mr. mccarthy: how do you know what was said? reporter: people talk. mr. mccarthy: you presuppose what happened in a meeting you weren't in. what i saw in this meet, a number of awe member, how do we find to get to a place of 18. waugh watched us do it time and again you said why don't we stand up to d.c. when the democrats wan to decriminalize all the crimes? we passed thattened a made it law when you thought it wouldn't pass the senate. you thought we couldn't get to 218 when we wanted the parent's bill of rights for their kids' education. the debt ceiling. to h.r. 2 to be able to secure our border testimony h.r. 1, energy independence. every time we found a way and you know what getting there is never easy. but we're willing to listen to all voices. something nudge different. we're willing to build up from the bottom up. the one thing we found is members got together over the weekend. they came up with solutions. we aired the solutions right here. i thought we had a very good discussion. we'll continue that discussion today. the vote ha -- there's more q

mr. mccarthy: that i would like to do, my goal is po pass all 12. if we can't pass all 12, to get into conference. get intg conference is better for the american public, that they can see what has gone through committee. it's stronger to pass on the floor. been trying to pass them for quite some time individually. and get into conference. what happens inside conference, members on both sides sit there and work out the differences between the two bills. the senate, they want to spend a lot more money. the house, we're more conservative, we want to save money, eliminate the woke. i, protect our border, i know that makes it hard on this administration when they want a iedwide-open border in. doing so we can change our differences. i don't think it's productive to have a government shutdown during that time. i don't know who wins and i don't know how that -- watching the shutdowns before, how is that productive to get the objectives that you want to achieve for the american public? so i would like to make that all happen. and we're going to come back in

mr. mccarthy had to say at the time. mr. mccarthy: ms. pelosi happens to be the speaker of the house but does not speak for america and can't decide unilaterally what happens here. they have been investigating this president before he even got elected. they have voted three times on impeachment on this floor. twice they voted before one word, the muller report came back. our job here

mr. mccarthy is under threats by the right wing of his own cockers. that if he's not going to get tough on joe biden with a impeachment inquiry that they will topple him. so that explains a little bit of the actions of mr. mccarthy today. oh, i know it says there is quote, extreme politics at play and on show here again, they were, everybody knew this not expecting this, but being prepared for this. uh, there were personnel and stuff for a set aside long time ago to actually do exactly that to be prepared for something like this to happen. the white house is not happy, of course, and why is this talk about politics again? because a headline biden impeached or getting impeached helps, who donald trump then his campaign to secure the ticket for the g o. p in next year's presidential elections and it will swimmingly and presumably harm or does not look good for joe biden on the campaign trail when he has to answer maybe or face headline instead, he is in involved in a peach with the process too. so politics here, times 10 actually besides what is obvious

mr. mccarthy don't party are threatening to withhold government funding unless mr. mccarthy and mr. n agree to spending cuts. kevin mccarthy says he is still optimistic. >> we made some progress last night. september 30, the game is not over. we continue to work. we -- i have been at this place many times before. we will solve this problem. >> earlier my colleagues spoke with massachusetts democratic congressman seth moulton on how budget talks could threaten the flow of aid to ukraine. >> it is not clear whether speaker of the house kevin mccarthy will be willing or able to get this package passed. do you think that president zelenskyy will find support among congressional leaders? >> well, it's an openuestion. not because most republicans do not support ukraine. behind closed doors, they do. but, what is going on with the republican party today is it has become completely subservient to this dangerous extremist wing of the party. right now, in the house of representatives, we have a five republicans who have prevented the passage of even a bill that would adjust to fund our own tro

they've not presented evidence here is mr mccarthy speaking just in the last half hour. mccarthy speaking “ust in the last half hour. ., ., half hour. through our investigations - half hour. through our investigations we - half hour. through ourj investigations we have half hour. through our- investigations we have found half hour. through our— investigations we have found that president biden did live. to the american people about his own knowledge of his families foreign business deals. eyewitnesses have testified that the presidentjoined on multiple phone calls and had multiple interactions, dinners resulting in cars and millions of dollars into his son's business partners. we know that bank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to the biden family members and associates through various shell companies. the treasury department alone has more than 150 transactions involving the biden family and other business associates that were flagged as suspicious activities by us banks. even a trusted fbi informant has alleged a bribe to the biden family.

