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Than 15 hours to avoid a Government Shutdown that would disrupt the lives and livelihoods of millions of americans. Congressman Robert Garcia will join me live to discuss the latest. Flips, one of the 19 defendants of the Georgia Election interference case has pled guilty, it has agreed to testify against others. Melissa murray will explain why donald trump should be very afraid. Under fire, senator Robin Indices facing glowing calls from Top Democrats to resign admit bribery allegations. He is a democratic challenger. Congressman, andy, caring of new jersey, heres here to talk about taking on his state senior senator. Im jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. In less than 15, hours the nation will endure yet another republicanled shutdown if an agreement cannot be reached to fund the government by midnight tonights. To make matters, worth speaker Kevin Mccarthy has no plan, the specially after the continued resolution he hoped would pass went down in a ball oes late yesterday, 21 House Republicans voted with all the democrats to defeat the measure. The measure that wouldve cut none Defense Spending by a whopping 30 . Mccarthy is in the middle of a republican rebellion that could lead to his ousting from the speakership. Reporting yesterday found that lawmakers are plotting to replace mccarthy with House Majority bump, tom member. To make matters worse, former President Donald Trump oversaw the longest Government Shutdown in u. S. History told republicans, quote, unless you get everything, shut it down. Both the house and the senate will be in session today. They will convene in about an hour attending up to figure out what to do next. The senate will hold a procedural vote on its own continuing resolution, a first step in and process that be completed before the midght deadline. If the government does shut down, National Parks will close, air travel will slow down, millions receiving Food Assistance through snap could lose their benefits almost immediately including the military will not get paid. Never fear, the law makers responsible for this mass will still get paid. They have to. Its mandated by the constitution. Joining me, now california congressman, president of the freshman class, and member of the Homeland Security and House Oversight committee. Welcome back to noshow. Before we talk about the shutdown, you are trail blazer Dianne Feinstein passed away yesterday. What are your thoughts on her legacy . Look, shes an icon. Not just in california, but across the country. I know her work on womens issues. I know her work on gun safety, then as a gay person, shes an icon for the community. She was mayor of san francisco, her work in the senate, always standing, up and ahead of the curve, we owe so much to her. Its an important time for the state. Shell be yeah, very strong and large legacy for the country. All right, congressman, were witnessing this approaching Government Shutdown. If the government doesnt each of, that helen will last . We dont know. The truth, is Kevin Mccarthy has completely given the case to his speakership to folks like Marjorie Taylor greene and matt gaetz. So here we, are just hours away from an extreme shutdown, millions of americans are going to be impacted. We have folks that are going to be depended on trial, food security, folks who will get the services they depend. On seniors, and republicans are focus on things like cutting Social Security, taken away services for teachers. This is really Kevin Mccarthys mass. His plan changes every single hour. Where hours away from this catastrophe were open this doesnt shut down. If it, does it ends immediately. Do you have any idea what the farright will say as to . Remember Marjorie Taylor greene, one of her demands was an Impeachment Inquiry must be started before i vote for something. What has started, and she is still voting no. What can they pass that will actually pass the senate and make into the president s desk . Heres the concern. You have folks in this extreme fringe group, in this caucus concerned by donald trump. They dont even believe in government. They dont believe in our institutions, and government should even exist. Which is here to help people. Its very concerning that these folks want to shut down the government. This is not just about a defeat about budgets. Its a debate about the institution itself, in the federal govern has something that actually helps individuals, and americans. Marjorie Taylor Greene is now running the show. Is there a way this adds a Speaker Mccarthy keeping his job . Thats up to the republicans, but i think that he is in danger. He is already lost his caucus. He does not control his caucus in conference. He is the weakest modern speaker that weve had. He loses votes continuously, as youve seen. He can barely get votes as speaker. That has to be up to the republicans decide. Lee hes not doing it. Its up to republicans decide, but if his speakership is held up to about, could it be up to democrats . Look , i think that