Return to Transcripts main page

CNN Newsroom

Procedural Senate Vote to Extend Government Funding; Two BBC Leaders Step Down Amid Edited Trump Speech Scandal; Cleveland Pitchers Charged in Bet-Rigging Scheme. Aired 10-11p ET

Aired November 09, 2025 - 22:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

[22:00:00]

ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening, I'm Polo Sandoval, live in New York, and we are closely following breaking news out of Washington, D.C. The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is closer to an end. In a rare Sunday Senate session, senators voting to unlock the path towards reopening the government. After 40 long days sending so many millions of Americans into uncertainty, and now perhaps we could be even closer, at least a little bit closer to that shutdown nearing an end.

We will take you live to Washington in a few moments. But first, let's get some live analysis from CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein, joining me from Washington, D.C. Ron, it has been an eventful last few hours, to say the least, out of Washington. I'm sure you heard just a few moments ago from Senate Democrats as they, in an effort basically trying to justify their support of this measure.

I'm curious if I could get your immediate reaction from what you just heard.

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, well, look, I mean, it's what, eight Senate Democrats really against the rest of the party that didn't want to concede at this moment. You know, the history is whether talking about 94, 95 with the Republicans shutting down the government, trying to get Bill Clinton to sign their budget or Ted Cruz shutting down the government in 2013, to try to get Barack Obama to reverse the Affordable Care Act. Shutdowns have not worked historically to force the president to do something, to capitulate to the other side.

But to give in at this moment, exactly after Democrats had such a big election, which Trump himself acknowledged was partly because people were blaming Republicans more for the shutdown, and to get very, very little, almost nothing meaningful in terms of their original goals in return. I think they have a really hard, you know, road ahead to convince the vast majority of Democrats that this was the right move.

SANDOVAL: Ron Bronstein, stay with us. I want to get some live reporting now from CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju, who was first to break this initial announcement of this deal. Manu, you were also listening just a few moments ago to congressional

Democrats. What did you hear? What stood out to you? And what are we still waiting for?

MANU RAJU, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I was actually at that press conference asking them about this deal that was cut, that will eventually lead to the reopening of the government. We are waiting for one Republican senator to vote yes on this motion to advance this bill, that Senator John Cornyn of Texas is expected to vote yes. So there's no drama at this moment.

We do expect there to be enough votes to advance this bill. So watch for that to -- this vote to close in a matter of minutes here. But what will be debated is among Democrats in particular is about whether or not this deal was worth it.

The Democrats that did ultimately cut this deal said that they had to do it. They said this is really the best deal that was on the table, even though it does not include their chief demand, which is to extend those expiring subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. They said initially that led to this 40-day government shutdown, that that must be extended, must be tied to any deal to reopen the government, which Republicans flatly said no, that had been their position all along.

Donald Trump in recent days has hardened that position. And these group of Democrats said, look, this shutdown has gone on too long. Too many people are getting hurt.

People are without paychecks. Federal food aid is now drying up and people are seeing their flights delayed and canceled. It is time to end this shutdown.

They said very clearly when I asked them directly, are you not capitulating? Because that is the belief among Democrats, because there is no guarantee your separate health care bill will become law. They say this there was never a guarantee it would become become law. And this was the best deal on the table.

They believe this deal would not have gotten better later in the week, next week or the week after, that ultimately they had to deal with what was on the table before them, which has now led to eight Democrats voting to advance this plan.

[22:05:00]

We expect it ultimately to pass as a procedural vote today, but that's going to set the stage for a final passage vote in the Senate probably as soon as tomorrow. And then it would go over to the United States House, which has been out of session since September 19th, all in a bid to try to pressure Democrats to vote for a bill to reopen the government. They have to come back into town, expect that to happen by the middle of the week.

And then this painful government shutdown will end as federal employees can finally get the paychecks they have missed multiple times as hundreds of thousands have been furloughed in the middle of this crisis.

SANDOVAL: Manu Raju, live on Capitol Hill. Manu, I'll come back to you in just a few moments. Let me just go to the White House now and CNN's Betsy Klein has been following this closely.

