Hope you have an awesome monday morning. Coy, thanks very much. Thanks to all of you for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good monday morning. Were glad you are with us. Some good news this morning. A deal. One deal. One deal. One of the many deals that needs to be made. Of the 15 deals that need to be made, so far one deal but it is important. Thats right, it is in los angeles. Hollywood were talking about. Lets get started with five things to know for this monday. A tentative deal in the hollywood writers drive strike after 146 days an countless picket lines. But no deal in d. C. Where a shutdown is increasingly likely. The gop still split on a path forward. And bad news for President Biden in a pair of new poles. 56 of americans disapprove of how he is handling the job. And also on the immigration front the mayor of el paso says his city is at a Breaking Point without enough resources to deal with another surge of migrants as mexico mak
Consent to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Gillibrand mr. President , i rise to speak about the mass shooting in texas yesterday. The latest mass shooting in what seems like a neverending gun violence in our country. My heartbreaks for the victims and their families and for the community of Sutherland Springs in texas. We are still gathering all the facts about this specific crime. We are still learning about what happened, how this murderer was able to purchase a gun, whatever his twisted rationale was for walking into a house of worship in a small town and slaughtering more than 20 people, including young children, with an assault weapon. Our incredible Law Enforcement officials are working hard to answer all of that. But the most important fact of all is something we already know very well. This is yet another case where someone on american soil who had three of them have occurred in just the past 17 months. Think about that. In smalltown ameri
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Courtesy that brings about constructive change. Grant our senators a tolerance so that they may not be quick to condemn ideas that differ from their own. Lord, give them such integrity so that their work may be their best whether there is anyone to see it or not. Bless and keep us all. Shine your wisdom upon us, doing for us more than we can ask or imagine. We pray in your great name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell as we all know, the senate has been quite busy. Legislatively, weve been hard at work on everything from budgets to Disaster Relief to Consumer Protections to tax reform. On the nominations front, weve taken strong action to strengthen the judiciary, in
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