you so much for joining me today. anna very busy saturday. i'm fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom with alex marquardt, starts right now you are in. the cnn newsroom. i'm 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. let's start with cnn's 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 there's 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 reason for that, of course, was because of these threats coming from conservatives against his job. the question of whether or not he could continue to serve as the speaker of the house. and get aid to the us's allies across the world. the main concern coming from people like representative marjorie taylor greene was additional funding for ukraine, but you are hearing despite the fact that conservatives are frustrated, they are mad at the speaker. they are questioning whether or not he deserves to be in this job. you are still hearing from defense hawks like representative mike mccall, like representative don bacon, who are applauding the speaker for his efforts he should true leadership by what he did today, took the water, gets in the face of the opposition but he knows that if we didn't do this the consequences would have been severe not just for the united states, for the free world, we need to send to russia when we need to split our ally, israel. >> so i think he did everything i could to try to get all three done. like i said, you don't want have one failure, me and the other two things fail as well. i think that's right. that's where we got. i've always been a mike's a friend. he's a man of character. he's analyst, is always said his for ukraine, i've always believed them of course, it wasn't just republicans who are applauding the speaker i talked to one democrat representative mike quigley when i asked him whether his view of the speaker has changed over the course of the last several weeks he kinda pause for a minute. >> he said, i guess it has i guess, what happened today. i wasn't sure was ever going to happen, but obviously there was bipartisan support for that package. it now heads to the united states senate, majority leader chuck schumer, announcing just a few two minutes ago, alex, that a key vote will begin in the senate on tuesday, we still are not sure when the final passage of this package would come together, but it does say a lot because the senate and it was supposed to be in recess next week, they're returning to washington because they view this as so needed. so immediate le, important that they want to take action as soon as possible. >> alex. >> yeah, the senate very eager to pass this. lauren before i let you go speaking of the senate, they passed a bill late on friday to reauthorize the fisa warrantless surveillance program. that's despite bipartisan concern and after hours of intense in an acrimonious debate. so what helped push it through yeah, i think there was just a resounding view from so many folks that this needed to pass before the deadline which happened last night at midnight. >> so there was this last minute ditch effort where they were able to put together a package, passed acid on the floor, gives some votes, gives some amendment votes to those who wanted them and move this forward. but we should just note this is another moment where speaker mike johnson and really worked with majority leader chuck schumer to pass this through his own chamber, frustrating and outraging those on his right flank. once again, there's a lot of bills mike johnson has done over the course of the last several weeks that have angered his right flank. that's something to keep an eye on when lawmakers return, not next week in the house, but the week after like lauren fox, i'm on capitol hill on a very big day. thanks very much. president joe biden is saying that the house is passage of the foreign aid bill sends what he calls a clear message about the power of america's leadership to the world white house correspondent priscilla alvarez is with me here in the studio. so priscilla, what else are we hearing from the president? >> well, there's no doubt, alex, that this is a significant moment for the white house& a win for them after months of wrangling for this aid. now, the president of plotting this in a statement this afternoon saying, quote today members of both parties in the house voted to advance our national security interests and send a clear message about the power of american leadership on the world stage at this critical inflection point, they came together there to answer history's call passing urgently needed national security legislation that i have thought for months to secure. and then he goes on to say the senate needs to quickly send this to his desk. now, of course, to remind viewers, this was something the president asked for last october, and he actually addressed the nation, making the point that it wasn't just about providing help to an ally abroad but also that this was in the national security interests for the united states and important not to cede any ground to russia. and that has been the drumbeat from us officials, including as we saw, some losses on the battlefield in ukraine where us officials put that squarely at the feet of republicans and congress saying that not sending that aid to ukraine was resulted teeing in some of these losses. so clearly this has been urgent. it has been necessary. we also got that stark warning from the cia director burns this week where he said, ukraine could lose the war by the end of the year if they didn't get the funding, will now the president is a plotting that they can, of course, white house officials were in touch with members of congress and their staff over the course of the last few days, especially today on saturday we're expecting to see what happens next in the senate. but clearly a win for the white house, which has been asking for this aid for months. >> yeah, it top intelligence and military officials to your point, they have been essentially begging lawmakers to get ukraine this aid, which is so desperately needed for solvers, great to have you in studio. thanks very much. >> now to ukraine where the months-long delay in passing, this american aid is being blamed for some recent ukrainian losses and russian gains on the battlefield. >> following the