This is the video that Britney Spears posted to social media. Shes there dancing and as you can see, shes got two large chefs knives. That prompted police in Southern California to knock on her door in a wellness check. Police say someone close to the singer was so concerned about her safety and wellbeing they alerted authorities, but officers never got the chance to speak with spears. Her reps turned them away saying that shes fine. We certainly hope that she is. Cnn tonight with pamela brown starts right now. Hey, i can see why theyre concerned. Thanks so much for that. Good evening, everyone. Im pamela brown. Votes going on at the moment on capitol hill. Youre looking live at the house floor where members are voting on Appropriation Bills, the last one expected to fail and its just another example of the dysfunction pushing this country that much closer to a Government Shutdown saturday at midnight. Amid this parade of dysfunction, its real americans who will be paying the price while the elected representatives who are supposed to be working for you, they arent doing that. If there is a shutdown, 4 million federal employees and more than 1 million active duty troops wont get paid until its over and there could be massive disruption to air travel as Tens Of Thousands of air Traffic Controllers would be forced to work without pay. Talk about a waste of time, what were House Republicans doing today when they could have been trying to resolve all of this . They held the first hearing in the Impeachment Inquiry of President Joe Biden and one of the witnesses called directly undercut the gop narrative by admitting there is no evidence yet that President Biden has committed impeachable offenses. Lets go right to cnns melanie zinona on capitol Hill ReporterHouse Republicans are voting on a package of four different long term Spending Bills. They passed two. We expect the fourth one to fail potentially by a pretty large margin which would be an embarrassing defeat for Kevin Mccarthy and his leadership team. All these bills will be dead on arrival in the senate anyway, but it was an important part of Kevin Mccarthys strategy to keep the government open hoping it would rally conservative hardliners around a stopgap bill, including boosting the border and cutting spending. However, there are no Signs Hardliners opposed to that measure are backing down. In fact, they are digging in and threatening Kevin Mccarthy in the process. Well see how Kevin Mccarthy decides to proceed tomorrow, whether he decides to go through likely what would be another failed vote on the house floor or does he try to cut a deal with the senate where they are working on a bipartisan plan . That carries risks as well because the speaker does not want to be ousted by his hard line members, as they threatened to do if he works with democrats. So a lot on the line for Kevin Mccarthy and Government Funding is hanging in the balance, pam. She was asking him about working with democrats earlier and he would not commit to. That well have to see how it plays out. Melanie zanona, thank you so much. Joining us now, congressman ryan zinke of montana, secretary of the interior under then president trump. Congressman, thanks for your time. The bills tonight voted on are dead on arrival in the senate. Why is Speaker Mccarthy going through these motions . Whats the point . Im not sure they would be dead on arrival because what were talking about is our border and our defense. I cant think of two more important issues right now to make sure we have defense to defend our country. Ukraine is set aside and secondly, the border. A lot of people may not see ukraine every day, but everyone sees the border and this bill addresses the problem, puts the wall in place and gives the Border Patrol and i. C. E. The authority to do their job. What about the senates plan that is advancing, is that dead on arrival . That includes funding for ukraine. Its interesting because the senate has yet to pass any appropriations and were passing them grudgingly so one by one, but at the end of the day the senate is a different body than the house. Our position is were going to curb spending overall. Well get rid of the woke and on defense we set aside ukraine because quite honestly, i think we need a discussion with ukraine. What are the objectives . Whats the plan . Im a former seal and have been in a lot of operations and havent been on a mission where i didnt have an objective and a plan, 130 billion all in. I think its time for the president of the United States to tell us what the plan is on ukraine. You want ukraine handled separately. The Freedom Caucus wants Speaker Mccarthy to urgently reveal the details of his short term Spending Bill expected tomorrow on the floor. What do you know about the bill . Will you vote for it based on what you know now . Theres nothing more important i think than defense of our country and securing our border and, of course, protecting our veterans. Those bills moving forward, im for a small funding stopgap, but it also has to have policy and actually has to have things done with our border. Well see. Well do our part, get the Appropriation Bills