there are now just five days for congress to,a vert a shutdown of the federal government. newly elected speaker mike johnson has announce a two-step plan to fund the government and it is running into opposition from democrats and some republicans. cnn's manu raju has the details. >> speaker mike johnson in his first test as speaker unveiling the plan to keep the government open with just a handful of days before the end of the week deadline, but already facing fire from his right flank who members of the house freedom caucus concerned about the lack of spending cuts. democrats didn't want any spending cuts and would vote against it and it would not have aid to israel and they're criticizing the unconventional approach by johnson and some agencies would be funded until mid-january and others until early-february and this is an unusual approach, but one johnson says can help achieve their legislative objectives. how many folks on the right will push back and try to push him out because of the lack of spending cuts and whether they will actually try to push him out. i recall that not too long ago, kevin mccarthy, the former speaker lost his job because a major part here because he advanceded a bill to keep the government open with democratic support that did not have spending cuts. i asked mccarthy himself whether or not he is concerned or whether he believes johnson's job could be at risk by taking a similar approach. >> no. look, you get a honeymoon and you can't go through it again. so think about how long it took last time. >> even if he goes and relies on democratic votes the way you had to do it you think he'd be safe and not be pushed out of speakership. >> i don't think anyone can make a motion to vacate for the rest of the term. >> i think he's safe regardless. >> they are still watching how republicans are dealing with this and i am told from house democratic sources it's still uncertain whether they will carry this across the finish line and how many votes johnson will ultimately need for democrats and there is hardly any time left as several democratic leaders signalled they can be open on this and house democrats are remaining mum and the questions as we head into yet another week of shutdown fears on capitol hill. manu raju, cnn, washington. >> thank you, manu. the white house is already rejecting speaker johnson's two-step plan calling it, quote, a recipe for more republican chaos and more shutdowns. cnn's senior white house reporter kevin liptack joins us now from wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. it didn't take long to push back and what can you tell us about how the biden administration is reacting? >> this was not an enthusiastic reaction to this proposal and remember, omar, these are two sides getting ready to know each other and the house speaker was something of an unknown to the white house when he was elected and certainly the white house wasted no time in panning mike johnson's proposal to keep the government open saying in a statement with just days left before an extreme republican shutdown and after shutting down congress for three weeks after they ousted their own leader and they're wasting time with a serious proposal that has been panned by both parties and house republicans need to stop wasting time on their own political divisions and do their jobs and work in a bipartisan way to prehave not a shutdown. certainly not mincing their words yet and what is unclear is whether all democrats will oppose this proposal because while it is unorthodox in the structure, it does not contain the deep spending cuts and conservative priorities that many democrats oppose and while president biden says in the statement, the white house says in a statement that is unserious, we don't necessarily know that all democrats will oppose it and certainly mike johnson might need democrats to support it. the clock is ticking, omar and the government would shut down on saturday morning if nothing is passed. >> and that is speaker johnson, and kevin liptack, thank you so much. joining me to talk about this is andrew desiderio for punch bowl news and good to see both of you. andrew, i want to go to you first and this is mike johnson's first big test as speaker and the unusual plan is being met with pushback from conservatives, being called unserious by the white house and being met with skepticism from the democrats. does it appear it has any chance of passing? >> look, as kevin just said it will depend on how many if any democrats support this proposal. i think the real action will be in the senate where you have senators negotiating around a foreign aid supplemental package that they can potentially attach to any continuing resolution to fund the government. the critical element of that, obviously s going to be something on border security. the white house has asked for border security funding, but republicans want something more concrete than that. they want policy changes, reform to the asylum process and the migrant process and it will take 60 votes in the senate for that to get through and republicans have said they will not provide the necessary votes on the foreign aid package in ukraine and israel without something more stringent on the border and the goal of democrats in the senate, at least is to try to attach that to any continuing resolution to fund the government past november 17th. the big question, i think, is going to be whether speaker johnson in the house can sell that to conservatives and particular leet border part which is what they care about the most. >> michael, in order to pass any bill, johnson will need to cater to hard right conservatives in the house who want spending cuts or appeal to spending cuts and a deja vu that mccarthy faced in september. mccarthy opted for a spending bill that got democratic support and lost his speakership right after that. how do you see speaker johnson handling this dilemma. >> omar, there may be a new speaker in place and it's the same that speaker johnson faced when he had to gavel and it's walking the fine tightrope of appeasing the right flank and also enough moderates and democrats to get across the finish line. i think what johnson saw in the two-step cr plan that he unveiled over the weekend is he was appeasing the right flank by using this unconventional format of having the first cr going into january and the second cr going into february and again, trying to appease the moderates and the democrats by not including some deep spending cuts that a number of hard line conservatives to keep the government funded and i think the real wild card here