vote, ukraine's president zelenskyy posted a thank you message to the us for it support we find our senior international correspondent, fred pleitgen in kyiv right now, fred great to have you there. we've got this. thank you. from president's zelenskyy. it must be a huge feeling of relief where you are yeah, it absolutely is. and you could feel that really reverberate around the city, around kyiv and really around the other the entire country. and also alex, you mentioned there that thank you. tweet essentially by volodymyr zelenskyy, the president of that country at came out only a couple of seconds after the house vote went down. so cleanly, the ukrainians were waiting for this and we're hoping for this and some of the things that priscilla mentioned, obviously for the ukrainians have been really real issues that they've been having. the lack of ammunition as far as artillery is concerned, also, air defense systems and air defense missiles as well. one of the things of course, alex, that we've been talking about over the past couple of weeks and that you've been reporting about out as well, is the fact that the russians have launched this massive aerial campaign against ukraine's energy infrastructure in the ukrainian, just saying, look, in some cases, we simply don't have the air defense missiles to hold that up. so it's a big deal for them. we've actually been in touch with a couple of troops who are on the frontlines fighting there. that was one of them who said that they had essentially felt they would have been forgotten by the united states. and now they realize that that's not the case. another one was also saying that this aid, which they hope will come soon also motivates a troops were fighting on the frontlines, hoping that they can turn things around. the president of this country, volodymyr zelenskyy. again, he came out and he says once again, this shows the leadership of the united states. i want to listening to some of what he had to say to him. >> we appreciate every manifestation of support for our state and independents are people in our lives, which russia wants to bury in ruins america has shown its leadership from the first days of this war so you have volodymyr zelenskyy speaking really only moments after the vote in the house to happen. >> of course we do. i have to always remind viewers that right now the situation i would say it's still in a stalemate. it is certainly one were the russians have the initiative and the moment at this point in time, they've been pushing the ukrainians back in some areas, the russians also alex have really found ways to use their air force a lot more effectively than they did in the early days of the war. that's one of the reasons why the ukrainians keep calling for those air defense systems and while they understand they might not be able to turn things around immediately with this aid. they do say that it will help them at least stabilize the situation going forward. i also want to read you what we got from the foreign minister of this country because he's were comments made directly to cnn. he said, quote, enabling ukraine to push back russian aggression is equal to preventing a the larger war in europe and averting the risk of of all want to be aggressors, plunging our world into chaos. i sincerely thank the us house of representatives, alex. >> yeah. so important, fred, as you say, not just materially but psychologically for those troops who have been struggling on the frontlines against russian forces fred pleitgen to the ukrainian capital. thanks very much. now to israel, where they house actions. today's sets up $26 in usa with some strings cnn senior diplomatic editor nic robertson is in jerusalem. nick, what are you hearing there in terms of reaction? >> yeah. as you can imagine, that has been a lot of thanks for the united states, a lot of thanks for speaker johnson. a lot of thanks for house minority leader hakeem jeffries what we heard from president heard psaki said this shows that israel has no stronger ally than the united states. the prime minister here, prime minister benjamin netanyahu, saying that this shows by parties and support for israel, which is quite an important thing for him to be saying, to be pointing out the bipartisan nature of it, of course, because there has been a sense that the way prime minister netanyahu has been fighting the war in gaza, high number of palestinian casualties there for more than 34,000 people this is alienated some democrats, so it's quite a it's important i think to understand part of what he is saying that this is we israel my administration is getting this bipartisan support. the defense minister on the plus or important to him. he said, look, we face seven enemies right now, seven different enemies. this, this shows the strength of the relationship between the united states and israel. we have from the foreign minister as well, talking about the strength of the ties for strategic partnership between the two countries an important comments as well, i think coming from the speaker at the knesset who said, look, this is a message to all the enemies of israel that the united states and israel stand strong together. and why is that important thing to say right now? because there's an assessment here that iran believed that it could have that massive attack just last weekend on israel and walden 350 drones cruise and ballistic missiles fired into israel at israel. last saturday night into sunday, because they thought that the united states was not as strongly behind prime minister netanyahu's government and behind it, israel and perhaps there was a small fracture there that they can so the message for the speaker of the knesset very clearly. and in essence, what we hear from the other leaders that this strengthen support. it's not just giving us the military equipment that we need to fight this fight that the iron dome there, david's sling, the arrow, all these missile intercept systems that was so performed at sun which are high level and so successfully last weekend it's the messaging, it's the messaging that that whatever's happening in gaza, whatever the political disquieting in united states is about that. and with other allies around the world, united states is still standing and committed to arming israel to find