hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us today, a suspected leaker who shook up the world by posting top secret us intelligence documents online. sees the inside of a federal courtroom plus new cnn reporting on an intriguing avenue of investigation for the special counsel jack smith wants to know if donald trump is using an army of lawyers to intimidate potential witnesses telling his version of events and ron desantis just make himself unelectable. florida governor s science, one of the nation s most restrictive abortion laws, barring the procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy. it s a priority for the republican base. but it is very much at odds which with where most americans stand up first for us, though. hiking boots and handcuffs. this morning, the 21 year old allegedly behind a global intelligence disaster, appearing for the first time in front of a federal judge today, prosecutors l
Thats five pm on the east coast, and the nations eyes are on washington. On capitol hill. We are a stopgap federal Spending Bill is now in the hands of the senate. After being passed in dramatic fashion by the house, just a couple of hours ago. To fund our government and avoid a shutdown with just seven hours left on the clock to do so. We have a lot to cover on our show tonight, but we start with a possible shutdown at midnight. Nbcs Ali Vitale Is Standing by on capitol hill. Elie, give us the latest. Right, things have been fast around here, because if you had told me when i left late last night, that Speaker Mccarthy was going to effectively look left and do this in a partisan fashion, i would have told you, absolutely not, no way. But it was a recognition on mccarthys part that within his conference those republicans that continue to block his path forward were not going to change and is that it was him who had to change the strategy. Now what this does is by the house, and by prox
they have been able to confirm a judicial nominees faster than the last three presidents in president biden s first two years. and so it s important to look at this moment in time, not only the narrow majority in the senate, which makes this issue of judicial nominees notable, but also because that s basically all this white house can get done right now through congress is getting judicial nominees nominated and confirmed , so there are some real substantive concerns here, but also clearly some politics at play when you look at, for example, congressman ro khanna airman of congresswoman barbara lee s campaign. she s the black woman who is a black woman who is running for senate. governor newsom of california, has said he will nominate a point a black woman to the senate. if senator feinstein resigns so again some real concerns but also some politics as always politics. can you believe washington d. c i m shocked up next president biden wrapping up his trip. his ancestral homeland. the