Polantz at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on for greek. A whitfield were following major developments on capitol oh, hell, right now, the House Of Representatives is in session for a rare saturday highstakes vote for the past several hours, lawmakers have been debating milk ill let terry aid bills for ukraine and israel and taiwan totaling 95 and at any moment now, lawmakers are expected to begin voting on the three laws. Longawaited Funding Bills to sweeten the deal for House Republicans, a fourth bill contains sanctions for iran, a seizure of Frozen Russian Assets thats plus a potential nationwide tiktok ban gop House Speaker mike johnson was able to advance the bipartisan bills through congress this week with the help of death democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners in his party have threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his post and moments so go, House Minority lea
party over really america s place in the world amid this debate about whether or not there should be an effort to try to help united states allies overseas, whether or not united states should be he worried about other issues as well. but right now, a major moment here from mike johnson siding with the national security wing of his party over those folks, we re more aligned with donald trump on the issue of ukraine as republicans about 100, 101 republicans voted with 210 democrats to get this bill over the finish line, 311 to 112. the final vote in overwhelming bipartisan would jordi voting to push this ahead, that we re still a minority of republicans who ultimately voted for this 112 majority of republicans voted against as according to these the tally, right? as this vote was called, that could be a political problem for my johnson, who has been willing to, as he said, let the chips fall where they may and that s the question. what will that mean? what will that mean for
military assistance. but now that assistance is still very limited. and in particular, we are still waiting for news packages from the united states american support has been in question for too long, ever seen that is questioned for the defense of freedom is a precise answer for putin. he s tempted to act when the west slows down and just this week, cia director bill burns also warning ukraine could lose the war with russia by the end of the year without more us help. cnn s fred pleitgen is in the ukrainian capital of kyiv. so fred out what will be the most? immediate impact of this aid if indeed the package passes today are there for rico, first of all, i think pretty much everybody in the ukrainian government right now at this very moment is at the edge of their seats because the us military aid, if indeed it does go through, would be so very
those dealing with aid to ukraine, to israel, taiwan and there will individual measures & a separate bill that deals another issues, other issues including calling for the chinese company bytedance to divest from tiktok, if not face as possible its ability of tiktok being ban on us app stores, all of that ultimately will be rolled into a larger package that we sent back to the united states senate, which will give final approval israeli is tuesday and then over to the president s desk after months of battling to try to get this aid, particularly for ukraine over the finish line amid these bitter gop it divisions. now what will not be included in this plan? border security provisions that s what speaker johnson had insisted must be tied to ukraine money also, a lot of those folks on the right who demand and a border security deal also did not want any more money to ukraine. but now that owe the money for ukraine will go over to the senate, get approved and not get any border security wi
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