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Hello, everyone. Good morning. It is saturday, september 30th. Im amara walker. And im omar jimenez. Youre in the cnn newsroom. The government is barrelling towards a shutdown with no solution in sight. Today is the last day for congress to pass a funding bill to keep the government open. You see the count down. Now the clock is ticking. Right now House Republicans are in a closed door meeting to try and come up with a last minute solution. But just last night House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy once a...

Several Republican lawmakers expressed their displeasure on Monday with House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) plan to move forward with a continuing resolution to fund the government, which would keep spending levels the same rather than cutting them.

Childrens health program for six years. thats c.h.i.p., which i should be a major draw for democrats. but thats not exactly so fast on that one. well get into that in a second. also just in, official traveling with the president on board air force one reaffirms the white house does not expect a government shutdown and that the president is prepared to speak with lawmakers on both sides to see what theyre calling a, quote, clean cr. to capitol hill we go. tell me more, when we hear clean cr from ...

Should be. i mean, thats what our constitution calls for, a majority vote, the majority passed obama care was a slender majority, as you say. you say its very possible a majority in the house would pass a so-called clean cr. isnt that constitutional the way the system works? >> remember, though, the constitution also says the speaker will be elected to be the speaker of the whole house and that the majority controls the house of representatives, thats also the structure for government and they d...

Just take the so-called clean cr. but it is not clean at all. because it does have the sequester in it. >> but you -- it seems like you have ended up in a situation, i dont know if this is by grand design on their part or just a happy coincidence for them. but you ended up in a place where exactly what you described is happening, the democrats are in a place of, well, fine, have your sequester, we just dont want a debt default, should democrats have been applying pressure the other way so that t...

Republicans have been able to reduce the size and scope of the government through the sequester. what sort of is forgotten here if the government reopens, the sequester is not forgotten, did your party make the mistake by not having that fight as part of the shutdown deal? >> the problem is, the republicans have insisted on putting this completely irrelevant issue, one that they know the white house wouldnt compromise, one that they know that the senate wouldnt compromise on. and that is the aff...

>> the problem is, the republicans have insisted on putting this completely irrelevant issue, one that they know the white house wouldnt compromise, one that they know that the senate wouldnt compromise on. and that is the affordable care act. has nothing to do with the budget. and so now a lot of people are saying well, you know what? just take the so-called clean cr. but it is not clean at all. because it does have the sequester in it. >> but you -- it seems like you have ended up in a situati...

Dement demented, it is now the case that they are all just all in on this. i mean, isnt that whatever fissures you saw are starting to dissolve, as far as i can tell, everyone is falling in line. all those folks, the entire right wing noise machine, all are behind this strategy. >> yeah. weve been all day at the huffington post counting the number of house republicans who are willing to vote for a so-called clean cr, pan were up to 20, but its a difference between sort of what theyre saying in t...

Because we dont have time to put it in a graphic. its quite lengthy. at the top it said today republicans and the house of representatives moved to shut down the government. congress has two jobs to do pass the budget and pay bills it has racked up. republicans in congress had the opportunity to pass a routine, simple continuing resolution that keeps the government running for a few more weeks but instead republicans decided they would rather make an ideological point by demanding the sabotage o...

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