The lobby talking and getting in an elevator together. Police say they dont think they knew each other. Thats us for us. The news continue. See you tomorrow. The source continues with Kaitlan Collins. Tonight straight from the source, President Biden rebuking republicans for their Quote Silence on threat to democracy calling his predecessor by name. We will be joined tonight by cindy and jack mccain, the wife and the son of the late republican senator john mccain. Plus the first biden Impeachment Inquiry Hearing not off to a great start exactly. One republican aide saying calling it an unmitigated disaster, and every single republican witness agreed with democrats. All with nearly 48 hours left before the government is set to shut down and ran out of funding, millions of american stop standing stop getting their paychecks, including members of the u. S. Military. Im Kaitlan Collins and this is the source. We are live from capitol hill tonight. The citadel of our democracy where democracy is not exactly working as it should be. The government is on the brink of shutting down tonight with House Republicans voting in this hour on some of these standalone spending bills. The even if they can get these votes passed tonight and that is very much an open question as we are speaking right now, that alone would not prevent a Government Shutdown. A shutdown of course is not just a formality or something procedural but it would actually create a lot of pain for a lot of regular americans. Tonight, House Republicans are essentially at war with one another, not just over funding the government though. Even with no agreement insight on funding, the government House Republicans held their first hearing in the Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden today. But it did not quite go as they expected or planned for it to go at least, as the hearing was deemed even by republican colleagues and unmitigated disaster many because of things like this. We are going to present evidence. What evidence . Theres no evidence. Just sit back and let the American People see the hearing. Are you presenting any firsthand witness account of crimes committed by the president of the United States . No im not. I have not. I have not. I do not believe that the Current Evidence would support articles of impeachment. Im not here to even suggest that there was corruption, fraud or any wrongdoing. This is an embarrassment. Democrats like congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez are not the only ones who felt that way. Some inside the Republican Party here on capitol hill also voiced their frustration to cnn in realtime saying that it was quote mindblowing for republicans to pick witnesses and several of those witnesses there were republicans witnesses for their own case. One senior republican aide as i noted colored an unmitigated disaster. Of course the target of that hearing, President Biden was laying out the stakes that he sees for democracy, focusing on his predecessors grip on the Republican Party and warning that he believes democracies can die in silence. The Republican Party is driven and intimidated by maga republicans extremists there. Want to burn the place down to do the peoples business. Here is what you hear from maga extremists about to retired general and his quote to the constitution. Quote hes a traitor and quote. Quote in bygone times the punishment would be death. And all, i dont even believe a majority of republicans believe that. The silence is deafening. We will have more on that speech in just a moment but for the Impeachment Inquiry that we saw earlier, i want to get straight to the source of a Ranking Member on the House Oversight member jamie raskin. Congressman thank you for being here. We saw you sitting next to the chairman james comer. Do you think anything was accomplished in that room today . I think it demonstrated that to the whole country that there really is no evidence at all supporting the idea Of ImpeachingPresident Biden. They cant even really name what the purported high crime and misdemeanor is. They dont even havent a low crime and misdemeanor, they have no crime. Today for the very first impeachment hearing, they had no fact witnesses, they had no eyewitnesses. A put on several experts who agreed with us that theres not remotely sufficient evidence to justify an impeachment. And so, we saw a meltdown on the republican side of the aisle where the republican members were fleeing the Committee Room in droves, embarrassed in humiliated by what was going on. But of course the democrats were there, because we would like to put an end to this nonsense right now and get back to the work of america. The government is about to shut down in two days because of the chaos of this clown show. Im quoting republicans now, on republicans. Because they cant develop any focus on what they want to do. And so you have a small, extremists maga faction, maybe 15 or 20 or 25 members which is eccentrically driving the train. And Kevin Mccarthy has continually cater to them and appease them and we are all paying the bitter price of that. Right now they are about to shut down the government