hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. joining you live from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy visiting washington, d.c. this week to try to make a personal and desperate plea for his country. ukraine is just a stepping stone for russia. special counsel jack smith is asking the supreme court to take up two constitutional questions in his election subversion trial against former president trump. they know this is a case that question has never been decided. israel says after two months of fighting it is still battling hamas in two different strongholds in northern gaza. the situation is very, very challenging. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, december 12, 9:00 a.m. in london and 4:00 a.m. in washington where the ukrainian president calls the d congressional deadlock a
SSAB has been selected for awards negotiations for up to 500 MUSD in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for a potential construction of a HYBRIT®
realistic i would argue in these fights, another symbol of how the strategies to these funding negotiations will be. right. and one thing that mitch mcconnell knows, that maybe kevin mccarthy knows but he can t even admit it to himself, better to pass the massive spending bill and blame it on democrats than have republicans, so-called conservative republicans who are anything but i mean i m sorry, i ve just got to say it, their deficit spending under trump was outrageous. but a new republican congress doesn t want to pass a massive omnibus bill and have it on their record. and mitch understands that. i guess some of the republicans will be taking over the house don t. congressional reporter for axios, alayna treene, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. john heilemann, let s just finish up talking about kevin mccarthy really quickly.
there is some disagreement as well, and the big thing i took away from that lunch is where mcconnell and mccarthy really differ. when you look at these funding bills, mcconnell is for this package. he recognizes they do not want to have continuing resolution or short-term funding bill and have to look at all of this again in the new year when republicans are coming in to have the house majority. it s going to really complicate the new term if they do that. while mccarthy on the other hand at least publicly is saying he s still opposed to this, he does not want any republicans in the house voting for it. he s been whipping against it. and so big difference there. and i think, you know, it s just one example of how tricky these negotiations are going to be moving forward when you have potentially kevin mccarthy as speaker. we ll see what happens on january 3rd if he can get the 218 votes. but having someone like him and how he approaches these funding negotiations versus someone like mcc
yeah. well, many republicans agreed with how you used to feel, joe. they hate it too. i think, you know and on both sides both in the house and the senate, people want to go back to regular order. i wrote about how at the senate republican lunch yesterday senate republicans invited kevin mccarthy as well as the heritage president kevin roberts to come and talk about their priorities for the 118th congress as well as, you know, the current omnibus bill but really focusing on what is the future of these funding negotiations, what do they look like, and virtually everyone agreed that it can t be the way they re doing it now. the process needs to be a little more extensionive. it can t be rushing up until these deadlines that we ve seen happen over and over again, and wanting more time to read the bills, more time to look at amendments and to have these votes. of course easier said than done, and there s no they often goes up to a deadline because that s the only way people are abl