You so much for joining me today. Anna very busy saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom with alex marquardt, starts right now you are in. The cnn newsroom. Im alex barack board in washington. Thank you so much for joining us. We begin with Breaking News on capitol hill after months of delays and political turmoil in a rare saturday vote, house lawmakers passed stay billion package of aid for ukraine, for israel and taiwan now the deal heads to the senate for a vote before it can be signed by President Joe Biden two reporters across washington as well as in kyiv and in jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox On Capitol Hill to help break it all down. Lauren, what is the latest yeah obviously this vote a long time coming. Alex and theres been a lot of questions about whether or not Speaker Mike Johnson was ever going to get to this point, putting this ukraine aid package as well as additional aid for israel and taiwan on the floor of the House Of Representatives. And the r
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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