thats a mess that Kevin Mccarthy will have to figure out on his own. We are committed every single day to ensure that were supporting the American People. We support our leader, but the republicans are going to have to figure out who their leader as. That there brittany discussions within the conference, the democratic conference, about what to do if a motion to vacate is presented . There is always discussions, at the end of the, day were united at ensuring that we support our leader in our caucus. The republicans and the will leave it there. California congressman, Robert Garcia, thank you very, much as always, for coming to the show. Joining me now, former ambassador, patrick gaspar. He is currently the president and ceo at the center for american progress. Thank you very much for coming to the saturday show. What is the real world impact of a shutdown . Less than 34 days, the longest in u. S. History. Thank you for having me on. You are right, this lash down lasted more than a month. There was difference, the full impacts, Congressman Garcia was 100 correct that right now its clear that Kevin Mccarthy has given preference to Marjorie Taylor greene, 4 million Government Workers who will be a mediately furloughed at that is not a deal. Plus, members of the Armed Services are also going without a paycheck. Jonathan, its really hope were going that 7 million Vulnerable Women and children lack Ofsocial Safety Net will be stopped as they tried to get to theevening. We also know that those at the environmtal Protection Agency will lead to a real danger to the air that we breathe. The will be furloughed from the food and drug administration, so even the food that we eat, plus, there are collateral impacts that this will have in our economy at a time when we are recovering still from the pandemic on, this will be at a time when we have more americans back in the labor force that weve had in decades. This will be a radical step backwards. Ambassador, the president has been intentionally taking a Hands Off Approach to this shutdown. Is that the right call . You know, he has not taken a Hands Off Approach. Lets be clear about how we got here. We started with the 15 round boat. Sometime after that, spring of this, year republicans took the government hostage in order to force radical cuts to the administration of Social Security and to our public schools. At that, point the president of the united states, pulled us back from a fiscal cliff. And get a deal with the republicans that froze spending over the course of the next two years. That deal wasnt good enough for Marjorie Taylor greene, the leader of the House Republicans. She then said that if we dont get a vote on the impeachment of president biden, just really baseless, then were going to turn to Kevin Mccarthy. That point, Kevin Mccarthy starts asked gain really dangerous bill in order to slash spending of the government, just like this Resolution Bill that will cut spending by 30 . It failed last night with even 21 republicans folding against it, they know how hard this is for communities. President biden was engaged in the debate around the fiscal clips, pull back. He has been very clear that he is working with the senate for a bipartisan solution to this mass. Its obvious that Kevin Mccarthy is beholden to mackie eights, the Marjorie Taylor greene. Instead of actually to his constituents for the american public. Ambassador, we had less than a minute left. Im going to ask you the same question i asked Congressman Garcia. If it comes down to a situation where Matt Gaetz Falls In Motion to vacate, Speaker Mccarthys speakership is in peril, should democrats provide the votes needed to defeat that motion to vacate . Jonathan, what speakership . We produced a report that demonstrated that this Mcculloch Majority has conveniently that in reported history. Mccarthy is not providing leadership. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the leader of the house. It is evident that theyre doing all of this at the behest of the cult leader donald trump. So if they move a motion to vacate, theyre probably, meanwhile, hakeem jeffries, theyll be restoring stability to the community that we can have it again. President ceo of the center for american progress. Thank, you very much, for coming to the saturday show. Thank you. Now im going to turn to the person you saw the split screen at the start of the show. This is jason goldman. Hes a federal employee, and the founder of fed found dot org. Thank you very much for coming to the saturday show. Tell me about this website what strategy to started. A lot of people were furloughed, and sharing resources across the nation about where people could go and find things, diverse such as food, help for senior care, child daycare. There really wasnt a resource for that. There wasnt a repository for that. I found them on facebook, and were going to dover 1500 people in the first few days. Then we started sharing with each other resources, and what we can do for each other. Its about helping federal employees by federal employees. How