Infighting over aid to ukraine, speaker johnson did an end run around his maga conservative critics and worked with democrats to get a 95 billion package of foreign aid through the house. A move that could cost him his job. I said these are not normal times. Theyre not. The world is destabilized and its a tinderbox. Will it revive the weary ukrainian war effort . Well talk with chair mark warner. Well hear from republican congressman tom cole and senator dan sullivan about all this and more. As former President Trump prepares for Opening Statements in the new york hush money trial, bad weather kept him off the campaign trail this weekend. They say the weather is really getting bad, really, really getting bad. President biden spent three days in a state thats a mustp win for him. Youre my ticket to the white house. You, pennsylvania. Its not hyperbole. Well talk with that states democratic governor, josh shapiro. Ahead of earth day, what impact is the recent run of extreme weather having on american views on Climate Change . Its all just ahead on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation. Six months to the day after President Biden requested the funding for ukraine, it has finally passed the house. The 95 billion foreign aid package includes 61 billion for ukraine and rebuilding u. S. Weapons stockpiles, 26 billion in aid for israel, that includes some humanitarian aid for palestinians, and 8 billion for parts of the indopacific region, which includes taiwan. A bill also forces the chineseowned firm byte dance to sell tiktok or risk a u. S. Ban. Speaker mike johnson, along with a minority of republican, worked with a majority of democrats, to get the ukraine aid through. That bipartisan effort has made some ultra conservative House Republicans livid, and theyre threatening to remove the speaker from his job, just six months after a similar scenario cost Kevin Mccarthy the speakership. The senate is expected to pass the funding bill later this week. We begin today with the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, mark warner. Good morning and good to have you here. Thank you, margaret. Senator, 61 billion in aid to ukraine, about 60 of that stays as an investment into the u. S. Industrial base, as i understand it. President zelenskyy said this morning on another network, its important that they get crucial, longrange artillery like atacms, is that what this money will pay for and if so, when will they actually get them . The great news this is finally happening. It should have happened six months ago. This week. Weve seen the ukrainians over perform. If you step back for a moment and think about the fact that for most of my life, most of americas Defense Forces were focused on russia. Getting this additional equipment, as quickly as possible, i hope once this gets to the president by tuesday or wednesday, that these shipments will be literally launched with that longer range by next week. I hope once the president signs, weve been told that there is it is the president s signature making sure congress does its job, that these materials will be in transit by the end of the week. On that schedule what it will do, its clearly been the case that ukrainians morale has been great, but its been undermined over the last couple months when they have been literally giving out rationed bullets, 8 to 10 bullets a day, on artillery shells, russias 10 to 1. You cant underestimate the ukrainians grit, determination, but if they dont have the materiels, they cant carry this fight. Will they get the long range artillery . Yes. Not just ammunitions . The atacms, i believe the administration was prepared over the last couple months to prepare, to provide atacms. It is written into this legislation. According to the state Department China has helped russia rebuild its Defense Industrial base which has an impact on the battlefield as well here. How have they been able to just blow through u. S. Sanctions or defy them to help the russians, who are fighting ukraine . If we look back again, we would all acknowledge that sanctions regime has not been as tight as we would like to have seen it. China, being the worst offender with direct military support. India, a country im supportive of, but in terms of purchasing russian oil, that hard currency to russia for them to go out into the marketplace and acquire arms. Its one of the reasons why i think this package, which the house just passed, we will take up this week, that says, we have to be ready to be prepared for our National Security interests, not only in ukraine and russia, also in terms of military assistance to israel, but with additional humanitarian aid for the palestinians who are in such great challenges, and theres about 8 or 9 billion for the indopacific region because of the concern that we have about chinas aggressiveness towards taiwan. Clearly the chinese linkage to Russia Combined with the fact that the iranians are providing drones, for example, for russia and the outlier nation, north korea, i know the terminology used to be axis of evil, this may be the 2024 axis of evil combination of nations. Speaker johnson has used that language. One of the other things that house voted to do was move this tiktok bill through, so this would force the chineseowned Parent Company bytedance to divest it, to sell it, but they have a better part of a year to do so. The Chinese Government says their not going to allow that. Bytedance doesnt want to sell it. If this gets stuck in the courts isnt the reality is not going away . Tiktok, 170 million americans 90 minutes a day, more than the power of eyes that your network reaches on a daily basis. That information and many young people on tiktok get their news. Yeah. The idea that we would give the communist party this much of a propaganda