Borrowied on this property on the banks of the Potomac River just south of washington, d. C. This is said to be the most visited historic estate in the country. Im here to speak about my new book to rescue the constitution George Washington and the fragile american experiment out october 10th. Its really the story of how washington was the Human Embodiment of the document that guarantees our liberty. The u. S. Constitution. I will also moderate an annual event called the founding debates. More on that a little later. But, first, we begin back in washington, about 20 miles from here with a constitutional showdown. Lawmakers on capitol hill are rapidly approaching the deadline to fund the federal government to try to avoid a partial shutdown. The Biden Administration and Congressional Democrats are ready to put 100 percent of the blame for any shutdown on republicans. Particularly House Republicans. Correspondent Mark Meredith starts us off tonight live from the north lawn with that part of the story. Bret, good evening to you, we are roughly 30 hours away from a Government Shutdown. The white house and Senate Leaders urging House Republicans to pass a bill to fund the government at least for a few more weeks. But a handful of republicans saying thats a nonstarter for them. They want spending reigned in, now. Every member will have to go on record of where they stand. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy tonight facing his biggest test yet. His caucus split over whether to fund the government beyond saturday or try to force washington to accept major Spending Cuts while also imposing trump era Border Security policies. I dont think there is a clear consensus yet. If we can get to the right number of votes. Leaders calling on house makers to avoid a shutdown by accepting a deal to fund the government for six more weeks. Shut down the government is not like pressing pause. Its an actively harmful proposition. The white house rejects any blame for the stalemate. Officials declaring federal budget plans were agreed to months ago. The speaker wanted to set top lines. We set them. Now he needs to talk to whomever he needs to talk to the Republican Caucus and live up to that deal. For more than 3 million federal employees a shutdown, even a brief one, will have consequences. Today President Biden reflecting on how it may impact members of the military, many of whom would still be required to work even without a paycheck. When the house fails to fulfill its most basic function, it fails to Fund Government by tomorrow, well have failed all our troops. Taxpayers, too, will be impacted. National parks will close. Getting a passport could take a lot longer. Reaching the irrelevancy by phone wont happen and americans who rely on social assistance, including some food programs, could be denied benefits. Some Government Workers like tsa agents and protests over not getting paid may even call out sick in greater numbers, potentially creating chaos at airports nationwide. Federal workers who are furloughed are still guaranteed to get back pay but only after a Government Shutdown ends. Will be a little tougher for those on a tighter budget because there would be so much uncertainty. There is one group that is still guaranteed to get paid during a shutdown that would be congress and the president. Bret . Bret Mark Meredith live on the north lawn. Mark, thanks. We are here now in the reading room of the George Washington president ial library here at mt. Vernon its 45,000 square foot print and Electronic Holdings and rare books and man scripts that aid in the study of the washingtons. Its the 10 Year Anniversary of this facility and we will talk about that later in this show. Meantime, other news. The United Auto Workers union says its two week strike against detroit automakers will spread to 7,000 more workers at a ford plant in chicago. And a General Motors Assembly Factory near lansing, michigan. Union president shawn fain told workers on a Video Appearance today that negotiations have not broken down but ford and g. M. Have refused to make meaningful progress. You know, its unfortunate the companies shows to wait almost seven weeks to get serious about bargaining. They put themselves in this position. Expectations havent changed. Our demands havent changed and we are bargaining hard. Bret White House Press secretary Karine Jeanpierre says President Biden wants to make sure that he leaves the specifics of any deal up to uaw leadership. Stocks were mixed today as fears of a shutdown offset softer inflation data. The lowe lost 159. The s p 500 was down 12. The nasdaq gained 18. For the week the dow fell 1 and a third percentage points. S p 500 down three quarters, the nasdaq ga. 06 . What is being called a lifethreatening rain fall event dumped as much as 9 inches in some communities. Katie is in hoboken. Yeah, water is starting to recede here in hoboken. Some starting to recede like this one. Some workers are out trying to free some of the storm drains to give that water some where to go. For people who did make it into New York City or hoboken for new york this morning, getting home is thought challenge for many. Some commuters tell me driving wasnt an option earlier. Many opted to walk or bike to work or school instead. Chaos, cant get into hoboken at all. You had to park in newport to get into hoboken to get to work. Its a snafu. In New York City today comes in as one of the wettest days on