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"cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. we're so glad you're with us. a lot to get to on this tuesday, november 14th. president biden's foreign policy set to face yet another major test as he departs today for a high-stakes meeting with chinese president xi jinping. they will be meeting on the sidelines of major economic summit with other global leaders. we're learning of a u.s. fentanyl deal. the president is now urging that those facilities, quote, must be protected. and biden's government is now just three days away from a potential shutdown. a vote to avert it set for today. but the measure includes no funding for either of the two wars his administration is supporting. >> public pressure for biden to maintain his support for israel will be on full, literal display today. a huge rally at the national mall planned with tens of thousands expected to attend. meanwhile, concern is building around donald trump's rhetoric about a potential second term as president. one of his former georgia confidants says she was told trump never intended to leave the white house after his 2020 loss. we have all these stories and angles covered with analysts right here in studio and team of reporters around the world. "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ just hours from now president biden will leave washington and fly to the west coast where he will be meeting face to face with chinese president xi jinping. that will happen today. it's one of the huge foreign policy tests he is facing right now, so many fronts he's grappling with the dire humanitarian crisis in gaza. street fighting intensifies and israeli troops surround gaza's largest hospital al shifa. >> the hospitals in gaza, have you expressed any specific concerns to israel on that, sir? >> well, you know i have not been reluctant in expressing my concerns what's going on. it's my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital. the hospital must be protected. >> the al shifa hospital director said there's no food, water or milk for children and babies. heartbroken images of newborns taken out of incubators due to lack of electricity. the israeli military accused of hamas of storing weapons in hospitals and using them as command centers. the idf brought nic robertson to the basement of a children's hospital in gaza where they say hamas kept guns, explosives and possibly hostages. two reporters covering our story this morning. arlette saenz is at the white house. tell us more about the white house response to what we're seeing in gaza. we saw john kirby from the white house come out after the president made those remarks we just played to try to explain them more. >> reporter: yeah. and the white house is watching these situations happening at the hospitals in gaza. and is aware of the humanitarian impact, the concerns of the state of those hospitals. but president biden there really issued a word of caution to israel as they are conducting their operations around the hospitals. he said that he believes that these hospitals must be protected, that he wants to see less intrusive operations on the ground there in the areas of the hospital. that is something that was echoed by white house national security adviser jake sullivan yesterday when he said the president does not want to see fire fights in the hospital. now the white house national security council spokesperson john kirby yesterday tried to explain there's a high burden that the israeli defense forces have at this time as they're trying to go after those hamas forces but also need to balance the concerns about the civilians and the impact that the fighting around that hospital could have on the situation on the ground there. but this all comes as you heard the biden administration really ramp up their warnings, their concerns about the loss of palestinian lives in gaza. you heard that from secretary of state antony blinken who said far too many palestinians have died in this conflict, but the white house right now is really trying to strike this balancing act not only trying to support israel's right to defend itself, go after hamas but also balance those humanitarian concerns, including around the dire consequences, situation that has been happening at many of those hospitals. >> let's touch on what's happening on the ground in gaza. we're hearing that the two largest hospitals are no longer operating. what more do we know at this point. >> reporter: well, phil, as we have seen over the past few weeks, you have seen hospital after hospital going out of service, going dark in gaza. more than half of the medical facilities that are desperately needed right now have essentially collapsed. the latest that we're hearing, the two largest medical facilities al shifa hospital and al-quds hospital are no longer functioning. they have no power. they have no fuel to run their generators and they have been saying for days right now that they are struggling to keep patients alive. they say that they have lost several patients, including three neonatal babies because they no longer can run their incubators. you have the israelis on the other side saying, well, they believe and they have intelligence, they say, that there is hamas command and control center underneath that hospital. they're not targeting these hospitals that they are going after hamas. you have the palestinian officials. you have hamas. you have doctors all denying that and saying