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Christiana one poor in london. Thank you for watching and ill see you again next week. Hello everyone and thank you so much for joining me in this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Happening right now, the House Of Representatives is in session for a rare high saturday your vote live pictures right now. Right now lawmakers are debating Military Aid Bills for ukraine, israel, and taiwan totaling 95 billion gop hardliners are pushing hard against more ukraine aid, but supporters, both r...

Other countries, then they then those countries are going to have to agree on the use of those weapons and the supply of humanitarian aid into those areas where the weapons are being used. and that clearly has implicit i will have an implicit effect on israel going forward. it appears but the economy is hurting because of the defense spend at the moment. so making sure this aid continues to come the countrys credit rating has gone down, its spending hundreds of millions of dollars a day, literal...

Different priorities than the republicans. i noticed elizabeth warren, shes got part of her medical plan, health care for all, medicare for all, includes a cut in military. in other words, shifts money. where are you on that kind of thing? shifting money from defense to domest domestic? >> i dont think its as easy suggesting an across the board cut without looking at what were doing. one of the things im concerned about with senator warrens p propos proposal, she zeros out the overseas contingen...

Endowment for the arts. national endowment for the humanities. are these things to your mine more of a message than having an impact on the bottom line? >> i think three thing. number one, they are a message. number two, in some cases they are a recognition that while its not a lot of money its not money well spent and you shouldnt spend taxpayers money poorly in any event. number three, they are an acknowledgement you have taken off the table the places where you can go and get substantial mone...

One of those areas, which is critical to u.s. national interest as we saw in the elections where the allegations of russia hacking dnc computers, in the past few years under one of their top strategists, the chief of staff, the russians have now strategized to develop an area of their defense spending on essentially cyber warfare on developing trolling fake news and hacking. that is part of their defense spend. strategically they say you can have, you know, a quarter of a number of tanks that yo...

and a reminder tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. is our debate. ill be back tomorrow at the same time, but for now, jim costa is next. nice to see you in person. >> this doesnt happen very often, but nice to see you. im jim aacosta. lets get you up to speed on this november 21st. after months of talks the congressional supercommittee is expected to announce today it simply cannot agree on a debt reduction package. everybody is pointing fingers on what caused the mess. well explain that on ca...

You can play the gain of everyone who challenged the defense budget is cutting our brave and sacrificing men and women on the battlefield but that argument is getting so old and so transparent. the real problem in washington is that every congressman has a district. in that district there are jobs related to defense spend, defense contractors and dont forget, the high value of political action committees from major defense contractors. we have seen congress men who have had their boats and house...

Properly carry out its mission. >> some programs may take years to recover if the cr is extended through september. >> they have joined this debate by saying that the immediate cuts are really threatening national security? >> reporter: exactly. and there was really some tough questioning about that as well today especially from republican members who are pressing to try to see where the trimming can take place because, as you know, secretary gates overall supports a sort of tightening of the be...