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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Tonight: Senate Republican leadership meets on bipartisan border deal

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Migrants risking their lives crossing the Rio Grande river underscore the need for urgent action at the border. This morning, Texas authorities pulled a woman and child from the cold waters. Meanwhile, Republicans are set to meet one week after a bipartisan compromise deal was put on the table which now appears to be on the brink of collapse. We speak with a House Republican who has tough words for the deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The GOP senator pushing the immigration compromise says he's frustrated with his fellow

0:07.3

Republicans intentionally putting out false information.

0:10.8

The lead starts right now.

0:13.0

That feeling of frustration from Senator James Langford, the conservative Oklahoma Republican

0:18.6

pushing the border deal, Speaker Mike Johnson, is just one of many in the GOP quick to trash this compromise that at

0:26.2

least will try to do something to slow the number of migrants coming into the U.S.

0:30.9

We're going to hear from a House Republican piling on calling the proposed

0:33.8

plan, quote capitulation, plus Senator Langford, will be here in just minutes.

0:38.1

And historic rainfall flooding parts of Southern California, some cities getting a month's

0:43.7

worth of rain in one single day. CNN is on the ground in one of the hardest hit

0:49.2

areas. Plus, the surprising news from Buckingham Palace this afternoon announcing that

0:53.8

King Charles has cancer. What does this diagnose now mean for the monarchy and

0:58.1

how is his prognosis? Welcome to the lean on Jake Tapper in two hours a high stakes meeting on Capitol Hill

1:08.7

that may determine whether the Senate's bipartisan border deal ever seized the light of day.

1:13.9

Tonight, Senate Republican leaders will try to convince their colleagues

1:16.5

to pass the bill, which would dramatically change immigration law

1:20.1

for the first time in decades in the United States in effect severely restricting

1:24.3

asylum claims at the US southern border plus much more advocates for the bill

1:29.1

need 60 votes to advance the plan and as of right now it's unclear if they can get there.

1:34.4

And even if the bill does make it through the Senate and to the House, House Speaker Mike

1:38.6

Johnson says it is dead on arrival there.

1:41.6

This House Republican opposition brought to you by former

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