If it's Monday, deal with it.

House Republicans are urging conservative holdouts and critics of House Speaker McCarthy

to get on board with a short-term deal to keep the government open that is loaded with

conservative priorities and likely dead on arrival in the Senate if it ever gets there.

Plus, five Americans wrongfully detained in Iran for years are now on their way back

to the U.S. in exchange for five imprisoned Iranians and $6 billion in previously frozen

funds, as President Biden travels to New York to address the United Nations General

Assembly.

And new developments in the Georgia election interference and racketeering case tied

to former President Trump as he faces a potential gag order in federal court and refuses to

meet the press whether he did anything to stop the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Welcome to Meet the Press.

Now I'm Garrett Hake reporting in Washington, where House Republicans are scrambling to

cobble together the votes to avoid a government shutdown in less than two weeks.

Right now they're even struggling to get on the same page with what amounts to a messaging

bill laying out their demands.

I say a messaging bill because what we're talking about here is a short-term deal to

fund the government that has very little chance of actually funding the government because

if it can make it through the House it has pretty much no chance of making it through

the Senate.

Over the weekend it looked as if a deal had been struck between the far right and moderate

factions of the conference on legislation to fund border security priorities with deep

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