letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. hi, noig nicolle. thank you so much. the first vote of this new congress under this new speaker is slated for this hour. it s the rules package for the 118th congress. a rules vote is not typically coveraged but assist last week showed washington is not taking typical for granted under speaker kevin mccarthy, who begins the job in a diminished posture as it took 15 ballots over four days, or five if you count saturday at 12:00 a.m. to even get the votes from his own party. it s a public squabble we all witnessed. no speaker has had to go through anything like that since 1819. as we track the rules vote, we begin with something special i want to show you, if unusual bruising way we got here. a speaker has not been elected. this dramatic day that is not turning out remotely the way kevin mccarthy had hoped. a speaker has not baske
and emmy nominated journalist caroline modarressy tehrani. in washington, new house speaker kevin mccarthy is about to preside over his first order of business. the new republican led congress will sit in the next hour to vote on the rules package. now that might sound a bit in the weeds but it is the nearest thing to a formal contract, setting out everything the speaker gave away last week, as he fought to secure the support of those on the hard right. it includes a rule change that will meanjust one member can bring a motion to throw him out. there are also concerns among more moderate republicans that mccarthy has agreed to a budget deal that could result in a cut to defence spending. this has a proposed billions of dollars cut to defence, which i think is a horrible idea. when you have aggressive russia and ukraine, you ve got a growing threat of china in the pacific i m going to visit taiwan in a couple of weeks, how will i look our allies in the eyes and say, i nee
viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, president biden at the border, yet he somehow managed not to meet any migrants. we will look at how he s dealing with an issue that s angering both the right and the left. insurrection in brazil. scenes eerily similar to those on january 6th in washington. and tributes across the country interest u.s. football s damar hamlin. we will bring you highlights from a game that couldn t have been scripted any better for his buffalo bills as he fights to recover from his cardiac arrest. good to have you with us. one of the most controversial issues he faces back home will be front and center when u.s. president joe biden attends a regional summit. mr. biden has arrived in mexico city where he will meet with his counter parts from mexico and canada later today. they will cover a number of pressing topics including the recent surge in migration. the president addressed t
right nonow early start, the crisis on the border and president biden. will it lead to any solutions. capital buildings stormed by supporters of the ousted president who had challenged election results. and what could be better than the bills winning for number 3, damar hamlin himself expecting to get out of the hospital. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good monday morning to you. president biden spoke with border patrol officers, he visited a migrant center in el paso. the president did not see or meet with any migrants. cnn s jasmine wright for us this morning from washington. jasmine, republicans have been criticizing the president for not coming to see the migrant crisis until now. reporter: yeah, christine. it s unclear whether the president is going to end that criticism because of what you just said, because he did not see any migrants while on the ground for several hours. we did see him ta
in politics, president biden has just made his first visit to the border since taking office. he did not see or meet with any migrants, though. we ll speak to the mayor of el paso about the crisis happening on the ground there in his city and biden s new crackdown on the immigration search. in sports, damar hamlin set to be released from the hospital as trib butes pour in. we ll take you exclusively to the field as his teammates speak on the team s thrilling and emotional return. she has been missing for nine days now, and the husband of the massachusetts mother has been arrested, but she s still nowhere to be found. details on the charge and the search straight ahead. in a revealing new interview with cnn s anderson cooper, prince harry says he long believed his mom had faked her death and reveals why he blames camilla for the negative stories about him. anderson will join us live in just moments. cnn this morning starts right now. so we ll begin this morning with