Continuing Breaking Coverage as the senate votes on the 45day stopgap Government Funding Measure that would keep our government open and, of course, a voting a shutdown. Weve got developments on all sides. Lets cross over to nbc news reporter, monica alba, you get the very latest. In just a moment, we will also get an update from ali vitali as well. Monika, i will start with you. Do we know what the white house is thinking at the moment . Are they waiting, obviously, for this bill to make its way to the present for signature . Exactly, amen. As soon as it is able to be enrolled in Hill Parlance and sent over to the white house, we are expecting the president to sign this before midnight. Ideally, sometimes, as ally knows well it, can take a little bit of a while to do all of these logistics to make sure it is already for the president s signature. But that is the plan. In fact, of hurting this Government Shutdown pretty close to the deadline. We are journalists, so were used to getting
from the father, president trenin and rest of his fam family, to absorb your mother in the middle of two very large legal cases that they center right now. to president biden was scheduled to head back to the white house but instead he is going straight to wilmington where the family will gather and talk to hunter, have dinner together, we assume. some of them just had lunch, they said that hunter was smiling and seemed happy at lunch today but in a statement earlier, president biden said he will continue to respect the judicial process as hunter considers an appeal. remember, as i mentioned, hunter is also facing several separate further federal tax violation charges and those were the things that those whistleblowers at irs agents came from congress and talked about, thing we believe there was its something that you have been deeply dug into over the last couple of years. what was your reaction to this very quickly terry brekka kirkness mcquigge verdict? i think t
Stories of democrats who worked with the russians in the 2016 campaign. President then turned his attention as i mentioned to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. This is important when you consider that this is the individual recused from an ongoing probe of potential obstruction among things and donald trump saying its too bad that sessions recused and then asked an intelligent question. The reporter asked donald trump to compare Jeff Sessions to the previous administrations Attorney General eric holder under obama and donald trump said this. I dont want to get into loyalty but i will tell you that i will say this. Holder protected president obama. Totally protected him. When you look at the things that they did, and Hold Proer Tekted the president. And i have Great Respect for that. Ill be honest. I have a little more on that in a moment. Trump also asked here in this very newsy interview whether he would order the justice
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