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kate baldwin. john berman is out today. this is cnn news central we do have new developments just in this morning, just this morning on the current mess on capitol hill. >> the republican house speaker just telling cnn that they have another plan we have a plan. >> is there going to be a different bill on the floor today? >> are you going to vote today? yeah, we're we're expecting votes this morning. so y'all stay tuned. we got a plan. >> you have you reached a new agreement? >> we'll see. >> we've got a plan. have you reached a new agreement? we'll see. we'll see. is right. things we know at this hour is that the speaker has already gone into a meeting this morning with house freedom caucus vice president elect jd vance and russ vought, the donald trump's pick to lead the office of management and budget. what they're trying to do is to break the ice on the breakdown that has occurred among republicans over how to avoid a government shutdown. tonight, conservatives voted against the republican plan

last night, in big part because donald trump added into the mix a new ask suspending the federal debt limit for another two years. as part of this deal. that's been a no go for a long time among conservative republicans. so this morning, the president elect is also putting out more of his thoughts. this just in the last hour, saying on social media that if the government is going to shut down, do it now. under the biden administration, while joe biden is still in the white house. joining us now, cnn's andy greer, who was there to speak to the house speaker, who is coming in this morning. what is the latest now, andy? >> well, the latest is the meeting that the speaker was having with jd vance, his omb director, and republicans who were against the vote last night. that meeting is breaking up behind me. as you can see, lawmakers are leaving. and one of them came out and said they think that republicans can vote as early as 10 a.m. this morning. but the question is on, what are they going to be voting on? because republicans

clearly still do not have consensus on what specifically to do about debt limit suspension. that wasn't a part of the government funding conversation for weeks until donald trump and elon musk inserted it, and then speaker mike johnson and his leadership team put a new plan on the floor. last night, we saw 38 republicans vote against it, and they're going to need a lot of democrats to get on board to get this to pass before government funding runs out tonight. last night, we didn't see nearly we only saw two democrats support it. not nearly enough. so there's a lot of discussion about what could happen, what they could put on the floor today that could maybe get more democratic consensus. and, you know, there's no question of just the role that donald trump has played here, looming large over all of this. listen to one senator, what he thinks the president should do i think one of the ways that this could get fixed fairly quickly would be if president trump would come up to washington tomorrow or

spend the weekend here and and talk to people face to face. >> um, let's face it. i mean, he's, you know, he's got a lot of sway and persuasion. >> to try the same thing. >> so that's senator kevin cramer talking about why he thinks president elect should come to congress to make the case directly. but right now, jd vance is the vice president elect, is being the conduit for the trump transition team trying to get republicans on board with a government funding plan before it runs out of funding. tonight. >> but still, i mean, what's very clear is nothing is clear. they say they've got a plan. they say they could have votes, but no one has seen this plan. and we've just had democrats, a couple democrats on the show who said who have already said this morning, democrats are going to vote, aren't going to vote for anything if they're not part of the discussion. it seems that that's unlikely as of this morning, that they were part of that. the meetings that have been going on so far, and he's going to stick to it. she's going to stick with it. the speaker's office is right now right over her shoulder. so

she's going to be trying to chase people down to bring us this information as we speak. andy, thank you so much. keep us updated, sarah. >> all right. joining us now, cnn anchor and chief political correspondent dana bash. all right. you've seen a lot of these fights over the years over the budget. i mean, you know, it felt like every few months for a while there, actually, that was the case. so we just heard from speaker johnson. they got a plan, you know, that they can agree on maybe. and i and i just spoke with katherine clark, who says democrats haven't been consulted, nor were they consulted on plan b, the plan before that that donald trump was back. how do you see this playing out? >> this is, of course, the whole premise of the original deal that mike johnson struck was that democrats need to be at the table because there is such a narrow majority that republicans have. >> and by the way, it's going to get even narrower as the next congress comes in. >> but the the reality that

mike johnson is well aware of is that there are so many members of his own conference who will not vote for a spending bill that is as large as this is to fund the government, kind of no matter what. so that's the as i said, the reality that he is well aware of, which is different from what elon musk sees, what donald trump sees, what they are trying to play here and what this has done. >> and i'm not really sure, sarah, if donald trump realized that this would be a consequence, but what that vote last night did is expose even before donald trump is in the white house, that he doesn't have the grip on the house republican conference that he thought he did. >> 38 republicans openly defied him. they said, no, we're not

