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Right now on early start, Kevin Mccarthys hail mary pass. And the speaker moved the ball forward just days before the u. S. Government is set to shutdown. Plus, pressure grows on the democratic u. S. Senator under indictment, accused of taking gold bars and many other expensive glittery things as bribes. And new this morning, the big breakthrough in hollywood, writers just reached a tentative deal with studios to end their strike. Good day to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im kasie hunt. Its monday, september 25th, shortly after 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, where a government shutdown, just five days away, its 2 00 a. M. Out west, where republican candidates are already starting to camp out ahead of wednesdays president ial debate at the reagan president ial library. And President Biden and former President Trump both preparing to head to detroit, where workers are on strike against the big three automakers. And we havent even gotten to the senator who was busted with wads of illgotten cash and monogrammed jacket pockets. Its a long way of saying this is going to be an incredibly consequential week for our country. Lets dig in. This morning, agencies across the country and americans across the country are bracing for a shutdown that could furlough workers, in addition to travel delays and even disrupt paychecks for u. S. Troops if it continues long enough. Im really concerned about next week, with the government shutting down. If theres a government shutdown, Border Patrol agents are not going to get paid. This is going to i mean, if we think its bad today, just think about what that looks like. Shutting down air Traffic Control training, at the exact moment when the country recognizes the need for more, not less, atc staffing and when we finally got cancellations at a low rate, and air Traffic Control, theyre at a risk doing that job. Its a grim deal. Mariana arfalo, a report for the Washington Post. Mariana, thank you so much for being with us. With the government shutdown, its infighting with the gop. They just cant get it together. In reality, there are consequences with the shutdown. All of my sources tell me it seems inevitable at this point. I mean, are you hearing the same is there any way that there isnt a shutdown this week . Yeah it seems like were heading that way. Kevin mccarthy hasnt been able to strike a deal, very much rebels within this conference. So it doesnt seem its going to happen this week, even if the senate does send one through, i think were headed that way, too. Yeah. Were already seeing these agencies kind of prepare for the shutdown. The reality is a lot of these Essential Workers would still be asked to show up to work. But they wouldnt be getting paychecks regardless. You saw the Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg talk a little bit about how this might affect flight delays. I know, ive certainly dealt with this in my life. I think a lot of americans have experienced those issues. Theyre likely to get worse. We saw during the last prolonged shutdown, yeah, they wanted tsa agents to show up, but a lot of called in sick. Some of them talked about driving uber and a lot of other things to make ends meet, just because they were forced to. What impact do you think this has on those people . But also politically, who gets blamed . Yeah, we saw with the last shutdown, it was chaos at the airports. I remember speaking to real americans saying i couldnt get my kids a birthday present. It draws away from that weeklyo biweekly paycheck. I think its been made clear that its not President Biden doing the negotiations. If anything, i think democrats are going to carry that message across and say this wasnt us that did this, it was a small group of Maga Republicans Agency the president has called them. I think theyre already getting the blame, even from republicans in their own party. Saying you guys are the ones working with democrats even if you shut the government down. Even Kevin Mccarthy is saying this is a really bad plan, well get blamed for this. Lets switch gears i want to talk about senator bob menendez, the new jersey senator under pressure. More and more congressional delegations are calling for him to resign after indicted for this. Any of hughes turned off the tv and havent watched over the weekend, if you havent seen the pictures they really speak for themselves. And theyre worth looking at. Even if you didnt see them before, wads of cash, gold bar, the senators monogram, a convertible that they bought for his wife. The allegations are he took the bribes in exchange as using his powerful role as chairman the Senate Relations committee to help Egypt Committee members that paid him for that and his fellow Democratic Senators seemed to squirm when asked about this over the weekend. Take a look. This is a very serious charge, no terms about it. In terms of resignation, thats a decision to be played by Senator Menendez and the people of new jersey. These are serious charges, ive never seen anything like this, Senator Menendez has to think long and hard about the cloud thats going to hang over his service in the United States senate. Cloud. And Senator Menendez, were expecting him to hold a Press Conference today. He cancelled an event over the weekend. What do you expect what hear from him. He has not backed down. He said hes not guilty and going to fight the allegations that are have been clearly laid out. I expect him to say im not backing down, im going to stay. And he could still say that he will listen to the Many Democrats in new jersey, but it doesnt seem like thats the case so far. And his outliers have also said have said shes incident. Hes done that before. Hes talked through the allegations and succeeded. And i think that he probably thinks that will work for him again. Youre referring to the last time he was indicted. And a