Host good morning it is friday, september 22. Night is left and no agreement to fund the federal government bill. They make the case for continued support and funding for congress. We are taking your calls on those issues the looming Government Shutdown and the support for ukraine. Democrats 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, independents 202 7488002. We have aligned set aside for current federal employees that number is 202 7488003 you can also use that same number two text us and we are also on social media at facebook and twitter. Host we start with the funding issue in the washington post. The funding plan is upended. House republicans for the second week in a row failed to move forward in legislation related to funding the government. The Government Shutdown looms next week. The status of negotiations on the shortterm funding solution and longterm appropriations legislation inclined so severely thursday that lawmakers returned home with no schedule for the rest of the week. Republicans inability to pass a funding revision since returning to washington last week including failing to start debate on a Defense Department appropriations bill is the latest embarrassment for the, Congress Whose direction is being dictated not by leaders but by a handful of governance fallouts. That is the washington post. And here is the latest on zelinskis visit. The headline is zelenskyy pleads for aid. The article starts when ukrainian president last visited washington it was the topsecret trip and his first time to leave ukraine. He received a wacom a welcome at the white house and capitol hill. Compared to Winston Churchills visit to washington in 1940 werent. 1941. The most recent visit is vastly different. Kevin mccarthy decrying declined the joint meeting of congress. He was unable to have any major breakthroughs in his military current counteroffensive against russia. And president zelenskyy was speaking in washington yesterday he gave a speech at the National Archives last night. A metal for every ukrainian inch left. Every day of this war ukrainian soldiers hold on with the grit of a bulldog. They chew and choke their russian pocket buyers russian occupiers as much as possible. Never for did russian dictatorship have such strong resistance and never again will russia managed to destroy any other nation. [applause] putins list was long just recently after ukraine half of europe again would be in danger of being in moscows sphere of influence, but american influence of Ukrainian Security and Global Freedom is working 100 , every cent. [applause] now putins list of goals is different. Instead of kicking war to america, europe, and the whole free world, where it is possible to humanize himself by personally taking litigation from others and trying to find favor with integra. This is his career weakness. Ukraine pays a high price for detaining freedom and global security. Every day, every night, our soldiers sacrificed their lives holding their ground in the trenches on the frontline. They lose their comrades in battle, they lose limbs tripping russian mines every day, every night russia continues with missiles and drones. But every day and every night our unity stay strong. You support us and we know we should move forward. Host that was president zelenskyy last night making a case for additional hunting funding. We are taking your calls about that and the possible Government Shutdown in nine days. We start with john, a democrat, good morning. Caller hello i am john. I want to do two or three quick parts out here then i will be hanging up. The republicans do not like ukraine and not supporting it because trump told them not to because he does not like the president. Because the president there wanted to dig up dirt on biden. Im a vietnam veteran. To see ukraine with the strength and stamina they have and the education they have to to fight their own war, i was in the vietnam era wrote war, i saw american troops on the ground died. They fought in the war for us. All weve got to do is give them weapons and support, truck dont like it. When trump republicans dont vote for the money, they cut it all. The speaker of the house, he does what trump says to do. All of them do because they think about trump being reelected. Let me speak about, what else do i want to speak about . President trump would like to speak about the shutdown. Well, you know that makes the economy bad. That is what trump wants. Because we suffer, our credit was down a few months ago, our credit went down, so the republicans do things to be elected. So be smart. The republicans will not, they do not want democracy, they dont like it and the idea is to turn the policy down and they are doing it everywhere they can. Thank you very much. Host lets talk to linda in california. Independent. Caller hi, there is so much to say. I will stick with what the lenski said in saying no more will russia ever destroy another nation. How can any decent person stand up there and Say Something like that after the United States destroyed iraq civilization, destroyed libya, the highest bidder and the wealthiest nation of africa and tried to destroy syria and it was the russians who went in to preserve the government of syria. It was the russians who got the case of the ukraine civil war following Victoria Nulands orchestrated pool of their elected government. It was fresh as got that civil war over to the ofce that is the organization for the security of europe. It is russia they got there and got them that agreement. They have all sides are signed and now we learn host so why do you think russia invaded last february . Caller they invaded everybody who should read putins speech of 224 2 24 22 he was going in there to stop the people from the attacks of kyiv. So you say it is justified, the war that is ongoing . Caller not the ongoing war but the initial donbas area