Announcer this week with George Stephanopoulos starts right now. Jonathan defining moment the house will be in order. Jonathan after months of delay, a Rare Coalition approves billions in aid for americas allies. A Bipartisan Coalition of democrats and republicans has risen up. The house has worked its will. These are not normal times here in the house or around the world. Jonathan a big win for the speaker of the house, one that may cost him his job. Mike johnsons a lame duck. He is not going to lead us into the next congress. Jonathan this morning, House Foreign Affairs committee chair, Michael Mccaul and congressman ro khanna join us. Plus, our powerhouse round table. Stream warning. The political system seems hopelessly divided. The court seems to reflect that division. Its a very complex institution. Jonathan retired Supreme CourtJustice Stephen breyer as the court once again Takes Center Stage in a president ial election. And at the end of the day, do you feel like this is the most important thing you can do to fight Climate Change . Jonathan as earth week kicks off, maryalice parks speaks with the environmental advocates fighting Climate Change at the ballot box. Part of our abc news special series the power of us. Jonathan good morning. Welcome to this week. This weekend, we saw a rare outbreak of bipartisanship in what had seemed to be a hopelessly dysfunctional congress. Just maybe the dawn of a new day for the house of representatives, or it might have been a final act of yet another republican speaker destined to be brought down by hardliners in his own party. Heres what we know. After months of delay, the house overwhelmingly approved billions of dollars in funding for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. The vote on ukraine funding was lopsided, a resounding show of support for Volodymyr Zelenskyys efforts to defend his nation from russias aggression, but look more closely at the vote. Look at how republicans voted. Just 101 republicans voted yes. 112 voted no. Thats a majority of House Republicans voting against support for ukraine, a defining moment for the Republican Party and a screaming indicator that the party of reagan and the hawks who followed him is a distant memory. This is trumps party, not reagans. Its a party that has fully embraced trumps vision of america first, and while that is trumps slogan, it was also the slogan of the isolationist republicans who nearly a century ago opposed americas support for Great Britain in the beginning of world war ii. Yesterdays vote was also a defining moment for speaker of the house, mike johnson. He did his job. He allowed the house to work its will, but he had to stand up to many in his own party to do so. Minutes after the vote, president zelenskyy took note of the man who made it possible, posting on x, quote, i am grateful to the United States house of representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track. Speaker johnson had to rely on democrats to make it happen, and as he now faces a challenge to his leadership, mike johnson will almost certainly need to rely on democrats to survive as speaker, a fact that could radically change the Power Dynamics in congress so we begin this morning with abcs selina wang on capitol hill. Good morning, selina. Reporter good morning, jon. This is a defining moment for speaker johnson. After months of delay, the house has finally passed 95 billion in aid to ukraine, israel, and taiwan, but johnson, he took enormous risk to get this done, defying the farright wing of his party, but his job is safe, at least for now. I think we did our work here, and i think history will judge it well. Reporter for weeks, Marjorie Taylor greene threatened to force a vote to remove mike johnson as speaker of the house if he dared to allow a vote on military aid for ukraine, but now that the vote has happened, greene still has not pulled the trigger, at least not yet. Im actually going to let my colleagues go home and hear from their constituents. Reporter now shell have to wait until theyre back in session at the end of the month. Theres more support thats growing. Ive said from the beginning im going to be responsible with this. I support my majority. I support the majority next time. I do not support mike johnson. Reporter so far only two other House Republicans have signaled they backed greenes potential motion to vacate johnson as speaker, but with the razorthin republican majority, that could be enough to oust the speaker, but johnson says he doesnt care because support for ukraine is more important than his job. To put it bluntly, i would rather send bullets to ukraine than american boys. My son is going to begin in the Naval Academy this fall. This is real life for me as it is so many other american families. We cant play politics in this. We have to do the right thing. Reporter as some unlikely allies, democrats who could help him save his job. Traditional conservatives led by Speaker Mike Johnson have risen to the occasion. You think you can trust the speaker . So far it looks that way. Reporter republican hardliners are outraged by johnsons turnaround. For months, he said any aid tied to ukraine should be tied to border security, despite rejecting a border