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harris: this is president biden s america. illegal immigrants trampling all over our nation s sovereignty. and in a stunning reversal of course, president biden is about to do something he told his voters he would never do. he is doing exactly what donald trump knew would work, build that wall. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the biden administration is now saying a border wall is needed immediately. it is listing more than two dozen federal laws to build 20 miles of border wall in texas. let this statistic sink in. more than a quarter million illegal immigrants in the last fiscal year, that s a record. homeland security secretary alejandro mayokas, who will be in mexico city today along with attorney general garland for high-level talks says the need for the new barrier is acute and immediate. the move is completely a 180 from what biden said when he was a presidential candidate. president biden: there will not be another foot of wall const ....
they say there is no case here. but we have a corrupt attorney general that tried to make a case. thank you very much. [indiscernible] mr. president, do you believe in karma? john: the president walks away after speaking to cameras outside the courtroom there in manhattan, the former president insisting it s a witch hunt, he did nothing wrong, that mar-a-lago was undervalued by the judge, which a lot of people would say at $18 million he s got a case to say that it was undervalued. this is going to go on for a long time. we may be hearing from the former president a lot in the days and weeks ahead. gillian: you heard him sort of tripling down, same talking points over the same strategy, messaging over the last two days as well, reiterating his claim mar-a-lago should be valued at closer to $1.5 billion. john: and adding the new wrinkle some republicans are floating his name for speaker of the house. something we ll get into a little later on. gillian: i woul ....
chaos on capitol hill. as republican hard-liners get their wish. kevin mccarthy losing his gavel. now the house is without a speaker amid a slew of contentious issues including another potential government shutdown. plus donald trump back in court, this time under a new gag order. but he is still attacking prosecutors as his former accountant gets grilled on the witness stand. we are live at the courthouse. and a historic new strike. thousands of health care workers walking off the job. what they re asking for and what it means for patients. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. divided and searching for a new speaker. right now on capitol hill the race to replace kevin mccarthy is heating up. this morning judiciary chairman jim jordan became the first to throw his hat into the ring, publicly announcing he will run for the speakership. and republican sources tell us there are currently at ....
gingrich says he s destructive to the party. many are equally ticked off at democrats who could have, in many republicans minds, should have saved mccarthy s job. we ll tell you what they re doing to settle the score. we start in washington where a chaotic new chapter in the history of the house of representatives has begun, and just when it seems things couldn t get any uglier, they have. republican supporters of kevin mccarthy furious over democrats unwillingness to protect them and protect the speaker from conservatives are now exacting revenge. over the past 24 hours, two democratic leaders, nancy pelosi and steny hoyer have been told to vacate their offices inside the capitol. pelosi is blaming acting speaker patrick mchenry for the move, although it s not clear who made the final call. mchenry is just one of at least six lawmakers who are now testing the water indvan of next week s vote for a new speaker. others include steve scalise, judiciary committee chair ....
assange to sign a blockbuster plea deal. another big hearing in donald trump s classified documents case. how his lawyers are trying to get a raft of damning evidence thrown out. and a new view inside president biden s strategy for this week s debate against former president trump. how he s preparing to take on two trumps. we re also tracking deadly flooding in the midwest, straining dams and levees and causing thousands of evacuations with more rain on the way. good morning, thank you for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. right now, wikileaks founder julian assange is on his way to a remote u.s.-controlled island in the pacific where he ll plead guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a deal with the u.s. justice department. now, under this deal, as we understand it, assange will become a free man, ending a 14-year legal odyssey sparked when his organization posted nearly half a million classified military documents, one ....