mr. mccarthy crafted a resolution criticizing nancy pelosi for logic and impeachment without a vote. here's what mccarthy had to say at this time, [video clip] speaker pelosi as speaker of the house but she does not speak on this issue. they have been investigating this president before he even got elected. they have voted three times for impeachment on this floor. twice they voted before the mueller report came back. our job is a serious job. our job is to legislate, not to investigate something when we have no reason to impeach this president. i realize that 2016 did not turn out the way speaker pelosi hope. but she cannot decide on an impeachment inquiry. what she said today makes no difference. it is time to put the public for politics. host: those are words from 2019 from kevin murthy. you could find more on our website at c-span.org. now speaker kevin murthy. mccarthy announcing the impeachment inquiry without a vote. gary saying that abuse of power, americans deserve to know what politicians are doing with public money. rebecca says what a waste of time without evidence. hopef

mr. mccarthy claims republicans are just conducting oversight of the impeachment inquiry if necessary to ascertain all of facts, including finding evidence if it exists. but there is nothing this new effort will be able to access that the house judiciary, oversight and tax committees could not already get as part of the ongoing probe. how do you respond to? guest: that is ludicrous. let's say he is right. you have a president saying he is going to be the most transparent president that has ever existed in this country. he has not released records on anything. and the democrats for five years never held the first hearing. if he is so honest, let's produce the records and prove it. what has already been uncovered is pretty serious and i think what the impeachment inquiry will do is allow every committee to subpoena all the different people, look at the people that have put their careers at risk by testifying what his son has done. but it is time for him to come clean, the president, and go with the committee and provide whatever they need if he is innocent. he has a lot to hide. what has b

mr mccarthy said his party had uncovered what he called serious and credible corruption allegations linked they have not presented evidence. here's mr mccarthy speaking in the last couple of hours, that's why today i am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into presidentjoe biden. this logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. that's exactly what we want to know. the answers. i believe the president would want to answer these questions and allegations as well. now, i would encourage the president and his team to fully cooperate with this investigation in the interests of transparency. we're committed to getting the answers for the american public. nothing more, nothing less. we will go wherever the evidence takes us. earlier i spoke to our correspondent sean dilley in washington. this is political grandstanding by kevin mccarthy is political grandstanding because he knows that no president has ever been successfully removed from office by way of impeachment. but what he's doing is he'

mr mccarthy said he would task three committees with carrying out the inquiry into the president andill found no concrete evidence of misconduct. at the centre of this inquiry is president biden�*s son,

mr. mccarthy said after this meeting.questions about the conflict, but i have not made any commitments to the new $24 billion aid package the administration is requesting. i don’t fully know how to interpret this on the one hand, this is what it looks like. so that zelensky could not, despite answering questions and convincing him, that this help should be provided from another sides. kevin mccarthy had the opportunity to say, well, i talked to him, and it was an interesting conversation, but i’m still against him, he didn’t say either, how do you understand the position of the speaker of the house of representatives. ah, dmitry birds, uh, mr. mccarthy it’s quite obvious that he’s between two fires now. and now the republican party is split - this is part of the republicans. this is, in principle , supported by us public opinion . according to cnn pools, more than half of americans do not want continued assistance to congress, and to ukraine, and the other part, so-called republicans are hawks, old school, insisting that

mr. mccarthy reduced the deficit. over the projected 10 years of spending -- you and i can go down this rabbit hole but inarguable it reduces the spending congress has planned. if republicans want to have another discussion about this, there are moments and opportunities to do it but how can the democratic caucus engage in those discussions when they don't honor the deal they made previously? the message to the house democratic caucus is why would you have a conversation with our colleagues across the aisle if 10 days later they back away from it? 10 days the start of september, speaker mccarthy said an impeachment can't be done by one person, 10 days, and now magically he does without any proof or evidence against the president. so we have a deal in may and he backs away from it 10 days later on the appropriations committee. so we're happy to have these conversations. what we want to do is govern and work for the american people but it's really hard when folks don't abide by the agreements that they make. and i think

now this is changed and mr. mccarthy and the g o p. now in charge of the house, have a problem that some at the fringes of this part, the some hard liners in the g o. p. do not want to spend more money on 8 on ukraine, and they will couple this and do couple this and put this together in the defense spending bill here for the pentagon. so that is the problem politically inside baseball, washington, if you will. but for mr. zalinski and for your cranes this quite dire. so will he get this money really get more money really get farm insurance is by the u. s. that the u. s. will keep supporting the ukraine in their fight against russia. it will happen. i think many people think experts think, but it will come with a little bit more pain. 7 simons in washington. we'll take a look at some old stories making headlines around the world. holden's government says it will, the owner of the weapons they said previously promised you cried. that's after the prime minister mateus. i'm going to investigate caused confusion when he said in an intervie

