smooth transition but the choice to allow a transition to move forward is in the hands of republicans in congress. we can continue to have a smooth transition of power p, if they stop threatening a shutdown. and you know, they have an opportunity, republicans in congress, have an opportunity to keep the government open so that we can continue what the president's commitment has been for months now, to make sure that there's a smooth transition of power. reporter: clarification, is this trip to rome the last foreign trip the president will take? karine: what i can say, the president is going to italy and will go on a trip in january. i'm always very careful, anything could happen, but what i can say for sure is that the president is certainly going to be going to italy. we'll have more to share, i don't have anything else to share. reporter: related to the c.r., given what you said about the president's views on debt limit increases or eliminating the debt limit, does that mean that would be something that would be vetoed by the president if it were -- karine: i'm not going to get into hypothetica

we believe that congress, republicans in congress could get to a place where they prevent this. >> secretaryen is the next time the american people will hear from the president? >> secretary jean-pierre: it is very easy to fix this. the mess that republicans created. it's very easy for them to fix this. bipartisan deal agreement. move forward. keep your word, republicans in congress. keep your word. keep your word. >> reporter: i have a question on china. in the final month of this administration -- high-level talks between the u.s. and china, last week, as president biden making his final effort to strengthen with china relationship ahead of trump administration? >> that is karine jean-pierre still running the press briefing. we would hope our own jacqui heinrich would get a question. still waiting for that. michelle, do you first on this, your reaction. she is trying to lay the blame on the republicans. going on in congress. >> it was a bipartisan bill which she repeated. the problem is, vivek ramaswamy did us all of favor and read the bipartisan bill. it was full of a lot of stuff that am

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anchor: it's about to be a republican controlled congress, senate and the house, and the white house,. what will the appetite be then for supporting syria? >> i think there's reasons for concern. this is not your grandfather's republican party in the united states, not what we saw through reagan and the bushes. we have a strong isolationist streak within the republican party and maga movement, representing perhaps the majority of republicans in congress and throughout the nation so i think on a host of issues, i certainly have my deep concerns. anchor: when you're talking about helping to rebuild civil society, as you put it there, behind the scenes, do you think that republican controlled congress also will not be as interested in doing that? >> i wouldn't make that a definitive prediction but it is a serious concern i have. i would say some reason for optimism is the fact that just earlier in the spring, on ukraine, we were able to push through with a large bipartisan majority an aid bill for ukraine even though a slight majority of house republicans voted against it so that offers

the hard thing with trump, republican in congress — thing with trump, republican in congress right nowt trump once is not always— as we speak, what trump once is not always best articulated in terms — not always best articulated in terms of— not always best articulated in terms of policy, he wants flattery— terms of policy, he wants flattery and filthy, and sometimes he just wants political allies, we could see ourselves in a world six months from _ ourselves in a world six months from now— ourselves in a world six months from now where trump is saying trade, _ from now where trump is saying trade, in — from now where trump is saying trade, in the realm of the precedented, mr musk would like this particular favour for his companies, these social media laws _ companies, these social media laws don't _ companies, these social media laws don't apply with the view of twitter of mask. i don't think— of twitter of mask. i don't think anyone enclosing donald trump — think anyone enclosing donald trump or— think anyone enclosing donald trump or even must know how they— trump or even must know

and the congressman, the republican congress has got to learn how to speak for their own minds and not worry about getting primary every two years. these people are mckinley sick already and they are not even in office. host: eric, maryland, democrat. caller: good morning. i agree with the last caller. it is going to be more of the same. i think the government will get shut down to show their power, even if it is for a day. and it is. i think half of my friends who voted for trump, this will only hurt them. anything that these billionaires will do is for themselves, and they will stop on the poor to get there, and i cannot believe that he won the popular vote and is compared to ronald reagan read it is shameful. i'm a veteran, i served seven years in the infantry. i'm shocked. i cannot believe that this man represents the christian national movement and has all these billionaires in his administration. i mean, trump on $23 million was homes, i'm just dumbfounded. i heard the news this morning driving to work and i'm dumbfounded. thank you. host: here is the republican line in ohio, jus