record ever with brooklyn and queens hit the hardest. You could see water rushing into subways there. In long island, drivers were rescued after getting stranded in water. Some of those Water Rescue Trucks now staging because we have got more rain on the way with State Of Emergency still in effect here in new jersey and in new york. Bret . Bret katie, thank you. Meantime, in d. C. , the Longest Serving Female in Senate History has died. Dianne feinstein of california was also the oldest sitting senators. He shoe will be known for advocacy of environmental issues, Reproductive Rights and gun control and for her groundbreaking long career in politics. Senior correspondent chad pergram reports from capitol hill. Today, we grieve. [sigh] we look at that desk and we know what we have lost. A dozen white roses on the senate desk of late california democrat dianne feinstein. The senator was a trailblazer. Arriving in the senate in 1992, the year of the woman when voters elected six females to the senate. But it was tragedy which propelled feinsteins career. Both mayor moss connie and supervisor Harvey Motorcycle have been shot and killed. Einstein became mayor of San Francisco after the 1978 assassinations of the mayor and supervisor Harvey Motorcycle at city hall. Feinstein discovered their bodies. The murders shaped feinsteins career driving her to work on gun control. Passing the Assault Weapons ban that 1994. I dont know if it was the steel that was cemented into her at that moment of the mayors assassination or the tragedy and cost of serving and knowing that you still had to move forward. Feinstein was long a member of the judiciary committee, becoming the first member to serve as top democrat. Feinstein lectured Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney barrett at her hearing for a lower court in 2017. The dogma lives loudly within you. And thats of concern. Liberal activists demanded feinstein resign early this year after she missed months due to shingles, confined to a Wheelchair Feinstein voted as recently as thursday. Im so sorry i didnt hug her when she went back out that door yesterday. Female senators paid special tribute to feinstein. Im wearing Dianne Feinsteins famous lipstick. Its about the mouth. The democrats slim majority is now 5049. California governor gavin newsom promises to appoint a black woman to the seat. Bret . Chad pergram live on capitol hill. Chad, thanks. Bret breaking tonight, one of the last living witnesses to the fatal Drive By Shooting of rapper tupac shakur is charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon. It is a long waited breakthrough in the 27yearold case. An indictment coming almost three decades after the crime. Correspondent jeff paul is in our west coast bureau with details tonight. Good evening, jeff. Good evening, bret. Investigators say the work began september 7th, 1996, the night that tupac was fatally shot. But new evidence they uncovered during a recent raid led to an indictment nearly three decades in the making. 27 years. 27 years. For 27 years the family of tupac shakur has been waiting for justice. Police arrested and charged 60yearold dwayne keefey d. Davis with murder. They say while he didnt pull the trigger. Davis was the onsite commander who ordered the death of tupac. In his 2019 tell all memoir davis even admits he was inside the White Cadillac where shots were fired from during the 19 6 Drive By Shooting. Shearts say they new davis was involved for a long time but they just didnt have the solid evidence; however, that all changed when they raided the home of davis wife two months ago where they took computers, photos, and even bullets. It has often been said, justice delayed is justice denied. Its a quote we hear often and for many, many years when talking about our legal system. But not in this case. Today justice will be served in the murder of tupac shakur. When asked about others being charged in tupacs murder, including whoever pulled the trigger, police say all other suspects are now dead. A judge denied davis bail ahead of his arraignment. Tupac was just 25 years old when he was murdered. Bret . Bret jeff paul in our west coast bureau. Thanks. Up next we talk with Pulitzer Prize winner new york columnist tom freidman about the middle east peace effort. If you were to characterize it, are you close . Every day we get closer. Hit it it takes two to make a thing go right it takes two to make it outta sight one, two, get loose now it takes two to make a. Stay two nights and get 5k bonus points. Book direct at bestwestern. Com. Dry skin is sensitive skin, too. And its natural. Treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. Formulated with nourishing, prebiotic oat. Its clinically proven to moisturize dry skin for 24 hours. Aveeno® ma, ma, ma clears throat for fast sore throat relief, try Vicks Vapocool drops. With two times more menthol per drop, and powerful vicks vapors to vaporize sore throat pain. Vicks vapocool drops. Vaporize sore throat pain. Moving forward with node positive Breast Cancer is overwhelming. 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I think we are getting closer to peace every day it passes. 