Gop leaders Going Forward with another House Spending Vote that is probably going nowhere. Lawmakers scrambling with the government hurdling toward a shutdown this weekend. Good day to our viers here in the United States and a around the world. Im kasie hunt. It is friday, september 29, thank you for getting an early start with us. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington where the weeks ticked down to days and now hours. There are 43 of them left before the u. S. Government shuts down. And leaders youve elected to at the very least keep the government open, keep paying federal workers, you know, the very basics, they are falling down on the job. Now House Republicans are trying to distract by their own infighting by making it a battle over Border Security provisions that are nonstarters it seems in the senate. It is Kevin Mccarthys last ditch effort to get enough House Republicans to support a short term funding bill which he still plans to bring to the floor despite opposition from his gop hard liners. Cnn counts at least 12 members who are either firmly or likely to vote against the stopgap. Remember mccarthy can lose four, not 12. He says they now face this choice. A vote against the Funding Package as a vote with biden on the border, that is how he puts it. I know those individuals care about the borders. I dont know why they would side with the president on an open border when you have the opportunity to take the hr 2 you already voted for and made it into the bill and send it to the senate. It would make everybody in this place a stronger hand to actually solve the lets bring in congressional reporter at punch bowl news. Mika, good morning. Thank you for being here. There was a lot of procedure in that hr 2. But the bottom line here, i get what Kevin Mccarthy is trying position to do. He is basically trying to say to his republican hardlinerstrying. He is basically trying to say to his republican hardliners vote with me or vote no, vote it down and then have to deal with a senate bill that you are not quite as happy with. But the bottom line here is that it doesnt seem like it is going to work. Even with this border money. What is the latest from the hard liners and is there any hope that they can pass this bill in the house later this afternoon . Yeah, youre exactly right. You know, there is a group of republicans in the house that are never going to vote for a cr no matter what. And they have been very clear. There is multiple members that have gone on the record saying that. Congressman from tennessee for example left at gop Conference Meeting saying that the minds that have been made up have not been changed and well have a shutdown. And so the Border Security package is one thing that mccarthy is trying to do in order to round up people, but it is really not swaying anybody so far that already has their mind made up. So lets there were tough words exchanged. The fbomb reportedly dropped. And im sure youve done your own reporting on this as well. It is essentially this ongoing fight between Kevin Mccarthy and matt gaetz. Mccarthy saying that doesnt spend time or money on gates because gaetz is a accusing him of attacking him in right wing media. Is it just this personality conflict, this anger between the two men that is basically putting pay for millions of federal workers on the line . I would say it is a little bit more than that. But like we are seeing that really play out very publicly. Matt gaetz has constantly attacked mccarthy in recent weeks and has threatened pretty much throughout the recent months to oust him as speaker. And i would say it goes beyond that because beyond gaetz, there are people that are kind of a little bit more low key who are still saying that were not concerned about a shutdown, this is not the way government should function, et cetera. But i would say that the Gaetz Mccarthy battle is the most publicly facing. Yeah, he has backup from people who are not quite as bombastic or personality oriented. Lets talk for a second about the senate because i think that they sort of looked up late last week, they realized Kevin Mccarthy is really not going to be able to get it together so we better do something and schumer and mcconnell the two democrat Republican Leaders over there did crack a deal and then there was some back and forth, a scramble to add border money. There is ukraine aid in there which is also causing a flap with senator rand paul. But the bottom line is that the senate seems to collectively be saying that we really need to get it together. Here is Lisa Murkowski from yesterday. Take a look. How would this look for your party if there is a shutdown . I think everybody loses. I think that the republicans lose. I think that the democrats lose i think that the administration loses. I think that the country loses. So we have to figure out how we do our i dont think. Everybody loses. She put it pretty starkly. I don. Everybody loses. She put it pretty starkly. Yeah, this demonstrates the total difference between Senate Republicans and House Republicans who are a little bit more free rolling, bombastic, however you want to describe them, but i talked to even kind of the more conservative Senate Republicans, kind of these America First type senators like josh hawley for example who said a shutdown is not a good idea and not good to use that as a leverage or kind of strategy to negotiate the spending cuts or fiscal, you know, principles that you are trying to get. So Senate Republicans i think