trump's agenda for the american people put johnson to the ire of the right flank of house republicans congresser last week's mining fight, he relied to get the final bill across the finish line. still, some republicans say johnson's are the bestie can with the narrow majority. >> were not cheap we don't do as a leader says. it's like herding cats. not but not little house cats like big liens on the serengeti, we all are safe. but he has done a great job over the last 15 months considered ig situation where. >> president-elect compass said to be frustrated with johnson there are con concerned a prolod fight over the speakership could delay the certification of the electoral college results which is up for january 6. >> madeleine rivera in washington, thank you. grand jury has indicted illegal immigrant from guatemala and the deadly burning of a woman on the new york city subway print local officials are refusing in order to let ice detain him in keeping with the city's sanctuary policies. cb cotton is live in new york city with the latest. >> tomorrow marks one week since the attack but investi

it hadn't existed before then it really became a hot topic in 1995 with the republican congress attacking then president bill clinton and claiming that they wanted to reduce debts. but it's congress that passes spending bills. the idea of a debt limit is antithetical to the idea that congress passes spending bills. why would congress have to deal with a debt limit when they're the ones who passed the spending in the 1st place? but the positions are all across the board. the democrats have numerous times in recent years tried to get rid of the debt limit period, the debt ceiling, and then surprisingly it was donald trump. out of the blue, it was approximately 24 hours ago from when we're talking right now. who said, let's just get rid of it entirely, which the, what's called the freedom caucus is what they labeled themselves. this kind of physically, hyper conservative, hyper small government wing of the republican party of approximately 35 republicans . they're against raising the debt ceiling and eliminating the debt ceiling. and they're the ones who voted no, again, even tonight. so if

that is not the case today in this congress, a republican—controlled congress.learned about the fragility of our court system. we've learned about the fragility of our independent press. i think we've learned about the fragility of a lot of institutions. and that is a deep concern to me, because donald trump intends to challenge any independent arbiter of fact. and that's notjust the press, by the way. that could be medical authorities, scientists — you name it — judges — any independent arbiter of fact. that slogan — "democracy dies in darkness". right now, do you feel it's getting darker, and do you feel it threatens democracy? well, i think we do face an existential threat to democracy in the united states. i think we're discovering that a lot of our institutions are more fragile than we imagined. among the most fragile is congress. it's not doing itsjob. i mean, at the time of nixon, at least congress was willing to investigate the abuses of richard nixon. that is not the case today in this congress, a republican—controlled congress. they would never investi

for political reasons, not safety, i think the incoming trump administration along with the republican congresso take a long, hard look making sure that, look, if cities and states are going to allow, simply let federal law enforcement come in and remove folks out of your jail, if you are not going to allow that, then you shouldn't really have access to federal dollars for security and justice programs. >> anita: yeah, it makes sense, but still, you have a number of governors and mayors all across this country going out on a limb, saying no, no, no, we are going to protect these people, and they are talking about criminal illegal aliens. i mean, the worst of the worst. let's go ahead and put up the map here orographic of some of the cities that are not going to cooperate, boston, chicago, denver, los angeles, san francisco, and so i think the big question here is why? why do they want to protect these people who are causing havoc and committing major crimes in their communities against american citizens? >> well, i think you summed it up perfectly. they are protecting criminals. at the end of t

what are your thoughts -- >> i'm glad that the republican leadership and republican congress in the house rallied to tell elon musk he was wrong when it comes to debt ceiling's. yes? >> [indiscernible] >> is a compromise. we got some major things we want to in the bill, particularly the disaster relief. the president asked for 117. we got 100. we cut the government open and we did not get the debt ceiling. there were three major victories. we did not get everything we wanted, but you look at the vote in the house, people felt pretty good. it was virtually unanimous. thank you, everybody. >> do you think president-elect trump is taking too much direction from elon musk? >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> remarks from senate majority leader chuck schumer and other senate leaders on the milestone of confirming30 five judges, the mo in senate history. he also laid out the senate's plan to vote on extending government funding past midnight eastern time. the house has passed the government spending measure, 366-34. the senate is working to avert a government shutdown, which is schedulefomi

the reality is republicans of congress, we remember what the government shutdown looked like under donald trump. a dysfunctional federal government does not do well for the party in charge. and that is what we are barreling towards with not only a cabinet of people that don't really care about the democratic principles or the people. but also someone in charge who is just, they don't have the experience, the expertise or the concern. the implications for the party are vast in this moment. >> i think that's right. again, this was a change election. antiincumbency around the world is on the rise. even if you look here at new york city where many parts of the city went red. i don't know if there is a mandate of donald trump. but there is skepticism of blue government. why can't i get more for what i'm paying? they want a reason to believe in government again. i don't know if this is it. >> yeah. doge? >> thank you guys for joining me tonight. >>> we have a lot to get to, tonight including an answer to this question. just in time for rfk jr. to take the reins as health secretary, are we close