going in there to defend the ethnic russians. Host but right now, linda, right now do you think it is still justified or that the russians should pull out and in the war . Caller the United States, russia, Everybody Needs to be at a table talking peace. United states and United Kingdom have staffed near peace agreements. Host ok. Randy republican in kentucky. Good morning. Caller good morning. And what the old lady said there , she is probably correct about the things she said only the ukrainian situation i think that we cause that invasion. Everything that history has told us is that biden wanted to do that. The United States wanted to do that, the military wanted to do that, lindsay garin Lindsey Graham wanted to do that, and warmongering they wanted to do that. I think at the beginning they should pursue peace and not antagonize the world like we always do. Also, you have the immigrants this morning they were showing that on fox news. Fox news just went blank and it stopped. They have an illegal lady on their talking and she was talking about how terrible the border crisis is at somebody i guess it is a conspiracy, i believe in all those things now. Of seen so many things but they shut fox news down this morning because they had a hispanic lady on their talking about how terrible the border crisis is and how many are coming across. Her husband used to be, probably still is a border agent. It is amazing. And also another thing i hear a lot of black people calling in i guess and you can distinguish between the races in the way they talk as far as the accent they have but i dont where to these people get their information . Just like me [indiscernible] host ok we are getting off the subject. Lets go to florida, democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning how are you doing today . I wanted to mention ukraine. Dont nobody remember world war ii, we hit the runabout that he got so powerful that he it took the whole damn to stop him. And if we do the same with russia do not call me, because this is ridiculous. Are you ignorant . Have a good day. Goodbye. Host good fight goodbye. Caller good morning. You look greta, you look pregnant. Host no this is mimi. This is not greta at all. Caller well anyway they need to shoot rockets into moscow to end the war. Then the war would be over. I do not see any reason why we should be spending more money there. Joe biden got billions of dollars out of ukraine and now he is trying to repay ukrainian taxpayer money to fund the war. It was a military man i know a little bit about war and politicians in war, you will never have the in of it. Politicians have no reason to be in a war. As far as the border goes, im 150 miles from the border and we have illegals running free all over our counties. It is time to stop the border. Time to close the border. Host lets take a look at after the closeddoor meeting with the ukrainian president zelenskyy, the chair Michael Mccaul told reporters that ukraine is in need of more military assistance and the country would ultimately get it to cite despite threats. Asked what is your plan for victory . Two things, air cover with the f16s and a long range artillery. They need one that will hit crimea or the drums that are coming out. They are going with no air cover. They have to take on minds by hand at nighttime. We need to give them everything they need. If his administration will not give it to them i submit we write it in our appropriations bill and we write in what he asked for that the administration will not give that we write that in the reparations bill. [indiscernible] we all agree on this. Did he say anything about the 24,000,000,008 package and what it would mean ukraine . Of course they needed and they will get it. About the package and what it would mean for ukraine . Of course they need it. And they will get it. They need it and we will do it soon. Host we will pause on our phone calls. If youre on the line we will talk to a reporter now for a few minutes if youre on the line wait for a few minutes. We will talk to our order now. What are the main reasons republicans could not come together on a continuing resolution . This is with too many House Republicans for continuing resolution. It cannot be get past get past the floor. Theres a coalition of at least seven republicans that say they will not under any circumstances stop this. And House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy really can only do to get anything passed. With seven or eight House Republicans standing their ground saying they will not have a continuing resolution there is seemingly no way to get through. Host what is the strategy going to be for Health Leadership . Starting yesterday there were several meetings where House Republicans were closing floating a couple different ideas for how they want to keep government funded. There are several backup plans if that does not go through. As of right now, lawmakers came out of a meeting yesterday saying they want to go through all creations those separately. Have each of them come to the floor individually for votes. They say they will start with a combined group they will try to get for appropriations will on the floor together and tried to get the all rolling on that this weekend. It is not clear if they can get through all 12 for the Government Shutdown deadline which is just eight days. They may have an appropriations bill they still have 11 to go through. That means they will try to go through each one individually, send them to the senate and start negotiations from there. Host you say there is a possibility of the votes happening this weekend . The initial plan was they would have votes today and saturday but when things started to derail it yesterday and otis went out to members that it it will be essentially canceled and the number is on standby but it looks like now they will today and they have