many people are a part of this . When you started, 1500 people the first few days. To remind people, in the 2019 shutdown started three days before christmas. How many members are part of the group now . We currently have 32,000 right now, over the last four years. Weve been slowly gaining steam as the shutdown is happening, we actually do other resources for the people as well, and provide them. And the last two days, weve had over 500 every other hour join, because people are scared. People are worried about their paycheck, been able to pay their bills, and been able to sustain their livelihood during the shutdown. I want you to take a listen to this concerned parent. Take a listen, well talk about on the other side. Im trying to make ends meet, so they kind of go away, its a tough spot. They wanted to do a Government Shutdown, okay, what is this going to cost Everybody Else . It is a similar to what youre hearing from federal employees . Very much so, when you think of federal employees, that is this notion of all of in d. C. , No World Drinking Wine and living off the taxpayers money, which is untrue. Only 15 at the government are in washington d. C. The rest are throughout the rest of the country in the world. So you have people who have Social Security people in michigan. You have people that are there to keep planes fly in and safe. Theyre there to do their job. Honestly, if you look at this, Weather Station across the country, were within striking distance of what people are making. Were not making a large amount of money. We are living paycheck to paycheck. People are worried about that, yes. Whats the biggest concern that you hear rain through your fifth fan. Org . The biggest concern is how long this will last, people prepare for this type of thing, but if it goes 2 to 3 weeks, were going to see a lot of people suffering. In the past, speedy able to if you have two jobs, or your work gain, or youre paying for health, care or your parents to be able to have elder care at home, and be able to feed your family, you know two weeks is to log. One week is to, long to be completely honest. The longer it goes on, the longer people of going to suffer. Not only do they have to worry about getting paid, they have to worry about all the things you just discuss that come with a shutdown. So if, so there are many federal employees who are also on federal assistance, so theyre having to deal with that on top of not getting paid. Not to mention, not to forget that contractors are also a huge part of this. Huge part of this. Not only they not get paid during the shutdown, they did not get retractive. Really quickly, weve got 30 seconds left, congress is going to, convene the house will convene today, the senate is going to convene today. There is one thing you could Want Congress to know right now, what would it be . It would be that we want to go back to work. We dont like sitting at home, we like getting paid, we joined the federal government because we had the notion that we really wanted to help the American People and their country. We are gonna to do, so we want to continue that house. Jason, coleman thank you so much for coming to the saturday show. The name of the organization is fed farmed out org. , next worse things stand as the Clock Tick Down to keep the government open, and the fate of speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Ill talk about that was andrew, of Punchbowl News next. Of Punchbowl News next jason sean do you mean this one the one with titanium . sean no way i can trade this busted up thing for one. jason maybe stealing wishes from the birthday boy is not your best plan switch to verizon and trade in any iphone and get the new iphone 15 pro on them. sean what . jason yup, and on an Amazing Network sean and i dont have to ruin anymore Birthday Parties jason yeah, that ship has sailed. Lets go get you the iphone. Here we go, come on hon. vo trade in any iphone in any condition for a new iphone 15 pro on us. Only on verizon. Is it possible my network could take my business to the next level . It is with comcast business. Powering all your devices with gigspeed wifi. 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It would include some disaster, relief no ukraine, and no Border Security funding. Thats key because thats Border Security has been a bit ask of his before really weeks, now and its one of the reasons why youve got to get conservatives to vote for, for Speaker Mccarthy in terms of preserving his speakership. If the house shows they can pass, this then it becomes much harder for the senate to really not accepted, because at one pm, today they are going to vote on their own cpr, which includes ukraine disaster faa extension, things like that. Republicans can easily deny democrats the 60 votes needed for, that and that would essentially vote to take up this continued resolution, if the house can pass it. All, right so the house is meeting their convening, attend you know what time this vote might happen in the house on their continued . Theres nova even tied up