Cspan, powered by cable. Representative ami bera. Hes a democrat at california and member of the intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees. Congressma the program. Guest i imagine we will start getting into generalleso had some primaries. Your takeaways from that. Guest yes, we had obviously the big break was the senate race to replace feinstein. Ive endorsed adam schiff. And he had a really strong showing last night. So, they want to be premature but it does look like schiff will be our next senator. Host are you concerned about president bidens low approval rateings . Its looking from polls that former President Trump is ahead in key swing states. Guest no, as you start to get to general elections, you willns of america. Theres still a lot that we had to accomplish to get us where we need to be at the United States of america. Host if you would like to join the conversation, you can do so now on 2027488000, 2027488001 and 2027488002. Lets turn to government funding. Theres a deadline on friday and another deadline march 22 which would probably be even more challenging. What are the chances of the governments going to shut down . Guest yeah, i certainly think were going to vote today on the first six packages of government funding. You will see the majority of republicans and the majority of democrats vote in the positive for the first six bill. The second six bills are tougher, a little bit more contentious. But i think well get it done. Those come up by march 22. So we will get those in as well. Host you say that youre expecting a strong ben johnson by partisanshowing, do you thinl be a backlash . Guest i dont think so. Host earlier this week, the Vice President called for an immediate sixweek ceasefire between real and hamas israel and hamas. Do you favor that deal . Do you favor calling for a ceasefire . Guest that would be a good thing. Obviously, we would want to get hostagessed as well. And weve got a crisis in gaza going now. They have a lack of food and water. Weve got to get that aid in there as quickly as possible avert that ka fast fully and hopefully we can negotiate a deal. Host this is nbc news with its headline. Administration officials watered down Kamala Harriss speech before delivery. Her Office Denies having watered down that speech. Do you worry about ambivalence guest no. I dont think theres been any ambivalence. He moved the assets to the region. Our mission is very this conflit and make sure it doesnt spread into a beard regional conflict because the president has been very at some point, weve got to figure out whats the path forward here and thats where the administration is going right now. Host tell us why you think that more go to ukraine and what are the prospects of that actually happening . Guest were at a critical juncture in the war thats in ukraine in Vladimir Putin decided to invade ukraine. I think now is not the time to back off. Weve seen our european allies step up with additional funding to support the ukrainian people. Now its time for and the administration to stand with the people of ukraine who are fighting for their freedom and then try to get it to a place where you can negotiate and end this conflict. But now is not the time to back off. Host i want to show you what Tommy Tuberville said, the republican of to ukraine he sai. I havent voted for any money to o ukraine because i know they cant win. Donald trump will stwhen he gets in. He knows theres no winning for ukraine. He can work a deal with putin. Whats your reaction to that . Guest my reaction to that is donald trump probably can work a deal with putin. That really betrays the ukrainian people. That puts europe at i dont have any confidence in donald trump because ive watched him in the four years that hes been in office and how close he w pu. Vladimir putin is a dictator. He decided to invade a country that was not looking for conflict. Now is the time for us to stand for freedom, for democracy, for peace. That is what the United States always has stood for. Lets stand with our european allies and support the ukrainian people and lets get this to a point where we can negotiate and end this conflict. Host so from reuters that the german minister wants to use proceeds from frozen russian is that a possibility that we can use some of the money that weve frozen or at least the International Community has frozen and toraine aid . Guest it is a possibility. Its not something thats been talked about in congress. Each of the legislation that actually would support using the frozen assets to support ukraine. Host emanuel macron in france has faced some backlash because he discussed the idea of sending western troops to ukraine in a conference back in february. What are your thoughts on that . Guest i mean right now, the ukrainian people and the ukrainian troops have been fighting. Obviously, they need weaponry, our support. They need ammunition and the likes. But theyve been prosecuting this war and if we continue to support them, theyll be able to fight and push the Russian Troops back a little bit. So thats how i would look at it at this particular moment in time. Host and do you feel that there has been enough oversight on the funding that has already been sent to ukraine as to how its been used and how effective its been . Guest we look at this and look lookat how the war is being analyzed. Lets get the funding, lets cap the security supplemental. Youll see more advice and more oversight. Legitimately, members of congress are beginning to ask what is the longterm play here . And i understand thats the key coming out of afghanistan, iraq and so forth. But now is not the time for us to back out of this conflict. Now is the time for us to set to a place where we can negotiate from a place of strength. Host lets go to calls now. Well start with deangelo in georgia. Democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host go right ahead. Caller is about the immigration bill that trump killed. Do you see any hope that we would get an immigration bill passed this year . Guest it is difficult and i think its going to continue to be a challenge. That was a very good bill, its not perfect but it is a start. I■c chance to vote on that in the house. Right now, i dont feel optimistic that that particular bill will sethe light of day. I do think the president will talk about certain actions and things that he can do. And again, i hope we couldtogetd republicans and then more long term, think about what this looks like. Host talk to ron next in florida, independent line. Hi,