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Houses of congress. the next time we vote will be on the agreement, and not another test vote. so with that, i yield back. >> mr. president? >> the senator from tennessee. >> mr. president, the senator from delaware, senator be recognized. >> is there an objection? >> i want to thank senator corker, senator flake, senator mcconnell and schumer for their discussions. the vice president, i thank him for his presence here today. in my own view, govern and shut downs are be a part of budget negotiat...

Troupely qualified experts to deal with whats going on in its a busy day in america tonight. im going to go to this panel in washington and were now under six hours away from what will be one moment. i grant 60 seconds of the latest a government shutdown unless live reporting to man who has theres intervention. been very busy, my colleague and how did we get here? a key part of this story we want friend, garrett. you to understand is that donald the latest? >> reporter: what we know right trum...

We begin tonight with breaking news. what amounts to total and complete dysfunction on capitol hill. call it peak trump era with the presidents political weakness now on full display. at this hour, we are barreling toward a shutdown. with the president in a tail spin according to a person close to him about how he got here. facing intense pressure from the hard right base, the president told house leaders that he will not back a must pass government funding deal he once was in favor of because i...

The problem with that statement is that we know that the senate is not going to accept that. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi have been very clear and they need democratic votes in the senate. so if the house goes forward with this plan and were just sort of seeing the contours of it start to evolve, the thinking is that theyre going to take what the senate passed late last night, theyre going to add $5 billion for the border wall, add some additional money as well for disaster assistance. now, wh...

The course of today, its just not really the way im sure that the speaker wants to go out. >> kasie, let me ask you this. one thing we always say about nancy pelosi is she knows how to count votes. she knows that there isnt going to be a democrat whos going to vote for $5 billion in border wall funding. does paul ryan and kevin mccarthy, do they know the same things about republicans about as to whether or not something goes to a vote, you mentioned the test vote, do they know how this would go?...

Least in terms of sentiment and u.s. support to the murder of jamal khashoggi, and first off cia director, gina haspel, wont be at the briefing. do you think she should be? >> yes, i do. i am disappointed she will not be there because i think the information that the cia has is important and should be shared with the entire senate. this is -- what you didnt mention is, this meeting is in a sense preparation for a very important vote later on today on a resolution to essentially with draw our mil...

Now there are only 51 senate republicans. one defection by flake makes it harder to get nominees out of committee and confirm them on the floor. a key test vote for flake comes as early as tomorrow with a procedural vote on president trumps nominee for the federal bench in eastern north carolina. judge thomas favre ruled on controversial voting laws earning him the ire of democrats including chuck schumer. >> i didnt know robert mueller needed protection. i do know the southern end our country m...

Dont want nancy pelosi, who do ago. six weeks later, theres this they want, and is this letter big document dump. just about pressure? >> reporter: certainly a lot roger stone is releasing this about pressure at this moment and that vote, as you mentioned, because he said credico was his coming up on the 28th. thats essentially a test vote back channel and he was relying where we see what standing nancy on public information when he was sending out these tweets, please has. and randy credico sai...

Will really boil down to is whether some of those moderate republican senators believe that the fbi was able to conduct a fair and comprehensive investigation. i think there will be also an open-ended question as to whether the senators as well as the american public will learn more about the process, and more specifically what were the parameters for this investigation and what, if any, constraints were placed on the bureau by the white house as they carried out this investigation into judge ka...

Constraints were placed on the bureau by the white house as they carried out this investigation into judge kavanaugh and allegations against him. >> so, bob costa, mitch mcconnell is going to have what is, in effect, a test vote. if it fails or goes south, do they pull this nominee? >> at this point theyre full steam ahead with this cloture vote. they want to move it to that final vote. the cloture vote fails, it really becomes almost impossible for the nominee to go forward because if youre not...