in large part also disagree with the House Republicans tactics. All right. I know youll have a long day ahead. Thank you for helping us understand how it will unfold. House republicans issuing three temperatures on thursday for the personal and Business Records of hunter and james biden the president s son and brother. They come as they investigate whether the president personally benefited from any of his familys foreign business dealings. An allegation that House Republicans still cant prove. Their first Impeachment Inquiry Hearing thursday unsurprisingly left some disappointed. The reality is that their whole narrative basically fell apart. This was an Expert Witness that they called, they picked him and he testified that there is no evidence of impeachable offenses. I do not believe that the Current Evidence would support articles of impeachment. That is something that an inquiry has to establish. Im not here today to even suggest that there was corruption, fraud or any wrongdoing. In my opinion more information needs to be gathered and assessed before i would make such an assessment. Pretty stark. One republican aide told cnn that the hearing was an a unmitigated disaster. His words. All right. President biden issuing a stark warning thursday in a major speech about the existential threats to u. S. Democracy as he calls them. This is the United States of america. And although i dont believe even a majority of republicans think that, the silence is deafening. The silence is deafening. We should all remember democracies dont have to die at the end of a rifle. They can die when people are silent. When they fail to stand up or condemn the threats to democracy. His speech was a glimpse of what will likely be the central message for his reelection bid. Stopping the erosion of democratic values, that of course central to his message in 2020. The president also made his most forceful attempt yet at calling out the Maga Movement and Donald Trumps behavior in the wake of us will indictments. Just ahead here, United Autoworkers could escalate their strike today. Plus a nato ally may have a pro putin leader in power by saturday. Well tell you how that could happen. And trumps latest legal moves in fulton county, georgia. A little surprising. Stay with us. Slovakia is getting ready to elect its fifth Prime Minister in four years. Why should it matter to you . This election has alarm bells ringing in the west. The nato ally share as a border with ukraine and they have been one of the closest allies of ukraine since the start of russias invasion before slovakia was the first country to send air defenses to ukraine and welcomed thousands of ukrainian refugees. But once polls own there tomorrow, that could all change and that is because the frontrunner in the election is also a kremlin sympathizer. Max foster is joining us live now from london. Max, always great to have you. What does it mean for ukraine if this election goes for robert fitzo who is the frontrunner . He has been clear he wants to stop sending arms to ukraine. He has been very outspoken as a sympathizer of russia. Even going as far as going with the narrative that it is ukraine nazis that have provoked russia. And he also said that he would block nato membership as well if they wanted to continue with that. And i think that it really speaks to how it is becoming a bit more of a divisive issue, the pressure on all of the economies to keep supporting ukraine is growing. And i think that he is speaking to that as well. Yeah, so max, can you help us understand a little bit of what is going on in terms of the domestic politics there to lead to this . I mean, this guy was previously in charge but he got thrown out. A Different Party got elected. They sort of changed their position so to speak. But now it seems like he may be sweeping back into power. When we talk about this here in the u. S. , a lot of people kind of understand it in terms of what we deal with here in terms of donald trump populism and some of those same like themes and ideas come through on the american right. Is that what is going on in slovakia or how should people think about this . Always at the core of slovakian politics seems to be corruption is a theme. So fitzo lost his position as Prime Minister. Hes been Prime Minister twice. Because of all stories of k corruption directly linked to him. A journalist who reported on it was kill. And he lost his position. But since then other administrations claim that they will fight corruption and hasnt worked. And so it is basically very chaotic. So something about fitzo that people are looking for as a man of stability and coming back in to you power. So that is what sort of forced him out last time, but seems to be a memory now. Very interesting where it is working. One thing to be aware of is he will have to work with the coalition partner, there are multiple parties in the parliament there. Some people suggesting that fight moderate some of his views, just have to work with a moderate partner. Actually he could go for a right wing partner as well which could make his views even more extreme. And max, it does seem when you pull this together, if we look big picture here between the right wing here in the United States really jeopardizing funding for continued funding for the war against ukraine, this unfolding in slovakia, mine we need to keep our eye on the rest of the ukraine allies here to see how it unfolds, but it did seem like zelenskyy is facing a challenge here in terms of Public