Report elephants versus man airs this sunday night on the whole story, 8 00 p. M. Eastern and pacific right here on cnn. The news continues right here on cnn hello, and welcome to all of you watching us here in the United States, canada, and all Around The World. Im kimberly hoover. This is cnn newsroom. Hours away from us house votes on a series of crucial foreign aid bills. Even bringing it this far could cost the speaker his job look at what to expect, plus Opening Statements lets now set for Monday In FormerPresident Trumps Hush Money Trial. Well look at what led some potential jurors to say just werent up for the job and explosions that an iranbacked militia based in iraq, this as the region is is on edge after retaliatory strikes between iran and israel until you what each side as well as the us are saying in a live report live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with Kim Brunhuber we begin this hour with the possibility that ukraine may soon get much needed military aid from the United States three Funding Bills for ukraine, israel, and indopacific allies are expected to get a final vote in the house in the coming hours a fourth bill require us tiktok to divest from chinese Owner Bytedance or face a ban in the if passed, they will have head to the senate and the past there to present bidens desk. Now on friday, House Democrats helped House Speaker mike johnson get the measures passed. A key procedural vote. The Ukraine Aid Bill contains around 61 billion in funding, including 23 billion to replenish us Weapons Stockpiles and other 11 billion to Fund Operations in the region in nearly 14 billion to help ukraine buy advanced weapons and other defense equipment. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is making it clear the help cant come soon enough. Heres what he said in his address to nato Defense Ministers in brussels on friday ukrainians are holding the front line on their wall, receiving military but now that assistance is still very limited. And in particular, we are still waiting for news report packages from the United States american support has been in question for too long. Everything that is questioned for the defense of freedom is a precise answer for putin. Hes tempted to act when the west slows down but for one republican leader, even getting the bills this far could comment a high cost. Cnns Melanie Zanona has more from capitol hill speaker Mike Johnsons job isnt real jeopardy, and that is because he has had to rely on democrats throughout every get of the process to pass a critical package of foreign aid bills, including on some key procedural votes, which historically are almost always done along party lines. So that is really spark a revolt. On the right and it has fueled new calls to oust him from the speakership on friday, a third republican thats Arizona RepublicanPaul Well Goes are announced that he was officially signing on to sponsor the motion to vacate the speakership. Now, other hardliners not quite ready to go that route, but they are making there finger with the speaker known take a listen. What has mike johnson made a deal to do what has he promised he will give them in the future. And this is why we have to remove mike johnson from the speakership. Its tough to defend him right now and thats thats thats hard to say, but its just a reality for five months weve done nothing but advanced things with more democrat votes, then republican votes. I dont defend the performance of the speaker. I dont defend the actions that have been taken, including today. I think this is its a terrible mistake. Now at this point, the earliest that Marjorie Taylor greene can force a floor vote on a motion to vacate is on saturday. That is the same de that the house is expected to vote on and pass this package of foreign aid bills before they send it over to the senate. But given the math and given the tight margins that means that if that were to come to the floor, that motion to vacate, johnson would need to rely on democrats to bail him come out and save his speakership. Now, democrats have not yet said, but they are committed to Saving Johnson and throwing him a lifeline. But many of them are signaling a willingness to helping him out and that is because they appreciate the fact that he defied his right flank and did what they believe is the right thing by delivering aid to israel, taiwan, and ukraine. But in this congress, nothing is guaranteed. So its certainly something well be watching out for in the coming days Melanie Zanona, cnn, capitol hill donald. Trumps historic Hush Money Trial is moving forward quickly with Opening Statements set for Monday Morning is the first criminal trial of a former us President Trump faces 34 Felony Counts for his alleged role in a scheme to conceal an affair with Adult Film Star stormy daniels, which could have damaged is 20 2016 election campaign. A full jury panel is now in place after the last alternate were seated on friday and Appeals Court has denied the president ial candidates latest attempt to delay his criminal trial. The former president s lawyers had asked again to put the trial on pause until a ruling is made over as request to switch venues. Meanwhile, Law Enforcement says the man who lit himself on fire outside the courthouse where trumps trial is being held, has died. Cnns kara subpoena was inside the courtroom for fridays proceedings. We have our full panel. That announcement from judge juan wir schon after Jury Selection concluded, 18 manhattan nights, 12 jurors and six alternates. Now seated in a courthouse. So this is going on that week, and this will go on for another four or five weeks. Very unfair. Trump appeared board much of the trial day for as attorneys on both sides probe potential jurors until they fill the remaining five alternate seats moments after the full jury was picked. A bizarre and tragic moment outside court as a man set himself on fire Authorities Say he was previously known to the police. And while they are searching for any domestic terror connections, that is not believed to have been the motivation in court. A handful of Perspective Jurors became emotional. One was excused after she told the judge she had anxiety and was worried as the trial goes on, more people could know shes part of the jury saying, i might not be able to be completely fair and not emotional. So that concerns me. Another was dismissed after she began crying, saying, im sorry, i thought i could do this. I wouldnt want someone who feels this way to judge my case either. I dont want you to feel ive wasted anyones time. This is so much more stressful than i thought a third it was sent home after noting she was feeling anxiety and selfdoubt as she listened to a line of questioning about the credibility of witnesses at the defense table, trump set flipping through papers with charts, photos, and graphics. He whispered and passed notes with his lawyers and at some points was hunched over with his elbows