instead they will be bogged down in paperwork and taking agents away from doing their job at the border. immigration courts are pectize up already and the caseload is getting worse by the day. a texas lawmaker says the biden administration should be sending more judges to border towns instead of u.s. troops. the way it stops is instead of the president sending 1500 u.s. troops to the border, he should send 1500 immigration judges. dana: david spunt is live at the justice department as it gets underway. 2.1 million cases, that s the backlog as of this morning. think about that for a moment. that number only expected to grow when title 42 is lifted. that number will only swell over the coming weeks and coming months. right now the backlog is about 4 to 6 years. some experts say it could go 8 to 10 years to get into court to hear your case because of title 42. one of the reasons only about 600 immigration judges right now that are active in the united states. obviously the
of a major pressure campaign by trump himself to block biden s victory. pence had to certify those election results before a joint session of congress, you know when, january 6th. the votes for president of the united states are as follows, joseph r. biden jr. of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. donald j trump from the state of florida has received 232 votes. the announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the united states. each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2021. the special counsel is also running the inquiry into trump s handling of those classified records. nbc has learned jack smith has asked a judge to compel trump lawyer evan corcoran to and questions before the grand jury in that case. we are also soon going to learn more about georgia prosecutor, fani willis s investigation into trump and election interference
more. bigger than football. damar hamlin gets tonight s last word, the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. tonight, the house is an order, or is it? speaker kevin mccarthy has the gavel, and his party has a preview of what the next two years of divided government could look like. then brazil s big lie, chaotic scenes as far-right supporters of former president bolsonaro stormed the capitol, while he appears to be in florida. the direct line from there to january 6th, tomorrow hamlin s remarkable recovery gets even better, in buffalo tonight with a massive pouring of support. as we get underway on this monday night. ht good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, after a marathon election, now speaker kevin mccarthy as gather the house into session for the rules, vote tonight. the house will be in order. since the speaker election took a total of four long days, the rules vote became a test of unity prowse republicans, and they managed to pass it with just
of this vote. and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of the history lesson here? compare this to any other time in modern history? any other time in modern history there is none, because the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballots was 1823. but, we will come back to this board. but to put you in some s perspective what the history of this is. you re looking at here, this is every speakers race in history gone past one ballot. we ll put this past today when there were only 11 ballots. so this is the 15th ballots. right here in history is where the speakers race ranks. is the 15th longest and you can see, there for longer than this were all pre civil war. this is gonna finish well shy of a record of 133. but if it does indeed finish here. 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history. and we haven t seen this go past the first ballot since back in 1923. there wer
and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in history, that s gone past one ballot. we put this together earlier, only 11 ballots, this is the 15th ballot, so right here in history is where the speakers race ranks, this is the fifth longest speakers race in the history of the country, and you can see the four that were longer than this were all pre civil war, this is going to finish well shy of a record of 133 minutes, if it does indeed finish here, 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history, and again we haven t seen this go p