Tonight on 360, Breaking News and a Government Shutdown a day away and the House Speaker who cant seem to stop it. 27 years after Tupac Shakurs murder, the man police say ordered his death is now in custody. Plus, live reporting after some of the most rain and worst flooding new york has ever seen, and its not over yet. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with Breaking News in the likelihood that 28 hours from now at one minute past midnight the federal government will shut down. In a moment youll meet some of the men and women who will be left without paychecks if it does. First, though, the man largely responsible for it House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy. Its not so much what hes done thats led to all this, its what hes been unable to do. Speaker mccarthy for weeks now has not been able to get the right wing of his narrow majority to agree on Stopgap Funding to keep the government running, nor has he been willing to work with democrats instead or grab a lifeline and take up a temporary spending measure. Instead, today he brought a bill to the floor that was soundly rejected with 21 republicans, many of them hardliners joining democrats in defeating it. At a Press Conference before the vote, Speaker Mccarthy was asked why he was pushing legislation that was dead on arrival. Mr. Speaker, you know full well in order to get a stopgap bill approved, you need to get support from democrats in the senate and the white house, so why arent you doing that . And what do you say to people who typically believe the reason why youre not is because youre concerned about your own job . Really . So lets see. What has the white house done and what has the senate done . They havent passed one Appropriation Bill, and they havent passed any and theyve been trying to pass Appropriation Bill too and they havent done any of that. Its easy to surrender. If you want to surrender, yeah, but if you want to fight for the American Public to secure our borders and keep government open, how is that a problem . Its only for cnn that that becomes a problem that i dont surrender to the liberals. What i want to do is stand for america. Dont actually recall advocating any surrendering to anybody but i digress. The government is about to shut down. House republicans met a short time ago. What are you hearing . This is a twohour long meeting, and during that meeting Kevin Mccarthy laid out what their limited opgs are at this point. The first option being accepting the senate deal. That includes money for ukraine and disaster aid. The other option is putting their own shortterm bill on the floor that doesnt include ukraine money and the third option is a Government Shutdown. After that meeting Kevin Mccarthy emerged and he had a new message. He said that any bill to Fund Government just needs to drop ukraine money. Lets take a listen. I think if we had a clean one without ukraine on it, we could probably be able to move that through. I think if senate puts ukraine on there and focuses ukraine over america, i think that could cause real problems. Reporter so Anderson Thrks this is a real change in tune from Kevin Mccarthy after republicans failed to advance a funding bill that included a number of other conservative priorities like boosting the boarder and spending cuts. Now Kevin Mccarthy unable to get the votes within his own conference moved off of those demands and is signaling that he could be open more to working with the senate. Something he was previously reluctant to do. But again, given the time const constraints, its unclear if the two chambers can come together. What exactly, if anything, is going to be voted on tomorrow . Reporter house gop leaders are going to whip those 21 republican who is voted against their own Spending Bill earlier today and try to gauge whether they could support a short potentially 14day long cr, Continuing Resolution that would fund the government temporarily, and if they can support that, the hope is that leadership can put that bill on the floor tomorrow, and then meanwhile, in the senate they have been moving through a bipartisan bill to fund the government that does include 6 billion for ukraine and 6 billion for disaster aid. Theyll take that procedural vote tomorrow, but given the time constraints, they are likely not going to be able to vote on final passage until potentially as late as monday. So The Big Picture here is that Congress Still has no plan to avert a Government Shutdown, which is now just almost 24 hours away, anderson. Thank you much more now on maneuvering within the gop and across party lines over Speaker Mccarthys job. Joining us pramila jayapal. Whats your understanding of where things stand at this hour . Well, anderson, its a sad situation were in. We have a gop majority with a speaker that cannot get his own party to do the simple work of funding a Continuing Resolution, and the thing is, anderson, we have plenty of votes to avert a shutdown with a clean Continuing Resolution that keeps the government funded until the republicans can get their act together on appropriations bills. So this is not a situation that has to happen. If it happens that we have a shutdown that looks increasingly likely, it is a republican shutdown, and it has tremendous consequences for people across the country from people not being able to get the assistance they need to make sure that their Social Security is working properly, Cafeteria Workers not being able to get their paychecks, it has tremendous consequences and its all because, anderson, the republicans have been trying to pass this extreme agenda, a nationwide abortion ban, severe cuts to Social Security. They cant get it through so now theyre holding the Government Funding Hostage and the American People hostage. So is there a realistic scenario under which House Democrats team one some House Republicans in the next 28 hours to pass the Stopgap Funding measure that would be able to pass the senate and get signed into law by the president . Well, thats exactly what should happen. So if the senate sends over something to us, then we can use either Kevin Mccarthy can put it on the floor and allow republicans to vote with us, because i think we would have enough republicans to pass that, or we could use a discharge petition, and we just need a handful of republicans to vote with all democrats on a Continuing Resolution, and, listen, wed like to have that Disaster Relief aid in there. Wed like to have ukraine funding, but at a minimum, it should be the clean Continuing Resolution to fund the government, no policy riders, no bad no other bad immigration policy, fog but just fund the government. You told politico that Congressman Gaetz spoke to you about a potential motion to remove mccarthy from the speakers office, and the progressives would not support mccarthy in that scenario. Can you talk about that conversation, particularly whether gaetz was asking you flat out in. Im not going to speak about the conversation specifically, but i will tell you at the Progressive Caucus, and we have 103 members, we had a very strong discussion at the Executive Board a week ago, and then we had another discussion just yesterday with the full with the full membership, and i think what people feel is that Kevin Mccarthy has led us into this republican shutdown. Kevin mccarthy started an impeachment a baseless impeachment inquiry into president