is how do democrats react to this? last week we saw house minority leader hakeem jeffries the idea of a right-wing joyride. he said that it would crash and burn the economy, but again, it's significant that it it will not include the deep spending cuts and that could be enough to get moderate democrats onboard and it comes back to the idea that this is a very fine tightrope that speaker johnson is walking and there are not a lot of days left to do it to avert a shutdown. >> spending cuts is on one side of things and the bill doesn't include funding for israel and ukraine, andrew and one democratic congressman was incredibly concerned about that. i would say at this point is that a deal breaker for democrats and most republicans in the senate? if so, what are the speakers' options here? >> right. it's a great point, and i think if they cannot get a deal on the border security provision that would satisfy republicans, the question for mitch mcconnell which does support aid for ukraine and israel is will he provide enough votes to get this over the 60-vote threshold to pass any sort of supplemental without any border security element because people around mcconnell and people in republican leadership really do see this week as maybe the last opportunity to pass a major ukraine funding package in particular. the administration has asked for $60 billion which would take ukraine through just about the next u.s. presidential election and that is something that mcconnell cares about a lot. he's thinking about his legacy in terms of this, as well, and he wants to shape the republican party on foreign policy going forward and push back on the isolationist voices within the party and this is one way for him to do that, and if it doesn't have a board security provision, the republicans will rally around and that's the question for mitch mcconnell. does he try to get this through regardless and attach it to the continuing resolution which chuck schumer, by the way, also supports. >> look, just five days before the deadline, michael. i'm not going to try to predict what will happen and i can predict that we will likely be going down to the wire as we typically do in situations like these. as what you all have seen or your all reporting has seen, do you see a path to a deal at this point or has that not presented itself and are we potentially headed to a government shutdown? >> i think you're right, omar, washington is a city that runs on deadlines and you're right with the deadline. i think there are two packers right now that are playing in the direction of hopefully averting a shutdown. one of them is the thanksgiving holiday next week and there are i lot of lawmakers who want to sit with their families and that could be an incentive to get things wrap up this week and we heard from a number of hard-line conservatives who were saying they would give speaker johnson -- there was three weeks of paralysis on the house after three weaks was important to get some sort funding over the finish line. a lot of people are watching that situation at hand and they have a gargantuan undertaking of funning the federal government. some are saying the honeymoon period is over and if enough hard liners are willing to give speaker johnson a little bit more grace period and more grace to get things over the finish line and find his sea legs in this new position, that could be really significant. as you mentioned, it's tough to predict things in this -- in this town. there are still five days left which in washington is plenty of time to get things done so we'll just have to see, and there are a lot of incentives pushing them to get things wrapped up. >> you may want to front load this week, andrew desiderio, and mychael schknellll. >> airir strikes i intensify o grground and o our team isis li the regigion next. the situation on the ground in gaza is quickly deteriorating. they are enabling stave passage from gaza's hospitals and it's too dangerous to leave because of the fighting in the complexes. 826 foreign nationals were able to evacuate gaza in the rafah border crossing in egypt and that was the first evacuation of foreign nationals since thursday and the largest group to pass through in a single day. in northern israel the military says several civilians were injured after anti-tank missiles were launched from across the border with lebanon. hezbollah has taken responsibility for the attack. orrin lieberman is monitoring all of the developments from tel aviv. what is the latest on the fighting in gaza. >> before we get to that, just very quickly, omar, i'll talk about a call president biden held with the amir of qatar. he discussed hostage negotiations and to try to release those hostages, crucially, biden revealed for the first time that a 3-year-old american citizen toddler is being held by hamas in gaza. that 3-year-old's parents were killed by hamas during the october 7th attacks in israel. i'll read you a short part of the readout. the two leaders, that would be biden and the amir of qatar agreeded that all hostages must be released without further delay, the white house said in the readout of the call and the discussion and crucial efforts ongoing there. as the u.s., qatar, tried to release 240 hostages held inside gaza. in terms of what's happening on the ground, the idf says much of the effort was on the refugee camp which was just north of al shifa hospital and the largest hospital in gaza and the idf has conducted raids on dozens of buildings accusing hamas of using those buildings as its stronghold or as its defenses and they also raided the marina from what they have seen from the idf's, forts from northern gaza. they have gaza city surrounded and are surrounding in shifa hospital and it is using it as a hub, a base and building what they call terror infrastructure below it. to this point they've arrested 20 hamas militants and those have been brought to israel and interrogated including some, omar, who took part in the october 7th terror attack. >> part of that call, as well and the readout biden affirmed his vision for a future palestinian state where israelis and palestinians can live side by side with equal measures of stability and dignity which doesn't line up with what benjamin netanyahu said today on cnn. while that goes on, and of course, that is the discussion and policy discussion that will happen in the long term, we are still also monitoring what the idf says are attacks from hef r hezbollah targets in lebanon. what's going on there? >> so there remains contact, there remains contact along israel's northern border between israel and