out as we said we would. Hopefully the senate gets theirs out. Two different bodies will come together and hopefully in the interest of the country come up with a solution so we dont have to shut the government down. But if the cr fails, as is expected, do you think mccarthy should work with democrats to strike a deal to avert a Government Shutdown . This is an american issue. What were seeing is there are a handful of republicans, but every democrat is voting against this, too. Ive heard the rumor well, its a republican how is there anyone else to blame other than the conference republicans . Certainly we have the majority. Hopefully we pass the Appropriation Bills and the senate picks them up, but youre right. This is a defining moment for me. I look at what the consequences of a shutdown. I secretary and the secretary has a lot of latitude to deal whats essential. I didnt shut down the parks, nor did i shut down permitting inspection. In a shutdown our troops wont get paid. Thats the Petty Officer and corporal arent getting a check and its a break of a contract. We have a contract with our enlisted if they serve and give an oath to the constitution, well train you. Well put you in a position to fight and win, but well give you a paycheck. Right. On that note in a minute well speak to the wife of an active duty Service Member. The reality is there are a lot of people in the u. S. Military who are living paycheck to paycheck. What is your message to them as they are watching this play out and are concerned about how theyre going to feed their families if the government shuts down, which it certainly looks like its a strong possibility of that . Well, all this should be concerned and heres the irony. If the government shuts down, the troops in ukraine and pensioners in ukraine are being paid by the u. S. Taxpayer dollars and our troops arent. So something is really, really wrong in washington, d. C. Lets Hope Americans get together and pass two important bills on defending our country and securing our border. The gop hard liners have always been able to vote to oust the speaker if the government shuts down. If thats brought up to the floor, how would you vote . Have you thought about that . I have and no. What we said we would do is this. We said wed go to regular appropriations. Wed work to get all these bills. Wed let every member have their voice, put them on the floor, curb spending and get rid of the woke and theres a lot of woke. When i say woke in the military, the military is paying for Sex Change Operations and Hormone Therapy to young recruits and no one would have believed it except its true. So status quo as it is, which i think the worst outcome is status quo. So we need to change the way were thinking about our budget and also we need to defend our country and secure our borders and this is a challenge for the Republican Party to rally together, but also america to understand whats at risk. Congressman ryan zinke, thanks for coming on and sharing your perspective. We we appreciate it. Thank you and god bless. It seems less and less likely anybody will put the brakes on the Runaway Train Hurdling toward a Government Shutdown leaving americans to pay the price. If Congress Fails to take action to keep the lights on, nearly 4 million federal employees will go without paychecks until the shutdown is over even though Social Media Workers will have to remain on the job. Air Traffic Controllers and tsa workers will also be working without pay and many may have to call out for work while they try to find other ways to make enough to put food on the table and perhaps most disturbing, 1. 3 million active duty troops across the country and around the world will be forced to work without pay. Now im going to bring in kate marshalllord, a Military Spouse and Communications Director of the secure our families initiative. Kate, you say Military Families are tired of paying the price of congressional dysfunction. Talk to us about that. Yes, absolutely. Congress has failed to pass a budget and were now facing the shutdown and the families that will pay the price are Military Families. When a Service Member pledges service to this country, they expect sacrifices. They dont expect to sacrifice a paycheck. Theres really no excuse for politicians putting their personal agendas over the well being and livelihoods of Military Families. You say nearly one quarter of Military Families face Food Insecurity in recent years. Many are living paycheck to paycheck. What happens to those families if even one paycheck is missed . Thats true. Nearly a quarter. You have to say it multiple times because it is pretty shocking active duty families are struggling so much to put food on the table and worrying to put food on the table when theyre getting regular paychecks. Missing a single paycheck could be devastating. What kind of guidance are these families getting from within the military . Do you think the messaging is adequate giving them guidance on the next steps . Unfortunately i dont. I think theres a lot of confusion in the military community were hearing almost daily, hourly of folks not aware the shutdown is so likely