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Farewell ceremony. We are also following the Breaking News of the passing of senator Dianne Feinstein, and trail blazer, and the longest serving female senator in history. She has been serving in congress sense 1972, and A Storied Political Career Starting in San Francisco. That is where we will begin. She was the first female to serve on the San Francisco board of supervisors is and then became the first San Francisco female mayor. And she had a Lasting Impact to be elected to the u. S. Senate taking over for harvey milk. She helped to pass a weapons ban, and helped to develop lgbtq rights, and helped to develop the amber alert. She worked all of the way up until yesterday, and voting on legislation to prevent the Legislation Shutdown that is looming. Trying to prevent that. We will be hearing from the colleagues, and throughout the day. The Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer called it a very, very sad day. He is expected to speak from the senate floor. We have received a statement from Dianne Feinsteins office from the Chief Of Staff that reads sadly, Dianne Feinstein passed away at her home in washington, d. C. Her passing is a great loss for so many who loved and cared for her, and the people of california who she dedicated her life to serving. Senator feinstein, he goes on the say, never backed away from a fight that was just and right, and at the same time she was willing to work with anyone who she disagreed with if it meant to bettering lives of californians or the betterment of the nation. Few women who can be called senator, chairman, mayor, wife, mom and grandmother. Senator feinstein was a force of nature who made an incredible impact on the country and her moment state. That from her Chief Of Staff. All right. Everybody, we are going to go to dana bash who spent quite a bit of time with senator feinstein. Can you give me a sense, for you, as to what this means in the context of the way in which she got to where she was and the impact, the huge impact that she had, and not just only on the senate, but on women. Well, you just gave a long list of firsts for senator feinstein starting back in San Francisco. Id like to add to some of those firsts, because she was not only the first woman to represent california in the u. S. Senate which happened in 1992, but she was the first female chairwoman of the rules committee, and the first woman to cochair the inaugural committee, and the first female chair of the Senate Intelligence committee. It kind of goes on and on and on, and i was looking back to start with that last one as the chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, and one of the things like many of her colleagues around during the vote to support the iraq war. She was a very important voice because of her role on the Senate Intelligence committee. She said that she read the intelligence and she really believed that Saddam Hussein had Weapons Of Mass Destruction and not based on what she was told, but it was based on the way she read it, and she called it one of my biggest mistakes, and what is the lesson . The lesson is to take it all with a grain of salt. That is really one of the things that is striking and important and a lesson for all of us as people, and never mind those of us who are in washington and covering washington but it is to not only acknowledge your mistakes, but try to learn from them. Dana, i have to jump, because Chuck Schumer is speaking now. Whoever graced the senate, graced the country. She had so many amazing, and wonderful qualities, wrapped up in one incredible human being. She was smart. She was strong. She was brave. She was compassionate, but maybe the trait that stood out most of all was her amazing integrity. Her integrity was a diamond. Her integrity shown like a beacon across the senate, and across the country for all to see and hopefully emulate. Dianne feinstein would typically say when you asked her how was she voting on something. She would say, let me study this issue before taking a position. Let me go home and read on it. When she came back, if she believed the cause of the vote was right, and vital to the issues, there was no stopping her to get it done. She would take on any force, any special interest, any opponent with relentless integrity and would wear those opponents down until she succeeded. Again, her integrity just shown through them, and she won, and she won, and she won. Each time, she made a country a better place. I saw it up close when she passed the assault weapons ban. The nra was a mean spirited and they uzed vitriol against her, but they did not scare her or stop her. Like most of her opponents, they against her while her integrity shown through. I was privileged to pass a bill she brought to the senate, and guide it every strength of the way, and her strength and integrity to fight the good fight. As we went through that bill it became clear to me, Dianne Feinstein was not like the others, she was in class of her own. She championed the violence against womens act, and overseeing the u. S. Against torture, fighting for marriage equality, fighting for reproductive justice, and the list goes on and on. As chair of the Intelligence Committee, dianne fought for what was right, even if it was hard and difficult and took months and years to dig in and find out what actually went wrong. She never stopped. She took on the cia and asserted congress authority into the United States sense of strength and grace. None of the sabering guns rattled her. I remember when a senator tried to put her down in a condescending, and many would say chauvinistic way, she didnt respond shwith anger, but withi three minutes she put this colleague in his place. Within three minutes, she was smiling. Everyone was smiling. She did it smiling and was affable. She was the first woman to serve is on the San Francisco