of the United States, although the senate republicans, the senate democrats, the House Democrats and the president of the United States are all united. We need a clean, continuing resolution to get through this along with disaster aid and aid to the people of Ukraine Fighting Russian Imperialist violence against their society. But it is pro trump, pro putin maga wing of the republicans which is having their way over Kevin Mccarthy. And so far, he is not being willing to stand up to him them, and a government of the United States might shut down. This is something that no Enemy Government is meaningful to do to us in america and maga is about to do it to us right now. Seems like we are on the verge of that. Even if republicans to get their bills passed tonight. But on that hearing tonight, senator calmer on subpoena power, says they will be subpoenaing hunter biden and his brother james biden. To think hes ultimately going to take the step to subpoena the president here . I dont know. This is been going on for nine months. We have had 12,000 pages of bank records, 2000 suspicious activity reports. Weve had tons of witnesses come in and testifying. All of them say and all of the evidence shows that joe biden wasnt involved in any of this stuff. So whatever you think about hunter biden and what he was up to, leave that to the Special Counsel who has been appointed, who was the u. S. Attorney in delaware who was Donald Trumps appointment as u. S. Attorney. Hes already charged hunter biden with several gun offenses and its clear that the system of justice and the rule of law is working for him. Why is that to try and bring down the president of the United States whos been in public life for 50 years and has no convictions and no indictments and their leader whos calling the shots over there now has 91 criminal charges outstanding all over the country on everything from trying to overthrow a president ial election to stealing government documents to Obstructing Justice and so on. I dont even want to get into his civil litigation where hes been deemed to be an abuser of business and so. And thats another trial well see in new york later. But from what you heard today in republican witnesses there today, they say they dont believe theres evidence there to impeach President Biden, to ultimately think that House Republicans will move forward with Impeachment Articles even if nothing new emerges . You really see them turning back from an Impeachment Inquiry . I dont see them moving forward right now because youve got Something Like 15 or 20 republicans at least who are not going along with it. Now, can block for example is a member of the freedom caucus, the former chief of the Criminal Division of the u. S. Attorneys office in colorado, hes a smart lawyer. He says there is nothing there, this is ludicrous. He says its ridiculous for them to proceed, and i feel very good about him and some other members who are saying you dont impeach someone over nothing. We understand why donald trump wants to trivialize the meaning of impeachment and confuse everybody about what it is, but theres no reason why anybody should do it. Its an extraordinary remedy that is the peoples last line of selfdefense against a president who acts like a king and abuses the public trust. Do you think to be more impeachment hearings after what we saw today . I kind of doubted after what we saw today at least itll be awhile. Or at least second guess it . I know there was a lot of consternation and alarm on the republican side to see how weak use heard that from republicans . Directly on the floor. Like what . Several republicans were saying to me that the right wing is now saying Kevin Mccarthy actually set it up to be a failure because he didnt want to proceed with impeachment. They couldnt believe that such a disaster would happen by accident. I think that attributes a lot more to no i dont. But it is now taken for granted over their that their Impeachment Inquiry is going nowhere and that they dont have any evidence after nine months of this. One thing that they havent have said, chairman comer, they have deemed the work of the Impeachment Team these committees to be essential. So if there is a Government Shutdown saturday night, they will continue with with this work. Do you think thats appropriate . I cant think of anything less essential than the sham impeachment that they are running against to President Biden just, because donald trump sent us some social Media Communications saying they impeached me so weve got to impeach donald President Biden. Thats not the constitutional status whether you are mad at the other team, The Constitutional Standard Weathers treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. I havent assembled one iota or morsel of evidence suggesting that joe biden as committed an impeachable offense. You bring up Speaker Mccarthy. Obviously theyre trying to fund the government, one thing is his job here the speaker. There could be motion to vacate remove him from his role. If that comes to a vote, how will you vote . Gee i havent even thought about that. Of course i use the tip wheel rule, which i dont vote for