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
This is cnn Breaking News. Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. This very busy saturday. Im fredricka whitfield. Breaking news this hours, just moments ago, you watched it live right here on cnn, the house voted to pass a shortterm funding bill that will keep the u. S. Government open for 45 days. The bill includes Natural Disaster aid, but does not include funding for ukraine or the border. The lastminute hail mary from House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy seems to have worked in the house, but the shutdown has not yet been averted. It is now up to the u. S. Senate to pass this proposal. Lets get right to cnns manu raju on capitol hill. What is the latest . Youre positioned to talk to anybody who comes and goes. Whats being said . Reporter look, this is a frantic day that a Government Shutdown could be averted after republicans reversed course. Speaker mccarthy capitulated after indicating for some time that he would not move forward with a bill if it did not cut spending
Menendez. We begin this hour with Breaking News from capitol hill. At any moment, we expect the senate to begin to pick on the house bill to avert a government shutdown. However, we have Breaking News about why we have yet to the process began. Nbc news now reporting one senator is holding up the bill, concerned about a to a current. The house passed the 45day stopgap Funding Measure with bipartisan support earlier today, the bill includes money for Disaster Relief, keeps the government open until november 17th, but the bill does not include aid to ukraine. The house vote was a uturn for House Speaker kevin mccarthy, who ditched demands from hard on republicans and relied on votes from democrats to get a continuing resolution over the line. But the bill does not include further aid to ukraine. And that is a problem for democratic senator Michael Bennet. Nbc news says he is reportedly holding out this senate vote on the cr, citing concerns over the lack of funding for ukraine. This is w
Great in my book who are you . No power . No problem. Introducing stormready wifi. Now you can stay reliably connected through Power Outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery backup to keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. Right now on ana cabrera reports, a contentious faceoff on capitol hill, House Republicans holding the first hearing of their Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden, with the country just days away from a Government Shutdown. Plus the split screen moment the president will provide later this afternoon. And seven candidates take the stage for the second president ial debate. Does it do anything to change the race without donald trump there . And later, a suspect now arrested in the murder of the baltimore tech ceo. What more we could learn at a News Conference coming up next hour. Hello, and thank you for being here. Its 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin on capitol hill where just a
8 00 a. M. Pacific, im jose diazbalart. The House Oversight committee is holding the first hearing of the Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. The Committee Says this hearing is focused on the basis for that inquiry. House republicans are presenting evidence they say they have uncovered about the president s knowledge of and role in his familys domestic and International Business practices. The white house has rejected assertion that biden abused his office to enrich his family. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc News White House correspondent mike memoli and paul butler, former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at the Georgetown University law school. He is an msnbc legal analyst. Ali, bring us up to speed of whats been happening so far. Reporter look, this is the first hour, jose, of a very lengthy day on capitol hill, the first Impeachment Inquiry hearing were seeing republicans launch who have got all three Committe