQglCavqq

— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotcnn) October 12, 2023

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“Yesterday after I talked to him, I wished to see the place he was at. However proper now once more going again to the unification wanted within the convention, we didn’t have that in that room proper now. We want somebody who can unify the social gathering” Luna tells me. https://t.co/8UgbAv5ouv

— Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) October 12, 2023

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“Yesterday after I talked to him, I wished to see the place he was at. However proper now once more going again to the unification wanted within the convention, we didn’t have that in that room proper now. We want somebody who can unify the social gathering” Luna tells me. https://t.co/8UgbAv5ouv

— Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) October 12, 2023

Home GOP officers are persevering with to satisfy behind closed doorways to resolve on the Home speaker nomination.

Texas’s Republican consultant Michael McCaul stated that the Home speaker nomination course of is a “harmful recreation that we’re taking part in”.

Chatting with C-Span on Thursday, McCaul stated:

It simply proves our adversaries proper that democracy doesn’t work. Our adversaries are watching us and Israel is watching us. They want our assist. I’ve my decision condemning Hamas, supporting Israel. We will’t even vote on that till we put a speaker within the chair.

He went on so as to add:

If we don’t have a speaker, we are able to’t help Israel on this nice time of want … We have to cease taking part in video games and politics with this and vote a speaker in.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) on electing a Home speaker: "It's a harmful recreation that we're taking part in. It simply proves our adversaries proper that democracy doesn't work. Our adversaries are watching us." pic.twitter.com/eAxlE7OHi5

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 12, 2023

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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) on electing a Home speaker: “It is a harmful recreation that we’re taking part in. It simply proves our adversaries proper that democracy would not work. Our adversaries are watching us.” pic.twitter.com/eAxlE7OHi5

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 12, 2023

Democratic senator Bob Menendez charged with conspiring to behave as overseas agent

New Jersey’s Democratic senator Bob Menendez has been charged by federal prosecutors with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian authorities.

“The brand new cost was included in a revised indictment filed towards the Democratic senator for New Jersey in federal courtroom in Manhattan. His trial on corruption expenses will start in Could,” Reuters reported on Thursday.

Final month, Menendez and his spouse have been charged with bribery offenses in reference to accepting varied presents together with gold bars, money and a Mercedes-Benz in alternate for shielding three businessmen and influencing the Egyptian authorities.

Since then, Menendez has confronted resignation calls from throughout the aisle. Following revelations of the fees, the Senate majority chief Chuck Schumer stated that he was “disturbed” by them and stated that Menendez “fell manner, manner beneath the usual”.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner stated his mom referred to as him to say that the Senate majority chief Chuck Schumer had upset her by telling her associates that Kushner would go to jail.

The Guardian’s Martin Pengelly reviews:

“My poor mother, I instructed her to cease, you understand, studying no matter. I stated, ‘I promise you, we didn’t do something fallacious, it’s good,’” Kushner instructed the Lex Fridman podcast. “However you understand, she’d name me [to] say … ‘Our associates on the Higher East Aspect have been speaking with Chuck Schumer, who says Jared’s going to jail.’”

Schumer, the senior senator from New York, was the Democratic minority chief within the US Senate in the course of the presidency of Donald Trump, Kushner’s father-in-law and White Home boss. Since 2021, Schumer has been the bulk chief.

Married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, Kushner turned his father-in-law’s chief adviser on the marketing campaign path after which within the White Home.

Trump’s first two years in energy have been dogged by investigations and hypothesis over his hyperlinks to Russia and interference by Moscow within the 2016 US election.

Kushner’s interactions with high-placed Russians have been positioned below the nationwide highlight.

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On the closed-door GOP assembly at present, Steve Scalise is planning to ship extra particulars on coverage, Punchbowl Information’s Jake Sherman reviews.

Scalise is claimed to additionally reiterate that he has not made any facet offers with particular person Republicans.

🚨🕑 NEWS: WHAT SCALISE WILL TELL HOUSE REPUBLICANS

SCALISE plans to put out some extra particulars on coverage, invite lawmakers to ask him something and reiterate he has minimize NO SIDE DEALS in closed gop assembly beginning at 12:15 https://t.co/b9whr7VI21

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 12, 2023

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🚨🕑 NEWS: WHAT SCALISE WILL TELL HOUSE REPUBLICANS

SCALISE plans to put out some extra particulars on coverage, invite lawmakers to ask him something and reiterate he has minimize NO SIDE DEALS in closed gop assembly beginning at 12:15 https://t.co/b9whr7VI21

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 12, 2023

Texas’s Democratic consultant Veronica Escobar introduced that she would “welcome any Republican prepared to hitch Home Democrats to place our nation forward of petty politics.”

Escobar, who represents the Texas’s sixteenth district, added in a tweet on Wednesday:

“We don’t have time for this. The American individuals and the worldwide stage need to us for management…

With simply over half of his social gathering supporting him for Speaker, the one manner [Steve] Scalise will win is by making concessions to the extremists and holdouts.”

We don’t have time for this. The American individuals and the worldwide stage need to us for management.

Battle in Israel, a battle in Ukraine, and an impending authorities shutdown name for swift motion.

— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) October 12, 2023

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We don’t have time for this. The American individuals and the worldwide stage need to us for management.

Battle in Israel, a battle in Ukraine, and an impending authorities shutdown name for swift motion.

— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) October 12, 2023

Florida’s Republican consultant Matt Gaetz is becoming a member of Marjorie Taylor Greene in her calls to maneuver the Home speaker discussions onto the Home flooring.

I agree with MTG. Let’s do the messy work of governing and management choice in entrance of the individuals,” Gaetz tweeted on Thursday.

I agree with MTG.

Let’s do the messy work of governing and management choice in entrance of the individuals.

Identical to I voted towards McCarthy time after time…in public…making my argument, others ought to need to reveal their pondering and be appropriately judged by their voters.… https://t.co/6QejvgxKqP

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 12, 2023

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I agree with MTG.

Let’s do the messy work of governing and management choice in entrance of the individuals.

Identical to I voted towards McCarthy time after time…in public…making my argument, others ought to need to reveal their pondering and be appropriately judged by their voters.… https://t.co/6QejvgxKqP

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 12, 2023

Earlier this month, Gaetz filed a movement to take away former Home speaker Kevin McCarthy from workplace.

Gaetz’s movement got here simply days after McCarthy labored alongside Home Democrats to move a bipartisan invoice on the eleventh hour that narrowly prevented a federal authorities shutdown.