Between the olympics and the world championship, so a top three finish in any of the next events means she would stand alon alone again in the record books, because she is the goat. I feel like thats going to happen. Thank you for joining us, Cnn News Central takes it up now. Infighting and out revenge plots, getting new report in just in on the battle to be the next speaker of the house. President biden takes action to build a section of wall at the southern border but in 2020, he vowed there would not be another foot of wall constructed during his administration. Why now . His mug shot alone has made him millions, the Staggering Amount of cash that Trumps Campaign has brought in as the criminal charges stacked up. This is Cnn News Central. Right now the House Of Representatives is in recess but another word for it, is completely and utterly frozen. Thats more than one word. The legislative branch really cant move forward until they figure out who will be the next speaker of the house, and with that major unanswered question is another. Can republicans prove they can come back from this mess and lead . Tempers are flaring, republicans against republicans. Heres republican chip roy. You want to come at me and call me a rhino, you can kiss my [ bleep ]. Come to my office, im not going to go because [ bleep ], there are people buried in normandy who deserve us to stand up for what they thought for. Thats what im going to do and all of you [ bleep ] who are saying what youre saying on social media, stick it. I will go on the floor and do my job. The anger is real, tempers are flaring, the job that chip roy is talking about, the job at hand is picking their next house later, after the historic ouster of Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. To republican lawmakers have jumped into the race so far. Ohios jim jordan is currently the chairman of the house judiciary committee, a powerful position in and of itself and in louisiana, he is currently one of the Top Republicans in the house, to very powerful man already. Lauren, where do things stand with this, what are we hearing now from these two top contenders . Nerves are raw in the republican conference, and there are questions about whether or not jim jordan or Steve Scalise could get 218 votes to unite the conference. I just spoke with jim jordan and he told me, right now, his goal is on trying to get everyone on the same team. Here he was, just moments ago. Who can bring the eight into part of the team, who can unite our team, i think i can do that. Theres obviously a lot of members and allies of House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy who want to extract revenge on the eight people who voted against the speaker of the house. Many of them arguing that they should either be removed from conference in the case of matt gaetz, obviously that is highly unlikely, you also have some members who say they were threatened in not so veiled a threat like nancy macy said that before she decided to vote against Kevin Mccarthy on the floor of the house she was told there may not be republican support to help her campaign for her reelection, shes obviously in a tough district. That money is obviously very important to members of the swing district. So you are seeing a lot of fall out in the wake of the historic ouster of Kevin Mccarthy. It was interesting when i talked to jim jordan a few minutes ago, he was pressed on how he could unite the conference around the issue of you pain funding. That something thats important to a lot of conservatives in the house conference, but it is also something that has divided members of the republican conference, and yesterday he told our colleague that he didnt support more money for ukraine, today when he was pressed on how he will sell himself to people who do support that money, he said there are two fundamental questions that have to be asked, one, what is the ultimate goal, number 2, how is the money being accounted for but he was more vague in his answer about just saying that he was straight up opposed to more of that money. So obviously, he is trying to win people over right now, and that race is on for the speakership. When it comes to ukraine eight, there seems to be really two camps, theres not a lot of gray area within there. We will see how jim jordan and Steve Scalise or whoever, how they navigate these chopping waters. Storming joining us now is the representative from georgia, rich mccormick, thank you for being here. Just four days ago, you said it is not going to happen, mccarthy is not going to be ousted, its just not realistic. Now, here we are. You are a freshman congressman, what do you think of what happened . Well, we are in Uncharted Territory right now, nobodys gone through what weve gone through, not one person in congress was alive the last time we brought this up. Im sure therell be other things i predict incorrectly in the future. Theres a bit of chaos, discord but this is nothing new to congress, this has been going on since the inception of our country, debates over wars, even the revolutionary war, a third of the country wanted to stay loyal to great britain. Weve been through this before. Look, weve all made bad predictions in our lifetime, so i get it. And i know you were surprised because you made those statements, you were just shocked that this actually did happen, something thats never happened before. Two people have officially jumped into the race which is Steve Scalise and jim jordan. These right now are the potential alternatives, who can you support between