going to support this package that you support for lots of reasons, primarily because he wants to increase the debt ceiling, and that's anathema to so many of his fellow republicans who serve in the house. and so politically, again, this has done, i think, a little bit of damage, not permanent damage. he's very popular. he is, you know, going to have a lot of capital when he comes in. but what we thought could happen has already happened even before he raised his right hand. >> you talked about these these 38 conservative republicans who who voted with democrats essentially to tank plan b. is this something that you think is a one off because everyone says, look, this is this is trump's party. that's pretty obvious. he was able to tank the other bill that was bipartisan. but do you think this this this really does signal something that is greater that could not just be

a blip it could be on this specific issue of government spending as much as donald trump is saying the right things, doing the right things, having elon musk and vivek ramaswamy say we're going to cut government spending in the short term. >> it's not so easy. and this has exposed that reality. and and really should have made it hit home to to donald trump. and it's also a reminder, sarah, that a lot of the basis for the trump coalition started with the tea party. remember the tea party back in coming into the 20. 2010 election that was based on too much government spending and a lot of the people who supported the tea party and became tea party members were angry at another fellow republican, george w bush, for spending too much. and so that sensibility is

still very much a driver, a main point of philosophy for some, if not all, of the 38 republicans who said no, mr. president elect, even though you say you support raising the debt ceiling, we're not going to do it because we don't think that's the right thing to do. >> dana bash, it is always a pleasure to see you and have you on. i appreciate you coming on this morning before your show. >> thanks, sarah. >> kate, let's get back to the hill right now. joining us right now is republican congressman dusty johnson of south dakota. congressman, thank you so much for coming in. the speaker said in walking in early this morning that the way he said it is, we are expecting votes this morning. we've got a plan. have you seen a new plan? >> things are still very fluid and very dynamic. the speaker has been meeting with the holdouts. and listen, there is progress being made, but there is not a plan. nothing is going to be released. i shouldn't say there's not a plan. there is not a piece of legislation yet vote times have not been

called. but listen, we're going to get this done. it's just going to take a little bit of time. >> yet you really you still believe that you're going to get this done before government funding lapses before the midnight deadline oh, i don't see any real value in pessimism. >> everybody around here is always, oh, woe is me, and everything's going to heck. the reality is we need to get this done. it will be exceptionally stupid if we don't get this done. and i always believe that cooler heads will prevail and that we will actually do our job around here. >> pragmatism is something you are known for. optimism. but optimism. i'm going to hand it to you. but, you know, the realism might also set in very, very soon. so here's the thing. this addition of the debt ceiling ask from donald trump has, as janet was just saying, really exposed. i mean, if you if anyone out there has followed congress for any amount of time, you know that this is long been despised, but raising the debt ceiling by by conservatives in the house, they have never gone along with it. they do not like it. no

matter your feelings about it, you should know that they know. you know that that's their position. so if it's not, if you're not, if government funding is not going to lapse, it seems the options might be cut. a deal with the right flank of the party, the holdouts, and strip out any debt ceiling increase which goes directly against the president elect. or go back to the table with democrats. that might include a debt ceiling increase. but then you really definitely lose those republicans and maybe some more, which sounds more likely right now. >> well, you did outline two major approaches, although i would tell you there are a lot of branch offs from those two main trunks. and i think we i think there are some chances that we could do some really innovative things. we listen, there's a disagreement about tactics right now, but ultimately all of the republicans want to do all the same things. we just got to figure out how to sequence them. i think a deal with republicans is a lot more likely than a deal with

democrats, but ultimately, on the spending, on the reconciliation stuff in next year, because i think we may have to sequence some of this with regard to what we do today, or probably today. i think we're going to have democrats and republicans vote for what ultimately passes. i mean, democrats some democrats also voted for what we did yesterday. so it's not like we haven't been talking to people who are interested in avoiding a shutdown. >> and that's a good that is that is a real point. the democrats we i had meeks on earlier and he said the problem is is is republicans need to johnson needs to bring us back to the table before we're ready to vote. you know, they saying that they feel spurned because that first deal fell apart. >> okay. and i think facts matter. here's the reality. what do we vote on? yesterday we voted on a one year farm extension that the democrats negotiated health care extenders that the democrats negotiated, disaster relief that the democrats negotiated, farm economic relief that the democrats negotiated the thing

