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to go to the u.s. naval academy and one of the arguments for sending aid to ukraine is that i'd rather send american bullets than american boys to europe to defend against vladimir putin. that is what is happening right now, which is there are no american boots on the ground, no americans dying in this conflict and that it is a pay now or pay later type of situation. i think those arguments moved him. it is fascinating to see that he really is, truly, as you said, putting his job on the line for this issue after having been someone who voted against it consistently. >> let's talk about the fact that his job is on the line. congressman thomas massie says if the speaker doesn't resign, they will most likely have a vote on the motion to vacate. he is signed on as a cosponsor to marjorie taylor greene, as she put out a motion to vacate last month. she stormed out of the capitol after this afternoon's vote. when might she make the move to turn her motion to vacate into a privileged motion requiring immediate action ? >> the house will be on recess for the next week. what she said today what she
to potentially oust the republican house speaker mikejohnson over this filing a motion to vacate. she said she will not pull the trigger on it. that's not to say it couldn't come in days or weeks ahead. well the vote had been delayed for more than six months, causing ukraine to run low on ammunition and lose more territory to invading russian forces. ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy expressed gratitude on x, formerly known as twitter, for the passage of the bill — saying this decision will "keep history on the right track". he said: our correspondent james waterhouse has more from ukraine.
with the ukraine bill is that more republicans voted against it than actually voted in favour. we know that republican congress woman marjorie greene has signalled her intention to potentially oust the republican house speaker mikejohnson over this filing a motion to vacate. she said she will not pull the trigger on it. that's not to say it couldn't come in days or weeks ahead. well, the vote had been delayed for more than six months, causing ukraine to run low on ammunition and lose more territory to invading russian forces. ukrainian president volodymr zelensky expressed gratitude on x, formerly known as twitter, for the passage of the bill — saying this decision will �*keep history on the right track'. he said: "democracy and freedom will always have a global significance and will never fail as long as america helps to protect it. the vital us aid bill passed today by the house will keep the war from expanding, save thousands and thousands of lives,
yesterday. watch this. >> at the appropriate time, as house democrats, we will have a conversation about how to deal with any hypothetical motion to vacate, which, at this point, hasn't been noticed. >> do you think johnson should stay as a speaker question >> i don't have a view on that one way or the other. one step at a time, in terms of what is in front of us. >> what do you make of that? >> i clutch my pearls. congress is functioning as it should. i say this because i used to work in congress a long, long time ago. a functioning government required that you had democratic and republican support to pass bills because ultimately what you want to do is the will of the people. the fact that marjorie taylor greene is so new to congress, she fails to understand her function in that and other members of congress. that is you will have divisive
wants this issue to marinate a little bit and for members to get heat from their constituents back in their districts over what happened today in the house of representatives. so, she is still teasing it. she is still hanging this over mike johnson said. a lot of this, frankly, has to do with fundraising. by leaving this issue out of them and making it something she can talk about for weeks and weeks and weeks on end, that definitely helps her fundraising numbers. of course, raise her profile and she is a powerful member of the house because only of this rule whereby one member can trigger a motion to vacate. the longer she teases it, the more she will get the attention for it. that is important here. >> congressman garcia, the question, the important question to you is this, will you vote to save the speaker? right now, if not, what concessions will you need from him to turn your no into a yes? >> the only vote for speaker i am going to make is for hakeem
against it than actually voted in favour of it. and we know that republican congress woman majorie taylor greene has signalled her intention to potentially oust the republican house speaker, mikejohnson, house speaker, mike johnson, over this house speaker, mikejohnson, over this filing a motion to vacate. she said that she will not be pulling the trigger on that and forcing a vote on it today, but that's not to say that it couldn't come in the days or weeks ahead. well, the vote had been delayed for more than six months, causing ukraine to run low on ammunition and lose more territory to invading russian forces. ukrainian president volodymr zelensky expressed gratitude on x, formerly known as twitter, for the passage of the bill — saying this decision will keep history on the right track. he said... our correspondent
the very agencies that produces intelligence. it took him seeing that, he said, to actually realize how important this was. but like you mentioned, now his job is threatened. there are at least three republican members, all of them hardliners. they talked to them all day long yesterday saying if johnson doesn't resign, they will force a motion to kick him out. that is something moderate republicans and democrats say is a terrible idea and will be interesting to see what happens and unfolds in the next couple of weeks, especially so close to an election. >> julie, struck by the fact that elise stefanik was the only member of house leadership to vote no on the ukraine part of the bill, i wonder if there was anything gleaned from that and we know that senate is poised to vote on this likely as early as may 1st. how early could ukraine see the
policy change to actually alleviate what's going on, 10 million illegals on joe biden's watch, 2 million got aways, we have no idea what their intentions are. having said that it passed with the help of democrats and despite lots of threats from marjorie taylor greene and two others who joined her effort to threaten to file a motion to vacate the speaker. now, at the end of the day, marjorie taylor greene gave this a thumbs down but she stopped short of actually filing that motion to take out speaker johnson because she did not have the support. she had two other people who were willing to go with her but she knew she's was not going to get anywhere doing that. i'm talking with her today because she is going to be answering her critics, a lot of criticism around marjorie taylor greene from republicans who say we don't want all of this new drama in an election year. keep the speaker as is and let's just move forward. having said that, it is a head scratcher that the republicans cannot actually move the needle
with at least three gop hard-liners putting pressure on if he doesn't resign. >> reporter: but johnson says he's not going anywhere. >> i don't walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate. i have to do my job. >> as we wait to see what happens to speaker johnson, what him to resign, pressure that is only growing after democrats carried johnson's agenda over the finish line. will you commit to bringing a it will likely pass, and president biden said he'll sign it. jose? >> julie tsirkin on capitol hill, thank you. now to the future of tiktok. the house passed a motion to vacate on the floor if speaker johnson doesn't resign? >> i'm pretty sure one will come to the floor if he doesn't resign. >> reporter: but johnson says he's not going anywhere. >> i don't walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate. i have to do my job. >> as we wait to see what happens to speaker johnson, what are the next steps for these four bills the house passed today? >> reporter: the senate will take up all the bills in one package as early as tuesday. it will likely pass, and president biden said he'll sign it. jose? >> julie tsirkin on capitol hill, thank you. now to the future of tiktok. the house passed a bill that could mean the end of the massively popular social media app with nearly 200 million users across the country. aaron gilchrist with what
that means speaker johnson can only afford to lose one republican vote, one vote until a special election next month to replace the former speaker kevin mccarthy, who left congress at the end of last year. this dynamic could spell real trouble for speaker johnson, especially since a trio of far right members of his conference are threatening to oust him in retaliation for bringing a vote on ukraine eight. congressman paul gosar, congressman tom massey are cosponsors of a motion to vacate against johnson, filed by the champion of chaos, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. today, thomas massey says he will not trigger the motion to vacate himself but hopes the pressure will leave the speaker with no choice but to resign. >> what we are hoping to do by cosponsoring a motion to vacate is to get mike johnson to acknowledge he will lose the vote and not have to have the vote. if it comes to that, there will