Im dana bash live in the nations capital. Heres the headline the United States government will not shut down, at least not for another 45 days. Right now, as you see on your screen, that is the United States senate. It is voting as we speak to keep the government open. This is happening just hours before the deadline. Senators are voting on a bill that passed the house earlier today. That bill not only continues the Government Spending levels, it includes disaster relief, but no money for ukraine, no additional money for ukraine, or Border Security. On the senate side, which is where we are right now, there was some lastminute drama. One senator held up a vote over concerns about the lack of Ukraine Funding in this bill, but Leaders Schumer and mcconnell struck a deal. They vowed not to give up on support for ukrainians in the war against russia. But theres also more drama. The fate of House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy is uncertain at this time as hardliners in his party are pushing for his ouster. And also in the house, Democrat Jamal Bowman may be in some trouble after he appeared to pull a fire alarm at the capitol. Were going to get into that in a moment. First, remember tonights deal it only avoid a shutdown in the immediate future. In mid november, its quite possible we could be here talking about the same things all over again. Lets get right to somebody who has not left the capitol for i dont know how long, many, many hours, many days, our own chief congressional correspondent, manu raju. At this point we saw the vote is open. Its been open on the senate floor for quite some time. Are senators at dinner . Are they flying back in . Are they coming back in . Whats going on . Reporter the beauty of the United States senate. These votes take a long time, as you know, dana. The vote by paper ballots, they just theyre checking off name by name. Chuck schumer, the majority leader, keeps these votes open for a very long time allowing senators to do just that have dinner, go to fundraisers, come back and vote. This vote is probably going to be called sometime soon. Maybe the next 20 minutes or so, maybe less, maybe a little bit longer. Well see. Theres no question about this they will have the votes to pass this bill, to keep the government open for 45 days after a chaotic scramble to avoid a Government Shutdown. Something that seemed almost certain was going to happen just this morning when Kevin Mccarthy, the speaker, went behind closed doors, they had talked about an indefinite shutdown, trying to figure out ways to limit the impacts of a shutdown. But they changed their approach. For the first time, mccarthy decided to rely on democratic votes to get this issue over the finish line, to extend current funding for 45 days, would not include any aid to ukraine sorry to interrupt you. Majority leader Chuck Schumer is speaking. Lets listen. There with no Government Shutdown. Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship, and were glad that Speaker Mccarthy has finally heeded our message. In the end, more democrats supported this bill in the house than republicans, proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. I want to i want to thank my colleagues here in the senate, especially our appropriators, yourself, Madam President , susan collins, and leader mcconnell. Our bipartisan work in the senate set the tone for the bill were about to pass. Our bipartisanship made this possible and showed the house that they had to act. We will keep the government open for 45 days with a clean cr at current funding levels, and we avoided all of the extreme nasty and harmful cuts maga republicans wanted. No 30 cuts across the board. No 30 cuts to things like health care, to the Social Security administration, to the Nutrition Programs for kids. Full reauthorization of the faa until december 31st. And the Poison Pill Amendments of which there were scores, magainspired riders were all removed from the bill. After trying to take our government hostage, maga republicans won nothing. So one more time it is good Speaker Mccarthy finally, finally heeded our message that bipartisanship was and is and remains the only way. He could have made this decision weeks ago. Now ive said from day one this is a bridge cr, a temporary solution, not the final destination. We will not stop fighting for more economic and Security Assistance for ukraine. Majorities in both parties support ukraine aid, and doing more is vital for americas security and for democracy around the world. But this cr is still very good news for the American People. Today maga extremists have failed, bipartisanship has prevailed, and both parties have come together to avert a shutdown. Once again, thank you to leader mcconnell, appropriations chair patty murray, vice chair susan collins, and members both sides of the aisle who came together. Todays cr would not have been possible without the senates good work. The senate showed that bipartisanship was the only way, and the same will be true again in 45 days. I yield the floor. I do not yet yield the floor. Okay. We were just listening to the Senate Majority leader, Chuck Schumer, doing Executive Session to consider calendar 319. Question is on the motion. All those in favor say aye. Ayes do have it. Motions agreed to. Nomination, department of state, james c. Obrien of nebraska to be manu, lets bring you back in. We just heard Chuck Schumer effectively talking at the end of the