In his car. There was so much rain a sea lion at the Central Park Zoo managed to escape her pool when it flooded. The zoo says that she roamed around for a bit but she was eventually returned safely to her exhibit tonight. Thank you for joining me on this friday night. Cnn primetime with abby phillip starts right now. This is americas debt. More than 33 trillion. And the first time that clock has reached that grim milestone. That is more than a quarter Million Dollars per taxpayer. Tax cuts, stimulus programs, defense spending, pandemic unemployment, all of them to blame. And any fair person would agree that that is unsustainable. So the republican mission to lower that number makes some sense. The problem is their method of drawing attention to it is about to shut the American Economy down. The government down. And negatively impact americans who dont have the time or frankly the money for the poison of todays politics. Good evening. Im abby phillip. And in just 24 hours the clock will run out. Hardliners in the congress are demanding drastic cuts to spending. They dont want to spend another time on ukraine. They want to spend it on the border instead, they say. Its a fair debate, but here is what is at stake here. On Saturday Night if there is a shutdown while all of this plays out it is a reminder of the reallife consequences of what happens if there is no deal. Your flights will be delayed. Thousands of Airport Workers will go without pay. More than 1 million activeduty troops wont get paid. Border agents wont get paid either. The white house says that the u. S. Is left vulnerable. If pentagon workers are furloughed, Small Businesses wont get new loans, food inspections, they wont happen either. Museums and national parks, forests, all of that closed. Student loans will be disrupted. And so is the money that goes to school districts. Children wont have access to headstart programs, food stamps may be disrupted. And all of that depends on the shutdowns length. Food banks wont be able to place new orders. Major Research Programs involving everything from cancer to the environment will pause. Thats a lot. And its a lot to discuss with our next guest, republican Congressman Cory Mills of florida, who is in the thick of it right now over on capitol hill. First of all, congressman, thank you for being here, but can you give us a sense now, 24 hours almost away from the shutdown, whats the path out of this to avoid a shutdown . What are you hearing from your leadership about what we might see in the next 24 hours . Well, first let me just go ahead and comment on some of the items you were talking about. Social security payment does not stop. Medicare medicaid does not stop. Va benefits do not stop. Post offices do not stop. Our militarys paid on the 30th which means we do have time to get our 12 Appropriations Bills across within the actual specified timeline. There are actual things that are being moved. And im flabbergasted that were continuing to try and talk about what we need to do to try and cut our way to prosperity when the reality is that we need to come up with an actual Economic Growth strategy that gets our gdp to National Debt ratio under control. Look, simple math. We have to spend less and make more. And we dont have a plan for that. And our 33 trillion has been driven not under just democrat and republican but both alike as leadership. So its killing our middle class. And thats why we have to get a grip on it. Yeah, i think a lot of people would certainly agree with that. The issue is the timing. I think you would agree, were just at the brink here. Can i just ask you about some of the scenarios . My understanding is some of these were things that were laid out in the Conference Meeting this afternoon by the speaker. Some of them are other things our reporters are picking up. Would you be in favor of a clean senate bill that does not fund ukraine . Yes or no . The bottom line is i wouldnt be responsible to make a decision and say i am would you vote for it . I would not vote for a clean what about but i also want to say if were talking about timeline, though, why dont we talk about the fact that joe biden for six months wouldnt even have a Debt Ceiling Discussion . Why arent we talking about that . That pushed the time scale to the right automatically. Thats fair. I just wanted to when f. R. A. Came about the fiscal responsibility act that didnt happen until june, july. That could have happened a lot earlier if joe biden and everything r Everyone Else was willing to come to the table but congressman, there was a deal made and now this is an effort by some republicans to change the deal. So lets put that to the side for just a second because i do want to just get to some of the scenarios just so people understand where you stand. What about a continuing resolution thats a shortterm bill that would fund the government through november 17th, maybe include disaster aid but no aid for ukraine no, aid for the border . Yes or no . Is that something you can support . Im not on board for any c. R. But i am open to listening certain negotiations on a funding what about just a twoweek proposal that just literally gives you more time to do what youre asking for, which is to come up with a more robust plan for Government Spending . But lets face the fact. We have four Appropriation Bills that just passed off the floor. The Senate Passes those Appropriation Bills alone, that funds 70 of our overall government. Why are we not putting the pressure on the senate to pass the four Appropriation Bills . And by the way, theyve had no con v. A. For months now. Theyre also not doing their job while were doing ours to fulfill the i think the issue here is obviously you would agree time. Theres just not the time. I mean, your conference this week has spent a lot of time trying to get these bills through. Some