now this is changed and mr. mccarthy and the g o. p. now in charge of the house have a problem that some, at the fringes of this part, the some hard liners in the g o. p. do not want to spend more money on 8 on ukraine, and they will couple this and do couple this and put this together in the defense spending bill here for the pentagon. so that is the problem politically inside baseball, washington, if you will. but for mr. zalinski and for your crane, this is quite dire. so will he get this money really get more money really get farm insurance is by the u. s. that the us will keep supporting the ukraine in their fight against russia? it will happen. i think many people think experts think, but it will come with a little bit more pain. and so where is the american public got on the us military aid for you? crime slaves full suggest that 55 percent actually want the the u. s. help to ukraine to stop. but here's the thing. this is just a poll and any other day. another poll comes on and numbers will be maybe different . why? because he is

mr. mccarthy's speaker ship?rthy has to choose between making a deal with democrats to keep the biden/schumer spending policies in place or he can reform the republican coalition that existed for the first four months of this congress, keep his commitment going back to pre-covid levels -- i think everything is on the table to hold the speaker accountable, do what he committed to doing january. dave: great to have you on, thank you very much for being here. homeless squatters trashing an abandoned motel in casper, wyoming, leaving millions of dollars in damage. my next guest is the mayor there. he says his community is just that up and is here to tell us about it next. ♪ ♪ is it possible? with comcast business... it is. is it possible to use predictive monitoring to address operations issues? we can help with that. can we provide health care virtually anywhere? we can help with that, too. is it possible to survey foot traffic across all of our locations? yeah! absolutely. with the advanced connectivity and intelli

mr. mccarthy: i'm not saying impeachment. i would like to know the answer to these questions. that's what impeachment inquiry provides. reporter: how long should that go? >> house minority leader hakeem jeffries also talked with reporters about a potential government shutdown. and an impeachment inquiry into president biden. mr. jeffries: earlier today house democrats met with secretary becerra. it was an illustration of the two different approaches that house democrats and house republicans are taking as it relates to solving problems of the american people. house democrats met with secretary becerra to talk about implementation of our efforts to negotiate lower drug prices for everyday americans. to strengthen access to affordable health care. and to discuss our efforts around things like capping the cost of insulin for everyday americans at $35 a month. that's how house democrats spent this morning. house republicans spent this morning talking about their illegitimate impeachment inquiry, which is nothing more than a partisan political stunt. there's no evidence of wrongdoi

mr. mccarthy, who is a republican and who can affect the general mood. i really hope for this , it is necessary to put pressure on russia on the battlefield and we , in turn, should help ukraine because there will be an achilles' heel and putin has more tangible plants. andriy, in any case , thank you for this opportunity to speak on the air glory to ukraine glory to the heroes thank you dear mr. ambassadors, i would like to remind our tv viewers that daniel fried, the former coordinator of the american state department on sanctions policy , worked for them on the espresso tv channel. how young help me almost comfrey from dr. theiss german ointment for joint and muscle pain comfrey restores motion for joint and muscle pain natural comfrey ointment from dr. theiss save money by buying a large package of 100 grams, this is a scary place and such places have appeared again in ukraine , we see them in liberated cities, torture camps , we know about their existence in the occupied territories of the russian federation if he rolled back to lviv, it is very pos

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mr. mccarthy. this will backfire on the gop. biden won districts. i'm sure that they are frantic over this fact free inquiry. >> given that we're looking at the september 30th deadline, do you think republicans are going to shut down the governments? if they do so, how challenging would it be for them to come out of this with any sort of justification for having done so? >> again, i think this will backfire very badly on the republicans. where, here they're in the majority, they have failed to pass any appropriations measures. it puts this country in grave economic risk. i came into office in 2019, or the 2018, 2019 government shutdown, under the previous administration, cost our economy three billion dollars. hundreds of federal workers will be furloughed. many will be staying on as essential workers without pay. this is no way to run a government. it is malpractice on the part of the republican majority, and certainly a total failure on mr. mccarthy to have any control over his conference. the pain that it will cause american

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mr. mccarthy claims that republicans are just conducting oversight, that the impeachment inquiry is necessary toto ascerr sane -- to ascertain all the facts including finding such evidence if it exists buthing ts nothing this new effort will be able to access the house judiciary and oversight and tax writing committees couldn't already get as part of their ongoing probes. how do you respondhow do you re? to that, congressman? guest: completely ludicrous. let's say he's right. you'velet's say got a presidentd he's going to be the most transparent president transparent that's ever existed in this country. ts ever existed in this country. he has not released records on anything. and the democrats for five years never held the first hearing. if he is so he's fought to release anything. if he's so honest, let's produce the records and prove it. again, what's already been uncovered is pretty serious. and i think what the impeachment inquiry will do is allow every committee to subpoena all the different people and look at the people that put their careers at risk by testifying what the son has done.

