Defense production with all the support. Russia has ramped up as airstrikes against ukrainian cities. And Critical Infrastructure rain down munitions on your brave ukrainians defending their homeland now, america, youre going to send ukraine and supplies they need to keep them in the fight. This weekend or reports. This is i find this amazing reports of cheers breaking out of the trenches in Eastern Ukraine probably came from one of your folks reporter or some im not sure it came from but as theyre sharing, as they watch the house vote in support for ukraine. Its not like they dont understand what weve done not like they dont understand how critical this is for that im making sure the shipment start right away in the next few hours, literally, a few hours were going to began sending him equipment to ukraine for air defense munitions, for artillery, for Rocket Systems and Armored Vehicles this package is literally an investment not only in your rent in ukraine, security, but in europe security and our own security were sending ukraine equipment from our own stockpiles. Then will replenish. So stockpiles with new products made by American Companies here in america patriot missiles made in Arizona Javelins May now obama Artillery Shells made ohio, pennsylvania, and texas in other words, were helping you off the same time, invested in our own industrial base, strengthening our own National Security supporting jobs and nearly 40 states all across America United states is not acting alone to state the obvious our allies in europe and Around The World who for constantly been asking me, are we going to step up . Were not going to walk away. Are we how many and some of you bet it is International Media there are very concerned had we fail to step up lord only knows what would happen to the cohesion and nato. Were also said, theyre also sent a Significant Health to ukraine. Were all standing together against his brutal dictator as ive argued for miles this is directly, directly in the United StatesNational Security interest. It prudent triumph, triumphs in ukraine the next move a Russian Forces could very well be a direct attack on a nato ally and you all know full well that invoking article five and Northridge Treaty would be the first thing that comes to mind, which declares an attack on one is an attack on all imprudent attacks. A native ill i like hes attacking ukraine today. Wed have no choice but to come to their aid just like our nato allies came to our lay areva after the September 11th attacks, it thats why were supporting and surgery support. Now, do you grant to stop putin from drawing the United States into the war in europe and in the future hey zomi we should take a little. Bit of a step back and realize what a critical moment this was for the United States and for nato. This is a historical moment. In the last two years, weve helped unify, strengthen, and expand nato imagine if instead we had failed, we had failed to step up now and towards ukraine all those gains would have begun to unravel the cohesion of data would have been weakened. And our National Security would have been undermined without any question putin start at this war, believing he could easily break the will of the people of ukraine, when that failed, he changed the strategy a little bit. Think, we break to break through the will of nato, break the will of the United States break are well all hes failed Again America stands with our friends we stand up against dictators. We bow to know what, to know one certainly not Vladimir Putin. Look this bill also includes vital support for israel just ten days ago we saw ran launch over 100 missiles and drones. It israel because of them and other allies across the world, including from the region known no serious damage occurred an unprecedented attack that followed years of around supporting hezbollah, hamas and proxies that are on their own attack on israel. They fund these guys my commitment to israel. I want to make clear again, as ironclad the security of israel critical it will always make sure that israel has what it needs to defend itself against iran, a terrorist is supports with this aid, the United States is going to help replenish israels air defense and provide other critical events. So ran can never carry out to destruction contended with its attack ten days ago about the same time this bill significantly significantly increases humanitarian assistance. Were sending the innocent people of gaza are suffering badly are suffering the consequences of this war that hamas started and weve been working intently for months to get as much aid to gaza as possible. This bill includes 1 from additional humanitarian aid in gaza. Were going to meet in the secure that aid and surgeon surgeon, including food medical supplies, clean water israel must make sure all this aid reaches a palestinians in gaza without delay. And everything we do is guided by the ultimate goal of bringing this hostages home. Securing a ceasefire, and setting the conditions for an enduring peace theres more that this bill does. As you all know, the press here including provided for support to strengthen even further, our allies and partners end up pacific region, as well as humanitarian aid to places including haiti, sudan, and