mistrial was ultimately declared there. Hes still there. But the reality is democrats in the congressional delegation, many of them would like to sit in the seat. Youve already got one primary opponent. It does seem like this time the folks over at the Justice Department took their time. They marshaled that evidence and, well, the pictures speak for themselves. Mariana alfaro, thank you for being with us. I appreciate your time. Breaking overnight, the strike that had Paralyzed Hollywood for months could be ending the Writers Guild of america say theyve reached a sensitive agreement with Major Television and film studies to end the strike. It could have workers go back to worth as early as tomorrow. The agreement has to be officially ratified. Trump skipping the second gop primary debate. Hes going to the motor city instead. Plus, President Biden heads to michigan this week. Helling doing something no other sitting president has done before. Well tell you that. And the u. S. Has now weighed into the diplomatic showdown between canada and indiaia. vo trade in any iphone in anyny condition for a new iphone 15 pro on us. Only on verizon. Okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. Woo hoo ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. And ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. The golden hour of cold and flu symptoms. Im feeling better. 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The United States takes very seriously these allegations. And, you know, if they prove to be true, it is a potentially very serious breach of the rulesbased International Order in which we like to function. This is something of which were treating we take very seriously and we think its important to get to the bottom of. Cnns max foster joins us now from london with more, max, always good to see you, i hope had you a wonderful weekend. Thank you. Lets dig in here. How could this relation affect the u. S. Relationship with india . This is an incredibly significant thing. Ive got to tell you, its not really something that happens on this continent. Its interesting because the five eyes is a very established mechanism. And its of huge benefit to all five countries involved. Normally, theyre seeing the same bintelligence, thats basically what canada was saying, information came not necessarily from us, perhaps from america, put into the system and thats what theyre basing the views on and thats what Justin Trudeau is saying. Then you ask the question, why arent the other five eyes members coming out in support of canada and accusing india of the same. I think that just speaks to the Global Dynamics right now. All of those countries see india as the counterbalance, the best counterbalance to china terms of global dominance. And that relationship just matters so much to america. The uk, by the way is trying to sign a treaty with india. Unless she see Firm Evidence that this actually happened that india was behind the murder, its very difficult for them to come out. Take your point, its a counterbalance 0 china. From the american perspective, historically, its been a democracy, and the u. S. Has been able to kind of identify with india on that footing. But obviously, the Prime Minister has, you know, shared some authoritarian tendencies that weve seen with donald trump here. Trump identified with him in a way that the current government identifies with a little less. And President Biden identifies with him a little bit less. How does that complicate, you know, how we should be thinking about it, and the action thats the u. S. May or may not take in this context . Well, how the judge of u. S. Will see the nature that allies should be supporting canada. But on the other level, realistic, india is the one way of counterbalancing china. You know, there are many issues that you and i wouldnt agree with, which is blowing up in india. I speak to indian journalists quite regularly. They didnt get about access to modi. And its a big challenge. Economically, india is growing. Its set to become the Third Largest economy in the world. America needs another economy to work with. It also needs a diplomatic ally, a conduit, between china and the u. S. , for example. And theyre all sitting there in washington right now trying to work out how to handle this. They dont want to upset india. They dont want to upset canada. What theyre saying its really important for canada to investigate this. Lets see what the evidence is, theyre not actually coming out and backing canada, even though it might be all based on u. S. Intelligence. Right. I do think it was pretty interesting that david cohen was willing to say this publicly. It does speak to the commitment, anyway, that the u. S. Has, that the information would transfer this way. Because, lets be honest, as we said at the top, this is a pretty remarkable event to take place just over the border. Not something thats terribly common, to make an understatement, shall we say max foster, thank you for being up with us. Thank you. Coming up, Cassidy Hutchinson opening up about the fallout from her january 6 testimony. 