ammunition is a big problem for the ukrainians especially 155 million one artillery ammunition, which is something that they re getting from european nato partners as well. but of course that aid from the us so much more& so much more important in general, when you go to the frontline areas here in this country, you do see a lot of american gear that s in use. of course, a lot of that gear needs to be replenished. a lot of that gear there needs to be serviced. so for the ukrainians, this aid package, just for the volume of it more than $60 so very important to the ukrainians fredricka& that voting is underway quite right now in deed, fred pleitgen, we ll check back with you. thank you so much in kyiv, let s bring in cnn s manu raju. so that $60,000,000,000 ukraine aid package, voting is underway. house looking yeah. right now just builds on the track for approval in the united states house after months of bitter republican in fighting over this very issue, the speaker of the house si
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
manufacturer to build back depleted us weapons supplies help you know the underscoring important on. okay. and are literally being out gotten ten to one right now by russia, by putin, china, march the ukraine and they re desperate right now, they re defensive missile systems are depleted if we don t get these resources in now, who knows what could happen in the coming days and weeks? thinks it s already a dire situation. they re just like when you re looking at key us israel aid that has to go into making sure that israel has what it needs for defensive systems when you re the attacks from around the overwhelming on precedent attack from ran last week, the key was his defensive missile systems will get more resources into them as well. so you re looking at an axis of evil that it wants to attack the united states and our allies write a ran russia north korea, and china that are working together against democracy against our interests in the region, supporting terror in the region. so
risks by helping to push these items through and on ukraine, there was great reticence from him, fairly recently on more us aid to ukraine. and now an about face what, what s your position on the risks that he has taken to get more onboard for these foreign aid package which is including ukraine was, you know, there was also a fourth package added here, which on what the repeal act on repossessed russian assets. also tougher sanctions on iran s several bills which i helped write that are part of that package that our overall part of i think a very strong package. i m in terms of the speaker, what i d say let s not put the cart before the horse. let s actually get this across the finish line. and then as as leader, jeffrey said today that we ll consider what s next there. but as you said, it s still tentative. i m optimistic. now we got to go on that room and get it done together in a bipartisan way