in the faulkner focus. it is nasty. the battle for the gavel. the first time as i mentioned in a century the vote needed more than a single ballot. resistance to republican leader kevin mccarthy. it got hotter yesterday in the final rounds of votes. he started losing support. now 20 mccarthy defectors going into the second day. they are backing ohio representative-elect they re all elect because they can t be sworn in because they haven t chosen a speaker those 20 like jim jordan for the job. jordan supports mccarthy. how will that work out? he said he is not interested in being the speaker position. leading the charge for jim jordan and against kevin mccarthy florida congressman-elect matt gaetz. many of his colleagues not happy. south carolina republican nancy mace tweeted gaetz full ego was on display and he will screw around and get another pelosi elected to the spot, her words. former speaker newt gingrich said the hold juts are hurting themselves. i think a numb
our country is being destroyed at the southern border. a terrible thing to see exclamation point. texas governor greg abbott says none of this would be happening if president biden hadn t rolled back trump policies and undercut ice. it is a self-inflicted wound. going back to what the border patrol officers told me themselves they informed the biden administration about this all along and the biden administration has known exactly what has going to happen if they refused to continue to implement the policies that were previously in place. harris: william la jeunesse is live in california near the mexico border. william. harris, those checkpoints are a big deal. as you well know sometimes migrants will get over the border and then the load vehicle will pick them up and only a few miles up the road on i-10, i-8 or somewhere else where they will be interdicted and you ll catch the migrants or drugs. as you were comparing the two administrations one thing president trump di
career. other issues at play for 2024. the border crisis is a political catastrophe waiting to happen. doug collins and dnc deputy press secretary jose. doug, what is your take? i will agree with the press secretary one thing. biden administration has been serious about one thing, making the border open and serious about encouraging others to come across and serious about not dealing with in a way that could be bipartisan and what they have made this. i will take a different take. this is playing out politically but it is a national crisis in which just like the commissioner in arizona said. what do we do with these people going across the border with no impediment. the problem is a social issue and national security issue. play it out politically all you want. they are serious making sure nothing is changing on the