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The union and Hollywood Studios reached a tentative agreement sunday. Writers could return to work as soon as tomorrow. Now, lets go to the other big walk jot, that one doesnt appear to have an end in sight right now. President biden is expected to walk the picket line with members of the ate Autoworkers Union tomorrow in michigan as they expand their targeted strikes. Its believed that no sitting president has ever done that before. And it will come one day ahead of Donald Trumps speech to workers in detroit. Trump has been criticizing bidens decision to join the picket line. Trump, of course, Counterprogramming The Debate but Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that bidens move is all about supporting workers. Hes a proworker president. Hes an unapologetically prounion president. You know, not just in contrant to the antiunion policies of the trump administration, but really, with respect to president s of both parties over the last half century. Hes proud of the fact that hes the most prounion and proworker among them. And cnns Jasmine Wright joins us now with more. Jasmine, good morning. What kind of statement does this trip make . Yeah, well, its an extraordinary amount of support that President Biden will offer strikers of the ate auto workers group, really it is unprecedented for a president to go on the striking lines. We havent heard of it so far. So the president basically is going to be making a historic trip on tuesday. Now it also comes after he faced a lot of political structure as the strikers were asking him to do more. We just heard buttigieg call him the most prounion president , and want to see President Biden actually live up to that label. As weve seen over the course of the last three years really bringing in labor movements inside of the white house, holding those events, they wanted to see that in realtime on the picket line, now were going to get to see that, that actually includes Uaw Shawn Fein who actually invited President Biden at the white house. And almost withheld the uaw endorsement of biden. So really this is a test for biden in this space. Now, not a lot of details are very clear going into this trip. We know that the president travels with a pretty large footprint. Probably the white house is still working out the details. Im sure well hear about that today and into tomorrow. We also dont know how long on the ground hell be, how long on the pick the line hell be as we know hes expected at a fundraiser in california later tuesday night. And the white house is revving it up as a show of force for his support in these union negotiations. Something that president s dont normally do, get involved in these disputes. Right. Well, i think the picture is likely to be striking, if in fact, as you note, the Secret Service can figure out how to get him into the crowds safely. Always pretty tricky. But the politics with the unions looking for that endorsement with a person nachs union leader being out there. Jasmine wright, thank you very much for being here this morning. I appreciate it. And time is running out to avoid a crippling government shutdown. How you could feel it. And what senator bob menendez was planning to do today after he was indicicted. For a new iphone 15 pro on us. Only on verizon. [coughing] when caroline has a cough she takes robitussin. So, she can have those one on ones again. Hey jim hey can we talk about your yoga breaks . Sure. Get fast, powerful cough relief with robitussin, and find your voice. Robitussin some people just know theres a podcast about that. 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It doesnt make a lot of sense to me. I think we should show we can govern. And thats what the majority of us all have been doing. Marjorie taylor greene, the hardliner from georgia put out a statement over the weekend said she would not vote to but a defense on the floor over ukraine aid. And matt gaetz is threatening to oust mccarthy as the speaker. And including ally to beat gaetz to the punch. As a matter of fact, i drafted a motion to vacate for the speaker as well. Ive got it sitting on my desk, i said, look, if youre going to do that now, get your games over with, then well get focused on the things that actually matter. Things that actually matter like paying troops, Border Patrol agents, air Traffic Controllers. A shutdown would have to last to october to affect military pay but millions need to brace for their pay to stop next weekend. If there is a hard cliff, then they are forced to come together. And thats what i think we need. We need to have a hard line, that forces everyone to get in the room and pass these bills. I dont want to see a shutdown. Theres no doubt in my mind that the country is heading for a shutdown. No doubt in my mind, he says, Leann Caldwell is joining us, this deadline is fast approaching, and like Congressman Gonzales says this is basically inevitable at this point. What are you reporting . Yeah, absolutely, cakasie, theres very little chance that congress can avert this shutdown. The reason is mccarthy isnt even speaking about a stopgap keep the lights on past september 30th. He knows it cant pass with just republican votes. Hes refusing to work with democrats to get that across the finish line. So, hes basically abandoned it. What hes trying to do is now pass longterm Spending Bills. The Spending Bills that would if you want the government for the rest of the 2024 fiscal year. Hes hoping that buys enough goodwill for his hard right conservatives to come to the table on the shortterm Spending Bill to fund the government for just a few weeks but as mccarthy said, they want to burn the place down. But hes still trying to negotiate with them. Yeah it does seem at this point like its a little bit of a fools errand. And theres really no way for mccarthy to avoid a shutdown, and potentially also, a renewed vote on his speakership. I thought it was interesting that garret graves, one of the negotiators there that was him talking to manu, that you saw there. He said, look, i wrote one, too. Lets try to get this out of the way. Thats what Strategy Leaders have used in situations in the past. Do you think theres any chance that it works with matt gaetz and hardliners that it actually takes air out of their sails . I mean, yeah, thats what happened in 1910 when they want wanted to debate their attracters. Matt gaetzs entire mission in congress is for Kevin Mccarthy to fail. And what the senate is doing right now is they are also going to start to pass a shortterm Spending Bill. Send it to the house, and in hopes to save the government shutdown. But my sources are telling me that there is no way that mccarthy can bring to the floor a senate c. R. Its likely