establishment wing. balking over finalizing the very rules mccarthy conceded last week to hard liners to become the house speaker. is this normal? plus, president biden s upcoming meeting with the president of mexico after visiting the border. where critics say the true scope of the humanitarian crisis was hidden from his view. and prince harry dropping bombs, accusing his stepmother of leaking stories to help her image. what does the royal family have to say about all of this? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our politics lead with the first test of newly elected speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. in just a few hours, the house is going to vote on its new rules package. this will include one of the biggest concessions mccarthy made to the hard line rebels to get the gavel. that one-person motion to vacate rule. this means just one member of congress can now force to remove mccarthy as speaker. he also made other concessions including allowing more fre
biden really needs the cooperation of partners like mexico as he tries to get a handle on the situation of migrants at the u.s. southern border. when the administration announced the expansion of title 42 last week, it included an agreement from mexico to accept tens of thousands of migrants who are being turned away at the u.s. border back into mexico. so that is going to be, again, a very important topic of discussion. jake sullivan reported by told reporters this morning, don t expect new plans or announcements from this bilateral meeting. the two countries are really just going to need to take some time to figure out whether the initial agreement is working. m.j., there are a lot of critics of president biden s trip to the border sunday, including the union, many officials, the governor of texas. have white house officials responded to any of the criticisms, including that he didn t meet with my migrants while there? reporter: yeah, you know, it was really notable tha
do. one of people who spoke eloquently was congressman brian mast of florida, his words echoed when benjamin franklin said, he said, we could pass all the rules we want, if we in this body, the mic majority. don t do the right thing that does not matter. all the talk about all of the rules, following route rules. i got to thinking of benjamin franklin s comments. in his 80s, he was very ill, he was going to stand up and give a speech but he could not stand up, he handed it to his friend and another delegate from pennsylvania james wilson who read it this is what benjamin fr franklin said, i confess that i do not entirely approve of this constitution of present, sir, i am note sure i shall never approve it for having lived long i have experienced many instances of being obliged to change opinions even on important subjects, i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. is it is therefore the older i grow the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment if well administered
but we start tonight with the revolution we saw in congress this week of course it s easy to say at the public drama of the vote was embarrassing for the gop and kevin mccarthy and despite what i thought was a terrific acceptance speech by mccarthy in the early hours of starting morning, the establishment media all week long pushed the narrative. talking about the new depth of dysfunction and the new government and anarchy. as we learn the details of what they were demanding honest observers would have seen this is actually productive fights for substantive report one - reforms to make congress more responsive and less corrupt and more accountable and effective. yes they should have agreed earlier, but despite the preposterous rhetoric of being insurrectionist and terrorist, we cannot see their fight wasn t just good and in good faith the good for the health of our democracy from the sanctimonious leadership about. they want our democracy when it was behind closed doors that
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