Betsy, President Trump back at the White House. Have we heard from him yet?

BETSY KLEIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: No, we are very closely monitoring the president's social media channels, but for now, President Trump uncharacteristically silent. But this expected passage of this vote marks what could ultimately be the end of this historically long 40-day government shutdown and the reopening of the federal government. And this has been 40 days of uncertainty and hardship for more than one million federal workers, many of whom were deemed essential and required to report to work for the entirety of this shutdown, along with so many of those federal workers who do live paycheck to paycheck.

And this expected passage of this vote comes as the shutdown really reached a new level of pain over the weekend. We heard from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warning that they were going to reduce air travel to what he described as a trickle heading into the very busy Thanksgiving holiday travel season. And on SNAP benefits, those very critical nutrition benefits that 42 million Americans depend upon to eat, the Trump administration had curbed the disbursement of those benefits to about 65 percent, creating additional hardship there.

And the heart of the issue driving this shutdown, as Manu just laid out, was that Democrats wanted to extend those Affordable Care Act, Obamacare-enhanced subsidies before they are set to expire in the coming weeks. President Trump making his opposition to that very clear in recent days.

We also heard a shift in tone from President Trump in recent days following that Tuesday election as Democrats really swept some of those key races. President Trump warned that Democrats were not shouldering enough of the blame for this shutdown. He also intensified both publicly and privately his calls for senators to end the filibuster.

That is that 60-vote threshold for passing legislation. The president ramping up that pressure, even though lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were making clear that that was just not going to happen. So all of these pieces clicking into place.

There are two key moments here in this bill for federal workers. Number one, this bill does say that those federal workers who were fired during the shutdown will be reinstated and fully paid.

Separately, President Trump signed a law back in 2019 after the last very long 35-day government shutdown ensuring that all furloughed workers would receive back pay. In recent weeks, the president had called that into question, but we have learned that they will be paid. But we are watching very closely to see how the president reacts to this bill, whether he's supportive of it.

Right now, we do have the president's schedule for tomorrow as he hosts the Syrian president here at the White House. That meeting for now is closed to press -- Polo.

SANDOVAL: CNN's Betsy Klein waiting for that statement coming out from the president. Hopefully anytime soon we'll come back to you when that happens.

I want to go back to Manu Raju on the Hill, if I could, and more of the reporting that he's had all night, specifically the question of what the options could be for Democrats.

Manu, you're the expert in this. I'm looking far ahead here. As you reported earlier tonight, part of the compromise is a guarantee of an ACA vote in the not-too-distant future.

But as you've also reported, with perhaps little to no support from the president, does this set us up for another heated fight down the road? Do Democrats have an option, perhaps, to really sort of throw a wrench into things when it comes to funding the government again?

RAJU: Yes, that's a great question, Polo, because that could certainly happen. In fact, the same Democratic senators who cut this deal were just asked, what about the next time down the road when there's another government funding deadline and you don't get what you want in health care? Are you going to fight this when that happens?

And they said we're going to keep all options on the table. And just as a good reminder about what this deal actually includes, it includes an extension of government funding through January 30th.

[22:10:00]

So when this -- if and when this becomes law, and there is every expectation that this will become law, that's the next deadline, January 30th, which means that that will be the next cliff to set up.

Now, as part of the commitment that the Senate Majority Leader, Republican John Thune, agreed to was to allow a vote in the Senate on a bill dealing with Affordable Care Act that Democrats would draft. And he promised that the vote would happen no later than the second week of December.

So there is no expectation that that bill will pass the United States Senate. It almost certainly will not pass the United States Senate because it would likely need a 60 vote threshold to clear. They are not going to get 60 votes on this unless something dramatically changes, let alone passage in the House and getting the president to sign into law.

So there is no expectation that this bill ultimately will become law dealing with the Affordable Care Act. So then what? Do Democrats fight this again in January?

How do they deal with it as we head into the midterm election year next year? That's going to be a big question for them on how to fight this in the months and weeks ahead. But also, Polo, perhaps this fight may cause them to think again about whether this is the right strategy, given how long this shutdown went on, how painful it was for so many Americans.

