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investigate. new audio from a 911 call reveals a violent altercation days before the disappearance of gabby petito. good to have you with us. world leaders are converging on new york for the u.n. general assembly which kicks off today. president biden is one of the first speakers. he s set to lay out his policy vision. the president s growing political crisis may complicate and even over shadow his general assembly speech. president biden delivering his debut address today before the united nation general assembly facing a skeptical audience suddenly with criticism with the united states. america is back. reporter: a familiar pledge is ringing hallow with some allies. even with long time american partners, partners are taking a mixed view of biden s foreign doctrine. we ll have a lot of pledges and positive noises. let s see where we get to. i am not counting on chickens. reporter: boris johnson raising questions of climate change and covid-19 and a rising c ....
folks in some states who say they d rather be divided by red and blue, right? that talk has never really gone away. i think when you see things like january 6th, these increasing domestic terrorist threats, right, you see that, until we confront the truth of our past, then, yes, these crises will reemerge in new ways. we just cannot afford to be divided in the way that we are when we re looking at things like climate change. a hurricane does not care if you are republican or a democrat. it is coming to destroy your community and to impact the lives of those among us who are, you know, the least privileged and the most marginalized. this is a time for not only reflection but urgent action. michael, what is the thing that could unite the country or at least, you know, soften the edges of the division? you ve heard me say this to both you and to john previously. too much power rests now with the fringes. we ve allowed people to command the use of too many microphones. ....
among those issues and challenges, the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, human rights, and the assault on democracy in countries around the world. we will have much more on his trip in just a moment. and we will bring you his speech live as soon as it begins later this hour. we are also keeping a close eye this morning on washington because it is make or break time for the u.s. economy. with a government shutdown looming, speaker nancy pelosi says the next 48 hours are critical. democrats trying to pass a sweeping economic package. today the house is expected to vote on a short-term funding bill to keep the government running through december. it would suspend the debt limit through 2022. that vote expected to trigger a major showdown between democrats and republicans. one that has direct implications for the american people because without a debt limit increase, keep in mind social security checks would stop, child tax credits would be halted, paychecks for the n ....
on the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure plan as they call it. but there s an impasse between progressives and moderate democrats. progressives say they will not sign off on the bipartisan infrastructure deal unless the bigger social safety net bill comes with it and moderates don t like that. so, cnn s ryan nobles and lauren fox are on capitol hill to explain all of this to all of us. ryan, let s start with you. are they going to vote to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling in the house today? reporter: well, nothing is easy on capitol hill. i think we ve learned that, alisyn and victor, and even this process has not been easy. house democrats were prepared and are now prepared to pass this continuing resolution and the language that would lift the debt limit for more than a year, but ran into a snag earlier today because some house progressives were concerned that it included more than a billion dollars in funding for the iron dome security system for i ....
gets through the house and the senate? very little, in fact, there s virtually no chance it gets through both chambers. the house is scheduled to take a vote in just about an hour and a half or so, in order to raise the national debt limit and avoid a government shut down. that deadline to avoid a government shut down is september 30th, the end of the fiscal year. the deadline to avoid a first time ever default on the nation s debt is mid october. and there is no resolution to get out of either. democrats are trying to pair up those two issues. they will pass it out of the democratic controlled house today and then it will move to the senate where they need 60 votes to achieve that. democrats are insisting republicans must join them to raise the debt limit, given the debt that was accrued during the trump era. republicans say given the spending that occurred under the first nine months of the biden administration that it s up to democrats alone to do t and they re cal ....