>> good evening, chris. something exciting is going on as we speak. the government, you may have heard, is about to run out of must be e money. not in some big, esoteric ied logical sense, but literal ri about to run out of money. the government is funded through 159 p.m. eastern time. >> now, this was supposed to be an easy thing. turnings out, bad plaj. it has not at all been an easy thing. do we have a live shot of what's going on right now in the house of representatives? we've been dipping in and out of that. what we're told right now, the

house went into recess this afternoon just after 2:00 p.m. eastern time after it became very clear that they didn't seem to have the votes to keep the government funded. they've now come back into session. we've seen democrats at the microphone. and we're coming down to the wire in terms of whether or not something is going to happen within now, less than 350 e 3 hours. and we'regoing to get this done. we're told another vote may be eminent. but joining us now from the capital, noah beer mesne. thanks very fg with us. >> what's the status of the status? what's happening right now? >> pure chaos. actually, we're starting to have some movement after hours of people waiting arnold woond e wondering what was going to happen. there's going to be at least one vote now on a big spending bill that will take the government funded or most of the government funded through the end of september.

but there's question as to whether that will pass. so if that fails, house leaders have a second bill that will be more peace e piecemeal that will just be for a few months and then they'll fight the fight all over again. >> in terms of the the unexpected nature of how we got here,it seems like most of the press covering this, and certainly most of the casual press not covering it too tightly, have been -- we're sort of thinking that this is going to be easier than it was when they took their first procedural vote this afternoon. that seemed too take a lot of people by surprise. >> yeah, there were about five mintues where it was just tied and the count was just frozen. >> that was a real sign. after that, you saw nancy pelosi

make a very passionate speech on the floor. pelosi also sent an e mate out to her members. hold firm. and that seemed to throw everything into cay yosz. the vote that was supposed to come up has been delayed and delayed and delayed. and just before i came on with you, they finally decided to bring it up again. >> is it clear, at this point, if they're going to vote, as we expect in the next couple of minutes, is it clear, is anybody confident in their count, do we know which way the vote is going to go? >> i don't know which way the vote is going to go. i was just down in the basement at a caucus meeting where democrats were maet e meeting and the white house sent accidental nis to vote yet and they didn't know how the vote was going to go.

i think we've learned that from the last few years the way the government and congress has been working that we don't know how any vote is going to go. >> noah, thank you very much. i appreciate it. what you're watching here is the house right now. they've been in recess since 2:00 this afternoon. the government is due the shut down in less than three hours un less they find something that they can pass. they've just come back into session, seshltly, online in the past couple of minutes after being shut down all afternoon and all evening until now. we're not guilty exa not exactl shoe e sure what they're going to vote on. if it fails, i have no idea what's going to happen next. joining us now is somebody who may have a clearer idea, congresswoman of connecticut. thanks so much for being with us. i appreciate it. >> i know that you're right in the middle of everything because i can see it happening on our other camera. what's happening right now?

and what should we expect over the next couple of hours? sfwel e. >> well, you know, we're coming back into sx e session. the presumption is what we're going to vote on what they call the cromnibus. that is what will happen. if it goes down. then there will be a continuing rez lux. >> do you know what you're going to vote on? >> yes, i declared earlier today and i will oppose the legislation and i am the ranking member of the senior democrat on the appropriations sub kplit tee, the labor, education and health department and human sfszs. i worked hard on the bill. and, quite frankly, our problem

with the appropriation is the allocation we received in order to fund education and health departmentcare health department care and worker training aened all has been shortchanged over the years. that being said, there's some very sooers problerious problem bill and that is what was added in, you know, at the hast minute. one, first of all, you're going to see department of homeland security not funded or not dealt with for about nine weeks. this is really deals with the national security of this nation. and it's all because republicans don't like the president's executive order on immigration. so they're holding up full-year funding because of immigration. secondly, what has been added with regard to the unraveling of a dodd-frank and, once again, turning people's lives over to the banks whose transactions, as you know and i know, rachel,

that the joep day that families were put in. they lost their homes, they lost their jobs, they lost their savings. and, my god, why would we want to repeat that again? and then we're going to see that seniors are going to be short changed on pension benefits. these are people who have earned retirement, worked all their lives and we are putting their security in jeopardy, as well. and i have encouraged my colleagues to vote against this ledge slagsz because i believe that it is -- oh, one of the worst agree jous pieces, and i think you will concur with this, this allows individual contributions in campaigns of over a two-year cycle, 1% 1 e o $1.5 million. the country is angry about that. so we are going down a bad road with this piece of legislation.