Maybe they'll decide next time it's not worth it.

SANDOVAL: Without a doubt, a moment of reflection for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Manu Raju, Betsy Klein, thank you both so much for all your reporting this weekend. The latest out of Washington.

If I could, let's go back to CNN's Senior Political Analyst, Ron Brownstein, joining us from Washington, D.C., with a little bit more. Ron, you heard from our reporters right now, our correspondents, really breaking down what this means. I was also struck by what I heard from one senator earlier today, saying essentially -- doubling down her support, saying that the Democrats had essentially exhausted all options, which is why some of them joined Republicans.

Do you agree with that?

BROWNSTEIN: Well, look, as I said before, government shutdowns have not been the kind of nuclear weapon that, you know, their proponents have often thought. I mean, Republicans could not get Bill Clinton to sign their budget by shutting down the government in 95. And as I said, Ted Cruz could not get Barack Obama to unravel Obamacare by shutting down the government in 2013.

But, you know, I think Democrats blinked here unquestionably. I mean, basically, Trump calculated that if he maximized the pressure, in particular by cutting off SNAP benefits for low-income families, that enough Democrats would essentially cave, and they did. I mean, there's just no other way to look at it.

This is a deal that gets them very little. As Manu says, it virtually guarantees that these subsidies will expire at the end of the year. Now, you know, the strange geometry of all of this is that 60 percent of the people who get those Affordable Care Act subsidies live in Republican-controlled districts.

They're utilized most heavily in red states in the South that are among the 10 states, only 10, that refuse to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and people go on the exchanges using these subsidies instead. So there are a lot of Republican voters, you know, basically working-class voters across racial lines who are going to be the most hurt by this, and it is going to be a cross for Republicans to carry into the midterms if these subsidies expire, particularly if they use the expiration of the subsidies as a justification to try again to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as both the president and other Republicans like Lindsey Graham have said.

But there's going to be an intense fury, I think, in the Democratic Party that immediately after an election that showed the party gaining a lot of momentum with a genuine backlash against Trump, measured not only in high Democratic turnout but a switching among Latino voters in particular who voted for him in 24, that to choose this moment to essentially kind of say, OK, you know, we gave it our best shot, that's all we can do, I think there's going to be a lot of pushback in the Democratic Party. And don't forget, it's a handful of senators that ultimately did this.

SANDOVAL: And I think that that's such an important point. The first thing that came to mind as I was watching this vote unfold was, you know, what about the constituents? How will this essentially -- how will it go over among some of the constituents in these places, particularly, for example, in states like Virginia?

BROWNSTEIN: Oh, yes. Look, first of all, extending the ACA subsidies is enormously popular across party lines. I mean, you know, just to give people the history, you know, during the pandemic in '21, again in '23, Congress expanded the subsidies which made the coverage under the Affordable Care Act much more affordable for people.

And now we have 24 million people receiving coverage on the exchanges with the help of these subsidies. The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill already cut 10 to 11 million people off of Medicaid.

[22:15:00]

This, ending the subsidies that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated, will remove insurance from another 4 to 5 million people and cause premiums to rise substantially for another 20 million. See, what's that? That's something like 36 million people will either lose health care or have their premiums significantly raised because of actions and inactions by this Republican Congress.

And that is unquestionably going to be an issue in 2024, 2026. If there's any silver lining in this kind of debacle for Democrats, it's that Republicans now are going to own ending these subsidies and kind of compounding what they did in the Reconciliation Bill to withdraw health care from people. But again, I think that, you know, choosing this, all government shutdowns end.

And they end without the party that precipitated the shutdown getting all that they want. I think everybody knew that going in. But to kind of capitulate so completely for so little at this moment after an, you know, election that really had Democrats kind of lifting, you know, their heads up for the first time since last November is really just striking and almost staggering.

SANDOVAL: And without a doubt, tomorrow morning there will certainly be a mix of reaction. Ron Brownstein is always so grateful for your analysis, especially on what is an extremely busy Sunday night in Washington. Thank you.