board of supervisors, and the first woman the serve from the state of california and the first woman to serve in Intelligent Committee and list goes on and on and on. Our nation is going to be forever grateful for the senator cyan and not just as a colleague, but as a friend and father of two daughters. Diannes work extended far beyond the senate floor and gave a voice and platforms with doors closed to woman, but she held them open for generations owomen to follow after her. She gave a platform, voice, model for women across the country who aspired to roles in leadership in public service, who want to leave their own park on the world, and who want to this world a better place. Today, 25 women serve in the senate, and every one of them admit that they stand on diannes shoulders. So diannes impact extended far beyond the senate floor, and far beyond poll tics itself. So today, we believe. We look at that desk, and we know what we have lost. But we also give thanks, thanks to someone so rarified, so graceful, so full of presence who served in this chamber and so grateful that someone like that served in this chamber for so many years. In closing, let me just say this, the sign of the leader is someone who dedicates the whole of their spirit for a cause greater than themselves. The sign of a hero is someone who fights for others and endures for others, no matter the cost, no matter the odds, and the sign of a friend is someone who stands by your side to fight the good fight on the good days and on the bad. Dianne feinstein was all of this and more, a friend, a hero for so many, a leader who changed the nation, sorry, a leader who changed the nature of the senate and who changed the fabric of the nation america for the better. As the nation mourns this tremendous loss, we are comforted in knowing how many mountains dianne moved and how many glass ceilings she shattered along the way. America, america, america is a better place because of dianne fein feinstein. Today, i gather with my colleagues in mourning dianne. Senator Chuck Schumer, the top democrat talking about his friend Dianne Feinstein and her desk is cloaked in black with White Flowers on it today. We will continue to follow that and move to the other side of the capitol at the same time, because speaker Kevin Mccarthy is speaking to reporters as well. Listen to this. Thank you. Moments ago, the flags at the capitol were lowered in memory of Dianne Feinstein. As a longstanding senator, she broke barriers and blazed trails for women. Her career was historic. Personally, i worked with the sen for for quite some time, and working together with many bills, but the one that stands out is the water legislation. It was historic, and the first time in california history that in more than 25 years we were able to pass water. It was the win act, and i remember the hours and the nights that wed have to work to try to work through, and the challenges. We come from different parties and different parties, and we put the states first and at the same time Barbara Boxer opposed it. We had more than 70 votes at the time. I believe at the end of the day the trail blazing of the first womanelected mayor even coming from a Different Party inspired women from both sides of the aisle to seek elected office and have their voices heard. My deepest condolences to her office and office staff. Last night, the house did something that none of you sitting here thought that we could do. The number of questions they could take, and the number of weeks about doing Appropriations Bills. I told you not the give up on us, because we wont give up on the american people. We passed three Appropriations Bills for state, home office and security. In all, we have four done, and there is 12 overall to get done. It is the Discretionary Spending every year that the government is supposed to do. We have now in the house passed more than 70 of the Discretionary Spending on appropriations. Need i remind you how much has the Senate Passed . Zero. Not one Appropriation Bill has passed the senate. We have done what many said was impossible. When i became speaker said we will change washington and we did it to keeping commitment to restoring order. Bills that passed committee in june and july have been open for amendments for months. Struggled with a number of members who would not allow it to come up, but i never gave up. 440 amendments were considered on the floor this week. And for those of you who are historians we are the first republican majority to pass the state ops bill, and my entire political career as congress, the republicans never did what they did last night. As we continue to get the conservative wins, and return to regular order, we need a stopgap measure to allow the house to continue to finish their work, to make sure that the military gets paid, and make sure that the Border Agents get paid as we finish the job that we are supposed to do. Another reason for the stopgap is to address President Bidens historic failure on the southern border. This is how bad things have gotten under President Bidens watch. In five days theres been more than 50,000 illegal border crossings. Put that in perspective. In just five days. That is more than twice as much as the average for the entire month in the last administration. A wide open policy hurts america. We have heard it from democrat leaders from across the country, but despite the chaos, the president still wont go to the border. Setting new records everyday. Fentanyl at an alltime high killing americans, and he refuses to go to border. He has been one time in 50 years. One time in 50 years. Hes had more dinners with Hunter Bidens foreign Business P Partners than he has going to the border. Think about that. Something that he has said he has never done, he has done more than going to the border in 50 years as an elected official. He was less than 200 miles from the border this