show our dear leader and the best possible light. here you have joe biden going right there to the border to see what is going on, so i give them a lot of credit for that. visiting the border making sure the conservatives in that area know that he really is listening to their concerns about border security. he does seem to be working directly on this issue. he is very aware of what is going on in the border, coming down and seeing it has really made a big difference. laura: made a big difference, who needs comedy with these clowns? but he did do a heck of chatting up salvation army volunteers, or were they from the secret service? same difference. here we have so happy to see you, so happy to see you. laura: okay, now if you are a democrat, you re still waving off concerns about joe s age and declining cognition, then you are just in denial, or maybe you know that although biden is one fall away from the senior center lunchroom, he is still the sharpest kni
snchts is there a deal for speaker in the works? i m erin burnett and we re out front . we re at a key moment in this totally grueling fight for speaker of the house. we re told negotiations are under way at this moment as an 11th vote is now under way. it appears that kevin mccarthy has lost, lost 11 votes. five just today. despite now the longest speaker contest in generations. as we re watching this, we re told that mccarthy support aernz his critics are at least talking. they ve been behind closed doors trying to hammer out a deal in an attempt to show some progress. but what might that deal look like? mccarthy already essentially given them everything that they want. he is promising votes on term limits, allowing just one member to force a vote to oust him, just one. and there are four in the never kevin camp. if there is just one more republican that mccarthy can t get the gavel without help from democrats. there is so much to get to tonight. let s go to capitol
measures ahead of his visit to el paso this weekend. before he travels, it appears the needs to study up on specifics. we re going to have to use title nine title eight am i right? we begin in washington where 11 rounds of votes over three days, the house of representativeses have failed to elect a speaker. a deal might be coming to move more support to kevin mccarthy. kevin cork is live in d.c. with the latest on this. good evening, kevin. the house has gavelled out tonight and will come back again friday at noon. as it stands, the majority of republicans, some 200 of them, want kevin mccarthy to become the speaker of the house. the other 20 have backed everyone from florida republican byron donalds to even former donald trump. they don t seem to be budging. this isn t chaos. this is a constitutional republic at work. i m a mom of four boys. i know what chaos and dysfunction looks like. mccarthy, meanwhile, said all he needs to do is flip at least 11 votes. ton
Helped ease overall price rises in many countries, but there are concerns that a jump in crude could once again stoke inflation. So, governments are seeking alternatives, while still trying to balance the short term need for oil. Those alternatives could also help tackle Climate Change and keep global temperature rises to 1. 5 degrees above pre industrial levels. Just last week, the International Energy agency renewed its assertion that no new gas and oil projects were needed if the world was to meet that goal. Opecs Secretary General told my colleague, sally bundock, that the group doesnt agree. We have always, at opec, talked about the concern we have for future under investments, as some have called for stopping investment in oil. We believe this is equally dangerous. This will lead to volatility in the future, possibly supply shortages. And therefore, we at opec have always advocated for the importance of continuing to invest in the oil industry, as we also invest in decarbonising
Up to donald trump against torture. We have a very clear position on torture. We do not sanction torture. We do not get involved with that and will continue to be our position. And moments ago the Mexican President announcing that his meeting planned for next week with President Trump has been canceled. We are on the same page with the white house. How surprised are you every time there is a new tweet from the president . This is going to be an unconventional presidency, i think you know this by now casy. And i think we are going to see unconventional activities like tweets and thats just something we are all going to have to get used to. Good derek everyone. A busy day. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. President trump just arriving in philadelphia. You see Air Force One there. We are expecting his remarks to house and Senate Republicans later in this houn. He will go its about a 20 minute ride from that airport in South Philadelphia back into center city, where he is going to be meet