We're going to continue much more of our breaking news coverage out of Washington as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history could be -- is likely, closer to an end. Stay with us. You're watching breaking news coverage on CNN.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) SANDOVAL: 10:20 p.m. in Washington, and we want to get you back to our top story where the U.S. Senate is voting to extend government funding and unlock a path forward and finally out of this record-breaking government shutdown. Now, if it passes, we still -- it will still have to go to the House for a vote before heading to the U.S. president's desk. A group of Democrats and one Democratic line independent agreed to reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending those Obamacare subsidies, which is really at the crux of the debate that we've seen for the last 40 days.

I want to bring in now Charlie Dent, former congressional member and also executive director of the Aspen Institute's congressional program. It is good to have you. Obviously what we've seen tonight, we've seen Democrats really split ways here.

You see those joining Republicans, a total of eight, and those that have resisted their support for this vote. I want you to listen to one of those Democrats as they essentially justified their opposition.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), U.S. SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER: This fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight because millions of families will lose health care coverage. We must fight because children who are dying of cancer will not get health care coverage.

We must fight because a senior citizen cannot afford to pay $25,000 a year just for health insurance. We must fight to keep millions from financial ruin.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANDOVAL: Just heard from Leader Chuck Schumer. Curious what your reaction is to hearing that and also earlier hearing from some of the Democrats who supported the vote tonight.

CHARLIE DENT, FORMER MEMBER OF CONGRESS: Yes, well my quick reaction is this, this shutdown, like all shutdowns, was pointless, utterly pointless. We all knew it would end, and it would end in this way, that the party that makes the policy demand, defund Obamacare or demanding ACA subsidies be extended, they never get what they want during a shutdown.

We all knew this, and it's unfortunate that so many people had to suffer through this shutdown, losing their jobs, losing their paychecks, stuck at airports, no food assistance. That's what this all has resulted in.

So bottom line, though, for the Democrats is they didn't have an exit strategy. They never had one, and so this is it, which many of us predicted. But the Democrats do have a strong issue, and that issue is extending the ACA subsidies, the Affordable Care Act subsidies. It is popular, and they have a guaranteed vote.

If the bill passes the Senate, as described, then the Democrats win on the policy. If the bill does not pass the Senate, the Democrats still win because they will have a very powerful political issue to take into the midterms. And given what happened Tuesday night, I think Republicans know they are running into a hurricane-force wind, and many Republicans do want to extend those subsidies because they are popular, and many in those swing districts and swing states will need to be able to vote for them.

SANDOVAL: And how do you see this really playing out among voters, especially in some of those swing districts? Because of that last point that you made, is that they essentially bring -- Democrats bringing this now, it will be front and center.

DENT: Well, I think the American people just are relieved, hopefully will be relieved that this is over because it's been so disruptive. But we get back to these, again, these members of Congress in these marginal swing districts throughout the country need to vote to extend these subsidies. There has been bipartisan work on that.

I know Don Bacon and Brian Fitzpatrick on the Republican side have been working on this. I think Lisa Blunt Rochester on the Democratic side, and others, Josh Gottheimer, they've been working to, you know, to come up with a compromise. But bottom line is, Republicans need to vote for this because this is popular.

Remember what happened in the 2018 midterm. Democrats used health care as an issue just to bludgeon Republicans. And I suspect Democrats will try to do the same in this upcoming midterm.

So while the Democrats didn't get what they wanted during the shutdown, they may get what they want over the course of time.

SANDOVAL: You have some unique insight into the conversations that typically happen, especially among lawmakers. What do you think that Republicans in the House and Senate, what those conversations must be like now, trying to get ahead of this vote that was promised, the standalone ACA vote?

[22:25:00]

DENT: Well, there'll be a real fight within -- I know the House better than the Senate -- but I can tell you within the House, those members in those marginal swing districts will be pressuring Speaker Johnson to bring a bill to the floor. Speaker Johnson will be under enormous pressure from his right flank, and there are a lot more of them than there are members in marginal seats. He's going to be under tremendous pressure from his right flank, not to bring up any bill at all.

