Move back, move back. Bill you guessed it, another day, another american campus. Two weeks of chaos police finally clearing out antiisrael protestors at George Washington university only a few blocks from the white house. The d. C. Mayor and police chief talked about their decision to go in now. The timing of the crackdown might be viewed from a political lens. Im bill hemmer and hello to you. Dana good morning. Great to see you. Wednesday. Im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. The encampment has been up for two weeks in d. C. Mayor and police chief say the situation escalated over the past several days. Bill operation happened at 3 00 in the morning with riot gear and pepper spray. Chanting and pushing, officers arrested at least 20. Dana it came hours before the mayor and police chief testify on capitol hill. Lawmakers will expected to grill them on their response to the antisemitic protests and why they didnt act season. Bill the protestors projecting long live the Student I
Before go to harrys. Com slash a shave to claim your 7 trial im pete muntean at Reagan National airport. This is cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt and washington. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin with a pivotal vote on capitol hill after months of delays and political wrangling rare saturday session today, house lawmakers passed a 95 billion foreign aid package for israel, ukraine, and taiwan. Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was finally able to advance the bills through congress with the help and must be noted of democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners his party of threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his speakership the senate is now set to take up that aid package on tuesday, President Biden now urging senators to send the legislation to his desk quickly so that he can sayyed them into law, quote right away. Lets get straight to our correspondence in both jerusalem and kyiv two countries set to benefit directly
All morning long. We begin with this right now President Biden is heading back to the United States from the g20 summit and a stop in vietnam. He will mark 9 11 when he stops in alaska. This is our Breaking News this morning. Several south korean Media Outlets are reporting that north koreans kim jongun appears to be on his way to russia. Days after u. S. Officials warned that kim and putin could meet to discuss a potential deal to Supply Moscow with weapons for its war in ukraine. Now neither russia nor north korea have confirmed that meeting. Cnn International Diplomatic editor Nick Robertson is standing by in london and Paula Hancocks live in seoul, south korea. Paula, what are we learning at that moment . Reporter well, phil and poppy, what we are hearing is from south korean Media Reports at that point they believe that kim jongun is in his armored train northeast towards russia. At this point, neither side, as you say, has actually confirmed whether or not this is the case. We ar
from israel. nbc news confirming that the are closing in on a deal to release some of the hostages. i believe that we are closer than we have been in quite some time. maybe closer than we have been since the beginning of this process. we are talking about considerably more than 12, beyond that, i want to see where this goes. i don t want to say anything that would jeopardize the completion of the, deal which is the most important. right, now no hostages have been released, and the israeli offensive continuing undeterred with al-shifa hospital caught in the middle. a world health official describing it as a, quote, death knell, rather than a working medical center. the president weighed in on the israel hamas war with the new op-ed this weekend, calling for a two-state solution. laying out his vision for the future of gaza, which puts him at odds with prime minister mention netanyahu. plus, the hearing in donald trump s federal election interference case tomorrow morning w
crowd, joe biden took to the stage in the swing state of north carolina, seemingly unfazed by the torrent of bad headlines his disjointed debate performance had generated. crowd: joe! joe! folks. i don t walk as easy as i used to. i don t speak as smoothly as i used to. i don t debate as well as i used to. but i know what i do know. i know how to tell the truth! crowd: yeah! he seemed for all the world like a new man, reading from the teleprompter with a passion that had been all too absent the night before. i know, like millions of americans know, when you get knocked down, you get back up. it was a far cry from the rasping and rambling performance on the debate stage that was all too often painful to watch. everything we have to do with, uh. look. if. we finally beat medicare. it s left his party in a state of crisis. yet, despite rumblings about replacing their candidate, publicly, at least, democrats are circling the wagons. referring to his own lacklustre performance in