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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. i'm victor black wash. just pictures opinion. i love it. >> i'm amara walker. i love my sunday's. >> here's what we're working on for you this morning. we're 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 speaker's 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 we're learning about a series of deadly explosions at an iran-backed
critical support to israel and ukraine, provide aid to haiti, sudan and other areas of conflict around the world, and bolster security in the indo pacific. the president thanked speaker johnson and leader jeffries and the coalition of lawmakers in the house that voted to put national security first. the statement goes on to urge the senate to quick lepass this package that they will be receiving from the house as we heard speaker johnson say so it can get to his desk and sign it into the law. the president concluded the statement saying doing this will make it possible to send weapons and equipment to ukraine to meet their urgent battlefield needs that we have been discussing this hour as far as the ukrainians having to ration munitions to stand up to russia. >> yeah, it was expressed they didn't know how long they could
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized Saturday that China’s assistance to Pacific Island Countries (PICs) has always been free of political conditions and impositions while warning that the AUKUS trilateral security partnership formed by the US, the UK, and Australia will bring instability to the region.
can remember as a speaker, he said is critically important to the national security and i'm talking about the a two ukraine here. >> julie, i want to thank you for getting us caught up to speed and i am going to let you go so that you can actually catch up on what is going on behind you. julie sirkin, thanks for being here. i appreciate it. as we await those votes that are expected to come in later today on the house foreign aid package, house minority leader hakeem jeffries gave a preview of what to expect from democrats when it comes to voting on these bills. >> democrats will provide a majority of our majority as it relates to funding israel, humanitarian assistance, ukraine, and our allies in the indo pacific. it remains to be seen what republicans will do. >> joining me now is congresswoman susan wilde, a member of the house foreign affairs committee. we are getting her mic'd up, it is a cake. congresswoman, when you are ready to hear us, let us know. can you hear us?
or pass on supporting some of these measures. within the next hour and a half or so, we anticipate the house will start voting on these bills. the order, a little bit unclear, still. they will take up israel aid, ukraine aid, the indo pacific. there is also $9 billion for humanitarian aid, which democrats said was a redline for them. some of that money would go to civilians in gaza as they are experiencing those strikes from israel after that hamas attack on october 7th. overall here, the overarching story is of kos -- of course after they are clearing these bills with the help of democrats especially when it comes to a two ukraine, the senate will take this up as a package. they are working out an agreement there, katie, so it is not sure when they will bring this up. by next week, we do expect this package to land on the president's desk. there is also a measure tucked in here that would effectively ban tick tock if the parent company, bytedance, which is owned by china, a chinese company, does not sell tiktok within a year. but of course, over all of this
for current military operations in the region in response to recent attacks. i'm going to ask all of you to stay with us as we wrap up one hour. we will start another one right now. will start another one righ now. a very good day to you. it is top of the hour on the east coat. welcome to alex witt reports. we have ben following breaking news the last few minutes, all unfolding on capital held in a rare saturday session. the house has approved tens of billions in aid for ukraine. lawmakers waving ukraine's national flag on the house floor minutes ago. there are numerous votes happening today on critical foreign aid. the house has also passed more than $8 billion in aid to taiwan and the indo' pacific. up next, what we are watching underway right now is billions more in aid which i have articulated the details of. it will be going to israel. i will bring in nbc political
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christiana one poor in london. thank you for watching and i'll see you again next week. >> hello everyone and thank you so much for joining me in this saturday. i'm 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 putin's full-scale invasion of ukraine to chairman sheath threatening taiwan and the pacific to the ayatollah rearing his ugly