its enemies and neck, we can't forget of course, about the west bank as well, where there has been a lot of violence lately. again today, a palestinian ambulance driver killed while trying to evacuate wounded during a raid by israeli settlers. what more do you know? >> yeah, this is something that palestinian officials are saying that the ambulance crew had tried to drive in to get people who were injured by by settlers and we saw just last weekend thousands, of settlers encroaching and going into palestinian villages they were 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 too extreme settlers and one settler expanding their sanctions, sanctions there in the west bank. nic robertson, jerusalem. thank you very much for that reporting. secretary of state 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down she said, sure, we can bring into savings this moving season with pods, save up to 25%. now i'm moving in storage and see why pods has been trusted with over 6 million move but don't wait the 25% now visit pod.com today opening statements in the trump hush money trial start monday at nine eastern opening statements and the first ever criminal trial of a former president are set to begin on monday. donald trump will return to manhattan courtroom as prosecutors present their arguments in the new york hush money case but before they can begin, trump is hitting the campaign trail, holding a rally in north carolina later today. and this comes after a dramatic final day of jury selection, but a process that was expected to take weeks was over and just days after the judge yesterday swore in 12 jurors, as well as six alternates. let's discuss all this with cnn contributor and former nixon white house counsel john dean jon. thank you so much for being with us. thank picture. a jury was just seated for the first ever criminal trial of a former us president. you of course know a thing or two about big political moment. so what do you make of this moment? head of those opening statements on monday the company a lot of focus on this trial worldwide because it is a unique situation. and the government is going to lay out its case. as you said, there'll be opening statements and the government will paint a picture of behavior that it thinks is criminal. so that's what mr. trump isn't four and the world is waiting to hear that story. because while we think we know it the prosecutors will have facts, we don't know in john? so much focus also on the jurors who will have the fate of the former president and their hands. we now have the final jury is seated, but there are also two potential jurors who were excused yesterday after telling the judge that the trial was too stressful, one even began crying in the courtroom. so how high or this? stakes for these men and women on the jury i think they realized the height than the focus on this jury is because they know they're going to be anonymous and the courtroom is empty except me for the jury, the press is really not covering the other than through an outside room with television cameras. >> is that closed circuit show the proceedings? so they sent something is unusual. and then they of course, see the former president of the united states sitting there and know that this is a very savvy jury pool and jury that emerged because new york is well-educated and a fairly attentive to these kinds of events and knows this of what's going on in addition to those 12, we have these six alternates but given how high & high stakes this trial is, do you think that six is enough? good question if i think this weekend will tell us a there's a problem with those that were seated already obviously, they'll they'll come in and tell the judge they have a problem or they think they've been identified it's very unusual to have an anonymous ms jury that happened during watergate at some of the big trials, they were sequestered juries that were really anonymous and remained anonymous for decades. only a few who wanted to be identified ever came forward. so it is a it is a new tension for them. there are a group strangers that are getting together to make a very big decision. so it's, it's gotta be certain stress levels that are, they're not used to. >> and certainly they're gonna be plenty of people who are trying to uncover their identities. and john prosecutors have refused to reveal the witness list with the defense and they're citing trump's previous tweets it's about witnesses, judge more sean says that he won't be forcing them to hand it over. do you think the judge made the right move i think he did. >> he was he was sent me a message and that move that indeed he agreed that mr. trump could have used the information so they've withheld until very late on sunday night. there apparently going to give the first witness that the government has gone to call. but they the protocol is and the courtesy is normally to provide who your first three or six witnesses might be, so that the defense can prepare and be ready for cross-examination because of trump's tweets because his effort to influence the proceedings through out-of-court statements he has put them as potential targets, so they want to be very careful and the government is exercising its right not to be courteous because trump is not paying that favor back. >> there is this major question hanging over all this, whether the former president will take the stand if you were advising him, would you tell him to it's very unusual for a defendant to take the stand because particularly in a situation like donald trump where he is known to be a terrible witness. >> he has depositions or bad his few court appearances have been disasters it would just be almost inconceivable that he do so and very high theater, should he choose to somewhat 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answer questions you may have call now and we'll come to you 808 to one 4,000 we are following a busy day on capitol hill, billions of dollars of foreign aid for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. >> now officially approved by house lawmakers. those bills are now heading to the senate where they are expected to pass later next week, now, earlier, speaker mike johnson took a victory lap saying this was the right thing to do. but after today, his job may