10 years we were talking about normalization with saudi arabia and and i think we look at each other like who has been drinking what . Good irish whiskey. Thats the reason why i have never had a drink. At any rate. Welcome bee bee and hopefully we can get some things settled today. Bret tonight we are taking a look at negotiations between the u. S. , saudi arabia and israel toward normalizing relations between those two middle eastern powers. Joining us this evening, New York Times opinion columnist tom freidman, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes and author of six best selling books. Tom, good evening, thanks for coming. I wanted to get first your 30,000 view foot view of where things stand as of tonight. Yeah, bret. You know, im, i think, both leaders speaking honestly when they said this is closer than ever. But, truly, bret, the devil is in the details. If President Biden, Mohammed Bin Salman and Benjamin Netanyahu can pull off this complicated deal where the United States would provide Security Guarantees for saudi arabia, help them with the civilian Nuclear Program, advance weaponry, saudi arabia would normalize relations with israel. And israel would make concessions with the palestinian to preserve a twostate solution. If these leaders can pull that off, bret, i say they deserve not only the Nobel Prize For Peace but also the nobel prize for physics. Because the complex come comples enor news. The devil is truly in the details. Bret you essentially wrote what really happened at the beth netanyahu meeting and kind of suggested that there was homework given by the u. S. President perhaps to the israeli Prime Minister . The key issue really two key issues. One is the United States helping saudi arabia with a civilian Nuclear Program, with saudi arabia asking to be able to do its own enrichment International Supervision and with u. S. Monitoring. That will be very controversial. It will be controversial in the senate. It will be controversial in the middle east because, for instance, the uae has a Nuclear Program but is not allowed to do its own enrichment. They would actually want the same thing, it will be controversial with israels military as well. So thats a really hot button issue. The truly explosive issue would be what would be the terms that netanyahu would agree to regarding the palestinians that would basically create the environment where saudi arabia would feel comfortable doing this deal . What the president is asking for is some shifting of authorities in the west bank where principallians will be able to administer more territory under their own authority and some kind of freeze and restrictions on settlements that would open way or preserve the way to a Two State Solution netanyahu has the most extreme israel. Who have told him basically, publicly. Not one inch. That they love to have relations with saudi arabia, but they will not pay for it in any way in the currency of concessions territorial concessions or freeze unsettlement with the palestinians. Bret thats the complex physics you are talking about here. I ask the israeli Prime Minister about his right wing coalition. Heres that part of the interview. Bret you have a Coalition First in eight decades in the party platform, essentially it, calls for annexing the west bank. Different words, but thats essentially what it says. So, will you say that thats not going to happen to make this deal work . The coalition is not the issue. When push comes to shove, and we have a historic agreement, that changes the middle east. By the way, i think it changes the world. Then i think everybody will be on board. I think if we want to seize the opportunity, this historic opportunity, we have to do it in the coming months. Bret so, tom, when you heard that, what did you think . That maybe netanyahu is going to take the brass ring and try to make it happen . You did two great interviews with b. B. And mbs that are book ends for this. Look, he is not going to show his hand for one second until he has got a bird in the other hand. That is he know at the end of the day, that he is going to be faced with a choice between annexization and normalization. Which basically means he can get the deal with saudi arabia, most likely, not for sure. You can never you know, be sure what is going to happen here. But you have to blow up his cabinet to get it. Part ways with part of his governing coalition. He is not going to do that until he knows exactly what he is going to get. What it is going to cost him. What his future who his future partners in israel might be. That is what is he weighing. Annexization. Normalization. Staying in power, risking power. Making what would be one of the most remarkable peace agreements, peace between israel and the keeper of the mosque in medina, that would be huge, bret. Bret it really would. Tom freidman. We really appreciate the time. Thanks. Any time, bret. Thank you. Bret the worlds richest man gets a firsthand look at the border crisis. What elon musk had to say about that, next. I told myself i was ok with my moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis symptoms. With my Psoriatic Arthritis symptoms. But just ok isnt ok. And i was done settling. If you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. Rinvoq is a oncedaily pill that can dramatically relieve ra and psa symptoms, including fatigue for some. It can stop joint damage. And in psa, can leave skin clear or almost clear. Rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. 