that -- international independent organizations should send missions to investigate these allegations. and then you've got al quds hospital, according to the palestinian who runs that hospital, 300 patients, their family members and medical staff inside that hospital. they say they are surrounded that they are being targeted, they say, by the israeli military, the israelis have denied this, saying that they have come under attack by hamas militants outside that hospital. again, something denied by the palestinian saying there's no armed persons inside that hospital, that there's been no shots fired out of the hospital. they are calling for an urgent evacuation. they are trying to get those patients and their families, phil, who include an american teen, a family we have spoken to in recent days. they want to get them out of the hospital, but they just can't right now. >> thank you so much for the reporting. one of the big issues is the lack of ability for many journalists to be inside gaza. we're going to see from our colleague nic robertson later, he got in with the idf. when you don't have a lot of independent journalists in there it's hard to see what's going on at these hospitals. >> one side versus the other and still a lot of gray area. also, as we mentioned, today tens of thousands of people are expected to gather on the national mall for, quote, march for israel rally in washington, d.c. nearly 6,000 miles away, in israel, families of hostages being held by hamas are marching from tel aviv to jerusalem, calling on their leaders to do more to bring their loved ones home. cnn's oren lieberman is there live. oren, this march in israel, is there a singular message here? what are they trying to convey to the israeli leadership? >> reporter: do whatever it takes to bring the hostages home. that's what we heard from so so many here both in the statements they made in talking to them on the side. you can see a group here behind me, this is the march just beginning. it's starting here. it will go a few miles today, and then it will make its way all the way to jerusalem over the course of the last several days. the families of the hostages have been in hostage square here for the last 11 or 12 days, trying to get answers from the defense ministry on the other side of me where the war cabinet met repeated will. they feel like they're not being heard and their message is not getting through and demanding more asking why the hostages are not home yet and why a deal hasn't been made yet. for them the priority is bringing the hostages home. and the march reminiscent of another march from 2010, an israeli soldier who was captured in 2006, his family marched from northern israel to jerusalem. by the time they arrived there were thousands of people with them putting tremendous pressure on prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the time to make a deal. that's exactly the point here as they demand answers. here is the mother of one of those who was kidnapped. >> i want to ask all the -- in our country, i demand that you will come. we are going to jerusalem, but you will come and talk to us, and we want answers. we want answers. >> reporter: that sense of frustration palpable here as they demand not only some sort of meeting but progress on hostage negotiations. one of those we spoke with trying to keep the hope that he might see husband girlfriend who was kidnapped within a week. >> oren lieberman, please keep us posted. thank you. newly obtained video former trump loyalist who pleaded guilty in georgia reveal conversations about alleged efforts to reverse the 2020 election. what they're claiming and what does that mean for trump's upcoming trial. for the very first time, the supreme court puts new ethics rules in place, but the big question, who is actually going to enforce it? we'll have more next. ♪ this morning new videos obtained by abc and "the washington post" reveal conversations between former trump loyalists about efforts to subvert the 2020 election. here is former trump campaign lawyer jenna ellis telling georgia prosecutors about a conversation with top trump aide dan scavino in late 2020. >> he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, well, we don't care and we're not going to leave. i said, what do you mean? he said, well, the boss, meaning president trump and everyone understood the boss, that's what we all called him, he said the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. we are just going to stay in power. and i said to him, well, doesn't quite work that way, you realize. and he said we don't care. >> this private interview with investigators took place on october 23rd, that's reporting from abc. the next day ellis pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements in the aftermath of the 2020 election. let's bring in cnn john avlon and cnn elie honig. great to have you guys here. how does this proffer statement and get to sidney powell, because there's that one as well, i think in the court of public opinion, it's like wow. but what about in the courtroom? >> so people understand what this is. when we say a proffer statement. this is jenna ellis with her attorney present giving a statement to prosecutors saying here is what i have to offer. my big take away is jenna ellis does appear to be a viable, useful witness for prosecutors. she appears to have come clean about both election fraud and the claim of election fraud being a lie. and her own participation in sort of furthering