right. Now we are talking in very small period of time because they are meeting soon here, and the senate is voting at world 1 00. If there are might be able to pass this continuing resolution, the senate might then change course. Remember, the senate is not going to be able to pass what theyre voting on today until probably monday at the earliest. Rand paul is denying sent to speed or not because he opposes the ukraine part of. It help makes understand something, i thought the senate voted on something in a wildly bipartisan way, 77 to 19. What was . Thats that was a procedural, vote that was to get on the bill. The senate has so many complicated procedures, it took me so long to learn it myself. Basically it was them getting off of one, bill getting on to another bill, and then substituting in the new continuing resolution, which was agreed to by mcconnell and schumer. Thats why its got ukraine, it its got disaster, relief its got basically enough for the supplemental funding request to last for those 45. Days because they were able to do that, now once again theyve got to clear the 60 vote filibuster threshold, in order to then vote for the actual bill. Right, so republicans have a incentive here if they think the house is going to pass this clean issue extension. They have an incentive to deny democrats the 60 votes because right now youve got 50 democrats, obviously the of Senator Feinstein yesterday, but then senator stabenow has covid. Shes not as, well so democrats really only have 49 people right now. The republicans also have 49 people. Its unclear if the president ial candidates, maybe senator tim scott is in iowa or New Hampshire this weekend, campaigning, thats what you are looking at this weekend right now is a pretty even senate. You are going to need at least 11 republicans to join democrats if they want to advance this bill. Holy, smokes just as a general mask matter, if what say they do a vote, by some miracle and rolls they were able to then clears a threshold but now its a simple majority vote. If its a 49 to 49, under senate rules or what happens . The Vice President can break that, ty as you mentioned to me before, Vice President harris might be changed To Washington For The Foreseeable Future as long as some senators are out with, covid or there is no replacement yet for Senator Feinstein. That was the thing that i thought of after expressing my condolences about to the passing of Senator Feinstein, and reading the stories seeing that the majority, slips back from 51 to 50, the Immediate Impact is that the Vice President of the united states, who is the president of the senate, will have to remain in washington to cast that tie breaking any votes. Shes already broken the record for time breakers of the Vice President , so shes going to have probably need so in, thank you as always, thank you very much for coming to the show and explaining, trying to explain everything thats happening. Coming, up House Republicans held their first Impeachment Inquiry hearing on president biden. They insisted they had damning evidence, but their own witnesses said there is none. Ill discuss this with my own Political Panel at the break after the break. Reak after the break. The bigger pictu re. Heart failure and seemingly unrelated symptoms re. Like carpal tunnel syndrome, shortness of breath, and Irregular Heartbeat could be something more serious called attrcm, a rare, underdiagnosed disease that worsens over time. Sound like you . Call your cardiologist, and ask about attrcm. Just between us, you know whats better than mopping . Anything ugh. Well, i switched to swiffer wetjet, and its awesome. Its an allinone, that absorbs dirt and grime deep inside. And it helps prevent streaks and haze. Wetjet is so worth it. Love it, or your money back. On thursday, as the country barreled closer to a Government Shutdown, House Republicans were focused on something else. The first hearing of the Impeachment Inquiry against president joe biden. Remember, this is a soft to Speaker Mccarthys van hope of securing their support on federal funding measures, and legislation to keep the government open. So far, no such look, but i digress. House Oversight Committee chair james comer promised that his panel had, Quote Uncovered A Mountain of evidence. More like a molehill if that. Three witnesses called by the republicans said themselves that there is no clear impeachable at the dance against president , biden and during the more than six hours of republicans trying to build their case against president , it was congresswoman democrat of texas have laid out what evidence she found. I will tell you what the president has been guilty of. He is being guilty of loving his child unconditionally, and that is the only evidence that they have brought forward, and honestly, i hope and prayer that my parents love me have as much as he loved his child, until they find some evidence, we need to get back to the peoples work which means keeping this government open so that people dont go hungry in the streets of the united states. She