Lawmakers. The lead starts right now. Volodymyr zelenskyy in d. C. Making his rounds on capitol hill and now he is at the white house. His pleas as House Republicans cant agree on how to fund the u. S. Government, much less a foreign war. And chances of a deal now stalled as lawmakers are sent home for the weekend. Plus, a border emergency. Migrants flood a texas Town Crawling under barbed wire costing a little boy his life as his family tried to swim across the Rio Grande River. And alleged horer in a warehouse dubbed the brave case, strip searches of suspects including a grandmother, it is alleged. Im pamela brown in for jake tapper and we begin with our world lead as right now President Joe Biden meets with ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the white house. Zelenskyy on a laser focused mission in washington, d. C. , secure more aid at all costs quoted as saying if we dont get the aid, we will lose the war. Russia even after 19 months of relentless attacks against ukraine showing no signs of slowing down. Just last night multiple ukrainian cities bombarded by a brutal wave of attacks. But those stakes and there were critical meetings held on capitol hill where aid is a key Sticking Point for some republicans in the house Spending Bill which could all lead to a Government Shutdown. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy denied zelenskyy a meeting with the full republican conference. Lets begin at the white house with cnns kayla tausche. Busy day. President biden and ukrainian president zelenskyy are meeting right now. What do we know about the meeting and will zelenskyy walk away with anything hes asking for in terms of aid . Pam, we know that president zelenskyy and President Biden are going to be having a bilateral meeting. President biden is expected to introduce the ukrainian leader to the former commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker who will be serving as a top diplomat to assist the country in its rebuilding and recovery effort, but, of course, first things first, and that is taking care of the war that is happening on the ground in his country right now. To that end, zelenskyy is also going to be making a presentation to the president s cabinet to give his battlefield perspective and to share more information about what ukraine needs right now at this moment. The Biden Administration is expected to announce a new aid package, 325 million of artillery, antiaircraft, and cluster munitions that the Biden Administration says will help ukraine in the near term on the ground in its counteroffensive with what it needs most right now. Notably, pam, that is coming from an existing authorization from congress. That is not new money. The white house has said that ukraine needs 24 billion to be able to sustain the war from october 1st through the end of the year and that theyve already begun having conversations with congress about what happens after that . But its that 24 billion package that remains in limbo right now with congressional leaders trying to find some path forward to keep the domestic priorities funded and to keep the government open in the coming weeks. We will see what materializes, whether there can be any sort of agreement reached after zelenskyys visit today. Certainly he is making a hard sell as part of this Capitol Campaign but one end of Pennsylvania Avenue is far more supportive than the other. Pam. All right, kayla tausche, thank you so much. Back to zaporizhzhia and Fred Pleitgen is standing by. A new wave of russian attacks in ukraine underscoring why zelenskyy is pleading for more funding. Reporter yeah, and just as president zelenskyy got to washington, d. C. Is when that aerial attack was unleashed. It certainly was massive with the russians launching Ballistic Missiles but a wave of Cruise Missiles at targets mostly in the west of ukraine but in Central Ukraine as well, and the ukrainian General Staff said, look, the numbers are staggering and the russians using ten nuclearcapable strategic bombers launched from an airfield in the west of russia to fire Cruise Missiles at targets in ukraine. The ukrainians say 43 Cruise Missiles were launched by the russians and thanks to some of the western air Defense Systems theyve already gotten first and foremost from the United States they were able to shoot a lot of those down. But a lot of them also actually made it through and hit targets. There were some civilian infrastructure that was hit, a hot hotel in a town where some were killed. Ukraines Energy Infrastructure was also hit. There were big Power Outages in parts of the country that some of which have still not been restored but the ukrainians are saying right now as the temperature gets cooler, fall is progressing and moving into winter, this he fear that the russians could once again launch a bombardment Campaign Like they did all of last winter when they essentially tried to hit Critical Infrastructure trying to freeze the ukrainian population into submission. So that, a big concern for the ukrainians and also why before the meetings that president zelenskyy had with lawmakers and now with President Biden he said that air defense was a big issue for the ukrainians and certainly something where they need help. Theyve already received a lot of help from the u. S. And its allies but they say they need more to keep their skies clear to protect the Critical Infrastructure and protect civilian centers but also to help with their counteroffensive because one of the big issues they have is aerial support. Fred, thank you. Lets go to cnns melanie zanona. Some lawmakers have been supportive of his quest for aid. Others, though, hes really running into a brick wall with. Reporter that divide right there is why there is just so much uncertainty in washington right now. About whether congress will approve additional aid for ukraine and that is despite president zelenskyy coming up to capitol hill today and making a direct plea to members for more aid. Our manu raju reports during a closed door meeting zelenskyy said, you give us money, and we save lives. He also warned that if the United States was to back away from its commitment to ukraine, that ukraine could fall to russia. But there still is a block of hardline conservatives who are still fiercely opposed to ukraine aid, especially over here in the house and that dynamic was really on full display in a pretty striking way today. Over in the senate you saw Chuck Schumer and Mitch Mcconnell walking together flanking on each side of zelenskyy