Closure Vote News Today

and sbc host, jen psaki. that interview coming up in minutes. and a very good day to all of you from nbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, right, now the senate is holding a sunday session as lawmakers scramble to lockdown a last-minute deal on funding for both ukraine and israel. this comes after republican scrapped a bipartisan border deal that would have finalized that budget for wartime. we have a live report ahead f...

Negative impact on aviation security." in other words, if they dont start to work this out. this is a real problem, shep, when theyre not talking. j.f.k. in his inauguration speech said you shouldnt be afraid to negotiate. they cant get to any resolution, any compromise if theyre not negotiating, shep. >> shepard: anything from the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell? hes the one in the past that has said i get you out of shut downs. any luck? >> thats what people have been confounded by her...

Closure, meaning i am voting to end the debate, but it does not mean i am going to vote positively at the next stage. that pretty much never happens in confirmations, but weve seen a lot of firsts in this one so far. >> could you imagine any senators -- im trying to imagine the argument that would lead a senator to do that. >> the argument is the belief that the nominee or the bill in some cases deserves an actual up and down vote. and i am willing to proceed it to a nonvote. in fact, a lot of s...

To a nonvote. in fact, a lot of senators used to do this a lot of the time in the past. its a very common thing. you never took the closure vote to mean the guarantee on what the next vote would be. it was simply senators saying, well, of course, this should go to a final vote. and so thats also a possibility here. >> and it does feel like every day this story takes another twist, this nomination takes another twist. there is a new either external or intrinsic nafactor that we werent factoring i...

Lets say they vote at 11:00. lets say they close the vote by 11:30. theres 51 yays. that clock starts to run. theres an agreement that the confirmation vote on brett kavanaugh would be about 5:30 saturday afternoon. you can speed that up if the other side wants to give up some of that time. we dont know that yet. >> neil: theres a lot of people that could give up talking. lets say 10:00 a.m. eastern time, it went to noon, the vote could happen then, right? >> youre right in the wheel house, neil...

Why would mitch mcconnell add to 9:52 eastern time, dc-10, be on the senate floor if hes not filing closure here? >> i think that is a definite possibility that he did. weve got the fbi report, that is what everybody said we were waiting for. at this point, if he does that, there is still an intervening day, we have all of tomorrow to think about it and then they have the closure vote and the time to debate. there is still lots of time, they have a schedule -- >> sean: saturday,y, the earliest. ...

Anyway, coming in session tomorrow at 1:00 in the afternoon. >> and thats a hard working weekend. >> and getting paid. >> unless they change something, which they could, but unless they change something, first time there could be a closure vote, stop debate, potentially get the government to reopen 1:00 a.m. on monday. >> so coming in tomorrow, but it wont happen tomorrow. >> right. they want to be able to sleep in. all right. pointed jokes. me a, i spoke to, obviously, just kellyanne conway. we...

The democratic leader is to withdraw his filibuster and let a bipartisan bill pass and reopen the united states government. earlier today i asked for concept to move up a vote on this bipartisan solution and to end the craziness today. democrats objected. that wont work forever. if they continue to object, we cannot proceed to a closure vote until 1:00 a.m. on monday but i assure you, we will have the vote at 1:00 a.m. on monday unless there is a desire to have it sooner. in the meantime, shutdo...

Forevermore or at least breaking precedent, he will only need 51 votes, as opposed to 60 because, as you know, the democrats filibustered and blocked his nomination. arent you guys cutting off your noses to spite your face? because youre standing on principal here because of what happened with merrick garland, but then going forward the next judge might be even less appealing to you than judge gorsuch and then you are going to lose this again when only 51 republicans are needed to install that p...

Headquarters i am robert gray. a bipartisan budget deal may prevent another government shut down. senators talked about the proposal today in a rare sunday session. the bill the result of negotiations between senator patty murray and republican congressman paul ryan who passed the house last week. harry reid scheduled a closure vote on the budget for tuesday. hollywood icon peter otoole has died. the irish actor passed away at a london hospital yesterday after a long illness. he shot to fame in ...