and i will work hard to try to defeet it in the next hour or the next half hour, whatever it is. >> congresswoman, i know that you feel to get back in there, i just want to ask you briefly. we know that republicans don't think they can pass this alone. that they don't think that there are enough people on their own side who will vote fwr this that that will be nufr to coop the dwovt funded with this bill. they've been koumd e counting on democratic votes to get this bill. do you have any sense of the count? >> i don't have numbers. and i don't believe anyone has numbers at the moment. i believe overwhelming pli den cats will vote against it there will be dem creates krats that vote for it. i don't know if that will be enough to make up a deficiency if the republicans view as a shortfall in their count. and i have no idea what their vote count is. it is going to be a very

exciting time for the house of lep zentives tonight and i'm sure you'll be watching. >> we will be. and i know you have to race back there right now. thank real thanks very much for helping us understand what's going on. >> this is, you know, everybody says washington is all e always the same thing over and over again. in a way, yeah. but in a way, no. i mean,big picture, here we are again. right? incredibly. we're here again. not even six weeks as we are n the last election and we are already on the brink of another government shutdown again. tonight. right? but, on the other hand, the unexpected nature of what happened tonight is not to be messed with. not to be miss underestimated. for all the obsessive coverage we get of every little entry e intricacy, what's happenings tonight in washington less than three hours away from the government shutdown. what aes happening tntd is

something that the beltway press totally miss. our amazing, well-funded, very well-regarded bell e beltway press had no idea this was coming. beltway prasz e press has been assuring us for weeks that there's no way this would happen. they say they have a plan. they're sure it will not happen. but, you know, if you don't just write down what they say and rngs instead, look around you and rort on the political activity you can see, this was not all that hard to see coming. d first signs of it were on the right. once they started explaining to reporters what their brilliant plan was and placate their angry tea party base and definitely steer very far clear of a government shut down. as soon as they floeted the

basics of that flannel, the right and the republican party got valely mad. the heritage foundation is a conservative activist group. when republicans in congress this year explained their plan, the heritage foundation went nuts. think eve been saying over and over and over again that the republicans plan to avoid a shutdown was a blank check for president obama's lawless amnesty. and whether or not that makes any sense or whether or note you agree, that was their line. once the republicans announced what they were going to do to avoid a shutdown, that's been the line from the heritage foundation. that's what they've been telling their folks. that's what they've been telling members of congress who want good score cards from them. that's been very, very vocal position.

it was also obvious on talk radio. everybody adwrees a shut down will be a terrible idea. on right wing, ever since the electi election, they'll been salivating. they've been talking about how shutdowns are not a bad idea at all. one of the prominent cob servetives, to go over further

and, instead, this stunt in which they asked people to mail balls to john boehner. superballs, racket balls, any kind of balls. just send him balls. they ran a campaign to mail balls to hois speaker john boehner to symbolize their objections to the john boehner plan. and then just last week. the beltway narrative was that john boehner had a plan. that he if i cfigured out that everything was going to be fine. but speaking of crazy right wingers, there was that very chilly press conference last week with all the rest of them saying not only did they not fear a shut down, not obanly di they not want to do it they said anyone who sloeted what they

wanted shouldn't be allowed to take the oath of office. all along, the beltway has been saying it's feenl. joan boehner says it's going to be fine, so it's going to be fine. but there were these signs on the right. there were also signs at john boehner's office. we all know the time line now. there have been seize e these signs that maybe this plan that was going to make it all so easy was starting to become slightly a less easy thing. first we were told that the bill was definitely going to be filed first sumpbd porning. glif e gives them plenty of time. first we told them it would be monday morning. and then they told us no, no, no, it would be late monday and then late monday came and wednesday e went. and then they told us no, no, no.

