Voting has ended for the fourth and final of the foreign aid packages as of todays very rare saturday session, there in us House Of Representatives. And you look at the toll those 366258 in favor of passage of this 26 israel aid package, 17 billion of it would go to offensive and defensive weapons for israel, 9 billion in humanitarian an aid for gaza. Of course, we still have to hear them officially say that this has been passed, but manu raju, back with this, theyre outside outside there on capitol hill. They have four items today to accomplish. Checkmark on three of them. Youve got to National Security aid package thats been approved the ukraine package approved and money for the indopacific region and allies that of a taiwan as well so this seemingly was embraced by a majority. Theyre just looking at the tally this was to be expected for Israel Package yeah, there was still some opposition and then as you say, it looks like this vote is not yet finalized yet. Im probably going to cl
4. 651 . Taking a look at crude prices and how they are digesting in the middle east. Wti is down. 50 . 85 a barrel. Brent is tame this morning at 89. 75. A check on bitcoin days ahead of the halving. We are down fractionally. 63,352. New data from china overnight. First quarter gdp grew 5. 3 year on year beating the estimate of 4 growth. Export volumes rose 14 from a year ago. Back here at home, United Health is out with Quarterly Results. Bertha coombs is here with more. Everybody is looking at the medical loss ratio from the cyber attack there. The change cyber attack is being looked at or accounted for in two buckets. United Health Revenue coming in at 99. 8 billion. Beating estimates. It is unclear if the adjusted 6. 91 per share is comparable to the consensus number. It includes 25 Cents Per Share impact for business disruption costs from the change cyber attack in february. It excludes the costs of advanced payments and interestfree loans due to the o outage which amounts to 6 b
This is an outrage this case was brought. Political persecution. This is a persecution like never before. Nobody is ever seen anything like it. It is a case that never should have been brought. It is an assault on americans. That is why i am very proud to be here. This is an assault on our country. It is a country that is run by an incompetent man who is very much involved in this case. This is an attack on our political opponent is all it is. I am very honored to be here. Thank you. Host we look ahead in washington and on capitol hill. Back with us is eric wasson. News reporter. This is your story, how they may add on ukraine, and take us through what happened over the weekend. This has been stalled when the congress requested in the fall. The Senate Passed a 90 5 billion taiwan ukraine and Israel Package and the house has not taken that up. It would pass the house for my calculations but the speaker has been under pressure not to bring it up. Theres been an attempt to link it to bord
April 15, 2024. The house needs at noon eastern today. Senate returns at 3 00 p. M. But we begin in manhattan where the firstever criminal trial against a former president of the United States is set to get underway. The hush money case against donald trump begins at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. The first order of business will be to select a jury. 34 counts related to falsifying records. Youre taking your phone calls on that case split as usual by political party. Publicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, on x cspanwj. At facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. Start calling and now, a morning for headlines from the Major National papers. Starting in the front page of the wall street journal this morning, despite some best efforts, his criminal trial has arrived. This on the front page of the New York Times
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