Many, many americans. Thank you so much for your reporting. Thank you all for joining us. This has been cnn news central. What could be the final Inside Politics of Kevin Mccarthys tenure as Speaker Of The House starts now. Kevin mccarthy wants to make. Toads the republican may become the first House Speaker to lose his gavel with a floor vote. After a pair of frenzied meetings, mccarthy says he would survive before and he will find a i way to survive now. I just dont give up. Donald trump tries to convince america that a civil trial is a trap to keep him off the campaign trail. The truth is his choice to be in and back in front of a judge and the cameras. And hunter biden returns to the scene where it all fell apart. The president s son was in delaware to face a judge and plead not guilty to felony gun charges. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics. Up first, the republican House Speakers political survival depends on democrats, and he knows it. You guys do wh
Us. Heres what were watching. Thousands of homes are without power as Tropical Storm ophelia lashes the coast with strong winds and heavy rain. We have a look at the cities in the path and the impact well see throughout the day. Its quickly hurdling toward a shutdown as talks have broken down over a deal to fund the government. How federal agencies are preparing and the talks happening today to try to keep a shutdown happening. Hollywood writers and executives will meet again today to try to work out a deal to end the Writers Strike that has paralyzed the industry for months. What will it take to get production up and running again, even after a deal is made. Plus cnn taking you inside the new High Speed Rail Service connects parts of florida. Why some say it could usher in a new era of rail travel in the u. S. Lets start with Tropical Storm ophelia. It has now made landfall in North Carolina. This pretty strong Tropical Storm washed ashore about two hours ago with winds around 70 Mile
trump. he delivered a lengthy m message, encouraging them to brave the storm and their own health to get as many people out there to caugcus on monday nigh as possible. all of this because they are looking for the widest margin they can possibly win by to set the tone for primary season. donald trump was pushing that narrative on sunday. here s what he said. you must go caucus tomorrow. it s the first step. we have to do it. you have to get out. you can t sit at home. even if you vote and they want pass away, it s worth it. if you re sick, darn it, get up. reporter: that was somewhat of a joke, but it s very important to trump to have people turn out. he s been telling people he s concerned about the weather. he is concerned about turnout. and a lot of this isn t just
when they won t even be paid. i think a proposal is a simple one. let s find other mutually agreeable dates when government is open. it s my understanding that speaker pelosi told members of the caugcus this morning not to invite your families to the state of the union next tuesday. what was the implication there? i think the implication is we simply don t know when this president is going to acknowledge the pain that this shutdown is causing and do the right thing. do you think that meant we re not having one or he s not coming here? i think it meant she did not want people investing in travel when we were unsure when this president is going to open government. and what we have seen is the democrats, we have taken our tnt vote to reopen government. we tried to give the senate the bills they had already passed. now we are responding to house republicans who said let s pass our compromised bills. we just did that.