Thats five pm on the east coast, and the nations eyes are on washington. On capitol hill. We are a stopgap federal Spending Bill is now in the hands of the senate. After being passed in dramatic fashion by the house, just a couple of hours ago. To fund our government and avoid a shutdown with just seven hours left on the clock to do so. We have a lot to cover on our show tonight, but we start with a possible shutdown at midnight. Nbcs Ali Vitale Is Standing by on capitol hill. Elie, give us the latest. Right, things have been fast around here, because if you had told me when i left late last night, that Speaker Mccarthy was going to effectively look left and do this in a partisan fashion, i would have told you, absolutely not, no way. But it was a recognition on mccarthys part that within his conference those republicans that continue to block his path forward were not going to change and is that it was him who had to change the strategy. Now what this does is by the house, and by proxy the senate, if and when they take this up in the next hour or two, it buys them about 45 days to continue on the path of appropriating. Figuring out how much they wanted budget and spent in the coming fiscal year. The house was able to move through about four of those Appropriations Bills. There is 12 in total. Conservatives, angry about the way mccarthy does, but nevertheless, now in this position of having these 45 days to either continue battling or say what they can get from leadership as they move along in this budget and process. That assumes, of course, that i shouldnt is averted in the next few hours. The senate has this bill. There are two in whats called a hotline. Effectively run this procedure and given a saints to their conference of whats actually in this bill that theyre going to vote on. As of now, and you and i both know this, havent looked at it and what congress for a while, the senate can move as quickly or slowly as all 100, or in this case, 99 senators does not want to. Move the usual people who tend to come of this process and slow it down, people let senator rand paul or ted cruz, theyve said theyre not going to do this. So it looks like, once the senate is ready to take it up, we could see as little as 15 or 20 minutes of debate before the pass this, and whats expected to be a problem profession. Lets go back to the house for a minute, ali. How soon to you think we could see Kevin Mccarthys face a challenge for his speakership, since some of the farright were very upset with how he did . Its fitting that your first question, because many of us who have been covering this process, and frankly and Hurt Mccarthy because since general, have been wondering this thing. Members of the farright party of this republican conference have been clear. Matt gaetz said, quite literally, if mccarthy turns to his left and avert a shutdown and bipartisan fashion, he will move the trigger whats called a motion to vacate. Basically, trying to oust or fire at the speaker. Thats a conclusion that mccarthy himself made to get this job and the first place, back in january. Allowing only one member of the house to trigger that. Then the Open Question becomes, if its filed, witness that filing happen . Leadership can buy themselves up to two days before the vote takes place. But then, it becomes a Guessing Game of if democrats, especially moderate ones, maybe in red or purple districts, step and to save the speaker, is the preference for democrats to continue or current with someone that they know, as opposed to an unknown speaker . And then of course, the reality that you cant replace mccarthy with nobody. And right now, while there are several names you could, float no one seems to be the consents choice. And so, even if there is momentum, or energy, behind Relieving Mccarthy of his duties as speaker, its not entirely clear who those hardliners would even want in that position. All right, thank, you and the Seas Ali Vitali on capitol hill. Well go back to you if needed. Joining me now, senator bob casey. Democrat of pennsylvania. Senator, thank you for joining us. The ball is in the court of you and your Senate Colleagues at the behest, the house passed a 45day Continuing Resolution to fund our government. What can you tell us about the negotiations that are taking place right as we speak . Reverend al, great to be with you. There was a lot of todays work will be the government will be funded. I think thats very important for the American People. All the people depend upon, with regard to the federal government. Fifth womans, infants, and Childrens Program, and programs like that that healthy vulnerable will be funded. Well be able to do Food Safety Inspections and so much else to protect public health. And our military and National Security will be funded. So thats the good news. Because, when the senate takes up this bill, we dont know, when and the next several hours, at the latest, the government will be funded. So thats good news. Just after the cr passed without the support of several farright House Republicans, Kevin Mccarthy went out and stood on his conservative credentials, criticizing democrats as the source of todays contention. Alleging democrats and the president are security at our southern border. What do you make of the speakers plot after today . If it werent such a serious, grave topic, the funding of the federal government, what the speaker is trying to do is deflect blame. Because the country knows, the only reason there is drama here, is the only reason why so many people believe the government would shut down, it is because of an extreme group of House Republicans. And for whatever reason, the speaker cant get them in line. But the good news is, the good news is, were going to be able to fund the government. And as soon as this bill passes the senate, job one Going Forward in the next couple of days will be to make sure we get substantial funding for ukraine. For ukraines military. And i want to support a measure, and will support a measure, that will be beyond the dollars that were proposed about six billion dollars. Weve got to fund that effort against flip him or putin, and defeat him. And i hope our House Republican colleagues will join us and being on this side of ukraine and democracy, rather than putin and autocracy. Let me give our condolences over the loss of your colic this weekend, california senator dianne feinstein, who passed away from it morning at the age of 90. After serving nearly 31 years in the senate. The longest serving woman in the chamber of history. We have congresswoman barbara lee on the show tomorrow. Shes running to phil feinsteins seats, along with katie porter and adam schiff. How do you personally remember your late colleague, senator casey . Reverend al, we all have our own personal moments that we had with dianne feinstein. First and foremost, she was a giant in the senate. Everyone who knows anything about intelligence, i happen to be on the Intelligence Committee the last three, irrespective she served for decades on the committee. The judiciary committee. All the fight she waged for people who didnt have a voice. And for our National Security. And so much else. But i think personally, for me, just recommit moment my wife and i had in 2015, when we went to San Francisco for a couple of days. We saw my daughter and we did some work out there. But dianne had as over to her house, and was so gracious and such a great host. And ill never forget that moment. She was a wonderful person, and in addition to being a champion for people without a voice and a very, very strong and capable, effective legislator. So well miss her personally, and almost her leadership. You have your own sate race to win. A race that could determine the majority in the senate. Your republican opponent is a businessman, david mccoac who announced his bid this week,. He is running unopposed th time, after losing the last gop Senate Primary to doctor oz, went on to be defeated by your narrow colleague john fetterman. Mccormick wasted no time trying to blame you for a Mess Looting Incident and philadelphia, claimant you and your democratic colleagues are soft on crime. But whats your response . First of all, its pretty clear, people who know me well, my record. The Republican Party in washington is really the party whos voted over and over again to take away money from the program. Take away money from the current the good prosecutors, and help us fight crime across the country. Hes supporting all those cuts. He was commanding, House Republicans, on these terrible cuts they were going to make to the women, infants, and Childrens Program and so many others. I look forward to the debate about whos going to support public safety. I have a strong record. And i hope, if we start our campaign, i hope people will go to bob casey dot com and support or campaign. Thank you for being with us. Senator bob casey. Switching from senate to house. Joining me now is congressman dan goldman. Democrat of new york. He sits on the House Oversight committee and served as lead counsel in the house impeachment of President Trump in 2019. Congressman, the Continuing Resolution passed overwhelmingly in the house just a few hours ago. After weeks of contentious debate that ultimately led down to just hours before the deadline and a potential crisis for the nation. Being on the house floor today, what were your thoughts watching this lastditch vote after all of that . Lied to put you to wait this long . This is exactly the Continuing Resolution that we had always been advocating for. A clean Continuing Resolution that extends the time so we can work on the Appropriations Bills at the levels that both parties agreed to last june, in the fiscal responsibility act. And ultimately, that we get the disaster relief. We need to get ukraine funded. That is absolutely paramount. But we dont have to get it and this bill right now. There are other ways we can do that. And it was paramount to keep the government open. The democrats stayed united. We stayed very unified and persistent and the way that we thought this should be done. The republicans tried every which way to reduce spending, to jam through their very draconian border bill, that will not actually help things, that will make things worse. And we start the line. And ultimately they caved, and they came to us, because they knew that we had the right position. I want to talk to you about what else republicans in the house were up to in this week, while a shutdown looms. An Impeachment Inquiry against President Biden began in the Oversight Committee on which you