but there is still a lot of time between now and next november. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. greetings everyone, i am symone sanders-townsend instead for stephanie ruhle. tonight, the race to protect a key priority for biden s agenda. wartime military aid for ukraine in israel. that 100 billion dollar aid package is now tied up in a fight on capitol hill involving our southern border. republicans refused to release the money unless the white house agrees to their demands for border security and immigration policy that includes return to some trump era policies. senators have been meeting with white house officials to try and work out a deal. the senate was supposed to leave today for a holiday recess, but this afternoon, majority leader schumer said the senate will be back next week. the senate will return on monday. that will give negotiators from the white house, senate democrats, senate republicans a time to work through the weekend in an effort
the senate will be back on monday to work out a deal on immigration and ukraine aid. then, rudy giuliani s defamation trial is now in the hands of the jury. what went down in court today. and new polling shows a tight race in several swing states, but there is still a lot of time between now and next november. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. greetings everyone, i am symone sanders-townsend instead for stephanie ruhle. tonight, the race to protect a key priority for biden s agenda. wartime military aid for ukraine in israel. that 100 billion dollar aid package is now tied up in a fight on capitol hill involving our southern border. republicans refused to release the money unless the white house agrees to their demands for border security and immigration policy that includes return to some trump era policies. senators have been meeting with white house officials to try and work out a deal. the senate was supposed to leave today for a holiday recess, but t
nearly a decade in a russian prison. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. news from last night, senator kyrsten sinema has agreed to back democrats reconciliation bill. clearing the way for a vote later this week. her decision comes after days of fellow democrats lobbying her on the deal. in a statement last night, the senator said she would come on board after the carried interest tax provision was removed. lawmakers also agreed to combat droughts that plague her home state of arizona. democrats are now just waiting for the sign-off from the senate parliamentarian. majority leader chuck schumer says the final version of the bill will be introduced on saturday. the senate will take today off before a long day tomorrow a rare saturday. even rarer one in august. there will be up to 20 hours of debate after the first procedural vote. and then comes what is known as a voter-a-ra mr. a where senat
with less than six weeks until the iowa caucus, the four republican hopefuls, trying to set themselves apart from him, and each other. good evening from new york. and anderson, hello from the room here at the university of alabama tuscaloosa, site of the fourth primary debate of the election season 2024. it is just wrapping up. chris christie, ron desantis, nikki haley, and vivek ramaswamy once again the former president did not take part. nikki haley who has of course been rising lately as a contender in some polls, and in the eyes of some campaign watchers, and certainly in the eyes of some big donors, she came in she had a lot of criticism heading towards or tonight from desantis, and ramaswamy. no doubt about, that know you will be speaking looking for to that. cnn s panel is checking the facts on what they said. cnn s gary tuchman is back with a group of voters who watched an hour tonight, also our political panel, here and from the debate, stage a clash of chr
states that the republicans have a shot at arizona. kyrsten, cinema is going to be up. you ve got manchin in west virginia. you ve got tammy baldwin and wisconsin, and you ve got debbie stabenow in michigan. so there s a there s a lot of targets on the table for republicans in 2020 four. now, tom , there are some interesting insights abouts the independent exit polling last night.last night. what did you see there?ee well, i mean, it s just that s probably to me, the most s stunning thing about thosetu ext polls is that democrats won independents by two points. if you look back at midterm elections, independents have traditionally sided with the party, the out party, the inuo. the party that s seeking change, not for the status quo. i mean, by 10, 12 , 15 , 20 points. if you look back at 20 , 10 , 20 , fourteen, twenty , eighteen. so thia s is a this is a strang, development from last night. and it looks like republicans turned out, but it looks like t while they they turned out, e