on the Desk Prosecutors susan hoffman, juror started off questioning potential jurors, telling them this is not about mr. Trump being a former president , is not about his being a candidate for the presidency. Its only about whether the evidence proves hes guilty during her presentation, trump leaned back in his chair at one point, his eyes closed trumps attorney, Susan Necklace focused on bias against the former president. She told those in the jury box, you all bring biases and you particularly bring biases about someone who is as publicly and outspoken as President Trump. Theres nobody that doesnt know him in this room in the afternoon, the court moved to a routine hearing to determine how much of trumps legal history the prosecution will be allowed to ask him about if he testifies, which he said he plans to prosecutors argued they should be allowed to question trump about the findings in the E Jean CarrollDefamation Case among others, despite trumps attorneys strong objections the former president shook his head as the prosecution spoke about how he defamed carroll kara scannell, cnn, new york dad is a professor of government at the University Of Essex and she joins us now from berlin. All right, so i want to start there with the trial natasha, what stood out to you about what youve seen so far from this trial . I think what stood out to me was just how difficult it has been to pick a jury. I think thats something that maybe we havent thought about how how difficult to process it would be just to pick one out, but just also to be a jury member to find someone who is considered to be unbiased. And theyre taking huge risks because they feel that they are lives could be threatened they could be influenced by Family Members and friends if they were to talk about the trial. So i think this whole process has been very, very onerous. Its, its also stood out to me, of course how trump has had to face. And hear people saying terrible things about him and has really not been in control. And youve had judge merchan has been completely in control of the court. Of course. So i think this is one of the first times you see trump not in control of history groundings like he would like it to be. And finally, facing the music a little bit more broadly from a political point of view. So looking at this through the election lens, a recent poll found only a third of americans think donald trump did something illegal in this case compared to about half who say he acted illegally in the the other three criminal cases against them. But if hes convicted in this case, about half of americans would consider him unfit to serve as president. So even though this might be the weakest case against him in terms of severity simulink, a lot politically anyway is still riding on the outcome here right . Its really interesting to see the way these court cases have played out politically with his base. He seems to be able to use the the court cases to generate more funds for his campaign. I mean, that seems to be the only thing he talks about how he is the worlds biggest victim theres . Some horrible witch hunt against him and that joe biden has been weaponizing the Justice System against him. But when we look at how this is going to play out in the election if he is convicted, this is not going to play well for him i mean, the very least he could actually even see prison time but like you mentioned, the polls reveal that they would not want to vote for a president whos convicted of a crime. Of course, this is all unchartered territory for us, weve never really had this kind of situation in us politics and you would think that just the criminal counts in itself would be enough to deter people from voting for him. But i think that trump, it seems to be relying on this idea that hes base is going to come out to vote for him no matter what it doesnt matter what he does and hes above the law. But i think hes about to face a lot more friction as he may get a result. And particularly in this case that doesnt go well for him. You have to remember michael cohen, who was his underlying did go to prison yeah. Exactly. Right. So listen, i want to go back to the one or the other big political stories, the foreign aid bills quickly on that, do you expect it to pass today you would expect it to pass and this was a big risk take taken by mike johnson, of course, because he is i guess, really angry republicans on the far right that have signaled that they could want to oust him. You have Marjorie Taylor greene, whos made it clear that shes putting she could put a resolution to vote. And there were three republicans in total on that is enough that if they decided to put it to vote and all of the democrats agreed to vote him out. Mike johnson would be ousted from speakership, but that would create huge cas and i actually dont think that would be good for the republicans six months before a National Election to show how unable they are to just even manage this slim majority that they cant keep a speaker in the house. So there may be some republicans that will try to push against Marjorie Taylor greene the far rights moved to oust him because it would play out horribly for the republicans in november yeah. I mean, its just incredible bipartisanship reaching across the aisle used to be seen as a good thing. Now it may indeed cost the speaker has job. You think democrats will. Save him if republicans do vote to oust him . So i think the issue is that you would have to have all of the republicans vote to oust him. And the other im sorry. All of the democrats opposed to oust him. So though the democrats are more united, certainly than the republicans are, there might be some that decided that they dont want to save him. Hard to predict and you havent heard any signals from hakeem jeffries. Of course, the House Minority leader of what theyre going to do. I think ultimately this would fail. That theyre not going to be able to oust mike johnson. I think it would be as i mentioned, just absolutely catastrophic for them in the house its so hard to predict these days what is going to happen in the congress, particularly in the house. And thats why we have unbelievably low Approval Ratings for the house and senate as well. Its only at 15 of the American Public approves. And thats because as you mentioned, theres just a complete lack of bipartisanship and you get only here and after much great effort some attempt to put a bill together that will actually pass. Yeah, certainly be an Interesting De Will Falling Along National instead. Thank you so much for being here with us. Appreciate it thanks for having me. Of course, you can watch cnns special coverage of the trump Hush Money Trial about monday at 9 00 a. M. In york, 2 00 p. M. In london a series of explosions at a Military Base in iraq is raising new questions about tensions in the middle east what israel and the us are saying about this incident. 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