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what it is about is mr mccarthy keeping the support of that hardline republican party.mpeachment proceedings without a vote on the house of congressmen and women, the house of representatives. he buckled under a lot of pressure. you have to bear in mind that the speaker in congress is not like the speaker in the uk house of commons or indeed the canadian house of commons. he is worried about his own position. the dutch police have arrested a gunman, after three people died in shootings in the city of rotterdam. officers say the 32—year—old, opened fire in a house before setting it on fire, then entered a local medical centre opening fire. anna holligan has sent this report from rotterdam. the suspected gunman was a student studying at the erasmus university, which is affiliated with the hospital as shots rain out. 0ne one of their own members suspected of multiple killings, one for teachers among the dead. those that the medical centre say the killings have left a scar on the community. fix, left a scar on the community. place where people learn how to save lives but he

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mr. mccarthy, they're all leader as well as anybody else. a firm? yes. to more help to the ukraine. at least they're making this very, very difficult. it's eats me. he delivered very up the message about how the war is going. how does that go down with lawmakers? well, i wouldn't say that they are all believers, you know this counter offensive. we're just going on the ukraine. and having said that, let me say 1st that everybody in the united states is aware even those policies theme those holidays, but the ukrainians are putting up a really, really, really great fight and they are doing the dining, the fighting and the dying. not americans, americans give money, give support, gives military help, but so upbeat not on the landscapes part may be because he has to sell it to you has to sell that because he wants more, a more ammunition, more military hardware, more humanitarian aid. all of this and more money, i need me to, to keep the war machine going to keep the russian aggressors at bay. and to, as he said, when the war, if the american minded machine dries up, he says, there is no

mr. mccarthy, that in the budget, the budget proposals will save the money that is provided... for support ukraine, so it was an extremely successful visit, and the president returned to ukraine with concrete things in his hands that strengthen our country. the analysis that i read, regarding the president's visit to the white house, to the congress , they come to such conclusions that little by little skepticism about supporting ukraine is growing, because the war is getting long, the americans are beginning to...associate with the world war ii etnami, that is, that there is no end and no end, and because of that the question arises, whether it is necessary to continue financing, did you feel this skepticism, well, look, you can always find someone with such an opinion as you need, and write in a post on social networks or in an article on a media resource that there are such sentiments, well, of course, someone has such sentiments, but do these sentiments exist - basic, well, popular, are they, as they say, mainstream, no, absolutely not, are they approaching the mainstream, no, not appr

and it could make it harder for mr mccarthy to secure the votes necessary to keep the us government fundedmr zelensky�*s trip to north america this week, my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke to alexander rodnyansky, an adviser to the ukrainian president. he explained ukraine's position — when it comes to military aid from the us. would you support, alexander, provisions that would involve more direct us oversight of how aid is being spent in ukraine? by every indication that i know of and by everything that i can tell you in terms of the evidence, everything that we've received — all of the support, all the military assistance — has been spent exactly the way it should've been spent, without any sort of risks that could've occurred along the way. we've put it to use very effectively and, again, that's everything that i know. so, i think first of all, you know, ishould mention this, i don't think there are any measurable significant risks that we can think of right now when we talk about this but if our partners want some additional conditions, then, i'm sure our political leaders should be w

now, what mr mccarthy failed to identify, though, today, was any evidence of a sort of smoking gun, the or a transcript of a telephone conversation with the president of ukraine. the sort of evidence that might amount to a so—called high crimes and misdemeanours. well, democrats have said there's not a shred of evidence that joe biden committed any sort of impeachable offence. you mentioned there the "extreme politics at its worst" comment from the white house, but it's worth noting that the majority of the american population believes that hunter biden did receive preferential treatment when it came to his business dealings. what there is so far no evidence of, however, is thatjoe biden himself profited from those business dealings, or indeed that he, president biden, broke the law. the chances long term ofjoe biden actually being unseated because of this, are slim to nonexistent. there have been three previous such impeachment investigations of this kind, three previous presidents have been involved. none has ended up being foisted from office, and it would require a majority vote in