week in arizona. Less than 200 miles. He couldnt even stop by for an 80second photoop. It makes you believe that President Biden is deliberately letting this happen and trying to continue to ignore it. If biden wont visit the border, then why not listen to the elected officials. The mayor of new york said it is going to literally destroy new york. And the leader of new york said that they should go somewhere else. The governor of massachusetts declared a state of emergency. The mayor of el paso city said they are at a breaking point. The mayor of eagle pass, texas, says that the president has abandoned them. And not one of these individuals is a republican. Why does President Biden and the Congressional Democrats ignore the border and their own leaders . That is why i am putting on the floor a stopgap measure to fund the government and secure the border. No longer can the president ignore a problem that he created that Kills Americans every single day, destroys some of our greatest cities and puts states in a state of emergency. Every member will have to go on record of where they stand. Are they willing to secure the border or will they bide with President Biden on a open border and vote against a measure to keep government open . House republicans are working through an Impeachment Inquiry to hold this administration accountable. Yesterday we heard expert witnesses who said there is enough evidence to hold the president accountable. Yesterday, Attorney Turley said there is enough evidence. And the house accountant said that when there is smoke, i look for fire. Why were the bidens and Close Associates receiving millions of dollars of payments from foreign entities and individuals . Republicans have been uncovering the biden family culture of corruption, and we will follow the facts wherever they will lead. Okay. We made a hard turn from the death of Dianne Feinstein and actually something that you dont hear is a very partisan moment there where he talked about working with her to get a water act passed and then he launched into the Government Shutdown blaming everything basically on biden and the democrats. Lets get straight to lauren fox who is on capitol hill, and talk us through what we just heard. There are definite fact checks that need to be made there. Well, the House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy clearly at a point where he knows that he has no good options right now to avoid a Government Shutdown. He walked the press through some victories there, and yes, they passed one with more than 20 republican defections, but none of the bills that he passed last night, naund of those bills would avoid a Government Shutdown, because they are all dead on arrival in the senate, and they only partially fund the full government. Right now, the Mccarthy Focus is to put that bill through congress, and he may not have the procedural votes to get over an initial hurdle which is going to put him in a position where there are no good options right there. You saw there he is trying to make it about the southern border which is a message he is intending for the hardliners who say they want to crack down on the biden administration, but he is arguing if they dont vote for this proposal, then they are supporting the biden administration, but you can see him, and he has done it in the hall over the course of the last several weeks, blaming biden for the shutdown, and of course, mccarthy and biden had a agreement on spending levels which is part of the debt ceiling deal they brokered in may, and yet the House Republicans have continued to mo forward with the individual pieces of the Spending Legislation that are at far lower levels than what was agreed to between the House Republican leadership and the white house. So a couple of things to keep in mind as you are hearing House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy there. Again, the expectation is today, at 11 30, a procedural vote to pass a shortterm Spending Vote with only a few republicans supporting it. As a matter of fact, matt gaetz is on the house Floor Railing against the proposal. He is a key detractor of the speaker, and he has been threatening to oust the speaker if he does not make good on a series of demands that the conservatives have been arguing for. Absolutely. Lauren, stick with us. Let me bring dana bash in on this one as well. Dana, what are you seeing in Kevin Mccarthys attempt at messaging out of this and in the tough moment that in this as i have been describing it as the rock, and him being between a rock and a hard place of his own design . I dont think it is surprising that what you mostly heard there was not about the shutdown and spending. Although, he did talk about it a bit, but it is about hunter biden. It was about joe biden. It was allegations which we should say as we have said and was demonstrated with his hearing that the Oversight Committee had yesterday, that we dont have any evidence that joe biden committed any impeachable offenses, and in fact, some rightleaning legal experts said that under oath yesterday. So the fact that it was a very big part of the remarks is quite telling about where he wants us to be focused and where he wants conservatives who want him to be pushing on joe biden and hunter biden to be focused. It is sort of look over here, and not on the fact that we are hours away from the government shutting down entirely, because of the fact that the House Republican conference is split. Maybe split is too strong. A big enough faction in a very narrow majority is saying that i wont go there on anything, and as you said, he is between a rock and a hard place. That is quite telling. It sure is. Dana, stick with us. To say the least. Thank you, dana bash. To the white house where Priscilla Alvarez is standing by. And what are you hearing from the white house, and new information just into you yes, that is right. This gop