Christiana one poor in london. Thank you for watching and ill see you again next week. Hello everyone and thank you so much for joining me in this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Happening right now, the House Of Representatives is in session for a rare high saturday your vote live pictures right now. Right now lawmakers are debating Military Aid Bills for ukraine, israel, and taiwan totaling 95 billion gop hardliners are pushing hard against more ukraine aid, but supporters, both republican and democrat insist the aid packages are critical. For now michelle and Global Security was on fire from putins fullscale invasion of ukraine to chairman sheath threatening taiwan and the pacific to the ayatollah rearing his ugly head, invading israel through his proxies the eyes of the world are upon us and history will judge us by what we do here. And now today with the vote on Ukraine Security aide we rededicate ourselves to who we are we meet today under the white dome above us. A universal symbol of freedom. And freedom loving people everywhere today, we cannot disappoint those who seek what we have in two years, well celebrate the 250 and the reverse of this country this, freedom, this democracy, which would not have happened without money from the netherlands, money from france, guns from france, naibe from france allies stood at the side of the birth of this nation, the birth of freedom was born here so today we come to this house floor to say that freedom has fought for here in this house in the next hour, lawmakers are expected to begin voting on the three longawaited Funding Bills and to sweeten the deal for house republicans. A fourth bill contains sanctions for iran, a seizure of Frozen Russian Assets, plus a potential nationwide tiktok ban gop House Speaker mike johnson was able to push the bipartisan bills through congress this week with the help of democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners in his party have threatened to interest produce a measure to terminate his leadership. We have a team of correspondents covering the developments for us, Priscilla Alvarez is there in washington. Lets begin with manu raju on capitol hill. Manu, i mean, set the stage for us. Whats going on right now. How do we expect this to play out . Yeah, hugely significant moment in fact, right now, House Democrats are meeting in the room behind me because they are central to whats happening here On The House Floor. Theyre the ones who are going to supply the key votes to get this package over the fillin finish line. Essentially salvage this bill after republican divisions could have sculptor this on the first proceeding funeral vote yesterday, yesterday, you saw a significant number of House Democrats essentially advanced this measure to the house floor amid these republican division, there are of those. Ukraine supporters within the House Democratic caucus, of course, who are applauding Mike Johnsons efforts. But there are significant divisions among those on the far right, numbers of the House Freedom caucus, people dont want to spend dying more money for ukraine and on top of that, the decision by the speaker not to include new Border Security provisions as part of this package has caused a revolt on the right with some threatening to move forward and to see because ouster talking to republicans is very clear, there are bitter feelings, ill a large part in the aftermath of the historic ouster of Kevin Mccarthy last fall. And those those back bitter feelings are still lingering in the car and the conference was well, good came of getting rid of Kevin Mccarthy. Well, i think one of the best things that came mengniu is a precedent has been set. You cant just do whatever the hell you want, regardless of what the voters that sent us here, what they want, what they demand, and what they deserve. Its time for these people two start trying to legislate and stop trying to be popular. Okay. So we have to make hard decisions that when your decision is solely based on whether or not someones going to talk bad about john social media, youre not thinking right so right now there are three republicans who are supporting the effort to oust mike johnson from the speakership that Marjorie Taylor greene is leading the efforts youve got the support of Thomas Massie and paul gosar. Those are two other conservative, very conservative members of the conference. Others have gone right up to the line and suggested they would be open to it. But if this does go forward, that would mean democrats will be essential here to essentially scuttling this effort on the first procedural move and saving Mike Johnsons job. Will they do that . There are several of them who said that they absolutely will, but the democratic leadership has yet to take a position on this. Yeah, thats one of the the questions here that they may have to grapple with whether what Marjorie Taylor greene decides to do also uncertain. Our colleague ali main, just ask green outside the House Floor Whether or not today was the day to try to force that vote seeking his ouster. Of course, you can call for that vote. It would happen within two legislative days. She declined to comment on her plans, so still a question about how she points to proceed okay. And then manu, f, are the vote goes through today or any number of these, then how quickly with us senate act its still a bit uncertain now, chuck schumer, the Senate Majority leader, did indicate that there have been ongoing discussions to try to get