that put them sideways was president trump wanting to push the debt ceiling back, something that democrats have always been supportive of. so i guess i'm a little surprised that when he gave them one more thing that they wanted, they flipped out and walked away. it might be that they craved the drama. it might be that they wanted to deny the incoming president a win. that's all a little immature, but i get it. i work in washington, d.c. the politics of of leverage as well. >> right? right. congressman, we do know that very well. can i ask you, there's a lot of also criticism of the house speaker himself over how this has all gone down. senator josh hawley, republican, offered a pretty brutal critique of how he's been handling it. he called johnson an embarrassment, calling the cr a total disaster and saying, this is mike johnson's fault. oh, no. >> well, listen, senator hawley knows a lot about this town. i would say that the closer you

get to understanding the very difficult situation mike johnson was in, the more you appreciate what an incredible job he has done. he does not have a republican senate. he does not have a republican white house right now. he has had to negotiate with an arm or two tied behind his back. and yet we are still on the cusp of making sure that we get a tremendous number of republican priorities in this package during a time when republicans only control barely one half of one third of the federal government. >> you're really good at math. i'm learning that really quickly, and i really appreciate congressman, real quick, i heard kevin cramer, the senator from, well, your neighbor to the north north dakota, he said that he thinks that at this point, donald trump needs to get on a plane and come to town to work this out. do you would you like to see that i think that'd be wonderful. >> clearly the president, the incoming president, has some strongly held opinions about what he'd like to see in this package and listen, he's a

brilliant guy. he is not infrequently a disruptive force, and that is a good thing. i don't think there are very many americans who are super happy about how we've been doing business the last 40 years. i think we saw some really good things come out of his approach in his first term. if he got here, i think we would be able to get a really good package together quickly. i can't wait for january 20th. it is not always going to be easy, but i think we're going to get a tremendous amount good for the done for the american people especially. >> you know how slim the majority is about to get. it's not always going to be easy. might be an understatement. we're going to talk about that come january 20th. congressman, um, keep us updated. the cameras there. we'd love to have you be the new correspondent as a side job for cnn news central as things develop this morning, please come back and keep us updated on how things are looking amongst the republican conference. thank you sir anytime. >> thanks much. >> i really appreciate it. they got a lot of work to do today

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peter, i'm going to start with you. the federal charges are for stalking murder for use of a firearm. and there are a couple of stalking charges and firearm offenses. can you explain how these came to be, how they came to these particular charges right. >> so good morning. >> the both charges are title 18 of federal law. >> and it's one section is being charged on a couple of counts is 22. >> 61, which is the stalking and the intent to a crime of violence using a firearm. the other statute is title 18. 924, which is the possession of a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime. so the way the criminal complaint about a ten page federal criminal complaint was written was, it outlines and details basically his notebook, which is the stalking, the intent. so we always talk about motive. opportunity means all three of those elements are addressed and captured in in the criminal complaint, as well as his

notebook. and they seem to match up all right, brynn and i'll probably have you weigh into this too. >> we saw these extraordinary images of police surrounding mangione. you also had the mayor of new york, eric adams, there in the background, the police commissioner. is this a normal scene? >> no, no, quite frankly, i have never seen anything like that. and look, i have worked in new york city for over a decade doing local news as well. so perp walks are not uncommon. i know jurisdictions, you know, no one does perp walks, possibly in new york when it's a high profile case like this, they will do a perp walk. so that's not the uncommon part. of course, this one was highly dramatic with the amount of officers that we saw. as you noted, the mayor, which was highly unusual, the fact that there was a helicopter involved, the length and the distance that he had to walk while shackled. so there were some elements of it that of course, i think a lot of people are pointing out wondering. this was a bit excessive. i think, for the nypd side of this, you know, for them, this was someone who

led them on a five day manhunt. you know, he they used all the resources that they possibly had to try to find this person. they just had a brand new police commissioner sworn in. there was a lot of pressure on this case. if you have to remember again, this was two weeks ago. there was a tree lighting that day. it happened at 645 in the morning in the middle of midtown with tourists. so i think there was a lot of elements that brought into this case where the nypd wanted to make a statement with this perp walk. now, we also know he was federally charged. so now you have the fbi coming in to. but certainly the dramatic part of all of this, it was intense. i do want to say, also talking to someone yesterday because i questioned about that, you know, they also were like, guys, you have to remember there's a security element here. you know, a lot of people know this man's face now. and we're bringing him from i mean, it was their choice to bring him from a helicopter to this car. but there was that security element with the long guns that we were seeing, worried about the safety also of mangione in some cases up to that point. but certainly it was highly dramatic. it's unclear and

