administration take to avert this looming catastrophe? former border patrol chief rodney scott and congresswoman claudia tenney joins us ahead. i believe it s about minus 13 out. i m doing ok, the sun is out, feels great. you are supposed to be used to it, but not this, it s frigid. it s not worth it. stay home with the family. went to the grocery store so we won t have to come out. we ll be stuck in the house looking at the snow. john: if folks in chicago tell you it s real cold, it s real cold. at least five people have been killed by the once in a generation storm that has threatened lives and travel plans across the country. john roberts in washington. good to have you here. almost every state is expected to be impacted by the brutal winter storm. more than 200 million americans under warnings or advisories and more than 1.1 million people are without power. subzero temperatures and snow pummelling the midwest. the worst still yet to come for those here on the
Lis on to this story out of florida. A 200mile joyride ended with a highrisk traffic stop. Also, a huge surprise. Deputies say that they were stunned to find a 10yearold boy and his 11yearold sister hop out of the stolen car near gainesville as they surrounded it. Those are the kids with their hands up. Look, the Sheriffs Office says the pair stole their mothers car after she took away their electronic devices. The mom drove three hours from her northport home to pick them up. Police say mom didnt pursue criminal charges. They are not behind bars. Im trying to think what my mom would do. I almost want to be behind bars. Right. Yeah, exactly. I cant imagine. 200 miles away. Why didnt they just go around the corner . It could have been two miles for me. It would have been the same result once i got home, right . Next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. Whats going on . Welcome to cnn this morning. Sunday, september 24th. Im omar jimenez. Im victor blackwell. Thank you for joining
vote on the senate 1.7 trillion funding bill to try to avert a government shutdown some time today. the measure is expected to pass but not without creating some division between house and senate republicans. our panel has a few things to say about that. former senior communications adviser for senator chuck grassley, and former biden campaign surrogate. i thought kimberly strasel yesterday in the wall street journal had an interesting take on the omnibus process, writing never has washington contemplated such a monstrocity, passing off lazyiness, as success, it would be hard to compete with this week s senate show. omnibus is everything broken in d.c., dumped in one steaming
why at this point also give them this gift of meeting with the president of the united states? well, again, there is no meeting to announce. jordan? treasury secretary mnuchin said there might be a workaround for a supreme court ruling that said line item vetoes are unconstitutional. what is that workaround and is that something that the white house is aggressively pursuing that it s going to propose congress take care of? the president outlined friday why he was frustrated with the legislation he was given. it was a massive spending bill handed to him at the 11th hour. you know, spending by congress hasn t really been executed properly since 1996. they vice president had individual spending bills for over two decades. so this omnibus process, the president wants to reform. he s talked about ending the filibuster, a line item veto. it obviously has to pass constitutional muster. he wants to fix the budget
announce. jordan? thanks. treasury secretary mnuchin said this weekend that there might be some kind of work-around for a supreme court ruling that said line-item vetoes are unconstitutional. is that something that he proposes that congress will take care of? the president was very frustrated with the legislation he was given. it was a massive spending bill handed to him at the 11th hour. spending by congress has not been executed properly since 1996. they haven t had individual spending bills for over two decades, this omnibus process the president wants reform. he s talked about ending the filibuster. he s talked about a line-item veto. obviously it has to pass constitutional muster. he wants to fix the budget process. his message to leaders in congress of both parties if something similar happens again,