that. this particular piece of testimony that she gives that she has this conversation with dan scavino where dan scavino says trump told me he's not going to leave. it's really interesting. it's really important. i'm not sure it'se admissible a a criminal trial. it's hearsay. here is what dan scavino told donald trump. i'm not going to turn this into an evidence class. but you have a real battle on your hands to get this statement in actual evidence at a trial. >> i would attend that class just to start. i want to ask you about sidney powell, not just because she acknowledges that she knew absolutely nothing about election law, which is rich on so many levels. but she also talked about white house lawyers repeatedly telling trump he lost the election and his response. take a listen. >> what was president trump's reaction when i guess this cad ray of advisers would say you lost? >> it was like, well, they would say that and then they would walk out. and he would go, see, this is what i deal with all the time. >> see, this is what i have to deal with all the time. the practice gesture, not the articulation, but i think indicating that the people who are giving him real information were seen as being on team normal, not sufficiently in support of donald trump. and his aims to overturn the election. that's where you bring in. i think it's interesting sidney powell being normal. jenna ellis thing, it's so stark to me. this is her -- one of the president's chief lawyers talking about a conversation she had with dan scavino was tight as anything with donald trump. social media, but almost a body how much he travels and is close to the president. i want to use this word advisedly, from a civic sense, scavino saying we're not going to leave, we don't care, in a civic sense evil. it shows contempt for our democracy on the fundamental level. let me connect the dots. it's a foreshadowing the campaign donald trump vuning which is essentially a promising and more authoritarian autocratic campaign, matter of policy and rhetoric. contempt for democracy. contempt for democratic norms. that's the way they're campaigning. that was their mindset at the end of the office, we'll just refuse to leave power on the basis of no evidence after losing all the cases. that's contempt for our democracy. >> john brings up a really important point because it couples with the vermin comment that trump made this weekend about political opposition in his speech around veterans day, it couples with the reporting over the past two weeks from "the washington post" and "the new york times" about trump's plans what he would do at doj, going after political opponents, the administrative state, what kind of lawyers he would surround himself with. >> believe him. take him seriously. take it at face value when he says it. he's saying it out loud and couldn't be more important. phil turns to me when this came out. we hear all these things from donald trump and they tend to roll off your back. phil turned to me on our show friday, that's insane. i said, yeah, you're right. that's the best way to put it. i stand by that. even if it's repetitive and does it over and over it has to be called out and named every single time. it's so dangerous to weaponize prosecutorial power, i held that power in very small sense, you don't realize how much power you have to ruin someone's life, even as a low-level prosecutor like i was. never mind weaponizing the entire justice department. it's scary, legitimately scary. i don't scare easily. needs to be called out. >> last night trump's top two campaign advisers put out a statement about the policies of a next trump administration. kind of saying, hang on, we haven't said -- don't take -- just wait. if it doesn't come out of the president's mouth or not from the campaign, that's not what he has planned. go on the website. the vast majority of what the "t "times" and "post" and cnn have been reporting what trump wants to do in 2025, it's there. it's not made up. >> it's there on the website, comes out of the president's mouth. who are being floated for serious administration jobs. steve bannon on the circus, final episode said one of the people saying we're going to deport 10 million people is a front-runner to be attorney general. and then that troll filter. no, this attempt by -- this is part of the spin the trump campaign keeps trying to do to folks. look, you know, don't believe all the hype. this is a more mature, disciplined campaign. techerred by the experience of having run an administration before. we're moderates in the context -- >> tempered? >> this is the pitch they're making. some people keep buying. it's utter b.s. mie owe anglo, when people tell you who they are, listen, believe them when they keep telling us. >> let's ditch the whole seriously but not literally thing in the trash can for eternity. appreciate it. president biden and xi jinping expected to announce a big crackdown at fentanyl at their highly anticipated meeting happening tomorrow in california. new reporting ahead. new reporting on the fbi probe into new york mayor eric adams and his campaign. what is exactly being looked at herere, accordining to sourcrce. stayay with us.. ♪ c'mon, we're right there. c'mon baby. it's the only we need. go, go, go, go! ah! touchdown baby! -touchdown! are your neighbors watching the same game? yeah, my 5g home internet delays the game a bit. but you get used to it. try these. they're noise cancelling earmuffs. i stole them