So this puts Speaker Johnson in a bit of a vice. He will have to, you know, answer to his members. Now, the other wild card here is where is Donald Trump in all of this? Donald Trump has talked about extending these subsidies.

I'm not, you know, he changes his positions often pretty quickly. But if the president weighs in on this and also insists on a vote on the subsidies and uses his weight to help it pass, well, then I think Johnson will ultimately capitulate or relent to whatever the president wants. But Johnson's going to be in a bit of a pickle, I think, when he's

going to have to deal with his marginal seat members and his right flank, who are going to be in very different places and have very different interests.

SANDOVAL: That is such an important point to end on. Charlie Dent, thank you so much for joining us and offering your perspective tonight. Appreciate your time.

DENT: Great to be with you. Thanks.

SANDOVAL: Of course. So the U.S. government shut down. It appears to be coming to an end. Stay with us for the latest on the breaking news that's coming out of Washington at this hour.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[22:30:00]

SANDOVAL: Welcome back. I'm Polo Sandoval in New York, where we are following breaking news out of Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Senate is voting on a bipartisan deal to end the longest government shutdown in the country's history. This deal comes after a group of at least eight Democrats agreed to reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending health care subsidies, which was really the main sticking point for Democrats and what they had been fighting for that eventually led us to this 48-day government shutdown. Senate Republican Leader John Thune, he was committed to a vote on health care no later than the second week of December.

Now the House must still approve the reopening deal before it then heads to the White House for President Trump to sign. So as we continue to follow developments here out of Washington, let's continue to get more political analysis.

Joining me now is CNN political commentator Karen Finney.

Karen, it has been, I've watched you and your analysis tonight, it has been quite eventful. I'm curious, in your view, what do you make of the argument from some of the Democrats who supported Sunday's vote, who see this not as caving, but instead as a victory that they were able to bring the issue of health care front and center, especially for Republicans?

KAREN FINNEY, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Yes, look, great to be with you. I think it's a valid point. I mean, obviously there is frustration within the caucus and it remains to be seen what will end up happening in the House.

I do think the Democrats believe that part of what they won was this vote on health care, bringing the issue, making it more front and center to the American people, and something that was actually unexpected, and I don't think this is a win necessarily, but it's certainly something that was revealed, which is the President of the United States of America, what was he doing? He wasn't even part of the negotiations, and for part of the time, he wasn't even here. He was having, you know, a lavish party in his resort in Florida. He

was demolishing the East Wing or, you know, coming up with a plan to bail out Argentina. And that does matter to Americans who want to see their president in the role of bringing people together to try to solve the problem.

We also didn't hear him talk much about a recognition of the challenges that people are facing with their health care costs going up, many of whom are, you know, his own voters. I mean, frankly, we're all Americans, so we would hope the president cares about all of us, but certainly, you know, his voters are now seeing their health care costs go up and they haven't heard from him what he plans to do about it.

So it's certainly a mixed bag, but we certainly revealed -- some things were revealed, I should say, about President Trump, not to mention what we saw happening with SNAP benefits.

SANDOVAL: And as we're watching live pictures out of the Senate, Karen, I'm wondering if we could sort of shift our focus now to the House side. What do you think Democrats in the House are talking about right now? As we said earlier, this will now head their way.

Do you think the Democrats in the House potentially could put up any sort of resistance? Would they want to?

FINNEY: Well, they're certainly going to try to. The question now becomes, will the Republican leadership in the House follow suit to what we saw on the Senate side and agree to some kind of a vote on health care, if not at least a conversation or coming to the table to have some negotiations about how to lower costs? And let's just be, you know, take the politics out of this for just a moment.

This is a real issue that is affecting people in real time. And as Charlie Dent, if we put politics back in, it was just saying for Republican members in some of those tough districts, they cannot avoid this issue. So I suspect they will be trying to at least be seen to be advocating for some kind of vote in the House.

