You so much for joining me today. Anna very busy saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom with alex marquardt, starts right now you are in. The cnn newsroom. Im alex barack board in washington. Thank you so much for joining us. We begin with Breaking News on capitol hill after months of delays and political turmoil in a rare saturday vote, house lawmakers passed stay billion package of aid for ukraine, for israel and taiwan now the deal heads to the senate for a vote before it can be signed by President Joe Biden two reporters across washington as well as in kyiv and in jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox On Capitol Hill to help break it all down. Lauren, what is the latest yeah obviously this vote a long time coming. Alex and theres been a lot of questions about whether or not Speaker Mike Johnson was ever going to get to this point, putting this ukraine aid package as well as additional aid for israel and taiwan on the floor of the House Of Representatives. And the reason for that, of course, was because of these threats coming from conservatives against his job. The question of whether or not he could continue to serve as the speaker of the house. And get aid to the uss allies across the world. The main concern coming from people like representative Marjorie Taylor greene was additional funding for ukraine, but you are hearing despite the fact that conservatives are frustrated, they are mad at the speaker. They are questioning whether or not he deserves to be in this job. You are still hearing from Defense Hawks like representative mike mccall, like representative don bacon, who are applauding the speaker for his efforts he should true leadership by what he did today, took the water, gets in the face of the opposition but he knows that if we didnt do this the consequences would have been severe not just for the United States, for the free world, we need to send to russia when we need to split our ally, israel. So i think he did everything i could to try to get all three done. Like i said, you dont want have one failure, me and the other two things fail as well. I think thats right. Thats where we got. Ive always been a mikes a friend. Hes a man of character. Hes analyst, is always said his for ukraine, ive always believed them of course, it wasnt just republicans who are applauding the speaker i talked to one democrat representative mike quigley when i asked him whether his view of the speaker has changed over the course of the last several weeks he kinda pause for a minute. He said, i guess it has i guess, what happened today. I wasnt sure was ever going to happen, but obviously there was bipartisan support for that package. It now heads to the United States senate, majority leader Chuck Schumer, announcing just a few two minutes ago, alex, that a key vote will begin in the senate on tuesday, we still are not sure when the final passage of this package would come together, but it does say a lot because the senate and it was supposed to be in recess next week, theyre returning to washington because they view this as so needed. So immediate le, important that they want to take action as soon as possible. Alex. Yeah, the senate very eager to pass this. Lauren before i let you go speaking of the senate, they passed a bill late on friday to reauthorize the fisa warrantless surveillance program. Thats despite bipartisan concern and after hours of intense in an acrimonious debate. So what helped push it through yeah, i think there was just a resounding view from so many folks that this needed to pass before the deadline which happened last night at midnight. So there was this last minute ditch effort where they were able to put together a package, passed acid on the floor, gives some votes, gives some amendment votes to those who wanted them and move this forward. But we should just note this is another moment where Speaker Mike Johnson and really worked with majority leader Chuck Schumer to pass this through his own chamber, frustrating and outraging those on his right flank. Once again, theres a lot of bills mike johnson has done over the course of the last several weeks that have angered his right flank. Thats something to keep an eye on when lawmakers return, not next week in the house, but the week after like lauren fox, im on capitol hill on a very big day. Thanks very much. President joe biden is saying that the house is passage of the foreign aid bill sends what he calls a clear message about the power of americas leadership to the World White House correspondent Priscilla Alvarez is with me here in the studio. So priscilla, what else are we hearing from the president . Well, theres no doubt, alex, that this is a significant moment for the white house a win for them after months of wrangling for this aid. Now, the president of plotting this in a statement this afternoon saying, quote today members of both parties in the house voted to advance our National Security interests and send a clear message about the power of American Leadership on The World Stage at this critical inflection point, they came together there to answer historys call passing urgently needed National Security legislation that i have thought for months to secure. And then he goes on to say the senate needs to quickly send this to his desk. Now, of course, to remind viewers, this was something the president asked for last october, and he actually addressed the nation, making the point that it wasnt just about providing help to an ally abroad but also that this was in the National Security interests for the United States and important not to cede any ground to russia. And that has been the drumbeat from us officials, including as we saw, some losses on the battlefield in ukraine where us officials put that squarely at the feet of republicans and congress saying that not sending that aid to ukraine was resulted teeing in some of these losses. So clearly this has been urgent. It has been necessary. We also got that stark warning from the cia director burns this week where he said, ukraine could lose the war by the end of the year if they didnt get the funding, will now the president is a plotting that they can, of course, white house officials were in touch with members of congress and their staff over the course of the last few days, especially today on saturday were expecting to see what happens next in the senate. But clearly a win for the white house, which has been asking for this aid for months. Yeah, It Top Intelligence and military officials to your point, they have been essentially begging lawmakers to get ukraine this aid, which is so desperately needed for solvers, great to have you in studio. Thanks very much. Now to ukraine where the monthslong delay in passing, this american aid is being blamed for some recent ukrainian losses and russian gains on the battlefield. Following the vote, ukraines president zelenskyy posted a thank you message to the us for it support we find our Senior International correspondent, Fred Pleitgen in kyiv right now, fred great to have you there. Weve got this. Thank you. From president s zelenskyy. It must be a huge feeling of relief where you are yeah, it absolutely is. And you could feel that really reverberate around the city, around kyiv and really around the other the entire country. And also alex, you mentioned there that thank you. Tweet essentially by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of that country at came out only a couple of seconds after the house vote went down. So cleanly, the ukrainians were waiting for this and were hoping for this and some of the things that priscilla mentioned, obviously for