this done quickly. He said theres a tentative agreement. In fact, to take this up by early next week, theres an expectation potentially, this could be cleared in the United States senate on tuesday, and that would cap the end of whats been months and months of battling mostly among republicans about how to proceed on this issue. And after two months after the Senate Passed a bipartisan plan that collected dust for about two months until mike johnson made his own moves but ultimately, this proposal that looks expected to land on the president has not too different from that plan that passed the senate about two months ago. All right. Manu raju, well check back with you. I know youre keeping an eye on a lot of activity. People coming and going there, lie to do some of youre great reporting. Thanks so much. Priscilla alvarez, also in washington now, priscilla, the president has been waiting for this day for a long time to try and get money approved especially for ukraine. How is the white house responding as they wait probably on the edge of their seat, whether indeed it is going to pass through well, President Biden has thrown his support behind these National Security bells and to your point, fredreka, the president , asked for these funds last year. They have desperately wanted to see them get past and the white house has maintained over the course of all this time that it is urgent and necessary for ukraine oftentimes, when President Biden you come out to talk about the necessity of these funds for ukraine as well as other National Security priorities he would frame it as a National Security priority, noting that they cannot see any ground to russia. And in an oped this week in the wall street journal, President Biden called it a Pivotal Moment in a statement yesterday from the White House Office of management and budget. They echo that saying, quote, passing this legislation would send a powerful message about the strength of American Leadership at a Pivotal Moment, the administrative and urges both chambers of the congress to quickly send this supplemental funding package to the president s desk now its important there that they note the strength of American Leadership because over the last several months, what weve also seen is a recurring topic of discussion in the president s conversations with World Leaders in which he has a firm that the us will stand by ukraine, but that has been a difficult argument to make when these funds are stalled in congress. Now, we should also note that us Officials Say the stakes are high. In fact, this week, say a Director Burns said that ukraine could lose the war by the end of the year if they dont get these funds. So all attention On The House Floor today. All right. And well be watching as well. Thank you so much. Priscilla alvarez and manu raju all right. I dont forget. You can catch manu tomorrow morning on Inside Politics at 8 00 a. M. Eastern right here on cnn. Lets talk further on all thats taking place were about to take place on capitol hill with us right now. Steph kight, shes a political reported for axios and Daniel Lipman is a White House Reporter for politico. Great to see both of you. Steph, you first, i mean these aid packages have bipartisan support, which is a real rarity these days in congress, how significant is it for speaker johnson to push these . Bills through even with the risk of his own job on the line mean there is huge pressure on johnson to finally get this done. There has been growing pressure on him to act on despite these bipartisan bills for a long time. Now, we know that in the senate, mitch mcconnell, republican leader there there has been pushing, putting pressure on johnson to move on this knowing that despite there being a real divide within republican party, that there is still significant support for continuing to provide needed aid to our allies in ukraine, as well as israel, the indopacific et cetera. This is a huge moment for johnson and of course it comes with enormous risk, especially facing a motion to vacate and well see whether argued Taylor Greene actually makes good on her threats. There and well know very shortly whether she does. Okay. And steph, were gonna take a pause a moment. Lets listen to steny hoyer and what he has to say will remain loud and clear for all to hear okay, well, i can rewrite some of that in order here. The totality of what the representative was saying. So daniel, for you for months, present, biden has been urging congress to pass this Military Aid Bill for ukraine. If it does indeed go through how big of a when is this for him . What does this tell him also about the days ahead and working with members on both sides most vote. Most voters dont vote based on foreign policy. It might be a change this year because of how salient gaza is. But this gets him back in a position to show the ukrainians that were not going to abandon them for speaker johnson. It also secures his legacy a little bit on this issue. He was worried about how history was going to view him if he had let down ukraine and we had heard that ukraine could have fallen by the end of the year without this money theyve been out of ammunition. And he does not want that on his watch but daniel, whats your opinion as to what change because speaker johnson wasnt always onboard with more money for ukraine, but in recent weeks, were seeing, you know, hes had A Change Of Heart or at least his emphasis has now turned toward assistance. What do you suppose changed . There has been a huge