somalia but theres one thing thats bill does not do Border Security and now adjust this year. I proposed and negotiated and agreed to the strongest Border Security bill thats country has ever, ever, ever seen it was bipartisan. It should have been included in this bill and im determined to get it done for the American People from ill come back to that and another moment. But time. This is a reminder. What american your new when we come together, despite our differences i want to thank everyone in congress. I made it possible especially the bipartisan leadership speaker of the house, mike johnson, leader jeffries, leader Schumer Mcconnell they dont always agree but when it matters most they stepped up and did the right thing and i mean, this sincerely, history will remember this time. History, remember this moment for all the talk about how dysfunctional things are washington when you look over the past three years, we see the time and again on the Critical Issues weve actually come together. Hadnt always been easy but when its comp khandra decide to rebuild america. We did with a bipartisan infrastructure which is just underway when it came time to invest in our Semiconductor Industry and Techno Technologic Technologies as future. We did it with the chips and science act i want to came time to stand with ukraine and israel and help the people of gaza. We did that as well. At the end of the day most of us, whether were democrats, republicans, or independents believe that america must stand up for what is right . We dont walk away from our allies. We stand with them, we dont let tyrants when we oppose them. We dont really watch global events unfold. We shape them. Thats what it means to be the indispensable nation. Thats an amazing to be the worlds superpower and the worlds leading democracy some of our maga, republican mens reject that fisher but this vote makes it clear. There is a bipartisan consensus for that kind of American Leadership. Thats exactly what well continue to deliver. I thank you all very much. And im going off to make a speech at a hotel. Im late for plenty of time to answer questions on this and other matters. A quick one on tiktok all right so there we have the president United States after signing the legislation into law, billions and billions of dollars for ukraine, for israel, for taiwan, as well as for the palestinians in gaza house right now, the president was clearly pleased by the bipartisan support in the House Of Representatives and in the senate for this very, very large foreign aid bill. At one point, he said, when our allies are stronger, we are stronger and we rose to the moment at, at the end of his remarks, he thanked the republicans speaker of the house, and the bipartisan leadership for getting this legislation passed. I want to bring in cnns arlette science. Shes joining us from the white house, Fred Pleitgen in kyiv, ukraine for us are let, let me quickly start with you. A huge win for the Biden Administration. President signed off. Also as part of this built potentially a tiktok ban a does his campaign recognize how popular the site is, especially among younger americans, potential voters out there is the Biden Campaign. Right now concerned about this new legislation potentially could ban tiktok well, the Biden Campaign is waiting and allowing that process to play out in the wake of this bill as President Biden signed it just now into law and Big QuestionsGoing Forward about what this could mean for the future of tiktok. And that is incredibly popular among young voters. But President Biden really use this moment to try to take a step back and celebrate the fact that congress was able to work in a bipartisan fashion to get this additional aid to ukraine and israel, the president in his remarks acknowledged that it was a difficult path. But in the end, there was bipartisan bipartisan consensus work through the congressional leadership, including House Speaker mike johnson, who the white house really corded for months as they tried to get this bill across the finish line. Now, i think its noteworthy President Biden also tried to stress the speed with which they are trying to get this aid to ukraine. He said that they have to keep them in the fight and we need to move fast. He said that engine just a matter of hours, the us will begin to disperse that new weaponry and equipment to ukraine after months where ukrainian soldiers have faced Ammunition Shortages on the battlefield, weve been told sources tell us that first dispatch is expected to total around one billion. President biden spoke with ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on monday to talk through what this package can look like. One thing thats zelenskyy has been pushing for, for some time is for longer range atacms to be provided by the us. Its possible that that could be coming in the near future. But on top of this assistance for ukraine, you also have current President Biden talk about the additional aid that they will be given to israel as it seeks to continue to try to defend itself. And he was quite pointed in noting that the 26 billion going to israel also includes some humanitarian assistance for gaza. He said its about 1 billion. And that the white house is stressing to israel