as they walked into the senate for their meeting but over in the house, Kevin Mccarthy did not accompany zelenskyy, in fact, he took some steps to distance himself from the ukrainian president and did not want official photogs in the room although our colleague andy greer obtained some of him posing inside and speaks of the divide they are facing and hear it in their tone. Take a listen to the difference the way theyre talking about ukraine aid. This morning i was proud to welcome president zelenskyy to the capitol. At the risk of repeating Myselves Americans support for ukraine is not charity. Its an investment in our own direct interests. Look, weve got to get our first our fiscal house taken care of here in america. Im more than willing to look at that but the one thing i know is if the president is only focused on that and had 10,000 people on the border and wants to ignore that, i think there are priorities here. Reporter ukraine aid has become a point of contention in these government funding talks, which are still ongoing and not a clear path forward at this moment, pam. The ukraine aid, we should note, is just one part over a spending plan which could lead to a Government Shutdown in ten days from now. Where do things stand . Reporter gop leaders have decided to send members home for the rest of the week after a tumultuous few days in the house and initially planned to put a shortterm funding bill on the floor on saturday after they included a number of conservative priorities to try to win over hardline critics but that was not enough so now its back to the Drawing Board and told the new strategy will be focusing on individual Spending Bills. 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On capitol hill urging lawmakers for more funding in the war against russia but this fight happening among House Republicans is drowning out those pleas. By which republicans you might ask, well, as House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy puts it, those that want to, quote, burn the whole place down. All of this as a Government Shutdown looms over the country and, guess what, sources are telling cnn that House Republican leaders just sent their members home for the week. I want to bring in republican congressman mike lawler of new york and democratic congressman Josh Gottheimer of new jersey. As we just reported your leadership is telling members they can go home for the rest of the week and the weekend and there had been plans for votes tomorrow and saturday. Whats going on . As you can see, im still here just in a meeting downstairs . The whips office continuing the conversations. Many of my colleagues are still here working, discussing, because, you know, we are nine days away from a shutdown and cannot afford to go down that road. I have said from the very beginning, i will do everything in my power to avoid a shutdown and thats why im still here working, and here with Congressman Gottheimer because we need to be able to have these conversation, not just within the House Republican conference, but on both sides of the aisle to avoid a shutdown. All right, well talk more about that in a second but, Congressman Gottheimer, your colleague across the aisle, Congressman Lawler might still be there, but other, they might be going home. Theyve just been given the allclear to go home. What do you make of it . Its incredibly frustrating when the country looks at us and says, why cant you get your work done, which is, frankly, when you have nine days till a shutdown why yesterday and late into the evening the Problem Solvers Caucus, Bipartisan Group of 342 democrats and 30 republicans, we sat in a room and put together a bipartisan agreement to actually keep the lights on in the government, make sure that people, our veteran, seniors, the military doesnt suffer with an unnecessary Government Shutdown and keep the country moving forward. I think thats the kind of work we need and right now getting extremists on the right controlling things make no sense to me and common sense should prevail and thats what were working on. Congressman lawler, you said today you wont be a party to a shutdown, but what are your plans to not be a party to prevent that because thats exactly the direction to which this seems to be headed. Well, as i said i just came from a meeting. I continue to push for the use of a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. I agree with many of my colleagues that we need to reduce spending with all due respect to my colleague standing next to me obviously over the last two years spending increased dramatically. I do want to rein that in. I do think thats why the American People elected a House Republican majority but they elected us to govern and we have that responsibility and so i say to my colleagues on the right, yes, we got to rein in spending and need to work through the appropriations process but we cannot inflict pain on the American People in that process. A shutdown will only hurt the American People and that is what i am trying to avoid and its why im willing to work across the aisle to ensure cr passes but i will continue to talk to my colleagues in the House Republican majority to impress upon them the need to Work Together to govern. We are in a divided government. The democrats control the senate and the white house, so were not going to get everything we want and we have to Work Together to get there. Ill just say there is a huge difference between as michael was pointing out between whats reasonable and draconian. The stuff coming out that were reading about what they want to do to families in this country is draconian and crosses the line. There is a place for reasonableness and including, by the way, as weve been doing focus on paying down the debt and have a Fiscal Commission weve suggested as a way to move forward because i think you want to look at longterm deficit issues but not hurt people, not hurt our veterans or seniors or cut military pay, right, and make sure we look out for people and theres a way to do both and thats what were proposing, a reasonable commonsense bipartisan way forward and you cannot bend to extremism, and i think thats one of the big lessons of right now for the republicans that the extremists dont want to solve problems, they actually just want to muck things up and burn the place down as Speaker Mccarthy said. Well, and as somebody coming from new york, you know, one of the biggest crises were dealing with right now is the migrant crisis, and dealing with our Southern Bor