And that's really going to be where the leverage that House Democrats will have. Not only will they have hopefully a unified caucus. And I will tell you, from what I've been seeing just on my own phone, a lot of House Democrats are getting calls from people trying to understand exactly what will this mean? What is your plan when this comes over to the House?

So if House Democrats remain unified and there is pressure on Republicans in the House, perhaps we will see a vote. We'll have to see. You know, Speaker Johnson has tended to follow the lead more by Donald Trump than his caucus over the last several months. So we'll have to see.

SANDOVAL: Well, I really appreciate it, Karen Finney, as always. Thank you so much for our analysis and that key point. Yes, the attention certainly will at least partly focus on the Speaker of the House as well to see what, if anything, we may see from Republicans in the House when that ACA vote is in fact offered up as guaranteed tonight.

Thank you so much, Karen, for your time.

[22:35:00]

I want to go now to -- actually, we're going to have much more breaking news out of Washington as we continue to cover the longest government shutdown in U.S. history that it could soon be nearing an end. This is a massive, massive and important for millions of Americans throughout the country. What questions are they left with?

Our coverage continues right here on CNN.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANDOVAL: Welcome back to CNN's breaking news coverage where we are closely following developments out of the U.S. Senate. Lawmakers, they're currently holding a vote on a funding deal that could bring the U.S. government's longest shutdown closer to an end. However, this is really just a procedural vote.

This measure will need to pass in the Senate, and then it will be heading to the House before eventually heading to the President's desk. So this is just one hurdle, albeit a significant one, as millions of Americans are likely going to get an answer soon of when will this government shutdown end.

Also important to see this through the lens of history. I want to go now to CNN's presidential historian, Tim Naftali, also the former director of the Nixon Presidential Library. He's a senior research scholar at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Tim, it's great to see you tonight.

TIM NAFTALI, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Hi. Hi, Paul. How are you?

SANDOVAL: So you've been following this the last couple of hours, Tim, through the lens of a historian.

[22:40:00]

I'm curious what this means, especially that we -- it took 40 days to finally get a little bit more uncertainty in the mix for the American people. How do you think this will end up registering for them?

NAFTALI: Well, we've seen just this week, this past week, that the American people seem to blame President Trump more than the Democrats for the dysfunction in Washington. And the proof of that was the election -- the elections in Virginia and New Jersey and to some extent in New York and elsewhere in the country. So the American people seem to be blaming President Trump more than the Democrats.

And the issue for the Democrats was, was there some new leverage that they might acquire that would get the President of the United States to tell his chief lieutenant, the Speaker of the House, to go ahead and support an Obama initiative that the President of the United States personally detests. And it seemed unlikely that there was any new leverage that could appear on the horizon for the Democrats. So if you think about it in those terms, about, you know, the nature of momentum in politics, the momentum shifted from before the showdown from President Trump to the Democrats.

And now with President Trump clearly willing to sacrifice Thanksgiving travel to prevent the payment of most food stamps to needy, potentially hungry Americans, the cost of this shutdown was going to increase on the American people, and it wasn't clear that the Democrats would escape all blame for it as the weeks continued.

And so it's not a surprise, at least to this observer, that the senator -- that some Democratic senators decided enough is enough, we've got to move on. It was a long shutdown.

The Democrats so-called won the shutdown, but they were able to do well because they controlled the House of Representatives. Speaker Pelosi took charge of the affair and would not allow President Trump to get the spending for his border wall. Well, the Democrats don't control the House.

So it never seemed clear to me how they were going to force the House to pay these subsidies. That fight is going to have to happen probably a year from now when Democrats will go around the country and say, if you want us to do that, we need more elected members in Washington.

SANDOVAL: Yes, you did not have to be an elected member to see what would have been a disastrous holiday travel season. And yet, it's important to not really hold the applause. We still need to see exactly what happens, especially with the amount of air traffic controllers that have retired, as we heard from the Secretary of Transportation.

Tim Naftali, as always, so grateful to have your perspective and your analysis.

NAFTALI: Thank you.