that they need to act without delay to get that a directly into the palestinian peoples hands to president really trying to step back and take this moment to celebrate the fact that they were able to pass these two key foreign aid measures for both ukraine and israel after months of constant twists and turns from the republicans, especially as they had put up some resistance, say passing aid for ukraine. One thing that President Biden pointed to their is that these ukrainian soldiers who were running out of ammunition, that that was due in part to what the president described as Maga Republicans who had continued to block this bill. So he has around each corner really trying to assign some blame in this uh, to those Maga Republicans as he describes them, even as theyve been trying to work with House Speaker mike johnson for months now, Behind The Scenes, im told that the president in his directed to his team as they were trying to get this aid across the finish line. He really wanted to draw a very stark picture of what was at stake, not just for ukraine, but also for the United StatesNational Security interests for europes interests as well. If this aid wasnt going to get to those soldiers, he wanted to provide specific intelligence examples. Hes also urged his team to lay off directly attacking johnson as this process played out to President Biden today, allowing a key step as he now signed this legislation and theyre hoping to get that weaponry and equipment into ukrainian soldiers hands as soon as possible let signs as the white i stand by. Were going to get back to you. I want to go to Fred Pleitgen. Hes joining us now from odesa. Hes not in kyiv. These in odesa just want to correct that it was interesting. I thought fred im sure ukrainians will be very pleased when they heard the president of the United States say this additional military assistance, this military aid for ukraine. The president said, well start right away. In fact, the next few hours, the shipments will begin to help the ukrainian military. Whats been the reaction so far to this Bipartisan Legislation . Passing the house. Now the senate and the president , United States signing it into law a huge relief for the ukrainians wolf, its something that weve been hearing from ukrainian politicians over the past couple of days. They obviously understood that it getting through the house was really the biggest hurdle and Volodymyr Zelenskyy came out just a couple of minutes afterwards. Im really thank the United States. Thank both parties also for making this happen. I think it was quite interesting also to hear President Biden talk about what a difficult process all of this was, and of course, youre absolutely right. Well, he said that this aid will happen in the next couple of hours, well get going and that for the ukrainians they say is absolutely key. In fact, the president of this country, Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this morning said that the ukrainians really need ammunition badly, but also need air defense interceptor missiles to stop missiles hitting their cities. And in fact, where im right now, wolff, the city of odesa is one thats been hit a lot in the past couple of weeks in the ukrainians are saying they havent had enough missiles to intersect with the russians are shooting this way. Of course, this is a key port town, for the ukrainians. In fact, as im speaking to you right now, we are under an Air Raid Warning under a possible missile or drone alert, and its something that you really see here in odesa pretty much constantly that you have these Air Raid Sirens going off and then you have the alerts in place. Thats where were under right now. Now. So ukrainians are saying that its absolutely key to get more air defense weapons, but also of course, to replenish the stocks of Air Defense Missiles that theyve been lacking over the past couple of months and one of the things that ive also seen on the front lines of wolf thats really been getting worse for the ukrainians also in the past month, i think i started reporting on it in september of last year was the shortage of artillery ammunition. The ukrainians, in some cases, having to fire smoke shells at russian positions because they dont have regular Artillery Shells to fire at the russians anymore. Thats of course has helped the russians events. I thought it was quite interesting that President Biden also pointed out that the Russian Military has been making some gains because of those Ammunition Shortages that the ukrainians have been suffering from. One of the things that weve seen over the past couple of days is that especially in the east of the country near that key town of bakhmut, but also south of that as well. There have been some russian gains that so far arent strategic in nature yet. They havent taken any large towns, but they certainly have gained territory. The ukrainians are saying they definitely need especially artillery ammunition, high mars ammunition, artillery rockets to try and hold the russians up and then possibly push the russians back. Wolf i thought it was also significant. Im sure you did as well. Fred, that the president used very, very tough language, Strong Language in condemning putin of russia at one point, he said hes