This is cnn Breaking News. Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. This very busy saturday. Im fredricka whitfield. Breaking news this hours, just moments ago, you watched it live right here on cnn, the house voted to pass a shortterm funding bill that will keep the u. S. Government open for 45 days. The bill includes Natural Disaster aid, but does not include funding for ukraine or the border. The lastminute hail mary from House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy seems to have worked in the house, but the shutdown has not yet been averted. It is now up to the u. S. Senate to pass this proposal. Lets get right to cnns manu raju on capitol hill. What is the latest . Youre positioned to talk to anybody who comes and goes. Whats being said . Reporter look, this is a frantic day that a Government Shutdown could be averted after republicans reversed course. Speaker mccarthy capitulated after indicating for some time that he would not move forward with a bill if it did not cut spending
A lot of republicans feel differently, theyre very happy with the way it turned out, but i would have as the leader of the party, i would like to have had the seat. I want to endorse the people that are unaring. Well, Richard Shelby, the senior senator from alabama, pointedly refused to endorse moore, saying alabama deserved better. Here is senator shell by today. People that i spoke, talked to doug jones, oh, 30 or 40 minutes ago. Congratulated him. I have known him a long time, and i told him that i look forward to working with him up here for the great interests of the nation and the people of alabama. I think basically the voters, the majority of the voters in my state chose principle over politics. Principle over politics. Well, doug jones rode to victory thanks to a coalition of support from young people, women and africanamericans mostly who voted in Record Numbers. 96 of black voters said they backed jones and they turned out in big numbers. Senator booker of new jersey was a b
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hatred of the subject of the special counsel s investigation. you re the guy in charge. you could disband the mueller special prosecutor and do what we have called for, to appoint a second special counsel to look into this. at the same time he took heat from democrats wanting to be sure the department is not politicized by president trump or his allies. here is congressman hakeem jeffreys. is ever is it probably for any president of the united states to encourage the department of justice to launch criminal investigations against his or her perceived political enemies? i m not going to comment on that, congressman. as i have explained previously, the president has put a team of experienced folks in charge of the department of justice and we re not going to be influenced by anything other than the facts of law. i m joined by democratic congressman rakeem jeffries of new york. thank you. give us a sense of what it