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"punchbowl news" has reporting this morning about a potential fox debate among speaker candidates. that's a first. is this a good idea? >> i don't think that's a good idea. i don't think it's a good idea for donald trump to head to the capitol. that's like coming in with a hurricane category 5 hurricane after the destruction of a category 3. it is just not going to be good for anyone, with all the chaos that will ensue from whether it's a debate, whether it's trump going to the capitol. this should be folks talking to each other, trying to get something done. i think the real question that republicans have to ask themselves are do we want to govern or do we just simply want to continue to take votes on the extremes to try to show who we are, and that will be unfortunate, if we don't get a speaker of the house who is interest instead actually governing as opposed to continuing to burn the house down. >> jim jordan, what would a jordan speakership look like if he is ultimately the victor here? is he the uniier of the gop the house need? >> i can't believe i'm saying this. he may actually be. i think jim jordan may be the one person who could make this conference work. the motion to vacate, the thing that kicked out kevin mccarthy, i think you have to get rid of that. that's a big lift. i don't know that it's possible, but if there's one person who could get rid of the motion to vacate, it's jim jordan, because he has so much credibility with the type of people who have been threatening to use it against him. he's a very rigid ideologue. he means business. that will obviously scare off a lot of moderates. i think he's aware of that. he's got some work to do to show that he understands if he was playing one role as a freedom caucus member, he would play a different one as speaker. i do think the biggest problem we have continues to be that hard are far right who don't trust leadership. they may not trust the next person in leadership up if it's steve scalise. jim jordan potentially has that credibility. whether he would be a good speaker, but he actually probably is more reflective of who that conference is today. >> but senator, if jordan's able to get all republicans behind him,ow does he then work with democrats? >> i think it's going to be really difficult. really very difficult, and i think brendan's right. i do think jordan has the opportunity to unify a conference. i don't think he has an opportunity to unify the house of representatives and try to get things done. it seems to me he has not been interested in governing at all, and if you continue to do with a government shutdown looming again in like 42 days, if you continue to take political votes to make a point and you're not interested in working with democrats, which jordan has shown no inclination, which may be the number one criteria for the republicans in the house now, no inclination to work with democrats, then i think we're still in for a long road leading up to 2024. >> right, and how does anything get done in government when you have to have all the chambers, both the senate, the house, and the white house working together ultimately to passlaws. your old chamber had this warning for house republicans and a more conservative speaker won't necessarily make their dreams come true. republican senator thom tillis saying so you get more conservative and that attracts more liberals to work with you on consensus policy? haven't read that book. >> that's absolutely correct. democrats did not take diagnostic in what happened in the house of representatives the other day, not at all. if there's one thing that democrats have learned to do under this president, under president joe biden, under the leadership of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and hakeem jeffries, it is learn how to govern, to bring consensus together within a caucus that can also be very divided but learn how to govern for the american people. that's what the u.s. senate wants. that's exactly what both sides of the aisle want, to see someone that they can work with because if it is burn the house down, sooner or later something's got to give, and i don't think the senate will be in that position. i don't think the president will be in that position. i think it will ultimately hurt the country if we take a scorched earth approach that i worry about with the next speaker. >> and brendan, we're also learning that a group of about 45 members of congress have now written a letter, the house republican conference is receiving this to express frustration that a small but vocal minority of republicans were able to defy the majority and get mccarthy ousted. so it comes down to this motion to vacate rule that approved to be the achilles heel for mccarthy. >> it will threaten the next speaker if they don't get rid of it. this is one of the last things kevin mccarthy gave, just a single member being able to give it up, it felt inevitable, the moment he made that give. as doug was talking about, there are realities of governing that upset conservatives and if it only takes two or three upset conservatives to boot you from working with democrats, it's an impossible job. it's a sort of impossible job as it is, when you have this gun pointed at your head at all times, you can't do the things you need to do to be an effective speaker. you have to compromise. you have to work across the aisle, and that's what's made it so hard to get anything done. i'm skeptical they're going to be able to do it. i think jim jordan is the only person who could get rid of it. >> we've talked about how there are no votes until there is a speaker, also on pause, the gop-led impeachment inquiry into president biden, and some may be surprised to learn that matt gaetz who ousted mccarthy wasn't sold on this impeachment inquiry. do you think that could be going away? >> reporter: certainly not just because of what gaetz had to say, right? more so because of that hearing that they held into this inquiry a couple of weeks ago where the gop witnesses, the witnesses that republicans on the committee had called said that there is no basis at the moment to pursue an impeachment of president biden. gaetz made those comments according to our katherine doyle, but this isn't the first time he's made these kinds of comments. he said this before sort of down playing republicans pursuing this inquiry, and remember, it was speaker mccarthy, one of his last acts who launched the impeachment