stop gap bill that has the Border Security bills, and the white house is shaying that President Biden would veto assuming it got to his desk which you hear from lauren given that the House Speaker doesnt necessarily have the votes, but it goes on to saying that playing the partisan games instead of working in a bipartisan manner to address Emergency Needs is what they are accusing the republicans of doing, and this is a delicate time of the white house when it is coming to the u. S. mexican border, and the border crossings, and what the white house officials are saying that in the white house shutdown, thousands of Border Patrol agents will go unpaid to enforce the border, and also, those who are receiving the influx of arrivals, those cities may not get the funds they need to shelter the migrants in a Government Shutdown, and those are the points that the white house is putting out in anticipation of the Government Shutdown. Also including other agencies such as the Small Business administration which is going to stop processing the Business Loans in Government Shutdown and delays in long term Disaster Recovery, and millions of women and children going without Food Assistance and millions of federal workers not being paid, and some deemed essential, and they will have to work, but they wont get the paycheck. And some of this within the administration, and the wideranging impact it could have on americans throughout the cou country. And as we hear from the republicans, the white house is making clear the consequences here if they allow the shutdown to look like, and what that looks like in the building behind me, some of the senior aides are having to learn the job of the junior aides in case they are furloughed. And also, learning of the passing of Dianne Feinstein. Yes, this is personal to President Biden who served alongside her for 15 years. He called her a pioneering american and true trail blazer, and also, another part of the statement i will read where he says often the only woman in the room, dianne was a role model for so many americans, and she took the job seriously by mentoring so many thousands of women, and many of whom are in my administration, and she had an impact for so many female leaders. Dianne, tough, sharp, and always prepared an never pulled a punch, but a kind and loyal friend, and that is what jill and i will miss the most. Again, the president served alongside senator feinstein when she was elected in 1992 until his election of Vice President in 2002 with the two of them having a very close relationship, and the president is expected to speak soon at a ceremony marking the end of the tenure of general mark milley, and we will see if he addresses her passing there. Sara and kate. Thank you, priscilla. I want to go to dana bash who spent a lot of time with Dianne Feinstein who died at the age of 90, and so she knew her way around the building. And i remember one thing that you heard about her that toughness does not have to come in a Pinstripe Suit, and we found that with her. Yes, and i wanted to take a moment, because a lot happening there. Senator schumer, the Senate Majority leader, and the way that he was understandably emotional, and you dont see that all that often from someone like him, a brash new yorker, and when he turned and looked at her empty desk which we see there, and i mean that is, we have seen this before, and recently when a senator dies, they put the black drape and the white roses on top, and it is a very powerful thing not only for her constituents and americans to see, but for her colleagues who saw her sitting in that seat for so many decades. When Senator Schumer was talking, and you saw senator patty murray behind, and she also came into the United States senate in the year of the woman in 1992. She was the mom in tennis shoes, and that is how she ran, so if you take that, and what you said, sara, that you dont always have to be wearing a Pinstripe Suit to be strong, senator feinstein and the other women in 1992 did really ushered in change. Change didnt go far enough for a long time, and you could argue that it is still not far enough, and it wont be until the number of seats in the United States senate equals the number of, the percentage of women in this country, and not quite there yet, but it is very, very different from when Senator Feinstein First came in. Show had to bear the brunt of so many women who are Trail Blazers which is the word that you will see in every one of the statements coming out today have to do. She took the harpoon, and she had the deal with incredible misogyny and doubting her, because she was a woman. And like a lot of women of that era, she had to work twice as hard to prove that she was good enough to fight for all of the issues that she fought for. For sure. Dana, stick with us if you could, and we have cnn president ial historian tim nef ta neftali joining us as well, and the one line coming from the senators Chief Of Staff which continues to stick with me when he writes few women who can be called senator, chairman, wife, mom and grandmother. Well, for some of those watching today, it might be difficult to remember the challenges that women faced when they sought elected office in this country 30 years ago. There are, i believe, with the passing of senator feinstein, there are 24 women, i believe serving in the senate. Only 59 women have served in the senate in the history of our country. Dianne feinstein has been mentioned as the first woman mayor of San Francisco. For people of a certain age, the memories of november 1978, when Dianne Feinstein showed tremendous poise in announcing to the world that mayor George Moscone and City Su Supervisor harvey milk hadeen assassinated, and the poise and professionalism that she showed is announcing that to the world, it was a reminder that 50 of this country was not fully participating, and allowed to fully