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it's tuesday, november 14th. congress has until friday to pass a funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. speaker mike johnson might get support from house democrats on his two-step strategy to avoid that shutdown. we'll explain that plan. plus, special counsel jack smith responds to donald trump's push for cameras in the courtroom in his federal election interference case. meanwhile, the former president's eldest son takes the stand again in the civil fraud trial against the family business. we'll get legal analysis on that testimony. and we'll have the latest out of gaza ...

Out to -- and make it easier for voters and watchers to understand that, you know, extortion is illegal and these actions were improper and problematic. but it will be very important for democrats to stay on message and make a mark right away especially with the white house rolling out counterprogramming with president erdogan's visit to the white house on wednesday. >> so the president, his strategy seems to be just keep on tweeting. keep on talking to reporters. deny anything was wrong. republicans, though, seem to have a slightly, i guess, i don't know if nuanced is the right word, slightly...

Process isn't being held up. you'll see at the beginning of the hearing they'll do a motion to adjourn. they'll do a motion to have a subpoena for hunter biden right there, anything they can do distract away from the substance they'll hear and draw the line towards the process because that's what they think is their best winning argument. >> the president, is he worried at all about public hearings and how that might sway public opinion? the numbers on impeachment has been ticking upwards. do they think that this is unpredictable what might happen? >> well, i think that that's reflected a litt...

I mean, before you get there, the rules process, you wrote today in an nbc news think piece about how republicans should understand the rules process because they're the ones who wrote the rules for these committees. >> right. >> let's all understand something here, for the last 25 years, 20 of them republicans controlled the congressional committees. they controlled the investigators. we saw through benghazi, these are the same rules being used right now by democrats. they don't like not having a counsel present for the president, they have to blame themselves because they wrote those rules. ...

Articulate people telling the story of a president who let's forget quid pro quo. it's one of the things to muddy the works. who extorted a vulnerable country by holding up military aid. >> republicans aware of the high stakes are preparing to defend the president by tearing down the investigation. according to politico, they'll continue to paint the process as politically motivated by minimizing mr. trump's role in any shadow campaign and pushing debunked conspiracy theories about ukraine's alleged influence in the 2016 elections. they've also demanded to hear from the whistleblower and hun...