Right . Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Lots of breaking news today. Im Fredricka Whitfield and we continue to follow all of this on capitol hill. Members of the House Of Representatives just pass a series of foreign aid bills providing a total of 95 billion in dollars in assistance for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. It all unfolded in a rare high stakes saturday vote in congress, gop, House Speaker mike johnson was able to advance the bipartisan bills through congress. This week with the help of 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. We have teamed coverage of todays major development, Priscilla Alvarez, i will have reaction from the white house, but lets get started on capitol hill with cnns lauren fox, lauren, i mean, the votes there now official and how are people reacting overall on the hill yeah. I mean, this was such a Long Time Coming for montse
It is a glaring symbol of how close the conflict in Eastern Ukraine is to exploding into a fullblown war. Three International Leaders from the United States, germany, and france travel to kiev emergency talks. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry brought more financial aid. He said president obama will soon decide on sending aid to ukraine. German chancellor merkel and french president Francois Hollande arrived with a new peace plan that they will put on president putins desk tomorrow. We begin with the fighting on the ground. Fighting continues unabated in Eastern Ukraine. At least 20 people reportedy died wednesday in the rebel stronghold of donetsk. Officials say several more were killed during the night. On thursday evening ukrainian president poroshenko welcome french president Francois Hollande and german chancellor Angela Merkel to kiev. He thanked them for their diplomatic efforts. I appreciate that you accept my invitation. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is also in kiev. H
Jefferson, roosevelt and lincoln are going to get a very different treatment tonight than they have been in recent weeks. Of the president delivering remarks, a fireworks display a flyover from blue angels and probably protesters as well. All of this ahead of major fourth of july events planned this weekend and demonstrations in seattle, los angeles, boston and the Nations Capital where the president has a message for would be monument vandals. The earth of every american child. Thats what we have is the American Dream. Nobody is going to chatter the American Dream. Not the anarchists, not agitators, not the tools, not looters. They are not going to have any impact on the National Dream. Griff this has House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy says its time to protect statues. The mobs of democrats encourage destroy property. They threaten and sometimes even attack citizens innocent citizens. I will be introducing legislation to withhold funding from states and cities whose leaders fail to
Ringleader of that group that tried to topple an Andrew Jackson statue near the white house. Now acting dhs secretary Ken Cuccinelli warning potential vandals ahead of more protests plan nationwide this weekend. Watch. We protect and defend many of these locations and many of these iconic statues around the country, and we are going to continue to do that. We are going to lean forward to do it. You are going to see that throughout this weekend, we are going to continue not only to protect the history of this country but, as President Trump has declared, we are going to prosecute violators of the law who vandalize property. Julie mark merited his life at the white house with more on this. Hi, mark. Good afternoon, julie. The president and the first lady are making their way up to south dakota. The president has been promoting this event saying its a chance to celebrate American History even during these uncertain times. We are going to have a tremendous evening. Its going to be a firewo
President in november. Joe biden posted this online tonight. Politico. Com was the first to get ahold of quotes from it. Now weve got the whole thing. Foreign interference in the u. S. Electoral process represents an assault on the American People and their constitutional right to vote when foreign states direct hackers, trolls, money launderers, and misinformation to subvert or cast doubt on our elections, they threaten americas sovereignty, our democratic institutions, and national security. They undermine the vote and voice of every u. S. Citizen. They attack our very way of life. In spite of president trumps failure to act, americas adversaries must not misjudge the of the American People to counter every effort by a foreign power to interfere in our democracy whether by hacking voting systems or hacking voting systems and databases, laundering money into our political system, systemically spreading disinformation, or trying to sow doubt about the integrity of our elections. Biden