Okay, we are now 30 days into the government shutdown.

We're going to start tonight with some rare good news.

I know. I love good news, and I love starting the show with it.

I guess I should describe it as tonight we are anticipating good news from a federal judge in Boston.

Because today, that judge said that she would rule very soon on a lawsuit filed by roughly two dozen states

that are trying to make sure people don't go hungry this weekend. And there's a real risk of that.

I mean, that judge seemed utterly baffled by the Trump administration's argument that it cannot

tap into emergency funding to keep money for food stamps flowing. As soon as we learn anything about

that, as soon as we hear a ruling and we have an update, we're going to bring that to you

at any point in the show. But there's a tremendous amount of urgency here because we are on the

cusp of what I would consider one of the greatest failures of government in my lifetime.

Because this Saturday snap benefits, food stamps, are set to stop.

Making it, that will make it much harder for 42 million Americans who rely on these benefits

to get access to the amount of food that they need.

This has never happened before, not since the program started all the way back in 1939.

And we are already seeing the impact.

Take a look at this video. I mean, this video you're seeing on your screen right now.

This was the line today of cars to get into a food bank in Phoenix, Arizona.

Car after car after car, waiting in line, trying to stock up on food before

SNAP benefits are cut off. And there are pictures and video like that from all across the

country. And all around the country, governors have been scrambling to divert funding to help

bolster food banks and to do their best

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