Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. Right now President Biden is on his way to new york where hes slated to meet with World Leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, including ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The stakes could not be higher for the ukrainian leader as his country faces an Uphill Battle in its counteroffensive against russian forces. Hes expected to seek more support from the u. S. And its allies. But as the president prepares for another moment on The World Stage, hes facing Major Political headaches back here in washington. House republicans are moving forward with an Impeachment Inquiry against him. When asked about it at the white house earlier this afternoon, he laughed and told reporters his response to mccarthy is, quote, lots of luck. And thats just one fight up on capitol hill. A Government Shutdown is also looming as the deadline to get a Spending Bill passed in congress inches closer. Lets discuss that and m
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about. they were tantalizingly close on the question of money. and that seems imminently fixable. there is not that much money involved. if you have another remember, the shutdown cost us $3 billion, if you had put that $3 billion in you could have solved all of these problems and agreed on some barriers and we would be talking about something more serious and more important to the long range hopes of the country. let me make one other point before you invite patrick in. that is the second issue that s riz benn the number of beds, that s a legitimate issue for the democrats to raise but do they really want these talks to fail over the beds? how many beds that i.c.e. has? that seems to be inviting a view in the public that the democrats would share a lot of responsibility, this thing would whip around and they would share a lot of responsibility for any shut down. i want your take on that, patrick. because we all recall last time around multiple polls showed most americans were blam
the cabinet secretary names popping up in this manner. it is a question of if there is more to this story as we reported about his travels, you taking a security detail to disney and other places. so i think it just remains to be seen what more there is to this story. the condo thing is a problem. it allowed him $50 a night, just for the night he was in d.c. and an energy lobbyist who rented him the property so then it creates this sense of is that really what he should be doing. absolutely. this particular sense it really ties back to the heart of what his agency s function is. that s why this raised a new level of alarm within the white house and those involved in the matters and running the cabinet officials day to day. thanks so much. up next, the dow is way down this morning. we re talking about 500 points. the big drop coming as china hits the us with us $3 billion worth of new tariffs. we ll tell you how it could affect american companies next.