establishment wing. balking over finalizing the very rules mccarthy conceded last week to hard liners to become the house speaker. is this normal? plus, president biden s upcoming meeting with the president of mexico after visiting the border. where critics say the true scope of the humanitarian crisis was hidden from his view. and prince harry dropping bombs, accusing his stepmother of leaking stories to help her image. what does the royal family have to say about all of this? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our politics lead with the first test of newly elected speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. in just a few hours, the house is going to vote on its new rules package. this will include one of the biggest concessions mccarthy made to the hard line rebels to get the gavel. that one-person motion to vacate rule. this means just one member of congress can now force to remove mccarthy as speaker. he also made other concessions including allowing more fre
taking hostages, that s what they essentially did, is they took mccarthy hostage last week, i ve seen donald trump take the defense bill hostage three years ago. so we had to override a veto over an issue unrelated to arms services. we have to worry about whether or not that s going to happen, but we have to try to work together as we have for gosh the last four years and see where it goes. so the speaker s battle was worrisome. we got to put it behind us and work together going forward. condoleezza rice and robert gates wrote a joint opinion piece in the washington post titled time is not on ukraine s side. they write quote eight years separated russia s seizure of crimea. count on putin to be patient to achieve his destiny. under current circumstances, any negotiated cease fire would leave russian forces in a strong position to resume their invasion whenever they re ready. that is unacceptable, unquote. do you think the biden administration agrees this is a
bill: national security council spokesman said the white house supports keeping the vaccine mandate. over the weekend they said repeal was under consideration. some lawmakers want it to end now. tom cotton, good morning to you. thank you for your time. i want you to know right now chad pergram is telling us in the house side the vaccine mandate will be stripped out of the house defense bill and we ll get more information about that later today. what is your reaction on all this, senator? well, bill, i have urged the department of defense to end this pointless vaccine mandate at a time when we have historically bad recruiting and retention numbers. if the department defense wants to do it congress needs to put an end to the vaccine mandate for the troops. the inside story here is what chuck schumer and nancy pelosi are doing to try to hold this defense bill hostage. we passed it every year for 60