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Scott hall appeared in court today for what the judge called a negotiated resolution as part of that deal hall will receive five years of probation and agree to testify in further proceedings. Meantime in another case, an irs contractor who allegedly stole then president trumps accused of giving the data to the New York Times. Fox is told he also gave information to propublica. He faces five years in prison if convicted. Congressman running the Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden is demanding information about the president s son and brother. The move by House Oversight Committee Chairman james comer came just hours after the fiery first hearing in the proceeding. Correspondent david spunt has the story tonight. Good evening, david. Hi, bret. This is one of the subpoenas are to the business and personal bank records for both hunter biden and his uncle, the president s brother, james biden. This fight may go quickly from the halls of congress to the halls of a federal courthouse. House oversight chairman james comer made the announcement late yesterday. And the reason he announced these subpoenas some 10 months after taking the gavel is because now an Impeachment Inquiry is underway and the courts traditionally look more favorably when this kind of information is requested by members of congress. The bank records come on the heels of that six hour hearing we covered yesterday. The first Impeachment Inquiry hearing into President Biden. House republicans say they are confident they requested bank records will eventually lead to the president himself. A republican source connected to the house probe told fox news just hours ago, bret, to expect more subpoenas or more bank records for more members of the biden family. Bret . Bret and, david, on the President Biden front, there is an update in the Special Counsel case looking into classified documents found at his properties. Bret, thats exactly right. Three Special Counsels. We have heard a lot of news about two of them, jack smith looking into donald trump and david weiss looking into hunter biden. Dont leave out the third robert hur. He has been investigating classified documents found at President Bidens home in delaware in the Penn Biden Center in washington, d. C. The New York Times reporting both Chief Of Staff ron klain and National Security adviser Jake Sullivan have been interviewed recently no. Comment from hurs office other than the case is ongoing and will continue to be ongoing even if the government shuts down in a couple days over the weekend. Bret. Bret all right, david, thank you. You bet. Bret President Biden opted not to go to the southern border yesterday during his visit to the Border States of california and arizona; however, the worlds richest person did make the trip and elon musk has plenty to say about the migrant crisis. Senior correspondent Casey Stegall shows us tonight from eagle pass, texas. Another grueling week for boots on the ground at the southern border. Cbp Officials Say they encountered another 10,000 migrants in the last 24 hours across all Border Patrol sectors. Officials say nearly 2,000 came across in eagle pass, texas alone. Where roughly 5,000 migrants are now in custody held at a facility only designed to house about a thousand. There is no consequences at all. I would love to say there is a little bit. There is not even a speed bump. Late thursday Billionaire Tech Mogul elon musk paid a visit to eagle pass, hosted by republican congressman tony gonzales. Prusk live streamed much of it on his x platform saying he wanted to show people what was going on raw and unedited. If we dont do something soon, we are just going to have, like i said, a collapse in social services. At times, musk questioned congressman gonzalez about what he was seeing, noting some included what he would referred to as pretty extreme individuals. A guy came through who had face tattoos, including tears. Yes. Tattooed on his face it means that they have murdered someone. Yeah. And they are so proud of having murdered someone that they have tattoo one tear on their face tore every person that they kill; is that correct. Thats exactly right. And this person just claimed asylum. Claimed asylum. We let them in. We let them in. In the roughly two and a half hours musk was on the ground here in eagle pass, he did say as an immigrant himself, he is proimmigrant; however, did he make the distinction that they cannot come into the country if theyre going to break the law. Bret . Bret Casey Stegall live in eagle pass, texas, casey, thanks. G. O. P. Leaders in the house say dr. Anthony fauci tried to manipulate a cia report into the cause of the virus that spawned the covid pandemic. The session was apparently kept off the official logbook. Correspondent Gillian Turner has details on that tonight. [gavel] House Republicans probing the origins of covid19 are accusing dr. Anthony fauci of improperly influencing Intelligence Operatives themselves investigating Coronavirus Origins in china. Quote dr. Fauci was escorted into cia headquarters without a record of entry and participated in the analysis to influence the agencys review. Chairman brad wenstrups letter to health and Human Services does not provide a date for faucis visit or source for the information. The new allegation comes in the wake of explosive claims from the same house panel that some cia investigators who initially concluded that covid originated in a wuhan lab were paid off to flip to concluding it originated in nature. They have a Covid Discovery Team that comprised of seven people. Six of the seven people went with