it would be tuesday morning. still, no bill. what's going on there. and then they said don't worry, rater in the day on tuesday. finally, they posted at tuesday, at almost 9 p.m., remember, government runs out of money thursday night. but they posted it. and everybody saturday down to read it. it's like a 1600 page bill. and as the beltway press is combing through it and what your isn't it true e new government budget is going to be like, this is the plan, it's definitely going to pass. as that's happening, meanwhile, there are lots more signs that things are not okay. that this is not going to be easy. this time, it's not from john boehner's office over and over again. all of those probables still substantial doubt. bud, in addition, once they drop the bill, now there's all of these problems on the other side, on the democratic side. when they finally dropped the

bill, and the democrats read what the republicans finally filed after all of those delays late at night on tuesday, by the time the democrats went back to work on wednesday morning, they all had their hair on fire. a lot of them were really mad and, also, as you heard explain there, really surprised. they knew they weren't going to like it. what they did not know was all of the surprise stuff. republicans stuck a bunch of stuff in this at the last minute that democrats say they have no ideas was coming. particularly this thing about the big banks. so once they started reading the built, the democrats started to bill e bail. and this is where the different problems that they never cared about became one big problem where who knows if we're about to have a government shutdown. the fight on the right started it.

the republicans knew they were up setting the whether or not he will right flank. the reason they didn't care is because the republicans figures they took it for granted that any votes they lost from their own party, they could more than make you want for with dem e democratic votes. they just took it for granted that the democrats would be happy to help them bass this thing. i mean, they could lose michelle bachman, sure. they could lose a hundred michelle bachmans. that's for sure. they took it for granted. and the way we e we knew they took it for gramted is they put it a whole bunch of stuff that they knew they wouldmented like. they figured no matter what we do, they're still going to vote with us. maybe not. as it turns out. because there's elizabeth warren on the senate floor imploring

democrats to withhold their support for this bill unless these last minute provisions get taken up. there's the same nat xx senator doing the press conference with the house financial services committee and financial service social security not incidental to this fight. maxine waters gather master's degree 20 democrats to say no. nancy pelosi blew her top about this yesterday, continued today. she said today i would not put the name of my con 12i67 wents in my district next to this bill. she sent a letter to the whole house democratic caucus she wasn't explicitly going to tell them how to vote rngs but she

thanked anybody who was planning on telling them know. the huffing ton eton post said if democrats stand up on this, the democratic bass will stand with them. the public awareness on our base is very high on this. she krieted all the idealism for the people who support us. and, with that, everybody who just wrote down what john boehner has been saying and therefore reported that this was going to be a supereasy thing, all of those are having an unexpectedly long day at the office. don't eat the cold pizza. so they took the first vote which was posed supposed to be no drama. the plan was yeah, they'd have a few republican defections. well, they took the first procedural vote on that. you want to know how many democratic votes they got? zero. and then john boehner started

personally working the floor. remember the reindeer herder guy? he was one who john boehner walked back to his little voting machine and changed his vote from no to yes. the republicans only won by two votes. they had zero democrats to help them do it this thing was supposed to be easy. but it almost died right there. and after that, the house went into recess at 2:07 p.m. eastern time. and they have just reconvened. see the time remaining there? they're taking a vote. trying to do it. nobody knows what the vote count is going to be. and the government shutdown is going to happen at midnight tonight, if nobody gets to a majority. or if they don't come up with some sort of funding bill.

and everybody thought this was going to be no problem. everybody thought this was going to be no problem. but you know what it is, it's chaos. to the point where the white house today got all these cabinet secretaries, the vice president, the president himself on the phone calling their own party, calling house democrats, trying to persuade the house democrats to go along with this john boehner plan because they, too, thought this was going to be fine. house democrats and the white house are usually on the same page. but not today. not on this. ebb took these democratic votes to bail out john boehner for groonted. everybody took this for granted. kpept 23r the people who the votes had to come from. who, right now, have basically taken the silverware drawer out of the wall, lifted it up over their heads and sart e started shaking it and dancing around bare foot. you could have seen this coming, had you been looking. but, now, nobody knows what's going to happen.