participate in the leadership of cities the and states and country. I also remember thinking about her, Great Moments Of Poise and leadership, and that is the Leadership Committee on intelligence. And Senator Schumer mentioned it and pointed to it, but id lick to give a moment about that, because there are many in our country who unfortunately believe there is a deep state, and some kind of the inner government beyond the control of our elected official. Dianne feinstein led an investigation, the most thorough, and comprehensive investigation of the u. S. Intelligence community in the history of our country. Perhaps arguably only to the church committee, but the depth of the investigation of the cias detention and Interrogation Program which many rightfully called the torture program, was amazingly professional, and that committee that is the Senate Intelligence committee by 2012 produced a 6,700 page report, and not all of which has been declassified on the cia black sites and Interrogation Program after 9 11, and what this report did is that it showed the abuse and the extent to which the Intelligence Community had gone too far. It was of course fully sensitive to the challenges that we faced after 9 11, and Dianne Feinstein joined Intelligence Community in january of 2001. She was there throughout the terrible period of 9 11 and afterwards as our country grappled with whatever intelligence we had on al qaeda, and this report was a summation of what the Intelligence Committee had done and not done with regard to al qaeda after 9 11 and it drew lines of what was appropriate and inappropriate action by our Intelligence Community. There are very few countries in the world who could have that kind of the Searching Investigation of the most secret services, but our country did, and it was Dianne Feinstein and her team and her colleagues on the Intelligence Community that made that possible. But there was a tremendous fight on the hill, and president obama found himself on the other side of the report with john brennan, and the public received and able to receive an important part of cia abuse, and this is the achievement of her and the staff, and it may seem like a footnote, but to me, it symbolized her strength and sense of purpose, and professionalism, and showed poise that she had in moments of high tension, and that runs throughout her National Career from 1978 until our loss of senator feinstein today. Tim naftali, our historian, thank you. Again, our senator Dianne Feinstein has died, our trail blazing senator. We will go to break. We will be right back. We have had a lot of news to share with you from the looming shutdown to death of senator Dianne Feinstein and now minutes from now, President Biden is going to speak at a Farewell Ceremony honoring the outgoing chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. He has been in controversy after being appointed with donald trump after the insurrection, and he called a chinese general to reassure the nation about u. S. Stability. And now, looking live right now at this ceremony as it is playing out. You can see that President Biden is sitting there, and the Vice President is there, and the secretary of defense is there, and mark milley is sitting there, and it is a huge moment in a transition as mark milley is going to be heading into retirement, and heading it off into the next chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and big moment for President Biden as he is going to have a new top Military Adviser, but as sara talked about, donald trump has made a practice of attacking mark milley who also was his chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. In a True Social Post last week, you will remember that donald trump called Mark Milley Treasonous and what he had done was so egregious that in times gone by the punishment would have been death. That from the former president about his then top military advisory. President biden spoke out against what donald trump has said, and many people have spoken out against the comments. This is President Biden just yeste yesterday. This is the United States of america. And although i dont believe even a majority of the republicans think that, the silence is deafening. The silence is deafening. Hardly any republican called out such heinous statements. As we can see the president marking the retirement of the top advisory, and can you talk about the legacy that mark milley leaves behind and what we could hear from the president and mark milley . We are expecting a traditional ceremony for a general whose tenure has been anything but traditional. He is the top adviser to the president , and outside of the chain of chaommand, and he is t operate outside of the paradigm, but milley really got sucked into the toxic politics of the trump administration, and in the ways that he was forced to respond to, and he took a number of extraordinary steps of january 6th to safeguard against the president s more concerning or outlandish impulses or to guard against the chaos of the moment. He has become the face of the socalled woke military for many of the critics on the far right. So as milley departs today, he is leaving behind an active debate about whether or not his handling of the chairmanship was sort of appropriate, kind of the break the glass democracy in peril or he leans too far into the domestic politics in a way that may have done damage to the chairmanship. Thank you, katie bo lillis. I want to go to major, and tell us about the peaceful transfer of power we should note. Yes, it is a chairman of the joint chiefs and the correspondent said, he advises the president , and no command of authority, but he has seen some combustible moments and worked for a boss who confused moral courage with military service. He worked as a green beret and he was a warrior, and he took the job because trump thought that he would be the officer who would