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president biden is taking on a policy issue that republicans have been trying to turn into a dangerous political. weapon the president sending to the southern border this morning and then on to mexico city. we have a live report from el paso coming. a plus, what history tells us about what might be next in a bitterly divided u.s. congress, and why the speaker fight is not democracy at work. i somewhat have you. believe she received one of the highest civilian honor in the united states...

not simply a democracy at. were but something that could actually destroy american democracy, another hour of velshi begins right now. hi begins right now. good morning, it is sunday january the 8th. i am ellen -- kevin mccarthys new election as the speaker of the house, it was a historic one if not exactly for the best reasons. the first time for a speakership was divot sided on a multiple, ballots are where occurrence in the scope of all american history. mccarthys bid this year was ...

York emerged is a leading voice against slavery. they gave passionate speeches and essays admitting missouri as a slave state, and even offered an amendment to the missouri compromise that would have outlawed slavery, next to the mississippi. >> -- >> his pureness that he was a skilled politician. taylor became the anti slavery or candidate. still, it took 22 ballots before he was elected speaker that. year as political factions realigned to coalesce around him. but he faced greater oddly here, ...

Congress. after 12 ballots, he was ousted from the position and replaced by philipp barber, a slave owner from virginia. and then in the years leading up to the civil war, the fight over slavery would become even more of a central issue in the contest for speaker. the three other times when the contest for speaker took longer were 1855, 1849, and 1859. those were the years when the rancor over the issue of slavery was reaching its peak, and as a consequence, bitterly divided congress even those ...