a here was republican congressman chip roy, again, republican congress, congressman, speaking before the vote. >> what we're doing right now is to continue to double down on the things that are destroying the republic. i am absolutely sickened by a party utthat campaigns on fisca responsibility and has the at that merit to be forward to the mamerican people and say you think this is fiscally k responsible. it is absolutely ridiculous.si this side of the aisle is profoundly unserious about actually reducing deficits. >> in the end the bill failed because 38 republicans broke with their own party, their own speaker of the house, to oppose his bill. republicans so far cannot manage to organize themselves enough to okeep the government open. but to hear republicans tell it, the very republicans who created this mess to begin with, it is all democrats' fault. >> the democrats just voted to shut down the government, even though we had a clean c.r., because they didn't want to give the president negotiating leverage during his first term -- or during the first year of his new term. and numb

congress. back in september of 2023, the republican controlled congress was teetering on the brink of a government shut down. and it was democrats who swept in to rescue the country. with 209 tdemocrats voting wit just 126 republicans to keep the u.s. government open for business. again, republicans were in control of congress at the time but they couldn't get enough votes in their own party to avoid a shut down. and then 45 days later the same thing happened again. the republican controlled house brought the country to the brink of a shut down, right before thanksgiving and democrats once again swooped in to save the day. here is democratic congressman sean caston at the time. >> i hope you're thankful for that time 45 days ago, when you were driving us to the edge of an economic shut down and once again, democrats stepped up, helped you out and made sure we kept the government open for the american people. i hope you're thankful this time this week when democrats once again had to be the adults in the room. didn't throw any punches but made sure though the republican majority could not stop the

two of those billionaires, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, went to capitol hill to meet with republicans in congress about their new department of government efficiency. republican speaker of the house mike johnson described the meeting as a brainstorming session, ideaating the ways they could gut the federal government next year. one idea elon musk floated was gettingrity of all tax credits -- getting rid of all tax credits including for electric vehicles. for background, musk previously said the tax credits help his competitors more than they help his car company, tesla. so yeah, why should the government do that? we are entering an era of government not just run by billionaires but for billionaires. government for the swamp, by the swamp. >> we are all excited, i know you're excited, that elon musk and vivek ramaswamy have joined us today. this is an important day. it's the beginning of a journey. you've heard what doge is all about, the department of government efficiency, it's a new thing. and in -- this is a new day in washington and america. >> joining me, professor at nyu school of law and p

congress. back in september of 2023, the republican controlled congress was teetering on the brink of a government shutdown and it was democrats who swept in to rescue the country. with 209 democrats voting with the republicans to keep the government in business. republicanswere in control of congress at the time. but they couldn't get enough votes in their own party to avoid a shut-down. then 45 days late terminal a same thing happened again. the republicans brought the government to the brink of a shutdown and democrats one again swooped in to save the day. here was democratic congressman shawn castin at the time. >> i hope you are thankful for that time 45 days ago when you were driving us to the edge of an economic shutdown and once again democrats stepped up, helps you out, and made sure we kept the government open for the american people. i hope you are thankful for that time this week when democrats once again had to be the adults in the room. didn't throw any punches but made sure though the republican majority couldn't pass the new speaker stopgap measure, we did and kept the government o

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that democrats and republicans, congress, and the presidents, their freighting blame, and that's nothing new. but what is new is that there is another player, an outside force exerting considerable influence over negotiations. the only difference on this legislation was that we would push the the debt ceiling to january of 2027. i want you all to remember that it was just last spring, that the same democrats be rated republicans and said that it was irresponsible. the hold of the debt limit, the debt ceiling hostage. what change? we had many weeks of negotiation with the republicans. we arrived at a bipartisan legislative compromise, the senate democrats, the senate, republicans, the house, democrats, the house, republicans, everybody agreed, and then it was blowing up by you on most who apparently has become the 4th branch of government is somewhat frightening. that on elected people with lots of money, get this into it. that's but that's a traditional american problem. this is the 1st time that i'm aware of in my lifetime, for somebody who's not a government official who's the richest

