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Leadership. i would a pivotal moment going on to say that the administration urges both chambers of congress to quickly send this supplemental funding package to the president s desk course the white house watching all of this very closely as they framed this as very, very urgent for ukraine the voting getting underway, and of course we re going to continue to monitor monitor that on capitol hill. thanks so much, priscilla alvarez, manu raju, appreciate it. what we re right back nick paton walsh reports on the growing turf war between humans and elephants in sri lanka feels bizarre to see just frontline mentality out here are these giant and invasive species, or are they fighting for their own survival the whole story with anderson cooper tomorrow at eight on cnn. we talking about cashback is hard, not again talking about cashback. we talking about cash back ever since not talking about bragg know. we talked about cash back and we talk about cash. are we talking about cash we ve been ....
One that will come after the vote. all right. mano. i ll get back to you in a moment. let s now check in with priscilla alvarez, white house correspondent joining us from washington. so what is the position of the white house as it to awaits of the results of today s votes will leading up to this bot, president biden has thrown, had thrown his support behind these national security bills. and of course, these are funds that the president asked for last year and the white house has maintained that they are urgent and necessary especially for ukraine and often over the course of the last few months when president biden would speak about these funds to ukraine, he would frame this as a national security priority, noting that they should not be ceding any ground to russia. now, this week in a wall street journal op-ed, the president said that this was quote, a pivotal moment and the y s, the white house office of management and budget echo that in a statement just yesterday saying, quote, ....
Passed about 8.1 billion dollars in aid to american allies in the indo-pacific region, namely taiwan, that had been tied up as part of this larger foreign aid debate. there s also a separate packers that included a whole host of some new policy measures, one of which would actually call for the chinese company bytedance to divest from tiktok. if not fisker that very popular social media app from being banned in us app stores. so that s gonna be part of this underlying bill. now, we re gonna move on to a number of amendments that republicans in some members want to push to try to change to ukraine piece of that bill. remember that ukraine provision includes 61 billion in aid to ukraine once they get for the amendment process and then they will move to final passage of that ukraine bill. and then after that, then we go into $26 billion in aid for israel. now the eu brain asked by david, this is going to be very instructive and how this will come down because republicans have been so badl ....
This topic from months. this is why this has been held up. this larger built because of a real split. i m a republicans who are aligned with donald trump who say that there should not be a dime more money to spend for ukraine. but there are many republicans who are aligned with the national security wake of their party is saying ukraine s war against russia is an extra crisis, something that could threaten the united states and are essentially have one over mike johnson and speaker of the house, who decided to push ahead on this measure. now, this all comes as there are still questions about what will happen to mike johnson and his future because of this decision to move forward on this foreign aid package and not included border security is part of it. that is why he is facing this revolt on the far right, an effort to push them out from the speakership. so right now, it appears he does not have the votes among republicans to stay as speaker if their vote to oust him does come to pass ....
For the fiscal year ending september 30th to an interesting moment there you ve got the passage of the $61 billion ukraine aid bill, but you ve got an interesting confluence of events there. you heard rousing applause on one end, you saw some flag-waving of the ukrainian flag, only to hear the admonishment that that s not allowed on the floor. and then you also heard some yelling. they re very difficult for me to understand what was being said. but it s been a contentious day. it s been a contentious weeks leading up to this manu raju back with this outside there on capitol hill mondo while there is the passage of the ukraine bill and now they re about to vote on the $26,000,000,000 and israel of built this doesn t come without some consternation some some real animosity as well as applause coming for the passage here yeah, exposing real fault lines within the republican ....