Pressure Campaign in terms of former generals of the us and also the ukrainians and europeans telling johnson, this is very important and also we havent seen opposition from trump to this package. He has stayed neutral. And so if he had come out swinging against this then that would have tanked it but she even said the other day, hey, europeans are not helping ukraine enough either. So i think johnson also, if trump gets reelected in november his Negotiating Position to have a good deal with the russians would be much stronger if this package comes through in the next few hours and stuff if this package just go through in the next few hours, what do you suppose this means for speaker johnson, does this him bolden him on his power or persuasiveness to get things done or does this put him back on his heels trying to save his job when greater popularity among those republicans who have been more than reluctant about this and actually think about that question. Lets us and now to rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of florida you walk into the festival, sayyed nc, hundreds of Memorial City innocent victims who were murdered in cold blood and kibbutz kfar aza, we saw homes riddled with bullet, bullet holes and burned to the ground with people still in them this is what is real is up against. This is what israel must defend against maniacal terrorism dedicated to the destruction of not just a state of israel, but of all jews. Israel fights not only to destroy hamas is around back military capabilities, but to send a clear message to our adversaries who seek to erase the jewish state. You will not be successful. President Biden Leader Jeffries and democrats have fought from months to send this critical security assistance, as well as lifesaving humanity terry, an aid for the Palestinian People who are also victims of hamas, a vote against this bill is a vote to deny that aid. I am proud to support this vital effort to help israel in this existential ballot battle. An aid civilians, and i urge my colleagues to join me to free gaza from hamas im its real high i yield back the balance of my time gentleman yields. Gentleman is recognized are yield to the gentleman. All right. Daniel i wonder if you could address what i was talking about with the House Speaker johnson, and if this does go through, what does this mean for his demeanor . For his posturing, his power well, hes had a tough time in terms of learning the ropes. This was someone who most americans had not even heard of when he was elected speaker after that long battle. And so theres a lot of doubts about whether he be able to keep this tiny majority in november and so i think this gives some some muscles where he can actually enact some of his agenda. He doesnt have that much because you have a senate controlled by democrats. But this secures some of his power because he doesnt look week where he puts up like bills like to impeach mayorkas you dont get any he had to do it another time to do that. And so this he is crying. He seems to have figured out this complicated puzzle today and staff just on the heels of what representative debbie Wasserman Schultz was talking about zeroing in on israel and this 95 billion package includes 26 for israel. If this goes through broken down sort of in this way, 17 billion would go to offensive and defensive weapons for israels wills, 9 billion in Humanity Hearing Aid for gaza and elsewhere. And i wonder if theres any real specificity about that humanitarian aid, who would if this if this bill is passed, who would be responsible for the dissemination of that humanitarian aid . You know, i mean, this this inclusion of humanitarian aid is of course hugely important to the democrats at large and this is an issue where weve continued to see democrats divided on how to address the situation in gaza. Weve seen President Biden faced pressure within his own party to navigate a very difficult domestic political position, as were trying to support israel, while also acknowledging the need in gaza right now. And so this will be this much attention has been paid. The republican divide over are response to ukraine this package. But we are also likely to see some democrats who feel that the us is not doing enough to condition the a that we provide israel when were looking at whats happening in gaza as well. And to your other question about speaker johnsons legacy, how he comes out of this . The question really is who youre asking there because he is once its again having to rely on democrats to get through some of the biggest moves and biggest packages. Hes had to handle thus far. We know whether or not we see a motion to vacate. He has ruffled some feathers within his own party and there will continue to be more conservative in the house who are going to continue to push him and be upset and point to the fact that he had to rely on democrats, even for the procedural vote tick, tick get us to the floor. All right, well leave it there for now. Stef kight, daniel littmann. Thanks to both of you as we continue to listen to representatives there on the floor, make their arguments for or against the voting of this in all 95 billion foreign aid package. Thanks so much. And the house is set to vote on these critical aid bills. Later on this afternoon. Of course, our team is following all of that. And donald trump, former president , back on the Campaign Trail for the first time following Jury Selection in his historic criminal trial what comes next for the former presiden