be more at risk than ever. let's discuss this with democratic congressman gerry connelly, a senior member of the house foreign affairs committee, congressman. thank you so much for joining us today on such a big day, the house has now just voted for essentially the foreign aid parts of that senate bill that passed back in february, which you supported. are you frustrated at how long this has taken the house or how are you feeling now that this has passed yes, i am this could've been done months ago and when you realize what's happening on the on the ukrainian front, thousands of ukrainian casualties have occurred that might have been avoided had we not desert the same boat we had today, we could have had months ago so i think it's really tragic that the congress and the speaker took so long to finally come around to basically ratifying what the senate did months ago back in february by seven, eight to 29 vote in the senate in terms of the consequences that you just touched on, you've also been quite vocal about the war in gaza, saying the death toll is way too high in terms of this new aid for israel, would you have wanted to see more conditions attached? >> yes. i believe that none of the aid provided in today's vote should be used for any offensive operations at gaza until the hostages are released. massive humanitarian aid flows into gaza and an understanding about what, if any, operations would be commenced with respect to rafah we have a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportions that has to be addressed first and my understanding is there, there are very few conditions in this. is that right that's right those conditions are going to have to be negotiated between the biden biden white house and state department and the israeli government. and the administration. it has repeatedly said that they will likely not condition that aid congressman, you told our colleague manu raju earlier today, the democrats should not save congressman mike johnson as speaker. how do you see his fate after today's votes? >> i feel the same a lot of my colleagues in the democratic caucus feel that somehow we're beholden to speaker mike johnson because of today's vote, a vote that could have taken place months ago and should have my view is different. my view is finally speaker johnson did what a speaker supposed to do, which is allow legislation to come to the floor and let the will of the house be exercised. we were telling him and others months ago that there were well over 300 votes for you brain in the house. if you've just let it come to a vote while that's exactly what we got today and so i don't think we owe speaker johnson anything and as democrats frankly, his views on gay rights, gun-rights, women's, reproductive rights voting rights are at and of course, the certification of the election. joe biden, are antithetical to everything we hold dear as democrats. why would we want to preserve him in the speaker's chair? and frankly i want to vote for hakeem jeffries that's my candidate for speaker and not michael johnson as frustrated as you may be that this could have been done months ago. >> do you see today is a win for democrats because the senate bill in the senate democrats were essentially forced to add on a section that was on the border and border security, which which was struggling down today, it didn't pass. so the fact that the three sections that democrats, we're really trying to push through, do you see that as a win for democrats? >> well i guess i wouldn't frame it that way. i think this is a real win for the country. >> this is the congress. finally you know, rededicating itself to the proposition that the united states is a beacon of hope for all freedom, love, people, especially ukrainians right now we finally reaffirmed that commitment today. >> i also think it's a big win, frankly for president biden essentially a republican majority controlled congress in the house, ratified his initial request for aid to ukraine, israel, taiwan, and humanitarian aid for gaza that's a big victory. foreign policy victory for joe biden and he deserves a lot of credit all right, democratic congressman gerry connolly. thank you very much for joining us today pleasure. as the us prepares to shift more aid towards israel, washington is working to prepare for what could be a new equation in the region as tensions remain high between iran and israel here in the cnn newsroom this is a travel show visit my fans around the world by that kind of propaganda anything and 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strikes between the country's this month has spiked fears of a widening regional conflict. >> donie his now is norman rule is a former senior us intelligence official. norm, thanks so much for being with us. as you have been throughout so much of what we've seen in the past week, given what we now know about the limited scope of israel's counter-strike early on friday morning or on time i'm what do you expect in terms of an iranian response good afternoon. i think we've seen the iranian response rollout in some detail. first, they will recognize within their military that they're most sophisticated air defense system was not able to prevent an israeli strike this will cause a strategic discussion within the iran revolutionary guard as they think about, can they protect their key installations and personnel? indeed, i should note that the next generation of the system that was reportedly destroyed and aespa khan was destroyed and you by ukraine in crimea yesterday, which more broadly speaks of the superiority of us technology worked by the us or its partners. and the inferiority of iranian technology, even when obtaining the best from russia. i think that's a significant restraint on iran in general just before the strike by israel against isfahan. thursday night our time friday morning in iran, the iranian foreign minister had told cnn that if israel were to strike, they would respond to immediately and with maximum effect that clearly has not happened so how keen do you think iran is to lower the temperature now while iran is famous for its bluster and it's harsh rhetoric, the foreign minister is not a significant actor in iran decision-making circle, and he certainly would not be a dominant voice in the discussion