said what she said. Joining me now is republican strategist at a eminem b. C. Political analyst, and battles michael junior, democratic strategist and director of the Public Policy program at hunter college. Susan, did republicans gain anything from this hearing . Absolutely, not in fact they just showed how incompetence they are at running hearings. This is not the first time. Remember they had the ultimate witness against hunter, biden and it turns out that witnesses on the lam because hes trying to a ad gun charges. Its absurd how poorly the republicans are handling their committees, and there assignments, and these hearings. It would be funny, if it werent so pathetic that this is what they chose to do on thursday. Instead of focusing on keeping the government open and running. Really at the end of the day, when you look at the video you have a right there, people dont know that they are doing jonathan. Im in, i would love your thoughts. Yes, they she is absolutely, right it shows these republicans in Congress Cannot Walk and chew gum at the same time. This is a useless exercise from a feckless republican party. It seems vindictive, and it does not amount to anything, and again at a time when we are talking about a Government Shutdown, people are about to lose their paychecks, weve got a uaw strike brewing, and some really critical states that both democrats and blinken should be looking at right now. Student loans are about to come back online, theres a tremendous amount of economic anxiety, and republicans in congress seem fit to only want to punish the president with no fact, no history on their side as the Congress Member said in your teens, all hes guilty of is loving his son. Im not being able to do anything about it. What i imagine is that it sounds more compassion than for the president than anger. You know, susan, switching gears and talking now about the shutdown, which is what folks should be focused on, Speaker Mccarthy has backed himself into a corner, giving into the demands of the members of the Freedom Caucus and other extreme members of his own party, but he still is facing the fact if he even worked for democrats, lets fast forward for him. Uncertain. Thats where it is right now. He would be wise to get the government up and running in that we may shut down for a couple of, days but he can work out a deal with the democrats. There are democrat republicans rather, who Will Stand By Mccarthy and who have been going after the matt gaetz of the, World Congressman Caller comes to mind for example. Hes been very outspoken of how dysfunctional the republican conference has been. I think its time for mccarthy to say that the heck with it, ive got to get the government running. Even if it means my speakership. Which by the way, i dont know that it would mean that because who else are they going to get . How many tries to take . It felt like a 32 for him to get elected. We watched it for days. Just get it done. Yes, it took 15 ballots and as the Washington Post reported yesterday, there are a faction of farright members who are looking to the House Majority whip, Congressman Ember of minnesota to be somebody who they would like to put up as a potential speaker. So there have been three total stories about potential plots against Kevin Mccarthy. Could we be not only looking at a Government Shutdown next week, but also potentially a vote on a new speaker . I think theres a lot of folks that want to see that happen. Mccarthy is, hes a king with the hanging over his head. Its a constant target on his back, but thats the speakership that he wanted. Thats the speakership he ascended to buy all of those deals that he cut in those 15 votes. I do think that cooler heads may prevail. Youve got the center right American Enterprises saying this is the seinfeld shut down, its a shutdown about nothing. Youve got Congressman Amber said he made the comments that his colleagues were stuck on stupid. This is where i think the Strategy Aspect of this is fills the republicans in my, due because youve got someone like who represents a suburban new york city district, hes in a flipable seat. Theres 3 to 4 of them in new york alone that democrats are looking at, trying to reclaim from republicans who won last year. At minimum, while you engaged in these exercises that jeopardizes vulnerable members of your own conference, that just does not seem rights or smarts to me. Congress member lawler are right to say from their point of view, they are right to say one of my colleagues doing . This is stupid, and this is going to cost us our jobs in congress. Democrats are looking in that and saying by all means goahead, keep doing what youre doing. If youre a republican in congress, why are you not doing anything to that minimum protect remembers . We are out of time, but we have not even talked about the broader implications, such as there are thousands of federal employees who live in the Northern Virginia suburbs, that is already doing early voting, and the republican voter is hoping to flip the State Legislature from democrat