whether those people will do, it will join marjorie taylor greene and doing taking the again like extreme action and vacating another speaker in an election year is i think something we ll have to see. yeah. catherine, you re over at the white house. what s the white house view on this are they just sitting back and getting their popcorn out and watching all of this unfold. do they want democrats to bail out? mike johnson if he could get ukraine aid across the finish line for example, what s your sense of it? i think right now, what do i have? it s wants is these aid bills to advance. you saw the president make a really strong endorsement of this yesterday. they ve been pushing for months, you know, this privately, publicly. i tried to have those conversations trying to impress upon them how important they think it is to get this aid out. and so i think that s one more to see what this weekend it really determines the future of that aid and probably the future for mike johnson. yea
there s a live look at philadelphia. it s five, 30 in the more little fog they re in the city of brotherly love, good morning. thanks for waking up with us. i m jim konstan for kasie hunt house speaker mike johnson is moving ahead with his plan to bring separate aid bills for israel and ukraine to the house floor decision that could cost him his job. hardline republicans opposed to ukraine aid are outraged. marjorie taylor greene telling cnn that support for her motion to oust johnson is growing, but the speaker is not bowing to or threats but my philosophy is, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may. i don t if i operated out of fear over a motion to vacate, i would never be able to do my job. i can make a selfish decision and do something that that s different, but i m doing here what i believed to be the right thing. i think providing lethal aid to ukraine right now is critically important joining
individuals who are saying motion to vacate, but he has what mccarthy didn t, which is democrats publicly pledging to support him. if marjorie taylor greene decides to take yeah. and marjorie taylor greene assess support for her motion to vacate. is growing. here s what she said yesterday. your support for your motion to vacate growing. it is growing i think some people are becoming more angry than i am now as a growing because now she has tom massie on board. and so instead of one, you have to is that the definition of growing here? i think there is she s been telling us that there have been a lot of private supporters for weeks. obviously, thomas massie came publicly after the aid bills where error. the proposal was introduced in conference meeting but there are i mean, if you go on twitter, matt gaetz has mentioned that he is extremely frustrated. he believes that mike johnson is surrendering and bringing ukraine aid to the floor. but
plan b here? wait until the election, i guess are and it s not clear that there is. i mean, that they keep saying ukraine desperately needs this aid. they ve been really public about this military leaders. i m talking about this zelenskyy himself has been saying they can t begun yet they need these resources. and so this has been a very big priority for the president. he s been very vocal about that. yeah. i mean, yesterday for new speaker johnson did speak with cnn about this, about what he thinks about this motion to vacate. let s listen to that i don t think i don t walk around thinking about the motion to vacate. it s a procedural matter here that i think has been abused in recent times. maybe at some point we change that yeah. what what is your son? i don t think about it. i mean, again, if i close my eyes, i can just hear kevin mccarthy were it s deja vu all over again, commend mccarthy also try to ignore the growing, i mean, obviously in his case, it was a much more loud
me, now associated press congressional reporter for new mirre and wall street journal, white house reporter catherine lucy. great to see both of you here in the studio. thank you so much getting up so early. always appreciate it for what do you think are we going to see a speaker fight? are we going to see these aid bills just sort of pass without any drama? we have any sense of it. who knows what s yeah. i think i think if you were to ask speaker mike johnson, if he knows how this is going to end for him, he would say he does it mean the vote right now is planned for saturday and he s going at bring these separate packages to the floor. let members vote, as he says, vote their conscience on each of them. folks who really wanted to get ukraine aid will be able to vote single single-handedly on ukraine aid. same with israel folks. and then obviously i think there ll be a large bipartisan support for taiwan, but you re right. i mean, the speaker the speakership is looming above him a