the two of them . I think theyre both great choices, theyre both well liked, wellrespected, they have earned their stripes, they have a ton of experience. I think a lot of us are going to wait and see how the presentation goes. I think there will be momentum. I dont think itll be solved in one vote. I think we will have several votes, and hopefully we come close to a consensus, then when we come out, we actually vote together because i think that is important for the American People to see that we have some unity. You said both are great options for you. Jim jordan has already said that he is against approving aid for ukraine. You have been very little vocal about helping ukraine. Is failing to fund ukraine a deal breaker for you . This is a debate we will continue to have. I will put out a podcast on this. A lot of republicans dont want this but once again, going back through history, weve always had divisions on war. Weve always had disagreements and thats healthy. I think we have to have debate on who we help and how much we help but in my opinion, we made a commitment, we are leaders in nato, when we put our name on the line, we give someone our work, its not something we take lightly and ultimately we will deal with a bigger russia who sells green to china or a bigger, stronger europe that actually helps us as allies. You talk about this, and there is news now the pentagon is basically warning you all, worn all of congress, its running low on money to replace weapons that the u. S. Has sent to ukraine and some republicans are saying we are getting blowback from our constituents on funding ukraine. They dont see that its a priority. Are you getting that same blowback and if you are, how are you explaining your position to your constituents . Of course, im getting blowback, im sure everybody who has support for ukraine is getting blowback but i also have support, some people understand the strategical importance of the breadbasket of europe, some people understand the giving their word, Global Leadership, theres a difference between globalism and Global Leadership. There on opposite side of the spectrum. If we dont have a presence in the world, that void will be filled by russia or china or another bad actor, so i think its important to continue to be Global Leaders and we can extract our leadership when it comes to foreign policy, i think its dangerous to think we are going to appease russia and they will continue to all of a sudden change their behavior, putin has been clear on lithuania, estonia, moldova, he has aggression stated in everything he says, he quotes peter the great, these are serious consequences if we dont go to bat for our friends. Back to the United States, and just a yes or no answer, do you think matt gaetz and the other seven, who put this forward and made this chaos happen should be removed from their committees and punished . No, i think thats a bad precedent, i think what they did was a bad precedent but i think also doing that doesnt solve the problem. Congressman, thank you so much for going through all of that with me and for your short and decisive answer on that one. I appreciate you. This morning President Biden is building the wall, at least part of it, this is something he said he would not do. The Biden Administration announced it would waive 26 federal laws to allow construction in south texas because of what they call an acute and immediate need. The plan is to construct up to 20 miles of Border Barriers in stark county. Some 245,000 migrants have attempted to cross the border illegally in just that one sector since october of last year. On the entire border the number is close to 3 million. Hundreds of migrants rushed past order patrol agents yesterday. When he was running for president , biden made clear he would not expand the border wall if elected. Trump campaigned on build that wall, are you willing to tear that wall down . There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. The president said today that former president s have said to him that they wish they had built a wall i dont know a single one. We need Border Security but thats not Border Security. And on the day he took office, President Biden signed a proclamation saying that building a massive wall that expands the southern border is not a serious policy solution. Todays action is not do that, its a 20 mile section, nevertheless its different than what biden campaigned on. So why this change, priscilla . The reality the administration was facing was that they had funds from 2019 that were appropriate by congress for border areas. According to a source, they had to use those funds by the end of fiscal year 2023. So a decision had to be made, use or lose the funds, they decided to use them for Border Barriers which will include technology and access roads and do so in the Rio Grande Valley sector, and this is a sector we often talk about because it is highly trafficked as you mentioned, this is an area that since last october to august, had nearly 300,000 encounters, and in this notice to the federal register, the Homeland Security secretary said that it is an area of high, illegal entries but to do so, to do this construction in an expedited manner, he had to waive certain laws, 26, that includes the clean air act, Safe Drinking Water act and the endangered species act. Now u. S. Customs and Border Protection have sought public input to do this wall and start the period projects, and in that, they announced that they would include for example, gaetz and cameras, so this is a more holistic barrier, a