Presents blue carbon natures, hidden power premiers tomorrow night at nine eastern end pacific, only on cnn good morning and welcome to the best de of the week. It is saturday, april 20. Good to have you with us proceed in this morning. Im victor black wash. Just pictures opinion. I love it. Im amara walker. I love my sundays. Heres what were working on for you this morning. Were just hours away from a rare saturday session in congress to pass a critical 95,000,000,000. 04 aid package package backed by Speaker Johnson, but it could cost the republican his speakers gavel for sliding or depending on the democrats for their votes inside the deep divide in house and with The Middle East already on edge after strikes in israel and iran, what were learning about a series of deadly explosions at an iranbacked militia based in iraq. Thats ahead in life report happening today, former President Trump is set to make his First Campaign appearances since a jury was selected in his historic Hush Money Trial in new york, what had trumps shaking his head in the courtroom ahead of mondays its Opening Statements and a new era for taylor swift, the records are new double album is already breaking 24 hours after its release. And the new video. She just dropped there are just two hours left until the house gavels in to a busy Working Weekend Lawmakers are expected to pass a number of foreign aid bills for israel and ukraine and the indopacific region. And aid is not the only topic up for debate. To sweeten the deal for house a fourth bill contains a slew of sanctions for iran and china and russia, plus potential nationwide tiktok ban the aid packages worth together about 95 billion. Theyre expected to pass earlier this week, the house passed the rule for the aid bills by a decent margin, 165 my thats the 151 republicans. But this bipartisanship that we saw working across the aisle could cost Speaker Mike Johnson his job, a third republican, hard lighter, joined the effort to oust him. Arizona representative paul gosar signed onto Marjorie Taylor greenes measure along with paul bassy thomas massie, but greene has enforced a floor vote, yet the earliest we could see that happened is today joining us now is ten mitchell washington correspondent with the Atlanta Journal welcome to the studio. Thanks for coming this morning so talk to us about what were going to see this afternoon. So johnsons going to put to the floor. Are these for aid packages . Whats the strategy here and what makes it more likely that it will actually pass this time around . Well the strategy is that even though theyre one package, theyre being separated into separate votes. And that is very important because i think all of them can pass individually. But when you package it together, there are so many different House Members that dislike different portions that it might not be able to pass all together. So by separating them to separate those for example, there are some hardright republicans who been very opposed to funding for ukraine. Well, they dont have to vote for the ukraine portion, but some of those same hard right republicans might vote yes. On the money for israel but there are some far left democrats who might not vote for the money for israel. Now, they dont have to vote for that part. So theyre going to take get in pieces and get it over to the senate. But when it gets to the senate, it will be kind of combined back into one big package we think. And of course, the big question hanging over johnsons head is, well, you know, hes trying to hold onto his political survival and its not clear whats going to happen next, but its its really incredible to see just how dysfunctional the House Republicans are, right . Because theyre divided on ukraine aid, but theyre also divided on Speaker Johnsons future. Yeah, i think its interesting, so i think people when you talk to regular voters, they talk about they dont want one party to control everything. They kind liked the idea of divided government to force people to work across the aisle. But at the same time, there are some americans, particularly on the right, who say dont compromise, stick with your far right ideals, even if it means shutting things down. And so we see that reflected in some of these House Republicans where negotiating with democrats compromised is antithetical to what you know, what they say they stand for so they dont want to see it, which is why they are angry with Speaker Johnson for bringing bills to the floor that requires him to work with democrats. Again, most people would say, well, isnt that how government is supposed to work . But some of these republicans dont want that. So what do these republicans want . Its so easy to say what you dont want and not come up with than alternative rite, but explain us whats going on here, especially for the people at home. I think looking at the dysfunction and saying, well, did the republicans demand that ukraine aid tied to tougher measures at the border . That do go shaded for months at the senate level. It just take days her to fall apart when trump said sync it. So what do they want . Because again, what they want is their Border Security measure in anything short of that, anything that reflects compromise, they have opposed. So yes, there was a compromise, bipartisan border Border Security bill out of the senate these House Republicans that are on the further right, the most conservative say, we dont want to compromise bill. We want our bill. Now again, democrats said, hey, youre a bill goes too far. Lets meet somewhere in the middle. These republicans dont want to hear that. They want its their way or the highway in their minds but what Speaker Johnson is saying is, i cant govern that way. Weve got to work with democrats and you do that by coming up with compromises. But again, these members of his party say that is why we dont want you as our leader anymore im curious to hear your thoughts on