This hour, we continue cnns special live coverage of a historic vote on capitol hill. A moment, the House Of Representatives will hold a key vote on a motion to oust Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. A motion being brought by one of his fellow republicans. At the beginning of the day, we knew there were five republicans who would vote to oust him. Now, we know there are six. And were learning that mccarthys republican allies are attempting to make a lastminute plea to the 212 House Democrats there, to try to join them, to save him. But House Democrats appear to be united in not wanting to rescue mccarthy. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries just sent what is known as a Dear Colleague letter to his fellow democrats. Saying its the responsibility of the gop to end their own House Republican civil war. Lets go right to capitol hill now where we find cnns manu raju and cnns melanie zanona. Manu, to you first, what are you hearing from republicans as this vote gets closer and closer . Reporter well,
dana: i mean, sometimes what is it? when you accidentally tell the truth? this also reminds me of the politics of the government shutdown. when you learn from history, and the public in a big deficit in popularity after impeaching president clinton, impeachment actually strengthened president clinton, and you re just seeing it repeated and it s the same thing with the shutdown. the shutdown doesn t help anybody. the schumer shutdown, the democrats thought this is going to hurt president trump and it didn t? do you know why this is a repeat? record stock market today. wages going fast, which is growing even quicker. greg: by the way, it wasn t the right wing media, juan, pushing the dossier. use the entire media, academic
dana: i mean, sometimes what is it? when you accidentally tell the truth? this also reminds me of the politics of the government shutdown. when you learn from history, and the public in a big deficit in popularity after impeaching president clinton, impeachment actually strengthened president clinton, and you re just seeing it repeated and it s the same thing with the shutdown. the shutdown doesn t help anybody. the schumer shutdown, the democrats thought this is going to hurt president trump and it didn t? do you know why this is a repeat? record stock market today. wages going fast, which is growing even quicker. greg: by the way, it wasn t the right wing media, juan, pushing the dossier. use the entire media, academic
that $5.7 billion, but is he indicating that he s willing to budge on that? yes. yes? how? absolutely. i think so. so when you saw mick mulvaney, who is the acting chief of staff, as well as north carolina congressman mark meadows, who is the chairman of the freedom caucus, very conservative wing of the republican party, both have said today on the sunday shows he s going to get his money one way or the other. i feel like that or the other was that wiggle room. i don t know if we know what that is, but it tells us that the potential for a shutdown doesn t happen, and that there s other ways that the president is exploring to get what he wants. so carmen, democrats have said, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer has said there is no
alarm warning that the entire system will break if the shutdown doesn t end and end soon. here is the president of air traffic controllers association. listen to this. in my work environment where i am seeing routine mistakes are happening because they are thinking about which credit cards can i consolidate for zero percent interest? which company is helping you out so you can skip your mortgage? these conversations are having in the work environment because the stress is getting very high. so you have that. let s go to capitol hill. house speaker nancy pelosi speaking right now. good morning. thank you all for being here. as you know last night the president accepted the fact that the state of the union should be