Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Sarah Isger and I've got Mike Warren, John McCormick, and Steve Hayes here to, you know, break down the week that was the week to come. There's a lot going on. So we're going to tick through that border bill the once in future border bill perhaps

The state of GOP politics based on what we learned from the border bill shenanigans a little bit about what's going on with Trump's immunity claim

that failed at the DC circuit,

and of course, a little not worth your time at the end,

New Yorker Edition. So John, let's start with you. Can you just fill us in on what happened on the hill this week where we actually thought we might solve the border

crisis.

I think we never thought we were going to solve the border crisis because Mike Johnson,

Speaker of the House, made it clear weeks ago that he was going to kill basically anything that came out of the Senate.

So it was always kind of a question of what exactly the Senate was doing here.

We didn't get legislative texts until Sunday night and

within 24 hours it was clear that this thing was on the rocks. It wasn't clear

it didn't have 60 votes quite quite yet. But eventually you know a bunch of the Republicans even the ones

who were amenable to the policies that Senator James Langford, a Republican of

Oklahoma, had negotiated with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

They began to come up with reasons such as, well we have not enough time and if a majority of the conference

is against it,

why are we going to take this political hit

when Mike Johnson isn't even gonna hold

this, hold a vote in this thing?

So it was blocked yesterday on a 49 to 50 vote.

It needed 60 to advance on the initial motion

to proceed to debate.

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