good morning, and thanks for being here. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes today on the southern border with title 42 set to expire tonight. tens of thousands of migrants are already waiting to enter the u.s. once the covid era restriction ends at midnight. u.s. troops at the border setting up our wire. we ll have a live report from mexico about the situation coming up right up. and later, trump taking center stage yet again, this time in a prime time town hall, and it feels like we ve seen this script before. will you commit tonight to accepting the results of the 2024 election? yes, if i think it s an honest election absolutely i would. plus, congressman george santos fighting both a legal and political battle. the house speaker now saying he won t support santos for re-election. santos has pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges. does santos have any future in the gop? and the nearly 20-year-old case of natalie holloway s dis
mccarthy is insisting that he will have the numbers but the moment he does not because the number of the members simply are not decided. yet they are still reviewing the details is 320 page bill released just yesterday, something that has been the product of negotiations internally among republicans for the past several weeks that would raise the national debt ceiling by $1.5. trillion of debt ceiling already at 31.4 trillion, including in that a range of conservative policy priorities and cuts across the board and domestic programs, including, including a adding a plan to block president biden s loan forgiveness program initiative that rescinding new funding for the internal revenue service was part of the democrats inflation reduction act that was enacted last congress would also boost new provide new work requirements for social safety net programs like medicaid. but even as including some of those provisions intended to appease conservatives, some conservatives are not th
reports, all those are federal crimes. right. and again, to delay this for another 60 days enabling him to vote on very serious issues whether it be the debt ceiling or anything else, as a member of congress he s able to participate in top secret hearings. you know, whether it s on ukraine or anything else, this guy, his voting card needs to be removed here s the thing, congressman, he has just said in that clip he s seen so many other people survive scandal after scandal after scandal, so he is thinking he might get through this and stay in power. congressman speaker mccarthy, he s saying he won t support re-election, but he s not kicking him out. no, but he should be he should be thrown out. and the ethics committee, which i know at least was reported that was going to start investigating him back in march, they need to get the job done and really threaten him by
, who stripped fda approval of a key abortion drug. it turns out he failed to share a radio interview where he discussed contraception before he was confirmed. what else did he not reveal? before his confirmation and leading this hour, there s a fight brewing in the nation s capital, and it could cost you a lot of money. house speaker kevin mccarthy unveiled his plan to raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion, while also cutting spending. but he s facing resistance from all sides. the white house refused to negotiate at all with house republicans and perhaps most worrisome from mccarthy. republican lawmakers who said they don t support the house speaker s plan. we re covering this story from both sides of pennsylvania avenue, cnn s manu raju is on capitol hill. cnn s phil mattingly at the white house for us, manu speaker mccarthy. just remind everyone needs 218 votes to get the bill passed. he has a slim majority. he s not going to get any democratic support. does he have the numbers?
schumer said the same thing, the president said, i won t even discuss it. so we have no idea what the senate would accept. and if they would have a conversation with this, maybe we could do what you ve proposed. we would love to have a conversation and see if there s some bipartisan agreement. see if there s some area in the middle, but since they won t discuss with this, neither the senate nor the president, all we re left to do then is to say, okay, this is what we would like. this is something that we think is to the benefit of our economic future. and now please discuss it with us, and we ll see if they will. we hope that they will republican congressman chris stewart of utah. thanks so much, sir. good to see you. as always. thank you respond. white house senior adviser mitch landrieu. mr landrieu, good to see you. a growing number of house democrats calling on president biden to meet with speaker mccarthy. we just heard from congressman jared moskowitz of florida democrat in that