republican leadership. for context, mr. speaker, before this congress, the last time a rule failed on the house floor was over 20 years ago, in 2000. now it's become -- 2000. now it's -- 2002. now it's becoming routine because republicans can't even pass their own bills. they said they would complete all 12 appropriation bills before the august, 2023, recess. another broken promise. and they said this year that they would finally get their act together. another broken promise. because here they are. the week before christmas. trying to pass another stop-gap funding bill that nobody has even seen the text for. where is it? where is it? is it hiding behind a desk somewhere in the chamber? is it under the christmas tree? with republicans in charge of this place, maybe the grinch stole it. maybe we'll see the text before we get to vote on it. who knows with this majority. it's just astounding, astounding incompetence and chaos. it's honestly pathetic. republicans have run this place like a dictatorship, mr. speaker. and they don't even have anything to show

larry: because, the congress, republicans, they have not quite taken over yet. that is coming january 3. >> this is one issue. larry: they are sort of throwing sand in the gears. they want to wait to do this and wait to do that. >> republicans are doing that. >> yes. >> what do you want to see, my take, interesting. >> you know, larry he has bully pulpit,. larry: he has to say, to mr. thune, i think is very capable man. and mike johnson, he has to say, this is what i want. i want tax cuts out of the gate. i want border security out of the gate. i want to big fat recon bill, and deliver it to me by spring. 100 or 120 or 131, this is what i want, that is what you are saying. >> right. you were in there you would say it. larry: i would be. i was in there once, said it. >> i know, you were say it. i would say, we have to accept a level of volatility in markets going forward. larry: oh, yeah. >> we -- i am a journalist i love freaking out over headlines. we wouldn't have a tv show. larry: what is final. >> 1100. on 40,000, that is not like armageddon and tomorrow som

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once trump got involved, he did start making demands from the republican-controlled congress telling them what he wanted from them. what did he want them to give him, he wanted a specific thing he asked for specifically. he wanted the republican-controlled congress to abolish the debt ceiling. don't worry, though, you don't have to bother reminding yourself what the debt ceiling is because they didn't do it. he demanded it, but didn't get it. they didn't make any change around the debt ceiling even though that's what trump was demanding, which makes him look, again, error-prone, easily confused, and weak. it particularly makes him look weak compared to elon musk, because what did result from the standoff that nearly shutdown the government this weekend, what actually did change is not what would have benefitted trump, is not what trump asked for, it's not the debt ceiling thing, instead it's what would have benefitted elon musk because what they did remove from the government funding bill is a production that would have screen and regulated u.s. investments in china. and those new rul

before a republican congress can overturn biden's signed laws on climate, foreign aid and funding forepa announced $1.6 billion in grants for reducing pollution and increasing community climate resilience. the administration is also highlighting tens of billions of dollars to build microchip factories in the united states. republican senator bill hearing has warned of any quote lame duck attempt to constrain the new trump administration. officials are trying to finalize regulations on the environment and economy and push initiatives on student debt relief and artificial intelligence. the white house is promising more pardons and clemson to addd including for his son hunter. >> it's unusual to pardon your son for a blanket pardon that would extend for over a decade. that is an admission of guilt. >> some democrats are calling for more redemptive pardons like for doctors prescribing abortion pills to out-of-state recipients. >> would i be supportive of this? absolutely. >> thanks to a 1996 law, the congressional review act, biden rules put in place over the last few months are vulnerabl

yes, he can get tax cuts through the republican congress because that's easy, but he's never gotten anything difficult. never once through congress. donald trump added this line about the debt ceiling. if democrats won't cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in june during our administration? now why would you need democrats to vote for anything during the trump administration? republicans are going to control the house of representatives, republicans are going to control the senate, by very tiny margin, and donald trump knows he will not be able to get every republican in the house and every republican in the senate to vote for a debt ceiling increase next year, even though donald trump knows he needs one. so he now actually publicly calls on democrats to do it for him today. raising the debt ceiling beyond the end of joe biden's administration is one of the brilliant tactical accomplishments of president biden as a negotiator with congress. a republican house of representatives agreed to do that for joe biden. we reported on that negotiation in detail