mr. mccarthy, who is a republican and who can influence the general mood. i really hope so .ecessary to put pressure on russia on the battlefield. in turn, they should help ukraine because putin's achilles' heel will be found in any case, thank you for this opportunity to express yourself on the air of your program glory to ukraine glory to the heroes thank you dear mr. ambassadors, i want to remind our tv viewers that the espresso tv channel is currently on the air for them worked daniel fried former coordinator of the us department of state for conducting sanctions policy thank you very much

volodymyr zelensky pushed in a visit to congress this week — in limbo and it could make it harder for mr mccarthyotes necessary to keep the us government funded through the beginning of october. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, says he is "deeply concerned" for the safety of ethnic armenians in nagorno—karabakh, four days after azerbaijan took control over the long—disputed territory. the state department says mr blinken made the remarks in a conversation with armenia's prime minister, held in the past few hours. the region is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan but its population is mostly ethnic armenians, who ruled it as a breakaway republic for three decades. earlier this week, an azerbaijani military operation routed the ethnic armenian separatists and azerbaijan has begun taking full control of the region. now, tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. they are coping with dwindling food, medicine and fuel supplies. the red cross has managed to deliver 70 tonnes of aid for the first time sin

here's what mr mccarthy had to say.ur house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into presidentjoe biden. this logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. that's exactly what we want to know. the answers. i believe the president would want to answer these questions and allegations as well. now, i would encourage the president and his team to fully cooperate with this investigation in the interests of transparency. we're committed to getting the answers for the american public. nothing more, nothing less. we will go wherever the evidence takes us. 0ur north america correspondent sean dilley says the impeachment process is seen as highly partisan and likely to fail. this is political grandstanding by kevin mccarthy. it's political grandstanding because he knows that no president has ever been successfully removed from office by way of impeachment. but what he's doing is he's pointing to three republican led subcommittee inquiries by the o

mr. mccarthy, that . the speaker of the house of representatives, there is some ukrainian trace there, itms that the ukrainian media are writing that they want to donate aid to ukraine so that the budget will be accepted, any such rumors, whether they are rumors, whether it is gossip, whether it is true, no one can understand, this one, i was laughing could not understand, this is a mockery, the us house of representatives allocated 300 million in ukraine , 300 million, during the war is zero, this, this is nothing, 300 billion, okay, this is a great number, and 300 million is one day of war, well two, no more, because what is the situation , how can we, can we combine the united states' aid to ukraine and the acceptance or rejection of the united states' budget, it seems to me that rather not, well, of course, theoretically it exists. this possibility, because it is simply impossible to predict, because who knows how the republicans will be, how the democrats will be to react to one or another current event, but despite all that, the fact is that you, well, almost all democrats support u

congress must approve a spending bill by the start of the new fiscal year on october 01, but mr mccarthyto convince some of his more hardline fellow republicans to do so. just a short time ago, us presidentjoe biden laid the blame squarely at republicans�* door. let's be clear. a government shutdown, that means numbers let's be clear. a government shutdown, that means numbers in congress and militarily will have to work and not get paid. government shutdown means... they had starts for programmes will not go ahead. funding the government is one of the most basic responsibilities of congress and it's time for republicans to start during the job that america elected them to do. let's get this done! if lawmakers cannot avoid a shutdown in the us, hundreds of thousands of federal workers could go without pay and some government services would be disrupted. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, says he is "deeply concerned" for the safety of ethnic armenians in nagorno—karabakh four days after azerbaijan took control over the long—disputed territory. the state department says mr blinken

what mr mccarthy failed to identify today was any evidence of a sort of smoking gun, the dna resultsess, for example, or a transcript of a telephone conversation with the president of ukraine... the sort of evidence that might amount to a so—called high crimes and misdemeanours. democrats have said there is not a shred of evidence thatjoe biden committed any sort of impeachable offence. you mentioned the extreme politics at its worst comment from the white house. but it's worth noting that the majority of the american population believes that hunter biden did receive preferential treatment when it came to his business dealings. what there is so far no evidence of however, victoria, is thatjoe biden himself profited from those business dealings or indeed that he, president biden, broke the law. interesting, isn't it, the distinction between allegations and evidence. the speaker has been signalling this move for weeks. but he's done this now unilaterally and without a formal house vote... quite a change of strategy for kevin mccarthy, why do you think he has gone about it this way? i c

