Good afternoon. We begin with the only question thats ringing around the corridor with the capitol this afternoon. Is eight hours enough to stop a Government Shutdown . With the countdown clock ticking, the nation is bracing itself for what could be the first Government Shutdown in nearly two decades and the deal is struck before midnight. The senate in session all of 20 minutes today before they voted to reject a house bill that would delay the president S Health Care law as a condition for keeping the government running. Majority leader harry reid came with a blunt message for House Speaker john boehner. Without being too dramatic about this, the fate of the country depends on the house being able to vote. All members of the house of representatives. I hope that john boehner makes a responsible decision. Job protection time is over with. Its time to start protecting the American People. They sent a clean funding bill back to the house, where the Republican Leadership convened a speci
Hey there, im joshua johnson. Its good to be with you tonight from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. It is a night where i have something unusual in common with the house of representatives. We are both working. It was a very rare saturday session for the house. A democratic bill passed that allocates 25 billion to the u. S. Postal service. The vote was mostly along party lines, with some republican support. On this vote, the yechas are 257 and the nays are 150. The bill is passed. We will speak with a house member who headed back to d. C. From california to make sure her vote was cast. But that vote may be the end of the line for this bill, despite this working weekend. The senate is still on vacation until after labor day. It has no plans to cut that short and vote on this bill or to bring it to the floor when it does come back. President trump has said he wont sign it. Tonight he tweeted this is all another hoax by the democrats to give 25 billion unneeded dollars for political
President ial debate where Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris will be separated by plexiglass as they speak. Were going to talk to a Senior Adviser to the Biden Campaign about whats ahead tonight. And stocks are back up after President Trump appeared to walk back his decision to stop negotiations on a covid relief bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she doesnt know whats next with the president. Well, its hard to see any clear, sane path on anything that hes doing, but the fact is that he saw the political downside of his statement of walking away. Joining us now, nbcs Garrett Haake on capitol hill and nbc shannon petty piece outside the white house. Garrett, let me begin with you with the very latest. The democrats heroes act is worth 2. 2 trillion, includes 600 for weekly federal unemployment supplements. Trump is now tweeting about a piecemeal approach. Just how far apart are pelosi and the white house on this one . Pretty much light years apart. Its my understand
Delegates, but the race is too early to call with 46 of the vote in. Sanders has 32 . Biden, 23. The state of maine, also too close to call with 91 of the vote in. Biden leads in that state by about 1700 votes. Now, when it comes to delegates, biden is now the frontrunner, with, there it is on your screen, as of right now shg, 43 delegates, to brndz brnernie sanders 346. Joe biden took to the stage andid celebrated a victory ther. Its a good night. Its a good night. And its seeming to get even better. They dont call it super tuesday for nothing. Just a few days ago, the press and the pundits declared the campaign dead. And then came South Carolina, and they had something to say about it. And were told now when we got to super tuesday, it would be over. But it may be over for the other guy. Im here to report, we are very much alive and make no mistake about it, this campaign will send donald trump packing. People are talking about a revolution. We started a movement, we increased turnou
Close to 50 now. Three straight contests ahead of super tuesday, which is unbelievable coming tuesday. This morning, he picked up two u. S. Congressional endorsements, Chris Collins of new york, and duncan. Meanwhile, super tuesday states, is donald trump completing his hostile takeover, the Republican Party, thats our question tonight. Is it over . Trump celebrated his victory last night in las vegas, and promised a lot of winning for the country if he is elected. We werent expected a couple of months ago, we werent expected to win this one. You know that, right . We werent. Of course, if you listen to the pundits, we werent expected to win too much, and now were winning, winning, winning the country. And soon, the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. I said phil, i dont want your money, im selffunding. Every time i see him, its a hard for me to turn down money, because thats not what ive done in my whole life, i grab and grab. I ged greedy. I want money. Ill tell you