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.
Passed a Stopgap Funding Bill that would temporarily keep the government open for 45 days, if signed by president biden. 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 re
appealing to overt racism. it s a strategy the party hopes there help them defy current political wins and their plan to divide and conquer is playing out in ads across the country. they ve often painted their opponents as others with the ultimate goal of ginning up their political base. big city rapper antonio delgado supports the radical government takeover of health care. [ speaking foreign language ] he s working to infiltrate congress. he s used three different names to hide his family s ties to terrorism. so the big question that we re asking today is, will the politics of fear be a winner for the republican party? joining me now, nbc news national correspondent peter alexander, bloomberg politics national political reporter, sahill kapoor, and tiffany cross. peter, i will start with you. the president was pressed by some of our colleagues yesterday on a few of these false comments he s made over the past few
at the start of the new session boehner needs to worry about his hold on the republican conference especially when two years ago a surprising number of conservatives withheld their votes on the floor in the election for speaker. it turned out there will be a full fledged coup attempt one that fell apart hours before the vote. this year he seems to have a lot more breathing room but that threat will always be there. as for scalise he has a lot of allies is youspicious ofy sies suspicious in the first place. back now here at the table to discuss we have nan hayworth, sahill kapoor starting with you, reporting day to day i don t get the sense that john boehner is seriously in trouble of losing the vote for speaker this week but at the same time there were all those defections two years ago. we talked about it at the top of the show. you were saying, you know, a lot of these scalise is the face of the base in the leadership, so he has to be extra delicate in
push. and during that re-election event yesterday, that fund-raiser at mar-a-lago, the president made clear he has some issues with his own party for investigating him instead of hillary clinton. i ll tell you, it s a rigged system, folks. i ve been saying for a long time, it s a rigged system. and we don t have the right people in there yet. we have a lot of great people, but on certain things, we don t have the right people in there. i want to bring in ryan lizza and sahill kapoor. so the president saying, we don t have the right people in there yet. how did you interpret those comments? well, trump has still not taken on leader of the republican party in the same way that previous republican presidents have. and he is willing at any time to go after the leaders up on the hill, whether it s paul ryan or mitch mcconnell, when he feels