And an auto workers strike just revving up. Tox on top of twin jolts that could have consumers hitting the brakes. Sellers on wall street, well, hitting in mass. First to capitol hill where the clock is running out and now fear of a prolonged shut down is beginning to set in. Is there anything that d. C. Can do to stop it . South Carolina Republican senator president ial candidate tim scott is here. Bipartisan texas duo, mike mccaul and henry cuellar. Your world is now. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. We begin with chad pergram on capitol hill on a countdown to a shut down. I guess right now, chad, is looking more and more likely. What can you tell us . Neil, good afternoon. The government is all that shut down right now. Theres no rescue plan out of this culdesac. The house cant approve its own bill to fund the government for a month and bolster Border Security. The vote 232 to 198 with 21 gop nos. One group wants to be more extreme than the other group. So even their effort to pa
Back at their hotels after spending another day interviewing survivors and collecting samples. Theyll be coming home on saturday raising speculation that a strike might be on hold until after theyre safely out of damascus. When it comes to whos with us, our major ally with us in this, british Prime Minister david cameron, whos facing his own resistance, but others say they wont join in the strike without u. N. Support. As we suspect, that wont happen since russia holds veto power on the u. N. Security council. Russia is a big assad supporter. Assads other ally is iran which is vowing to strike israel. As a precaution, theyre calling to issue gas masks. Turkey is constructing bunkers and theyre sending experts to the syrian border. Because there are so many parts,
were looking at this in three sections. First, were looking a the the pentagon, Whats Going On Behind Closed Doors at the white house and finally the role of congress in all of this. Theyre being briefed tonight on u. S. Intel
Indecisive. Feckless. Feckless. On the left, sally kohn, on the right, Newt Gingrich. In the crossfire, senator ben cardin, a democrat and lindsey graham, a South Carolina republican. Is the president being undermined by republicans or by his own decisions . Tonight on crossfire. Welcome to crossfire, im sally kohn on the left. Im Newt Gingrich on the right. In the crossfire tonight, two key u. S. Senators in the ukraine debate. More breaking news out of russia today. Vladimir putin spent his day staging large scale war games near the Ukrainian Border and had the russian navy sink a ship to block in the ukrainians. How did President Obama spend his day . Imposing symbolic sanctions that
will prevent russian thugs and oligarchs from vacationing at disney world. He could get rid of the symbolic liberalism and boost Defense Spending. That might start to convince put than the u. S. Is serious. Look, newt, the president has been taking serious steps all day, but no step seems to be enough t
Restricted zone at the moment. Still so many questions to be answered. And theres going to be a lot of fingerpointing over the next several hours, days and even weeks as this investigation begins to intensify. Lets take a kind of a look back now at all we know. At the top of the hour, thank you very much for joining us, it is 3 00 here on the east coast of the United States. We are following breaking news this hour. Right now it is 10 00 p. M. In ukraine where earlier today the horrifying scene was captured on camera, the moment a Passenger Jet falls from the sky, exploding on impact. The tragedy without a doubt. But was it an accident . Right now it appears very likely this plane may have been intentionally shot down over Eastern Ukraine. We dont know for sure. Theres a lot we dont know. Heres what we know right now. This was Malaysian Airlines flight a boeing 777 traveling from Amsterdam To Kuala Lumpur in malaysian. On board, 295 people, 280 of them passengers. 15 of them crew membe
They dont know yet how far with this. But people are were tired already of this not having a relationship with america and now they will see an opportunity to increase business and things will come from america that will create jobs. People in cuba believe that we have so much in common with america. And with americans. And so this is certainly good for both partners we believe. Cuba plays a very Important Role and now they are expressing how happy they are and they see america with different eyes. So it opens a new market for american producers is good for the American Business with the
congressman, your thoughts as alan gross comes home and the possibility of normalization with cuba. First of all, were always elated when an american gets to come home, so i congratulate alan gross. He got his freedom, he got to spend hannukah with his family. Thats wonderful news. What is not wonderful news is that the families of the brothers to the rescue shootdown, those four wonderful american pat