the former president himself is set to testify on monday of next week followed for now by ivanka trump next wednesday. she appealed the judge s decision requiring her to testify. see if that schedule holds. bill: we ll see where it leads today. thank you. dana: house republicans are about to hold a news briefing one week after electing mike johnson as the new house speaker. right now they re ready to vote on a stand alone emergency aid package for israel and then they plan to hold a vote on a bill that pairs u.s. border security with fresh aid for ukraine. we ll monitor what they have to say and bring you the news as it happens. biden administration is under intense pressure to confront hamas one day after f.b.i. director christopher wray warned about mounting terror threats on u.s. soil. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: nice to be back with you. good morning. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. the justice department considering
promising weapons which ukraine had asked for. tonight, the new york times reports progress in ukraine s counteroffensive has slowed, even stalled in some areas. with ukraine taking heavy losses. american and european officials say as much as 20% of weapons ukraine sent to the battle fronts have been damaged or destroyed since the counteroffensive began. what is the impact of that? let s house retired four star general barry mccaffrey. he served for combat tours and has wounded was wounded three times, lucky for us the general is an msnbc national security commentator. general, put that in context for us, that use of aid that has already been given, why does that matter? well look, i think the ukrainians are still doing exceptionally well. they have tremendous leadership, great courageous troops, they re adapting to the battlefield. they are using a enormous amount of homegrown put together technology to put
he said that the way this ends is republicans need to put pressure on you to relent. that s not going to happen. i m doing it for not for the republican party. i m doing it for republicans and democrats and citizens of this country. this is a national security issue. it s a readiness issue. and we shouldn t kid ourselves. i think any member of the senate armed services committee knows that. and some of tuberville s republican colleagues can try to work behind the scenes with the senator to discuss potential alternatives, potential offramps, but so far to no avail. anderson? from massachusetts, seth moulton. he is a retired marine who served four combat tours in iraq and serves on the house armed services committee. we spoke just before air. congressman moulton, i appreciate you being here. now that the house has passed this amendment banning the pentagon from covering travel costs for out of state abortions will you vote in favor of the defense authorization act? no, he wil
to stand up, stand up. and do something about. this he said, that the republicans need to put pressure on you to. authority told you, that s not gonna happen. i m doing it for not for the republican party, i m doing it for republicans and democrats, and citizens of this country. look, this is a national security issue, it s a readiness issue. and, we shouldn t kid ourselves. i think that any member of the senate armed services committee knows that. and, some of tuberville s republican colleagues have tried to work behind the scenes with the senator, to discuss potential alternatives, potential off-ramps. but so far, to no avail. anderson. all right, perspective now from massachusetts, democratic congressman seth moulton. he s retired marine, who served for combat tours in iraq, and serves on the house armed services committee. we spoke to him just before. here congressman moulton, i appreciate you being. here now the house has passed this amendment banning the pentagon for co
you don t want to see ukrainian children with the type of wounds that afghan children suffered when you served there in afghanistan. is it wishful thinking that ukraine can responsibly use these weapons, these cluster bombs that pose such a potential risk to civilians? well, wolf, after three combat tours in iraq and afghanistan i learned a couple of things, one of which, war is horrific. war is very, very hard, excruciatingly difficult, and war is very complicated. and this issue brings to light two very important competing interests. on one hand, the humanitarian concerns with these weapons, you know, i saw in afghanistan kids walking around without legs because decades later after the russians used cluster munitions in the 80s and afghanistan, those bomblets were still laying around the battlefield. but we also have the ukrainians who are fighting and dying right