Saturday afternoon, the house passed a series of bills sending Military Aid to ukraine, israel and taiwan. The eight for israel also increase Twominute Turn really for gaza. When it comes to supporting ukraine, a majority of house republicans voted against the bill picked democrats picked up the slack helping House Speaker Mike Johnson get the bill over the line. As for israel aid, 37 democrats and 21 republicans voted against that portion of the package. Joining us now, our Nbc News congressional correspondent, julie circuit. Julie, good morning to you. What did it take to get this thing to actually come into the Vision And Focus and happen, given all the drama leading up to yesterday . And what has been the repercussions from yesterday Patients Vote . It took many months for Speaker Johnson to finally decide to put the Aid Bill on the floor, specifically the 60 Billion that would go to arming ukraine
contemporaneous notes leading jack smith to producing some of that evidence that they will begin to hopefully share with the trump team starting tomorrow night. julie circuit for us. we appreciate it, julie. thank you. let s talk through some more of this stuff. i want to turn first and foremost to this media blitz we ve been seeing with jon mauro specifically, the defense as we ve been seeing that he is mounting, this trial gets up and going. first and foremost, this criminal intent and the fact the former president actually believed that the election had been stolen from him. and on top of that, relying on the advice of his counsel. i want to play a part of what we heard from laura today and then we will talk. in order to have a violation of law, you have to have criminal intent. in this case, corrupt intent, and what that means is you have to have some desire to do something unlawful. if your attorney is telling you
labeled by the biden administration. he says he calls them americans. here is what he told our own julie circuit when he was asked to clarify his comments. what is a white nationalist? someone who operates nazism. someone who doesn t believe the black and brown people. equals you think a white nationalist is a nazi? well that is one of their beliefs. well, i don t look at it like that. how do you look at it? i look at a white nationalist as a trump republican. that s what we re called all the time. a maga person, and that s what do you agree with that characterization? i agree that we should not be characterizing trump supporters as white nationalists. what do you make of his comments? well i think that it is very telling for him to embrace that maga republicans, trump followers, white nationalists. even when he stole that white nationalism is defined by the general public to be those that are supremacists and those that
trump. yesterday, a federal judge decided not to hold trump attorneys in contempt, according to a source familiar with the matter. the justice department had been urging the judge to do so, claiming the trump team failed to comply with a subpoena, demanding the return of all documents with classified markings. in the statement, a trump spokesperson claimed that the legal team would continue to be transparent, and law enforcement was being used as a weapon against the former president. meanwhile, politico is reporting the january 6th select subcommittee is planning to be tomorrow in a rare weekend meeting. ben will discuss whether or not to discuss criminal referrals on the other if its investigative targets, including donald trump. joining me to talk about this is nbc news correspondent, julie circuit, on capitol hill. julie, good to see you. what do we know? , hey good to see you. the justice department started this investigation if these classified documents back in may, then in aug
julie circuit is on capitol hill following this. walk us through what this means. is it largely symbolic? reporter: it doesn t carry much weight but it s a clear sign that kyrsten sinema s party is unlikely to put the resources behind her to re-elect here in 2024, the same resources that led to her victory in 2018. the arizona democratic party largely responsible for sending sinema to the senate because at the time there were two republican senators, the seats from arizona held for decades by republicans. and sinema positioned herself between as an independent voice, before that she was largely involved in the green party. she was really a progressive when she was in the arizona local politics there, sending her to the senate, she obviously had a more bipartisan tune the last couple of years. that s exactly how she s been legislating. but the arizona democratic party said in a statement after the