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Thats five pm on the east coast, and the nations eyes are on washington. On capitol hill. We are a stopgap federal Spending Bill is now in the hands of the senate. After being passed in dramatic fashion by the house, just a couple of hours ago. To fund our government and avoid a shutdown with just seven hours left on the clock to do so. We have a lot to cover on our show tonight, but we start with a possible shutdown at midnight. Nbcs Ali Vitale Is Standing by on capitol hill. Elie, give us the latest. Right, things have been fast around here, because if you had told me when i left late last n...

To go down the wrong road. yeah, people may have a difference on this issue, but we're not going to be divided on so many other things. the naacp is not going to lose significant membership, for instance, for taking this stand. we may even gain membership. the reality is that people expect to see the naacp stand up for the constitution, stand up for equality, stand up for continuing the tradition of our country, and one that we've always found, really, in recent decades, but stand up for the tradition of using constitutions to expand rates rather than contract them. i mean, that's something th...

There. one of the reasons why this issue is so important, so important that we as a country just get it right. this is an issue of civil law, it is a civil rights issue. think of marriage and what our government does. because when we get it wrong, it gives permission for people to bully kids, to make their parents outcasts, and that's why i'm so proud of what our board did, that they really discerned, they debated and they came down, came down very firmly that this is an issue of the constitution. it's a matter of our law, it's a question of how our government treats its citizens, and how we w...