Opinion turning against him. Yeah, and a lot of it does come down to cost of living. The cost of running, you know, governments currently now and huge amount it is causing to support ukraine. Americas absolute central here because it bank rolls the war in ukraine for ukraine. So if they step back, there is no way that the european nations will be able to fill that gap and it has a huge change in the t dynamics. I was in poland recently and a lot of those border countries, obviously youll on ukraines side because they dont want russia invading other countries like poland, they dont have the same concerns there. So that is interesting. There is a bit of Division Setting in on that side of europe which was so united before. And so concerning if you are volodymyr zelenskyy. Max foster, thank you very much. Is have a wonderful weekend. Coming up, will a High School Shooter in michigan get a chance at parole . A judge will decide today. And they could be star witnesses next week in new york. More on Donald TrumpsAdult Children may be taking the stab ahead. The power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. And thats a good thing . Great in my book who are you . No power . No problem. Introducing stormready wifi. Now you can stay reliably connected through Power Outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery backup to keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. All right. Quick hits across america now. The two week old autoworkers strike might get bigger today. The uaw president plans to expand the strike if there is not significant progress in talks with the big three by 10 00 a. M. Today. The new walkouts would happen at noon. Michigan judge decides today if the oxford High School Shooter can be sentenced to life without parole. It is the harsh punishment that the state can hand down. The teen pleaded guilty to killing four students and injuring seven others in 2021. California raising the minimum wage to 20 an hour for fast food workers. It goes in to effect in april of next year. The new legislation also created a council that could approve more raises in the future. Now to weather. Record breaking heat for part of the u. S. , but look at this, new york city will be inundated with rain today with more than 2 inches in an hour possible in some areas. Lets get straight to our weatherman derek van dam. Happy friday to you. A not so happy friday in new york. What should people commuting, trying to get home before this all happens, what do they need to watch for . Not going to be inundated, currently being inundated. People in new york city are waking up with this. You can see a few people walking across times square and clearly manhattan is water locked at the moment because today we have the potential for minor to moderate Flash Flooding. So this is the flaits the weather prediction center. We have a level 3 of 4 for the potential of excessive rain leading to Flash Flooding includes long island, new jersey and into connecticut and the city of new york. And this is an area that obviously we have some of the largest population densities, so we dont want to see Flash Flooding take place, but that is the threat that were waking up to this morning. So the very active radar at the moment, there is the i95 corridor, we zoom in closer and here is the watches, that is a Flash Flood Warning that includes nassau, kings and parts of queens county. This enenpasses roughly 2. 3 Million People and it does not include new york county. So just outside of the manhattan region. That is because the radar estimated heaviest Rainfall Band that set up overnight really over the western section of long island, so lets say jfk airport, they have received almost 2 1 2 inches of rain. Laguardia has received just about an inch. But there is still more precipitation to come. You can see the evolution of this Heavy Rain Band throughout the course of the day. A waterlogged i95 corridor stretching from boston all the way to the big apple, even towards washington, d. C. But lighter totals there. There is the heat you mentioned, summer that never ends across the midsection. And sounds like if you are trying to get out of jfk airport, good luck to you. Derek van dam, our weatherman, thank you so much for being with us. Happy friday. Have a great weekend. And were counting down here to a Government Shutdown at 12 a. M. Sunday. And bob menendez meeting with democratic colleagues. Well talk about how that went. Government shutdowns are stupid. Nobody wins, it costs us a lot of money. U. S. Congress apparently on a Collision Course with stupid right now. Thanks for getting up early with us. Im ckasie hunt. Countdown clock now showing 42 1 2 hours until the federal government shuts down. House Republican Leaders are planning to move ahead with a vote on a Stopgap Funding Bill today, but it has a snow balls chance in heck i guess of passing. Roughly the same chance of Matt Sgat Gaetz has of getting a Christmas Card from fr mccarthy. They got into it yesterday in a closed door meeting. Mccarthy. They got into it yesterday in a closed door meeting. You got into it with the speaker. What happened . I asked him whether or not he was paying the influencers to post negative things about me online. He said he wouldnt waste time on you. Yeah, that is what he said. Gaetz says the shutdown is a mccarthy shutdown. Why is that . Because he blames you on not moving with the appropriations bill sooner. So when they stop the bills from coming up and he votes against a continuing