Our news correspondent helena humphrey. Helena, after a long wait, an aid bill for ukraine has now passed its biggest a vote in the house. Thats right, carl. Very much long awaited. Just to paint a picture, it was back in september that ukrainian president zelensky went to the white house to speak to President Biden about the need for this day will do particularly with regards to things such as air defence, missiles and so on. It took this long to actually come to the floor. That was because there was a growing chorus of opposition from republican congressional lawmakers, particularly in the house with regards to aid to ukraine at a time but there hadnt been stricter legislation when it comes to immigration, bordersecurity and legislation when it comes to immigration, Border Security and so on. Nevertheless it appears that speakerjohnson appears to have A Change Of Heart. Potentially after a rounds attack that we saw on israel last week. It came to the floor. Were seeing over 60 billio
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automatically a democracy and the institutions are automatically going to function, or if we just think the country is automatically going exist, then we can sleepwalk ourselves into trouble. i think what we need to be able to do is just right now look back from january 2025. imagine what would happen in this country if a president is installed rather than elected. this doesn t have to happen, but it could very well happen. and we re going to be better able to prevent it from happening if we can look back and say hmm, if an unelected president, somebody who loses by many electoral votes, and many millions of popular votes is in effect installed in a way that seems illegitimate to the vast majority of the population, do you really expect the country to hold together? this is a question, chiefly by the way for republicans. because republicans in these last year or so have been thrown back entirely to tactics. they re thinking just about
institutions will automatically function or the country is automatically going to exist then we can sleep walk ourselves into trouble. we need to just right now look back from january, 2025. imagine what would happen in this country a president is installed rather than elected. this doesn t have to happen. but it could very well happen. we ll be better able to prevent it if we can look back and say, hum. if an unelected president, somebody who loses by many electoral votes and many millions of popular votes is in effect installed in a way that seems illegitimate to the vast majority of the population, do you really expect the country to hold together? this is a question chiefly by the way for republicans because republicans in these last year or so have been thrown back entirely to tactics. they are thinking just about power. they are thinking just about how