to republican, as many part of another plan of his, but we were going to talk about all that another time. Susan del percio, thank you both very much for coming to the saturday show. Coming, up trouble for trump, the Special Counsel raises concerns over the former president s rhetoric on his pending criminal cases, including hurling more verbal threats against judge Tanya Chutkan, and mark milley. Well talk about it after the break. R th break. You may think your eyes will be bulging forever. Like a neverending curse that cant be broken. But even if youve been told its too late, treating your Thyroid Eye Disease may still be possible. And a new day is within sight. Learn how you could give your eyes a fresh start at stilltreatted. Com. Its full steam ahead on multiple fronts in the case against the on monday one out on bail or bond in four different jurisdictions. Last, night more concerns about trumps dangerous rhetoric and the urgent need for a gag order in jack smiths january 6th case. In a 22 page court filing, prosecutor cited a disturbing social media post where he called former joint cities of staff mark milley a traitor, and suggested that he should be executed, meanwhile trump plans to attend the first two days of his new york Civil Fraud Trial in person. That trial kicks off in, monday and comes after a judge found trumps two sons and a Business Associates liable for fraudulently inflating the value of trumps properties by up to 2. 2 billion dollars. In another major development, the first of trumps 18 codefendants and georgias Election Interference Case has slipped. Yesterday, scott hall accused of being involved with a Voting System breach in Coffee County pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges, and promised to testify against. Others joining me now melissa murray, msnbc legal, Analyst Professor and Illinois School of law, cohost of the podcast strict scrutiny, and coauthor of the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary. Melissa, always great to, see you Thank You For Coming back to the saturday show. Under the terms of halls plea deal, he agrees to testify truthfully in all future proceedings in the georgia case. How about is that for trump . I think its pretty bad. Even Jeffrey Clark at this clarkthey are getting closer ad closer to the top of this alleged criminal conspiracy, and that was the whole point of having such a sprawling indictment charging 19 codefendants, at these lower level individuals, they might decide they were not ready to earn an Orange Jumpsuit for some of these higher ups. So, scott hall is the first one to flip. Is the expectation that more, that others will flip . Well, theyve already suggested that they plan to issue a plea deals to some of the others, perhaps even kevin chance, burrow maybe sydney powell, those would actually be quite significant, and again the fact that has flipped is really important, here because all can be connected to sydney powell on that alleged scheme to infiltrate the Voting Machines in Coffee County. Theres a lot to that he could tell them about her intent, she said that she was acting with the authorization of local officials, that he could probably shed some light on. That if he, does she might be in a position to perhaps play ball with prosecutors. Youve mentioned sidney powell. How will the Steel Impact Sydney Powell . And candace postures bro, because i build this up on october 23rd. So, we are getting to ready for Jury Selection in both of those, cases but everything is really. Dynamic if you have a plea deal, that could scrap a child it happens even on the eve of a trial beginning or on the eve of Jury Selection. I think it is really significant that you have this individual who is so close to both sydney powell and Jeffrey Clark, if you read the indictment, he has a lot of interaction with both of them. I think that suggests that there may actually be some more interventions, more actions on who cooperates, and maybe we might not have this trial at all. Totally speculative on my part, but anything could happen. Anything can, happen lets turn to the january 6th case. Judge Tanya Chutkan has scheduled a hearing on october 16th to hear arguments on whether to grant a limited Ghana Corridor On Trump in that case. Do you expect her to grant that gag order . I think it is likely. I think weve already seen that the rhetoric coming from the trump camp has been really inflammatory. Shes a very meticulous. Judge she recognizes that there are a lot of equities to be balanced here. The interest in the safety of all of these individuals, as well as the interest in free. Speech they both have to be balanced. Here again, given the highly highly high Profile Nature of all of, this i think she will grants the government some of its request. They have to make it but shes very much said that she is not the one to play with. Here she is already gotten rid of that recusal, motion shes going full speed ahead. She will deal with this particular gag order in a very perfunctory fashion and get the order out and get a