deal that former President Trump opposed. Were worried about americas border. He seems to be more worried about ukraine. Reporter and hardliners are even angrier that johnson reached out to democrats to get this done. Im concerned that the speakers cut a deal with the democrats to fund foreign wars. Im very disappointed and ive told speaker johnson that personally. Ive continued to see capitulation and an unwillingness to even fight. Reporter johnson said hes not worried about the threats. I dont walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate. I have to do my job. Reporter hell need democrats to keep his job, and some say they will. I will vote to keep johnson as speaker. I think there are democrats who are happy to support him if he wants it. Reporter in addition to aid to ukraine, the house also passed 26 billion in aid to israel. In the end, 37 democrats voted against that. So now the package of bills led over to the senate where theyre expected to vote on this on tuesday, and for his part, President Biden, he thanked the house for getting this done saying that this sends a powerful message to the world about american leadership. Jon . Jonathan thank you, selina. Im joined now by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, congressman Michael Mccaul. So let me ask you, congressman. At the end, the vote was overwhelming, particularly on ukraine. Right. Jonathan on all of these bills. Why did it have to be so difficult . Why did it take months to happen . Well, i think, you know, the motion to vacate mccarthy, which is a rarely used tool only twice in the history of congress, right . And the threat of the motion to vacate kept this from coming to the floor in a timely basis. I have to say, watching your piece, i am so proud of the Speaker Mike Johnson. He went through a transformation. At the end of the day, the profile of courage is putting the nation above yourself, and thats when he did. He said at the end of the day, im going to be on the right side of history irrespective of my job, and i think that was what i admired so much. Jonathan it was a transformation. I mean, he had initially said, no ukraine funding until we take care of the border. He was with a lot of, you know, a lot of the radicals are saying. How do you explain that transformation . What made johnson become the steadfast guy on this . That as you said, the profile in courage . I think he tried to do what the, you know, say the Freedom Caucus wanted him to do. It wasnt going to work in the senate or the white house. At the end of the day, we were running out of time. Ukraines getting ready to fall, and i think i think the briefings that he got in the classified space, the advice he got from people like me and mike turner, house intelligence, armed services, i think talking to world leaders. He became the man that went from a district in louisiana to the speaker of the United States, to also someone who had to look at the entire world and had to carry the burden of that and make the right decision, and his sons going to annapolis. He is smart. He knows whats at stake here if we surrender in ukraine like we did in afghanistan, and america will be weaker, not stronger. Jonathan its fascinating. He was the one guy that could either make it happen or not happen. Is his job now in jeopardy . I tell you what. Hes got any support, and he has a lot of i think his the stock in Mike Johnsons gone way up. I think the respect for him has gone way up because he did the right thing irrespective of his job. That garnered a lot of respect, and also from the democrat side. Thats not what you normally want, but i do think jonathan whats not what you normally want . To rely on democrats . To have to do that, right . Jonathan right. It shows you that were in a bipartisan era in some strange way where democrats will be able to back the speaker on the other side of the aisle and not have him vacated out of the chair, but i think that i think i think hes in good shape. I really do. Nothing i mean, you already have you enough republicans to force it, and it only takes one to force the vote and you have enough to remove him if it were only republicans. So it looks like hes going to need to rely on democrats to remain speaker of the house. How does that change the dynamic . I mean, were now a Coalition Government in the house effectively . Maybe some people like that. I mean, there are jonathan yeah. There are those in my party look. The motion to vacate has only been used in history. Once joe cannon used it against himself to keep his position, and then mccarthy. When the motion gets threatened every week in the congress, that is being abused and i think we need to fix that. That is a tool thats being abused by a minority when the majority of my conference dont agree with them, and they use that because they think that gives them power, and it does if they have a gun to the speakers head every day, and so i think thats something that well be looking at. Jonathan i mean, when you heard the way johnson was talking about this moment in history, whether or not we support ukraine, the warning if we dont, putin succeeds there, and he moves through europe, and thats what particularly the eastern europeans worry