going to have ukraine aid. His conservatives wont accept it. So mccarthy has a choice here. This whole shutdown is his choice. He can work with democrats, or he can refuse to. And hes continuing to refuse to. Because hes worried about his job. So, essentially, cakasie, hes putting his fears ahead of this government shutdown. Its a sharp way to put it. Im glad you brought up the senate. Mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, obviously, hes had public challenges with his own health. Bust historically, hes been someone who has stepped in oftentimes to the breach and worked things out at the last minute because he obviously very much believes that a shutdown is really bad politics for help cans. The relationship between mcconnell and mccarthy, though, is a pretty complicated one. And i dont get the sense that theres a ton of respect for the mcconnell folks for whats going on with Kevin Mccarthy in the house. What do you understand about that and whether mcconnell actually has any leverage or sway to try to convince mccarthy to act in a different way . Mcconnell is one of the least popular republicans among especially on republican voters. Yes. And mccarthy knows that, and thats who most of the house of representatives, the hard base, thats who some of these hardright members represent. And so, mccarthy is under no pressure to negotiate and to work with mcconnell. In fact, a dirty word up on capitol hill right now is whats called the quote uniparty thats where republicans say republicans and democrats in the senate just Work Together and theres no difference between the party. So it actually going against mccarthy. It works against mccarthy, if hes outwardly showing to work with mcconnell now, cakasie. All of it pointing out the inevitability of the a shutdown, at the end of the week, leigh ann caldwell, appreciate it. New jersey senator bob menendez is expected to speak publicly. The new jersey globe said menendez will hold a News Conference today. Hes not expected to resign. In fact, hes expected to sale hes running for reelection in 2024, he does have, we should note, he does already have a republican challenge congressman andy kim. Lets bring cnns analyst joey jackson. Joey, thank you for being here. I appreciate it. I think we should note as far as challengers very quite a few in the new jersey house delegation that would happily take a promotion to the senate. Thats why youre seeing him with calls to resigning not a lot of calls from senators. We know menendez was indicted once before. It ended in a mistrial. This one, though, comes after a years long Justice Department investigation. Theyve been sitting on those incredibly damaming pictures. How damming is this case . Kasie, good morning to you. With the prosecutors as you look at whats in the indictment, very inflammatory indictment, having the gold bars, showing the mercedes and the menendez jacket all over it with money in the envelope. If youre the prosecution, youll say this office was for sale. The reality was that he was engaged with these Business Persons in addition to his wife in order to do favors that are improper, untoward and outlrigh illegal. And he was doing it in exchange for money and everything that weve seen. The defense will Say Something different. They will say that hes a senator. Thats what senators do. Not engage in corruption, but they advocate vehemently for their clients. Yes, as a member of the foreign Relations Committee, he had interest with respect to egypt and what was going on and the success that that government had. And he acted in kind. And with respect to engaging or at least being in federal in State Investigations that he was doing it because it was in the best interest, because he didnt believe in those investigations. So those will be the competing narratives. The challenge will be whether the challenge will be to connect his office to a quid pro quo reality, not part and parcel to what will he was doing as a senator. Im glad you raise that. We should point out, he wasnt just the member. He was first a Ranking Member and the chairman of the foreign Relations Committee which is a much more powerful post, as opposed to being one voice of many on a committee. I guess from my perspective, as somebody who covers politics on capitol hill, im curious, does it matter that theres this sort of foreign element to the legal part of the case. I think from a political perspective, saying, oh, hes helping out a foreign country and abusing his position to do that is not something that typically plays well to an american audience. But what i dont fully have my head around is whether that matters at all legally. Does it . So it will matter, cakasie, because of look of impropriety. And exchanging in the foreign Relations Committee not because it was in the interest of constitts or america, but because of interest of himself. Because of that interest, he was helping the government and loosening up this money that was on hold, et cetera. And all of these actions were engaged in because he was getting paid to do it. Not by the taxpayers, as it relates to his basic salary. But because he was engaged in this corrupt bribery scheme and acting because of that but prosecutors will say, its more. Its not only that but Everything Else he was doing in relating to helping his friends. This wasnt a senator who was in agreement that a federal prosecution shouldnt go forward and installing the people that he could control. This was about the fact that he was all inning people and recommending names to President Biden in terms of who he should appoint as a result of this corrupt scheme. That will be the narrative. Of course, the senator will be vehement saying listen, senators have lunches, they Exchange Text messages and senators get gifts from clients and they do it for a job well done. And the defense will say as a result of his activities there was any quid pro quo. He wasnt doing it because of