to happen and second, what it means for Military Families, that at this point they will not get a paycheck. I think part of that is its just sort of so shocking we dont expect it to be this way. We expect congress to do their job, to pay Service Members. To this point there has not been adequate messaging for military leaders. People are sort of Finding Information from elsewhere outside the military community. Also wic and s. N. A. P. Benefits, those who receive those benefits would be affected by the shutdown. Tell us about the impact of that because theres many in the military who use those benefits. Thats true. Military families, nearly a quarter, face Food Insecurity. Families rely on federal Services Like wec and s. N. A. P. To make ends meet, to get food on the table for families. We know one in three Military Families have less than 3,000 in savings. So missing a single paycheck could really be devastating to families. The white house has warned that the shutdown could undermine National Security forcing Service Members around the world to work without pay. What could that do to a Service Member serving on the front lines in harms way . I heard from one commander who is serving overseas i have enough to worry about. The last thing i need to worry about is whether my troops can afford to miss a paycheck. So theyre already worried about this and not to mention all the civilians they work side by side with that will be furloughed. Theyll be missing key tonight Surprise Move from donald trump in the Georgia Election sub version case, the former president said he will no longer push to move his case from state to Federal Court. Lets dive into all this with cnn legal analyst norm wisen and also with us attorney and d. C. Democratic party chair scott boldin. Great to have you with us tonight. Norm, trump and his lawyers decided they will not move forward to try to move the criminal charges into Federal Court. Does that surprise you . It does because they told the court, the state court, that they were going to remove. The thing that changed, pam, is that mark meadows has been a trailblazer on removal and he lost and it makes sense that he lost because you only get to go from state to Federal Court if you were doing official action and attempting to overturn an election as scott well knows cannot be an official act. In fact, under federal law the hatch act, those kinds of Political Activities are by definition unofficial. Trump didnt want another big loss like hes faced in d. C. Federal court, in new york state court. So he pulled the plug. It wont work under any circumstances under any court undermining democracy and trying to change elections and stuff. We should point out a big difference between federal and local court is Federal Court you dont have cameras in the courtroom. Local court, thats going to be a different case. You have a broader jury pool, too, pull from different jurisdictions and the state court, be fulton county, which is a big democratic stronghold, not that politics will invade the criminal Justice System, but youre pulling jurors from that Voting Electorate and thats really important. Youll have the cameras. One of the interesting things is this trial will play out during 2024. Whether youre a maga supporter or republican or democrat, youll see the criminal Justice System at work, constitutional issues, but more importantly youll hear the facts in real terms with witnesses as to what happened and how they tried to undermine this election. Its going to educate a lot of voters i think whether they want to be educated or not. The criminal Justice System will work and it wont be a political process. Youre going to see facts that show how dangerous these acts were. We could see trump testifying live on television, right . Thats a possibility. It is. I dont think he could testify. Scott has been telling clients for a lot of years do not testify. Its very unusual. Hes been known not to listen to his lawyers. That is part of the reason actually, the testimony question. I think its part of the reason he opted not to remove because if he removed when mark meadows testified, he injured his case very badly with some of the things he said trump would have had to testify. His lawyers, pretty smart, said well, were not going to do that yet. It gets even worse with donald trump because whether its the atlanta trial or the federal trial or new york trial, trumps public statements, the attacks on the judges, attacks on the prosecutors, his interviews with the media, he talks about these cases and makes these Party Admissions. I think in Federal Court you can get those Party Admissions admitted. I dont think theres any way he gets on the stand because it will take three days just to crossexamine him on his prior inconsistent statements. Hes got to do that because hes running for president. I want to talk about a situation where he could testify. That is that 250 million Civil Fraud Trial In New York set to begin monday. The new York Attorney general released a list of witnesses, including trump himself and his children, ivanka, eric and don jr. How do you all see this playing out . Well, the situation is