and emmy nominated journalist caroline modarressy tehrani. in washington, new house speaker kevin mccarthy is about to preside over his first order of business. the new republican led congress will sit in the next hour to vote on the rules package. now that might sound a bit in the weeds but it is the nearest thing to a formal contract, setting out everything the speaker gave away last week, as he fought to secure the support of those on the hard right. it includes a rule change that will meanjust one member can bring a motion to throw him out. there are also concerns among more moderate republicans that mccarthy has agreed to a budget deal that could result in a cut to defence spending. this has a proposed billions of dollars cut to defence, which i think is a horrible idea. when you have aggressive russia and ukraine, you ve got a growing threat of china in the pacific i m going to visit taiwan in a couple of weeks, how will i look our allies in the eyes and say, i nee
Administration trying to save face . Were on top of stunning developments that has joseph biden doing a 180 from something he said on the campaign from no wall, no way, no how to now saying yeah. Maybe. Maybe we start pursuing just that. Jeff paul in eagle pass, texas with the latest. Jeff . Yeah, neil. When youre out here and you see these big groups like we did yesterday, a group of 300 people cross the rio grande and enter the United States, its overwhelming. You remind yourself, this is just a small snapshot of the thousands that do that same thing on a daily basis. That might be in part the reason why the Biden Administration is now going to waive 26 federal laws in order to essentially build border wall, restart it when they had previously already stopped it. This 20mile stretch of border wall will be going in in the Rio Grande Valley in south texas. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas said theres an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers at this s
in the next hour, there is a new rule on the motion to vacate that would meanjust rule on the motion to vacate that would mean just one rule on the motion to vacate that would meanjust one member of rule on the motion to vacate that would mean just one member of the republican caucus can call a vote to oust kevin mccarthy. how long do you think he ll survive? let oust kevin mccarthy. how long do you think he ll survive? think he ll survive? let me tell ou, think he ll survive? let me tell you. this think he ll survive? let me tell you. this is think he ll survive? let me tell you, this is actually think he ll survive? let me tell you, this is actually not - think he ll survive? let me tell you, this is actually not a - think he ll survive? let me tell you, this is actually not a newl you, this is actually not a new rule, you, this is actually not a new rule, this you, this is actually not a new rule, this rule you, this is actually not a new rule, this rule existed - you, t
congress s power to investigate or the former president why is this important that republicans vote to hold him in contempt you would think that if they take an oath to protect and defend the constitution they would vote for the system of checks and balances an invalid subpoena issuing invalid subpoena weakens our power, not if somebody votes against it. reporter: and, garrett, there is more tough news for president biden today in his mission to unite democrats around his spending plans. yeah, that s right, lester key moderate senator joe manchin said he doesn t expect to see a breakthrough any time soon and his fellow holdout kyrsten sinema saw five members publically resign today calling her one of the principal obstacles to progress. lester garrett haake at the capital, thank you. we need to get to new developments to haiti. in a video, the head of the gang holding those 17 members of a missionary group threatening to kill them if his demands are not yet.
was a joke and referred to a previous margie comment about jewish space lasers for a source familiar with the interaction. all of this republican intransigence and wackiness from the lady in georgia aim after house minority leader kevin mccarthy made the bogus claim this morning that the bannon subpoena, get this, is invalid, among other things. no, they re issuing an invalid subpoena. issuing an invalid subpoena weakens our power, not if somebody votes against it. he has the right to go to the court to see if he has executive privilege or not. i don t know if he does or not, but neither does the committee. what the committee should do, like any time in the history a point on there so they don t utilize it to target people. today s vote leaves the justice department with a big decision to make. and for his part, attorney general merrick garland is not showing his hand. in hearing today, he gave no indication of whether the justice department would bring charges against bannon, sayi