You so much for joining me today. Anna very busy saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom with alex marquardt, starts right now you are in. The cnn newsroom. Im alex barack board in washington. Thank you so much for joining us. We begin with Breaking News on capitol hill after months of delays and political turmoil in a rare saturday vote, house lawmakers passed stay billion package of aid for ukraine, for israel and taiwan now the deal heads to the senate for a vote before it can be signed by President Joe Biden two reporters across washington as well as in kyiv and in jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox On Capitol Hill to help break it all down. Lauren, what is the latest yeah obviously this vote a long time coming. Alex and theres been a lot of questions about whether or not Speaker Mike Johnson was ever going to get to this point, putting this ukraine aid package as well as additional aid for israel and taiwan on the floor of the House Of Representatives. And the r
obviously, good news that s back up and running positive development. the lead with jake tapper, also a positive development. it starts right now another laws in court today for donald trump the lead starts right now the former president, just minutes away from a campaign appearance in risky, racine was scott anson as the new york hush money cover-up case comes back into play it now when appeals court has weighed in the decision, did not go in, mr. trump s favor, and senator bernie sanders is going to join me live. what he wants here from the big pharma ceo about the high cost of ozempic was his response to israeli prime minister netanyahu is scathing criticism earlier today of the biden administration, an even more explosive fires and a brutally hot summer. i m going to talk to a governor leading efforts on the frontlines welcome to leave and dig tapper moment it s now former president donald trump will be speaking to voters in battleground wisconsin, but you know, what, he
hold it against the defendant for not testifying in his own defense the judge, though, has push back on the defense s efforts to add more language to the jury instructions that would be more favorable to 100, for instance, the idea that he would he didn t knowingly violate the law, which is something that defense is really all about. and they also wanted to they also want to make the argument that hunter biden did not think he was addicted to drugs when he bought that gun? in october of 2018? that s the reason why we re here and why hunter is facing these three federal charges that could send him to prison if he is convicted, but it s you pointed out, we could very much have this case in hands of the jury today if a hunter biden does not testify and john, i mean, the fact that we re here we had about ten witnesses. i think i was to ten witnesses or four-and-a-half days of testimony on the part of the by the prosecution s this case really is what the jury is going to be co
on a rampage that weekend because the, because one of that community, a young shepherd, 14 years old, had been found dead. they blame, they blame the palestinians in a nearby town we re seeing shades of that violence again this weekend and here the the crew, the ambulance, true. we re trying to get to injured palestinians the driver was shot, other members of the ambulance crew came under gunfire in the the ambulance and it s not the only thing going on in the west bank. the idf has had a days-long raid now into to talk or rem, refugee camp inside the occupied west bank there, the idf says, i ve killed ten terrorists arrested, eight suspects, palestinian officials say that five other people have been killed including one child. so very bloody and violent times in several places in the west bank in the past 24 hours. and clearly this is a major concern to the vitamin iteration and they just put new sanctions on to group s link