anybody unless they ask me to vote for them and so i havent heard from Kevin Mccarthy about. In any event we, are together with Kevin Mccarthy if he would abide by the agreement that we made back in may. We foresaw that the extreme maga republicans would try to shut down the government and we set up an actual Budget Agreement and now Kevin Mccarthy stepped away from it because the maga republicans are threatening to vacate the chair which means overthrow the speaker of the house. So i think that he can get it together to organize his caucus. If not weve got a great leader in Hakeem Jeffries and weve been making great Progress For America with the infrastructure act, the inflation reduction act, democrats ready to lead. But is there a chance he would potentially vote for Speaker Mccarthy if his job is on the line . Whatever occurred need to vote for Kevin Mccarthy multi. This ive heard some conversations among my democratic colleagues who come from states where there are cross Party Coalitions to form to try to isolate the extreme right. And that happens in the say they share 50 of the committees go to republicans, 50 of the committees go to democrats, they alternate weeks in which theres a democratic speaker, republican speaker. So i suppose anything is possible in the land of hypotheticals which is certainly where we live in the Oversight Committee with the whole Impeachment Process is based on hypotheticals. But look, the real point is what are we going to do to continue to make Progress For America. The first thing we gotta do is keep the government open. Thats massive payment hardship they are threatening for millions of people, with the program, and the snap program, federal workers across the country. Ill mark it out as it may be that for that. Congressman jamie raskin. I dont even know what i said maybe too but i want to Progress For America. Actively joining us here on capitol hill. Coming up, President Biden is warning us that democracy in general. Hes invoking the late republican senator john mccain to make a statement today. I spoke to his wife sandy and son jack on the state of American Politics as it is tonight. Plus a surprise move by Donald Trumps legal team just in the state of georgia. Thats next. Within a matter of minutes, the house is scheduled to vote in an attempt to find some way to keep the government open and funded past saturday midnight. Lawmakers have been scrambling to find a path out of this problem that they are making roughly 4 million americans are trying to wonder how long they can go without a paycheck. Theyre facing basic questions in how they can potentially pay rent, or credit card debt, or what bills they can skip if that happens. A shutdown means that if you are about to buy a home, get a more getting a mortgage is going to get tougher. If you have travel plans, it could be longer Security Lines and more delays at the airport. And of the 33 million businesses in this country, 93 of them say that a will cost them more money. As we speak though, there still Big Questions on whether this latest plan what is happening can even passed the house. Branches on that for answers on that hopefully im joined by republican congressman Brian Fitzpatrick. Thank you for joining us. One of these Appropriations Bills or republicans are voting on, are they gonna pass . Some might. Its really hard to predict whats going on with the flow these days. Sometimes rules are taken down the, vote count hasnt got really gone as expected. I think at least one, 82, maybe three, definitely not four, they acted a probations bills not gonna pass. Way too many problems with it. A lot of people are approaching the same way we proceed with the debt ceiling negotiations. No one was coming out of house is never gonna become law. But its necessarily make it mechanism to get to people to sit down, it was certainly the case with the debt ceiling. And the outcome is good. Speaker mccarthy, President Biden sat down, he came up with a two Party Solution, got signed into law on americas better for it. As shouldnt be judged as a final product, but we are coming close to the deadline. Is there an overall plan, i think thats what people are curious about . I have a plan. The bipartisan plan as you know, we work outside of the conflict. Are we believe in two Party Solutions and what we do with the debt ceiling, and infrastructure, like we did with the chips act, we work in the background of proper remedy, if things collapse at the lastminute amongst talks with the other four quarters as they call them. Republican, democrat leaders in the senate, and we step forward with our solution. That was certainly the case with infrastructure. We provided the votes to get that across the finish line. We also drafted it. Last friday we introduced a way to keep the government open, a two Party Solution. Nobody got everything they wanted, thats how government operates. But this plan, a short term plan that Speaker Mccarthy says will be put on the floor for a vote tomorrow. Even though its not cloy or there are the votes to pass, it seems there are not, why vote on if they know its not gonna pass . Well i think they least are g