the honoring kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [applause] the honoring jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. [applause] no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by sur name of speaker has not been elected. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy for the position of speaker of the house. the gentleman is recognized. [applause] the gentleman is recognized. thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done. to get big things done. to solve the problems. i hope when we get through today that all of the members on both sides of the aisle will join together with us to solve the problems, to address inflation that is crushing middle class families, to get control over spending that is driving unflagrants will the gentleman yield? will the house be in order? and we all know what those problems are. we ve been talking about them for
preventing the surge in the first place. the border patrol officers told me that the biden administration policies, they are enriching, they are empowering the drug cartels in mexico who make money off the people that they assist in smuggling them into the state of texas. the cartels make money off of these migrants that you and your viewers see on tv. they also tell me about the escalating number of people coming across the border. eric: for more on how president biden plans to try and stop this, david spunt is in wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the weekend at his house. reporter: president biden and his team not calling this a crisis at least publicly, they are calling it a challenge. this is quite a big undertaking though for the department of homeland security and fema, to be part of this. it shows that the administration on the border especially when it comes to an influx of unaccompanied children. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas
Coming yesterday as he signed off on two more executive orders meant to provide Food Assistance to low income families and protect workers rights during the pandemic. The president also calling on congress to move forward with additional relief measures including his proposal for a nearly 2 trillion stimulus package. Were in a national emergency. We need to act like were in a national emergency. So weve got to move with everything weve got. Weve got to do it together. I dont believe democrats or republicans are going hungry and losing jobs, i believe americans are going hungry and losing jobs. Arthel lets go to Mark Meredith now live from the white house with more. Hi, mark. Reporter arthel, good afternoon. Its been a nonstop few days for the new Biden Administration. No Public Events on the president s schedule, but he has been rolling back some of president trumps policies. That includes recommitting the u. S. To the paris climate accord. Weve also seen that 100day pause on some depo
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t
Every agency concluded that russia did. My first question for you, sir, who do you believe . Let me say that we have two thoughts. You have groups that are wondering why the fbi never took the server. Why havent they taken the server . Why was the fbi told to leave the office of the Democratic National committee . With that being said, all i can do is ask the question. My people came to me. Dan coats came to me and others said they think its russia. I have president putin and he just said its not russia. I will say this. I dont see any reason why it would be. The president also holding both countries responsible when asked if russia is to blame for anything. The joint News Conference met with condemnation that was swift, broad and unrelenting from voices in the president s corner. Dozens of republicans spoke out against the comments. Among the strongest is from john mccain. He called the conference one of the most disgraceful performan e performances of an american president in recent