Government, all huge questions looming over the biden House Republican conference, as they struggle with a way forward. Thanks very much. Ac 360 with Anderson Cooper live from israel starts right live from israel starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com it is 3 00 a. M. In gaza, and you may not be able to pick it up from the microphone im wearing, but you can hear the steady booms of shells being fired into gaza by israeli forces. Weve also throughout the day seen rocket fire coming to ashkelon to our south, hamas saying they have fired 120 rockets into the two cities today. Israeli war planes have been pounding numerous locations in the territory, hitting targets the israeli officials describe as strategic to hamas. The cause also appears to be widespread destruction in densely populated neighborhoods. Israels Defense Minister ordered the military to put gaza under what he called complete siege. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to his people tonight, warning that wha
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