from an airport. it's always something with you, man. great! solid! -greek salad? exactly! don't delay the game with verizon or t-mobile 5g home internet. catch it on the xfinity 10g network. is this just in hours before president biden's highly anticipated face to face meeting with chinese xi jinping tomorrow in san francisco, there's a key breakthrough on one key issue. you have important meaningful over fentanyl. >> they have been trying to hammer out agreements on a set of issues that the two leaders can talk about. obviously the two leaders, two most powerful countries in the world, this is a critical, highly consequential bilateral meeting the second they have had in person since president biden has been in office. one of the areas where they are on the brink of agreement according to two people familiar with the matter is on the issue of fentanyl. this is a major issue inside the u.s. it's a major issue for inside the biden administration. one of the issues they have been trying to deal with, trying to grapple with are the precursor chemicals that can be put together in mexico to make fentanyl. china has cracked down on actual fentanyl itself but the precursor chemicals are being shipped on a regular basis which are then put together for the fentanyl been so deadly inside the united states. how deadly? well, if you look at this map -- of this chart in terms of how overdoses have risen over the course of the last several years, 112,000 overdoses in the u.s. between may of 2022 and may of 2023, 77,000 of them were due to synthetic opioids or the fentanyl-related crisis. this has been a top issue from a domestic political perspective. republicans asking president biden to take this issue on when he meets face to face with president xi on wednesday. but also, globally. this is something the administration has been trying to key on, what the agreement would entail and it's not finalized yet but essentially the chinese would agree to crack down on the companies that make these chemicals and export those chemicals. u.s. would give them something in return. we'll have to see the details when it's announced. these leaders will talk about a great power competition. there's question about that, one from a relationship perspective in a very, very low place over the course of the last year or so. one of the critical issues, one of the critical agreements that u.s. officials say they absolutely want to secure along with fentanyl is on restoring military to military communication, basically broke off all together after speaker nancy pelosi traveled to taiwan back in august of 2022, trying to restore that finally at this meeting also the issue of taiwan, always a hot-button issue between these two countries. climate change, an area where they can have agreements with on china in trying to mitigate conflicts. at least manage them, understand where both sides stand. that more than anything else at this stage with this type of tension around the globe, not just between china and the united states but the middle east, obviously in europe as well, that relationship, the ability just to communicate, that more than anything else is what u.s. officials are seeking. i want to bring in cnn's mark stewart who joins us live from beijing right now. mark, what's your sense of, we have some idea of what the u.s. wants in terms of deliverables. what does president xi want out of this bilateral meeting? >> reporter: well, let's first talk about these military issues that you raised, phil, because certainly they are top of mind. and i think that we will see xi really emphasize to president biden that taiwan is their's. he also will likely raise some objections to some of the aerial surveillance that we have seen from the united states over the straits of taiwan, over the south china se. i was talking to one analyst recently and he pointed out the fact that this relationship between the u.s. and china is one that could quickly spin out of control. and china, in particular, does realize that that would be a very bad thing if that were to happen. so, we're going to definitely see this emphasis on guardrails and red lines that cannot be crossed between these two nations. there are going to be some areas, though, where there is going to be fruitful conversation. i'm going to focus on economics. right now the chinese economy is slow growing. it's seen a lot of struggles. there's a real estate crisis here. young people are having a hard time finding a job. so expect president xi to tell president biden that china is open for business. we want foreign dollars. there has been a lot of regulation in the past, but perhaps we can make things easier. also, expect to see president xi really emphasize the fact of a successful trade relationship between the united states and china. this is a money-making venture for both countries. lots of exports on both sides of the pacific. so expect to hear that. but there's going to be some caution as we heard treasury secretary janet yellen said this is all about de-risking and not de-coupling, phil. >> that's the phrase. marc stewart, always good to see you, my friend. thank you. it appears that huge fire that closed that really busy freeway in los angeles was set intentionally, according to the governor of california. we have new details on when the freeway can expect to be opened. also, former speaker nancy pelosi's husband publicly recounts what he felt when a man with a hammer attacked him in his own hohome. stayay with us. ♪ welcome back. that huge industrial fire that forced the closure of a major freeway in los angeles was intentionally set. that's according to california governor gavin newsom. >> they finished that investigation up about 12 hours early. and they made a determination, a preliminary determination, there was malice intent. that this fire occurred within the fence line the facility you see behind me. that it was arson and that it was done and set intentionally. >> city officials describe the indefinite closure of freeway 10 as a crisis. prepare for delays, try to take alternate routes. more than 300,000 people traveled on this key freeway everyday. well, officials say the fbi's investigation into new york city mayor eric adams is focussed on campaign money and possible foreign influence. they're reportedly trying to determine whether the turkish government benefitted from 2021 mayoral campaign for adams. fbi is scrutinizing records of chex and wire transfers and also looking to see if adam successfully pressed city officials to allow a manhattan high-rise housing the turkish consulate to open despite safety concerns of the building. adams has a long relationship with the turkish american community and it's no secret he has further political ambitions including potentially the white house. federal agents seized adam's electronic devices early last week. he's not been accused of any wrong doing and will be taking questions from reporters later this morning. well, today the federal trial continues in california of the man charged with attacking paul pelosi, the husband of former house speaker nancy pelosi. yesterday paul pelosi told the jury for the first time in detail the horror that he felt when he was struck in the head with a hammer, attacked inside of his own home. our veronica miracle has more from that trial. >> what's going on, man. >> reporter: for the first time since this violent attack -- >> drop the hammer. >> nope. >> hey, hey, hey. >> what is going on in here? >> we're not getting an answer. >> reporter: paul pelosi recounting the terrifying moments he was assaulted inside his home. [ bleep ] give me the -- >> reporter: pelosi taking the stand in federal court, more than a year after the attack. david depape is accused of breaking into pelosi's home and searching for his wife, then house speaker nancy pelosi. paul pelosi testifying he knew he was in serious danger when he woke up and saw a man with a hammer and ties standing near his bed. he recalled trying to stay calm and not agitate the intruder. he was able to get his phone but said he had to subtly signal to a 911 dispatcher he needed help. >> capital police around? they're usually here at the house protecting my wife. >> put the phone down and do what he says. >> reporter: pelosi testified depape was intent on finding nancy, calling her the leader of the pack. depape would later admit to investigators his true intentions that october evening. >> hold her hostage and talk to her. if she told the truth, i would let her go. if she [ bleep ] lied -- >> reporter: eventually pelosi told the jury he was able to cob vince depape to go downstairs right as police arrived. pelosi said he didn't know what would happen next. he said depape had a hammer in his right hand when he saw the police. so pelosi tried to grab the hammer. that's when he says depape pushed him aside and hit him on the head. pelosi said he remembered waking up in a pool of his own blood. his recovery, he says, is still on going due to a fractured skull, he's relearned how to walk and managed constant headaches and dizziness. depape is facing federal and state charges and facing decades in prison, if convicted. depape's attorneys say that he did attack pelosi, but this case is about the why. they argued that depape's motives are unrelated to pelosi's official duties. it's unclear if depape will testify. veronica miracle, cnn, san francisco. >> we're going to show you live pictures right now from israel where the families of hostages are marching from tel aviv to jerusalem, demanding their government do everything they can to save their loved ones. live report ahead. also happening today, tens of thousands of people set to rally in washington, d.c. in support of israel. and call for efforts to combat anti-semitism. we'll take you therere live. happening right now families of hostages taken by hamas are marching in tel aviv. they will be making their way to jerusalem. they are calling for leaders to do much more to get their loved ones home. also today, tens of thousands of people will rally in washington, d.c. to show their support for israel and to denounce anti-semitism in its alarming rise. it is just the latest example cnn affiliate wesw reports red swastikas found painted on tombstones in a jewish cemetery found over the weekend just outside of cleveland. the police department says 23 tombstones there were vandalized. joining us now is the ceo of the jewish federations of north america. thank you very much for joining us. tens of thousands of people. it will be a huge display of support for israel. fighting against this dramatic rise in anti-semitism. i wonder what you hope it accomplishes. >> well, first of all, i want to say that my grandparents are buried in that cemetery where those swastikas were found, so this is very deeply personal to me and to every member of the american jewish community. we're going to do three things here today. we're going to stand proudly in support of israel. we're going