sit. I want to play with this moment from your colleague alexandria ocasiocortez, responding to a screenshot of a text message introduced as evidence by a republican congressman byron donalds. Roll the clip, please. Earlier today, one of our colleagues, a gentleman from florida, printed up on the screen something that looked, appeared to be a screenshot of a text message containing or insinuating and explosive allegation. That screenshot, of what appeared to be a text message, was a fabricated image. Now members of staff of both sides of the aisle who reportedly stunned by this moment, and others from the hearing. You know firsthand how thoroughly prepared your party for their Impeachment Proceedings against trump was. What was your take on what you saw from republicans this week . It was embarrassing, right. If it run it was. I mean, what came out at that hearing was not only as congresswoman ocasiocortez pointed out, misinformation fabricated evidence. But it was also very clear that the republicans who are using evidence from a different time period to make allegations against President Biden. Theyre using evidence from 2017. He wasnt president or Vice President in positive contain. They are alleging that the biden doj blocked the hunter biden investigation, if they show an email from 2020, when donald trump was president. I repeatedly tried to get in additional Witness Testimony that directly contradicted many of the things that my republican colleagues for saying. And of course, it was three noteworthy, right, from the very first hearing, part of this Impeachment Inquiry, so to speak, they had no effect witnesses. They had no witnesses who had any direct knowledge of anything. And the witnesses that they did bring, and theyre quote unquote experts, said that they do not have enough evidence for an impeachment. So it was a complete bust and we were very happy that they were able to bring this out to the American People and we were able to expose the sham that this impeachnt is. Now nbc poll out this week found nearly three and five voters do not think the house should move forward with impeachment of President Biden. On the one and three Republican Voters say impeachment will in fact have this into congress. What do you think House Republicans are moving forward with the effort anywhere . Do you think its connected to the legal problems affecting their guy, the former President Trump . I think it all has to do with donald trump. And hes made it very clear. He has said he wants President Biden to be impeached, because he was engaged. He doesnt care, of course, about the evidence. He doesnt care about the fact, he never has. But he is directing things from his home, down in maralago, and his mob soldiers up here in the House Of Representatives are doing what he wants. But i think that polling is going to change significantly after our hearing. Especially because fox news ran the hearing live all day long. Narrowly, chairman comer, chairman jordan, they get up on fox news, and they have celebratory panelists, hosts, who are applauding them and prop him up and making olds conclusions. On thursday, they got a different taste of what was really in the evidence. And i hope that they realize the fallacy that this whole impeachment investigation is. I noticed fox wasnt in the hand house. Congressman, before you go, you join for tonight House Democrats this week calling on Supreme CourtJustice Clarence thomas to recuse himself from an upcoming High Court Case impacting executive agencies after recent reporting found that he had visited events held by the conservative coke network. Attorneys for which are currently asking the Supreme Court to overturn it will give a executive agencies brought authority to implement regulations. Whats at stake here, congressman . This is both a perpetuation and continuation of the unethical behavior that Clarence Thomas has clearly paint using and win for the last two decades. But in this particular instance, there is a clear Conflict Of Interest related to forthcoming work. Before the Supreme Court. Clarence thomas, who is known to be very intransigent in his views from the beginning 30 years ago to now, has actually flipflopped on this specific issue, which the koch has been advocating against for nechanitz. And now the koch network is breaking a case in front of the Supreme Court to overturn a very second president , that is used far and wide throughout the United States for legal interpretation. And Clarence Thomas was at a donor event trying to help the koch network raise money. That is a clear Conflict Of Interest and he must recuse, because of it. O congressman dan goldman, thank you for being with us tonight. Coming up, donald trump tries to trick americans into thinking hes pro union with a visit to michigan during the auto workers strike. But dont be fools, ill explain why in this weeks gotcha. And were watching capitol hill, as the senate takes up a lastminute Spending Bill to avoid a Government Shutdown. Stay with msnbc for the latest. But first, my colleague richard lui with todays top news stories. Richard . Roughly, are. New york city is drawing out of her nearly seven inches of rain led to widespread flooding. Southwest, buses have resumed. Normal service. 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