Of you from Msnbc Roe Headquarters here in new york. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We are beginning with this Breaking News. Hundreds on capitol hill as the federal government heads towards a, potential, shut down in just 12 hours. Soon the house will vote on speaker Kevin Mccarthys new plan to keep Government Open. We see those votes being cast, in fact, as we speak. However, mccarthy is leaning on democrats to support it admitting that there is no guarantee that his own caucus would do it. The house is going to actually government will not shut down. We will put a clean Funding Stopgap on the florida keep Government Open for 45 days did you get any assurances from any of the republicans about this . No, i have tried. Well, a senate vote is also expected to get underway in the next hour. The impact of a potential shutdown will be felt foreign right across nonessential federal agcies. For almost 4 million employees and military, it would mean working without pay. Here is part
extensive menu, and we will hammer that out before we hear from both sides. the president has talked to them about ensuring kim jong un s security and with the help of folks like south korea as well. onofhe previous deal that we had for north korea, they benefited to the tune of $400 million and help with energy costs and those kinds of things. that deal is one i believe that launched with a ballistic missile test that they agreed not to do. it s got to be, as you said, the sequencing is so meticulous, it has to be hammered out down to the details because they have benefited greatly in the past from these deals and then completely gone from the other direction. the president doesn t want to be played that way. that s exactly right, and i think they have learned lessons from the field nuclear deals of the past. two big differences going into this meeting today that