to demonstrate to the leadership of this country, to the congress, to the president. we're going to thank them for their support of israel. we're going to show them that the overwhelming majority of americans support these policies. a poll released today shows 83% of american support israel's right to respond to this atrocity by hamas. and we're going to call on them to continue those policies. secondly, we're going to lift up the faces and the names of the over 240 hostages not just israelis but people of other countries and faiths who have been held for 39 days in inhumane conditions and finally we're going to stand proudly and say we will not be intimidated in our homes, in our communities, in our places of worship. we will stand on the national mall n the most visible place in this country and say america will not stand for this and our community will not stand for this. >> and you are doing this as the anti-defamation league is out with new numbers shows 316 mrs. rise in anti-semitic incidents just the terror attack on october 7th. you have been coordinating with law enforcement ahead of this event in washington, d.c. it's sad you have to given ta lert. i wonder what the security protections are that you've been told and the fact that you needed to have such concern for security of people gathering peacefully. >> well, it is a shame, but we are very grateful to the federal law enforcement agencies, homeland security, the fbi, national park police and of course the d.c. police and the metro police as well, all of whom are looking out for the crowds coming today. and they understand that it is fundamental, that all americans should have the right to come to their nation's capitol to stand at the nation's mall and to express their opinions without fear, just as we should be able to do so in our homes, on our campuses and in our communities and places of worship. >> i thought it was interesting a few days after the terror attack on israel, you told forbes that israel needs to be able to maintain the political support for its response and that when israel engages militarily, that is when opposition starts to rise. according to the hamas-controlled palestinian ministry of health, the death toll of palestinians is over 11,000 now in response to this terror attack. we have heard in the past couple days, president biden saying, quote, hospitals need to be protected we heard secretary of state antony blinken saying far too many palestinians have been killed. i wonder what your response is to the growing daylight between the administration and israel on certain aspects of how this is being carried out. >> you know, every death of a civilian, of an innocent is a tragedy. but the responsibility for those deaths lie with hamas, who are holding the gazans hostage. the israeli defense forces going inch by inch, opening pathways for people to escape. and we have seen the pictures of the hamas terror army literally stopping people, shooting at people to stop them from escaping. that is where the responsibility lies. and as i said, the overwhelming majority of americans understand this and support this. and i know that the biden administration and the congress understand it and support it as well. >> eric what about finally what is happening on college campuses around this country, listen to a part of our conversation . >> i was on my way to the kosher dining hall when i looked down and saw the threats. >> how did you feel? >> i mean, it's terrifying. like this isn't -- this isn't anything that we thought we would ever have to deal with in the united states. >> what action do you think big universities across this country need to take that has not been taken? >> well, every university leader in this country has a responsibility to ensure that no student is intimidated or harassed on campus because of their religion or because of their believes. campuses are supposed to be the places where we can go to meet and to share views. it's a terrible state of affairs and university leaders must do more. but what i want to make sure that your listeners know is that today, on the national mall, college students from every campus in america are coming to stand up, to be proud, to show they're not afraid, and to assert their right to lead in this country. >> eric fingerhut, we'll be watching closely. as i said, one of our colleagues is on the ground covering it as well. i appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> of course. well, the deadline to pass a funding bill and avert a government shutdown now just 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house speaker mike johnson is facing pretty familiar push back from the far right wing from his party. >> i'm disappointed in this bill. i hope it will not proceed as it's currently structured. >> continues the status quo is not going to be acceptable. >> i think it's a failure. i'm not voting for a clean cr. i'm not carrying on nancy pelosi's budget. >> and without enough republicans on board, johnson moved to circumvent them and rely on democratic votes to get the bill across the finish line. that sounds familiar to you is exactly what led to the ouster of the previous house speaker, kevin mccarthy. joining us now national political reporter for the associated press, michelle price and senior cnn anchor john avlon is back with us. so michelle, what's different now? i haven't heard that they're going to try to motion to vacate michael johnson. what changed? >> it's a different date on