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the second attempt to remove secretary mayorkas, after a bid last week by republicans failed. here is house speaker mikejohnson s statement following the secretary s impeachment. the speaker went on to say. president biden responded tonight in a statement. president biden went on to criticise for blocking of deal that had both democratic and republican support in the senate but is been torpedoed after former president donald trump came out to oppose the bill. live now to npr congressional correspondent claudia grisales. this vote failed last week but passed tonight. this vote failed last week but passed tonight. what changed in the meantime? passed tonight. what changed in the meantime? there passed tonight. what changed in the meantime? there were - passed tonight. what changed in | the meantime? there were three republicans who joined democrats in this very narrowly controlled republican chamber to block the effort to impeach alejandro mayorkas last week. that sa ....
willfully refusing to enforce president biden put out his own statement, saying history will not look kindly on house republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games. instead of staging political stunts like this, republicans with genuine concerns about the border should want congress to deliver more border resources and stronger border security. this all comes as the us mexico border is being overwhelmed with record breaking migrant crossings. in december, us border patrol agents recorded nearly 250,000 apprehensions of migrants who crossed the southern border unlawfully. that is the most arrests ever made on the southern border in a single month. breaking the record of 212,000 set the previous december. those numbers did steeply drop injanuary. at around 124,000 apprehensions. in the last hour i spoke about this with npr congressional correspondent claudia grisal ....
tuesday s margin was thin, just 214 for and 213 against . two republicans and two democrats did not participate. after the vote house speaker mikejohnson said in a statement: the speaker went on to say. president biden put out his own statement, saying history will not look kindly on house republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that. has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games. instead of staging political stunts like this, republicans with genuine concerns about the border should want congress to deliver more border resources and stronger border security. this all comes as illegal crossings at the us mexico border dropped by nearly half from december to january. in the last month of 2023, us border patrol agents recorded nearly 250,000 apprehensions of migrants who crossed the southern border unlawfully. that is the most arrests ever made on the southern border in a single month. breaking the record of ....
came anyway. so this is perfect. keep doing it. have a great show, my friend. the impeachment clause of the united states constitution seems to be headed to the supreme court if don trump s criminal defense lawyers can get it there. we re going to consider the impeachment clause tonight from two perspectives, first, a lawyer and law professor, andrew weissmann, and then, a historian, stanford jack greg of who is an expert on the impeachment clause. his book, original meanings, politics and the ideas in the making of the constitution won the pulitzer prize. you will hear from both of them. year both of those perspectives. next tuesday you will hear dame trump s lawyers tell the circuit court of appeals in washington and lee, see, that he cannot be tried for crimes leading up to and on january 6th because that would amount to double jeopardy after donald trump faced an impeachment trial in the united states senate on essentially the same charges. 57 senators voted gui ....
we are here every day, so when they do, it will be ready. joyce, thanks. joyce vance is a former attorney for the northern district of alabama. that s our show for tonight. time now for the last word with lawrence o donnell. lawrence, i think i ve eaten up half a minute of your show every night for the last tonight. so i think tomorrow night i will give you back a pile of it. orrow ni according to my clos 25 sections. i wasn t ready to go until you came anyway. so this is perfect. keep doing. it have a great show, my friend. the impeachment clause of the united states constitution seems to be headed to the supreme court if don trump s criminal defense lawyers can get it there. we re going to consider the impeachment clause tonight from two perspectives, first, a lawyer and law professor, andrew weissmann, and then, a historian, stanford jack greg of who is an expert on the impeachment clause. his book, original meanings, politics and the ideas in the making of ....