SANDOVAL: Well still ahead here on CNN. After more than a decade, Hamas has finally returned the body of its longest held hostage as part of a recent ceasefire deal. Those details are just ahead, plus more of our breaking news coverage.

[22:45:00]

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANDOVAL: And we're bringing you some live pictures right now from the U.S. Senate as lawmakers are still holding a vote on a funding deal that will likely bring the U.S. government's longest shutdown closer to an end. However, this is just a procedural vote. What we expect to happen after this is approved is that the measure will pass the Senate and then head over to the House before eventually heading to the President's desk.

Tonight, at least eight Democrats crossing party lines voting alongside their Republican colleagues. This does come with an extension of government funding until January. However, it comes with no guarantees to extend the health care subsidies that initially brought us here in the first place. But it does come with a promise of a standalone ACA vote in the not-too-distant future.

So we're following these developments out of Washington and we'll bring you back -- we'll take you back to D.C. if we hear of additional news or if we also hear from President Donald Trump who thus far we have not heard any reaction from the White House. So again, we will continue to monitor the situation out of Washington.

Elsewhere, we are following other developments. Hamas has finally released the body of its longest held hostage. Israel confirmed that it has received the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin on Sunday. Goldin was an IDF soldier who was killed in the final days of the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas. Like previous hostage returns, Hamas gave what it said was Goldin's body to the International Red Cross. Now that organization then transferred the remains to the Israeli military.

The return of Goldin's body that now leaves four deceased hostages still in Gaza and that includes at least three Israelis who were killed on October 7, 2023, as well as a Thai citizen who was kidnapped during the attack. Again, the return of those remains that is crucial to ensuring that standing ceasefire that was agreed to and brokered by the United States.

Two top leaders at the BBC resigned on Sunday following a growing scandal that called into question the broadcaster's impartiality.

Director General Tim Davie and Chief Executive of News Deborah Ternes both quitting after it was discovered that the BBC misleadingly edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump among other revelations. Here's CNN's Brian Stelter with the latest.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA ANALYST: Today the BBC is facing a gaping leadership void after a shocking set of resignations on Sunday. Both the Director General Tim Davie and the BBC News boss Deborah Ternes stepping down with the proximate cause being a scandal over a misleading edit in a one year old documentary about President Trump.

While the Trump angle is getting a lot of attention, the story is really a lot more complicated with a lot more layers.

[22:50:00]

As one BBC source remarked to me, the right wing press in the U.K. has been quote, feasting like vultures part of a long running conservative campaign against the British broadcaster. And the screw up with the Trump documentary played right into that campaign.

Now Davie and Ternes will be staying at their posts in the short term to ensure an orderly transition. But like I said, this is a shocking development for BBC staffers. They've never seen this kind of turnover with the top two executives at the same time. The specific row involving the Trump documentary started about a week

ago when the British newspaper "The Telegraph" got a hold of an internal whistleblower memo describing the misleading edit that was made to the Panorama documentary. It was shown on the BBC just a few days before the U.S. presidential election last year.

The documentary spliced together different parts of Trump's infamous speech on the Ellipse on January 6, 2021. The way the documentary portrayed it, it sounded like Trump was telling his supporters that they were all going to walk down to the Capitol together and quote, fight like hell. In reality, Trump did talk about fighting repeatedly during the speech and he had a combative tone.

But when he talked about walking to the Capitol which he ultimately did not do, he was saying he was going to go with his supporters to cheer on the brave GOP senators and congressmen who were there. He did not say the words the way they were spliced together by the BBC documentary.

Now, the producers should have used a white flash or some other effect to show the edit. And while the edit would have caused quite a commotion internally, it would not have normally caused the resignation of senior leaders. That's partly why the Sunday news was so shocking.

But the context is really important here. The BBC is operating in a politically poisonous atmosphere with near daily disputes over coverage, especially BBC's coverage of Israel and Gaza. There are equally frequent attacks from the BBC's media rivals in the U.K. And there's a looming review of the BBC's license fee model.

