get over it. >> there are dumb days on capitol hill and there are dumber days on capitol hill and this is one of the dumbest i've seen in a long time. >> house republicans reacting to a chaotic and at times childish day on capitol hill. we'll take you through what happened straight ahead. plus fulton county district attorney fani willis responds to leaks of video statements from three of donald trump's coconspiratorter in the georgia election interference case. and also ahead we'll preview the high stakes meeting taking place today between president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping. good morning, and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, november 15th. i'm jonathan lemire, and thanks for joining us. it is a busy day and we've got a lot to get to. a potential government shutdown in just two days is now looking a lot less likely this morning after the house passed new speaker mike johnson's unconventional stop gap funding bill yesterday largely with the help of democrats. the two-step plan was approved on a bipartisan vote of 336-95. that means 209 democrats as opposed to just 127 republicans voted in favor of it. 93 republicans and just two democrats voted against. the move essentially punts the republican spending fight until after the holidays. speaker johnson told reporters he was pleased with the outcome. >> your first big bill, sir, how does it feel? >> we just had to get the job done. we'll do it day by day. >> any concern about the number of republican defections there were? >> we'll get our team together and we're ready to do this. >> how do you get your team together from here? >> you'll see. >> so the measure does not include any spending cuts or any additional conservative policy add-ones. but importantly, it also does not include a supplemental package covering things like aid for israel and ukraine or additional u.s. border security. the bill now heads to the senate, which is expected to then pass it onto president biden's desk by friday night for his signature to keep the government open. joining us now congressional reporter for politico and lead writer for the huddle newsletter, which you should all be reading, daniela diaz, thanks for being with us. let's start there with the unusual vote totals, that this bill passed the house larjly with the help of democrats, far more democrats voting for it than republicans. how did that come about? >> well, it came about because this legislation to keep the government funded until january doesn't include any funding cuts. i spoke to republicans this week, jonathan, republican house members who are telling me they wanted to see some sort of spending cuts include in this package. of course a lot of conservatives giving speaker johnson this leeway right now. of course he's in this tricky position where he just became speaker two weeks ago i'm losing track, and he had to figure out out how to fund the government pretty quickly. a lot of his own conference doesn't want to support a continuing resolution to fund the government unless it has cuts. and if it does have cuts, that's going to we a problem in the senate because it's a democrat majority, and president joe biden probably wouldn't sign that, so this is how he had to do it, and that's how we saw that happened yesterday -- i want to say last night because it happened around 5:00 p.m. where more democrats supported this than republicans, which we're going to see is a talking point from a lot of these conservatives in the coming days. >> let's drill on that a little bit. of course it was a vote to keep it open and cost kevin mccarthy his speakership. now we've got speaker johnson doing the same, getting democrats onboard. how angry are some of the hard line republicans? are any of them trying to oust speaker johnson from his job? >> you know what's interesting, jonathan, these conservatives, these house caucus members i'm speaking to are giving speaker johnson some room. they're furious, of course, as you note. but they understand speaker johnson came into this job two weeks earlier. he never ran a committee, never an appropriator. as he noted he feels like he's drinking from niagara falls, that's how oesh whelmed he is in this role. so we're seeing them give him some grace. however, he did lose some grace with these guys yesterday with this cr package and most of them supporting this and they say it only goes so far. he's only committed to doing this once, keeping the government funded without any cuts once. he says he won't do this again, and they're going to be working for the next couple of months to keep passing these appropriations bills that will fund the government and cut spending. that's what he's committed to. >> i'm not quite sure the political wisdom of kicking a government shutdown fight into an election year, but we'll come to that when it happens. right now what this bill does not have money for ukraine, israel, the border. what happens next? when might if at all the congress supply this aid to u.s. allies in need? >> well, and while this