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. house speaker kevin mccarthy is facing growing pushback within his own party over his new plan to raise the debt limit . we re following this critical test for the speaker for congress and for the president as the clock ticks towards a potential economic crisis. also tonight, alec baldwin s attorney says criminal charges against the actor are being dropped a year and a half after the deadly accidental shooting on the set of his film rust. and trump ally and my pillow chief mike lindell has been ordered to pay $5 million in connection with his false claims about the 2020 election. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news, but we do begin with breaking news out of the white house. cnn senior chief white house correspondent phil mattingly is here with details. phil. what are you learning? well, alex we have known for several months, ....
Ballots will be counted for longer, for three days after november 3rd, after inperson election day is over. Why are democrats this morning so excited about this ruling . Yeah. Well, you know, in some ways you cant extrapolate too much from this ruling but the very individual significance for pennsylvania is why democrats are so happy about this ruling. Pennsylvania is such a critical state, particularly for joe biden. It makes his path to 270 much easier. But its a state that democrats were really worried about in terms of how quickly theyd be able to count ballots, in terms of how long people would have to submit their ballots. So this legal war has been going on for so long. What im hearing is people are saying this is basically a win because, in large part, this issue is being settled. We are now 14 days, two weeks exactly, before election day. It is going to be difficult for this to be reversed after the election. Which is something that the white house and the president signalled ....
Infectious disease we have in this country. They equate this to attack the Fire Department when the house is burning down. We begin with the breaking Supreme Court news and what it means for pennsylvania and the entire president ial election. Joining us now is pennsylvanias attorney general josh shapiro. Good morning, mr. Attorney general. Good morning. Good to be with you. Good to have you. The Supreme Court rejected the republican push to require all ballots be received in pennsylvania by election day. So tell us what this means for pennsylvania and your reaction when you heard it. Look, im pleased with the reaction because the voters here in pennsylvania deserve clarity and confidence in an election thats already under way. Where weve had more than a million pennsylvanians already go to the polls and exercise their rig ....
Decision to bypass congress will end the growing political nightmare for the Republican Party, and they hope quiet down what has become a global controversy. Well go to Phil Mattingly in just a moment. Joining me now is my panel. Caitlin, we need to see the details and exactly what the president says hes doing. But this is a major retreat from a president who does not like to admit i was wrong in the face. Pope francis criticized him today, the canadian and british prime ministers, more importantly here in the realm of domestic politics, republicans are in a panic, think thing is going to be a nightmare in the midterms. A big retreat. Why . Certainly a reversal. If he does sign something which does do this, which is all still up in the air, we have no idea what thats going to look like or when hes going to sign something. People on capitol hill are just as surprised by this ....
Of the conversation around president biden. he becomes once again candidate biden and that s a different kind of spotlight. so in a sense, they didn t need to rush it. and this four year anniversary in some ways is, uh i kind of natural occasion if that s untrue, if that s in fact what they choose to do. all right, evan, stay with me. i want to bring in our abby. phillip abby. what do you think is going to be changing for the president? as he gets ready to announce this after he s really been dragging his feet. you know, honestly, i don t necessarily think that this will change a whole lot about president biden s activities about his strategy. i mean, when you look at the president s schedule over the last couple of weeks and months, you re seeing basically someone who was out there in battleground states touting his achievements, talking about the ways in which the legislation that has passed on her democratic leadership in congress. will benefit specific ....