So it's easy to understand why Davie was tired of fighting after five years in charge as Director General. BBC Radio 4 host and former BBC News political editor Nick Robinson spoke for many inside the organization when he said on Sunday, before the resignations happened, quote, "It's clear that there is a genuine concern about editorial standards and mistakes. There's also a political campaign by people who want to destroy the organization."

Robinson's point was that both things are happening at the same time.

In her memo on Sunday, Ternes said mistakes were made, but quote, "I want to be absolutely clear, recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong."

It'll be up to the next BBC News boss and the next General -- the next Director General to prove that to a skeptical audience.

Brian Stelter, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SANDOVAL: And breaking news just into CNN, we understand that the Senate has officially broken that Democratic filibuster, which is a key -- in a key vote, toward reopening the government on Sunday night. What does this mean? So the Senate now officially passing, officially that hurdle of the procedural vote that was held, in which eight Democrats in the Senate crossed party lines, joining Republicans, allowing for this vote.

And what this does now, according to what we've been hearing from our colleagues on the Hill, this sets up now for the actual measures that were agreed to tonight to be considered by the Senate very soon. And then eventually that package, upon approval, then heading to the House, where that still more hurdles are yet to be seen, including potential opposition.

Now once it clears the House, then we could finally see that at the White House, where it would be signed by President Trump, and that then would potentially lead to the end of this government shutdown. It is a crucial, crucial development out of Washington, D.C. for millions of Americans, especially those who have been going without paychecks for at least two pay cycles. Especially those federal employees who have continued to show up to work without pay, and then the question also of those people who receive food benefits in the form of SNAP.

Part of the agreement tonight would be that funding of those SNAP benefits for at least another year, and in return, Democrats would get the guarantee of a standalone vote when it comes to funding those health care subsidies. So that is certainly going to be another conversation that is not going to be easy to have on Capitol Hill.

But again, for now, we can confirm the Senate has broken that Democratic filibuster in that key vote toward reopening the government, a crucial hurdle cleared tonight on Sunday.

Now President Donald Trump, he was at the Washington Commanders football game on Sunday. Earlier, the White House said that it would be, quote, beautiful if the team named its planned new stadium after him. This has ESPN reports on back-channel talks between the White House and the owners of the Washington Commanders football team.

And during those talks, President Trump is said to have expressed interest in having the stadium that's currently being built in the nation's capital possibly named after him.

[22:55:00]

Now, the team did not immediately respond to a request for comment but did initially say that it aims to open this new stadium by 2030.

And two major league baseball pitchers, they could be facing years behind bars. They've been indicted for allegedly taking part in a sports betting scheme focused on their pitching. The pair, both from the Cleveland Guardians, they are accused of planning pitches in advance to help their co-conspirators win hundreds of thousands of dollars.

CNN's Don Riddell with those details.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DON RIDDELL, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: This is major news in Major League Baseball, which is just reeling after the indictment of two players for their alleged roles in a scheme to rig bets on games. According to prosecutors, the Cleveland Guardians pitchers, Emmanuel Classe and Luis Ortiz, are facing charges on multiple counts of wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery, money laundering conspiracy, and more.

Ortiz has already been arrested. He's in custody. His lawyer told CNN that his client is innocent, adding that there is no credible evidence Ortiz did anything other than try to win games.

Both men were placed on non-disciplinary leave by the league back in July. In a statement to CNN, the Guardians said, quote, "We are aware of the recent law enforcement action. We will continue to fully cooperate with both law enforcement and Major League Baseball as their investigations continue."

MLB also says that it is cooperating with the investigation by the Department of Justice.

And these accusations are pretty serious. If proven, the players could be looking at decades behind bars. Of course, all this is coming barely two weeks after a similar scandal rocked the NBA.

Two players and a coach were arrested for their roles in insider trading in sports betting and rigged high-stakes poker games. In both these cases, the NBA and MLB indictments are coming from the same U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, New York.

Back to you.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SANDOVAL: And with that, we do want to thank you so much for joining us. I'm Polo Sandoval in New York. I'll be right back with you with much more of your breaking news out of Washington after this quick break.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)