. >> president elon musk will be exerting more influence over the house republican congress of -- >> referring to donald trump as vice president trump that is not going to sit well. >> they are going to have to get together and decide who the president is. >> dana: plot twist, chants of no are coming from closed-door caucus meetings which doesn't portend well, let me go to you, this is one of those things where you had a massive blow up by the time you get to the five it's all solved. >> charlie: i think the chance the democrats helping out republicans get this done is not going to happen, but all this complaining about elon musk -- he was not speaking, he was not leading the president around. he was talking about the things that regular voters who elected donald trump were concerned about witches taking a spending bill like this which should have been 30 pages and wound up being 1500 pages and they cut it back to 100 pages which is still far too long. it's not that difficult. i think it's funny obviously the democrats are trying to play these games, they're always playing the mind g

congress? because there are a lot of crosscurrents that do not perfectly land along party lines. we have seen that over and over again, and you are looking at, you know, the republicans looking at a even slimmer majority in the house. how is when it comes to congress's role, how is that going to look? >> you know, i think you're going to see some interesting debates. the republican party used to be a very hawkish party, but you've seen these factions within their conference, folks that very much are saying, okay, let's get out of ukraine. folks that are more traditional, hawkish republicans that are saying, we've got to continue this fight and beat putin, and then you've got the same factions in the democratic party. so i think you're going to see vibrant debate. i do think, you know, we've seen what president-elect trump wants to do. and then, you know, i serve on the intelligence committee with mike walsh, who's the incoming nsc director. so he's also asked some pretty tough questions about ukraine. so again, i think there's an opportunity to try to negotiate an end to this conflict. >> that would be really it's january is going to be january. february, i think is

republicans will congress the senate follow the next congress in january. soon to be senator chuck schumer. referring to president elect trump's nominees. this is about ten minutes. s is . >> i am happy to be joined by our new leadership team senator >> hello, everybody. i hopeer all of you had a great thanks giving. my mom is 96. wewe went to my brother's housen connecticut. now as you know senate democratic caucus voted for 119th congress. i know this leadership team will help caucus and help serve the american people. serving as leader has been one of the greatest honors of my life. i love them. they work hard, they have different views. they respect each other. over the last years when i've been majority leader we've lad one of the successful senates. we don't agree on everything. different philosophies. every single member loves his or her country. everyone strives for unity. after four years of the employees productive and consequential years the senatee has had in decades galvanized by faith and there chamber's ability to get things done toco the cou

congress, particularly in the house of representatives. every time i open the newspaper and in the last few days i see the margin, the majority that the republicansnjoy in congress is getting thinner and thinner and thinner. anthony of elise stefanik and mike waltz come into the administration. so where's, what's the majority now? what's the margin? >> hey, , i can tell you very honestly, thank goodness for speaker mike johnson, okay? because he's going to be heard in a cats, which is a polite term because it's worse than that. some of these people, god bless them, -- herding cats -- i just have a lot of faith and it was got a great leader with steve scalise and alisa mclain now. i'm just really grateful that we've got leadership with tom emmer as a whip but the votes will be very narrow. what a challenge. >> what is the election going to mean an inauguration on of january 20 for the legislative agenda? >> it's going to give us a real opportunity and a challenge and then we must deliver. for example, on sanctions we need to codify the sanctions. they're currently by executive order but they could be codified over and over again. i'm also hey, i k

once trump got involved, he did start making demands from republican-controlled congress telling them what he wanted from them as he was pushing them towards shutdown. what did he want them to give him? he wanted a specific thing that he asked for explicitly, he wanted the republican- controlled congress to abolish the debt ceiling. don't worry, you don't have to bother reminding yourself what the debt ceiling is because they did not do it. trump wanted it, he demanded it but they he did not get it. they did not make any change on the debt ceiling although that is what trump was demanding. which makes him look, again, error-prone, easily confused and week. particularly makes him look weak compared to elon musk. what did result from the standoff that nearly shut down the government this weekend and what did changed is not what would have benefited trump and not what trump asked for, is not the debt ceiling, instead it benefited elon musk. what they did remove from the government funding bill is a provision that screened and regulated u.s. investments in china. those new rules could hav

so what happens next, that democrats and republicans, congress and the presidents, their freedom blame, and that's nothing new. but what is new is that there is another player, an outside force exerting considerable influence over negotiations. the only difference on this legislation was that we would push the the debt ceiling to january of 2027. i want you all to remember that it was just last spring, that the same democrats be rated republicans and said that it was irresponsible. the hold of the debt limit, the debt ceiling hostage. what change? we had many weeks of negotiation with the republicans. we arrived at a bipartisan legislative compromise, the senate democrats, the senate republic, into the house, democrats, the house republicans, everybody agreed, and then it was blowing up by you on most who apparently has become the 4th branch of government is somewhat frightening. that on elected people with lots of money, get this into it. that's but that's a traditional american problem. this is the 1st time that i'm aware of in my lifetime, for somebody who's not a government officia

