Videotapes. Thank you as always. The fab simone. Im so proud of you. Good evening, welcome to politicsnation. , we lcome to tonights lead, governing by crisis. Relief and revulsion, thats what im feeling tonight having watched this weeks dramatic but successful term federal spending and avoid a Government Shutdown that was literally just hours away at this time last night. And while i am relieved that those thousands of federal employees will receive their paychecks, i remain revolted by the from house republicans. It nearly crippled america to score political points. President biden echoed this, the same sentiment this afternoon after signing the Spending Bill into law. Saying it was time for congress to stop governing by crisis. Enough is enough is enough. This is not that complicated. It has to end. There shouldnt be another crisis. So, the nation can continue to conduct its Public Business for at least another six weeks. Speaker Kevin Mccarthy may not hold on to his job lavant and off he even preside over the next spending battle as he faces the new challenge to his leadership. Meanwhile, former President Trump is traveling to new york tonight ahead of his civic trial. His civil trial tomorrow. Setting up a potential face off with new York Attorney general Letitia James who plans to be in the courtroom, according to a person familiar with her. A new session of the Supreme Court starting tomorrow. Abortion, gun cases, social media all on the docket. In california, governor gavin newsom much decide very soon who will replace the late great senator Diane Feinstein at a time when democrats hold the slightest majority in the chamber. Lots to cover tonight. Lets get started. Joining me now, congressman barbara lee, democrat of california. Currently running for the u. S. Senate. Congresswoman, first, thank you for joining us tonight. I imagine you are relieved as we all were about the passes of yesterdays Spending Bill to keep the government open. Or democrats that republicans voted for the resolution. Can you talk about how you all came to this consensus . What we can expect when this comes up again in just 45 days. Thank you, nicely with, you congratulations to you. Your voice and your leadership is certainly needed for such times. I do have to salute and congratulate and said happy birthday greetings to president jimmy carter. I was able to be part of his Sunday School class on several occasions. Im telling you, hes a remarkable human being. Yes, we had quite a time. Democrats lead. First of all, Speaker Mccarthy was being held hostage by the maga Extremist Republicans and buy whatever deal he made with them. In fact, the republicans were ready to let the Government Shutdown. It would have furloughed so many workers. So many peoples lives. Services would have been stopped. Small businesses would have been in tatters. Health care even cut. Public safety accounts. It was a dangerous moment for people in this country. Democrats stepped up. We fought to make sure that one of these budget cuts which they have presented 30 on all of these efforts that helped low income people, poor people, middle class to make it in this country. They are ready to cut the budget by 30 . I have to say, democrats save the day. Leader Hakeem Jeffries was brilliant in the strategy. He sought was taking place on the floor. They gave us this bill by 15 minutes before they want to vote on it. It was outrageous. We dont know. Leader mccarthy knew exactly what to do in terms of parliamentary procedures. We had time to read the bill. Leader jeffries, the Spending Bill passed the house yesterday afternoon. It only took until this morning for Florida Congressman matt gaetz to say he will move this week to our Speaker Mechanic are the. Some moderate publicans are urging democrats to save the speaker. Several of your colleagues have said they will vote in favor of booting mccarthy. Where do you stand . Have you made up your mind . No, im not saying anything at this point. We have to talk to Leader Jeffries. We have to determine a path forward. Speaker mccarthy has not stepped up in terms of an agenda and putting people over politics. First of all, so why should democrats save his speakership. I have no idea what the path forward is. I dont know what type of arrangements could be made. I have no idea. I think its important right now for democrats to follow Leader Jeffries in terms of our strategy because we cannot allow the republicans and the maga Extremist Republicans to hold any Speaker Hostage for their agenda. It would really hurt and harm the American People. The watch what happened last night. It was not only frustrating, when you look at what was at stake, it was just outrageous to me. I cant tell you how angry i got. Im on television. I wont say another word. Theyre not people before politics. They are paying their political gains. Unfortunately, Speaker Mccarthy is caught in that. He did not step up. Urged by a man facing 91 Felony Counts in four trials. He can put a lot of them into this kind of position, to listen to him. Its unbelievable. I want to to jimmy carter. I want to offer condolences over the loss of Dianne Feinstein who passed away friday after more than 30 years representing california in the senate. Governor gavin newsom has stated that hes going to naming someone certainly. As you, know he pledged to appoint a black woman. He made other statements it will be people you said you dont want to discuss this out of respect to the family. Im going to respect that, the statements about the. I want to bring it up. So viewers would not feel i was ducking the issue. My position is what it is, we will find out in a respectful time with the congresswoman wants to say about that. Let me just mention a couple of things about Senator Feinstein. These have not been brought forth about Senator Feinstein. In offering my condolences and grieving like the rest of our state and country is with the loss of this trail blazer. A couple of things and stories that i want to relate to. We were on the senate floor. Senator padilla spoke eloquently about the fact that he had been a staff person a Silent Immigrant Working also Senator Feinstein had a person in her office who was specifically dedicated to the African American community. From day, one she really understood what the diversity meant in terms of her overall agenda. Percy was at every single event representing Diane Feinstein. Representing the senator on all the issues we cared about in the black community. Early on, she killed about Racial Equity and diversity and inclusion. Secondly, i voted against the authorization to use military force. It was a hard vote. I was the only one who voted against it. Senator the only one in congress, about a. House and the senate. Senator feinstein, even though she disagreed with me, she knew i loved orchids. I have this painting, she was an artist, she painted this beautiful painting of an orchid. She signed it and she put 2001, the date. She gave that to me. And kindness and love. She wanted to