Of republican Infighting House lawmakers have passed foreign Aid Funding for ukraine, israel and taiwan. Capitol Hill Correspondent ryan nobles has the very latest. Reporter what once seemed improbable on this vote the yays are 311 and the nays are 112. The bill has passed. Reporter senators are poised to approve a 95 Billion national Security Package that provides funding for key allies. 8. 1 billion for taiwan. It authorized the seizing of 5 Billion in russian assets, tougher sanctions on the country and the ban of the popular App Tiktok if the chinesebased company that owns it does not sell it within a year. But the biggest part of the package, more than 60 Billion in funding for ukraine was the
month in mississippi, and people are actually being invited to come celebrate at amusia alaska former governor of the state what is going on in mississippi wow. well, we ll be watching for sure. have a great show, but thank you very much. let s start it right now. well first of all well, they re really not too many days that we can say congress is getting ready to cast to a consequential vote, especially not on a saturday morning yet today, it will happen next hour. the house gavels& to start debate on foreign aid funding aid to israel in particular is the focus of some passionate debate across the country even how people debated is up for debate. this week we saw calls for crackdown on protesters who blocked traffic. look at this. this is what we saw at the golden gate bridge after her social media posts
were targeted by pro-israel activists usc canceled a speech by its muslim valedictorian the school said it was concern for safety and now usc says it s also canceling attendance of it outside speakers and honorees i ve been pro-palestinian protests on campus also at yale or columbia, where students have been camping out and getting arrested another form of protests though, is the vote aid to israel is ultimately expected to pass when the house votes on it today. but some members want to send a message by voting no. and that includes my first guest this morning think first spoke with her when she became the first jewish member of the house to call for a ceasefire in november today, she plans to vote no on sending weapons to israel. democratic representative beca ballot is joining us. she represents a district in vermont. thank you so much for joining me. let s start with why hi, why are you a no on this israel aid funding as you said yourself, it s
senate in the republican party understand the importance here of not empowering the isolationists both as a matter of sort of republican functionality and also in terms of the cause of western-style liberal democracy all over the world. do you think speaker johnson is willing to bring up this ukraine aid funding to the chagrin of the far right is a signal they ve been employed by the use of the kremlin? i would not go that far. it seems speaker johnson has made an individual decision that it would be a disaster for the united states to abandon ukraine, and i think he knows this would be his legacy, right, his political obituary would lead with his abandonment of ukraine. the senate has already voted.
both as a matter of sort of republican functionality, and also in terms of the calls of western-style liberal democracy around the world. do you think the fact that speaker johnson is willing to bring up this ukraine aid funding to the chagrin of the far right members of his caucus is a signal that house republicans are finally beginning to realize that they have been employed as useful idiots for the kremlin? no. i would not go that far. it seems as if speaker johnson has made an individual decision that it would be a disaster for the united states to abandon ukraine, and i think he knows that this would be his legacy, right? his political obituary would lead with his abandonment of ukraine, because he has a coalition of democrats and republicans that support ukraine. the senate is already voted 70- 30, with a big bipartisan majority for ukraine. so he knows it would be him and him only that would get the blame for handing ukraine to vladimir putin. so i don t think this suggests