Host good morning it is friday, april 19. A vote is scheduled for the house to take out a foreign aid package tomorrow. It would be 26 billion to israel and 8 billion to taiwan. We are discussing the bill with the reporter and here are the phone lines to wait in. For republicans 202 7488001, for democrats 202 7488000, for independents 202 7488002 you can send a text at 202 7488003 include your first name, city, state and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan and x cspanwj. Before we get started i wanted to update you on a news item because israel has retaliated against iran in retaliation for drones launched last weekend it is not clear the damage the limited strike caused but it was intended to signal that israel had the ability to strike inside the country. A second person said the strike was carefully calibrated. We will update you us more information comes in throughout the program. Getting back to the foreign aid packages i wanted answer introduce Joe Perticone we will put on the scr
Our reporting begins with Julian Assange who could finally face justice here in the United States after he spent nearly seven years holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london. He was arrested today after he was given the boot. Here he is in up the close. They had to drag him out and push him into a waiting police van. The u. S. Justice department looking to extradite assange after charging him with conspiracy to help a former Army Intelligence analyst, Chelsea Manning, hack into the pentagons Computer System to steal and publish government secrets. Julian assange sporting a dramatic new look and the long beard. We havent seen a lot of him since ecuador cut off his Internet Access more than a year or so ago. Assange flash add peace sign as the cops drove him away. Heres a throw back to when assange looked like this in may of 2017. His attorney is vowing to fight his extradition to america. The editor in chief of wikileaks called as song a journalist that exposed war crimes of the Unit