decision. Were out of time, but i have to ask you if the reveal too she plans on calling to the witness stand, including trump, three of us, and it and chl cohen. Who do you think is most important to hear . From , well i donald trump is a big one. Hereanything he says under of here could be admissible, and some of these other cases, and this of his properties my got to a larger pattern of making false claims, which is relevant to some of these other litigations. I think just about everyone here is he is an impeachable witness, he might have a lot to say here and its really important to just because theyve been she plans on calling them to the witness stand, it does not mean she will actually do. It will unite might not see the middle. Melissa worry, thank you very much for coming to the saturday. Show up next, new jersey senator bob menendez vetting himself against bribery charges this week. He announced his quote, not going anywhere. Ahead of next years election. That prompted democratic congressman andy kim to join into new jersey senate, race and hell join me live to discuss after the break. Ter the break. He hits his mark center stage and is crushed by a baby grand piano. Youre replacing me . 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So, talk us through your Thought Process in deciding to mount this campaign. To challenge not only unencumbered, senator but the senior senator from your home state, in your own party. It was not something i was planning on doing, but its something i felt compelled to do. I read through the indictment, and felt like look, this is something representing my. Family they can do i feel confidence that hes going to be making decisions for the betterment of the people of new jersey . I can feel that confidence. We made a decision together, and we announced iran on saturday, which was my kids it, birthday my oldest son turn eight, but that was exactly, why i was thinking about what kind of americas mic is gonna grow out . In what kind of leaders is he going to see . I want him to see people with integrity. I want him to see people that are doing the right thing for the people. So far, senator cory booker has called for him to resign. Senator menendez is going to resign. The governor of new jersey is calling him to resign. We have not heard from senator majority leader chuck schumer. Im just wondering, have you heard from the senator schumer, or even gary peters whose head of the Democratic Senatorial Committee . His job is to ensure that there is a democratic majority after the 2024 elections. Have you heard from either of those leaders about iran . Right, now the senate needs to sort out what they are feeling on their own. Im not going to crowd, them are going to right now come out of the gate talk to as many people as possible, and ill tell you the energy has been incredible across new jersey, across the entire country. People are stepping, up and theyre ready for change. Its fascinating because youre right, im challenging someone within my own party. Thats why its so important. What does the Democratic Party stand for . How do we make sure . In particular, there was a poll that came out a couple days ago and said that if Senator Menendez is the democratic nominee, he will lose to a republican in november. Whereas i can hold, this i can have a Double Digit Lead over a republican. We cannot lose, this aint we see how much of that stake right. Now thats what we need to make sure were keeping him on. If democrats do lose that, seats what issues are most at risk of republicans actually take back the majority . We look at what weve seen in terms of the republicans pushing on an abortion ban, thats very much at the top of the list of things im worried about, what we see in terms of how theyre gunning, want to get Climate Change efforts that we have done to deal the but look at the chaos today. Look at the chaos we have seen in the House Of Representatives when we have republicans leading, or quote on quote leading. It has been horrible. Its honestly embarrassing for our country. If that happens in the senate, thats something i do not wish upon our country. We have to hold the senate, we have to do everything. New jersey should not even be on the table. New jersey congressman angry kids andy kim. Com. Thank you very much. As always, Thank You For Coming to the saturday show. Thank you. That will do it for me today. Thank you for coming, and be sure to tune in tomorrow to the saturd show when salon the young director of the joins us live to react to what possibly could be a Government Shutdown by tomorrow morning. Plus, well also get reaction from Congressman Suzee chair of the Democratic Congressional campaign committee. All of that and much more tomorrow, 9 am eastern right here on msnbc, anremember to follow us on acts, the platform formerly known as twitter, instagram, and using the handle at go dont go anywhere, my friend Charles Coleman junior is out for ali velshi, and thats next after worth more news. Ter worth more news. 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