the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. steve: all right. good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city and we start this wednesday morning with the race for the white house. the republican presidential primary heating up with former president donald trump expected to arrive in iowa today. ainsley: yeah. that s right. his visit to the hawkeye state comes just a day after florida s governor ron desantis kicked off his great american comeback tour. brian: right. here we go. lucas tomlinson joins us now to set the table. lucas? good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. first visit to iowa as a presidential candidate. florida governor ron desantis vowed to fix the border once and for all. i m frustrated on things like the border because i have been listening to these politicians talk about securing the border for years and years and years. i could tell you if i m president, th
you had conservatives from the house freedom caucus chip roy and dan bishop voting against it with all four democrat members of that committee refusing really to bail out the fractured g.o.p. conference over this bill that they didn t negotiate and would not have written themselves. this advances the legislation now to a full floor vote. and there is a considerable effort to whip the vote and count the votes on both sides. speaker mccarthy pledged yesterday that two thirds of republicans will end up supporting this on the floor. but conservatives like dan bishop are calling on their colleagues to oppose the bill saying that they expect it won t even get half of the conference in support. i m just fed up with the lies. i m fed up with the lack of courage. the cowardice. and i intend, in the time that i m here, i intend to see to it that those that there is somebody who is prepared to say what needs to be done. 434 members of congress, nobody could have done a worse job.
Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack. But our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israel
especially given the ways this foreign aid package has played out. not just over the course of this week, enjoys, but over the course of the last month and a half or so because of the way we saw speaker johnson leave the senate supplemental version of this languishing, waiting for the house to take into account up, and now we re seeing him take it up in a different fashion but the same substance of what the senate was trying to push in the first instance. we re probably going to see, today, a lot more reaction and hemming and hawing, but we re also going to see under suspicion, requiring a two-third majority to pass it, a border bill go to the floor. the reason they re doing that is because they couldn t get it through the house rules committee last night. it s not something democrats would come along with. three republicans on the rules committee were voting against the speaker s plans. that was probably going to be true on the border. it is definitely what happened on the foreign aid
lls and th ve splintering hoe still and still threatening their look and speaker s job. let s get the very latest cnn s lauren fox is joining me nowith all of this. d lauren hse democrats came to johnson s rescue le last night in another key vote are they. readto dit again yeah, obviouy, what you are talking about is what unfolded on the house rules committee last night, typically, these are rules that are passed out of this committee. this is known as the speaker s committee, and it is passed out of this committee with the republican or the majority support in this case, there were three republicans who voted against the rule which meant that democrats swooped in at the last minute, voted to advance these bills. that means get this debate to the floor and we do expect that to also occur today because there are a number of republicans who have already said they are not only opposed to this legislation, they are opposed to voting on this procedural step known as the