memeorandum: Full McCarthy: I don't need the speakership 'title. I'm going to help in any way I can' (NBC News)

11:30 AM ET, October 22, 2023

Top Items:

Meet the Republicans Running for Speaker — The lawmakers vying for the job include veterans of the House, committee chairmen, a top member of Republican leadership and a sophomore. — At least 10 Republicans have announced that they will run for speaker or that they are considering doing so since Friday …

Discussion: Washington Times

Nick Robertson / The Hill:

GOP lawmaker urges Republicans to sign unity pledge to back eventual Speaker nominee — Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) is urging his caucus to vote together as chaos over the House Speakership continues, launching a unity pledge for lawmakers to commit to a single candidate.

Discussion: The Messenger, Politico, Washington Examiner and Washington Times

Nick Robertson / The Hill:

What to know about Speaker candidate Kevin Hern — The House GOP is in chaos amid attempts to elect a Speaker after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) lost his third attempt at securing the gavel in a floor vote Friday. — Nine congressmen have stepped up for the job, or have signaled …

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Concerns about Jordan's election denialism flare during failed bid for speaker

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Messenger, HuffPost, Axios, Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones and Washington Times

Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:

More Bad News for Trump — It turns out it wasn't just a bad day for Trump, as I captioned my column Thursday night. It was a bad week. A really bad week. — After Sidney Powell's guilty plea, there was Kenneth Chesebro's plea. His was to a felony charge of filing false information …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, CNN, USA Today and CBS News

Nick Robertson / The Hill:

Chesebro attorney argues client never believed Trump's ‘big lie’ of election fraud — Kenneth Chesebro, one of former President Trump's 18 co-defendants in the George election fraud case, didn't truly believe the 2020 election was stolen, according to his attorney.

Discussion: Salon, The Messenger, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Mediaite, CNN, NBC News and The Atlantic

Violet Ikonomova / Detroit Free Press:

Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll found dead outside her home — A politically connected Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed dead this morning outside her home in the city's Lafayette Park neighborhood, east of downtown. — Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue …

CNN:

President of Detroit synagogue found stabbed to death outside home, police say — The president of a Detroit synagogue board was found dead Saturday morning with multiple stab wounds outside her home, police said. — The victim, Samantha Woll, was the president of the board …

Discussion: WISH-TV, The Daily Caller, Law & Crime, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone and Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue

Politico:

'I'm disappointed': Even Tim Scott's friends and fans see a campaign on the ropes — Scott's polling is down, his super PAC is in retreat and his hometown newspaper is cheering on Nikki Haley instead. — Tim Scott's old friend and former colleague in the Senate, Cory Gardner, kept pleading with him to get on TV more.

Discussion: CNN and Fox News

Post and Courier:

One GOP candidate can defeat Trump. Clear the field for Haley. — Donald Trump won the GOP nomination in 2016 not because he was the choice of most Republican primary voters; he was not. He won because, in a crowded field, he got more votes than any of his rivals in South Carolina, and then in later-voting states.

Discussion: Fox News

Washington Post:
Haley threatens to overtake DeSantis as Trump alternative, sending sparks flying

Discussion: New York Post, Deseret News, Breitbart, ABC News, Mediaite, New York Times and Politico

U.S. Department of Defense:

Statement From Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Steps to Increase Force Posture — Following detailed discussions with President Biden on recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East Region, today I directed a series of additional steps to further strengthen …

Discussion: The Messenger, The Hill, National Review, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, NBC 7 San Diego, Washington Examiner, New York Times, CBS News, The Times of Israel, Bloomberg and TASS

NBC News:

Full McCarthy: I don't need the speakership 'title. I'm going to help in any way I can' — Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) joins Meet the Press in an exclusive interview to discuss House Republicans' speaker fight and the war in Israel.

Discussion: The Messenger

Nick Fagge / Daily Mail:

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli morgue worker says horrors inflicted on Hamas's victims are ‘worse than the Holocaust’ including decapitated pregnant woman and her beheaded unborn child — Shari says the atrocities committed by Hamas are ‘worse than the Holocaust’ — She and her team spend 12 hours a day cleaning mutilated corpses

Discussion: Exposing the role …, The Forward and Breitbart

Wes Davis / The Verge:

Google owes executive $1 million after losing gender bias lawsuit … A jury found Google guilty of sexual discrimination and awarded female Google Cloud executive Ulku Rowe, who filed the complaint, $1.1 million. Rowe's lawsuit alleged that the company gave higher pay to less-experienced male cohorts …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, more at Techmeme »

Reuters:

Australia PM to visit China, reaches deal to resolve WTO wine dispute — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that he would travel to China from Nov. 4 to 7 to meet with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang, with the aim of ensuring a “stable and productive” relationship between the two countries.

Discussion: Associated Press and Bloomberg