This is cnn Breaking News. Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on what is seriously a marathon saturday. On capitol hill and wherever you are. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with this Breaking News from capitol hill, where were watching an 11th hour Stopgap Spending Bill potentially come to reality. The house is yet to vote on it, but there are so many moving parts today, youre seeing the minority House Minority leader, hakeem jeffries, who has been using his magic minute to speak to the chamber there, imploring that all of this was avoidable, there could have been some bipartisan effort to keep Government Spending well before this juncture, but here we all are. Lets get to cnns lauren fox on capitol hill. Brand new reporting that you have about not just whats going on in the house, but apparently whats happening in the senate, and how all of this is coming together. Whats going on . Reporter let me paint a picture for viewers at home. Basically theres been a del
the partnership between the u.s. and vietnam. white house correspondent peter doocy is with them on this trip. good afternoon. we ve learned that president biden and china s xi who way back, have not communicating since november. that means that china flew a spy craft over the u.s., president biden ordered it shot down over the waters near south carolina, and still, nothing. and for president biden, it sounds like that s kind of a letdown. president biden, has president xi s absence impacted the summit? would be nice to have him here, but something the president really wants to do here is reform the world bank, give 70-plus developing nation a place to go for loans so they don t wind up on the hook, owing banks in beijing ultra high interest. this isn t about buying anything off today, it s helping provide through multilateral development banks like the world bank and imf, high value and transparent loaning opportunities for lower and middle income countries, many
here is where we begin with a live look at capitol hill where ukrainian president zelenskyy will arrive any moment. he will be making a last-ditch plea to congress to stop stalling and approve billions in additional aid in their fight against russia. lawmakers are deadlocked and time is running out quickly to reach a deal before they go home for the holidays. in an hour zelenskyy will enter the united states capitol speak to the entire senate. later he has meetings with president biden at the white house, house speaker, republican speaker mike johnson. zelenskyy will be facing a much colder reception from republicans compared to less than one year ago when he received this hero s welcome. thank you. [ applause ] that was december of last year when a joint session of congress gave zelenskyy a standing ovation during his first visit of the war. he received an american flag from then-speaker nancy pelosi. lauren fox is live on capitol hill. lauren, it is such a differe
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right now on ana cabrera reports, the largest ever recorded lead so close to the iowa caucuses. new polling this morning showing donald trump well out front five weeks from those caucuses, just as he doubles down on his vow to be a dictator on day one. plus, an 11th-hour reversal. the former president not taking the witness stand today in the massive new york civil fraud trial. what to expect as the case nears the end. later, at least six people killed after tornadoes ripped tlup tennessee. where this extreme weather is heading next. s heading next thank you so much for joining us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with new polling out this morning showing donald trump expanding his lead in iowa five weeks out from the caucus, and more than 50% of iowa republicans now say trump is their first choice. this as the gop front-runner doubles down on his controversial comments about being a dictator on day one. i said i want to be a dic