the idea this came from the lab. Energy department and the fbi were the First Federal agencies to conclude the pandemics origins were most likely lab incident in wuhan. You are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese Government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. Republicans claim fauci was personally invested in a certain outcome. Tony fauci was partly responsible for tax dollars going to this lab. Fauci himself remained publicly committed to alternative theories. The data that are accumulating now become more and more compelling that the origin was from the wuhan wet market. Cia officials dont comment on specific meetings but they regularly he engage with experts as part of their analytic process. The select committee is now demanding testimony and internal documents from the cia, hhs, and dr. Faucis former office. Bret . Bret gillian, thank you. Bret in tonights whatever happened to segment, we look at sanctions the u. S. And other western countries imposed against russia in light of its invasion of ukraine. While some analysts say they are having an impact on the russian economy, not everyone thinks the Biden Administration is doing as much as it should. Or could. Here is Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot. With russias war against ukraine entering its 20th Month Moscow faces 13,000 economic sanctions. The most sanctioned country in the world. The United States today imposed sweeping sanctions on over 150 individuals and entities in connection with russias unlawful invasion of ukraine. Blocks on imports, exports, companies, banks, slowing and complicating the economy. Certainly having an impact on the russian economy. Russian president Vladimir Putin is wincing. The new realities will require deep structural changes in our economy. I will not hide it. They wont be easy. Still, the invading countrys economy has been able to function. Moscow smuggling or using third countries for its needs and pumping valuable energy to china and india. Some think the Biden Administration worried about Domestic Fuel Prices isnt doing enough. They could be cutting off Russian Energy exports, which is putins lifeline. Also seize some 60 billion worth of yachts and other assets of Russian Oligarchs but, despite hundreds of investigations due to drawn out legal proceedings, only a bit more than 5 million from those assets has been given ukraine as u. S. And other taxpayers pay to maintain them and is not budging the rich anyway. I think afraid to talk about politics because they realize their businesses and their lives are at stake. As for hundreds of Companies Like mcdonalds that left russia due to the war. Hundreds stayed or were replaced. It probably doesnt matter too much for the Russian War Effort whether or not there are American Food products, the russian Food Products on russian shelves. There are signs levies against russia are leaving their mark. A ruble russian inflation. Leader going to pariah nations to get weapons. A Society Jumping through hoops to get basics. The truth that should be pointed out repeatedly to the russian people that this doesnt need to be happening to them. Analysts say the war in ukraine will be won be or lost on the frontline, not at russias bottom line. Still, they also say keep pushing on all fronts. Bret . Bret greg, thank you. Up next, from George Washingtons mt. Vernon, we talk to the man in charge of the library here about the first president s life and legacy and what it means today. Youre replacing me . Customize and save with liberty bibberty. He doesnt even have a mustache. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Sometimes, the lows of Bipolar Depression feel darkest before dawn. With caplyta, theres a chance to let in the lyte™. Caplyta is proven to deliver significant relief across Bipolar Depression. Unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta treats both bipolar i and ii depression. 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Its not just possible. Its happening. The idea of america. Idea unlike any other in human history. The idea that we are all created equal, that is what the constitution safeguards. Thats what we swear an oath to. We, the American People. We, the american military, must never turn our back on those that came before us. And we will never turn our back on the constitution. That is our north star. That is who we are. And that is why we fight. Bret President Biden and general milley, chairman of the joint chiefs at Retirement Ceremony today. We are at the George Washington estate in mt. Vernon, virginia. Joining us now is doug brad burn, president and ceo of this whole facility. Doug, thanks so much for having us. Thank you, bret, for being here and welcome to mt. Vernon. Bret yeah, its an amazing place and spent some time here. Talk about that in a minute. We just heard about the constitution being referenced a couple times. We often hear it and how important it is to our national identity. This place is important, too. This is the tenth anniversary of this library. You have a lot of people who visit here. Yeah. Well mt. Vernon itself, of course, has been a poll star for American People since the beginning, since George Washington resigned and one of the things that he said when he came back from the presidency i need one more building to build, a building to house my papers. It took us a little longer to get to it but here it is. Its a president ial library