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Phillip starts now. Tonight, a sitting United States senator is accused of using his official position to help a foreign power in exchange for sxrichz rewards. And while the allegations of cash, the gold bars, even the convertibles are getting all the attention, the other end of those alleged bribes is downright chilling. Geeng. Im abby phillip. The Justice Department indicting democratic senator bob menendez and his wife and his wife. That he sought and received Sensitive Information about u. S. Diplomats in egypt. Information that eventually made its way to people with ties to the government...

Speaker offered and if you oppoe it or support it . Guest first of all, greta, its a sad day when we are at the lat minute and coming up, we have seven days left in legislative session to be dealing with a budget and appropriation bills that should have been dealt with a month ago. One of the agreements for those of us that held our vote from mccarthy is he would go to regular order which means having the 12 appropriation bills in june or july so we could look at it and make cuts and get this country back on a firm economic footing. That hasnt happened and hard to get the speaker to come up wi...

Government shutdown and what the people of capitol hill have been doing in the background to keep that from happening. Reporting this morning, saying multiple people said finding a path to adverting a shutdown would begin in earnest, once lawmakers descend on washington because there have been not active negotiations over the august recess. They spent several weeks working the phones, leadership will work this week to decide if keeping the government open is good for the party. Adding that complicated leaderships desire to pass appropriation bills this week is a threat from the caucus, embers ...

A and what writes do accused squatters have . Well, it depends on where they are squatting. Well bring you that. Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Tens of millions of americans look to the skies today to catch hopefully a protected glimpse of a rare total eclipse of the sun. Weather cooperated along much of the path of totality. The Lighting People who had ventured from around the world to what we are supposed to be prime viewing locations. Many others witnessed varying degrees of a partial eclipse. Chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt has a complete wrap up tonight from one of those prime spots,...

Earlier today, the republican fax overhaul plan cleared the house with 227 votes in favor, 205 against. Cspan 3 will continue live coverage of the Senate Finance Committee Review of the gop tax reform proposal tomorrow morning if they havent finished today. We head now to a conversation with senators bob corker and mark warner. They sat down with the New York Times for a discussion about bipartisanship and efforts to overhaul the federal tax code. A. We are going to visit for about 50 minutes together. Its kind of like im seeing you in the Senate Subway and the doors are closed and youre trapp...