he did this heated with a republican congress women during which he repeatedly said that donald trumpw, the distinction here is that what the civil case actually found was that he was guilty of sexual abuse —— any civil trial of rape. donald trump then sued abc and seen few minutes i had not seen anything from him. i would few minutes i had not seen anything from him. iwould not be surprised if he posts about this on his truth social media site where he tends to make his pronouncements from. he has had quite a robust relationship with the media, always talking about the fake news media but he has a split attitude, clearly enjoying the attention that comes from being a public figure and being a celebrity of sorts, but at the same time, often, as you say, rails against the coverage that he gets. interesting to note that during his election campaign, often he would turn to podcasters or social media sites as a way of getting out his message and a sort in some ways traditional television broadcast interviews, though he has been sitting for some of those recently as well. roan bride, those

and trump and the republican congress shoe for something even bigger?ow is grover norquist, president of america's tax reform. grover, good to see you. first of all what is the latest inside the beltway as the trump team is getting ready about how high up on the priority extending the tax will be. >> if they do not pass the tax cut plus things like taking the corporate rate to 15, in the first few months of this presidency, it will be too late to affect the 2025 year in the 2026 election year. the president lost the house of representatives in 2018. republicans lost the house because they delayed the tax cuts. it did not get signed for a year , december 22. you have this wonderful growth in 2019. after we lost the house. nobody wants to do that again. that was stupid, that will not happen again under trump's watch and under speaker johnson's watch. >> it has happened to republicans before. i think back to the first george bush read my lips no new taxes and then he went ahead and did it. for a lot of reasons it happened and he was a one term. this trump

what is also remarkable is a lot of people assumed when elon musk, donald trump would tell republicans in congressking how high. look, we already have two instances of the gaetz nomination in the senate that was shot down by senate republicans immediately. and then you had musk and trump ask for this bill and threaten some members of the house. and that bill got 174 votes i think out of 435. i don't think it ever started. i think this will be some rough going for the trump administration. in the next congress if they think they will be able to dictate between an evenly divided congress what they have to do. >> staying with the shut down's fascinating mess, it appears that this saga is threatening congressman mike johnson's ability to return as the speaker. his own base turned against a deal he suggested and now some republicans are talking about replacing him. and remember that the speaker election is january third. what are your thoughts? >> the 11, 12, 13, 14 votes it took for him to become speaker for a hot minute before they booted him out. mccarthy. and mike johnson has always faced the same

i think what it is there is another example of where some republicans in congress are prepared to defyhis comes already in the last week after there was some rebellion against his desire to try and lift the amount of money that the american government could borrow. things didn't go completely the way he wanted in this government shutdown vote, and also now you have this issue about matt gaetz rearing its head again, and i think it shows you that there is a line over which, if mr trump tries to cross, there are still some republicans not prepared to tolerate that. germany's president, frank—walter steinmeier, has said germans must not let extremists divide them, four days after a deadly attack on a christmas market in magdeburg. in his seasonal address, he said the attack has cast a dark shadow over christmas, but hatred and violence must not have the final word. on monday night, thousands of people joined rival demonstrations in magdeburg. leaders of the far—right afd party called for border closures and deportations, while anti—racism protesters accused them of politicising the traged

he says he will be updating reporters and all of us shortly on what the plan is for the republican congress to move forward. in the meantime, we are taking your call on a potential government shutdown at midnight. representative mike thompson elon musk ply a bipartisan government funding bill suggesting we cut funds for health care clinics, childhood cancer research and veteran benefits and more to fund tax breaks of millionaires. and republicans are bending to the whim of a billionaire looking out for only himself. forcing seniors to pay for tax cuts benefiting the wealthy. terry, florida, independent line, what is the potential of a government shutdown? caller: i think the separate bills make good sense. farmers and disaster relief money. that should be a no brainer. the rest of the spending, general government spending they should divide out and make it date specific so they can pass a bill december 20 when the new government takes over in january 20. as far as spending past that into march, this congress shouldn't even be voting on that. somewhere around the 7th of january, new congress