tool, as well as the ability to scrape 170 mill been americans personal data, it is a National Security risk. Is it a National Security risk according to the u. S. Intelligence community, that has a direct impact potentially on u. S. Elections. On u. S. Elections. Tiktok accounts this year. Targets candidates from both parties during the midterm cycle in 2022, thats a worldwide threat assessment. Tiktok is not going away before november, so that means its an active threat. There is plenty of creativity on tiktok. There are people that make their living off of tiktok as social influencers. I dont want that go away. I want to make sure that the individuals pulling the strings are not ultimately functionaries of the communist party of china. I understand. Even with this significant bill the timeline is such it doesnt take it away as a risk for the election and seems the u. S. Government is so limited in many ways when it comes to these election influence efforts. The timeline of giving this is a complicated transaction up to a full year from a business standpoint makes sense. The one thing we have in place, and im not putting a lot of solace in this, i was at the Munich Security Conference earlier in the year when all 20 of the major social media companies, including tiktok, and including twitter, x, including facebook, google, amazon, you name it, they have said they would have a voluntary agreement about disinformation and misinformation and elections because with artificial intelligence, the ability for people to see this, our images here, maybe having words that we dont speak. Right. Is ought to scare the dickens out of all of us. The truth is, you know, these 2a voluntary agreement, they will take on watermarking to indicate altered content, willing to take this content down, but the proof is in the pudding. The parliamentary elections in europe start in less than 60 days. Were going along with our european partners, to say, all right, companies you promised. Show us what youre doing. So this other measure that was approved as well, section 702, its a key surveillance tool, was reauthorized for two years instead of five. Take a listen to what the cia director told my colleague Norah Odonnell about how his agency is using this authority. Its reauthorization, its passage, is a crucial tool to fight fentanyl. Something like 70 of all the successful disruptions of fentanyl traffic moving into the United States, that weve been a part of, have come directly from intelligence derived from 702. These changes to 702, how does it help fight the trafficking of fentanyl . What difference is there in. Lets remember what 702 is. It is the ability for the United States government to surveil, listen in, on nonamericans, foreigners, who are abroad and many times, the fentanyl drug cartels are being run out of mexico, many times supplied with basic goods out of china, and this ability to listen in on the bad guys communications, is extraordinarily powerful. As a matter of fact, the president gets a daily brief of all of the intelligence, hot spots around the world, 60 , 60 of what he reads each day is material that comes out of the 702 program. Now, let me be clear, there have been times in the past where, particularly the fbi, didnt even follow its own rules on making sure that foreign individual, foreign terrorist, that might be talking to american, that we put appropriate protections on that american that led to some of this criticism. Five years ago the fbi was screwing up on 30 of their queries just meeting their own criteria. We put in place reforms. The screw up level has dropped from about 30 to less than 1 . We put requirements so that you can no longer do batch queries. Fbi have to show a National Security purpose. If a journalist or a political figure or a religious figure were even to be queried about, you have to get approval from the director to the Deputy Director or head of the National Security division. We think weve got a very strong reform bill. Its why it passed the senate. Senator, so much to talk to you about. Good to have you here in person. Thank you, margaret. And we turn now to alaska republican senator dan sullivan wh is here with us, a busy weekend here in washington. Yeah. Good to be back on the show. So senator, this ukraine aid that finally has moved, president zelenskyy was on another network this morning, and he said the u. S. Will send a signal with this that this will not be a second afghanistan. The u. S. Will stay with ukraine. If donald trump wins this next election, can you guarantee the u. S. Will stay with ukraine . Listen, i cant guarantee anything, but its actually good that president zelenskyy mentioned afghanistan, margaret, this gets lost too much. We have to look at how we got to the situation of a ukraine. I believe strongly that weakness coming out of the biden white house, they cut defense spending, you know, every year in terms of the president s budget, their Energy Policies exude weakness and the botched withdraw from afghanistan, emboldened putin to undertake the invasion of ukraine. So we got to remember kind of broadly, more strategically, where we are, but as you know, i was a supporter of the defense supplemental, and i think its not just going to be important for ukraine, as you and i have talked about before, its going to be really important for the Industrial Base of america, which has atrophied dramatically. 