yesterday afternoon, this man, the speaker, mike johnson, unveiled his plan to fund the government s, which involves a novel and untested approach called a laontiing resolution, or see our. under this plan, funding for some service agencies, such as military a veterans programs, and the department of transportation and urban development, among, others will be extended a current levels until the first ne, ich is january 19th. meanwhile, funding will be extended until february the 2nd, a couple weeks later, for the rest of the government, including the department of state, just, as health and, human services. it ll be a clean bill. no other provisions will be attached. meaning it will not include funding for ukraine, for israel, or border security. these are the three main sticking points with divisions in congress recently. it didn t take long for republicans to once again come out against their own parties proposal. just minutes after johnson announced the latter rcr, at leas
and chief policy adviser for mitt romney s 2012 presidential campaign. thank you to much forjoining us on our show tonight. with donald trump not taking part in this debate, who will the candidates focus on as they are trying to come up with a clear and decisive winner here? i think a and decisive winner here? i thinka number of and decisive winner here? i think a number of candidates have different goals. obviously for florida governor ron desantis his goal is to come out of this debate as the principal opponent of donald trump. he wants to put himself in a different category. he wants to demonstrate he is equipped both with respect to issues and with respect to his personal posture that he is the one to take on trump as the competition goes forward. for other candidates, it is a bit of a scrum. to stand out and introduce themselves and be potentially if the alternative if ron desantis falters. i put nikki haley and mike pence and
on wednesday night. the media presence and attention has been divided. i think it s going to deny a lot of these republican candidates, who are looking for a breakthrough moment, from the ability to have any sort of moment that happens on that stage to have legs beyond wednesday night and into thursday. because the attention of voters and the american public is going to shift towards what will be a historic moment with donald trump reporting to a georgia prison to be fingerprinted, have his mugshot taken, and all of the proceedings around that. this should have been a big moment for people like ron desantis, trying to recapture a lot of attention of the republican voters, but that isn t going to happen because of the way this is playing out. anthony in milwaukee, following the debate that will take place on wednesday night, thank you so much. for more on the debate, i spoke to lanhee chen, the director of policy studies at stanford university and chief policy adviser for mitt romney s
degree plus, and in miami, for the first time, well, they hit a heat index of 109 or higher for three straight days now. it is so hot that a hospital there has paused elective surgeries after an ac unit broke. one registered nurse tells the miami herald, quote, it s so hot you have to move patients or they risk dying. and this is what s left of one man s delaware home after two massive trees toppled over, smashing into the roof earlier this week. his message, you can t fight mother nature. it was so quick, so high pitched maybe soundi, so different that it was just hairs on the back of the neck and let s run to the basement. things come on quick, and that was absolutely we had seconds to react. i want to bring in nbc meteorologist michelle grossman. also with us is stuart stevens, chief strategist for mitt romney s 2012 presidential campaign and senior adviser to
unremarkable. he went to law school, worked for a court appeal after lawsuit, work for a law firm, headed the justice department environmental division for george w. bush administration, served as an adviser for mitt romney s 2012 presidential campaign, a prominent member of the federal society, the conservative legal group that stocks at the judicial branch with conservative judges. he was before working for donald j trump before 2020, quintessential republican washington lawyer, but jeffrey clark is also a key figure who wanted to take over the department of justice in 2020, and he wanted to throw the way at the doj behind trump s coup by sending letters to swing states who thought then that the election was not trustworthy, and that the state should send their own electors electing donald trump. when justice department officials, his bosses, would not bend to trump s will, trump