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Anderson Cooper 360

Senate Republicans block bill to suspend debt limit and avert shutdown

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

President Biden’s legislative agenda enters a critical week as his bipartisan infrastructure deal hangs in the balance and a government shutdown looms after Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed bill to suspend the debt limit. Democratic leaders have struggled to strike a deal among progressives and moderates on the Senate-passed infrastructure bill. John Podesta was former President Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff and was the campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run. He tells Anderson Cooper his advice to Democrats is to “work it out” or “you’ll pay a heavy political price” for failing to act on the crises we’re facing. Plus, the search for Gabby Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie continues with the FBI asking for items of his for possible DNA matching. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins AC360 to discuss the search for Laundrie and what the FBI could do with his DNA.   Airdate: September 27, 2021   Guests: John Podesta Andrew McCabe To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. We have just got another piece of evidence tracing the journey of Gabby Petito and the disappearance of her fiancé who remains at large.

0:09.0

Dispatch audio from the day the couple fought and police were called. The letter RP will hear stands for the reporting party.

0:18.0

Do you have a phone number for the RP or maybe you're still online and a location or a victim's app?

0:25.0

Phone number is f***ing. But the female who got hit they both the male and the female both got into the van and headed north.

0:35.0

RP states he may male hit a female domestic he got into a white Ford transit van as a black ladder on the back Florida plate of Quebec Fox tango.

0:51.0

So golf 0-3 the van turned right onto Main Street from Moonflower Market and headed north onto Main Street.

1:02.0

So just ahead on the program how this late piece fights the bigger picture and fits into it in the search for Brian Laundry.

1:09.0

We begin though with the breaking news from Washington it is unfolding at the start of a critical week for Democrats to either turn big pieces of President Biden's domestic agenda into law or fail to and deliver themselves and the president into a world of political pain.

1:24.0

They're working against a Thursday deadline to reach agreement on what's in legislation that would have passed greatly expand the social safety net with items like universal pre-K for kids paid maternity leave and Medicare dental coverage potentially in the mix.

1:38.0

But if there's no agreement which require support from moderate House and Senate Democrats House progressives could end up voting against the infrastructure bill which the president also wants and has already passed the Senate.

1:50.0

With all that at stake it's getting tense in Washington House Democrats have been meeting behind closed doors and on top of that Senate Republicans just block legislation to prevent the government shutdown.

2:00.0

Senate and Ryan Noble is on the hill for us with the latest so what happens next I mean is there real danger of government shutdown.

2:08.0

Well there is Anderson at this point because the government could run out of money as soon as midnight on Thursday which would mean a partial government shutdown would take place so they need to find some way out of this.

2:19.0

Democrats have been insistent on putting the continuing resolution that would continue to fund the government along with legislation that would raise the debt ceiling which the government is scheduled to reach at around mid-October.

2:32.0

They want to put those two pieces of legislation together in order to force Republicans to vote for it.

2:37.0

Republicans didn't take the bait and they put the filibuster in place today that effectively blocked that legislation.

2:44.0

Now the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer voted no on the legislation so that he can bring it back.

2:49.0

There is talk of them offering up just a clean continuing resolution that would be for a short amount of time just to keep the government open.

2:58.0

At this point they'll they have not revealed what those plans are and when they'll take that legislation up.

3:03.0

And in terms of the two big spending bills that have divided Democrats what do things stand.

3:08.0

At this point they continue to be in a staring contest Anderson the House insists that they will vote on Thursday for that bipartisan infrastructure package but at this point they may not have the votes.

3:22.0

Progressives continue to say that there are as many as 40 progressive lawmakers who are willing to vote no on this package unless they get some sort of firm agreement on that $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.

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