Of race can be called into question. This is all the result of decades of work, even longer. Even the united daughters of the confederacy bullied school boards to teach white supremacist propaganda as u. S. History. The latest strategy according to the propublica pieces to seize control of the gop from the bottom up. Galvanized by none other than steve bannon. You know that saying, good artist copy, and great artist steel, bannon is activating his army of trump worshiping conspiracy theorist to swarmed the precincts. Let s be clear, the precinct strategy is in bannon s brain child, this is simply as propublica notes something that he plucked out of obscurity. Wait a minute, this strategy, maybe not so obscure, republicans have been flooding the election boards, school boards and local city county ranks for a long time. Let s not forget there pinch off for purging the courts. It s just out in the open now. Its use of intimidation has been truly unleashed. At this point, they are telling
just as democrats were poised to bring the bill to a vote last night, mccarthy stood up and started talking, and talking, and talking. in fact, he didn t stop talking until just a few hours ago, 5:10 a.m., to be exact. his 8 hour, 32 minutes speech was a record, touching on subjects from his desire for a tesla to analysis of the famed painting washington crossing the delaware. but in the end, it was just a delay tactic. this vote is expected to pass and send the build back better bill to the united states senate. what happens there of course is a whole other story. i want to dig deeper, nbc s leann caldwell and garrett haake are on capitol hill after a very long night for them as well. chief white house correspondent kristen welker joins me from the north lawn. good to see all of you. i understand we re all operating on not quite a lot of sleep. garrett, it took a while, but it does finally seem like it s going to happen, right? reporter: it certainly does, and look, chris,
encounters just in the first three months of fiscal year 2023. but the biden administration continues to maintain that the border is secure. we re looking live at eagle pass, texas. that s where griff jenkins joins us with the late from there. hey, griff. reporter: hey, good afternoon, eric. and if you weren t just watching that drone, we can take you back up to it. the border patrol air boats just passing underneath the bridge here in eagle pass. it is ground zero here in the del rio sector for this crisis is. these agents in texas dps troopers and national guard here are absolutely exhausted from what has been happening, and that is why these december numbers were so startling. take a look at these numbers. let s go into them. 251,000 migrant encounters in december of which 49,405 were title 42. that means that 200,000, eric, were released into the u.s. that is quite a stunning number there in and of itself. but the the second number is what i wanted to show you. the 717,