60 of this bill goes into building weapons and submarines to 155 districts which is surprising it took so long to get through the house. All over the place. Its important. Again, you know, a lot of this in terms of where we are on ukraine, from my perspective, comes from the weakness of the Biden Administration and, you know, the president s inability to make the case on ukraine. Hes given two speeches on ukraine in the last two years and all his speeches do is kind of vili niz another part of the congress. He hasnt tried to bring people together. We could have a historical argument for the next hour going back years about green lights given to Vladimir Putin around the world by leaders in many countries. The history on this is important. Lets talk about im not not saying its not. Lets talk about the future. The hun garren Prime Minister met with donald trump at maralago and then gave an interview and in that interview he said that trump told him, he will not give a penny to fund ukraine and that is why the war will end because ukraine cannot stand on its own feet. We know hes not fan of president zelenskyy. Why do you think he will be persuaded. He might win this election. Yeah. I mean President Trump put out a statement recently where he thought it was important to support ukraine. He actually also mentioned the europeans need to do more, and he mentioned something i just said, its unlikely the war would have started had he still be in the white house. Russia hadnt withdrawn from ukraine, theyve gone in 2014. This argument over trump would have made a difference, it didnt make a difference four years in office. The broader issue particularly between biden and trump where are we is the world a safer place for the United States and our allies today, as it was four years ago . I think the answer is unequivocally no. Lets get back to your question. I do think that the Republican Party in the house and in the senate is still very much the peace through strength party. This is the tradition of republicans, reagan, the gush presidencies, eisenhower, roosevelt are. Where you talking about the senate or the house . Look at some of the other votes. There was a vote republicans in the house two to one rejected an amendment to strip funding for ukraine. Two to one in the house. And Marjorie Taylor greens effort . Correct. Well see what the senate does this tuesday on this bill. One of the things that i think the speaker did a good job on, with regard to this legislation, is actually he actually improved it for a whole host of reasons, but i predict that youll probably see a majority of Senate Republicans supporting this legislation. Like i said, peace through strength, this is important because donald trump was part of that tradition, very much, you remember, president obama cut defense spending by 25 his second term. He gutted readiness. This is what democrat president s do. Biden did it, obama did it. I want to talk about these mixed messages in the house with our congressmen ahead. Okay. , but i still think our party is the peace through strength party. As you said you cant guarantee a Trump Administration nobody can guarantee anything. He hasnt even endorsed this bill publicly. He came out with a statement just last week saying something that, you know, ukraine was important. He says everyone agrees ukrainian survival and strength is important to europe than us. That was the best that republicans got out of him. David cameron, uk. Let me make one other point, i think that were kind of giving joe biden a pass on not just as i mentioned how we got here, but the execution of the ukraine effort. As you know, literally every major weapons system that ukrainians have said they need, from patriots, stingers, tanks, f16s, attack ms, every single weapons system this administration delays, delays, because theyre scared of, you know, making Vladimir Putin mad, the senate, you saw mark warner a second ago and you interviewed him in a bipartisan way, we come in and say mr. President , you have to give them these weapons systems. They finally relent. Think about where we would be, ma margaret, if a year and a half ago or six months ago if the republicans in the house held a vote to do what they did yesterday. I need to move on to climate because youre passionate about this and what the Biden Administration announced about your state of alaska. The president wants too conserve 30 of u. S. Lands as part of his Climate Change efforts, and he has limited oil and gas drilling in parts of the National Petroleum reserve to protect polar bears and other things and blocked a road crucial to operating a copper and zinc mine. You said this is suicidal and lawless . It was. Those are strong words. Its lawless. He doesnt have the authority to do that and i can go into the laws that support me on that. National security suicide. This president wont sanction the iranian oil and gas regime. You may have seen senator blumenthal and i sent a letter to president friday saying you need to do that. But he has no problem sanctioning alaska. This administration has issued 63 executive orders and executive actions singularly focused on alaska to shut our state down. That, of course, hurts my constituents but a National Resources energy, critical oil, thats an american strength. This should concern all kinds of americans. One final thing i want to highlight here. Ive been in the senate nine years and never seen such a cynical and dishonest display coming out of any presidency when this president on friday with secretary holland announced they did this because the alaska native, Indigenous People on the north slope of alaska wanted them to, asked them to, the leaders of the north slope of alaska were unanimous in opposition to this. They tried to meet with secretary holland. She wouldnt meet with them. This is a rule that focuses on their lands where theyve been living thousands of years and the president said i did it because the Indigenous People of alaska wanted it. That is a lie. And i it is a lie. Go see what the Indigenous People of alaska from that part of my state said. Theyre very upset that the president was canceling their voices and now stealing their voices. It was