Polantz at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on for greek. A whitfield were following major developments on capitol oh, hell, right now, the House Of Representatives is in session for a rare saturday highstakes vote for the past several hours, lawmakers have been debating milk ill let terry aid bills for ukraine and israel and taiwan totaling 95 and at any moment now, lawmakers are expected to begin voting on the three laws. Longawaited Funding Bills to sweeten the deal for House Republicans, a fourth bill contains sanctions for iran, a seizure of Frozen Russian Assets thats plus a potential nationwide tiktok ban gop House Speaker mike johnson was able to advance the bipartisan bills through congress this week with the help of death 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 and moments so go, House Minority lea
those dealing with aid to ukraine, to israel, taiwan and there will individual measures & a separate bill that deals another issues, other issues including calling for the chinese company bytedance to divest from tiktok, if not face as possible its ability of tiktok being ban on us app stores, all of that ultimately will be rolled into a larger package that we sent back to the united states senate, which will give final approval israeli is tuesday and then over to the president s desk after months of battling to try to get this aid, particularly for ukraine over the finish line amid these bitter gop it divisions. now what will not be included in this plan? border security provisions that s what speaker johnson had insisted must be tied to ukraine money also, a lot of those folks on the right who demand and a border security deal also did not want any more money to ukraine. but now that owe the money for ukraine will go over to the senate, get approved and not get any border security wi
right? for america s national security interests. is that protecting the speaker of the house? we will have that conversation once the legislation has been past and make a determination as to what happens. on the other side of the out in my remarks on the house floor, i commended by name conditional, conservatives led by speaker mike johnson for doing the right thing. thank you are we ve got a team of correspondents covering this big moment today. cnn s priscilla alvarez, i will have reaction from the white house. she s joining us from washington, but let s begin on capitol hill there outside. i capitol hill mount raju, where do things stand right now? yeah there are. expected to take up this key vote or sexually several of them that they ll vote to the course of this afternoon probably in about an hour or so. that s an hour i have that s when they will wrap up the final votes here. now, what will eventually pass the united states house are four measures. three of
this voted good to see you. did you just vote on this security package and proposal? i did. obviously, we re right in the middle of a vote series right now, critical. we ve been working on this for months this is essential as you know, overall to getting aid to ukraine humanitarian aid into gaza, key resources for israel and for their defense is just being i m talking about, of course, resources and taiwan, all critical, important piece of legislation. and i m optimistic. we re going to get it all done today. all right. so you re optimistic on all of those? it s measures because there s been a lot of consternation within the republican party and representation there in the hill as to whether ukraine is deserving of more aid there seems to be a consensus that israel is deserving of more aid. but if we could just kind of go down the list here on ukraine we re talking about $60 that most of that money would go to us weapons
statements and the trump hush money trial start monday at nine all right this breaking news right now, the the voting just began on capitol hill on the first of four foreign aid bills right now lawmakers are voting on the national security bill that includes new sanctions against iran. the seizure of frozen russian assets, and a measure that could lead to a nationwide ban on tiktok we re continuing to monitor the developments there on capitol hill. i tab the tabulation of the votes underway, and we ll get back to that one and a moment. so as we await the vote count on this first key house measure also, it would include other measures that there ll be voting on, including billions that would be allocated to aid to ukraine, to taiwan, and israel for israel, the aid would include $5 billion to restock it s missile and raka defense systems and another 3 billion for other advanced weapons