filling in for rachel. thank you, it ll be a great morning ahead and tomorrow too. will: excited to have you. pete: you re headed to the southern border tomorrow with joe? will: i am. hosting from we both have layovers along the way to the southern border. i ll be hosting from el paso tomorrow. it s our first show, technically, of the new year. we were together, two of us at 1:00 a.m. or whatever. that s during that new year sort of broadcast, i got there a day or so early, the family said go on out to the new hegseth manner. emily: that s great, that s awesome, you guys. will: re-arrived right as christmas presents were being unveiled. pete: kids ripping around on the dirt bikes and learning and falling and there s part of the new hegseth militia there. white pants and nice denim shirt and he jumped on the dirt bike and it took off and he bit it kind of hard. will: right away. emily: did you hurt yourself? will: no, just mud from shoulder to toe. pete: hurt ego and pride
i m jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. we ll shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-liners, seven, eight, nine, the math remains the same, more evidence the opposition is dug in. ballots 10 and 11, no show of momentum towards mccarthy. something his allies said he needed to demonstrate then and still needs to demonstrate soon. this farce in the house is also clashing with a deadly and sobering anniversary. lawmakers crowded the capitol steps earlier today to mark two years since the mob emboldened and incited by donald trump s many lies about the election tried to preve
particular. jake, one of the things that you worry about when somebody has cardiac arrest is that there was simply not enough oxygenated blood getting to the brain, and you don t know until someone has woken up from sedation and is able to talk. he is not able to talk because of the intubation, but he is able to communicate with writing, and moving his hands and feet. but he is described as critically ill, jake, because it has only been 2 1/2 days, and so there may be periods of the roller coaster still in terms of the recovery which you will see with critically ill patients, and maybe not a linear track of improvement. so that is what i heard. it was a quick response, and we kept hearing that, and we got details of what that means. on the field, he had cpr performed, and he had defibrillation performed. the defibrillation was performed to restore normal breathing restored, and he had a breathing tube in place, and paramedics came out, and the team doctors came out, and that
Administration trying to save face . Were on top of stunning developments that has joseph biden doing a 180 from something he said on the campaign from no wall, no way, no how to now saying yeah. Maybe. Maybe we start pursuing just that. Jeff paul in eagle pass, texas with the latest. Jeff . Yeah, neil. When youre out here and you see these big groups like we did yesterday, a group of 300 people cross the rio grande and enter the United States, its overwhelming. You remind yourself, this is just a small snapshot of the thousands that do that same thing on a daily basis. That might be in part the reason why the Biden Administration is now going to waive 26 federal laws in order to essentially build border wall, restart it when they had previously already stopped it. This 20mile stretch of border wall will be going in in the Rio Grande Valley in south texas. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas said theres an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers at this s
The scenes to succeed Kevin Mccarthy. Already two declared candidates in the race. Steve scalise, the House Majority leader, as well as the House Judiciary Committee chairman, jim jordan, meeting with colleagues and trying to secure commitments, suggesting to them that they could unite this badly divided republican conference, but the question is can they get that . There is ample anger, still at those eight republicans who voted to oust kevin kevin mccard congressman matt gaetz, as some calls within the gop to boot him out of the House Republican conference all together. Those are still coming in questions about how that will play out. As we are hearing from republicans on both sides of the capitol, concerns that events from yesterday could undercut their ability to govern and raise serious questions about their ability to hold on to the control of the house. Weve got eight people over there that say they stand on principle and policy, and its really all about, you know, selfpromotion