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the details are finally coming together, he wrote. i'm glad in a way that i procrastinated. he he allegedly wrote, saying it gave him time to learn more about the company he was targeting, and then he allegedly wrote, the target is insurance because it checks every box. when you read through this, how significant is it to have this notebook? because without it, could he been federally charged with the things that he were charged with it would have been harder, right? >> so it would have been a lot more difficult for the for the federal government to pursue these charges in concurrence with the city of new york or the state of the city of new york or the state of new york. really? so the notebook helps. again, i've worked a few cases on terrorism side when i was a member of the jttf that we had najibullah zazi, the new york city subway bomber, not to compare the two, but we had his notes. we had his notes that he took at terrorist camps over in afghanistan. so all it does is

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for amazon and they're represented by the teamsters union, which says that they are on strike now because amazon has not come to the negotiating table. amazon, though, says we don't have to come to the negotiating table because you're not recognized as union workers by the national labor relations board. but for these workers, it is extremely personal. they're fighting for better wages. take a listen to two of those workers in california yesterday. >> you look at other companies like ups. i mean, they are doing a lower volume now, and they're getting paid a lot more than we're getting paid, and we're getting more volume and less pay. that don't seem fair. >> we already came to that conclusion that we were not recognized, even though we are the face of amazon. we wear the uniform, we drive the trucks. when we pull up to your house, you say, oh, that's amazon, right? >> and we know so many of those workers who do these deliveries every single day for millions of americans, the company says that they've invested millions of dollars into their third party driver program, trying to bring those wages to $22 an hour. but as you heard that

gentleman, he compares what he does to a ups worker, which is similar in many ways, and he's getting paid far less than the upwards of $30. sometimes that these ups drivers are getting paid. >> what about starbucks? >> starbucks on strike this morning. thousands of workers. this is a different scenario, though, because starbucks does recognize that they have over 500 unionized stores. they have been negotiating since february. those are the states that they're going that's actually for. that's where the other strike exactly there. but anyways, they're going to be striking in chicago, seattle and l.a.. and essentially they're going on strike because they said that starbucks has failed to get a contract done by the end of the year. that was their deadline. they have no contract. they're asking for better wages. starbucks apparently is offering a little more than 2% in wage increases. that's not good enough for the starbucks workers, they say. but this strike is going to go to the 24th, and there's going to be more cities added as time goes on. this is timing. this timing

is important, obviously, because it's around the holidays when amazon and starbucks do really well. these unions know what they're doing here. >> that's a good point. yeah. intentional the timing. it's good to see you vanessa. thank you so much. we are now 14 hours. if you're counting from a government shutdown, the first since 2018 with republicans scrambling, we've labeled it plan c. so let's see what they've got. this morning. house speaker mike johnson says they have a plan, but we'll see what that is. also, it was supposed to be a week long mission to the international space station. now, months anmohs later, how nasa's two astronauts stuck in space. they're not letting their delayed homecoming dim their holiday spirit, though i want to be the greatest player that i could possibly become r.j. >> hottovy koji.

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thank you so much, both of you. neil, first to you, you just heard that new news we are now hearing from house freedom caucus member anna paulina luna that there will be a vote at 10 a.m., so that was fast. but you heard there from annie greer that there is this new line that they will drop out of the bill, the debt limit, which donald trump had wanted them to cram in there so that it happened during the biden administration. what do you make of all this look, i was a longtime congressional aide, worked in both the house and senate leadership. >> uh, it's hard to make a pivot like that in the 11th hour. >> and when i say 11th hour, like, we really are there, they've got till about 5 p.m. today to wrap this up. >> you know why? because if you're a retiring member of congress, you want to get home to spend the holidays with your family, and you're not going

to stick around, uh, to deal with this. so they are truly in the 11th hour. uh, and i think they're scrambling to figure out what can actually pass to keep the government open. >> christina. if the debt limit is out of this bill, does that entice any democrats to say, okay, this is a stripped down version? we're not getting all the things we want or much of what we want. we could actually put this forth. >> well, i wonder, based on the speed that you referenced and based on some of the the minority whip you had on earlier in the show, if the democrats have even been consulted, because one thing is, i can answer that question is they haven't they have not been consulted. >> and, um, you know, because we heard this from two different republicans that they aren't planning to negotiate with the democrats. >> you know, i think i think

