Good to see you. Im yasmin vossoughian. We got all eyes on capitol hill. High drama, frantic activity, ahead of this midnight deadline. Right, ten hours away. To a possible shutdown of the government. And vote expected to start any moment now. In the house. Kevin mccarthy put forward what he calls a clean Continuing Resolution to end a Shutdown Crisis that he created. Hoping democrats will be forced to vote for. It daring farright members to vote against. It and trying to throw the blame and the problem in the senate slap. Anybody who has watched what has been going on in the past few days knows that the senate did its job in a bipartisan way. I dont know what hes talking about, i have no idea what hes talking about. By the, way as you have these politicians bickering back and forth, millions of people who will be impacted by this potential shutdown, military, border urged, air traffic controllers, all willing to find out if their lives are gonna be upended. Yet again. Full coverage of
Hold a vote on its version of a Continuing Resolution. Speaker mccarthy is now turning to democrats, to support his plan, and shifting blame first for potential shutdown while willing to risk his speakership it would appear. You know, what if somebody wants to remove, because i want to be the adult in the, room go ahead and try. I think this country is too important. I will stand with our military, i will stand our Border Agents, i will stand with those that half to get their medicine from government as well. I think thats too important. We have done 70 percent of our job, where the senate has done, nothing the senate cant even get anything to the floor in time. We can, and you know, what if i have to risk my job, for standing up for the american, public i will do that. We have reporters in place from washington to florida, to cover all of the we are beginning right there with both of those ladies, lets go first to julie tsirkin, the capitol hill. What is happening with the houses effo
Right toward us. Welcome back to fox news live in our second hour, im Jacqui Heinrich are. Griff less than 12 hours to that potential shutdown on a busy saturday, im griff jenkins. We have Aishah Hasnie standing by On Capitol Hill, but first, i believe congressman matt gaetz is speaking. Lets listen to him and see what were hearing. He made another promise to President Biden, he made a third promise altogether to house appropriators. So kevins deal was if he made multiple Con Rah Districtly promises and delayed as long as possible, he could push people up against Shutdown Politics in order to avoid the the program mat ificlevel review that House Conservatives [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] i can tell you, House Democrats are about as interested in this question as all of you are, and they continue to ask me, and and i continue to give them the same answers im giving you with. I want to see the House Of Representatives fund this government not with one up or down vote for all the
Last week, a grand jury indicted u. S. Senator bob menendez. This past week, dozens of members of his own party have demanded his resignation. I have been watching along with all of you as it is citizen and also as his daughter. I will not be reporting on the legal case. That said, my colleagues across msnbc and nbc news, they have aggressively covered the story. Theyll continue to do so as they should. Now, to capitol hill in the possibility that a Government Shutdown could be averted despite todays twist from House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy, the clock, still ticking. No less than six hours to keep the government funded. As we speak, the ball is in the senate score to as the Senate Passed a 45day continuing resolution, keeping the government funded through november 17th. It includes money for disaster relief. It does not include further aid to ukraine. Todays vote in the house was overwhelmingly bipartisan. 335 for, 91 against. This outcome, a lastminute development for weeks hardline Re
I that speaker may not be house to save Kevin Mccarthy, where are you on . This you know, i want to hear a thoughtful discussion, and i dont think democrats have settled on what they are going to do, if its, Speaker Pelosi has said its really up to hakeem to choose the direction in which to go. Quite frankly, i am someone who i am sick and tired of that motion to vacate always being there. It has caused the chaos that caused got us where we are today. It really would have, been if this was closed on Speaker Mccarthys shoulders. Because the small group of dissidents is controlling the house, in two many different pieces of legislation. And for those that like history, im going to tell you to go this weekend while you are watching the continuing trauma. Because remember, only half of the congress has voted. We still so, read the history of speaker cannon, of about 100 years ago, who, it was different drama. But the same kind of drama, many perceived him as weak. But, people were threaten