these hearings. the select committee investigating the capitol riot hold its next public hearing tuesday at 1 pm eastern. it will focus on former president trump s efforts to push key officials in several states to change their 2020 election results. georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gave are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigati
georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gabriel sterling are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigation was over. on wednesday, doj ramped up the pressure with a letter warning that the delay was holding up criminal cases tied to the insurrection. the committee spent the past week tying trump and his team s actions to that very attack. on m
Live from cnn center, this is newsroom with Michael Holmes. And welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im Michael Holmes at the cnn center in atlanta. Appreciate your company. Now with just hours to spare, the u. S. Senate late on saturday averted a Government Shutdown by a vote of 889. Senators passed a house bill that will keep money flowing for another 45 days. The white house sent out a photograph. You see it there of President Biden signing the shortterm measure into law shortly before the midnight deadline. Now, the deal came together with surprising speed in the end with u. S. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy abruptly changing course and asking democrats for help. The result was a resounding bipartisan passage of a shortterm bill. But many lawmakers on both sides are very unhappy that the final bill did not contain additional u. S. Aid to ukraine especially at such a critical moment in the war. Still, Senate Leaders were relieved to have brought t
Borrowied on this property on the banks of the Potomac River just south of washington, d. C. This is said to be the most visited historic estate in the country. Im here to speak about my new book to rescue the constitution George Washington and the fragile american experiment out october 10th. Its really the story of how washington was the Human Embodiment of the document that guarantees our liberty. The u. S. Constitution. I will also moderate an annual event called the founding debates. More on that a little later. But, first, we begin back in washington, about 20 miles from here with a constitutional showdown. Lawmakers on capitol hill are rapidly approaching the deadline to fund the federal government to try to avoid a partial shutdown. The Biden Administration and Congressional Democrats are ready to put 100 percent of the blame for any shutdown on republicans. Particularly House Republicans. Correspondent Mark Meredith starts us off tonight live from the north lawn with that part
khan younis immediately. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 15,500 people have now been killed there since the start of the conflict between israel and hamas, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the uk government. this is the scene live outside al nasser hospital in khan younis an area that has been under frequent assault. the scenes both inside and ouside the hospital are traumatic. these pictures were shot today. children are among those being driven to the hospital carried inside by family and friends. for many, the journey to hospital was too late. a senior adviser to the israeli prime minister has insisted israel is doing all it can to minimise the number of civilian deaths in gaza, after the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, said israel had a moral responsiblity to minimise casualties not linked to hamas. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams has this report, and a warning it contains images some viewers may find distressing. in gaza s