Speaker Johnsons shift and his tone. He spoke with our jake tapper this weekend. He really seemed to be embracing these International List principals. Listen we know what the timetable is. We know the urgency in ukraine and in israel, and we are going to stand by. Israel, our close ally and dear friend, and were going to stand for freedom and make sure that Vladimir Putin doesnt march through europe sure these are important responsibilities. A Strong America is good for the entire world since world war ii, really, really the responsibility for the free world has been shifted onto our shoulders and we accept that role and lets not forget Speaker Johnson when he wasnt speaker, he voted against ukraine we know that hes a fierce Loyal Follower of trump, yet hes, hes clearly not embracing trumps America First creed here. Yeah, i think number one, it reflects the fact that representative johnson has now become speaker. Johnson and that number one has a new level of responsibility, but number two, theres a new level of education that he has received. Hes in these high level Security Briefings where hes heard things that maybe have shifted his outlook but again, i think part of what hes saying is i can no longer just represent myself for my district. I have to lead a body that ideally wants to get things done and hes talking about history and his role is in history at this very Pivotal Point internationally. And so hes broken again with kind of quite frankly where he was before when he again, i wasnt in leadership. I think it shows that perhaps some of these farright members that want their leadership to dig in arent always rooted in the reality of what it takes to govern. Yeah. And hes in reality right now. Hes hes seeing it daytoday, six months into his speakership. Well see how things play out to him, mitchell, good to see you. Thank you so much. Lets go now to cnn White House Reporter camila to chalice in wilmington, delaware with the president is camila house passing. These bills big win for the administration. Theyve been trying to get this done since the fall. What are they saying this morning thats right. The white house has signal that President Biden is willing to sign these bills immediately into law at they are past. And this would be a really big blend for the Biden Administration patient. They have been pushing congress and lawmakers to act for months to pass funding that would provide additional aid to israel, ukraine, and other countries i. Really made this argument saying, hey, ukraine needs this aid. Look at how theyre losing a lot of ground in their own country. The military is to their fight against russia and thats due to the lack of funding. This would it be what biden considers a win because hes been pushing them to add these also said that he wants to make good on his commitment. The standby these countries and provide the aid this Funding Package would also provide at least 9. 2 billion and humanitarian assistance. And thats another thing that the Biden Mission has been pushing so all around that they have just expressed this urgency to get something done and do it in a timely manner viktor amara, back to you, camila dechalus. Four is there in wilmington. Thank you. 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Yesterday or rons president did not mention that strike while praising last weekends iranian strikes against israel real attention between israel and iran is sparking fears of an expanding middle east conflict. Cnns Paula Hancocks is following all of this for us. Tell us what the latest is and what the expectation is. There in the region is this as it appears to be over resolved well, victor, thats certainly what everybody is hoping at this point and its face value it does appear as though neither israel nor iran has the appetite for a full scale war. So lets look at what really happened over the past 24, 48 hours. I mean, that explosion in iraq at the iranian back Military Base of the pmu. That was interesting because we still dont know if that was an attack or if that what was an accident . It wasnt at an ammunitions depot, which is why were seeing probably those dramatic images of the fire. No one was killed as you but at this point it was very quick that we saw both israel and the United States deny responsibility for that. And that really just goes to show the level of ten shouldnt in the region at this point, israel is not in the business of denying responsibility for these kinds of incidents, but it felt the necessity to do that in the early hours saturday morning, and israeli official saying they have no action in that. So thats really very telling. We also had an Iraqi Military officials telling us that there were no drones or planes in the air the time of the attack. But there does seem to be this feeling of a step back from the brink, if you like, what we have been seeing over the past two weeks, has been a significant escalation between israel and iran. And this certainly theres hope that, that has now dissipated at least to some degree and least for now, you mentioned the Iraqi President s raisi, given a speech and the fact that he didnt mention israels strike on iran, a tool he was loading. The fact that iran had carried out by the attack just last weekend on israeli territory. Those more than 300 drones and missiles 99 of which were shot down by israel and the United States and other allies but the fact that he didnt mention it at all, the fact we havent had israel even acknowledging that they carried out this attack on iran really goes to show this seems to be an effort to put an end to this effort to move on from what really was a significant escalation victory all Hancocks Force Reporting their paula, thank you mistaken identity possibly leads to murder in ohio and uber driver was killed on the job. Why police say an 81 yearold man shot her to death in his driveway . 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