You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good afternoon. A major new deadline hangs over washington and the heads of federal employees across country. Just one week from today the federal government face as midnight shutdown and unless a funding bill can be passed and signed by the president. With every passing hour that looks more unlikely. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy sent lawmakers home for a long weekend after federal agencies becoming a formal process preparing for a shutdown of Military Personnel. Their paychecks could be delayed for weeks as a crisis grows at the Southern Board Perp federal officials sending more resources to help with this weeks surge of migrants crossing into the u. S. Today House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy conceded he has to win over republicans hardliners but hopeful theyll fall in line to pass a Stopgap Spending Measure and prevent a shutdown. Finally agree on this, and shutting down i dont see and cnn chief Congress Correspondent manu raj
good morning, everyone. phil is making jokes before 6:00 a.m. it s friday. we re glad you re with us. five things to know for this friday, september 8th. we want to start with weather breaking overnight. hurricane lee intensify ing int a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 160 miles per hour. that was double what it was 24 hours ago. the big question, is it going to hit the east coast or make a turn and stay in the atlantic. and eight sightings, but an escaped murderer is still on the run. and new overnight, we re hearing from the american trapped 3,000 feet deep in a cave. he says he was very close to the edge suffering from internal bleeding and rescuers saved his life. this morning for if the first time we re expected to see the full report from the special grand jury in georgia. they are investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll see if it has any new information that was not included in the indictments against former president trump and his 18
had an ax to grind or an angle to take and was more political, and i also wonder what the relationship is between certain members of congress and how they re interacting with the justice department. the whole reason we had a special counsel appointed was to take bias out of this. that s exactly what director mueller did. he got even a whiff of it, he removed it from the situation. that s why this happened in july. worried we have elements in the justice department against selectively leaking things at times for political advantage for one party or the other. bad either way, democrat or republicans. and many people believed the fbi was selectively leaking information for rudy giuliani throughout the last six weeks of the campaign, out of the new york fbi office, at least. i d ask you this. the toothpaste seems out of the tube. chunks of americans left and right who actually agree with the president.
i m not sure they d want to go that route and if we didn t tell them, the situation worse. i m not sure where lindsey graham is getting his information and frankly getting the odds. the real problem is a couple of things. one, there is a potential for miscalculation. i mean if we have these bombers flying so close to the north korean coastline, what if someone take as pots shot at one of those? so there s this kind of crisis issue we need to deal with, and i thought secretary tillerson was trying to allude to that, some kind of communication challenge, but instead seemed to go back into the issue of communicating for the purpose of having talks with a apparently no purpose to the talks. seems as if we are totally stuck. that there is no way to change this calculus right now? it s not looking good right now, but certainly we have a chinese president, fresh out of a party congress looking as strong as ever inviting the
still gettable. i don t think the mold is hardened on this yet. right. they re slowly losing it and you can see the blue streak in the cities moving out into the suburb areas s in virginia, they took everything. when you look at alabama, do you say, black swan or, ooh. 48% donald trump approval rating. can t blame that on roy moore? women, true, but you ve got to look at the turnout skewed, really, trump s favorable/unfavorable. difficulty with midterm elections upparty is more juiced. more enthusiastic. secondly, swing voters want to basically put a check on the president, giving the president a blank check. that s the problem for republicans in this midterm. a couple cultural things on capitol hill. my colleague kasie hunt asked paul ryan and interesting question about members using their offices as also their second homes. and that it is actually created an odd atmosphere for member of congress office is also their bedroom.