A deal next . Five days left until a Government Shutdown. Could there also just be five days left in Kevin Mccarthys speakership . Hanging in the balance not just his job but the jobs and salaries of thousands of workers. And the calls are coming from inside the house and the senate now, a growing number of democrats say senator bob menendez needs to step down after being charged with bribery. The senator is set to speak out this morning for the First Time Since the indictment came down. Im sara sidner with john berman, kate bolduan is off. This is cnn news central. They have a deal, but its tentative, after 146 days on strike the Writers Guild of america has agreed to terms with major studios but the deal is not quite put to bed yet. If they can finalize it popular tv shows and films could soon be returning. For months now most of hollywood has been shut down as the Writers Union and another Union Representing actors have been striking. But more than 11,000 writers may get the green light to return to work as soon as tomorrow. That is if the tentative deal is ratified by union members. Still the actors union, sagaftra remains on the picket line and it represents more than 160,000 actors and economists say the combination of the two strikes has left a 5 billion impact on the nations economy. Cnns Camila Bernal is in los angeles for us. Can you give us some sense of the deal that has been made tentatively between the writers and the studios . Reporter well, they have not released any details, sara, so everybody is just sort of holding their Breath Waiting to see the exact details what these two sides agreed on but i talked to a lot of the writers and they were telling me, look, they knew our demands, they knew what we wanted in terms of wages, streaming and residuals and also in terms of artificial intelligence. A lot of writers i talked to told me were confident in those wga negotiators. Sources did tell cnn that that last Sticking Point was artificial intelligence. Its not easy to deal with something that we dont really know, we dont understand a lot of it and dont know whats going to be developed in the future. So that took some time and a lot of the writers have also told me, look, were ready to go back to work but the union is telling them not yet. They are being told, look, we have to work through some of the techni technicalities, they are working through the language of the contract. Then there are leadership votes, those are expected to happen tomorrow. After that happens then the deal is going to be made public and we will be able to see exactly what they negotiated. The writers will be able to ask questions and eventually vote to ratify this deal. But again, were waiting for the actors as well. So even if this deal does go through and the writers ratify it, were waiting for sagaftra and a lot of people seem to think that maybe this will encourage them or essentially speed up their process, but we have to wait and see because a lot of these productions are likely not going to go back to normal until the actors also come to an agreement with the studios. Really there is a sigh of relief here, but were still waiting because we do not know whats going to happen with the actors, sara. That still remains to be seen, the actors still striking, about 160,000 of them are part of that union. I want to ask you about the writers here. Does this mean we will not see them in the streets striking while this deal is being hashed out . Well, this is a really good question because what the wga is actually telling them is go out to the streets, but only the sagaftra picket lines. So what theyre being told is we no longer have any picket lines for wga, but there are still the actors who are out there, so the writers are being told go out on the street, but only to support the actors. So really this is just a big family, everybody works with each other here. This has been a very difficult five months for everybody in the industry and, yes, there is some hope on the horizon, but again, theyre supporting the actors and hoping that that deal also comes to a resolution soon, sara. Camila bernal, thank you for that update. We are standing by for the first public remarks from democratic senator bob menendez since his corruption indictment. His office Just Announced that he will deliver a statement a little bit later this morning. We will bring that to you live. And these words come as more and more politicians from his own party call on him to resign. Cnns sara murray is with us now. This will be a big moment for Senator Menendez. Yeah, its going to be a very interesting day for the senator. Obviously as you said this is the first time we are going to see him making comments in public since he and his wife were indicted on Bribery Charges, a corruptionrelated charges. Again, second time in ten years menendez has faced these corruptionrelated charges. The last time there was a mistrial, he was acquitted by a judge on a number of charges and the Justice Department declined to retry him on a number of others. Now they are back at this. Menendez has just been defiant throughout all of this. I want you to take a listen to him talking back in april about this investigation and how convinced he was it was going to lead nowhere. To any new jersey voters watching right now who may have concerns that, again, youre facing scrutiny over corruption, what is your response to them . The response to what is simply that, number one, this inquiry will end up, i believe, in absolutely nothing and if anyone looks at my history