House lawmakers moments ago passed foreign aid bills to support ukraine and taiwan. Right now voting is underway on aid to israel. But at any moment the house and may vote on a Measure Calling for the House Speakers job over that aid to ukraine. What hello Everyone Welcome to foxs life i arthel neville. Bill im bill melugin peru got a lot going on today eric shawn is on assignment lets get right to it with chad pergram. Hes joining us live on capitol hill. What is going on . Works what is going on over the past couple of minutes very busy. Right now they are passing the bill to aid israel. This is a final vote in the series a few minutes ago. They approved 61 billion to ukraine. You had a lot of Democrat Supporters waving ukrainian flags on the house floor. That is against a quorum. They were admonished by mark who is a republican from new york who was presiding. 366 devoted to getting close to this not that many days of the board 58 but there are a lot more republican for this bill th
think the general goodwill of members who so it johnson has been trying to do. again he is very new. he does not have leadership experience they have seen him step up, do the right thing that s a good enough faith effort for them to get behind and have a another round of endless votes for a speaker that cannot get elected by the republican congress. so again it s a gut check. not necessary what s best for you personally and politically but as a body and institution i would hope democrats would see their role in supporting speaker to jojohnson s for their benefis well. strictly from political optics perspective who do you think that the bigger win today republicans or democrats or both sides able to take a victory lap here? i think america one. quite frankly both sides could take a victory lap they can point out certain things mike johnson mentioned have unwrapped
from inside the oval office. i encourage all of you to read it. so finish up our last point and then i want to move on. what did you want to say, olivia? well, what i wanted to say was that april was talking about some of the things that the president hasn t done to respond adequately or even just not disastrously to this tragedy and to this outrageous story. but it s not just that he hasn t responded adequately. he hasn t done the bare minimum of not coming out and supporting violence an american journalist, or against any journalist onstage at a rally. i mean that s the bare minimum, you would think. even just from a cynical, political optics perspective, i think ordinarily in politics here, you would be advised not to do something like that. mm-hmm. whether or not there was an international story like this unfurling. but in a climate like this, as
author of a fantastic article last week from inside the oval office. i encourage all of you to read it. so finish up our last point and then i want to move on. what did you want to say, olivia? well, what i wanted to say was that april was talking about some of the things that the president hasn t done to respond adequately or even just not disastrously to this tragedy and to this outrageous story. but it s not just that he hasn t responded adequately. he hasn t done the bare minimum of not coming out and supporting violence against an american journalist or against any journalist onstage at a rally. i mean that s the bare minimum, you would think. even just from a cynical, political optics perspective, i think ordinarily in politics here, you would be advised not to do something like that. mm-hmm. whether or not there was an international story like this unfurling. but in a climate like this, as the president of the united states, to not be able to just restrain yourself on a to
story. even if there s nothing there underlying, just the notion that the president is in this meeting. the u.s. media are barred from, russian state media are in. kisly kislyak s presence is hidden from us in the readout. in tharkts he s telling them he s fired the guy that was investigating them, which is to say russian government and possibly who knows, maybe even kislyak. i cannot believe he said that. that might have been the second most damaging thing he said in that meeting. also revealed critical intelligence to the russians that s come from the israelis so he could have damaged our relationship with israel as well. it would be tough to draw up a more damaging meeting from a communications, political optics perspective, whatever. it also just damages every line the white house communication had been trying to push for the rationale for the comey firing. keep in mind, rosenstein was supposed to be the person that compelled them to do this