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. so as the battle rages on, look at this. congressional staffers, predominantly african american congressional staffers, staged a walk out from the u.s. capitol today. you see them holding their hands up? a walk out in protest to not charge the police officers who killed iert of those men. protests over those killings have been a day-day news story across the country for weeks. this was a very dramatic thing to see at the u.s. capitol. >> today, as people throughout the nation protest for justice in our land, forgive us when we have failed to lift our voice

for those who couldn't speak or breathe for themselves. >> senate chaplain barry black leading a prayer at this dramatic walkout today of congressional staffers and some members of congress protesting police killings. lots more ahead. stay with us.

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in a limited number of cases, rightly should be row puduated by all. >> as far as we know, that uz wu the first time that has ever happened in the united states of america. when the cia director gave a public televised press conference, we've been scowlering the archives all day and asking the reporter wos know these things. but as far as we can tell, we think this is the first time a cia director has every done that. director john brennan speaking today. we will have more on that ahead. and to the points you don't see much of. this happens sometimes in congress, but not very much of. this is a hearing in the united states senate. they're interviewing a witness at this moment in the hearing, but you cannot see that witness because the witness is hidden

behind that screen next to the black drape. at the time of this hearing in 2009, that witness could not reveal his face to the public. he was a special agent with the fbi. his name is ali sufan. he is the guy who uncovered the first solid link between 9/11 and al-qaida. and he accomplished that because he was a highly skilled, highly experienced interrogator for the f.b.i. that was his job. getting information out of people whom we desperately need to talk. a few months after 9/11, he got sent to interrogate this guy, abu zabaydah, the first member of al-qaida. u.s. troops captured him in a gun fight and he was shot mult 38 times. so when he came in to u.s. kusz day, physically, he was in terrible shape. he describes the guy waking up

in the hopt. someone gave him a stern lecture. don't you try to make a scene. you just play along. and then, they started asking him questions. and zubaydah, america's first big get in the war against al cay that, he talked to his interrogators. over the course of that interrogation, he told detailed information about the inner workings of al-qaida. he revealed the the al-qaida supervisor for the 9/11 operation. they did not know he was al-qaida. once they learned that, our country learned, basically, who done it. right? which terrorist group attacked us. that f.b.i. interrogation was successful. it produced real information that the u.s. needed and was able to act on.

but then something changed. the c.i.a. sent in some new guys to start a whole different kind of questioning. and these contractors were not doing things in the usual way. they stripped him naked, they blasted loud music into his cell, they eventually went onto waterer board him dozens of times. these contractors were bart of a new c.i.a. torture program. they were sent to torture this al cay that prisoner, help though he had already been talking withotalk talking without torturing. frequently, people make the case that it's supposed to be that there's no time to waste. that a time bomb is ticking somewhere. but those c.i.a. contractors who came in and took over, they seemed to have plenty of time for this guy. the first stage of their torture was that they put in in solitary confinement with zero human contact for 47 days before they ever asked him a single question. after 47 days of zero human

contact, they we believe the straight into 17 days of torture, including water boarding him more than 80 times. and instead of talking, instead of continuing to reveal what he knew, the intergaiter whose work had been successful and productive, he described what happened next in that senate testimony in 2009 from behind that screen. >> when we interrogated him, usiuse ing sbel jentd intergagsz methods, within the first hour, we gained important actionable intelligence. >> you say on the instructions of the contractor, harsh technique were introduced which did not produce results as zubaydah shut down and stopped talking: correct? >> correct, sir. >> since then, f.b.i agent has been able to become more public.

he's written a terrific book about his experiences and he has been a guest on this show. that appears to be alaska senator which would be a very unusual disguise. where did that come from? we haven't talked about him at all? that's from the back of the archives misfiled alphabetically. anyway, he has written a book. he has been a guest on the show. he can now tell his story, or at least the parts that are not classified. and the c.i.a. stepped in with torture and then the progress stopped. but there is still a mystery at the heart of this story. we still do not know why the krchlt i.a. came up with this idea. why did the c.i.a. decide to start a torture program? they didn't have an existing torture program. and it wasn't that they had the people in dust kill custody and the normal methods weren't