of them have been successful. Some have not. So its not as if you all have been just hammering them out. Youve been struggling on this. I think the issue is why not just have a little bit more time to hammer out some of the details . That you want to hammer out that i think you would agree is not something you can just snap your fingers and do overnight. If you look at what weve done just in the last 72 hours. Im a brand new freshman to congress but i will say this. Congress is very unique. You can either do three days worth of work in three months or three months worth of work in three days. Weve proven over just the last 72 hours that were able to pass multiple Appropriation Bills with only two more remaining in committee and rules that need to come out. So i do believe if you look at our military as an example who got paid on the 30th and the 1st, their next paycheck comes up on the 15th. I think within that time frame you should have enough. But even if not we pass aid d. O. D. Appropriations bill. We passed no con v. A. , we passed our state and foreign ops. We can support our embassies or military theres still a lot more to do. Can i get you to respond to what your colleague dan crenshaw said earlier today . Just take a listen. It shows people that when you dont play as a team and you dont make your demands clear ahead of time like we wanted to do with the border youre just going to lose. And so they made us lose. Its like they wanted us to lose. Hes essentially saying that at the end of the day all of this sort of this effort that you and your colleagues are making to stop some of these c. R. S will result in a more liberal bill at the end of the day. Well, look, i respect my colleagues. Ive never been kind of one of those to say anything negative. But i can tell you right now we passed an actual Border Policy Bill Called H R2 secure the border act that had everything we need to include everify and the senate has refused to take that bill up. I look at the actual facts here. Weve passed in the last six months weve passed hr1 to get a low cost energy act. We passed h r2 secure the border act hr5 parental bill of rights. Hr21 to stop the president from selling our Petroleum Reserves and limit save grow which even the president himself said he would not actually get to include the d. C. Crime bill he threatened to veto. We have done more in the actual house than the senate has been willing to do. What the senates been trying to do is jam us by trying not to do their jobs. Its two chambers. You both have to work together. I want to ask you about one last thing. And i just want to remind our audience, you are a veteran. So i want to play this for you. This is from the departing joint chiefs chairman, mark milley, speaking today. Listen. We dont take an oath to a country. We dont take an oath to a tribe. We dont take an oath to a religion. We dont take an oath to a king or a queen or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we dont take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We dont take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the constitution. A lot of people interpreted that as a swipe at former president donald trump, who i should note suggested that he should be executed recently. Well, i didnt take that as a direct swipe at the president or the former president. Look, its absolutely a fact. When i served in the military, we serve our nation and we serve to protect and basically defend our constitution of the United States. We dont serve political agendas. I sit on the Armed Services committee. I sit on the Foreign Affairs committee. One of the things i looked at was to bring back meritocracy, stop d. E. I. And all the other things that was watering down and diluting our recruitment strategies. But i can tell you right now what our Men And Women In Uniform who i respect more than anything need to be doing is serving our nation, not serving a political agenda. Did trump cross the line with that attack against milley . I dont think that i speak on behalf of the president but i can tell you right now as a former military Service Member yourself. Well, i didnt take offense to it personally, no. When trump said he should be executed, you didnt take offense to that . Well, ive heard a lot of things going back and forth. Youre talking about the same Guy Mark Milley who said that we should be reading more on white rage than we should at military defense. They continue to have their back and forth and i disagree ive got to say theres a big difference my colleagues make comments at democrats, i hate that democrats make comments we dont need any of this back and forth because all it does is sow division. I think at the end of the day dajts rhetoric by anyone who is in office or out of office how is it dangerous rhetoric for mark milley to make a statement that maybe you disagree with it, but its about Policy Versus Trump saying he thinks he should have been executed. But you also had mark milley whos made thats not the same thing. Comments toward the president. What has he said about trump that has suggested that trump even close to that . He made a few comments saying if i would have known the president was going to go across the street and hold up the bible i never would have walked beside him. How is that close to well, no, its not necessarily that im trying to make a one for one extension. What im trying to explain is a lot of them have taken shots at each other for personal reasons. The same thing we see within our conference or within the house as well. But at the end of the day all it does is sow division and our job should be as elected representatives or anyone who serves in government is to be able to bring our nation together congressman, with all due respect, i think you would agree that mark milley Making Statements that you disagree with on a