So the Writers Guild has reached this tentative deal with studios. Those are writers celebrating in los angeles last night, after the agreement was announced. Guild members are now set to vote and decide whether to accept that deal. In the meantime, hollywood remains shut down. Actors are still on strike, No End In Sight there. Economists say this strike has cost the u. S. Economy more than 5 billion. Not only in l. A. , but in other tv and Film Production hubs like georgia and new york. Cnn national correspondent, Camilla Bernal is live for us in los angeles. The big question right now is, one, will it get voted through. But two, whats actually in this deal . I know details are sparse, but camilla, what do we know right now . Thats really what Everyone Wants to know, phil. Ive talked to a lot of writers who tell me, look, were confident in the wga negotiators, because they knew exactly what we wanted. And part of that is higher wages and Artificial Intelligence. There was a huge focus on that and it appears that Artificial Intelligence was actually the last Sticking Point in these negotiations. So, the deal hasnt been made public, but a lot a of the members saying that theyre confident that theyre getting what they want. Theyll soon be able to see whats in this deal, because what happens next here is that they will have leadership votes. Thats likely going to happen tomorrow. And after that, that contract will likely be made public. Writers will have the opportunity to ask questions and then eventually, will have to vote to ratify this deal. It has not been easy. Its five months, more or less, of very difficult days for a lot of these writers. And they say they want to go back to work. But of course, they still have to wait. What officials with the wga are saying is that theyre essentially dotting every i. Theyre working on the language to then get to that vote. This has had a huge Economic Impact and theres still a lot of questions as to what happens next. Because, yes, you may have some talk shows and latenight shows come back on the air quickly, but because the actors are still on strike, theyve been on strike since july, it doesnt mean that productions are going to go back to normal anytime soon. This deal with the writers could pressure or maybe speed up the process with the actors, but well have to wait and see what happens, phil. All right. We will be watching. Camilla bernal, thank you. And joining us now is cnn Senior Media Analyst and senior Media Reporter for axios, sarah fisher. Thanks for joining us. I want to start with, is there anything that could get in the way with this getting over the finish line at this point . Its not looking likely. I think this is pretty much close to done. The only thing that could get in the way is that if there is something in this deal that the writers, once they take a look at it ahead of the vote dont like, but it seems like most of their big Sticking Points have been addressed. As camilla mentioned, wages was the number one big thing. Another thing is the writers rooms, basically ensuring that the studios hire a certain amount of writers per show, and of course, the last thing, protections from Artificial Intelligence. But i think, phil, youre going to see this vote ratified, ready to go within the next few days. Sarah, what does that mean, protections against Artificial Intelligence . So the concern amongst writers is that these studios are going to use ai to write scripts. Of course thats a huge challenge, that would not only put them out of work, but theres a Creative Control challenge, too. Ip and basically the Intellectual Property that you own is not necessarily protected under law if youre using Artificial Intelligence. So theres a concern amongst writers that if they use ai to even help them write the scripts, theyre not going to be eligible for things like awards, et cetera. All of those things are the types of stuff youll see addressed in this deal. Is the police chief then that the studios would have agreed to totally not allow ai at all . Forever . No, i think its going to be something thats a little bit more subjective. Basically, you can experiment with ai, leverage it in some certain ways, but you cant use ai to displace the work of writers and you cant use ai that might protect their ability to protect their Intellectual Property. Sarah, this is a huge deal, but this doesnt address the actors. And my understanding is there havent been actual tangible negotiations on that front for some period of time. Does it deal here on lock the room opening up there. They should be the next domino to fall here . What happens next there . Yes, because the studios have been pretty distracted by the Writers Strike before they could even get to the actors strike. So i think now that this is off their plate, theyre going to be able to negotiate something with sagaftra, which is the union that represents the actors. And the other thing to note, phil, they are very eager to get this done. I think the studio has seen the wga has something that they got off their plates and they want to make sure this gets done before the end of the year. We also now have a template. So when it comes to things like Artificial Intelligence, now that there is one deal thats been brokered addressing it, you might not be surprised similar parameters included in the next deal. Okay, really interesting. Sarah fisher, thanks for the reporting. Thank you. Well, this morning, a Government Shutdown becoming more and more likely, as republican hardliners are Funding Hostage with only five days left to reach a spending deal. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy and his top allies working through the weekend, and still does not have support from republicans demanding significant spending cuts. They cannot force the Democraticled Senate or white house to accept. One way out of the crisis for mccarthy would be working with democrats on a temporary stopgap Spending Bill. The most conservative republicans are threatening that that would cost mccarthy his job. Cnns lauren fox joins us now. Lauren, i guess the question at this point with five days left is, whats worse, a shutdown or working with democrats if youre the speaker of the house. Theres only one man really who can answer that question right now, and that is the speaker of the house, Kevin Mccarthy. And that is exactly the decision that he likely will have to make at the end of this week. Right now, House Republicans have this gambit where they are going to try to pass one individual Appropriation Bill at a time. These are yearlong bills. They have four of them teed up, potentially, to start voting as soon as tuesday on procedural measures. But one thing to keep in mind is none of those bills to fund the department of defense, homeland security, agriculture, the Department Of State would actually avoid a Government Shutdown. That is because they are dead on arrival in the senate, and because it makes up a fraction of the bills that they would need to pass to fund the entire government. That is why House Leaders on a private call on saturday were imploring their members to try to rally behind a shortterm Spending Bill that would fund the government, include Border Security and make substantial government cuts. But so far, there are still holdouts to any kind of republicannegotiated shortterm Spending Bill. That means, mccarthy could likely get jammed by the United States senate. There are conversations happening between majority leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell to try to find a way forward in this senate. If they can pass a bill out of their chamber, the question for mccarthy will ultimately be, does he put that bill on the floor, negotiated with democrats in the senate, or does he not and risk a shutdown . Obviously, its a question between the gavel and avoiding a Government Shutdown. Phil . It is a big question at that. Lauren fox, thank you, as always. Well, republican congressman Tony Gonzalez of texas joins us now. Hes one of the lawmakers against a shortterm stopgap bill. Hes a member of the house Problem Solver caucus. Congressman, i appreciate your time. Just yesterday, i was watching your comments yesterday, where you seem to say that a shutdown is almost inevitable at this point. If thats the case, who do you think bears the blame here . Everyone. The house certainly, certainly House Republicans are to blame. Senate democrats are to blame. And the president is to blame. And theres real people that are going to get hurt. Everyone thinks that they can just point the finger at someone else. Its someone elses fault but ours. The facts are, its everybodys fault. And in the house, im a part of. I think Step One Wis Passing A bill. I would like to see the Homeland Appropriations Bill be the first bill we take up on tuesday. I think that has an opportunity of getting passed and Piec Piecemealing our way of getting to some sense of solutions here. Can i ask you . The idea that everyone bears to blame here, i think theres decadeplus of evidence of that to some degree, but in this case in particular, there was a deal that was struck to raise the debt limit that set down the base line for what Appropriations Committees could do. And people the Transportation Secretary addressed this yesterday. Take a listen. Speaker mccarthy and the president made a deal. They made a deal earlier this summer. By the way, it wasnt an easy deal. Just from the Transportation Side alone, it meant us accepting cuts that republicans were demanding to programs that we wanted to use to fund more roads and bridges and airports, but we made that deal and all were asking is that they live up to that deal. Congressman, when it comes to, you voted against that bill on the floor. Im very aware of that. But there was a deal that was reached by the speaker and the president and House Republicans walked away from that deal. How is the blame equal at this point . I heard the comments from the secretary of transportation. I urge him to focus on secretary of transportation. I have a lot of my constituents that complain about the delays in flights and other issues, trains, certainly. Theres no doubt that theres a lot of things to blame right now. House republicans need to do their part. Senate we havent talked about Senate Democrats putting together a cr, because they dont have one. We havent talked about the president , whos been mia from these conversations. I mean, last week, he was he didnt know if he was talking to the black caucus or the brown caucus. Its pretty dysfunctional right now in washington, but im of the mind set, put all of that aside. Thats all politics, put