i think it can cause real problems for whoever is leaving the house republican congress next year.that - congress next year. it's interesting that hakim jeffries pointed out, that division among republicans for the what you read into that, does that tell us everything about what could lie ahead in the months to come?— to come? democrats are very eater to come? democrats are very eager to — to come? democrats are very eager to point _ to come? democrats are very eager to point out _ to come? democrats are very eager to point out all - to come? democrats are very eager to point out all of - to come? democrats are very eager to point out all of the l eager to point out all of the fissures exposed in the house republican conference. i think it's a real dynamic moving forward. you have a number of house republicans in purple districts, may be slightly more liberal leaning districts who just one tough fight and eager to be reelected for another term who do not want to be seen as agents of dysfunction, do not want to be seen voting for spending cuts, do not want to be seen as driving the

>> today in a courtroom in los angeles, one of the most spectacular debacles of the current republican congress an embarrassing and pitiful conclusion that you will not hear about anywhere in right-wing media. you may or may not have been following every twist and turn of it, but republicans in congress really did spend over a year trying to impeach president biden. at the heart was a star witness, a man with the smoking gun. an fbi informant who supposedly had the evidence that president biden took bribes that a ukrainian energy company had paid millions of dollars in bribes to president biden and his son, hunter. now, problem one for republicans with this scenario happened with that guy, the fbi informant, the star witness for the republicans against president biden, problem one for them was when he got arrested and indicted for lying to the fbi about the biden bribery allegations. problem two for the republicans is that according to the indictment of him, this man claimed that some of the information he got, the false information that he caught and passed on, was information that he got from

happening, we had church committee that investigate it, past several years we had commits in congress under republican leadership looking to what biden did there are a lot of similarity, to court -- carter's credit he did as much as any president could, coming out of watergate, to rei reinvigorate a little trust leading to reagan administration. >> but for his -- the thing that defined jimmy carter he was naive. about khamenei and soviets. his last year was good. after the soviets invaded afghanistan high woke up to the fact -- he woke unt up to the fact they were bad guys, and inflation and inrates killed him off, the pivot we need now is above pivot that reagan made against carterrism. i have to note for record, in his retire am me did very good things with habitat for humanity and bad things, vis-a-vis israel calling them an apartheid state. the guy never stopped insulting israel in his retirement, a balancing, a lot of good, a lot of bad. >> we've we give up about biden and move to donald trump, this i have to mention what happened last week, the issuance of the photographs, by america first legal

year after year people have been hoping that the republicans in congress are republicans outside of governmentwill exert some influence and control, and fails over and over again. it would be foolish to assume that now, all of a sudden, they're going to have a backbone. however, one can still help. first of all, rfk, that is crazy. that is a very important position. texas you know, i hope this nomination does not just get slotted into the -- oh, his controversial nominee thing. the man is been accused of rape. credibly accused of rape. there is a very disturbing police report . this is not the average nominee with baggage so i would hope that particularly senate republicans up for re- election will look to this as an opportunity to actually do their jobs and ask the right questions. >> with that, we are going to leave it there. time flies when you're having fun. ankush khardori, kimberly atkins stohr, thank you very much for coming to the saturday show. >>> up next, we highlight some of hollywood's major movie releases to put on your holiday watch list with nbc entertainment contributor chris

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down all the units, but i've tried to call them, but alleged this information that's off the republican congress, members refuse to keep funding the department. this being critical of many conservatives, the so called global engagement center has been targeted by a lawsuit from media outlets. the say, the unit for the american tech companies do down wrong, that reports, believe that business non on trump ally a loan. most cars also accused the sense of censorship and sense of, of censorship on media manipulation, incumbent democrats. and it was a pushing to allocate to another $100000000.00 to the department before the republicans take power. next month. they are going, administration has invested abilene so cold and see misinformation, campaigns, the buys and government reportedly spent a total of $267000000.00 in tax pay of funds to that end. in control of the 1st trump presidency allocated about 40 times less on the same front. let's cross live to joe oakland, host of the conservative daily pod cause when he, thanks for joining us. it's nice to see. so such a huge spending on what defines adm

thing really north of the criteria that africa, one or 2 maybe in can you and just about in the republican congress. fear the sense from that where it's been quite halting botswana and some parts of south africa that's being replaced by thunder storms. the us be a sub government falls. israel seizes more territory in syria's goal on heights. stop. shares of the year old agreement is really far right. ministers say they are countries border and should extend further to damascus. so what are israel funds in syria? this is insightful and the .