Show, a Government Shutdown averted for now. The republicanled house is near disaster illustrates the dysfunction of our political system. Isnt high time to try and fix it i will ask derek smallwell. Plus how to dueling speeches from President Biden and donald trump this week showed us exactly who they are and whats at stake in 2024. The gops baseless Impeachment Hearing was so bad their star witness shut down their case against joe biden on day one. Good evening, im mehdi hassan. We did in fact end up dodging a Government Shutdown this week. It would have been the 22nd shutdown in less than 50 years. After House Democrats and the non crazy wing of the house gop came together at almost a lastminute yesterday to pass a plan that keeps the government funded existing levels while adding and money for Disaster Relief in tokyo from ukraine. He might want to write the date November 17th and your calendars. Thats when the majority, quote, unquote runs out again. We do this entire dance all ov
And this is dateline. I even got hypnotize once to try and communicate with my mom to see if she could tell me Rachel Anderson had one great passion she loved being a mom so much and with kids at home it was extra scary when someone started stalking her. She got real panicked and she said. I think theres someone outside watching her every move knowing where shes at in her house making disturbing calls suddenly rachael disappeared and the desperate search began. Months went by the case stalled then investigators learned might be bigger and than they ever could have guessed this is whispers that rachael was the victim of something out of hitchcock. Movie a moment of pure evil. And just maybe, a second woman in the crosshairs. If the choices were true then you are married a stranger. Exactly. Hello and welcome to dateline the story youre about to hear our begins too with all too familiar a woman disappears and police put the Men In Her Life under a microscope. Thats how this but as detect
This comes just hours before finding was set to expire, which would have affected millions of americans and their families. Theres lots to get to this hour. Lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and National Reporter sahill kapoor. And we actually heard Michael Bennett speak on the senate floor. What did he have to say . Thats exactly right. Because you will remember that just a few hours ago, we wondered if senator Michael Bennet of colorado would be the one to hold this whole thing up. And certainly, he did provide a hold for about an hour or so, over the idea that no ukraine funding was included in this continuing resolution. Bennett certainly not the only one who was upset to find that that money was not included here. But what he was able to do, by putting this temporary hold on, was extract from leadership, and both the democratic and republican sides, a statement which is sure there would be a future push on ukraine funding in the form of a supplemental.
Sides. Lets cross over now to nbc News White House reporter monica alba to get the very latest. But, in just a moment, we will also get an update from ali vitali as well. Monica, i will start with you. Do we know what the white house is thinking at the moment . Are they waiting, obviously, for this bill to make its way to the president for signature . Exactly, ayman. As soon as it is able to send over to the white house, we are expecting the president to sign this, before midnight, ideally, sometimes, as ali now as well, it can take a bit of a while to do all of the logistics to make sure it is already for the president s signature. But that is the plan. In effect, averting this government shut down pretty close to the deadline. We are journalists. So, we are used to getting close to the wire here. But this is about as close as you can get. And i have to tell, you my conversation with white house officials all day today. They were fully and bracing for the government to shut down. They
They were sweet. Her pride and joy. Im sorry. Its really hard. Pretty, toys, perfect, her twins were her world. They were so precious, the three of them were a tight unit. They were all she had, she was all they had. Then came that awful day. The two beautiful 16yearold girls had come home from school and found their Mother Murdered. They were rocking back and forth traumatized. Disturbed. What had the girl seen that day . Could they provide clues to help crack this case . We knew that nikki had a second boyfriend . Two boyfriends. Yes. Jealousy, passion, revenge. She was fearful, she contacted the police. What secrets might the twins reveal. It was terrifying, is it possible that this could happen. I was shaking. Oh my god, oh my god. You cant even imagine. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Nikki whitehead was a single mom working towards a Brighter Future but that dream died when nikki was viciously murdered. Her death and investigators committed to solving her murder the answer would