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
That already occurred, including under republican presidents. why are they willing to go along with this bad faith argument that s about to curb democratic spending? i think for a couple reasons. i do think dissension in the ranks and may yet bethat may be part of the reason the deal isn t completely ironed out. yesterday i think it was roy blunt, member of mcconnell s leadership team told a couple of reporters he thought probably 45 republican senators who wouldish willing to sit on their hands and let democrats raise through regular order and not go through an entire filibuster process, the reconciliation process, that republicans had been putting out there. the problem, blunt said, the other five who could not be controlled. i heard a version of that from mcconnell, too, at his press conference also yesterday when i asked him why not kind of take the easy way out here? he said, that would require all 50 republican senators to get onboard. kind of made it sound as though that was n
Not running for re-election. taking on the nfl. those are the new deliverables. but it s more than that, matt. go ahead, ned. it s more than that. look at gorsuch. look at the lower level judges. look at some of the things he s been able to do with the captureds. look at all the regulations that he s rolled back. where he is able to, donald trump has posted real victories. but we have a feel fact here in america. the executive branch does not make legislation. he needs the legislators to actually step up. and you know, i m reminded, kate, of mcconnell s words recently, in which winners make policy, and losers go home. so i guess i would encourage republican senators, you know what, here s your chance to be winners, and if you can t win, go home. but the thing is, kate, these guys are out of touch i think keep going. no, to reiterate what matt s saying i know you re saying these guys are out of touch, but here s the question. they are. i know you were very fine tha
jason, it is amazing in some weird way it almost feels like this is right now there s a kind of glide path because of mcconnell s secret strategy that a win there could be something because health care and correct me if i m wrong is key to the ground upon which this campaign is contested. right. look. if ossoff pulls this off tomorrow, it s a record strap for every single republican in the senate. there have been 50,000 new people who have registered since the primary in april. people that didn t vote in april that registered now. most people think they re people not happy with president trump, concerned about the health care bill. very much has national reresch yagss and democrats seem to believe they have a decent chance tomorrow. robert, the money coming into the race is astounding and one of the things that s interesting about the money is in this sense, most of the ossoff money raised through traditional party apparatus in the campaign.
jason, it is amazing in some weird way it almost feels like this is right now there s a kind of glide path because of mcconnell s secret strategy that a win there could be something because health care and correct me if i m wrong is key to the ground upon which this campaign is contested. right. look. if ossoff pulls this off tomorrow, it s a record strap for every single republican in the senate. there have been 50,000 new people who have registered since the primary in april. people that didn t vote in april that registered now. most people think they re people not happy with president trump, concerned about the health care bill. very much has national reresch yagss and democrats seem to believe they have a decent chance tomorrow. robert, the money coming into the race is astounding and one of the things that s interesting about the money is in this sense, most of the ossoff money raised through traditional party apparatus in the campaign.