the calendar. other than, it's hard to know exactly what's different here. the slight difference we have is there's a bit of a honeymoon period for mike johnson willing to give him maybe a little bit of time to strike a deal here. and his deal is this two-tiered proposal, some of the government will be funded until january, some funded to february. it's unclear if that is enough to get him enough support. as you seen, members of his own party not supportive of this and democrats right now are still playing their cards close to the vest. it's not clear they will step up and join with republicans to pass this. >> they also have the scar tissue of what happened after they ousted kevin mccarthy and the fact that johnson is so conservative personally that buys him a little bit of wiggle room. this is the way things get done at the end of the day when you have these margins and this kind of disproportionate on the far right. it's a bipartisan process. that's the spoiler alert. you need democrats for government to function. so welcome to reality. >> can you explain this two-tiered approach to people? i'm serious. january 19th, february 2nd? what's the difference. why would this be more palatable. >> the idea is that we will keep government running in its essential functions in the first tier, right? no shutdown, things people depend on. what will be in place, construction, veterans affairs, transportation and then the more contentious optional things presumably some ideologic wrangling would be kicked to february 3rd, is only three weeks later. let's not overemphasize the amount of enlightenment that will occur during that period of time all against the backdrop of a democrat-controlled senate. it would effectively take a lot of the essential roles and just roll them forward. >> and it's clean and no spending cuts. >> which is why democrats would support it. >> what's great we get to do the countdown in january and february and -- >> can't wait. keep going. >> exactly. >> it was interesting last night there was a proposal on the house floor to impeach the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, a number of republicans have been talking about in the house since they took the majority. the snap impeachment proposal was not passed. it was kicked to a committee. eight republicans voted against it. what did you make of it? >> there was an impeachment inquiry already going on in this committee, so some republicans said they just want to let that process play out. this again feels very similar to the last time we had a shutdown and also had the biden impeachment inquiry pending. so we have republicans who are supposed to be governing who are also having these impeachment inquires are in the background. question of priorities and how they're choosing to spend their time. but representative marjorie taylor greene put that measure out yesterday said she will do it again. this might not be gone for now. >> what did you make of the republicans who voted just to name some of them, ken buck sided with democrats on this, patrick mchenry, a name we know very well now, virginia fox, mike turner? >> i was surprised to see names like virginia fox in particular because usually they would lose no time embracing anything marjorie taylor greene does. what it base kpli is a push to let's do things and something resembling regular order even though this is a stunt process. let's have the committee do it. and that kind of a traditionalist approach. i do want to say, all this stunt impeachment politics which we have seen a lot of is occurring against the backdrop this week of the president biden meeting with the chinese premiere xi. and it just reminds you of the stakes of reality in places where there is common ground getting tougher with china. but yet still they can't push through a funding -- balance proposal pushed by the president with israel funding, ukraine funding and the border wall. something for everybody if you're on the right side of the aisle. it's a question again, you want to demonize is dhs secretary, okay. if you want to deal with the issue, fund it. fund it, border enforcement. fund more judges to expedite asylum claims. those are concrete things you can do to solve a problem unless you just want to demagogue them to death. >> former house speaker patrick mchenry. >> technically, asterisk. >> former house speaker pro tem. >> mattingly just wanted to say pro tem. >> this is the huge question. is there any pathway for ukraine and israel funding going forward? >> israel at least there is some -- more bipartisan support. >> house republicans passed a bill. >> ukraine is a bigger question. so far democrats in the white house say they don't want to decouple those, they want those to go through together. so we'll see if that's something they will crack on. >> they may not want to but will they have to decouple them? >> i think they will. this is the kind of investment that stops vladimir putin from further aggression. the balanced plan is the wise way out of this. everybody gets something. you care about the american border. you care about taiwan and standing up to china. ukraine and israel. that's the path forward that clearly gets bipartisan support, the attempt to decouple is an attempt to scuttle it and trump knee owe isolationist wing that wants to down play ukraine's and dangerous in terms of national security. >> john avlon, michelle price. great to have you. thanks so much. 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