newly sworn-in freshman, congresswoman monica de la cruz about this historic speaker vote and all she witnessed, the multiple rounds of ballots that had to be taken before mccarthy got the gavel. this is what she said about the whole experience. we live in a democracy. this is not cuba or china where there s a dictatorship. in fact, this is a democracy where we can have open discussion, praise god, and discuss what s on our minds, finally come to consensus and move forward. and you saw democracy play out over the last week and come to consensus in the wee hours of the morning, and now we re ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work. so, was it consensus or was it arm twisting? i mean, how do you describe what you witnessed? well, look, we have to compromise and hear each other s thoughts and concerns and then come together with that. this is not a dictatorship where
you have to have thoughtfulness in coming to conclusion, and i think that is what happened yesterday. you know, of course i m now inside the game and see the different personalities, the different thought processes of what should and should not happen. i like i was in the front row of this. and so i believe that yesterday was eye opening. i m glad we were finally able to elect a speaker together and move forward because really that s what the country wants. they want change. they don t want 4,000-page bills where we don t have time to read it. they want to change in this process. that actually happened yesterday, and i m excited about getting started on monday. congresswoman de la cruz there.
are you hoping it might be on any decisions or agenda that he has? well, i welcome president biden to the lone star state and could not be more pleased that he is coming. in fact, just two weeks ago i sent the president a letter and i urged him to come to texas and see what was happening in our border. i hope that president biden takes the opportunity to meet with border patrol agents, families that are affected by this crisis, ranch or small business owners, and that he really hears from the people that are most impacted by the crisis and really the catastrophe that is happening by his open borders plan. congresswoman monica de la cruz, congratulations again. great to see you. thanks for cjoining us. appreciate it. thank you. something else very shocking
and all along the border that, t really have to deal with the enormous amount of people and strain on their resources. l we were out early today with texas department of public safetyth, as well as border patrol, as people were bailing out of vehicles into residential neighborhoods, literally jumping over fences into gated communities. we were running behind their homes in some cases. i even lookeacd ines as people eating breakfast, as they were searching for runners behind the houses. nners beit s extraordinarily frustrating, not only for law enforcement, but obviously forpe the people in these communities. thes it wasended today a town hall meeting with both democrats and republicansh alike, both wondering when bide the biden administered, should the federal government was actually going to do its job to protect the border.d a and i had an opportunitywhen i to speak with congresswoman monica de la cruz here. this is her district and she crn is extraordinarily frustrated. she says thi
0 former democrat. by the way, his explanation for why he changed is that selftchig worth watching that conversation. it s on fox nation tomorrow morning. t onwe re out of time, sadly, but we ll be back 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group . think of the best time with the ones you love. we will see you tomorrow. sean hannity right now, welcome to this special edition of hannity to the . i m pete hegseth, in for sean. and tonight, joe biden is apparently very busy writingo poems. did you know heems, d wasid t to doctor? first lady first lady jill biden? so is he, in fact, thatisit he s unable to visit southern border whic the southern border, which is in a state of utter chaos?isa as you know, of course, joe biden happily delegated this crisis to his border czar,, the esteemed kamala root causes. harris esteemed many months ag. he delegated that. sad now, sadly, carmela has done literally nothing to secure the border or stopr or the fl