as to how much strategic risks russia, iran would take on. >> i think you've also seen a great success of us diplomacy, where the united states and its partners put diplomatic pressure on israel and iran to restrain themselves and to prevent this from becoming a broader conflict. >> i think iran has responding to this pressure as well. because it does want to maintain engagement with europe asia, and regional actors in terms of that decision-making circle that you just mentioned, my colleague katie bo lillis and i have just written about how last weekend's strike by iran against israel has essentially appended years of intelligence assumptions, analysis about bronze appetite for confrontation. if you are still in the intelligence community advising policymakers how much would the events of the past few days change your view of the iranian supreme leader and the revolutionary guard and what they're willing to do i think the last few weeks has shown that the concept of deterrence against iran has eroded significantly. and that iran is responding accordingly. we should keep in mind that iran has undertaken one of the largest military actions the region is seen in decades. and as effectively and paid no international price for this. its nuclear program is at an all-time high. it conducts a hostage taking assassination attempts. so i think more broadly, this does speak to the challenge of deterrence against iran. and when met deterrence is absence absent iran tests red lines but you do have these new sanctions that were rolled out by the us, the uk, and the eu late last week, this week to what extent do you think that those are going to hurt her on while the sanctions will certainly underscore to the international community that businesses dealing with iran are putting a fair amount of their capital at great risk. >> iran is a terrorist sponsor, aggressive actor, press, depressive actor to its own people, et cetera, et cetera. >> this this isn't a good place to put your money and the sanctions have underscored that this said these sanctions do not directly touch the supreme leader or as innermost circle. and these sanctions do not appear to you immediately erode iran's capability yeah there were primarily directed at 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different here, however, is that this group of demonstrators are bringing their message quite literally to the gates of columbia university. the reason this is as far as they can go it's asked, because university officials have restricted access to all the faculty and current students onto campus. as you mentioned earlier today the university working in through the columbia school of journalism is allowing access to credential press onto the campus for a couple of hours. they escorted us onto campus after that, we are free to go anyway we then walked up to a portion of the south lawn, words that were there is still that persistent presence of demonstrators. they've called it the gaza solidarity cabinet. the main message that they're trying to really stress is still what we saw a couple of days ago with the nypd was asked to intervene and basically detained over 100 offices so over 100 individuals or their messages to pressure columbia university to divest funds from companies connected to israel. and that's still what we keep hearing today. however there are still well over 100 students touches from columbia, but also neighboring barnard college who were suspended facing disciplinary action because of their role in, that demonstration, after the columbia university president labeled earlier this week a disturbance, i want you to hear from one of those barnard students participated in that in that encampment, a few days ago, her name, miriam iq ball. she told me a little ago that she would do it all over again even if it means suspension again i don't regret anything that i did. >> i clicked this is probably the best moment of my life i remember, like for the last so many years because of my life, it's been like nobody knew at palestine was for students like, like the one you just heard from. this really, it does mean rate galvanizing moment as you just search, you would do it all over again for universities, however, alex, so this really speaks to the wider conversation beyond columbia. this is a moment where many institutions of higher learning needs to grapple with how how they will be able to respond to these pro-palestinian protests and potential town of protests in the days and the weeks or months ahead into the summer. so really multiple stories here at play. there is still the element here at columbia university, but for so many universities from coast-to-coast to the us, this is something bigger polo, what has been in the university of response to the protests and in terms of those arrests, what updates are there that's a really good question in terms of some of the people who were detained, a few days ago, including the one you just heard from, there. we're basically just process for trespassing charge shut. the one you heard from told me that she's scheduled back in court and made she is certainly hopeful that this would not be prosecuted and there is an expectation that that may or may not actually happen but i think one of the biggest question it seems like i've had for some of these students is what happens to their to their education the one you heard from she's a first-year student. she is she has as a supportive her parents and she is pursuing potential legal action. she told me, but that's speaks to that in terms of the university, they are continuing to cut off access so some of those who are not students who are not staff, it really speaks to the delicate, the delicate balance that they have to strike between guaranteeing freedom of sweets for students on campus. but same time, also ensuring the safety of those individuals on campus, not just here, but so many others saw the country. >> yeah, universities all across the country really grappling with this whole ascent of all outside the columbia university kristi, thank you very much as srilanka undergoes rapid developments, a battle is raging between man and elephants. the areas where the animals once roamed freely is now covered in farmland, 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