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we have got lots of news to cover, lots of questions to answer, so lets get started. president biden just hours away from his first trip to the southern border, after announcing new immigration programs. we are live on the ground in el paso, texas, with the latest. plus, speakership fallout. kevin mccarthys battle to win the gavel, laid bare, deep divisions within the party. and a possible opening for democrats. we will explain as we look ahead to another crucial house vote tomorrow. a...

They still control some of those power levers. so what do you think, you see that small faction, frankly of i think insurrection, seditious conspirators, do you think they will be able to still have that influence and power sweeping out to the rest of that party? >> oh, absolutely. i dont think it should be ignored that on the anniversary of january six, it was the very same people who helped foment the big lie and encourage the violence, the ones who got the concession from kevin mccarthy to ma...

Several major events have occurred in recent days.

One objective here -- not the pig your out so much what happened, i think we largely know what happened. but to prevent it from happening again f. donald trump runs again, if he has his hands on the power levers in our country, we are going to have to figure out what constitutional powers exist to prevent usurpation of the american peoples will. >> yeah. and that, to me, seems to be driving the white house decision making. we should say, betsy, that they have been restrained. im sure no white ho...

They dont care. and josh hawley, wants to run for president of the united states, and josh hawley is positioning himself to run for president. this is what the president voters want, and all these things are connected. and part of the problem with america today, america is not what it was 20 years, 50 years, 100 years ago, and what is happening now, the republican party is stop americas diversity. stop the empowerment of groups in the country that are a significant part of the country. i will gi...

When he added to the deficit. here they are advocating for the same thing. >> this is reflective of two things. hes a republican. republicans are in control of all the different power levers of government. and they look incompetent. the second time in three weeks the federal government is shutting down. hes absolutely right. republicans are totally disingenuous. a month ago they blew open the deficit. adding $1.5 trillion to debt. giving massive cuts to wall street corporations. after years of r...

Would play it. when will we listen and stop the insanity? feel free to answer. >> yeah. look. you know, its a real dynamic in place where it takes the horrible things to happen, a risk of a recession, of a debt ceiling, you know, defaulting on u.s. debt, it takes the really dramatic things to force action but it gets back to the issue of where are the power levers and the forcing mechanisms to make the government deal with the deficit? thats not coming from the markets. the bond market is saying...