Gave up a lot and the companies were in trouble. Now theyre doing incredibly well and guess what. You should be doing incredibly well, too. Yeah President Biden makes an historic visit to a uaw picket line as donald trump, an impostor, pretending to be a friend of organized labor, gets ready to speak to auto workers tomorrow. People hes never raised a finger to help. Also, a major legal blow to trump as a judge rules that he committed fraud for years. Exaggerating his net worth and massively overvaluing his assets. And John Fetterman joins me on the growing threat. The growing calls for Senator Menendez to step down and much more. We begin with an historic day with union joe doing something no sitting president has ever done. Walking a picket line. Biden joins striking United Auto Workers in michigan deal, a big fing deal, in biden speak, to close out a summer of labor. More on that later. Whats also a huge deal is the potential Government Shutdown in just four days. The senate is work
This sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with growing pressure on the u. S. Congress to avoid a crippling u. S. Government shutdown this week. Time is running out. Lawmakers now have just six days to pass a Spending Bill to fund the government. Federal agencies have already started the formal process of preparing for a shutdown. If that happens, millions of federal workers could have their paychecks withheld until a deal is reached. But with the clock ticking, it is clear House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy doesnt have the votes to pass a stopgap funding bill and House Republicans are engaged in Open Warfare Over who is to blame for the stalemate. The hold outs keep saying to Kevin Mccarthy, dont bring bipartisan bills to the floor. We dont want you to use democrat votes to try to avert a shutdown. But theyre using democrat votes to try to cause a shutdown. These individuals, these republican hold outs are voting with nancy pelosi. We should have separate single subject Spending Bills. K
including the nation meeting its new speaker from the house from the very real questions facing the real mike johnson to the saturday night live debut what you see there in a mock meeting with president biden for halloween. we have more on that and a special guest on that longtime biden chief of staff, ron clain is here and it s the first time on the program since leaving the white house and also later tonight, a report from the middle east, but our top story right now is a new procedural victory for doj prosecutor jack smith and the legal loss for defendant donald trump who got in trouble for his own recent aide turned dishing doj mark meadows. they re-gagged trump and that s a technical legal way to put it. you may have heard about this, i ll walk you through it right now. basically late sunday the federal judge overseeing that open coup case reinstated a partial gag order that bars defendant trump from attacking witnesses and others and that order had been on hold basica
government shutdown could happen in just a matter of days without an agreement with congress. johnson came into the speakership after previous speaker kevin mccarthy was kicked out for keeping the government open for roughly 45 days but not seeking spending cuts. the right wing revolted against him. then johnson came in and had to deal with how to keep the government open. he also opted for a short-term funding increase, but he did something unusual, to set up two different deadlines, one for some government agencies on january 19th. others for the rest of them, on february 2nd. now congress has been gone since before christmas, comes back this week and will have to make some key decisions with very little time here in the days ahead. johnson and chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, have been in talks for weeks about trying to figure out a way to set overall government funding levels. they re close to agreement on that aspect. there are still a whole host of other issues that cou
government funding levels and the first step in averting a shutdown. they are still facing major hurdles ahead of congress in the deadlines, one january 19th and the other is february 2nd, and one of the hurdles is how to deal with the demands of the conservatives to use the funding bill as leverage to impose more stringent border and security demands. as the migrant crisis is growing at the southern border, the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is expected to visit the area tomorrow. and so we are joined by rafael romo and what do you know about this trip? well, talk about a pivotal moment, because this is happening at a moment of intense political tension to address this crisis that last month saw 302,000 illegal crossings, and the homeland secretary mayorkas is going to go to eagle pass,