thousands of actors are set to hit the picket line for the first time in over 40 years. the joint board of the screen actors guild and television and radio artist unanimously approved the action after tense negotiations suddenly broke down. the strike officially began at midnight and coalition of 160 s, are000 actors will join the picket lines since may. now face major delays. biggest stars are showing support for the actors strike. the cast of oppenheimmer, the film s director said the cast left the event to write their picket signs. fran drescher says industry, greed and artificial intelligence are the main reasons for the walk-out. we had no choice. we are the victims here. we are being victimized by a very greedy entity. i am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. i cannot believe it, quite frankly. how far apart we are on so many things. if we don t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble. we are all going
commit to spending caps and may not be in the majority two years from now. nobody gets everything they want in negotiation. take 2 trillion in savings. ashley: lucas tomlinson has more from washington. good morning, lucas. lucas: good morning. salty language from nancy mace. clearing the rules committee passed by a single vote. in the house, 435 will be voting, needs 218 to pass. speaker mccarthy is confident it will. single democrat and 30 republicans say they are against the bill. here is what some who are against the bill are saying. send in one person to go into a room with another person and no cameras there and they come out and say up or down, take it or leave it, that is not a good process. this is about increasing credit card for prospective spending. this is smoke and mirrors, never talk about the interest on existing debt. forget everything else. 32 trillion, one trillion is 30 billion. lucas: there are those saying full speed ahead and want to see th
hill. jon, good evening. the president speaker of the house are expected to talk by phone within the hour. but there is no deal yet. there is no legislative text. members remain in a holding pattern. our job is to make sure the members are well aware there is no agreement. we ve got something we have already passed. we are constantly in touch with our members letting them know. what is being reported mike if there is an agreement will let you know immediately if it. kevin mccarthy promises the house will not vote until everyone has seen the terms of the deal for 72 hours but the house may not vote until midweek. gop members of medics to receive medic democrats oppose that demand. is trying to extort in hold the entire economy hostage in order to make these cuts. the things they re actually proposing do not reduce spending at all. but they are asking for is to introduce something known as work requirements for food and other kinds of social programs. gop members co
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, and we begin this hour with a developing situation in russia near the ukrainian border. the russian defense ministry says 11 people are dead and another 15 are injured after two men or two gunmen, i should say, opened fire on russian military recruits during a training session. russia says the two men were from former soviet states that russian state news agency is reporting the incident occurred during a shooting training session with volunteers preparing for a special operation when the unit was attacked with small arms fire. details are still coming in to cnn at this hour. we ll update you as we get more of that information as it s coming in, but we ll bring that to you just as soon as that story develops. in the meantime, the shooting happened as the violence inside ukraine is once against escalating violently. in just the past week, russia launched hundreds of missile strikes, including yesterday and today in zaporizhzhia. they
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