do what he said all of the time, but he would not obey unlawful orders, and this is where he drew the line. I looked back at some of the speeches that mark milley has given over the years, and i know that you will remember it, as so many people do after the 2020 election, milley was speaking, and he made a point to say clearly, we are unique among military, and we do not take a oath to a king or queen or tyrant or dictator or take the oath to the individual, but we take the oath to the constitution. That is so significant and to the core of what i have learned of covering him and those around him of what of mark milley, and the kind of the like, Military Historian and philosopher and also the military man. Yeah, he combines the elements of being a warrior, and combat veteran, and also intellect. Yes, princeton grad, and hockey player, and the point of the constitution is what he is all about and what he has been all about. He has critic, no question about it. He has made mistakes, but the high marks as time goes on, he will overrule some of the things that has gone on for him. And you talk about standing up to President Trump. To try to secure and basically save democracy. Tell me what that is like in a position that he is in as an adviser who is not supposed to necessarily be pulled into politics, and what that is like and how imrnportant it is, and w he has to fear for his life, and the comments that President Trump has made. We hope that rhetoric boils down, and that incident at Lafayette Park is what he is stained w. Ed with. He knows that he would do it again, and it had retributions throughout the military. And it reminded military what it is like, and he has been using it as a way to be positive, and again, the military exists for control that is going to give orders in the constitution to stand up and say, we are not going to do that. Remind folks that general mark milley, the joint Chief Of Staff, and this is a term that spans administrations, and, you know, the top Military Adviser to a president of the United States, and how important he is, and how critical he s and they are, and they are involved with every decision that the u. S. Makes abroad. Going back to the history of it created after the world war ii, and omar bradley, and general colin powell and his advice was critical to president bush, and this is trusted by the secretary of defense, and someone who is trusted with the president. And unfortunately for donald trump, he didnt know military people, and he took the recommendation, and he thought that general milley would act a certain way, and when he didnt, that is when he had a problem with him. And looking at the live pictures now of the end of mark milleys career if you will as a military man. Can you give us a sense, because this is a lot of pomp and circumstance, and this a longheld tradition, and what is it like on the other end of this, and having a person to say goodbye, and hugging those who have stood by him and working with him. The highest ranking military job there is, and the greatest of honors that the military can pay to this chairman who has this level of influence with the president , and he whispers what we can and should not be doing. This is coming at a time when the challenges are great, and some of the decisions he has been involved with in terms of milley, it is not over. He has been involved in every bit of advice to President Biden and how to support ukraine since the russian invasion, and how does this transition now impact that . What is that like . Well, he has had discussions with general who is coming in, and no doubt he has been forceful with ukraine and the mission of how we should be supporting that. The next chairman is going to be as transformational what he has said in the pass, and what he wants to do. The military reflects society. That how it has to operate, and run by that way, so i think that the new chairman is going to be as effective as general milley was to President Biden. Mayor lyons, thank you for taking us through that with the live pictures there. The incoming general coming in. Are we quiet now . Okay. Announcements are coming. And President Biden is there with Vice President kamala harris, and vit cal votes coming on capitol hill as we are ticking away to the Government Shutdown, and if congress cant get it together and pass a spending bill. We will be right back. To capitol hill. Once again, House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy is defending republican efforts to try to avoid a Government Shutdown as he was speaking to the reporters earlier in the hour as they are racing to the very thing a shutdown, because the House Republican majority is remaining paralyzed in this moment to come to a true and real final solution to avoid, to avoid this shutdown that is coming. There is going to be a vote in likely the next hour to try to move what we will call the lastditch effort by Kevin Mccarthy to get something passed on the house floor. Right now, it does not look likely it is going anywhere. To Priscilla Alvarez at the white house, because we have learned more of President Biden threatening a veto to the white house if it makes it there. Priscilla . That is the key, if it makes it there, with the division of the bill over Border Security provisions, and accusing gop playing part san games. And now, the white house has been warning for days what a Government Shutdown could mean for the federal government as well as americans. That includes for example the Small Business administration not processing new Business Loans in the event of a shutdown, and delays in the longterm Disaster Recovery efforts, and millions of women and children going without Food Assistance and federal workers not being paid and active duty troops not being paid. Priscilla alvarez, thank you so much. We have a lot to talk about, but we are going to a quick break. We will be right back