policy level i dont think anyone should make any comments about executing him even saying i shouldnt have done something that i did. Its not the same thing as trump saying the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the top Military Officer well, i certainly wouldnt have made that comment. Let me put it that way. Cant you just say its across the line . I dont understand why its hard to say. Well, its not hard to say. I actually dont know the full context. I didnt know this is the first time hearing it myself. My whole thing is i dont think you should wish violence on anyone for any reason. Thats just my stance on everything. I would have to look at context of what he said it in or what the actual background was. But the bottom line is i think youre seeing where everyones taking shots. Everyones frustrated. Everyones furious about whats happening in the government. Everyones unhappy about cost of living. Everyones unhappy about whats going on across the country. So its sowing a lot of frustration and division and its something we have to address. I think that one of the things that i hope that you go and read what the former president said i havent, actually but there is a difference between disagreement no doubt. Right . And threats. And i think thats what this is really about at the end of the day. I also hear a lot of democrat threats as well where they say we should protest and get in the fas of those who are there. We should basically if you condemn that it should be an easy call. Congressman cory mills, thank you. Thank you. We do have breaking news tonight. Special counsel jack smith is now asking a judge in Donald TrumpsElection Interference case to impose a limited gag order on the form err why president. The prosecutors are citing a Truth Social Post by trump that publicly attacked milley, who is a witness in the case. And tonight on camera trump did the same thing. What he did is really treasonous. If you look at what he said to china, hes either stupid or its treason. But what he said to china should never be allowed. That can never be allowed in our country did you suggest general milley, who i know, is a lazy guy. Billions and billions of dollars worth of equipment to the taliban. General milleys a lazy guy whos not very smart. Lets discuss this with lawyer mark childress. He serves as investigative counsel for the january 6th committee. Marcus, youre seeing here the special counsel moving very quickly to take some of this stuff and use it as evidence to push the judge for a limited gag order. How successful do you think theyll end up being . I think what the special counsels trying to do is trying to stop what happened on jan 6th. Right . The former president was making comments about Vice President pence at the time and then it led to rioters saying hang mike pence on the steps of the capitol inside the capitol. You no you see the special counsel taking recent statements from the former president , putting it in his reply brief and letting the court know we dont want to see rioters or people coming to the courthouse threatening our witnesses. And by the way, mark milley is a witness. Yep. This is incredibly pertinent. Its incredibly pertinent. And that was one of the more effective parts of this filing. The special v special counsel took these statements that have been made since the last motion a couple weeks ago about current witnesses such as Vice President pence and general mark milley and said the court has a chance to come in here and try to stop a harm from happening or even bias the jury pool from having certain opinions about these witnesses that are going to be called during the trial. One of the other developments today in the Georgia Election be interference case is that one of the defendants, scott hall, took a plea deal and hes cooperating now with witnesses. He is a critical figure in a lot of this. He helped someone like Sidney Powell get access to those voter machines. The prosecutors actually allege that he held a lengthy phone call with another of the defendants in this case. What do you think is the significance of all of this . And does it suggest that early on in this process we could see a lot more of this . I think weve all been waiting to see whos going to flip first, whos going to cooperate, and everyones been thinking someones going to do it. And now were seeing this start to happen. This is incredibly fast. This indictment was filed on august 14th. Thats six weeks ago. Within six weeks we now have an individual whos now cooperating. I think it should be noted that his charges were reduced down to a misdemeanor. Hes only going to be serving probation. Hes going to be cooperating. That looks good if youre one of the other defendants also flipping does that tell us anything about how much cooperation they think they can get from him, that they really reduced any penalties for him . I think you can look at it that way but also its how these prosecutions go. When i was prosecuting cases if someone was going to cooperate and help me early on in the investigation youre probably going to get better terms because you want people who have been charged to come back and testify against others. I think what makes it special about scott hall is is this is a rico enterprise and someones at the top and someones at the bopt giving orders. I kind of put him more at the bottom taking orders. You no you have someone at the bottom who might be testifying about what he was told from middlemen or people at the top and i think you have to be a little scared if youre at the top of that chain as you move toward trial. Yeah, things moving really quickly. Marcus childress, thank you so much again for joining us. And tonight, parts of New York City are underwater. And its mayor is facing some bigtime criticism. Plus, one of the rumors candidates to fill the late Dianne