In for alicia menendez. American voices will be back tomorrow. Welcome back to a Special Edition of velshi. We begin this hour with dysfunction in the house of representatives. The federal government will shut down one week from tonight, if House Republicans cannot figure out a path forward to perform their basic constitutionally assigned duties. This chaos and disorder is 100 avoidable in congress if they just do their job. Shut down now seems all but certain if speaker Kevin Mccarthy cannot find convince a faction of farright republicans to sign off on a deal from the government. Today on capitol hill, members of the Roads Committee discussed the path forward for Appropriation Bills that mccarthy plans to put on the house floor on tuesday. Speaker mccarthy is not relying on hope to somehow pull a rabbit out of a head for a solution. I always believe, when you get to the final deadlines, thats when the real crunch. Comes on believing in Human Behavior furthest that have been holding o
Shut down one week from tonight, if House Republicans cannot figure out a path forward to perform their basic constitutionally assigned duties. This chaos and disorder is 100 avoidable in congress if they just do their job. Shut down now seems all but certain if speaker Kevin Mccarthy cannot find convince a faction of farright republicans to sign off on a deal from the government. Today on capitol hill, members of the Roads Committee discussed the path forward for Appropriation Bills that mccarthy plans to put on the house floor on tuesday. Speaker mccarthy is not relying on hope to somehow pull a rabbit out of a head for a solution. I always believe, when you get to the final deadlines, thats when the real crunch. Comes on believing in Human Behavior furthest that have been holding out, no one that crunch time is coming. Even if they say, why didnt all this happen sooner . They are the ones that held it up. Maybe theyll see the pressure and do something differently. Hes relying on Hum
In for alicia menendez. American voices will be back tomorrow. Welcome back to a Special Edition of velshi. We begin this hour with dysfunction in the house of representatives. The federal government will shut down one week from tonight, if House Republicans cannot figure out a path forward to perform their basic constitutionally assigned duties. This chaos and disorder is 100 avoidable in congress if they just do their job. Shut down now seems all but certain if speaker Kevin Mccarthy cannot find convince a faction of farright republicans to sign off on a deal from the government. Today on capitol hill, members of the Roads Committee discussed the path forward for Appropriation Bills that mccarthy plans to put on the house floor on tuesday. Speaker mccarthy is not relying on hope to somehow pull a rabbit out of a head for a solution. I always believe, when you get to the final deadlines, thats when the real crunch. Comes on believing in Human Behavior furthest that have been holding o
getting us warmed up tonight. i think i can speak for all of us in the room when we say we are sending our thoughts to george h.w. bush tonight. he was, of course, a repeat guest at our dinner and is recovering after the hospitalization and the passing of his wife of 73 years. and i was listening to old tapes as i got ready for the dinner and one of my favorites he is talking about the impersonations of him on snl if you remember, president bush took this phone call from someone who he thought was the iranian president but it wasn t. and at the dinner, he jokes that the impression of him was so good and asked him to phone him
r.j. fried, chris licht, and stephen colbert for getting us warmed up tonight. i think i can speak for all of us in this room when i say that we re sending our very best thoughts to former president george h.w. bush tonight. he was, of course, a repeat guest at our dinner and he s been recovering after his hospitalization, and of course the passing of former first lady barbara bush, his wife of 73 years. and i was listening to old tapes of 41 s monologues as i got ready for the dinner. one of my favorites was where he s talking about dana carvy s impersonations of him on snl. if you guys remember, president bush had infamously taken this phone call from someone he thought was rafsanjani, the iranian president, but it wasn t. at the dinner he joked dana