At the white house, right now, President Joe Biden preparing to Face Congress and the American People and deliver a speech that could have huge consequences for his reelection campaign. Theyll soon leave for the us capitol to give his state of the Union Address. Less than 48 hours after his long anticipated rematch with donald trump became a reality. Welcome to a Special Edition of ac360. Im Anderson Cooper and im jake tapper. About an hour from now, President Biden will walk into the House Chamber under enormous pressure to forcefully and successfully sell his vision for america and his argument for a second terme. Mister President Biden needs to take advantage of this opportunity with tens of millions of americans watching to make his case and perhaps, perhaps the most important speech of his decades long career in public life, this will be a critical test of the 81 year old commander in chief. He will try to convince skeptical voters that they have benefited from his presidency, and
castro in for alicia menendez. as we get to the our immigration talks come to the wire as homeland security chief, alejandro mayorkas meets with bipartisan senators, the clock is ticking on a deal. and progress is slow. while we are not denying crucial aid for our allies, gop lawmakers spend their time on bogus impeachment schemes. california congressman, robert garcia, and what happens next. also tonight, paying the price, how this week, multimillion dollar ruling against rudy giuliani could have ramifications beyond his bank account. and how might home states attorney general is doubling down on extremism after surviving a recent impeachment. this is american voices. we are just over one week from christmas. most lawmakers have already gone home for the holidays. earlier today, a few, along with homeland security chief, alejandro mayorkas, had a rare weekend session to try to hammer out some kind of deal on immigration before the end of the year. while they have not r
bill: the house can t do a thing without electing a new speaker. can t swear in a new member or staff committees or serve on a check on the biden administration. dana: 90% of republicans support kevin mccarthy for speaker. opting to support jim jordan or andy biggs. bill: the chamber will be deadlocked for days, maybe weeks. some think they could call dana: the house reconvenes in three hours and they ll try again. what happens after that is anyone s guess. are you going to stay in the race? i m not going anywhere. hakeem jeffries can only be speaker of the house if republicans vote for him. moderate republicans might do that. i will try to find ways to hammer out a resolution so we can go ahead and elect a speaker and get down to the business the american people sent us here to do. dana: aishah hosni is covering this for us live on capitol hill. good morning, aishah. good morning, dana and bill. supporters of kevin mccarthy met last night to talk it o
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