vote. We know that it passed, and theyre moving on to other things on the executive calendar. The substance of what he said was quite noteworthy because, yes, hes right, there was a big bipartisan vote, and there is bipartisan support for ukraine. The fact that he sort of twisted a little bit in mccarthy when what we saw earlier today was mccarthy doing something in a bipartisan way, i wonder how thats going to go over on the republican side, particularly in the house. Reporter yeah, look, hes schumers saying there that mccarthy, quote, got nothing. That is the message from the Senate Majority leader after mccarthy decided against moving forward with a proposal with spending cuts that he had tried to advance but was blocked by not just democrats but some of those conservative hardliners who wanted to have even deeper spend cuts. This proposal only extends current funding for the federal government for another 45 days. Now a little bit more this vote. This vote was approved by an overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis 889 was the total on this vote. There were nine votes against it. They were all republicans, Marsha Blackburn as well as mike braun, ted cruz, senator big haggerty, mike lee, roger marshall, rand paul, eric schmidt, and j. D. Vance were the nine republicans who voted against it. But you can see, an overwhelming majority here supporting it. But one of those big issues that the senator was talking about, too, is the issue of ukraine. That is going to be a huge fight in the fall about how to get that funding approved here because the one thing the speaker made clear, that was not going to get approved here, and he dropped it from this lastditch effort to keep the government open. But its one in which senators from both parties recognize that they will have to deal with. And also What Mccarthy will have to deal with potentially, a threat to his own speakership. You are hearing some threats from the right, matt gaetz in particular, the ringleader of this effort, saying if mccarthy did what he did today, rely on democratic votes to keep the government open, that would be enough to push him out of the speakership. We have not seen gaetz file any motion to try to force that vote just yet. And its uncertain if he has the support to push mccarthy out. But that is one of the issues that well be watching very closely in the next few days, whether there is enough support whether democrats will join with matt gaetz to push him out, or Whether Mccarthy Will will have to rely on democratic support. I asked mccarthy today if Mccarthy Would Need if he would need democrats to help him stay in the speakership. He did not answer that question directly, instead saying bring it on. He sure did. Thank you so much for that, manu. You very, very long day. Long week. I know youre going to be back here for Inside Politics sunday, tomorrow morning. Thank you so much for all your terrific reporting. Reporter thank you. And joining me now is democratic senator chris coons of delaware. Thank you so much for being here. I know youre not happy with the notion of congress not doing its job, constitutional job, which is to fund the government by october 1st. But im guessing youre happy enough that the government didnt shut down. Take me behind the scenes, if you will, the last several hours into what happened in the United States senate with the discussions about passing this bill to keep the government funded for 45 more days without additional aid to ukraine. Well, dana, im relieved that we are not heading home tonight having to explain a shutdown of the u. S. Government to our constituents, to our neighbors, to the men and women of our armed forces and of federal law enforcement. Our own employees in the senate who would have been forced to work without pay. Ive lived through several previous shutdowns, as have you, and they are not as glamorous or exciting as some might imagine. They are, in fact, embarrassing and tedious. They weaken us on The World Stage. They make our allies question whether were reliable. They harm our economy and Show Dysfunction in our political system. It was unexpected that Speaker Mccarthy would make such a quick aboutface today, embrace support from across the aisle, and move a cr that keeps our government open for the next 45 days. In the last few hours there were a lot of urgent conversations among senators, republicans and democrats, leadership, appropriators, and rank and file, to reassure each other that there is sustained and strong support for funding ukraine. There are other things that are also were not taking care of in this bill humanitarian relief funding. Im someone who chairs the relevant subcommittee and is very concerned about the dramatic growth in hunger around the world. Theres other unmet needs. We are going to have to turn to those in the coming 45 days and work out before the end of this calendar year how do we sustain funding for ukraine through the rest of the coming year, how do we sustain our leadership in the world and invest in the state department and in countering humanitarian challenges and how do we finish our appropriations process. Today we didnt shut down the government, but tomorrow we have to keep our commitment to sustain funding of ukraine, something President Biden has spoken strongly about, something that both Leader Schumer and leader mcconnell, chair murray, vice chair collins, senator graham, and i have all spoken to this evening in different