Very successful. That was speaker Kevin Mccarthy back in january trying to make the case as he worked to become speaker of the house, his majority would come together, learn from that moment and be able to succeed at the moment the United States federal government is on the brink of a Government Shutdown with less than 40 hours left on the clock. Right now Speaker Mccarthy is throwing a lastditch hail mary as he struggles to overcome a rebellion in the house gop as we speak, the House Rules Committee trying to clear a way for a vote on a cinematstopgap bill. At this point, despite conservative additions into the legislation, mccarthy stunt i have peer to have enough republican votes to pass it. He is refusing to say if he will cut a deal with democrats if it fails. Do you have a plan b if this why would i tell you . In this job, youve got to have a, b, c, d, e, f, g. What letter are you on now . Again, that was mccarthy back in january. The question this morning that was yesterday. Her
And good evening from the Reagan Library in simi valley, just outside los angeles. This as the name suggests, dedicated to preserving the history of the 40th president s term in office. But it was the 45th president and current republican front runner who took center stage by his absence. The former president was in michigan tonight, Florida Governor ron desantis pointed that out. He also tried to do what he and the other six government grappling with without much success so far. Namely, how to set themselves apart from the former president without also ilion eighting his supporters. We will take that up in our coverage tonight and speak with some of the candidates as well as iowa voters that watch the debate tonight. We will also watch the first, one i want to start with one of the key moments on, tonight candidate Vivek Ramaswamy who was a vocal in the first debate including in this clash with former South Carolina governor nikki haley who is reacting to the answer he gave one asked
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share some of the blame for why this has become so political? well, i think paul gives very interesting historical context, but one thing i would disagree on is that biden s fully gone to back and gone to work to get this through. mitt romney over the weekend said he s not even gotten a call from the white house on this bill. i believe fundamentally that there are at least a dozen good-faith republican senators who want to see people who should have access to voting able to vote, able to do it easily, but we have some different policy viewpoints than the democrats. this is where the hard work of legislating and governing comes in. you have to sit down and talk to people on the other side of the aisle and say, what are you able to get on board with and what do you need to see from us? i think there s actually a way there would be a transf transformational voting bill that comes out of this, but it 100% would require some buy-in from republicans, otherwise it s going to seem cheap and
the militaries of very rich countries all over the world while at the same time those countries take advantage of the u.s. general mattis did not see this as a problem and i do and it s being fixed. mattis resignation came after trump s announcement that he would withdraw all u.s. troops from syria. deputy defense secretary shanahan will becoming the acting secretary of defense. cnn s barbara starr joins us. barbara, what do we know about shanahan, and do his policy viewpoints align with mattis ? reporter: he deals with things like business practices, budget, acquisition reform, developing the space form that mr. trump wants, all of which go