for Appropriations Bills. They look at homeland security, stateboard operations, defensive agricultural appropriations bill. That is the first combined one on the floor. It does not look like they will have a vote on that yet because so many members did go home for the weekend. They do not have a numbers to bring anything to the floor but monday we are looking at that at the earliest. Host what is the strategy of Freedom Caucus members. Are they providing alternatives as far as a stop gap funding bill or anything like that . It seems that a lot of the house and caucus members they are saying no stop gap measures. They will not report it. Then that will either be individual spending ills or have a shutdown. They been adamant about that. There have been some republican and kratz have been discussing democrat discharged and whether they will continue on the floor with work. But Freedom Caucus members do not want to continue this resolution under those circumstances. It is an interesting balance to see if they will avert a shutdown. They are ok with forcing that enforcing that if it means taking control. They see this as the only way they can have influence over congress. Host what is a likelihood of Speaker Mccarthy working with democrats to get things done . When i spoke with republicans yesterday coming out of their meeting, they said a lot of the talks included mccarthy. Basically saying that mccarthy could work with democrats if you wanted to but the minute he does that he could trigger he is it stuck in the balance where he is trying to please all corners of the caucus. He wants a plan that can unite parties but he said to do that it is unlikely to avoid a shutdown raid we only have eight days until the government has a collapse on its funding. There are a couple republicans talking to democrats to figure out a plan. Its not clear or theism of the talk. If mccarthy is not is part of this talk. Things are looking precarious in that area. Host as mccarthy said anything about the future of his speakership and the concerns he has for that . Weve been trying to talk to republicans and mccarthy about whether that is something they are focused on or in the back of their mind. A lot of them say spending is at the forefront right now area mccarthy says he is confident in his eager ship. Last week he was saying they will if youre going to vacate. Then bring it. He is already on the debt that he could get speakership. It is not clear if jim thats with him or back him. Mccarthy it seems like he is trying to keep his party in line and he is confident for now but i guess we will see how things play out. Host what are you looking at as far as the schedule for next week . There may be votes awesomely monday were likely tuesday. What is happening the rest of the week . This is still in flux. When the notice yesterday telling speaker members to be on standby for the weekend, they are supposed to be on all next week but that is still unclear. It is looking like a possible vote monday or tuesday. Hopefully there will start getting the Appropriations Bills through. Once they do get them through, if they get them through they will be sending them at numbers that are lower than what democrats want. We will start this volley back and forth between the chambers. Unless theres a backup plan somewhere for a continuing resolution the Government Shutdown deadline is looking pretty possible. Host that was washington reporter kami mondo. You can find her work at washington journal. Com. And we have your calls about the possible shutdown for of the government in nine days and we go to john in cleveland ohio. Good morning. Caller good morning i think the American People are brainwashed by the media in this country. I have developed kind of a personal search phrase called c ia controls media and movies to demonize countries for u. S. Wars and attacks against those countries. And if you just see the information that phrase will bring up. It will bring up the Church Senate committee the otis Plate Commission go curb Congressional Committee that put the cia under oath and got them to admit under oath that they had many cia propagandists psychological war for experts and journalists on the payroll of the cia to put their names on the cia written propaganda. Host how is this related to ukraine . Caller it is related because all of the media, fox, and others, all of them democrats and republicans are completely acting as vessels of the military and dust real cia complex. It started in 2014 under the Obama Administration which is now ongoing under the Biden Administration. They hold true to vicious nazi spearheaded coup and they put nazis and fascists in the power of her ration of the military and government and the parliament. They have been killing and assassinating anyone who disagrees with this dangerous escalation. Supported by the United States military industrial cia complex they could lead to a nuclear war because host quinn in maryland. Democrat. Caller yes, i am calling on the ukraine war. It is just strange to me that a lot of people seem to be grasping at a lot of complex answers for something that is quite simple. Russia invaded ukraine in 2014 and they been illegally occupying and it is condemn ive pretty much every country that is not actively working with russia. And pretending the United States is kind of inferior in power for the more and in afghanistan and iraq. Im sure theres disagreements to be have and i personally have my own about what happened in those days, and pretending that russia has never done the same thing seeing the soviet union invading afghanistan or the deals with other countries in the union rather than taking the information that russia is simply vying what atlanta will deposit resources russia lots. Edition to that, having were access to the black sea. Host the port or aid for ukraine . Caller of course. We trillions in i