settings to reassure our partners and allies that we will sustain our support for ukraine. You know, the ukraine issue is obviously one of the big ones right now. And senator Michael Bennett of colorado made public that he was very upset about moving quickly on this bill to continue funding the government without that additional ukraine money. I guess my first question is, how did you overcome that . What assurances did he and others get that what youre talking about, the bipartisan support to back ukraine financially and otherwise will continue . Well, ill let senator bennett speak for himself. But as i said, there were a lot of conversations between senior senators to reassure each other that there is sustained support. I was literally just talking to a leader in the House Republican caucus about whether they might also move and send us an increased ukraine supplemental. The core issue here was if the government shut down tonight, there wasnt going to be additional funding going to ukraine in the next couple of weeks, and we have instead found a path forward where the government stays open, and there is a path forward for Working Together To Support Ukraine aid and to send a strong message to the 50 other countries supporting ukraine that we will be with them going forward. You mention that you spoke with a senior republican in the house about Ukraine Funding. After the house passed its bill, there was a statement that came out from the House Democratic leaders, and in it said they said that when the house returns, they expect Speaker Mccarthy to advance a bill to the house floor, an up or down vote that supports ukraine. Is that your understanding that that will happen . And as you answer that, just listening to what Speaker Mccarthy was saying today, would democrats be okay with additional money for Border Security along with that, u. S. Border security along with that . Well, i think that depends on how its configured. President biden requested in his supplemental request additional funding for our border. I think there is wide agreement here that we can and should invest more in finding ways to help the countries from which many are coming north to secure their borders and to invest in some of the systems and structures that secure our southern border. One thing was clear today that shutting down our government and forcing the entire Border Patrol and the customs and Border Agents to work without pay wasnt going to help that situation. I do think that we have a significant opportunity here to Work Together to fully fund ukraines needs for the coming year, and to find a path forward following the leadership of chair murray who is speaking on the floor right now to finish our appropriations process in the senate. One last question for you. You talk about the need for support for ukraine by the United States, talk about it when it comes to democracy, small d, so on and so forth. How important is it particularly given where we are right now for the president , for your predecessor in your senate seat, to be more forceful on the question of ukraine, explaining to the American People why it is in americas interest to give this additional money that hes asking for . I think there is an obligation that falls on all of us in elected leadership. President biden has a uniquely forceful and capable voice here given his five decades of experience in foreign policy. Ill remind you he went to kyiv earlier this year. The first u. S. President in modern history to go to a war zone that the United States did not have control over, and to go to the risk of being in kyiv, standing alongside president zelenskyy, and committing to all the support that ukraine needs. Just last week, as you know, president zelenskyy came and addressed the entire senate here in the Old Senate Chamber and hear very forceful statements of support from all the senior senators. What youre raising, dana, is the larger challenge. We have to convey to the average american that 50 other countries are supporting ukraine and have matched and exceeded our support for ukraine. That whether or not ukraine succeeds in its war against the russian invaders and occupiers is critical to the future of nato, of the free west, of demo democracy. And if ukraine falls, other countries will take strong signals from that that they can change borders by force, that they can realign the world. We heard a chilling prediction from one of the most senior Military Leaders when we had a conversation about ukraine last week who said if we do not stand by ukraine, it will within a matter of a year or two be open season on The World Stage for aggression that will draw the United States into future wars. We are far better off robustly and sustainably supporting ukraine in their fight which in so many ways is our fight, as well. Senator chris koonce of delaware. Thank you soap. I thank you so much. I appreciate you joining me. And President Biden is on stand by to sign the stopgap bill that just passed the u. S. Senate, passed all of congress, of course. Lets check in with senior White House Correspondent m. J. Lee. What are you hearing over at the white house . Reporter well, of course President Biden tonight is standing by here at the white house to sign that funding bill into law as soon as it reaches his desk. But we did just receive a Paper Statement from the white house. This is a president weighing in on everything thats happened tonight for the first time. Let me just read