Passed a Stopgap Funding Bill that would temporarily keep the government open for 45 days, if signed by president biden. This comes just hours before finding was set to expire, which would have affected millions of americans and their families. Theres lots to get to this hour. Lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and National Reporter sahill kapoor. And we actually heard Michael Bennett speak on the senate floor. What did he have to say . Thats exactly right. Because you will remember that just a few hours ago, we wondered if senator Michael Bennet of colorado would be the one to hold this whole thing up. And certainly, he did provide a hold for about an hour or so, over the idea that no ukraine funding was included in this continuing resolution. Bennett certainly not the only one who was upset to find that that money was not included here. But what he was able to do, by putting this temporary hold on, was extract from leadership, and both the democratic and re
Honoring 9 11 and raising money for really Great Charities and were having a pickle ball marathon and these guys were doing their last segments, i went out and played for a bit. I think im going to have to join a club. Im going to have to do pickle ball. I had so much fun. L pete, good morning. I want to do it with people, not by myself. Will people play. Youre so fancy with the country clubs. Rachel i didnt say country club. I said pickle ball club. Pete country club guy criticizing you . Pete im the only one that doesnt have a country club. Rachel im going to get all your water polo friends to join my pickle ball club. Will my water polo friends definitely dont play pickle ball. Pete that was described as goat of pickle ball. World champion out there playing as parts of this marathon. The other guy is sixth in the world. I watched you play for a while, actually pretty good for never playing before. Rachel never picked up a racket. Pete never playing a racket sport . Rachel i took ten
get over it. there are dumb days on capitol hill and there are dumber days on capitol hill and this is one of the dumbest i ve seen in a long time. house republicans reacting to a chaotic and at times childish day on capitol hill. we ll take you through what happened straight ahead. plus fulton county district attorney fani willis responds to leaks of video statements from three of donald trump s coconspiratorter in the georgia election interference case. and also ahead we ll preview the high stakes meeting taking place today between president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, november 15th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for joining us. it is a busy day and we ve got a lot to get to. a potential government shutdown in just two days is now looking a lot less likely this morning after the house passed new speaker mike johnson s unconventional stop gap funding bill yesterday largely with the help
reports, breaking news in gaza where new air strikes are posing new danger to already crippled hospitals. a strike reported near one hospital overnight and israeli tanks spotted near another as fighting intensifies near gaza city. the latest from the region as thousands of civilians are caught in the cross fire. also developing this morning, letters containing suspicious powder spent to election workers in at least five states. what we know about these letters and what s being done to find whoever is behind them. also ahead, joe manchin leaving the senate. so is he eyeing the white house instead? hello and thank you for joining us on this friday. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with that breaking news overseas with intense fighting now dangerously close to hospitals in gaza. new video from overnight capturing israeli tanks on the streets of gaza city just blocks away from a children s hospital. and there was an explosion near ano
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