biden. Kevin mccarthy has turned the gavel over to Marjorie Taylor greene and matt gaetz depending on the day, and we have no interest in saving Kevin Mccarthy. We do have an interest in making sure that government continues to function, that people can get the services that they need, and at the end of the day, we are not going to save republicans we are not going to save the speaker because he has been a completely untrustworthy negotiator. Democratic congressman James Clyburn said today there are circumstances under which he could vote for mccarthy to remain speaker. Can you see a scenario in which you and the roeest of the Progressive Caucus could help him keep the speakership . Hes not a reliable negotiator. He made a deal with the president and immediately broke it. For us, we would need to write Power Sharing into the rules of the house. Listen, were not even going there right now. What were focused on is lets get through this shutdown. Lets make sure that Government Functions because republicans have shown they cant govern. Thats i mean, theres a civil war going on over on that side. We have said we are willing to fund the government with a clean Continuing Resolution, ideally with the Disaster Relief and the ukraine money, but theyre not even willing to do that, so we have to get through the situation, and then i think the republicans have got to get it together and figure out if theyve got a majority, do they have a speaker that can actually control that majority . That is what governing is about. Congresswoman jayapal, thank you so much. Much more now on the human consequences, the people directly affected by the Government Shutdown, especially men and women doing special jobs, cnns Oren Liebermann has more. On the last Military Payday before a looming Government Shutdown, Joanna Nicoletti is worried about the unknown. We have child care costs. We have student loans. We have bills to pay, we have a mortgage to pay, and where is that money going to come from . Reporter a shutdown would leave her family and 1. 3 million other active Duty Service Members without pay even as they have to keep working. For nicolett ski and her spouse recent emergency. Ginger garish lost her husbands paycheck during the last shut down 2018 to 2019. At the Time Congress made sure the military got paid except for the coast guard whether her husband serves, which falls under the department of homeland security. Had this time theres no such measure to pay troops. Its difficult when you cant count on your elected officials to protect you when youre literally protecting them and your country. Reporter its not just military paychecks that would stop during the shutdown. Some Defense DepartmentChild Care Centers will close and on base commissaries could close. A quarter of active Duty Service Members experienced Food Insecurity in recent years according to a study commissioned by the Defense Department. A shutdown would only make things harder. Organizations like the armed services, ymca are ready to offer more help now. Making sure if we need to we are adding Food Distribution events through our branches or our Partner Organizations to ensure that at least once a week there will be a Food Distribution in those areas. Reporter melissa shaw says Service Members in her husbands unit have put on a brave face about a potential shutdown, but the concern is real. Oaf the last 24 hours in particular, weve had a chat thread going with many of the families in our unit. What theyre telling us is right now theyre choosing to be optimistic. Theyre choosing to hope for the best and plan for the worst. Reporter a Military Life requires the willingness to make sacrifices for the country like facing the challenges of deployments and moves. A shutdown is different, not a threat from an enemy but a selfinflicted wound. Its always a sacrifice. This is another way we are potentiallying with forced to sacrifice so my spouse and family can serve. Reporter in previous shutdowns congress has acted to make sure the military gets paid even if and when the, congress hasnt done that, at least not yet in this case. Which means we are a very short time away from 1. 3 million active Duty Service Members having to work without pay. Oren liebermann, cnn in the pentagon. Next tonight, more Breaking News, the first plea deal in a case against the former president and 18 other codefendants, and later the remarkable chain of events that turned one of americas longest running cold cases, the murder of tupac shakur, hochlt hot. The First Defendant in georgias rico case against the former president s case to plead guilty. His name is scott hall, hes one of 18 other codefendants entering a plea and agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors. Nick, first off, talk about what happened in court today. This was all part of an impromptu hearing that went down earlier today with scott hall pleading guilty to five misdemeanor chargings. He was initially facing seven charges including racketeers from the District Attorneys Office here in fulton county. With that guilty plea he becomes first of the 19 codefendants to cut a deal with the District Attorney identifies. Listen to part of what happened earlier today in court. How do you plead to the five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties. Guilty. Is this being freely and voluntarily given with full knowledge of the charges against you . Yes, maam, it is. There he is in his own words. As part of the conditions of this sentencing, its five years of probation, a 5,000 fine, 200 hours of community service. Perhaps most importantly, hes going to have to cooperate. Hes going to testify at any future proceedings or trials in this case. And jennifer, how significant it is for the case against the former president and more directly to Sidney Powell . Its really significant, anderson. Hes the first one, right, this kind of starts what should be a rush to fani williss office to cut deals from the other defendants. You know, not everyone will get a cooperation deal, and i think the Cooperation Piece is why he ended up pleading to misdemeanors with an agreement there be no prison time. This really ought to start this process, which will strengthen their case, and also thin the number of defendants. They cant try 17 defendants together, so theyre going to need to get some more out of the case, and i think this will start help that process along. Nick, what do we know about this guys role in the efforts in Coffee County . How does a bails Bond B Bailsman get into subverting democracy . He was a protrump poll watcher in atlanta during the election in 2020. He was also a supporter of this conspiracy that there was widespread voter fraud in the state during the 2020 election when there wasnt, and as a result they tried to prove this conspiracy. He along with other trump operatives according to the District Attorneys Office and through halls own admission, by illegally accessing Voting Equipment in rural Coffee County. Its really interesting, anderson, i mentioned hes the first of the 19 codefendants to take a plea. Earlier today during a procedural hearing involving Sidney Powell and ken chesebro. The d. A. s Office Seepmed to signal they were going to offer plea deals to those two codefendants. You said for prosecutors, its the beginning of the thinning of the herd . Twice if the Powell Chesebro trial does go forward next month. This is