major developments, congress just passed a bill giving $14.3 billion in aid to israel but joe biden has already threatened to veto it because it doesn t money. plus, israeli prime minister netanyahu today says that nothing is gonna stop them from going into gaza and getting the job done and now gaza city is surrounded. we re seeing explosions erupt across the night sky, a live report from the ground later in the show. but, first, loving china but hating us that s the focus of tonight s angle. all right, the preparations for the date are underway so, what is he going to wear? how long will their conversations last? who is better at smalltalk? the president says is he looking forward to meeting to meeting with president xi and and so not going to get into details about this meeting that s going to happen this month, going to be in san francisco. it s going to be a constructive meeting. laura: constructive for whom? jp morgan? goldman sachs? i don t know, new york hedge
kat. i could probably open for brian. brian: that hurts. bret: thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the house has just in the past few minutes approved a $14 billion plus stand alone israel aid package. just happening there on the floor. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is on capitol hill tonight with the very latest. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. this was the first big legislative and political task for the new house speaker mike johnson. and i will tell you that he passed this today in somewhat of a bipartisan fashion because this vote wound up being 226 to 196. they lost two republicans that we were expecting marjorie taylor greene and thomas massie. but they gained a whopping 12 democrats at the final moments of this vote. that is surprising, bret, because there was quite some serious intense whipping going on on the democratic side. not only from leadership, but also the white house. that came after the senate major