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which of these techniques could be used if, as the director of central sbel jenls you and another president or this president were faced with an eminent threat? could there be another covert finding and rules of add viesz from the attorney general that would lead u.n. successors to say we should do this because there could be some value to prevent an attack on america? >> as far as what happens in the future, there is some type of challenge that we face here, the articleny field manual is established basis to use for interrogations. we, cia, are not in the detention program. we are not con testimony plating at all getting back into the tension program using any of those eits. so i defer to the policymakers in future times when there is going to be the need to be able to ensure that this country

stays safe if we face some other type of cry sisz. >> i defer to the policymakers, means if they want to do this again, they know our number. we know how to do this stuff. joining us now is ali sufan, a former f.b.i. special agent. he's the author of the black banners, the inside story of e 9 9/11 and the war against al-qaida. i have to just ask you as somebody who is the initial interrogator of the first al-qaida tar get, your story and that piz e prisoner are a big part of just what was presented out by the senate sbel jensz committee. did they get it right from your perspective? and how did you feel bringing that report? >> reading that report made me really angry. a and it matches a hundred percent what i witnessed when i saw. i know they didn't talk to any of us. they didn't talk to people in

the 236789 b.i. or the cia who were invoefled in the program. but they did what we do sometimes if government. they say e if e if it's not on paper, they went and look aed at millions of doms. and they really compiled the largest report in envis gaitive history. 38 footnotes based on millions of cables and communications that thirp able to read. my experience, from what i was involved in, the part i was imvolved in is a hundred percent 5:00 rat. >> well, the key -- the few things that are key about your experience in terms of what we're learning abthis as a country, and one of them is that you were able to get quality sbel jenls thafgs actionable for the united states and that was, in fact, key to us being able to say al-qaida did it, without being able to use any torture techniques. the other thing that we have learned is that december piet that, some sort of decision was

made somewhere that torture os techniques should be used december piet the fact that in iii prisoner has been talking to you. how did you experience that in realtime? did you know why the c.i.a. was doing this? or, in fact, that the c.i.a. was going to do it until it happened? >> actually, nobody knew. a lo of people from the inc.en sill were with us, they were shocked. and as i testified, the only statement under oet of nibble involved in the program. some people there the c.i.a. ef left before me. >> as you see -- >> once the enhanced interrogation techniques, once the torture started, they left. >> exactly. once they started seeing all the things happening, they disagreed. the enhanced interrogation techniques didn't start until the summer. but they were different interpretation of what they called standards interrogation

techniques. and what's the level of the standard interdpagsz tech neegs. it's like what i described to the senate with the music or the sleep deprivation at the time to 24 hours only. >> and you hadn't been doing that in terms of an f.b.i. interrogator. >> people from the c.i.a. who were there were shocked. that program, to be honest with you, my experience, and this is what i testified about, it's not a c.i.a. program. it's a few people in the c.i.a. with some outside contractors that they tried to run the most sensitive program in u.s. history basically after 89/11. and so they came over and decided to out source the most important thing we have. getting information from detainees. zabaydah was not the first terrorist that we arrested. we had investigated people involved in the east africa embassy bombing.

we were able to get con fegszs from them. we were able to interrogate people who were imvolved and get confessions. we almost stopped 9/11 based on our interrogations. however, as we know, there was a chinese wall between the intelligence and the contract so the information would not pass to the f.b.i. on a timely basis to sop the investigation. this is not me who's saying that. this is a 9/1 1 commission. and so we know how to interrogate people. what shocks me is to see that there were some people in washington at the time. they were con vinsed that no one should be involved but them. it's an institutional thing. it's their piece of cake in the fight against terrorism. they were able which youly having meetings with power points, how to warn off the fchlt b.i. and the military. they have people who know how to interrogate.

have people who know how to get the seat belt jens. basically, they have a program where more than 80% of the people who were involved were not agency people. they were probably a few dozens. >> when they showed up and they started with the nudity and the shackling and the first stuff that they did that really departed from what you had been doing, did you recognize those techniques that they were doing as something that was an option? i me i mean, when you trained, those were things that were available to you? >> everyone before eit, some of the stuff that they're proposing, if we saw it in the united states or any police station or in the f. pitch i. office; people would go to jail for it. and we're not talking about eits at the time. so when iits happened, some of the cables that came out from the black sites, you you will know, when they were doing water boarding, there was one cable that said there were tears. >> right.

