Live from cnn center, this is newsroom with Michael Holmes. And welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im Michael Holmes at the cnn center in atlanta. Appreciate your company. Now with just hours to spare, the u. S. Senate late on saturday averted a Government Shutdown by a vote of 889. Senators passed a house bill that will keep money flowing for another 45 days. The white house sent out a photograph. You see it there of President Biden signing the shortterm measure into law shortly before the midnight deadline. Now, the deal came together with surprising speed in the end with u. S. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy abruptly changing course and asking democrats for help. The result was a resounding bipartisan passage of a shortterm bill. But many lawmakers on both sides are very unhappy that the final bill did not contain additional u. S. Aid to ukraine especially at such a critical moment in the war. Still, Senate Leaders were relieved to have brought t
your dressing room and now that i have your hair products what is all this telling us about the network morning wars? what s the impact of matt lauer reupping at today? keith olbermann and current tv filing scorching suits against each other just days after his firing. in the court of public opinion, keith takes his case to david letterman. i screwed up. i screwed up really big on this. but is he. the media endorsing mitt romney wroosh. nothing will stop him from being the man. the race is effectively over. the only person that doesn t seem to understand that is rick santorum and newt gingrich. and, of course, the pundits are never wrong. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. we ll get to all that, but, first, breaking news this morning. we learned within the last 90 minutes that mike wallace has died. mike wallace, the legendary, and i don t use that word lightly legendary talk show host, correspondent for 60 minutes really a giant in the bro
this is a special edition of state of the union this morning for the dedication of the martin luther king memorial. reliable sources will return next week. president obama arrived here a short time ago and will soon dlirch his tribute to dr. deliver his tribute to dr. king. this will close with the extraordinarily rare playing of dr. king s i have a dream speech in its entirety. the king family has approved its use for this one event. the president will speak the end transto the memorial, a small area that only accommodates a small number of vips. the general public is assembled in a field with its own stage and jumbo trans. since early morning they have been listening to music and speeches pie some of the people closest to dr. king. cnn s joe johns is down at the memorial dedication site. joe, i ve been listening to the speeches that i could listen to. it seems a little bit from the podium a mixture of remembrance, looking ahead and a sprinkle of politics thrown in t