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
been watching on the last few votes. it comes very early in the alphabet. what ken buck has been doing when his name gets called, he has not been voting when his name is called. what they do is they go through all the other names and they come back around and they give the members who didn t vote a chance. i m wondering, is there a point where he does vote when his name is called early in the alphabet and he breaks with mccarthy. if buck voting early and breaking with mccarthy, if that happened, if that would set off some kind of domino reaction, trigger more movement away from mccarthy as the vote proceeds. so that s what i m looking for early on in the vote today. first of all, obviously, is mccarthy making inroads with the republicans at all, and secondly, the name ken buck in particular, does he vote when his name is called early and has