continuing resolution, this stop gap measure to fund the government was happening yesterday, meanwhile in the senate, some senators were actually trying to passidseral-only funding, trying to get that house bill they passed in the senate. that obviously did up happening, there was not enough support for that, but republican senators do not want ukraine -- conservatives i should say do not want ukraine aid. they want to pass the israel aid without ukraine aid. that's what we see from a lot of the house gop conference, but democratic leadership in the senate is committed to creating a huge supplemental package, that request coming from the white house, and they're waiting to see if they can include some sort of border measures, jonathan, and that's why we haven't seen that measure passed in the senate yet, and they're hoping does if it does include bipartisan measures right now, ukraine aid, israel aid, they can pass that with bipartisan support in the senate and kind of force the house's hand on that issue, however right now it doesn't look like they're anywhere close to doing that. it's going to take a while. >> it certainly will. we'll be watching every step of the way. terrific reporting from politico's daniella diaz. you'd think that vote would be the top headline among house republicans yesterday. well, maybe not. tensions among the gop spilled over when former speaker kevin mccarthy allegedly elbowed one of his colleagues who voted to remove him from his position last month. while being interviewed after a conference meeting tennessee republican tim burchett said he'd been elbowed by mccarthy. he initially thought he'd been in the wrong, but then he chased mccarthy down a hallway to confront him. audio captured the altercation. take a listen. >> i think it went all right. >> yeah. >> sorry, kevin didn't mean to elbow -- why'd you elbow me in the back, kevin? hey, kevin, you got any guts? jerk. >> has he done that before? >> no. >> huh, that's a new move. >> i'm going to go talk to him. hey, kevin, why'd you elbow me in the back? the reporter said it right there. you're pathetic man. you are so pathetic. >> later on mccarthy denied giving his tennessee colleague a, quote, shot to the kidneys. that's what burchett said. the tennessee republican, though, wasn't backing down from his version of events. >> i did not run and hit the guy. i did not kidney punch him. >> you didn't shove him? >> no. if i would hit somebody, they would know i hit them. >> come on, i'll take a polygraph test and have kevin take a polygraph test. >> what did you say to him? >> look, it ain't no big deal, it's just a little different the way people react in tennessee than they do in california. in tennessee if you got to talk to somebody you take it to them face-to-face. i guess in california you take a cheap shot at someone behind. you have $17 million in security detail and still be a bully. >> this is not the first time mccarthy has been accused of hitting a fellow republican from behind. former illinois congressman adam kinzinger says mccarthy did the same thing to him twice. meanwhile, a brawl nearly broke out on the other side of congress yesterday, too. during a hearing of the senate help committee. there oklahoma republican mark wayne mullen challenged one of the hearing's witnesses, the president of the teamsters union to a fight right then and there. >> this is a place you want to run your mouth we can be two consenting adults and we can finish it here. >> i'd love to do it now. >> stand your butt up then. >> you stand your butt up. >> stop it. no, no, sit down. sit down. no, you're a united states senator. it's funny how you're backing out. >> i don't back out of anything. you're the one -- should be the most influential people in this country and making changes. and you're focused on a debate that's not even relevant. you're an embarrassment. >> bad blood had been brewing between the two men since june when mullen who's a former mma fighter first challenged the teamsters president to a fight. that was in response to a tweet where the union boss referred to him as a clown and a fraud. after the exchange yesterday, mullen defended his behavior and even suggested congress should start allowing duals and canings again. >> could you guys go bare knuckle if you wanted to? >> we looked into the rules and used to be able to cane. you've got to remember president andrew jackson challenged nine guy tuesday a dual and won nine time. in a whois dinner one time jackson jumped up and literally ran across the table and knocked the guy out. and so at the end of the day there is precedence for it. >> how is this real life? and credit to senator bernie sanders for being peacemaker there and bringing thins under control. now, let's turn to a far more important story than the nonsense on capitol hill as tens upon tens of thousands of people gathered yesterday on the national mall in washington to show their support for israel. amid a rise in anti-semitism and anti-muslim rhetoric worldwide, organizers say yesterday's demonstration, was meant to underscore the right of jewish communities around the world to be able to live free from hate. it comes, of course, as hundreds of hostages are believed to still be inside gaza, held by hamas, as the war between the terrorist group and the israeli military grinds through its sixth week. the rally featured speakers from both sides of the aisle as well as family members of hostages taken on october 7th during the initial attack on israel. >> right now we -- how we are living is hard to describe to you. we hostage families have lived the last 39 days in slow motion torment. what the world needs to start thinking about today is what will your excuse be? 