lift me up. You know reverend al, that was a difficult time. The side of her gentleness and kindness gets lost because she was such a great leader. Such as the assault weapon ban. Leaving on all the issues in my district. Helping us bring fellow resources to my district and to california. Those stories need to be told, i know her relationship with the black community and how percy was so close to her and how he really represented her and took our issues back to her so she could champing them innocent. Im a witness, head of the app national network, we have chapters in sacramento and l. A. Percy i would see almost every time i came to los angeles. I know you are correct there. Before we go. I want to ask what you make of republican attacks to your Come Congressman Jamal Bowman the Capitol Police investigating white woman said it was unintentional. Speaker mccarthy compared it to the acts of january 6th. E acts other members of the party are calling for his expulsion. Is this an overreaction, perhaps even a Distraction Being pushed by republicans . I know jamal well. I doubt if he would intentionally do things. Investigations even that, even if they find something to compare to january six, congressman . It doesnt make any sense Speaker Mccarthy, you never know where hes coming from on anything. I believe congressman bowman. I know him well. You dont do this intentionally. He apologized, lets move. On the trying to find anything they can to distract from their efforts to destroy our democracy and to make sure that budgets are cut and people are relying on them for childcare and health care and for housing. They are distracting and trying to distract from the real work that we are trying to do as democrats. Taking away the attention on what theyre doing to destroy our democracy. Forget what Speaker Mccarthy says. I know were going to have to circle around it. I intend to do that its a bunch of noise, theyre showing how petty they are. Thank you congresswoman i really for being with us tonight. From the house to the senate, joining me now, democratic senator Jeff Berkeley who sits on the appropriations and budget committee. Thank you for joining me today. Great to be with you. Thank you again. Lets start with the Spending Bill. You and your colleagues work to keep the government running for another 45 days. Whats going on right in terms of Getting Started on a longer term plan . There are 12 Spending Bills. Theyve all come out of the Appropriations Committee with bipartisan supporting, some of the most difficult bills like the Interior Bill which i chaired. We came out unanimous. We have a real foundation. Now we have to move all 12 of those to the senate floor. Well probably do it in a series of what we refer to as 3 to 4 time. The challenges make it easy to really slow things down. We dont have time to slow down. In the next four weeks, we need to get all 12 of the bills passed. It seems Speaker Mccarthy will face a challenge to his leadership this week for members of his caucus, from where you sit in the senate. Are you concerned that the turmoil against republicans will affect your ability to get things done for the American People . Heres the fascinating thing. We have a model of bipartisan work in the senate. We kept say the only way were going to save the government is to have bipartisan work in the house. Mcconnell, not mcconnell, the house speaker, was being led around by the crazies on the farright. The mega stream us. They worked to throw me out of office if he didnt do anything they wanted. We were talking to where you have three months ago that hey signed up for, Kevin Mccarthy signed up for the president. And then they said, well, they wanted a percent cuts. They want to 30 cuts. Crazy stuff. Also lots of poison pills. He finally had to cut the cord and say im going my own way. Im pushing forward the bipartisan bill that mimics what the senate has done with some significant differences on ukraine and pumped up some of the disasters. It was the senate bill. The result at the last second. Heres the thing, what happens next weeks iq jeffries going to make Phone Call Automobile in order to provide democratic votes for someone who will lead the house on a bipartisan fashion. Will it be Kevin Mccarthy . Are we going to see a repeat of the extremist that weve seen today it . This Spending Bill did not include aid to ukraine. President biden addressed that today. Take a listen. The speaker and the overwhelming majority of the congress have steadfastly supported ukraine to defend itself against the aggression and brutality of the russian attack on women and children. In addition to the military in ukraine. There is no ukraine funding disagreement. I fully expect the speaker to keep the commitment secured and support needed to help ukraine as they defend themselves against aggression brutality. Are you confident, senator, that a standalone bill will pass on ukraine . It has to. We have to do a supplemental with ukraine in it. If you want to destroy nato, if you want to destroy the atlantic in europe, if you want russia and china to lead the world, and then have america fail to sustain and support ukraine. This is a munich moment. We have to stand with the Republic Being Assaulted by the evil dictatorship to the north, russia. And i am very pleased that both mcconnell and schumer are steadfast in their support. We have to get this done. No other outcome is acceptable. Thank you senator jeff merkley. Coming up, Kevin Mccarthy worked with democrats to avoid a shutdown. Now some republicans want to shut down his speakership. My Political Panel has some hot takes on the next d. C. Drama. The Entertainment Industry is getting back to business with the writers strike. The lights and cameras go on, we want to see some action on diversity. Thats tonight on rise up. First, my colleague richard lui with todays top news stories. Rev, a good sunday to you. More on Dianne Feinstein, the late senator back in her native San Francisco today. Her daughter catherine and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi accompanying her, a flag draped cast their. Feinstein was the first woman to serve as the mayor in 1978. Also the first woman to serve as senator from california. 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Sees conclusion initiative found that last year 31 of the top 100 movies featured an actor from an underrepresented group. In a leading or coleading role, down from 37, down from the high of 37. Writers of color for the top theatrical releases decreased to 12 , down from 14 in 2019, according to the ucla hollywood diversity report. That study also reveals black actors were the leads of 19 of films in 2020. However, two years later, that figure has dropped to 8 . With this, despite the fact that people of color made up the majority of the ticket sales on Opening Weekend for six of the Top Ten Box Office movies last year. While women made major strides as Film Directors over the past 15 years, currently, only one and a half out of ten theatrical