some of the c.i.a. staff there were in tears. >> and i know these guys. those tears were not tears because there were e tlfgs any sympathy to a terrorist. those were slr similar to when you checked when you were talking about thisment those tears were real tears of pay trotism. >> still one of the best sources that we've got on the e thoo e sunts. thank you very much. >> we've got nuch more ahead. stay with us. da: do you and mom still have money with that broker? dad: yeah, 20 something years now. thinking about what you want to do with your money? daughter: looking at options. what do you guys pay in fees? dad: i don't know exactly. daughter: if you're not happy do they have to pay you back? dad: it doesn't really work that way. daughter: you sure? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab.

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>> breaking news, if you're just doing the math, it passed. avoiding what could have been a government shutdown inless than three hours had congress been unable to pass a spending bill by midnight tonight, the house republicans added a whole bunch of policy riders. the house shutdown at 2:00 this

afternoon when they thought they could not get this thing passed. they reopened and started voting on the bill. they came back into session shortly after 9:00 p.m. tonight. speaker john boehner working the floor, trying to persuade both democrats and republicans to vote for the bill. the white house, including cabinet secondaries and vice president biden and president obama whipping this vote, trying to get democrats to vote for this tonight. and just a few minutes ago, the bill has now officially passed the house. 219 to 206. i'm still getting confirmation on this. tell me if i'm wrong. but as far as i can tell, 57 yes votes from democrats and 67 no votes from republicans. is that right? so 57 democrats haed to cross over to save john boehner's bacon after threatening all day long they would not, they did. the house will now vote on another bill that would just -- that only serves the purpose of giving the senate a couple more days to get this done.

another couple of days to get their own vote on the spending bill. provided that happens, which there's no reason to think it won't, as of now, government shutdown averted by 2 1/2 hour.

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>> for the past couple of years now, the great state of california has been enduring the worst drought in a zillion years. kind of literally. the most severe drought in 1,200 years. not that anybody is counting. just this year alone, california has had the least hateful since we started keeping hateful records in california. the state is not just dry, it is freaking parched. rivers and lakes have all but

vanished. the state's sources of drinking water, major reservoirs are way below capacity. farmland has had to go fallow. some parts of the state, people no longer have running waters in their home. they have to rely on water being trucked in. everybody in the state has been directed to strictly conserve water. state and city ordinances have upped the fines for people found wasting water. and it's been like this for a long while now. this has been a very severe drought and a very long one. finally this week, they are getting a bit of relief in the golden state. but i'm not sure this is the kind of relief anyone wanted. this was san francisco's embarcadero this morning. water already crashing over the sea wall there. enough to close streets and knock out power, even four hours before high tide. that was just the beginning. rain pounded the bay area all day. hurricane force winds, flash flooding led to blackouts in more than 200,000 homes today.

heavy downpourss affected the commute in a major way. public transportation suspended in much of the city. flooding got so bad on city streets that, as you can see here, people were practically swimming around. on a few streets, the sewer system was overflowing to the point of blowing off manhole covers. bay area school districts canceled school today in preparation if for what was anticipated tosh this big storm. that said, this is california and so anything can be an excuse to get your kayak out. it also being california, some people cars oddly ended up being unexpectedly made for this kind of weather. they're saying this is a once in a decade storm, although once in a whatever time period weather formats right now no longer seem do hold true anymore. they're saying it's the effect of an atmospheric river. they call these sorts of storms

the pineapple express. because they say this very wet air is coming from basically the vicinity of hawaii. while this thing is absolutely dousing much of northern and central california today, eight inches on san francisco today, the state still needs another 10 or 20 inches of rain this year to get out of the record drought. let's hope it doesn't all come in one day. thanks for being with us. good evening, lawrence. >> amazing rains out there, rachel. it's rally something. we have breaking news tonight. as rachel just reported, the house managed to pass a $1.1 trillion spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown. but now we know there's a new democratic party sheriff in town and her name is elizabeth. >> who does congress work for? does it work for the millionaires? the billionaires? the giant companies with their armies of lobbyists andye