Fellow lawmakers and the same dysfunctional matt one thing is certain, more drama in the house this week. House speaker Kevin Mccarthys nemesis, and chief tormentor, fellow republican matt gaetz, well, he has announced that he will soon file a motion to remove the speaker. Will democrats vote for . That we are gonna get some answers from democratic congressman, and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus stephen. Plus, i caught up with actress carrie washington, we discussed her passion for Voting Rights, and engaging others in the political process. You will hear why olivia pope says you are the fixer, in this current political crime at. And i am symone sanderstownsend, and i have something to say. Well, that was close, with less than an hour before a Government Funding was set to expire, President Biden signed a 45day resolution, keeping the government afloat until november 17th. But, it is its journey to the president s dance desk was needlessly massie, and got drawn out. Today, Pre
Two pm eastern, symone starts right now. Greetings, everyone. Youre watching symone. We are monitoring Breaking News at this hour. Its been a busy day on capitol hill. With a Clock Ticking and a Government Shutdown deadline just hours away. House lawmakers just approved, they just voted, yall, just approved, 45day stopgap bill. That would keep the government open, democrats coming to the rescue. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is here. Shes gonna discuss todays 11th hour scramble to avoid the shutdown. And Speaker Mccarthy surprise move, something he said he would not do. Its not over though, because keeping the government open is now in the hands of the United States senate. Theyve got eight hours. We are monitoring these developments. We will bring them to you as they are happening. Im symone sanderstownsend, i have something to say. A lot, actually. Crisis averted. We will see. Its been a whirlwind day on capitol hill. Because just hours to spare before a devastating Government Shutd
happens. i think you ve spent since last thursday distracted by house versus whole. the most pointless debate in american history. so i don t think that happens. i think at this point what you should focus on is the spending math. can if republicans can t get any democratic votes, can they hold their own line? they have done it in the path in the short-term funding resolutions. this will be harder because as abby mentioned in her package, the house freedom caucus is not all on board as of yet. they lose a handful of them then the math in the house becomes tighter. alex, this is a big gamut for democrats if they decide this is what they re going to stick their convictions on and allow the government to shut down. so are they allowing to go along with a short-term spending deal if the promise of a daca fix is soon? i think a decisive group of democrats would be willing to go along with a short-term spending fix in exchange for some kind of
looks. all day long the dow headed south until it finally closed down an ugly 266 points. on wall street, 4:00 couldn t come fast enough. we ve had eight straight days of losses, the first time that happened since the global financial meltdown? 2008. it is a scary picture, and we re going to walk you through it all in just a moment. but first a look at the other stories we re drilling down on tonight. it s ramadan in syria. instead of peace, more bloodshed. graphic new images of bodies dumb it ped like garbage as the death toll rises. can the world look the other way? and japan s endless disaster. radiation levels at their highest since the earthquake and tsunami in march. you won t believe what they re testing now. then with grim news on wall street, everybody is talking about transparency. but these folks did something about it, striptease for social protest. the bears rule in more ways than one. now back to the batd news on wall street. we finally get a debt deal
threats to derail the funding resolutions, this is all an element of theater. like i said at the beginning, it would be political suicide for a democratic president to embrace social security reform heading into a re-election campaign. why would he ever do it. you don t think it s going to happen then? you don t think medicare, medicaid or social security will ab dressed? do you? look at what happened in the health care bill when they cut off 500 million of fat from medicare and they got ruthlessly murdered in the 2010 elections for it? by the republican party no less, which wants to decrease the size of medicare. of course, they made the spending cuts to one entitlement program to create a brand new one. i would suggest that may not have been the most assured thing for voters. if i was helping obama with his communications strategy, i would come up this sounds corny, some w some type of slogan, we all have to give. everybody s in. i have a good one. ask not what your count