little more that we saw under the Trump Administration a big point is that this is not military, dod funds, this is Congressionall Y appropriated money that we chose to use. The white house is acutely aware of the situation on the u. S. And mexico border. It puts them in a precarious situation because there is an uptick in border crossings, republicans have seized on that increase and democrats have spoken out against Border Barriers, for example, the texas representative said this is a 14th century solution to a 21stcentury problem, so all of this is unfolding, the white house is aware of it and also trying to talk to cities nationwide to make sure they have resources for the migrants they are receiving. So all of it unfolding but at least for now the news is that they are going to Start Construction in this area of the border, the Rio Grande Valley sector. That explained it really well. Thank you so much. And from the border, we know more and more migrants are being moved from the border to cities across the United States, and with that, mayors from some of those cities are heading to the border now themselves to get a firsthand look. Chicagos mayor is one of the latest thing that hes going to go to the border to see if theres any better coordination that can be had with southern states. Since august of last year, more than 17,000 migrants have been bused to chicago, this week alone more than 20 buses of migrants have arrived in the city and some 3000 migrants are sleeping in police stations. New york citys mayor, hes in mexico city right now to get a look at the causes of the migrant crisis. His city has also been a top destination for migrants with 600 new arrivals each day. What do these numbers say, what do they tell you . So kate, consider this, just last week alone according to the city, there are about 3700 asylumseekers who arrived in new york over about seven days. That was last week. We are a year and a half into the migrant crisis here in the city. That is certainly telling, that theres no signs of stopping in terms of these numbers, especially when you look at the situation on the southern border. Those people are now part of the 63,000 that are still in the citys care, and the daily arrivals, the number you shared with our viewers, 600, thats up from 300 to 400 a day. Thats why the city continues to see this increase in numbers. Another factor in play, the republican Governor Greg Abbott increasing the number of Asylum Seekers that he is offering transportation to. Last week, texa s Governor Abbott centralized the dispatch, command and control functions of the deployment of buses to the Texas Division of Emergency Management and has ramped up the number of buses that are being sent, not just in New York City but other cities as well. While before, we may have received a few hours notice that buses were coming through back channels and different organizations, even including information on the manifest members of how many people would be on those buses, this change means that we no longer get even a scant headsup. For New York City, theres a lot of hope hinging on a couple of things. For example, this week, the window open for some of the eligible venezuelan Asylum Seekers to begin applying, putting them on track for securing a Work Authorization but also the city has been implementing its confidential 60 day vacate notice, encouraging the asylumseekers to leave the shelter system but heres the thing, those numbers coming into the system the increase, and that is going to be hard. Mayor adams, traveling to Latin America on what he is describing as a factfinding trip, trying to tell migrants about the realities that await them once they arrive in new york. Thank you very much. Ahead, more indictments means more money, new numbers show just how much money donald trump is fundraising, off of his legal troubles. Also, cnn has new video of a deadly car accident involving senator bob menendez his wife, it happened five years ago so what does it have to do with the indictment involving her and the senator . It happened again, another one of the president s dogs has been removed from the white house, this time its his two yearold German Shepherd, commander, and he may have bitten more people than previously reported. We will talk about it, coming up. One thing that has become clear this week is that donald trump is trying to make the civil trial, The Civil Fraud Trial into a Campaign Booster for him. And there are members that may backup the strategy. They are reporting the republican front runner raked in more than 45. 5 million in the Third Quarter that ended in september. His criminal charges mounting all throughout that time period, in comparison, his closest rival, desantis recorded about 15 million in the same time. What we are hearing from the Trump Campaign on this, what do these numbers mean . If you look at these numbers, powered a lot by the small dollar donors. Remember, President Trump and his campaign can go back to those donors over a long period of time versus the big donors and when they max out with the checks, theyve been tapped out. Thats one thing to keep in mind but also, this is a very large number, and it represents an improvement over his last quarter of fundraising, and it sets him up to be in a very good position in terms of money, heading into the primary season and of course, as you just laid out, this is all coming as so many of these trials and developments, various jurisdictions, as these are all playing out and we know the Trump Campaign has made that part of t