on egypt that would know by denying aid and arms sales to egypt, criticizing its Human Rights Effort im not in a position to be helpful to anyone as it relates to egypt. Reporter now, since he has been indicted he has said i am not going anywhere. He has been insist ept that he is not stepping down even though he has had to step aside from his role as chair of the Senate Foreign relations committee. He is up for reelection next year. If he addresses his political future in his remarks today. We are hearing more democrats come out and call for Senator Menendez to step down, to step aside. Not necessarily a drum beat of all of his Senate Colleagues, but we have heard from pennsylvania senator John Fetterman saying he should step down, new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy saying he should resign as well as a couple other members of congress. We will see if this drum beat continues to grow but there has been a certain amount of deference to his Senate Colleagues when it comes to his political future. Sara murray, watching this alongside us. Thank you very much. With us john bres nihan. Whats the most complicated thing he could say for national democrats, john . He could run for reelection and that would be a big problem for them. New jersey has legislative elections on november 7th. I mean, new jersey i was talking to one of the new jersey Democrats Last Night and they are like, gosh, we really hope he announces he is not running again. If he runs again he becomes an issue in every race. You have seen a couple races, senate races, where the candidates, Democratic Candidates called on him to resign. In california adam schiff and katie porter, both called on him to resign, Elissa Slotkin in michigan, shes called on menendez to resign. He is as sara murray said, he is defiant. We expect something at 11 30. I covered the 2015 indictment leading up to that and his trial and everything. He was very defiant all the way through that. Its in his character to dig in and push back as much as he can. People may be speculating Senator Menendez will come up with a statement this morning, is he going to resign. I think the expectation is, no, not only not going to resign but the concern as you say is actually go further and say not only am i not resigning but im running for reee section. Why is it that maybe some of these national democrats, particularly new jersey democrats, dont have sway with him . You know, menendez has his power bases in union city, north jersey, he came out of that, he was very he grew up very humble origins, he is the son of cuban immigrants, he has for a long time he called himself the top latino in congress and was senior latino member in congress. Thats not quite true right now, but he argues that hes being persecuted because of his latino heritage. This is why hes been indicted more than once. The only senator in u. S. History thats been criminally indicted more than once. We had congresswoman ocasiocortez say im a latina and this is not true. She called on him to resign. These charges are serious. Menendez the allegations if you read the indictment theyre absolutely bonkers. He was getting gold buh i dont know bullion. Hes got 480,000 in cash. Back win he gave that interview that you guys ran a clip on, his home had been raided in june 2022. They knew this was coming for more than a year. So this is just this is shocking that, you know, he kept acting like nothing was happening in this whole case the whole time, that he knew he was the feds had been in his home and seized all this money. So its just you know, its par for the course to be back at you, but i just cant believe that hes just that every other democrat is going to go along with this. John, weve been looking at the pictures, these are actually the exhibits in the indictment where youre seeing those gold bars, youre seeing the cash, youre seeing stuff that was stuffed into some of his jackets there. There was also a car in question. A mercedes convertible. John had to point that out. I do want to ask you about an interesting twist here, john. New york representative George Santos said you are innocent until proven guilty, but he also said lets let him stay in office. He should not resign. Is this the guy you want backing you . I dont know if you want George Santos who is under criminal indictment himself to be the one to vouch for. It is accurate, very accurate. Menendez had been indicted on Bribery Charges before and the case went to a jury and, you know, it kind of it went to trial, it fell apart and the Justice Department withdrew its charges. In that case it was interesting because menendez was able to raise millions of dollars, he argued that the Obama Administration was targeting him because he was against the Iran Nuclear Accord which president obama had negotiated at that point. And this time he doesnt really have that argument. Its the Biden Administration is completely different set of people other than Vice President biden, but Bone Fascinating you talked about the egyptian angle. There are very serious allegations here that he was giving information on u. S. Personnel in the embassy through his wife to egyptian officials while they were negotiating with the United States. I think thats a bridge too far for a lot of folks. This is not the allegation that we saw in 2015. This is youre involved allegedly with a foreign power passing information to them. I mean, i think thats a completely different type of charge and i think thats very serious for a lot of members of congress. A lot of the charges are extremely serious, i think that the charge involving an egyptian businessman is probably the most serious in many peoples eyes. John bresnahan, thank you so much. You know your stuff and i know you will be covering this for us as well as punchbowl news. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy says some of his own members want to burn the place down. One republican says they are about to eat an s sandwich. What is Kevin Mccarthys new plan to keep the government open and maybe save his job. Cassidy hutchinson speaking out for the First Time Since testifying before the january 6 committee. Her response to critics and what she would like to see in the 2024 race. This morning the clock is if Speaker Mccarthy ultimately allows a deal to pass with democratic votes would you support ousting him from the speakers chair . That would be something i would look strongly at, maam. Cnns lauren fox is on capitol hill this morning. All right. Lauren, i know that everyone is off today, it is i dont mean kip if kip pure. Reporter right now there isnt a clear plan to avoid a shutdown, instead you have republicans trying to make sure that the right flank of their party may get comfortable with some kind of spending deal. The way theyre trying to do it is have votes on individual Spending Bills, oneyear Spending Bills to fund the department of defense, homeland security, state and agriculture, but those bills would not allowed a Government Shutdown. However, therapies of legislation that hardliners have asked the speak tore put on the floor. The reason theyre going ahead with this strategy is they are hoping as they build trust with those hardliners that they can convince them to rally around a shortterm bill to fund the government for a couple of weeks. But again, that would be a republicanonly bill in the house of representatives. Another option that likely would be dead on arrival in the senate and, therefore, would not avoid a Government Shutdown. Right now House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy is likely staring down two options, one of which would involve the Senate Passing their own spending bill, a shortterm bill to avoid a shutdown that would be negotiated between Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and majority leader chuck schumer. He would have to make the decision to put it on the floor of the house. But as you heard there, if he makes that decision to work with democrats to try to pass this out of the house to avod the shutdown he likely could face the end of his speakership. So if he didnt want to take that option he would then potentially let the government shut down by not putting anything on the floor of the house. Again, house leaders are trying to implore their members to get to yes on a shortterm option hoping if they had a republican passed bill out of the house they could work with the senate to find a compromise but so far they have not been successful in their pleas. The latest one came on saturday in a conferencewide call, john. At this point most roads still seem to lead to a shut down. We are watching. Lauren fox, keep us posted. Here is what would happen if the government does shut down. Nearly 4 million federal employees would immediately feel the impact. Some are deemed essential and would be forced to keep working, others will be furloughed, but none of them will see a paycheck until a funding deal is made. The Largest Federal Employee Union with over 750,000 americans includes health care professionals, law enforcement, park rangers, tsa agents and Social Security workers and they on average earn between 55,000 to 65,000 a year, some of them much less, which led the unions president to make this urgent message to lawmakers. Quote, most of our members live paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to miss one days pay. Thats one payday, excuse me. Thats why we are calling on congress to do its job. As for americans who dont work for the government, a shutdown can bring some major travel disruptions, for example. Public health risks as the epa Rolls Back Inspections at hazard waste sites and Drinking Water facilities. Low income americans could see impacts to their food and housing aid and museums and National Parks could close down until there is a bill and it is funded. John . It has an impact on lives and the budget to be sure. So former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson who delivered Bombshell Testimony to the january 6th congressional investigators is defending herself in her First Television interview since that testimony. Listen. What would i have to gain by coming forward . It would have been easier for me to continue being complicit and to stay in the comfortable zone of i had some sense of security, a semblance of security. I knew people that i could easily reach out to for jobs. In her testimony last year hutchinson said that trump was aware of the potential violence on january 6 but still went a ahead with his attempt to rile up supporters. Katelyn polantz is with us now. This is the first time we are hearing at length from Cassidy Hutchinson. I should note she speaks to jake tapper tomorrow. Whats your take away there . Reporter john, shes being quite reflective on this decision that she made first when she had gone into the committee she had lawyers paid for by donald trump and she said she didnt she didnt recall much at all about what she witnessed at the end of the Trump Administration and then in her own mind she believes that she did recall. She remembered episodes s