about. Youve made that case. Why is it that a majority of republicans in the house voted against supporting ukraine . I think they bought into this notion that its an either or proposition. You cant secure the border you cant support ukraine without the border. We can do both. Were a great nation. Now we are stuck in a political issue here, but, you know, americas back, and we have our allies back now, and the people, you know, in israel, and in ukraine and in taiwan, and our nato allies now know that americas back. Were leading the free world like Ronald Reagan did, and, you know, reagan brought down the soviet union for gods sakes. The eyes of the world are watching and our adversaries are watching, and history is watching, and thats what i kept telling my colleagues. Do you want to be a chamberlain or a churchill . Because that is the moment in time that we are at. Jonathan well, one of your colleagues who agrees with you on this, dan crenshaw, said that looking at his colleagues that dont support this, fellow republicans, its im guessing the reasoning is they want russia to win so badly theyre willing to oust the speaker over it. I mean, how is it that we have republicans the party of reagan, or formerly the party of reagan, acting as if they want russia to succeed in ukraine . I grew up in the cold war, and i see i see the whole thing differently, and i think if we if we surrender on ukraine like we did in afghanistan, which was a debacle, is the United States of america going to be stronger or weaker . I would say weaker, and then putin will invade moldova. Georgia, hell threaten the baltics, and the United States, we cant shrink from this responsibility. You know, i quoted Chamber Churchill yesterday, the gathering storm. He talked about how it was unnecessary war. He saw the axis of evil and coming to power and then he also says, this is an unnecessary war that could have been stopped. My dad was in that war. Just think if we could have stopped hitler at poland, how much blood and treasure we could have prevented. I think were at the same moment in history now. Jonathan so wheres trump on this . We saw it when we met in turkey, and he said, not a penny more in ukraine. Wheres your party on this . If you read through the tea leaves, he has not come out and condemned a vote for ukraine. Jonathan not yet, yeah. He said, what happened if i would have been president he likes the idea of the loan program. Youll hear from Lindsey Graham on sunday. We have been talking to him about this loan program, and he likes the idea that its not just a giveaway, but a loan program like the eu has for ukraine, and i think what he wants is for a lifeline to be given to ukraine so that when he gets into office in his thinking, that he can then negotiate and save it. Jonathan its a loan program that can be forgiven. Chairman mccaul, thank you for joining us. Thanks, jon. Jonathan appreciate it. Coming up, well ask congressman ro khanna how democrats are responding to speaker johnsons moves and whether theyll help him stay in power. Were back in just two minutes. 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Jonathan you said something significant. You said you would oppose table the motion to vacate. In other words, you will protect speaker johnsons job if Marjorie Taylor greene and others go through with the threat to try to remove him . I would. And speaker jeffries will be there in 2025, but look. Im a progressive democrat and i think you would have a few progressive democrats doing that, and i disagree with speaker johnson on many issues and have been very critical of him, but he did the right thing here and he deserves to keep his job until the end of his term. Jonathan would you and fellow democrats that will protect him at this moment, ask him for anything in return . Do we effectively have you heard me ask congressman mccaul, a Coalition Government in the house . Ill leave the negotiations to speaker jeffries, but i dont think everything in politics needs to be transactional. I think here you have speaker johnson who not only put this up for a vote, but he also separated the bills which i thought was courageous. He let people vote their conscience on taiwan, on the offensive aid to israel, and on ukraine and i give him credit for that. Jonathan now you were one of the 37 who voted against the funding for israel. Tell me more. Tell me why. I mean, why was that a high number or a low number in your view . It was a high number. It was a hard vote. I mean, look. This was a stance against a blank check for netanyahu and offensive weapons unconditionally while hes talking about going into rafah when we know more women and children are going to die, and the reason you had people like jamie raskin and myself who have voted for israel aid year after year and voted for iron dome take this stand is that we wanted to make it clear that there has to be a change in strategy and no more famine and suffering in gaza. Jonathan im sure you saw the report in the wall street journal on friday that the administration the Biden Administration is considering a billion dollar arms deal with israel. Are you concerned about how biden is handling this . I am in terms of im glad hes moving in the rhetoric,