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About refusing to vote to keep the government open unless hr-2 is law. how seriously do you take those threats? >> well, look, i don't think it's just the freedom caucus. i think you have most house republicans who are responding to their constituents' concerns about this border. >> it seems like it's a growing sentiment around these republicans, jake. >> yeah. i mean, speaker johnson has a very narrow majority by the end of the month i think he'll only be able to lose two votes, two house votes. we'll have 219 seats. so he can't afford to lose anyone, really. certainly there is a big crisis a...

Being paage. they are angering their own left flank over it. but this is really intractable in congress. you've covered the senate. that is where the main negotiations are occurring. where does that stand and do you think that they will be able to make the changes or will republicans say it is not enough? >> right, that is the big question. what you heard from speaker johnson and the conservative members who were with him at the border yesterday, they are really itching to tie this to the broader government funding fight. of course the first of two government funding deadlines is coming up on ...

House republican border security bill, which, yes, republicans love but democrats hate. and when you are trying to get something to president biden's desk that he could actually sign into law to address the problems at the border, myriad problems at the border, hr 2 is not a serious proposal because it doesn't get any democratic votes and obviously democrats control the senate. you need 60 votes to get anything out of the senate. and of course the president himself is a democrat. so what speaker johnson is doing is consistently throwing shade at the senate negotiations even though the senate n...

Even if not to the point that you want it to be improved? >> jake, we have insisted on the provisions of hr-2, which for seven months has been collecting dust on chuck schumer's desk, each of those provisions work together to ask this problem at the border. you cannot leave the broken parole process unrepaired. then you would have a loophole that would do absolutely nothing. you cannot just reinstate remain in mexico. even that would stem the flow an estimated 70%, but you also have to end catch-and-release. you cannot pick and choose from a menu and expect to solve the problem. i will quote f...

Accept republican proposals to fix it. tonight, president biden now blaming republicans for holding up funding for border security. malt r matt rivers from texas now. >> reporter: tonight, amid a record number of border crossings, house speaker mike johnson and 64 house republicans touring the southern border. descending on eagle pass, texas, to demand stricter immigration policies. >> one thing is absolutely clear, america is at a breaking point with record levels of illegal immigration. >> reporter: december reaching a record high, sources telling abc news, there were 302,000 migrant encount...