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>> wow. >> he got a full ongoing on. draymond came in to defend klay. this got out of hand very quickly. >> a fight just 100 seconds into the game between the minnesota timberwolves and the golden state warriors last night. it started as a tussle between klay thompson and jaden mccandles but things escalated when the warriors draymond green came in and put the t-wolves rudy in a head lock. thompson and green were all eject. it's the first time in 24 seasons the players were thrown out of a game before either team had even score. the timberwolves would go onto win 104-101. now let's go to bowling green, ohio, for some early week action. >> this is your ball game. keeps toledo alive. turns on the gas. tup down toledo! >> for the record i use match under dure esz every time but in this case it was true. the toledo rockets turned it into a 572-yard touch down with 2 minutes left in game. toledo gets its tenth straight win and the rockets re-claim their i-75 trophy. angie lassman, you had no idea that was such a prestigious award. staying with college football now there's a new number one atop the playoff rankings. the georgia bull dogs knocked ohio state down a peg to number 2. michigan, florida, state, and washington all five of those teams are undefeated. as for the rest of the top ten in order oregon, texas, alabama. and then we've got two newcombers, missouri at nine and louisville at ten. a bit of news out of major league baseball. the manager of the year awards were given out yesterday. baltimore's brandon hyde is the skipper of the year in the american league. and miami's skip shumacker won it. the orioles had the most after losing the most combined. meanwhile the marlins posted their first record in a full season since 2009. time now for the weather and let's go to meteorologist angie lassman who's been studying up on college football but also watching some storms out there. >> yeah, and i think the sunshine state not living up to its name. we've got flood alerts up for florida for 7 million people. we've got heavy rain expected over the next day or so, but the heavy rain isn't just across florida. it's also into portions of of the southeast. along the gulf coast we've been unsettled for days, and it's going to stay that way. but specifically the heaviest of that rain, the most impressive rainfall will likely be the southern tier of the state of florida. we keep it in the picture for tomorrow, too. and then we start to see a new coastal low develop offshore and then eventually move up the east coast impacting folks from the outer banks all the way to maine with wind and rain. but specifically florida we could see rainfall totals over the next day or so anywhere from 1 to 3 inches per hour. localized amounts when it's all said and done up to 10 inch in this region. it does not take a lot of rain to see impressive flooding and specifically south florida over the next 24 hours. >> angie lassman, thank you so much. still ahead here on "way too early," the fulton county district attorney's office is seeking a protective order after videos leaked of trump linked defendants in that georgia case. what this could now mean as the investigation heats up. plus, what special counsel jack smith is now arguing for in the federal trump election interference case. our friend danny cevallos is standing by with his take. you're watching "way too early." we'll be right back. e. you're watching "way too early." we'll be right back. the things you love... with fasenra. fasenra is an add-on treatment for eosinophilic asthma. having too many eosinophils, a type of white blood cell, can cause inflammation and asthma symptoms. fasenra is designed to target and remove eosinophils and helps prevent asthma attacks. fasenra is 1 dose every 8 weeks. fasenra can help patients to breathe better. most patients did not have an asthma attack in the first year. and fasenra helps lower the use of oral steroids. fasenra is not for sudden breathing problems or other eosinophilic conditions. allergic reactions may occur. don't stop your asthma treatments without talking with your doctor. tell your doctor if your asthma worsens. headache and sore throat may occur. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. get back to better breathing. and get back to your life. ask your doctor about fasenra. if you can't af