the ukrainians have been really real issues that theyve been having. The lack of ammunition as far as artillery is concerned, also, air Defense Systems and air defense missiles as well. One of the things of course, alex, that weve been talking about over the past couple of weeks and that youve been reporting about out as well, is the fact that the russians have launched this massive aerial campaign against ukraines Energy Infrastructure in the ukrainian, just saying, look, in some cases, we simply dont have the air defense missiles to hold that up. So its a big deal for them. Weve actually been in touch with a couple of troops who are on the frontlines fighting there. That was one of them who said that they had essentially felt they would have been forgotten by the United States. And now they realize that thats not the case. Another one was also saying that this aid, which they hope will come soon also motivates a troops were fighting on the frontlines, hoping that they can turn things around. The president of this country, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Again, he came out and he says once again, this shows the leadership of the United States. I want to listening to some of what he had to say to him. We appreciate every manifestation of support for our state and independents are people in our lives, which russia wants to bury in Ruins America has shown its leadership from the first days of this war so you have Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking really only moments after the vote in the house to happen. Of course we do. I have to always remind viewers that right now the situation i would say its still in a stalemate. It is certainly one were the russians have the initiative and the moment at this point in time, theyve been pushing the ukrainians back in some areas, the russians also alex have really found ways to use their air force a lot more effectively than they did in the early days of the war. Thats one of the reasons why the ukrainians keep calling for those air Defense Systems and while they understand they might not be able to turn things around immediately with this aid. They do say that it will help them at least stabilize the situation going forward. I also want to read you what we got from the Foreign Minister of this country because hes were comments made directly to cnn. He said, quote, enabling ukraine to Push Back Russian aggression is equal to preventing a the larger war in europe and averting the risk of of all want to be aggressors, plunging our world into chaos. I sincerely thank the us House Of Representatives, alex. Yeah. So important, fred, as you say, not just materially but psychologically for those troops who have been struggling on the frontlines against Russian ForcesFred Pleitgen to the ukrainian capital. Thanks very much. Now to israel, where they house actions. Todays sets up 26 in usa with some strings cnn senior diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is in jerusalem. Nick, what are you hearing there in terms of reaction . Yeah. As you can imagine, that has been a lot of thanks for the United States, a lot of thanks for Speaker Johnson. A lot of thanks for House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries what we heard from president heard psaki said this shows that israel has no stronger ally than the United States. The Prime Minister here, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, saying that this shows by parties and support for israel, which is quite an important thing for him to be saying, to be pointing out the bipartisan nature of it, of course, because there has been a sense that the way Prime Minister netanyahu has been fighting the war in gaza, high number of palestinian casualties there for more than 34,000 people this is alienated some democrats, so its quite a its important i think to understand part of what he is saying that this is we israel my administration is getting this bipartisan support. The Defense Minister on the plus or important to him. He said, look, we face seven enemies right now, seven different enemies. This, this shows the strength of the relationship between the United States and israel. We have from the Foreign Minister as well, talking about the strength of the ties for Strategic Partnership between the two countries an important comments as well, i think coming from the speaker at the knesset who said, look, this is a message to all the enemies of israel that the United States and Israel Stand Strong together. And why is that important thing to say right now . Because theres an assessment here that iran believed that it could have that Massive Attack just last weekend on israel and walden 350 drones cruise and Ballistic Missiles fired into israel at israel. Last saturday night into sunday, because they thought that the United States was not as strongly behind Prime Minister netanyahus government and behind it, israel and perhaps there was a small fracture there that they can so the message for the speaker of the knesset very clearly. And in essence, what we hear from the other leaders that this strengthen support. Its not just giving us the Military Equipment that we need to fight this fight that the iron dome there, davids sling, the arrow, all these Missile Intercept Systems that was so performed at sun which are high level and so successfully last weekend its the messaging, its the messaging that that whatevers happening in gaza, whatever the political disquieting in United States is about that. And with other allies around the world, United States is Still Standing and committed to arming israel to find its enemies and neck, we cant forget of course, about the west bank as well, where there has been a lot of violence lately. Again today, a palestinian Ambulance Driver killed while trying to evacuate wounded during a raid by israeli settlers. What more do you know . Yeah, this is something that palestinian officials are saying that the Ambulance Crew had tried to drive in to get people who were injured by by settlers and we saw just last weekend thousands, of settlers encroaching and going into palestinian villages they were on a rampage that weekend because the, because one of that community, a young shepherd, 14 years old, had been found dead. They blame, they blame the palestinians in a nearby town were seeing shades of that violence again this weekend and here the the crew, the ambulance, true. Were trying to get to Injured Palestinians the driver was shot, other members of the Ambulance Crew came under gunfire in the the ambulance and its not the only thing going on in the west bank. The idf has had a dayslong raid now into to talk or rem, refugee camp inside the occupied west bank there, the idf says, ive killed ten terrorists arrested, eight suspects, palestinian Officials Say that five other people have been killed including one child. So very bloody and violent times in several places in the west bank in the past 24 hours. And clearly this is a major concern to the Vitamin Iteration and they just put new sanctions on to groups link too extreme settlers and one settler expanding their sanctions, sanctions there in the west bank. Nic robertson, jerusalem. Thank you very much for that reporting. Secretary of state Antony Blinken and the State Department are not losing sight of keeping relations with china secure today, we just learned the sector blinken will be traveling to china very soon this week. In fact, it will be his second trip there in the last year after his visit last summer. This time hes set to meet with senior officials in both shanghai and beijing. 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