cutting out the democrats is a very risky proposition. things are razor thin. president elect trump does not have the stranglehold over all of the rank and file republicans. we saw that last night. if there really is an interest on the speaker's part and the republican leadership's part to get a deal done, and my co guest is right, time is ticking. they have to negotiate with everyone and rise above partisan politics. if that doesn't happen, if the democrats don't know what the deal is in a real substantive way, what should compel them to vote for it and take the risk as it relates to the american people? >> you know, the republicans do have control. if they all decide they could push this through. neil, i do want to ask you, do you think this is a preview of what is to come in 2025 and what congress will be like i actually don't i think there are factors at play that the conventional wisdom, uh, is

missing. >> i'm in energy focused person. uh, the surge in demand for electricity that will be driven by a.i. is going to totally upend energy policy, and it's going to bring republicans and democrats together to do smart things, to make sure that we can win the a.i. race. that's just one example. i actually am really optimistic about what congress can accomplish, uh, in the next couple of years, folks working on a bipartisan basis. i've had conversations with with senators on both sides of the aisle who are tired of the bickering and the partisanship who want to get constructive things done, like permitting reform so we can actually deliver, uh, on the economic interests of the american people. so i think, look, we're in the last days, uh, of an

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not seen before because he no one voted for him. >> i do want to mention that mike johnson, speaker mike johnson had asked elon musk, according to our reporting, to to not to weigh in on on x. so that tells you a little something right there. i have one last question. really, really fast. i need a yes or no. is mike johnson in trouble first? uh, to our republican friend here. neil. >> absolutely not. he'll be fine, christine. he'll be the speaker in 2025. >> oh when they're talking about making somebody who's not elected to congress, who's the richest man in the world? speaker. some of the far maga republicans, he's in trouble. >> all right. christine quinn, neil chatterjee, thank you both so much. appreciate it. all right, a historic hoosier state showdown for the first time in 33 years, indiana and notre dame are going to face off tonight for the college football playoffs. a lot of excitement surrounding that. >> new year's eve live with

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>> well, well, yeah. kate and sara. the snow has just been coming down all morning long. it certainly looks like christmas around here. you got snow on the ground. you got indiana fans wearing red, notre dame fans wearing green. and this is going to be one of the coldest games ever here at notre dame. but that has not deterred the fans one bit. there are just hundreds of cars lined up here at 6 a.m. to get into these parking lots to start tailgating for this game, and we're hoping to have a good one here today because indiana and notre dame, kicking off the first ever 12 team playoff, you got the grills cooking up the food, snow plows driving around trying to clear off the sidewalks. but indiana head coach curt cignetti, he's all for a winter wonderland game here today because he says his quarterback, curtis rourke, is built for it. >> i hope it snows a foot and a half. we have a canadian quarterback. did you see him throw the ball against purdue?

i mean, this guy grew up like in the frigid north. uh, he thought he looked pretty good to me that night. so i don't think it's going to bother him very much. and so much revolves around that guy. right. uh, everybody else will find a way to stay warm. uh, but it's not a. >> concern yeah, certainly not a concern for rourke. >> he is from ontario, canada. so this weather not going to bother him one bit, but the temperature at kickoff for the game tonight is going to be 28 degrees. and it's actually going to be even colder tomorrow at penn state and ohio state you got three games on tap tomorrow smu at penn state clemson at texas. you can watch both of those on our sister network tnt. and then the nightcap is tennessee taking on ohio state in columbus. but it all gets started here tonight guys in south bend. these two schools indiana and notre dame both here in the state. but they have not played each other since 1991. and such an

interesting dynamic with the indiana fans because, you know, they're a traditional basketball school, usually not good at football. they are now, but usually not good at football. so indiana fans traditionally over the decades have cheered for notre dame football, but that will not be the case here tonight. >> no blood and carnage. that is what is before us. it's going to be an amazing game. i can't wait. >> all right, i know you're excited and you want to go to watch the game. so thank you for joining us. cnn news central cnn newsroom starts next. thank you guys. >> andy, take a seat anderson. look at this. you're wet disheveled. there's debris hitting you. we need to be ready for new year's eve maybe you are ready. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on cnn. >> best part of the party? snooping in the bathroom. ooh! party foul. not listening to your dentist. make the sonicare switch for a champ. be gentle. be effective. be you. i love you look out, cause here i

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