legislative deadlines, and two impeachments, joe biden and alejandro mayorkas. there s a lot going on, and this is an election year. jake sherman, ryan nobles, thank you very much. and joining us now, paul ryan, brendan buck, how do you see immigration playing out on the campaign trail in 2024, are democrats taking it seriously enough? i think democrats have had a blind spot on immigration. republicans have very few issues where their base gets animated and it plays well in a general election. immigration is one of the issues, at least as it relates to border security. i think two things can be true of the situation. one, that the border is a serious crisis that should be taken care of, and it actually probably plays to republicans political advantage but also at the same time impeaching the dhs secretary over it is somewhat nonsensical. i think biden recognizes that he has a problem here. that s why he asked for money as
my frequent heartburn had me taking antacid after antacid all day long but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. border crossings broke a record in december, but so far this year, crossings are way down. even when you talk into consideration that it is only january 3rd. thousands fewer than the daily average are coming across the border, according to two
ryan. reporter: i ll take it. what i think is interesting about the way this is playing out. there seem to be parallel conversations taking place, and not all of the people involved in the decision making process are actually involved in the negotiations. right now, the only negotiations as it relates to any sort of border package are happening on the senate side. the group of members of the house that are at the border right now. they re not directly involved in these talks, and they do believe they re making progress in the senate in what the senate majority leader chuck schumer told us earlier today, it s all fine and good that mike johnson is at the border. he needs to be part of a bipartisan compromise. take a listen. it s nice that they have a trip to the border, but the only way to solve this is here, working in a bipartisan way, with senate republicans, senate democrats, and house democrats to get it done. period. and i hope the speaker will realize that if he wants to
into that, those are all questions we hope to hear answers to in the next couple of minutes. i would imagine after the tour, no matter what the speaker saw, and a couple of people have noted this is not a real hot spot in eagle pass today, although it has been the last couple of weeks and months, i have to imagine that the speaker is going to call to couple at least in some way, shape or form, more border money with the government funding debate, which is just, again, 16 days away at this point. i wonder what negotiation there is to be had. donald trump is out with an op ed saying shut down the border, he s going to cancel the border provisions that president biden ha put into place, even though president biden s provisions have not exactly been they have been pretty hard lined, criticized for that by the aclu and others. what compromise is there to be had. do republicans want to bring democrats to the table here? is there any movement or is there just a lot of extreme positions to