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colbert. good evening, reverend sharpton. always good to see. i ve been keeping abreast of your activities this week, and want to applaud you for your protest with respect to the pushback that we are facing around d.c. and i efforts across the country. but i do have a quick question for you. for a policy measure, what s it gonna take for us to actually move the needle and finally keep dni from having the attacks that it s currently facing? i think we must make cities, municipalities, states and others, say that the a.i. must be enacted if people are gonna get state city contracts are funds. these businessmen, when we picketed on thursday, i ll do business in the public space. they cannot do public space business with taxpayer dollars if they re not trying to make it an equal place for all. so we need to have politicians putting legislation and policy in place to protect dei. well, that protection doesn t start without any pressure. and so with that, reverend sharp ....
In place to protect dei. well, that protection doesn t start without any pressure. and so with that, reverend sharpton, thank you for always continuously applying pressure where it needs to be. hello, everyone. i m charles coleman junior in this evening for alicia menendez. we begin this hour with breaking news out of capitol hill. congress has reached a spending bill for 2024. now, the deal establishes an overall spending limit of 1.59 trillion dollars for the fiscal year. congresses currently facing its first chant deadline of january 15th joins us now from capitol hill with the latest. good evening, julia. help us break this down. this 1.59 trillion dollar deal. well, it depends who you ask when it comes to breaking down the steel. when speaker johnson put out his memo to colleagues breaking it down, he said that there would be 886 billion dollars ....
For defense spending and 704 billion dollars in non defense spending. now when democrat leader jeffries and leader schumer put out their statement, they noted that it s 77billion dollars in spending. there s a bit of a discrepancy because of a 69 billion lls called aside car by the democrats that wasn t the orin mccarthyspeaker mccarthy deal, with the biden white house. it mightake you a while to remember tho days. but democrats view that as a win. but speaker johnson isn t taking it as a loss. he s just messaging it differently, but he s not fooling everybody. you hear a bit later about some of the pushback that he s getting from his caucus conference. but concessions, that speaker johnson is touting that the democrats gave away are an additional ten billion dollars ....
Fights have played out over the past couple of years. the house freedom caucus is calling this deal a, quote, total failure. and they re not fooled, by the way, thatpeer johnson was advertising the cost breakdown, as i mentioned earlier. and chip roy also called the deal terrible, saying it gives away levera. but he didn t we ll wait and see if we can get any meaningful policy riders out of it. matt rosenle another republican congressman, is disappointed by the microscopic concessions made by democrats in this. but on the senate side, leader mcconnell said that he s encouraged that a deal was reached. the real question is, can speaker johnson keep the house freedom caucus in line and prevent them from blocking this legislation that s going to need bipartisan support? especially with the republicans razor-thin majority. that was nbc s e adjuster. thank you so much. ....