we have a beautiful shoreline. jesse: desantis isn t going to delaware. it s not a swing state. but every news camera in the country went. have you ever seen this many reporters at the southern border? no. the flight is too far and it s dusty. you don t win pulitzers at the border plus the humidity messes up your hair. trust me, i know. the only way you can get the media to cover the border is to bring the border to the northeast where it s a short drive from all their bureaus and the journalists, quote, unquote. can be back home that night for dinner. ron desantis called them out for it earlier today. i haven t heard a peep about all the people that have been told by biden you can just come in and they are going they are being abused by the cartels, they are drowning in the rio grande. you had 50 that died in some shed in texas. i heard no outrage about any of that. i haven t heard outrage about all the fentanyl that s come across the border that killing americans in r
happening now, breaking news. kevin mccarthy trying to seize the momentum right now in the fight for the speakership. the house is preparing to return to session at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight, after two very dramatic votes saw the republican leader flip more than a dozen hardliner holdouts coming up just short of a majority. the country marks the second anniversary of the january 6th insur re insur insurrection. president biden honoring the defenders of democracy today, including several police officers brutally attacked while holding off the mob at the capitol. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get to the breaking news. the momentum in the speaker s race swinging heavily toward house republican leader kevin mccarthy. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us live from capitol hill. i understand you are getting new understand.
series of concessions put forward by his opponents. that cut his margin of defeat to a handful of votes. what matters now is who shows up to vote next. senior correspondent congressional correspondent chad pergram has the very latest from capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, mccarthy finally showed movement towards winning the speakership today. it came after a three days of parliamentary paralysis. mccarthy remains a few votes short but he earned the votes of 15 adversaries today. we ll come back tonight and i believe at that time we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. i think getting together and just finding the ability to how are we all going to work together? it s new for us. one, being in the majority but being in a tight majority. i think at the end of the day we re going to be more effective. more efficient. and definitely the government is going to be more accountable. the dam finally broke after mccarthy made concessions to. they will score k
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really for the next decade. when the 2020 election was called for a by then, you might remember democrats got very cocky very quickly. and then they got sloppy. giving into the craziest demand of the far left now, two short years later, look at the mess they ve created. they stoked inflation, they hav sabotaged our energy independence and they wrecked our foreign policy. i was thinking about this tonight i can t think of a single issue that biden and the democrats have gotten right and overwhelmingly, americans do no think that democracy is at risk if the democrats lose control o congress, just like they don t think our country is systemically recessed or define by the events of january 6. it turns out that it is their candidates, the democrat candidates who stink, not ours. have you seen that poor katie ops in arizona. not been put to sleep by charli crist or maggie hansen in order that cortez master character. i would like to meet the person who really really thinks that h