The c. R. Didnt pass, its just like in life, if you quit after the first time, its only a failure if you quit. Were in the middle of the republican civil war that has been ongoing for months, and now it threatens catastrophic Government Shutdown. Got to stop the spending. Its bankrupting this great country of ours. Any more time the speaker spends trying to cobble together farright wish lists that cant even pass the house would be a grievous mistake. Its tame for republicans to top playing these games what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are doing with blank checks, more borrowing, more taxing, for more spending, destroying the future of this country. That stops now. Neil shutdown on. Well, the Government Shutdown is looking pretty inevitable right now, just 14 hours away potentially. Right after midnight tonight, 3. 5 million workers could be off the Government Payroll unless or until congress can pass a spending plan. Heres what we know right now though, House Speaker Ke
news. the new house speaker just cleared a very significant hurdle, getting his plan to avoid a government shutdown approved with the help of democrats. at the same time, anger amongst some house republicans is clearly boiling over with one gop lawmaker accusing another of elbowing him in the back. we re following the rapidly worsening health care crisis in war-torn gaza. the united nations says there s now only one working hospital left in the north as fighting rages and civilians are dying. thousands of americans rally in washington, showing their support for israel and its war against hamas, as anti-semitism is surging in the u.s. and around the world. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news out of washington. the house of representatives voting tonight to keep the federal government open until at least early next year, as t
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my colleague bret baier talked with congressman moen earlier today. back from the region which he said he paid for himself and with the help of private contributions. bret: mike, thank you. joining us now republican congressman mark wane mullen from oklahoma. just had an interesting trip overseas. thank you for having me. bret: start at the beginning. how does this start? well, i want to make it very clear. i wasn t looking to try to get in afghanistan. that wasn t what was this thing started out to be. what started was people started calling me wanting help. and we had been getting friends of mine that was in the service that said can you help our interpreter get out? which we had a lot of conversations about that. then we started getting phone calls from people that had family members or friends that