for the first president and i would say the best president spent a lot of time here and digging through documents. Amazing stuff that goes his handwritten notes. Its a part of that book coming out october 10th to rescue the constitution. What do you take from those early days and kind of fastforward to washingtons messages to what we can learn from that today . Absolutely. I mean, one of the great things you saw here, of course, was George Washington was copy of the constitution. Which as the first president of the United States creating that office, he is reflecting on his time when he writes i walk on ground. Everybody i do is subject to two interpretations. Everything i do is creating a precedent. For one thing he gives us a vision of leadership in which people are not worried about the 24hour news cycle. They are worried about the 30 year cycle. They are trying to create something that lasts and survives. Secondly, of course, are the words he gave us in his Farewell Address that warns us about the dangers of hyper partisanship. As he always said the constitution is my pollstar. Bret tips from George Washington for a Government Shutdown it. Says one of his greatest strengths was his silence. Washington was largely quiet while presiding over the Constitutional Convention. He probably knew that leaders should often allow others to find their way in difficult discussions about the future. Were in the middle of a difficult discussions as we head into this weekend. Well, thats right. And i think washington would on the one hand he recognized the world that he sees, you know. Because he warned us about hyper partisanship. Even his own cabinet he couldnt get jefferson and hamilton to behave. But it still it still rankled him and he still warned them that kind of behavior will ultimately destroy the Fragile Union that we are trying to create. This is an experiment in selfgovernance. Its hard to do. We cant take for granted that need to work together. Bret and i dont think people fully appreciate how we almost didnt come together as a country. That it almost just never happened. Thats right. Almost a miracle that George Washington used to talk about the constitution itself. Of course that came after eight long years of a war for our independence that could have gone either way. Coming out of retirement to bring the Constitutional Convention together and then actually forming the presidency as he said. It was remarkable achievement. Bret finally, when you have people here and lots and lots of visitors mt. Vernon and here, are they searching for something . Do you think there is a search for what washington talked about, that next leader who could kind of fulfill what he envisioned . I think you are right. And i see it across the country when i go around and talk about mt. Vernon and talk about our mission to help teach people about George Washington. We got to do better job teaching people in this country about our history and why we have a selfgoverning nation. We dont hand it onto the next generation, its not going to survive. Bret doug, we really appreciate it. Thanks for the hospitality. We will be doing the founding Debate A Little Bit later. 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And so what i have directed the members is they were supposed to be out next week. They wont. We are back here finishing our work and we will finish through all 12 aappropriations bills. Bret seems like they are not going anywhere. Lets bring in our panel. Charles hurt, opinion editor for the washington times. Susan page, Washington Bureau chief. U. S. A. Today here at mt. Vernon and morg morgan ortas former state Department Spokesperson joins us on satellite. First, susan, you hear all of this there is just a lot of chaos about where the votes are and how it comes down. There is a zero percent chance we arent going to have a shutdown. We are going to have a shut zown. The only question is what is the road past a shutdown to get the Government Back open again . And i dont think thats at all clear nor is it clear who ends up as Speaker Of The House when that process is over. Bret morgan, you talk about this, and the obviously the votes are very thin for the speaker to hold on to power because of the deal he struck to become speaker. I think thats true. Although i think that moderate republicans are coming even more to the defense of Kevin Mccarthy. Heres what i think is going to happen. You saw 21 republicans vote with the democrat today. So the senate will likely take something up tomorrow. Hopefully they will pass something that can actually be passed in the house. And Kevin Mccarthy may just have to do it with democrat votes. I would say these 21 republicans opened the spigot to make it politically tenable for kevin now to have to go seek those democrat votes to keep the government open. Bret you know, charlie, karl rove comes from a point of view, obviously. He had in his opinion column, this because the chaos caucus as he says wont grow up a shutdown is likely. That Will Hurt America and republicans. This sort of selfabsorbed Performance Art comes with a political cost. I have heard others on the right side, the matt gaetzs and others talk about how the fallout would be politically. How do you see it . Well, i think we have seen a lot of, obviously a lot of Government Shutdowns and republicans are blamed every single time. I do think and if you look back at every one of those shutdowns, in which they