keilar on this new day. the week from hell getting more hellacious by the hour. will congress be able to come together before time and money run out? plus, mixed messages from top military leaders over what they told president biden about their views about withdrawing troops from afghanistan. and a medical mystery solved about former president trump s unexpected trip to the hospital in 2019. and was it too good to be true? big questions about a popular new media startup that now has the attention of the fbi. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, september 29th. time is running out on this week from hell on capitol hill. at 12:01 friday, the government will run out of money, triggering a partial government shutdown and that s not the only financial crisis on the horizon. in less than three weeks the country will default on its loans for first time ever unless congress acts to raise the debt ceiling. republicans voted
massive implications for the u.s. economy. therefore for you and me. a shutdown would mean government services across the board would close millions of americans already burdened with financial hardships on the pandemic would feel the impact if the u.s. runs out of money. federal workers would not get paid. payments to medicaid recipients would be halted as well. social security checks would not hit bank accounts and pay checks for our troops would stop. for those of you receiving the child tax credit, that would end as well. so can democrats overcome the gop blockade to avert the looming shutdown? president biden, will he bridge the divide within his own party to push his agenda over the finish line? cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox is on capitol hill, white house correspondent jeremy diamond also with us. lauren, to you first, to be clear, we have been here before. we have been here where congress gets close to the brink, frankly when both parties have been in pow
joining us. erin will be back tomorrow. i ll be back here live tomorrow in tel aviv starting at 4:00 p.m. eastern. also for the situation room starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. ac 360 starts right now. good evening. this is the aftermath of an israeli strike today in the densely populated jabalia refugee camp. the u.n. says it s the largest such camp in gaza. one eyewitness described the scene to cnn as horrific and said, quote, children were carrying other injured children. we warn you, the next video is disturbing. many of the wounded and dead were taken here, the hospital closest to the camp. witnesses telling cnn they believe a large number were killed, but we can t independently verify the actual number. the idf confirmed the strike and said they were targeting and killed a top commander of hamas in gaza. hamas denies the commander was even there. we ll have more on that in a moment in a conversation with the representative from the idf. israel also said toda
Colleagues. that has been part of the frustration we have been hearing from democrats over the last several days about sinema and manchin. many of them want to hear those members come out with a topline number, how much would you be willing to spend on that bigger $3.5 trillion project. they just aren t saying it at this point and that s part of the reason there is this holdup in the house of representatives over whether or not progressives are going to get behind that infrastructure bill that is ready to go now. jim and erica? erica, i think every lawmaker should start with the phrase, i love you, by the way, i think that would solve all of our problems. when talking to john berman, they do that, but not to us. as we look at all of this, the role of the president can t be understated here. who we know has always touted his 36 years in the senate, touts what he s doing what is happening at the white house, there is some criticism that maybe the president isn t doing enough now as
From that brink. how close are we to it now and what are you hearing from lawmakers as we get closer? well, jim, i think it depends on which piece of legislation we re talking about. when it comes to funding the government, that deadline that is coming on friday, no matter what, we have seen some progress. last night there was a circulation among members of that government spending bill that would fund the government through early december. it was essentially a clean bill, that means it didn t include the increase to the country s borrowing limit, that had been the obstacle for getting republicans on board. so that may be moving positively on that front. but, when it comes to that bipartisan infrastructure bill, there is a lot of work left to do. you still have this massive divide between progressives and moderates in the house of representatives with those progressives arguing they want some kind of promise from moderates like joe manchin and kirsten sinema, you saw both at