united states and all around the world, i m paula newton. coming up this hour, u.s. president joe biden heads to the southern border to see for himself what the right and left are calling a crisis. hear from one activist about what she hopes he takes from this visit. now the dust is settling after a chaotic vote for house speaker, we will look at what comes next fororor the new lead and we are live in hong kong as china reopens to the world, even as it confronts a massive surge in covid cases. we speak to a doctor here in the united states about how this could impact the spread of the virus. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so in the coming hours president joe biden is expected to visit the u.s. southern border for the first time since taking office, and it comes as he faces mounting criticism for failing to stem a surge in migration. now, in the fiscal year 2022 the u.s. encountered more than 2 million migrants at the border,
on monday, when they have to vote on a house rules package. eva mckend, cnn, washington. now, in eve have a s report there you saw one of the most memorable and quite frankly disturbing images from last night s chaotic floor fight and that happened after matt gaetz humiliated mccarthy with a vote that cost the speaker a win in the 14th round. mccarthy and his allies had believed that the votes were there and they were furious when gaetz cast the losing vote. mike rogers, a mccarthy supporter, had to be restrained, that s what you see there, as he moved angrily towards gaetz while mccarthy walked away clearly dejected. look at his face. republican tim burchett recounts what happened. mike is a friend of mine, came by and said some things, probably in haste, as a lot of
had to say after the vote. don t judge us on how we start, watch how we finish. i think by having the disruption now really built the trust with one another and learned how to work together. what we re going to have to find in our mindset is that we have to front load. that we have to think about and work on the bills with a microcosm of the conference before we even start writing it and that s really what we learned here. reporter: so you can hear mccarthy there really striking an optimistic tone. republicans have done so as well, arguing that this week really illustrated that this is what democracy looks like, that sometimes it is messy. well, democrats, they have a different view. they say that the chaotic episodes that played out on the house floor time and time again really illustrate that republicans are not prepared to govern. they will face another key test, this new republican leadership
enough votes and even then he barely scraped by, but the nasty floor fight that preceded the final late night vote could yet spell trouble for mccarthy in the new congress. cnn s eva mckend has those details. reporter: house speaker kevin mccarthy securing a victory at long last by tick picking off his detractors one by one, doing so through making some key conc concessions, mainly it will require only one member to trigger a vote that could potentially lead to ousting the house speaker. also we can expect members of the conservative house freedom caucus to serve on the powerful house rules committee. and there will be more time to read bills of consequence, not waiving that 72 hours to read those bills, something that actually might be welcome by rank and file members on both sides of the aisle who have long lamented that part of the process. take a listen to what mccarthy
united states and all around the world, i m paula newton. coming up this hour, u.s. president joe biden heads to the southern border to see for himself what the right and left are calling a crisis. hear from one activist about what she hopes he takes from this visit. now the dust is settling after a chaotic vote for house speaker, we will look at what comes next fororor the new lead and we are live in hong kong as china reopens to the world, even as it confronts a massive surge in covid cases. we speak to a doctor here in the united states about how this could impact the spread of the virus. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so in the coming hours president joe biden is expected to visit the u.s. southern border for the first time since taking office, and it comes as he faces mounting criticism for