and we begin this morning with breaking news on capitol hill. where a major defense bill has been turned into a debate over social issues. overnight, the republican-led house passed a series of amendments to nearly $900 billion defense policy bill. the amendments include overturning the pentagon s abortion policy, banning transgender health services for military personnel and other things. meanwhile, republican senator tommy tuberville continues to hold up military promotions over the pentagon s abortion policy, which defense secretary lloyd austin warned was a national security issue. this is a national security issue, it is a readiness issue, and we shouldn t kid ourselves. i think any member of the senate armed services committee knows that. joining us from capitol hill is ali vitali. also with us is brandon buck, an msnbc political analyst. ali, what is happening with the vote at this hour? reporter: yeah, i believe, jose, the vote is not yet closed, but that the nd
government, especially with republicans pushing for so many hot button priorities to be included. so, ali, what is the process now for the bill? you re saying it goes into the senate and then into conference? reporter: that s probably what s going to have to happen here. brandon knows this process so well of what happens when these chambers can agree and they have to find commonality. you look at the way that senators who i ve been talking to have been looking at the ndaa, many of them have priorities of trying to put more ukraine funding in there, where as house republicans ultimately this didn t get included but we watched many of them push to have less money for ukraine or to strip or pull money away from aiding the war in ukraine. just diametrically opposed, even among republicans, even within their own party, on how some of this military funding should go. and, again, this isn t just spending bill. we got that a few weeks from fou. this is instructive for how that battle is go