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and sbc host, jen psaki. that interview coming up in minutes. and a very good day to all of you from nbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, right, now the senate is holding a sunday session as lawmakers scramble to lockdown a last-minute deal on funding for both ukraine and israel. this comes after republican scrapped a bipartisan border deal that would have finalized that budget for wartime. we have a live report ahead for you. of course, that wartime aid, in the meantime. a second vote on -- all hundred mayorkas impea...

Negative impact on aviation security." in other words, if they don't start to work this out. this is a real problem, shep, when they're not talking. j.f.k. in his inauguration speech said you shouldn't be afraid to negotiate. they can't get to any resolution, any compromise if they're not negotiating, shep. >> shepard: anything from the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell? he's the one in the past that has said i get you out of shut downs. any luck? >> that's what people have been confounded by here. mitch mcconnell is one of those folks that has this really good inside game. he's good wor...

Closure, meaning i am voting to end the debate, but it does not mean i am going to vote positively at the next stage. that pretty much never happens in confirmations, but we've seen a lot of firsts in this one so far. >> could you imagine any senators -- i'm trying to imagine the argument that would lead a senator to do that. >> the argument is the belief that the nominee or the bill in some cases deserves an actual up and down vote. and i am willing to proceed it to a nonvote. in fact, a lot of senators used to do this a lot of the time in the past. it's a very common thing. you never took th...

To a nonvote. in fact, a lot of senators used to do this a lot of the time in the past. it's a very common thing. you never took the closure vote to mean the guarantee on what the next vote would be. it was simply senators saying, well, of course, this should go to a final vote. and so that's also a possibility here. >> and it does feel like every day this story takes another twist, this nomination takes another twist. there is a new either external or intrinsic nafactor that we weren't factoring in, and so this is real news time. >> and you're right, mitch mcconnell is really worried about a ...

Let's say they vote at 11:00. let's say they close the vote by 11:30. there's 51 yays. that clock starts to run. there's an agreement that the confirmation vote on brett kavanaugh would be about 5:30 saturday afternoon. you can speed that up if the other side wants to give up some of that time. we don't know that yet. >> neil: there's a lot of people that could give up talking. let's say 10:00 a.m. eastern time, it went to noon, the vote could happen then, right? >> you're right in the wheel house, neil. that closure vote will happen then. the rule is it happens an hour after the senate conven...