that s five pm on the east coast, and the nation s eyes are on washington. on capitol hill. we are a stopgap federal spending bill is now in the hands of the senate. after being passed in dramatic fashion by the house, just a couple of hours ago. to fund our government and avoid a shutdown with just seven hours left on the clock to do so. we have a lot to cover on our show tonight, but we start with a possible shutdown at midnight. nbc s ali vitale is standing by on capitol hill. elie, give us the latest. right, things have been fast around here, because if you had told me when i left late last night, that speaker mccarthy was going to effectively look left and do this in a partisan fashion, i would have told you, absolutely not, no way. but it was a recognition on mccarthy s part that within his conference those republicans that continue to block his path forward were not going to change and is that it was him who had to change the strategy. now what this does is by
and it is pretty clear those options are as i just outlined it. does that mean he couldn t find trump in violation of some other statute that has not been briefed before him? nobody has also said i m not going to summarily find contempt. these are things you have to bring before me. he has made it very clear. these are not summary proceedings. unless he actually does it in front of me, i m not going to do it on my own volition. we could keep going., we shouldn t. that will do it for us for now. now it is time for the last word with our good friend lawrence o donnell. good evening. good evening, rachel. we have convened our own version of the last word supreme court. in it, including harvard law professor laurence tribe, andrew weissman is here with us. senator sheldon whitehouse has a few things to say about it too and he will be joining us. looking forward to it, lawrence. we learned today the united states supreme court has two different kinds of justices. justices
this will be intense, long-lasting, and widespread. numerous record highs and lows fall this week. norah: plus as wildfires burn across california, the impact gusty winds could have on firefighting efforts. the cbs evening news starts now. more than 80% of the country is facing scorching temperatures from arizona to maine. good evening. i am norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. some are one officially begin until thursday, but you would not know it if you are outside today and these sweltering conditions print talking about 265 million americans that will see temperatures hit 90 degrees this week. this massive heat wave covers nearly half of the country with 21 states under excessive heat warnings were advisories. heat and emergencies have already been declared in boston and right here in washington, d.c. and get this, more than 100 record highs are set to be challenged before the weekend. meanwhile, california has once again battling dangerous wildfire
ridiculing the effort by the special counsel to have a gag order in play put in place on the former president. they re calling it an unconstitutional overreach by the special counsel. and their say this is actually a ploy to help joe biden in the election. i ll read you some of what this filing said tonight. it says like manhattan district attorney alvin bragg jack smith is seeking to restrict president trump s camp campaign speed as the first presidential debate approaches at the end of the month, that s of course the debate that s going to be here on cnn then later this month, they go on to say the following. they say that the motion is a naked effort to impose totalitarian censorship of core political speech under threat of incarceration in a clear attempt to silent president s silence, president trump s arguments to the american people about the outrageous nature of this investment and prosecution. and look, what the former president s lawyers are really homing in on. and
thanks very much for joining us tonight. or codes live starts right now. have a great night, everybody a bear market on donald trump or the former president tries to sell wall street on a second term it didn t go well at all. plus legal machine guns the supreme court, i m does a trump era decision to ban bump stocks the same? bump stocks. the madman use to slaughter 58 people at las vegas country music festival. and an interview you re only going to see here, my nothing is off limits. sit down with ufc s dana white including why he s choosing donald trump is his fighter in the 2024 election donald trump coming up big lee short with war wall street thursday, he received a kind of a hero s welcome, didn t the inside of congress and who could forget that handshake with him and mitch mcconnell. but with the c-suite crowd. but the corporate titans, they re not fully buying in, at least not yet wall street was primed to go all in on trump, the headlines teased it over and over