is the seventh time the charm? we ll find out at noon eastern when the house reconvenes for another round of voting. bill: you have 20 republicans refusing to back mccarthy. because of their narrow majority mccarthy could only lose four. dana: the two sides talked about the impasse. he hopes to agree to more demands. among them a lower threshold to try to oust him from the speaker s chair and want more freedom caucus members on committees and guaranteed votes on bills conservatives have been pushing for. is that enough to move the needle? both size expressing optimism but republicans still aren t unified. a reason kevin mccarthy doesn t want to continue having vote. with each vote he seems to be decreasing in his vote share. we suspect the trend is likely to continue. what exactly do you want? you want what, four out of nine positions on the rules committee? i want to be able to have enough members on the rules committee we can block bad bills. kevin mccarthy ha
EL PASO, Texas President Joe Biden walked away from his inaugural visit to the U.S.-Mexico border vowing to send federal law enforcement the help needed a claim that Republicans tore apart as feigned interest.
the dhs secretary has been there many times. is there value to the president going? there is value to the president going everywhere. more interested in the border communities. i m the president of the united states and here at the border, i feel your pain border communities. dana: do you think this biden border visit is a check the box exercise so he stops getting asked the question when will he go to the border or will there be some genuine recognition there is a huge problem and give a speech today and lay out some things. they know we have to deal with soechlth he is gearing up to announce. it is check the box. he could set the white house at the border bust his processing is bad. the underlying problem you are a bogus asylum seeker, you get to the border and you get in and no one makes you leave, word travels south you get in no
dying as a result, not important. also, yesterday, karine jean-pierre would not commit to any biden border visit at any point in the new year. i asked her about that. she did not give us an answer. she also called trips to the border from congressional republicans, who by the way have invited the president to head down there with them, she called those trips publicblity stunts that are harmful to children and families and claimed again that republicans aren t doing anything about the border even though she would not weigh-in on these new budding bipartisan talks on immigration reform coming out of the senate. she said she wasn t aware of the full details of that proposal, neil. neil: thank you, jacqui, at the white house. let s go to mike tobin in eagle pass and reaction on the president s lack of urgency of what is happening there. he s 100 miles away. mike? well, you certainly had a lot of people thinking the president was dismissive at best.