these things and gifts. He was doing it and engaging in these activities because thats what senators do and you have to be effective. That will be the narrative in court. The one that succeeds will be the one that carries the day. Will he be guilty . Not guilty . Thats the open question. We should also underscore the gifts rule what is they are and arent allowed to take. Are extraordinarily strict. You cant attend a Cocktail Party in washington. They say, if this is more than 25, you need to pay for it. Let us know. Those gold bars are worth more than 25 bucks. Joey jackson, appreciate your expertise this morning. Always. Weve got big new polls out this morning on a hypothetical biden trump rematch. Who appears to be taking the lead coming up next. Plus, trump is skipping another debate. What hes planning. And also ahead, a tentative deal that could affefect the Writers Strike in n hollywood. Its your business, its your verizon. Swords Clashing had enough . No. Arthritis. Here. Aspercreme arthritis. Full prescriptionstrength . Reduces inflammation . Thk the gods. Dont thank them too soon. Ck pain in the aspercreme. 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There are serious signs for President Biden, 42 . 41 in the nbc poll and 56 disapprove. According to nbc. On the republican side, the nbc poll shows trump expanding the field with 40 points. And ron desantis falling by 25 in the last abc survey to 16 in this one. Another sign he has a lot to lose in the next republican president ial debate that is just two days away. The candidates will take the saying at the reagan president ial library in simi valley, vircalifornia, minus tr, hes going to be Address Autoworkers in detroit as he focuses on the general election. And to attend the debate he and the other candidates want him to attend the debate. I hope before january he comes to a debate and participates in that process. But everybodys doing their own strategy. And tomorrow, President Biden is set to hit the picket line with the united autoworkers. Lets bring in cnn National Political reporter areit jon. I want to start with this polling, we should acknowledge it was an extraordinary thing that abc and the post did, saying hey, this poll shows a gap different from the other polls. But if you look at whats built underneath those numbers there is some rough going ahead for the president joe biden. His Approval Rating is very much in the tough spot. And obviously, it does show a dead heat, either way with former president donald trump. His team will argue, hey, hes the only person who has actually beaten donald trump on the ballot. And theyll say this is the reason why democrats shouldnt be looking around for somebody else. What do you see, when you look at these numbers . And what do you think it means for their plans Going Forward . I think that the numbers show that President Biden does have a rough time Going Forward. The poll numbers show theres a lot of disapproval of his job performance. The way hes handled the economy. The way hes handling immigration. And democrats will say, you know, were a year out. These polls can only tell us so much. But its clear he has a lot of work to do to reassure people. We hadnt change his age, he cant change his perception. Youll see republicans arguing that a vote for joe biden is actually a vote for his Vice President kamala harris. So theres a lot of work to be done to show these a vigorous president. That he has the energy to last another four years that he can turn around his approval or disapproval on foreign policy, on immigration. No its all fair what you say. I would say my sources who Support Biden also say hes continuously underestimated. He was all but written off in the democratic primary when he won in 2020. And that he couldnt pull that off again. Well find out, i think, whos right. Lets talk a little bit about the uaw here. Because theres going to be this split screen. Biden is going to be with the uaw on tuesday on the picket line. Youll see donald trump there on wednesday during the Republican Debate clearly executing a general election strategy, as his rivals for the gop nomination are out on stage, out at the reagan library. But what does this tell you about kind of the state of politics, generally, that these voters in michigan, its fascinating to me that the republicans and the democrats both are basically playing to the same aexact audience. While the head of the uaw is holding the endorsement of joe biden, traditionally, that would have gone to the democratic party. Right. Were seeing the uaw president saying our endorsement has to be earned. On the one point, you have biden pushing to the transition of electric vehicles, and the electric vehicles take away employees and manufacturing. And looser labor laws. Then you have trump, really sort of not trying to get the support of the union leaders. Hes trying to go directly to the autoworkers saying, hey, im here for you. When you look at his record in office, he clashed a lot over hose federal appointees and his policies. Both of these candidates have a lot of work to sort of appeal to union members, union leaders, to sort of say, you should vote for me, next year, if im the nominee, actually michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. Of course, those states outline and make up what democrats refer to as the blue wall thats really going to be the heart of the general election next year. Trumps got a primary to get through, as polls show a demanding lead there. Arit john, thank you for being here appreciate it. Thank you for having me. And the months long Writers Strike could finally be coming to an end. Well l have details ahead. Freestyle librbre 2. Try it for free at freestylelibre. Us vo if your Thyroid Eye Disease was diagnosed a long, long time ago you may think your eyes will be bulging forever. Like a nevereing curse that cant be broken. 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