has tried it before. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. congress has until friday night to pass funding legislation to keep the government open. despite his best efforts to avoid a government shutdown, the new house speaker appears to be barreling towards one. yesterday afternoon, house speaker mike johnson released a stopgap spending bill, and unusual to teared continuing resolution that would fund some government agencies until january 2019, and as eight through february 2nd. a vote could come as early as tuesday. this is meant to avoid a messy shutdown right before the holidays, but it is a risky gambit by speaker johnson who has only been speaker for 18 days. his untested funding scheme doesn t contain spending cuts which is a demanded some republicans, and it doesn t contain funding for israel which is a bipartisan demand of the senate and the white house. speaker johnson passed passages already in trouble, he can only lose four votes, and three of his f
just hours ago, the new house speaker, mike johnson, unveiled his plan to keep the government funded. it is a two-step approach, funding some parts of the government until january. others through february. this new plan does not include spending cuts, nor additional military aid to israel. this untested strategy also serves as a major first test for speaker johnson, who has -limited experience with budget battles. he s already getting pushback from his own caucus. texas congressman chip roy saying, today, quote, it s 100% clean and i 100% oppose. nbc confirms roy is one of three republicans already saying no deal. meanwhile, the white house calls this plan, quote, recipe up plan for more republican chaos and more shot down. house republicans wasting precious time with an un-serious proposal that has been panned but members of both parties. nbc news capitol hill correspondent, julie tsirkin, has more. hey, alicia. six days ahead of next friday s government shutdown, deadline
israel, it s not good for the people of gaza. so we do not support that. the prime minister did offer some encouraging words about a possible hostage deal. we are following all the developments there. and the clock is ticking to a friday deadline for a government shutdown. and then you house speaker s hail mary seeming to be deflating by the minute. donald trump once his core tv, demanding cameras for his upcoming trials. plus this you think donald trump is a great president, president? i think donald trump is the king of the world. you ll find out. you think it was a great president? he did and credible job. he did an incredible job and anyone who said he didn t, something s wrong up here. our friends at the good liars, live this hour with what they heard from the maga faithful and trump s legal issues about trump s legal issues, that s coming up later in the hour as well. we begin this hour once again in the middle east and the israel hamas war whe
and chris christie. this part over a number of issues from israel s war with a mosque to abortion donald trump was recently at no-show and said he held a rally in a miami suburb. for the first question of the night of the candidates were asked why they should be the republican nominee for president instead of donald trump. here are their answers. and donald trump s a lot different guy than he was in 2016. he owes it to you to be on the stage and explain why he should get another chance. be sure to explain why he didn t have mexico pay for the border wall, he should explain why he racked up so much debt, he should explain why he should drain the swamp and he said republicans were going to get tired of winning. we saw last night, i m sick of republicans losing. i can tell you that i think is the right president at the right time. i don t think he s the right president now. i think that he put us eight trillion dollars in debt and our kids are never going to forgive us for t
eastern. our thanks to you for let us into your home. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. thank you. i ll see you tonight. i want to mention to viewers nicolle was just reporting on the new u.s. air strikes in syria. we have more on that later but we begin with the big political news right now in america. so tonight i say welcome to the beat with ari melber, and welcome to the beat with james carville, one of our special leadoff guests as we track what is clearly a political earthquake in america. democrats surging to victories as these results poured a win for conservative ohio that s upending politics across that state and the nation today. it puts pressure on the republicans who are squaring off in tonight s debate as nicolle just mentioned. this was a moment that was supposed to go different little you re looking at live shots where they re supposed to be talking. it was a moment the republicans were hoping to discuss better news. but right no