have been blamed, and as a result of it, either gotten halfway decent things or nothing at all out of it, they wind up not paying a terrible price in it in the long run. Politically. In the next election. So, i would argue that its important for Kevin Mccarthy and republicans to define what this shutdown is about. And i agree with susan that this thing is a done deal. This was almost a done deal the moment Kevin Mccarthy became speaker. We knew it was going to come down to it this. Its incumbent on Republican Leadership to define what they want it to be about. They need to make it about the border and put democrats over a barrel instead of them. They are going to get blamed for it either way because they dont have the media. Make it about something and win that fight. Bret yeah. Breaking news today is this story that Robert Kennedy jr. Is apparently going to run as an independent in the president ial race. If that happens, and its expected to, r. F. K. Jr. , susan, where is the political fallout on that . Well, its complicated. And its hard fool hardy to predict what happens with Third Party Candidates and who they hurt. I do think the Third Party Candidates and power of kennedy name bigger risk to joe biden than it is to donald trump. When you have a race like this where a Third Party Candidates draw significant numbers of votes, it reduces the number of votes you need to win. And it means a candidate like donald trump who doesnt have a majority of americans but has a hard core support makes it easier for him to prevail. Bret yeah, morgan, you have another line potentially Robert Kennedy jr. And cornel west. I mean, does that provide trouble for democrats . Well, were not done with plenty of other no labels and other Third Party Operations that may run. So, one thing that we can note for 2024 is it is going to be a chaotic year. We will see if trump and biden end up on the ballot. Thats certainly where its headed on the republican side. As we get into Candidate Casino can i certainly say its getting mixed up on the democrat side a lot more than people anticipate. Bret yeah. About that, charlie. I mean, r. F. K. Jr. Gets a lot of looks from republicans. Oh, yeah. Bret want to know how it falls out. Obviously, you know, on paper it looks like its probably going to hurt joe biden more than it would hurt, say, a donald trump. With that said, you know, a big reason why r. F. K. Has enjoyed such huge boom is because he is doing a lot of the things that donald trump did back in 2016. Is he talking about things that youre not supposed to talk about, and he appeals to a it an independent voter the way donald trump did. And so, you know, who knows how you know, it could possibly hurt trump more than we realize. Bret so that kind of threw up our Candidate Casino in the air. How about winners and first and loser. Winner, donald trump, he won the debate he didnt bother to show up for. He is not taken on in a serious way by people who purportedly want to take the nomination away from his increasingly solid gasp. Losers 18 House Republicans who represent districts that were carried by joe biden. This shutdown may not hurt the Republican Party at large. This is very risky for them. Bret quick, morgan, winner and loser . Winner taylor swift. She is really helping her new Football Boyfriend sell more tickets than jerseys. Loser fetterman, he now has to wear pants. All right, winner and loser . Winner baltimore orioles. They just clinched the a. L. East even though they spent the lowest certainly the lowest in the al east on salaries and i think the third lowest in the entire mlb. Losers are the children of the border who are being trafficked this week as we pass new grim historic numbers of invasion. Bret yeah. That is sad, sad. Thanks for being out here at mt. Vernon. Morgan, thank you. Oh, i was waiting for the graphic and the sound. Its friday. Its time for notable quotables. Theres something dangerous happening in america now. The maga movement. I have a radical idea for the Republican Party. We need to win elections. Honestly, every time i hear you i feel a little bit dumber. I have got to admit i have been sleeping with a teacher for 38 years. You have earned a hell of a lot more than you are getting paid now. Do me a favor, just get your union guys, your leaders to endorse me. I dont think anybody is a good couple for her. Might make some good music. Each a Hoochie Coochie man that is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Theyre not crossing into the u. S. Illegally. No doubt about it, our border is secure. Eagle pass area alone, there are more than 60 miles of unpatrolled border. You look at the number of people that have died at the border, thats an american nightmare. Why wont you resign, sir, senator menendez. Because im innocent. I have seen this movie before, the Government Shutdown hurts everybody. He has unfortunately been guilty of loving his child unconditionally. Thats complete and total [bleep] its a lie. President s son only skill is leveraging his family name. Seems like it comes to him like swimming comes to a fish. We will take care of the whales. I havent seen you since you were at my house a couple weeks ago for my hip hop party. Llj cool jay. [laughter] bret one week. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight from mt. Vernon. Thats it cool balanced and unafraid. The Ingraham Angle is next. Laura hi, everyone im Laura Ingraham the Ingraham Angle from washing