Tonight, Senate Republicans versus Trump, GOP leaders revolt over the administration's $1.8 billion

anti-weaponization fund derailing a key vote on the president's immigration agenda.

Then money power politics.

A Trump-backed super PAC gets a big donation from a tobacco giant.

One week before the FDA announced a new policy on vapes the company won.

And the latest push to break the deadlock between the U.S. and Iran, what both sides are saying now about the chances for a deal as the 11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night.

Thank you. for a deal as the 11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night. Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Rule and check your calendar because we are now

166 days away from the midterms and backlash to the administration's proposed anti-weaponization fund

is getting a whole lot louder. It is apparently too far for Senate Republicans who pressed

acting attorney general Todd Blanche for actual details on the $1.8 billion fund during a closed-door

meeting earlier today. Two aides told the Washington Post that questions

included who would be eligible for the money and what guardrails would exist to prevent

people who are convicted of attacking the Capitol, the Capitol, those very senators on January 6th

from benefiting, adding, quote, Blanche did not adequately answer those questions.

Afterwards, votes on additional funding for immigration enforcement agencies,

which are as a top priority for Trump when they were canceled because the issue of the compensation fund would no doubt come up.

Some lawmakers did not hold back in their opposition.

I want to share just a little bit of retiring Senator Tom Tillis

in his take. Watch this. I think it's stupid on stilts. Why? Because it will invariably put us

in a position where your taxpayer dollars and my taxpayer dollars could potentially compensate someone who assaulted a police officer,

admitted their guilt, got convicted, got pardoned, and now we're going to pay them for that?

That's it.

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