choice whether life is indeed equally valuable everywhere, choice whether you have equal attitude to all partners, choice whether we indeed are allies. and on the heels of fresh russian strikes and just before that key vote on us aid to ukraine i spoke with melinda haring, a senior advisor at razom for ukraine, a nonprofit human rights organization supporting ukraine. i want to start off by talking about how mikejohnson delayed bringing this the on ukraine aid for several months, there was a bill sitting in the senate that did not come to the house. why do you think now he is changing his stance? even though bringing a ukraine aid bill could risk hisjob? thank you for doing this, i think mikejohnson has seen the light. he is a person of deep religious conviction and i think the moral
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scared him. but politics were involved as well, like you said this has been a long process, a two month delay that could have been resolved much sooner, he has a very complicated legislative piece he had to satisfy maga republicans, he had to work with democrats to make that happen. this has not been easy, mikejohnson is new to this role as well so it is a miracle we are where we are, but we expect the ukraine aid bill to go through tomorrow. the vote is expected to happen on capitol hill tomorrow, we do think it will pass, we will have to wait and see what happens. i want to talk about the details within these foreign aid bills. some of this aid for ukraine could be in the form of loans, and there is also language that would seize russian assets to help finance the war. what do you make of some of these details? i what do you make of some of these details? these details? i think there is much ado these details? i think there is much ado about these details? i think there is much