they had a good session, and apparently even mr mccarthy was indicating that he is supporting these weaponscase, ambassador, but we also saw the speaker say that he would not bring this $24 billion additional aid package for ukraine to the floor for a vote before the end of the year, and he did add this: . do you think there is a clear answer to that question right now? i think there is a clear answer to that question, and ukrainians actually have been pretty straightforward about that answer, and it is theyjust want the russians out of their country. theyjust — that is victory for them. they don't want more than that. there are some people who are talking about more than that, going into russia — no. the ukrainians just want the russian soldiers out of their country, and we talked about how they are trying to push to the south. they are trying to push to the east around bakhmut, so that is what they are after that is what we — we are helping them. we are helping them do exactly that, so i think that is a clear answer to what is victory for the ukrainians. we have heard, ambassador, that th

what this is about is mr mccarthy keeping that support of the hard—line of the republican party stoppingve towards impeachment proceedings without a vote on the house, you know, of congress, men and women, socially, of the house of representatives. he did go ahead anyway. he buckled under ahead anyway. he buckled under a lot of pressure. you have to bearin a lot of pressure. you have to bear in mind that the speaker in congress is not like speak in, for example, the uk house of commons or the canadian house of commons. like his democratic party predecessor, nancy pelosi, kevin mccarthy is a highly partisan political operator and he is playing to the ground because ultimately he is worried about his own position. sean dilley reporting there. as forformer president as for former president donald trump he was not in the public eye but there is one new slide report. his lawyers have now said he will not be seeking to move a criminal case that alleges he was part of a conspiracy to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss in georgia from a state court to a federal court. now, that could s

mr mccarthy said he would task three committees with carrying out the inquiry into the president ands been investigating the president for months and has still found no concrete evidence of misconduct. at the centre of this inquiry is president biden�*s son, hunter biden, who is currently under federal investigation for possible tax crimes related to foreign business interests. this inquiry will give congressional investigators greater legal authority to investigate the president, who's accused of having knowledge of his son's potential crimes. speaker kevin mccarthy said these allegations facing the biden family paint "a picture of corruption". the american people deserve to know that the public offices are not for sale. and that the federal government is not being used to cover up the actions of a politically associated family. i would encourage the president and his team to fully co—operate with this investigation in the interests of transparency. 0ur correspondent gary 0'donoghue sent this update from the us capitol. no president likes to face an impeachment inquiry, only three h

mr mccarthy says he'll try to tee—up a stop gap spending bill for friday.ss fails to secure funding by october 1st, hundreds of thousands offederal employees will be furloughed without pay, and government services will be disrupted. earlier, i spoke with tennessee congressman tim burchett, one of the republican holdouts. thanks forjoining us. you have said you will not support a short—term funding bill. the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy is pushing for cuts to ensure he can get some more conservative votes on board. your colleague in congress gary graves told reporters at the weekend that the house leadership plans to cut spending on discretionary programmes by 27%. i see you shaking your head, is that enough to win your vote? no, ma'am. my colleague you mention there, he has a self—appointed role. i don't know that he speaks for anybody really, other than himself. the truth is, ma'am, a continued resolution isjust a complete capitulation of our duties. as congressmen, we are required to do one thing, and that's pass a budget. continued resolution is n

mr. mccarthy's leadership. he threatened to call for a vote to elect a new speaker. here are their remarks. speaker mccarthy: welcome back, everyone. month we were gone anti-weeks house republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into president biden's conduct. taken together these allegations mr. mccarthy: welcome back, everyone. over the weeks and months we have through our investigations we have found that president biden did lie to the american people about his own knowledge of his family's foreign business dealings.

tonight, mr mccarthy urged the senate to drop that measure from its resolution. if we had a clean one without ukraine on it, we could probably be able to move that through. i think if the senate puts ukraine on there and focuses ukraine over america, i think that could cause real problems. megan scully is bloomberg congress editor and she joined me in the last hour. what is your initial reaction to this news from speaker mccarthy? that if ukraine was removed, a deal might be on the table. this is one of many ideas that are percolating this evening. the closer we get to the deadline, the more ideas seem to be giving birth by both sides. this latest offer, not even quite an offer proposal, something floated to republicans during a meeting of republicans that was closed door and spanned about two hours. there are hard—line republicans that will not vote for any continuing resolution at all. and there are democrats who could not be on board with a bill that would not fund ukraine. this becomes a big problem particularly in the senate where support for ukraine funding