Foreign bodies, foreign entities to challenge those we are leaving briefly. We will return as soon as the house session is done. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Pray. In conroy let us compassionate god, thank you for day. G us another in an earlier national crisis, gerald ford bound the nation with these words, my americans, our Long National nightmare is over. Works. Stitution our Great Republic is a of rnment of laws and not men. Here, the people rule. Brotherly love purge our hate. Of suspicion and of much earlier, president john adams felt that americans were in the best cause that ver employed the human heart but feare
Straight to the gm plant in detroit. Where do negotiations stand now . Reporter david theyre happening behind closed doors a few miles away from here in downtown detroit and were not hearing much from them. Perhaps that bodes well for gm stock it was down about 4 at the closing bell yesterday today back up about 3 . The strike now, seven hours from entering day three, picketers are right now making a strike salary of just 250 a week, they admit they cant keep this up forever, but they are trusting Union Leaders to negotiate a deal in their best interest. I dont know about everybody else, but i rely on my healthcare, and i need it. For people to think that were overpaid, it only takes one person whose actually worked on the Assembly Line to understand where were coming from, so i am very passionate about what were fighting for and i believe in my union and i believe in our leaders they will do the right things. Reporter so how long can General Motors keep this up thats another important
ready for lift off again. nasa prepares to make a second attempt later to launch its most powerful rocket to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered its first attempt. (sot) it is not unusual for a rocket, it is not unusualfor a rocket, a new rocket to experience setbacks or delays but the team are confident they can overcome this and all eyes will be on the launch pad. we start in russia. mourners in moscow are queueing to pay their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who died on tuesday at the age of 91. later today, he will be buried in the city s largest cemetery, novodevichy, next to his wife raisa. russian president vladimir putin is not attending the funeral. the kremlin says mr putin has no space in his schedule. these are live pictures from moscow. mourners are gathering at the hall of columns. he left office in 1991 as the country crumbled around him. he had been the leader of reform but the forces and desire for independence among
Stuff. Seven republicans swear it off tonight at the Ronald Reagan library in california. And of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonights debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. We had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. There was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. Donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. Again, he was not there. The stakes are higher this time around, candidates fundraising boost out of this debate to get their campaigns to keep going. And also to qualify for the next debate. They all have to get momentum out of this. Previous years, republican president ial primaries, by this time in the calendar highprofile candidates had already started dropping out. So, if past is prologue, its
Im Rachel Maddow here in msnbc with my beloved colleagues, chris hayes, joy Reid Stephanie ruhle. Great to all be together in this difficult time we will be joined by California Governor Gavin Newsom in a little bit. He was there at the debate, god bless and we will get his take on what went down tonight the debate is just now wrapping up after two hours of talking stuff. Seven republicans swear it off tonight at the Ronald Reagan library in california. And of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonights debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. We had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. There was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. Donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. Again, he was not there. The stake