room at the white house as we await president biden s now very delayed remarks on the border bill and foreign aid. we will take you to these anticipated remarks as soon as the president begins. hello, welcome, everyone, sandra smith in new york, john. we may soon see and hear whether this will be a border bill or bust. john: yeah, it s looking like bust is the more likely scenario. i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports . president biden expected to urge congress to pass $118 billion in aid to ukraine, israel, and taiwan. but many republicans in both chambers say that is a no-go. sandra: right to it with jacqui heinrich. i normally would say watch out, we might have to interrupt you to get to the president. we don t know why but these remarks are quite delayed by now, jacqui. yeah, sandra, they are. they were not initially on the schedule this morning but given everything that s happening on capitol hill today the white house felt it necessary to ha
Good day to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im kasie hunt. It is friday, october 20. It is 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, noon in gaza where we had thought we would see trucks full desperately needed humanitarian aid rolling through the Rafah Border Cross Buying Nby now. But not yet. This is a live picture. U. S. Officials now believe the first convoy will cross into gaza this weekend. Possibly saturday. Last night President Biden addressed the nation tying israels War Against Hamas In Gaza to ukraines battle against russian aggression. Hamas and putin represent different threats but they share this in common, they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy. History has daughters when terr has taught us when terrorists and dictatorses dont pay a price, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. They keep going. And costs to the americans and the world keep rising. The president is trying to build support for a 100 billion foreign aid pa
Thats 1807123800. Im Caitlin Polantz at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn universities on edge, we are following the clashes on campus is propalestinian protesters dig in and schools are forced to adjust their plans the end of the semester plus the Bidenharris Campaign back and former President Trumps back yard as the Vice President rallies for Reproductive Rights and florida, where a strict new city sixweek abortion ban is now in effect and Secretary Of State Antony Blinken puts new pressure on hamas to accept the proposed hostage deal with israel. As we learn more about the brutal impact that the war is having on civilians in the gaza strip. Were following all of these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. The Cnn News Central today hey, classes at ucla are canceled after violent hours long clashes broke out overnight on campus between propalestinian demonstrators and Counter Protesters. And it comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom is dem
potential interest rate cut to help lower costs for consumers. a very good day to all of you. i m alex witt in new york in for andrea mitchell who is on assignment. in his second speech in as many days marking the 80th anniversary of the d-day invasion. president biden drew parallels between the threats faced by democracies during world war ii to those being faced by american interests and ideals today. believe in something bigger than ourselves. that s what every soldier and marine decided. they stood against hitler s aggression. does anyone doubt that they would want america to stand up against putin s aggression here in europe today? the president s speech echoed reagan s iconic address at the same location 40 years ago when he famously honored the boys, the american solders who gave it all for democracy, in one of the most d-day operations, 225 u.s. army rangers scaled normandy s 100-foot perpendicular cliffs under heavy fire to destroy nazi guns threatening ship
including one of my constituents. we need to do everything we can to get the hostages home, to stop the terrorists and, of course, continue surging humanitarian aid into the region. egypt and others are stumbling blocks to getting the aid in. we need to do everything we can to surge aid. i think as the president talked about in the agreement that israel is backing, that we have yet to we have yet to hear from hamas on, part of that is this pause and, of course, getting aid into the region, which is essential. to that end, a week ago with the president having announced that proposal that he says israel agreed to, let s listen to what he told abc news while in normandy yesterday. is benjamin netanyahu listening to you? i think he is listening to me. they were going go into rafah full bore, invade all of rafah, go into the city, take it out, move with full force. they haven t done that.