hezbollah. israel holds hezbollah for any fighting and fire that comes across the border. according to the adf, an anti-tank missile was fired in northern israel injuring a number of civilians and soldiers in that attack. the idf has responded not only to those attacks hitting targets in lebanon and there was also fire from syria into the golan heights, and israel's military frankly busy on multiple fronts today. >> orrin leishman staying on top of it all, thank you so much. >> there's also growing frustration over the israeli hostages still held captive by hamas more than two months after they were abducted israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed the situation on cnn's "state of the union". >> thousands of israelis including families of hostages rallied this weekend right across the street from where you are right now. they're very frustrated that they're not getting more information from you and where their loved ones are. they believe the government, your government is not doing enough to get them back. what do you say to them? >> it's understandable. they're under tremendous distress, torture you can imagine to have your father, your husband, your son, your daughter taken by these savages -- >> are you doing enough? >> we're doing everything we can around the clock, and i can't talk about it. i personally met with the hostage families -- families of hostages several times and it just tears your heart out, and yes, we're doing everything and many things that i can't say here, obviously, but this is one of our two war goals. one is to destroy hamas and the second is to bring back our hostages and we'll do everything we can, and we think the entire world will join us and the demand from the red cross and it demands visits from the hostages and demand the unconditional release from the hostages and this is barbarism that is unacceptable. i'd like to see the u.n. secretary-general basically lay the blame on israel. basically laid the blame on these savages to demand that they obey international law because israel is fighting according to international law. >> meanwhile, gaza's health care system continues its rapid decline. the red crescent society says gaza's second largest hospital is now out of service due to the depletion of fuel and power outages. nada bashir is tracking it. how much longer can gaza's hospitals hang on at this point? >> well, look, omar, we've been hearing the warnings for weeks and the vast majority of gaza's hospitals are completely out of service and they are no longer in operation. it is now not operational and there are serious concerns around the al shifa want had, gaza's largest hospital and it's not just because of the fuel shortages and not just because of the ongoing siege and the difficulty to operate within the hospital. what we are beginning to see now is continuous bombardment around these hospitals. take a look. >> these are the sounds of the final gasp from the collapsing healthcare system. medical staff in gaza city working under near relentless bombardment for nearly a month. but now this chorus of frantic voices seen here working under torch light tells its own gut-wrenching story. the al quds hospital, the second largest in gaza has now collapsed. the hospital no longer operational according to the red crescent society and these scenes are all too familiar across the ghada strip. the vast majority of hospitals here are already completely out of service and the palestinian health ministry in ramallah says and those remaining now on a cliff edge. >> there was a direct injury in the head. internal bleeding and we can't do surgery, no surgeries and no oxygen, no electricity. we work manually, it is a clear surgery, a life-saving one. he's less than a year old. >> remarkably, this baby survived, but his father who was in the very same building when an israeli air strike hit did not. >> at gaza's largest hospital al shifa officials say newborn babies had to be moved and that at least three babies in the neonatal unit died after a generator incubator was damaged in an israeli strike. cnn has reached out to the israeli military for comment. the idf regularly says it is targeting hamas, but doctors here say the hospital is now completely surrounded. >> the situation is difficult according to our colleague there. there is no elect rhys and the they cannot work with each other and there is a lot of targeting around the hospital. under a constant barrage of air strikes it is impossible for both patients and staff to safely evacuate. doctors are overwhelmed, morgues now long beyond capacity. and with communications frequently cut off, contact between medical teams on the ground and with the outside world is growing increasingly difficult. hospital officials say thousands of displaced civilians are still thought to be in the compound, taking shelter in what once was thought to be a sanctuary in the midst of this seemingly unending nightmare. >> we thought the hospital was a safe place, but it wasn't. if we had stayed another five minutes we would have been killed. they started to bomb us and we ran away from al shifa. >> the israeli military says it is now enabling passage from three hospitals in northern gaza with an additional route said to have been open to allow civilians to evacuate southward. >> translator: this is another form of torture. we have about six kilometers to go. she had a stroke that caused her brain damage. she can't speak and is paralyzed. >> the united nations itself has raised down thes over the so-called safe zones outlined by israel warning that nowhere inside gaza is safe for civilians anymore, and for those too injured, too sick, evacuation is impossible. many doctors on the ground vowing to stay beside their patients no matter what. >> omar, we've had strong words condemnation from the humanitarian chief marvin griffith and she's described this as incomprehensible and reprehensible and he has condemned any attacks on hospitals and as we have seen over the last couple of weeks the strengths on gaza's hospitals are inching closer and closer and the humanitarian toll is growing worse by the day. omar? >> nada bashir, thank you so much, as always. >> today republican presidential candidate chris christie was in israel where he met with families with hostages taken by hamas. i asked whether humanitarian aid to gaza is in low priority for what the military needs. >> i still believe that, yes, i think if you're prioritizing things, omar, the most important thing is for us to provide financial assistance and military hardware to the israelis so they can do what they n