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certainly does. i mean, mike allen and jim vandehei wrote this this morning in politico. he denied the loudest, most threatening gop personalities, dug deep into government intelligence, and shifted his position on the most vital foreign policy legislation in years. why it matters? it is hard to overstate the importance of johnson s road to kyiv political conversion. he not only shifted his own position on funding and arming ukraine but defied a majority of his party to do it. wow. let s bring in columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. david, if you will, give us your thoughts on what we saw this weekend. joe, i thought it was a tremendously emotional affirmation of the ability of the united states, despite all of our political divisions and difficulties, to get to the
Statements. wow. msnbc s legal correspondent lisa rubin, we ll be following your coverage. msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. thank you, both, for joining us today. we ll be joined by david ignatius and ali vitali about what happened on capitol hill, culminating in a lifeline for ukraine. we ll have all the details in one minute. one minute
Speaker johnson and the congress have done is give ukraine another year in this fight, maybe to get to the point where they can bargain from strength next year. david ignatius and ed luce, thank you, both, very much for coming in this morning. and nbc s ali vitali, thank you, as well. coming up on morning joe, we re going to read from liz cheney s new op-ed in the new york times calling on the supreme court to rule swiftly on donald trump s immunity claim. that s happening this week, as well. also ahead, new polling shows robert f. kennedy s third-party presidential bid cuts deeper into trump s support than president biden s. we ll dig into the new numbers. helps biden lead by a couple months. morning joe is coming right back. so this is pickleball? it s basically tennis for babies, but for adults. it should be called wiffle tennis. pickle! yeah, aw! whoo! these guys are intense.
Who are most responsible for this war. certain point, a performer who was performing for the group sang amazing grace beautifully, stretching out every word. i don t think there was a dry eye in that room listening to this amazing grace that the american political system had discovered to pass this aid. it s a big deal. the key question is, obviously, how soon can the aid get to the ukrainian forces? they re getting pounded right now by the russians. the russians are on the advance. they need this aid as soon as they can get it. yeah. ali, i don t know if they re singing amazing grace in the republican cloak room or not. hardly. but mike johnson stepped out, he had a lot of powerful allies in the house gop caucus that stood beside him, and it seems that republicans really don t
Civilian population as can be moved out of the area of the objective. they will, to answer directly the question, will they attack rafah? i think eventually they will. they ll have to go after the tunnel complex and probably 8,000ish hamas fighters who are still there. to do that effectively and in compliance with the laws of war, they ve got to move a million people. i can t think of a harder military problem. let s get back to the politics of this on capitol hill. let s bring in capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. ali, what to you expect to be playing out next on capitol hill in terms of getting aid passed, but also among the republicans who want to put the speaker s job in peril? look, i was listening to richard haass say that we should take the politics out of this, and he looked forward to the moment when that happened. it is hard for me to see that that moment will ever happen,
House speaker mike johnson says he is moving ahead with votes on aid to israel and ukraine as soon as this weekend, even if it puts his job in jeopardy, and this hour, a key house committee that will need to get together ahead of any weekend vote, the house rules committee is meeting this issue for johnson now remains at several conservatives have already come out against the plan, and at least two republicans say they ll vote to oust johnson from his speakership. johnson says let the chips fall where they may. i have not asked a single indicate to get involved in that at all. i do not spend time walking around thinking about the motion to vacate. i have a job to do here, and i m going to do the job. regardless of personal consequences, that s what we re supposed to do. let s get right to nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. also joining us, former senator from louisiana, mary landrieu. she is a measure of issue one s national council on election integrity. thanks for jo
Reception on the senate side of the rebuilding. the fact it has the repo act in it we were talking about. there s going to be a border provision in there, and i think that s the thing democrats are looking for. look, by and large, this is something that can be passed in bipartisan fashion, even if it is a different vehicle for doing it than the senate supplemental. ali, speaker johnson suggested he could have a final vote, a passage on the supplemental bills on saturday night. before he gets to that, it has to clear the rules committee where several republicans said they won t support it. may need to reach out to democrats to clear the vote. how does it look to play out here? the rules committee feels like this rules committee doesn t deserve a lot of look here, but it gets things to the floor. for the party in the majority to have to use members from the other party to pass a rule is rare, and it is stunning that
Republicans then tried to parry those attacks by trying to basically delay the consideration of whether or not these articles of impeachment were constitutional or not. ultimately, they were unsuccessful in their delay tactics, so it ended up that schumer was able to one by one deem unconstitutional through the vote of the chamber that the articles of impeachment against mayorkas were not satisfactory, were not constitutional, according to the body of the senate. then he dismissed the entire trial. that s how we thought it was going to go, different way of ending up in the same place, but it was really a day s long affair, and that s exactly what we were told to expect from a chamber, that is, yes, controlled by democrats but that not even all republicans were on board for ultimately convicting the homeland security secretary, and so there really was never going to be a way that he was convicted and removed anyway. ali vitali and former senator mary landrieu, thank you both for joini
Ukraine, which is a legitimate argument people have made, including democrats against president biden, when you re not willing to provide any aid whatsoever to them. i think the politics of this are finally coming around to the point where he felt the pressure to move forward. it s not easy. he can only afford to lose two votes because of vacancies in the house. he has the slimmest majority practically that you can have, and it looks like he has to rely on democrats. he could stay as speaker, but if you rely on democrats, that s a position of weakness in your own party. no republican speaker wants to be speaker because democrats saved him. that s a prescription for a lot of real churning volatility going forward. add to that intrigue that mike gallagher, the republican of wisconsin, is scheduled to leave his job. remember, he is stepping down on friday, the day before a planned vote. maybe he ll stick around. we ll see. let s bring into the conversation nbc news capitol hill corresp