that aside, roll up your sleeves, lets get in a room and figure this out. We have a little bit of runway left. I doubt that will get done in that time m. Im looking at the lens, how do we minimize this from ten days instead of ten weeks. And that starts now, not weight and continuing the finger pointing game. Ten days is nothing. I understand what youre saying. Ten days of the shutdown doesnt have no effect, but i guess the question is, youve made clear that youre opposed to a shortterm stopgap, because you think thats kicking the can down the road. Theres 12 individual appropriations bills. They would need pass your chamber. Im sorry, like, in what world is that anything than ten weeks on how congress operates . Thats it. If you give congress more time, all theyre going to do is take every hour and not accomplish anything. You would be amazed, you know. I learned a long time ago how to eat an elephant, one bite at a time. Lock everyone in a room. The pressure is certainly up. Everyones playing the blame game. Its always someone elses fault. But nows crunch time. There are real people that will be hurt. People in the military, certainly people in dhs along the border. The Border Crisis right now is absolutely out of control. In my district, you know, youve got facilities that are at 400 capacity. Youve got in el paso, weve got over 2,000 people coming over a day. Its all Fun And Games looking at it going, oh, thats in texas, but very soon, that will be in your city. Youre seeing it in new york, youre certainly going to see it in california here soon. This Border Crisis something real. I would like for to us get back to handling the real issues of america. I want to talk to you about the border, particularly your district in a minute. I think that raises a good point. The pressure utilizing pressure for leverage pip hear you on kicking the can down the road and giving lawmakers more time. Ive covered the place long enough to understand what youre saying there. But Border Security, dhs, cbp, they will be affected by a shutdown. So you think that its worthwhile to use that as leverage and to some degree gro, drop Border Security and National Security in order to force people to Reach Solutions on 12 Spending Bills, none of which have passed both chambers at this point . I dont think anyone should leverage anyone. I think politicians should do their job. I think the house should do its job, i think the senate should do its job, and i think the president should do his job. We should all work together. It may not be exactly what we all want, but thats why the american public, you know, elected us in these different chambers. And right now you see none of that. You see, its just always somebody elses fault. And when there is a shutdown, there are real people that are going to be hurt. And once again, no ones really talking about what happens after that. And thats what im really focused on, is how do we get to some sense of real things. Not, you know, things that the house passes, that the senate has no chance of picking up, or the Senate Passes and the house has no chance of picking up. What are some real things that can ultimately get us to pint where if there is a Government Shutdown, we can restart the government and get things going again. Your district includes a long stretch of border along the rio grande, includes eagle pass where there are currently thousands of migrants cross the river to declare asylum. Youre going to host members of congress there. What do you want to show them, what tangibly do you think can be done in the nearterm . You know, there is really many communities along the border feel abandoned. I mean, youve heard from mayor salinas of eagle pass, who was a democrat, by the way. Many of us feel abandoned. So today is in large part bringing members of congress to the border and saying, youre not abandoned. And we are going to continue to hear you out. And we are going to continue to advocate. Thats one. The other piece of it is how do we find Real Solutions. I get it. Theres a lot of fingerpointing, its easy to blame president bidens failed immigration policies, but how do we find Real Solutions . If we were going to rely on mexico to handle our Immigration System, im very concerned with that. Because they have failed in every aspect. Just look at the fentanyl crisis. Mexico has not helped us in this area, so we cant allow other countries to handle our National Security. You know, you mentioned the agreement with mexico, thats something the administration was working on over the weekend. They also moved forward on temporary protected status, expanding it for venezuelans to try to give them work permits, as they work to process asylum claims. Whats your message in terms of the administration . I think everybody agrees, both parties, that the Immigration System is broken. Theres no its the only thing i think everybody agrees on in washington. If you had a message as a Border State Lawmaker or a border district lawmaker, what is it to the president . You know, i met with secretary mayorkas, and its a similar message that i gave to him late last week. You know, when you grant 500,000 Ven Venezuelans who came over illegally asylum, youre granting immigration. I have a bill called the higher act, 30 members of congress, ten democrats, 20 republicans that focuses