well, it is the top of the hour at cnn newsroom. 15 days now until election day and candidates are out battling for every ballot. in the florida governor s race, democrat charlie crist hopes tonight s debate will help shift the momentum as he tries to unseat ron desantis. in pennsylvania, there s a debate tomorrow in the much tighter senate race there. polls show the democrat john fetterman has a small lead over his republican rival, mehmet oz. nearly 7.3 million americans have already cast a ballot in 39 states with the early vote turnout in the battleground, georgia breaking records. cnn has just released new poll averages showing just how tight the race for senate is in critical swing states of pennsylvania and wisconsin. president biden just made another pitch to voters coming up on november 8th. that s the midterm election day. he just spoke at democratic party headquarters in d.c. to make his closing argument. cnn s senior white house correspondent phil mattin
Foreign aid page passed on a bipartisan basis despite threats to tank it from republican isolationists. Take a listen. I hope our republican colleagues stand together. Im a child of the 80s, regan republic. I understand maintaining peace through strength. That is a guiding principle. A big part of our party and worldview. Here is an opportunity to make that stand at a critical time in world history. With that bipartisan win, johnson was effective liable to silence those same far right members threatening to move him from the speakership. Speaker johnson yesterday addressed a group of protesters at Columbia University who hack lettered him as he attempted to speak to the press. Take a listen. A Growing Number of students have chanted in support of terrorists. They have suchased down jewish students. They have mocked them and reviled them. They have screamed leat those w bear the star of david. Enjoy your free speech. We will do idwhat is right by america. We respect free speech. We resp
You are watching velshi on msnbc. It is sunday, october 1st. I am Charles Coleman junior, filling in for my friend and colleague, ali velshi. And weve got a lot to talk about. In a surprising turn of events, the federal government will remain open, after Congress Managed to passed a lastminute stopgap measure late last night. Less than just three hours before funding is set to run out, the Senate Overwhelmingly voted in favor of a shorter funding bill that was rushed to the house floor by speaker Kevin Mccarthy earlier in the day. Then, shortly before midnight last night, President Biden signed a Bill Into Law and in a statement, he called the whole episode, quote, a manufactured crisis. Now, this lastminute agreement will keep the government funded, and existing Spending Levels until friday, November 17th. And it authorizes additional money to be set aside for Disaster Relief. However, what it does not do is include funding for ukraine aid. This was a key Sticking Point for democrats.
i m feeling as parent at some degree. enjoy it. celebrate. have a merry christmas. i don t want to be the grinch but stay on budget. steve: indeed. in fact i was down in dallas, saw my grandson arthur last week. i took him a toy. do you know what he played with? the box. the box it come in. the book is called i m glad for what i have. you know what i have? i have two more hours of fox & friends starting right now. be. lawrence: we begin this hour with a busy day ahead for the biden family at home and abroad. the president is supposed to meet with families of the american hostages taken by hamas, ainsley. ainsley: but on capitol hill, the house is expected to vote in favor of formalizing the impeachment inquiry into biden and his family s business deals and republicans threaten to hold hunter in contempt if he doesn t show up for the house deposition in just a few hours at 9:30. brian. brian: this all comes after president biden s sit down with ukraine s president
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