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good morning. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jim sciutto. is there movement on capitol hill? we are watching closely this morning as standoff over who will be the next house speaker has now entered its third day. california republican kevin mccarthy failed to secure the votes needed after a total now of six rounds of voting, but, after furious negotiations last night, lots of coffee, new major concessions to his hard line opponents, mccarthy's speaker bid could be showing new signs of life. hard line members who is held out against his speakership are still meeting behind closed doors. >> th...

Taking aing loo, is there a solution in the works? >> reporter: the white house is clearly trying to reframe the debate on this issue. if you zoom out, there are a couple of things happening. we had a ruling from the supreme court last week that left that covid-era restriction known as title 42 in place. authorities are still turning migrants away. you have the pleas from the administration over the last several weeks to try to pass some sort of comprehensive immigration reform because the system they have is just not doing it. then also this comes at a time where the numbers at the border hav...

White house knew this and people were prepared for this but it does not make it feel any better. it's often two bad decisions you have to make and pick the best you can. this won't be the last the president has to make in terms of prisoner swaps. we have dozens and dozens of americans around the world being held hostage by foreign governments. >> and so we know viktor bout is a russian arms dealer. his nickname is the merchant of death sentenced for 25 years for conspiring to kill americans, supporting terrorism, former soviet military officer. he was in custody for about 15 years since he was...

This is something, this is an american wall for american national security, and that's something that you and the media have a responsibility to get this out and get the partisan politics out of this. >>ing loo, look, i literally we there in front of it, cvp is right, we need this. i've been down there lots of times. >> you've done a great job. >> i can't explain to the american people an impasse. you have a shutdown to help the men and women keeping us safe on the border but 54,000 of them at least at cvp will have to work without pay because of the shutdown. you say you're doing this to help...

Really mean names. does tweeting work for him? >>ing loo, we saw this happen time and time during the campaign. he considers himself the master at branding but look, congratulations to donald trump for actually doing something that many people have not been able to do, unify republicans and democrats. he simply cannot handle when powerful, smart women criticize him. we saw this happen during the campaign with secretary clinton. we saw it happen with megyn kelly and how it happen yesterday, so it's one thing to actually have this sort of lack of temperament during the campaign. it's another thi...