pivotal midterm elections. in a little over 24 hours results will begin pouring in, with huge implications for the direction of the country and the future of the biden agenda. also tonight, two election exclusives. cnn sits down with republican leader kevin mccarthy to preview his plans if the gop wins the house. and speaker nancy pelosi opens up to anderson cooper in her first interview since the brutal hammer attack on her husband paul. cnn reporters and kr correspondents are on the campaign trail covering key races, the house and senate and governor s mansions across the country as well. all are at stake. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first let s go to cnn s kate baldwin standing by just outside of philadelphia. control of the senate could come down to pennsylvania. both mehmet oz and john fetterman are spending the final hours getting out their closing messages. what s the lat
This is cnn Breaking News. Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on what is seriously a marathon saturday. On capitol hill and wherever you are. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with this Breaking News from capitol hill, where were watching an 11th hour Stopgap Spending Bill potentially come to reality. The house is yet to vote on it, but there are so many moving parts today, youre seeing the minority House Minority leader, hakeem jeffries, who has been using his magic minute to speak to the chamber there, imploring that all of this was avoidable, there could have been some bipartisan effort to keep Government Spending well before this juncture, but here we all are. Lets get to cnns lauren fox on capitol hill. Brand new reporting that you have about not just whats going on in the house, but apparently whats happening in the senate, and how all of this is coming together. Whats going on . Reporter let me paint a picture for viewers at home. Basically theres been a del
Representatives, the margin of victory is very significant, it depends on how far he can go, if it s a narrow majority that the republicans have, as opposed to a much bigger majority. absolutely. i mean, you know, one, he wants to win, he wants 218 votes. how far he gets beyond that is going to make a big difference in how easy kevin mccarthy s life is going to be. if he has a very slim majority and the hard trump republicans, like marjorie taylor greene or matt gatetz, if they re the majority, they ll have a lot of influence in terms of what kevin mccarthy is able to do. if he has a bigger majority, 230s, 240s, he can placate them, but pursue what he wants to do as speaker. very quickly, what s your sense, if trump goes ahead, maybe as early as tonight, announces he s definitely he s hinting broadly he s going to run for the presidency again. but if he does that before
His party but is now the face. matt gatetz is now tweeting a nw theory which is on fox news that the fbi is involved and that federal officials incited it and a qanon follower killed in the attack was executed by law enforcement. their leader kevin mccarthy sets the example. he set the bar pretty high there. here is what he said about president biden at the summit in geneva. and spoiler alert. it is also a lie. he knows it. quoting from a portion of mccarthy s statement yesterday he said, president biden should have used today s summit to stand up for our national interests and send a message to the world that the united states will hold russia accountable for its long list of transgressions. unfortunately president biden gave vladimir putin a pass. now, look. you can agree or disagree with the president s russia policy. we re not here to support any political party s policies. you can raise questions about how the president plans to