inquiry, thinking this could get those hard-liners on board to maybe back off the push to oust him. i don't know where this impeachment inquiry goes next, certainly if you ask james comer, the head of the oversight committee or even jim jordan, they're going to keep pursuing it in the inquiry phase. it's not clear that gaetz' comments will shake or break loose on that. it's another example of gaetz crossing leadership, crossing the bulk of the republican conference and down playing what even jim jordan has been saying all along, which is that there is basis. there is evidence. they have yet to prove it. certainly a jordan speakership i don't think would back off of that anytime soon. >> i guess all that's clear right now is how uncertain everything is when it comes to the house's business. julie tsirkin, former senator doug jones, and brendan buck, my thanks to all of you. happy friday. and when we're back in 60 seconds, biden's border challenge, the new backlash he's facing from his own party over construction of new sections of a border wall. plus, reports that donald trump allegedly discussed nuclear submarine secrets at mar-a-lago, what it could mean for his classified documents case. also, as prescriptions for the new generation of weight loss drugs hit 9 million, there's a new warning about potential severe side effects. and later, do you think you can beat the odds? 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>> reporter: major headlines coming from the biden administration today regarding im immigration. as for those venezuelan migrants, we heard from secretary alejandro mayorkas saying they are going to resume deportations back to their native country. those who arrived prior to july 31st, upwards of more than 200,000 venezuelans are still protected under that temporary protection order issued by the biden administration. but as for that new section of wall going into the rio grande valley, ana, it's about 20 miles or so, and this is all because the president's receiving pushback from both sides due to this ongoing border crisis. >> along parts of the southern border, the biden administration is now clearing the way for construction of new sections of wall. and pressure there is growing. overnight, the administration also saying it will resume deporting venezuelan migrants. just weeks after granting temporary protected status for those who traveled to the u.s. before august, the white house now saying they'll remove venezuelans who arrived illegally after that date. venezuelans the most common nationality of migrants trying to cross the border where illegal crossings are on the rise. the biden administration now waiving more than two dozen federal laws to allow homeland security to install about 20 miles of new physical barrier, between mexico and star county. in texas's rio grande valley. president biden arguing his hands are tied because congress green lit the project during the trump era. >> i tried to get them to redirect that money, they didn't, they wouldn't. >> do you believe the border wall works? >> no. >> it's a major reversal for mr. biden who as a candidate had this to say. >> there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration. >> reporter: dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas among top officials meeting with mexico counterparts on thursday, said there's no change to the administration's are approach. >> border security requires a smarter and more comprehensive approach. >> reporter: but it comes as a recent surge of migrants has put a strain on resources from border. >> we are completely overwhelmed. >> reporter: to states hundreds of miles away such as new york and illinois where democratic governors have criticized the administration's handling of the migrant influx. still, advocates like roberto lopez with the texas civil rights project says new walls won't deter people from coming. >> people are going to find a way to cross. >> reporter: now, important to note, there is no firm time line on when this wall extension would be completed, but as for those border communities being impacted by this surge, ana, i can tell you, we did speak with the catholic charity which runs the migrant shelter behind me. they are asking for donations of any kind, and of the few we spoke to, all of them came from venezuela. >> thank you for that important reporting. gabe, the policy changes are coming as the biden administration faces growing criticism and growing pressure from democratic governors and mayors across the country. the white house down played that as the reason for these changes, but how much of it is a factor? >> yeah, hi, ana, good morning. a white house official told me and pushed back strongly on the idea that any of these changes had anything to do with this increasing pressure from democrats in places like new york, chicago, massachusetts, also denver seeing a large migrant influx as well. the biden administration is coming back saying this money was appropriated back in 2019, as you just heard in morgan's piece, but also that this project was announced in june. what is new here, ana, is this idea that this waiving of environmental laws, this is highly unusual and in a notice in the federal register, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas talked about an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers. dhs secretary mayorkas said yesterday those statements were taken out of context. you have to look at this as a whole picture. these border numbers have been going up and the ground has shifted in terms of politics on this from the democratic perspective, when you have governor j.b. pritzker, a staunch biden ally calling the situation in his state untenable, and that the federal government, he says, should be doing more, ana. >> on one hand you have some of those democrats saying not enough is being done. on the other hand you have other democrats saying what is being done is perhaps cruel in some way. gabe, we know secretary blinken and mayorkas were in mexico this week, and obviously that is a key partner, that country's key partner with this administration in dealing with the surge of migrants. what's the message there? >> yeah, ana, the secretary of state blinken as well as the dhs secretary mayorkas were in mexico this week, and they're trying to present a united front with mexican officials skprgs they spoke about a range of topics including a gun and drug trafficking and increased cooperation on stopping that, but also the topic of this historic migration that we're seeing in this hemisphere. there is talk about how best to stop that, and you heard also morgan report with that announcement of those venezuelan deportation flights rumoring. that comes after these meetings this week, and there is still some friction, however. yesterday when this announcement was made public of these waiving of environmental laws to move this border project forward, mexico's president called it a step backwards, so certainly it's something that the biden administration is having to handle trying to balance that relationship with mexico, and also dealing with some backlash from democratic officials in northern cities, ana. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you so much for your reporting at the white house. this morning jailed iranian human rights activist, narges mohammadi won the nobel peace prize, calling attention to torture and sexual violence against iran's political prisoners. she has been arrested 13 times, but even from prison, she has garnered massive support for the women-led protests that rocked iran's government last year. up next on "ana cabrera reports," what donald trump's lawyers are saying about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as they move to get his federal election interference case dismissed. plus, a guilty plea from the former campaign treasurer of george santos. what it means for the controversial gop congressman and his legal troubles. and rudy giuliani's sizable tax bill, how much he owes and what the irs is doing about it. this month join the new subway mvp rewards program and get rewarded. get 50% off any footlong when you join subway mvp rewards. so many all star options. it's just for subway mvps right? 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>> reporter: one of the things we know is that this is something that is common for trump attorneys to deny or delay any action that's going on in the courtroom. but as you point out, this was just filed this morning before the judge gavelled the court into order. what we do know, what we suspect is that this is part of the effort of him delaying things while they're appealing the judge's summary judgment from last week, in which they found the trump organization liable of fraud. and we also know that the judge in this case now is giving both sides an october 26th deadline, which they must identify potential receivers for the dissolution of the trump organization llcs, and this is something that the judge has said in his statement from last week is going to happen. he also made note that there is now an independent monitor who's going to keep watch over anything, any assets or any movement of assets that the trump organization might attempt to do. meanwhile, in court, letitia james, the attorney general who filed these charges against the trump organization, she's back in court. as you know, former president donald trump, he is not here. there are fewer people here, but what's happening now is the -- trump's former comptroller is back on the stand testifying, and what we know or what we expect to happen next week is that michael cohen, the former president's personal attorney who went to jail on tax evasion charges in connection with money paid to a porn star, hush money paid to a porn star during the campaign, he's expected back here next week. can't say exactly what time. one thing we do know is that it seems that the case is being streamed on a little bit more now that the former president is not here. the attorneys are moving a little bit faster and the judge had asked donald trump's attorneys to move faster and it seems they are complying with that today. >> rehema ellis, thank you so much for the update outside the courthouse. joining is former federal prosecutor kristy greenberg. let's start with this latest move, this move to appeal, to halt the civil fraud trial that's already well underway. what do you make of it? >> well, i don't think they're going to be successful in halting the trial. like you said, the trial is already underway and the trial is really about two things. one, with respect to this cause of action where there was the summary judgment, there it's really just about understanding what the penalties will be associated with that summary judgment. but then there are six other claims, claims for falsified business records, falsified financial statements and insurance fraud. those are separate from the summary judgment motion, and those are going forward on disputed facts so i don't think you're going to see a halting of this trial as much as trump likes to delay. >> this is one of many moves we've seen in the past 24 hours, really just the past 12 hours overnight. this one with appeal in the fraud case, you have him trying to delay the start of the case after the election. they filed this motion to dismiss the 2020 federal election interference case, and that one they cited presidential immunity. i want to read from the 52 page filing, the trump team writes breaking 234 years of precedent, the incumbent administration has charged president trump for acts that lie not just within the outer perimeter but at the heart of his official responsibilities as president. is this a real legal argument? >> so it's interesting the way that they frame it, they frame it as well, it's within the presidential duties for the president to communicate with the vice president. well, sure, but not about trying to stop the certification of an election. they'll say, oh, well, it's within the presidential duties to communicate, you know, with members of congress and with other state officials. well, yes, but when he was communicating with the members of congress it was to stop the count, when he was communicating with, you know, the georgia secretary of state, it was to, you know, find 11,780 votes, so you know, you have to look a little deeper into the details, and when you look at the details, these are plainly things that are not within his official duties as president. >> he's also arguing or his lawyers are arguing that his actions that have been alleged as part of some conspiracy were actually efforts to ensure the integrity of the election. >> right, and that really falls flat because we know over and over again that members of his own staff, people that he hired at the white house, his counsel, people at doj, everyone was telling him there is no election fraud, and so when you hear that over and over again, this idea that he was somehow maintaining the