it is the top of the hour. i m katy tur and we re starting again on capitol hill with the question: deadlock or a deal? what will happen today is anyone s guess. the house reconvenes in one hour. will the seventh vote be the charm for kevin mccarthy. he s made even more concessions. what they are and will they help? earlier they said they think negotiations could drag on until next week. i think we re making progress. i think people are talking and that s i think that very good. look, we re all working together. find a solution. do you have the votes today? we will see. also this hour, president biden will take on one of the issues that s motivating these republican holdouts. the southern border. he s announcing new border enforcement measures. we got a peek at the details. what they are in a moment. and after teasing a trip to the border yesterday, he s expected to make that visit official. we will go right to the white house for his live remarks when they b
seen this happen time and again. it s why john boehner resigned, it s why paul ryan left the speakership. this is why where we are right now. everybody, thank you for starting us off. and we have other breaking news on the hill. senator bob casey has just announced that he s been diagnosed with prostate cancer. in a statement, the pennsylvania democrat said he got the news last month but that he has an excellent prognosis. he adds that in the coming months, he ll have surgery and expects to make a full recovery. he said his course of treatment will allow him to continue his service in the new congress. one of the biggest issues for the republican rebels is border policy. coming up, what we know about president biden s speech this hour on border security. what changes will he make? torrential rain has been pounding california s bay area
since he lost it in 2015, when he thought he was going to be elected speaker. instead, he wasn t, for some of the same reasons he has today. it s hard for me to see what kevin mccarthy can do to change this dynamic enough to get 218 vots and the speakership. maybe it takes a couple days to realize that. it s not like the freedom caucus members are demanding this policy change or this rule change. they are saying basically, you are unacceptable to us. we re going to cause trouble until you go away. maybe he will come back. if he does, it will be one of the great political comebacks of modern times. but i think the safe bet is someone who is not kevin mccarthy will eventually be elected speaker of the house. we are under a two minute warning for president biden to speaker. brendan, the last word before we go to that and then the house for what we presume will be the seventh vote to elect a speaker. interesting vote coming up.
undocumented immigrants from latin america. it s really interesting on how intentional the coyotes that are helping cross individuals would end up in the southern border or in central california, for example, they have such sophisticated networks that are human trafficking all the way into southern canada and it s spreading. it s increasingly an issue that needs to have a north hemisphere solution. thank you very much. we re going to go to the white house as soon as president biden starts speaking. all eyes in the meantime are still on the house. members-elect, which is everyone right now because no one has been able to be sworn in, they reconvene in 30 minutes. what is happening on the floor right now to solidify kevin mccarthy s fate.
numbers at the border. as part of this, the white house is making official what the president hinted at yesterday, that he will for the first time not just as president, but really in decades himself, travel to the border, we ll go down to el paso on sunday. that s in advance of his plans to attend the north american leaders summit in mexico city next week which features the president of mexico and the prime minister of canada. talk about what s happening at the border right now, maria. there are so many people who are piled up and waiting to get in. they re cold, dealing with sickness down there. it s flu season and everyone is getting sick. how bad is it there and how urgently does this need to be addressed? i think one of the facts that the fact that the president is going down is incredibly important. but i do think that we need to take a step back and recognize that by the time someone gets to the border, the system has already broken down. and what i m looking forward to