Right . Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Lots of breaking news today. Im Fredricka Whitfield and we continue to follow all of this on capitol hill. Members of the House Of Representatives just pass a series of foreign aid bills providing a total of 95 billion in dollars in assistance for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. It all unfolded in a rare high stakes saturday vote in congress, gop, House Speaker mike johnson was able to advance the bipartisan bills through congress. This week with the help of democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners in his party have threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his post. We have teamed coverage of todays major development, Priscilla Alvarez, i will have reaction from the white house, but lets get started on capitol hill with cnns lauren fox, lauren, i mean, the votes there now official and how are people reacting overall on the hill yeah. I mean, this was such a Long Time Coming for montse
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when we feel support from the outside, it motivates us, after all, the military knows that we cannot when with sticks and bows for people who want to defeat the enemy. this news is a great morale booster, so obviously very important for the ukrainian. they ve been on the frontlines as they ve been suffering from those ammo shortages and really was dire for the ukrainians for an extended period of time. also, the president of this country, volodymyr zelenskyy. he came out shortly after the vote was passed and he once again thank mike johnson personally for bringing it to a vote. but also the us in general. let s listen in we appreciate every manifestation of support for our state and independents are people in our lives which russia wants to bury in ruins america has shown its leadership from the first days of this war so they re thanking the united states, of course, we do know right now as the situation is unfolding on the battlefield, fredricka, the uk radians under a considerable
ukrainians be using cluster munitions which have a very low dud rate using them defend their own territory hitting russian positions. now, members of congress are split on this one. congressional democrats against biden here. i have some real qualms about it. there is an international priction and the u.s. says but here s gadd reason to do something different, it could give a green light to other nations to do something different as well. i don t see anything wrong with that because, quiet mobile it s been slowed because this administration has been so slow to get the weapons in. president biden said his decision was not easy and it was made in part by ammo shortages. the ukrainians are running out of ammunition. this is a war relating to munitions and they are running out of that ammunition.
the u.s. is not among the 120 countries that leaf unexploded bomblets behind pose risk to civilians. russia s use of them in ukraine could constitute a war crime h to explain why ukraine s use of them would not. this is about keeping ukraine in the fight. send additional artillery shells that have cluster bomblets the ukrainians will be using cluster munitions which obviously have a very low dud rate defend their own territory hitting russian positions that sutherland going to have to be de-mined anyway. biden also drew criticism for revealing that ammo shortages were a big factor in his decision.