integrity of the prorks you know -- process, you know, is completely bogus. >> we have to ask about new reporting in "the new york times" that trump is said to have realed nuclear submarine secrets to an australian businessman. nbc news has not independently verified this report, but the times goes on to say that businessman went on to share the sensitive details with others. a trump spokesman declined or talked about these reports calling them illegal leaks, denied any wrongdoing. how damaging is this in the classified documents case? these secreted were reportedly shared also at mar-a-lago? >> so i mean this has been the problem all along. he has these boxes and boxes of classiied documents and the question has always been why. why did he want these records? why did he fight so hard to keep them, even when, you know, you have the national archives asking for them. when you have a subpoena, and he's still doing all these things to try and keep them. this was the concern, he was somehow sharing the information and little by little we're learning more about what he was actually doing with the information he had. it's damaging, it's not charged conduct in the classified documents case. >> what do you make of that? >> well, there may be many reasons, it may be that they don't have corroboration for it. i don't know if this witness was cooperative with them. they interviewed him it seems like multiple times, do they have any corroboration this occurred? did those conversations happen at mar-a-lago where they would have venue, you know, there are any number of reasons they may not have charged this, but it's certainly relevant, potentially other evidence that goes towards this kind of propensity evidence, you know, what is his propensity to be sharing and being reckless with classified information. so there may be arguments that it should come in, but if it is more serious than some of what is already being charged, it may not. so i think it will really depend on what more we learn about this particular episode. >> so good to see you. thank you very much for sifting through all of that with us. potential new legal jeopardy, new york congressman george santos, a former campaign treasurer for santos has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud in connection with the case against her former boss, and according to court documents, former aide nancy marks admitted to fabricating donations to make it appear that santos had a much larger campaign fund-raising haul than he did. joining us now nbc news investigate correspondent tom winter. in layman's terms what did she admit to doing, and how does it fit into the bigger case against santos? >> what she admitted to is falsifying the documents as far as what donors they had. in over ten years i've looked at these types of cases, typically what we might see if you were running for office, ana, and i wanted to give you more donations than perhaps i am allowed to under the individual contribution limits, what i might do is take money and give it to family members or give it to other individuals and they would my donations in their name. that's illegal. we do see that from time to time in these types of cases. what federal prosecutors say and marks admitted to, they didn't bother to do that. they wrote down that they received these donations from individuals. the purpose for doing so is that they could get money from national committee, which is very clear from the documents is a reference to the republican national committee. if they hit a certain threshold of money they say they brought in, the rnc would then provide them support in terms of funds and logistics, so that is something that is also illegal and lying on these documents is illegal, and that's something that marks has now admitted to. santos has pleaded not guilty to the 13-count indictment against him. that's the focus as far as what we saw yesterday in the court. >> and the charging document says that the prosecutors have text messages between santos and marks so they have evidence to back up her testimony as well. could this mean more legal trouble for santos? >> well, i mean, certainly if the evidence and what prosecutors say here is true, it never hurts to hear from the actual individuals you're charging as far as what they were specifically doing. and obviously text messages, i'm not an attorney nor do i play one on tv, but just from spending the time in court that i have and i think anybody would reasonably conclude that seeing text messages between individuals is particularly powerful evidence. so yes, this does not bode particularly well for the congressman from new york, but again, we continue to watch this case. i did check the docket late last night, there was no sign of any cooperation agreement. could that change at some point, of course that might be the case for marks. >> okay, tom winter, keep us posted, thank you, sir. new numbers from the irs show former new york city mayor and trump attorney rudy giuliani owes more than half a million dollars in back taxes. now, the irs has placed a lien on giuliani's palm beach, florida, penthouse. giuliani's political adviser says he has made a, quote, formal agreement with the irs to pay off the liability. next on "ana cabrera reports," we are breaking down the new hotter than expected jobs report out just this morning. what does it mean for our economy? 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>> this is a great jobs report. this is a continued sign of steady, stable growth in a strong economy. people want jobs. they're getting them. the unemployment rate remains at under 4% for now a year and a half, that's the longest stretch since the 1960s, and workers continue to come into the job market. those are good things. it's what we want to see. >> let's talk about the historic strikes we are seeing in multiple industries right now and their impact on the economy. the united autoworkers strike has cost nearly $4 billion in losses to the industry, dealers, and consumers. this is according to the anderson economic group. the actors and writer's strike have cost california's economy more than 5 billion per the mill ken institute, and we don't know the cost of the kaiser strike, but more than 75,000 workers in the health care industry at that one place are on the picket lines. the administration has been very supportive of the workers, but what do you say to concerns about the drag on the overall economy? 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