whole topic tomorrow at apm eastern pacific only on cnn, also, first of all, with victor blackwell is coming up next. >> what do you have coming up? so we of course been talking about these votes in congress, foreign aid bills to fund several countries. >> one of them is israel will speak to a member of congress at democratic member who plans to vote. no. today, she sees this as a way to prevent more for destruction and the humanitarian crisis in gaza, also which he makes the backlash to pro-palestinian protest this week. plus the crack down on orange crush, not the soda. i know everybody thinks that first the georgia beach party started as an hbcu gathering, has gotten really rowdy and i'll talk to the person who organize the event. he says, tie be island's history has him concerned about the effort to restrict this majority black crowd. now plus how does one celebrate confederate heritage? turns out april is confederate heritage
month in mississippi, and people are actually being invited to come celebrate at amusia alaska former governor of the state what is going on in mississippi wow. well, we'll be watching for sure. have a great show, but thank you very much. >> let's start it right now. well first of all well, they're really not too many days that we can say congress is getting ready to cast to a consequential vote, especially not on a saturday morning yet today, it will happen next hour. the house gavels& to start debate on foreign aid funding aid to israel in particular is the focus of some passionate debate across the country even how people debated is up for debate. this week we saw calls for crackdown on protesters who blocked traffic. look at this. this is what we saw at the golden gate bridge after her social media posts
state of israel i understand that. >> i do, and i am sympathetic to that the point that the republicans were trying hi to make was not actually in support of jews across this country, but this also was not brought just by republicans. this was sponsored also by democrats. and there were many democrats who voted for it i understand words matter and so when you have a phrase like from the river to the sea being used by extremists on both sides. there is nuance, there is complexity. and we do not. those of us who voted against the resolution do not stand with hamas. we are simply saying we have constituents who are not using it in an anti-symmetric way representative becky ballot democrat of vermont. >> thank you so much for being with me. let's continue this conversation now with nicholas wu. he covers congress for politico balance, opposition to this israel aid bill is not
us has a role to play. let me read a line or two from your statement on social media announcing your no vote. americans will remember this moment. the united states must be firm and demanding a course correction from the netanyahu government do you believe the president president biden, has been firm enough? >> i believe the president and secretary blinken, have been firm i believe that statements from leader schumer have also helped this conversation. what we're trying to do is carve out another lane, alaimo that says you can be both support would've of israel and also understand that we have to use our power to set limits on how these offensive weapons are used.& the american people cannot stomach what is happening in gaza and do not want to greenlight an invasion of rafah. and we need to use our voices and americans need to understand that members of congress are listening to them. >> the wall street journal's reporting that in addition to what's being considered in congress today, that the administration is mulling a
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plant closed in 2004, now china is trying to dominate generic drugs making everything from blood pressure meds to chemotherapy drugs. 94% of the prescriptions are for generics. the military is also at risk because our troops and veterans are being given china source to generic medicines. >> i have no doubt that they would consider weaponizing their dominance of the pharmaceutical market if they felt that that would give them an advantage over us strategically. >> identifying drugs made in china is difficult, because pharmaceutical manufacturers are not required to display the source of their ingredients. >> bret: before we had to break, thad cochran has died, he was a navy veteran who represented mississippi in congress for more than 45 years. a driving force behind more than $100 billion in funding to help gulf coast states recover from hurricane katrina. he was also skilled at using his seniority in the senate to steer