had he not been stopped. tell us what we know so far about his motivation? well, obviously from what all of the evidence that we ve gathered so far, the motivation at this stage appears to be pure hatred. pure racial hatred. now there happens to be a penal law in the state of new york that is entitled a domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate. that particular crime right now is a crime that i m focusing on. i ve already got him charged mika with the highest murder charge in the state. murder if the first-degree. so we got that charged. we got him hold on that. so now, the next legal step is we have a felony hearing scheduled for thursday. it is a probable cause hearing to determine whether or not a felony has been committed. i m confident that the murder in the first-degree meets the probable cause standard. so he s going to be either held for the grand jury on thursday, or he s going to waive to the grand jury. so i m already in grand jury mode right now. so what that
Defense production with all the support. Russia has ramped up as airstrikes against ukrainian cities. And Critical Infrastructure rain down munitions on your brave ukrainians defending their homeland now, america, youre going to send ukraine and supplies they need to keep them in the fight. This weekend or reports. This is i find this amazing reports of cheers breaking out of the trenches in Eastern Ukraine probably came from one of your folks reporter or some im not sure it came from but as theyre sharing, as they watch the house vote in support for ukraine. Its not like they dont understand what weve done not like they dont understand how critical this is for that im making sure the shipment start right away in the next few hours, literally, a few hours were going to began sending him equipment to ukraine for air defense munitions, for artillery, for Rocket Systems and Armored Vehicles this package is literally an investment not only in your rent in ukraine, security, but in europe s
Voting has ended for the fourth and final of the foreign aid packages as of todays very rare saturday session, there in us House Of Representatives. And you look at the toll those 366258 in favor of passage of this 26 israel aid package, 17 billion of it would go to offensive and defensive weapons for israel, 9 billion in humanitarian an aid for gaza. Of course, we still have to hear them officially say that this has been passed, but manu raju, back with this, theyre outside outside there on capitol hill. They have four items today to accomplish. Checkmark on three of them. Youve got to National Security aid package thats been approved the ukraine package approved and money for the indopacific region and allies that of a taiwan as well so this seemingly was embraced by a majority. Theyre just looking at the tally this was to be expected for Israel Package yeah, there was still some opposition and then as you say, it looks like this vote is not yet finalized yet. Im probably going to cl
discussion between the president and world leaders as he tried to provide and project confidence to world leaders at the us would stand by ukraine, of course, a difficult argument to make over the course of the last few months when this aid was continually stalled in congress. and we have gotten more warnings over time. the president in an op-ed earlier in the week saying it was quote, a pivotal moment and cia director burns saying, on thursday that ukraine could lose the war by the end of the year if it didn t get the funds. so clearly, you can see the urgency sort of ramping up over the last several months as this aid wasn t getting through. so this moment right now is a very significant one for the white house. it s one they had been waiting for for months. you hear it here in the statement by the president so now that he is wealth welcoming this news and the white house press secretary was asked yesterday, how quickly they could get equipment to ukraine once this goes to the proces
but this does send a very strong signal, doesn t it, that the republican party, donald trump s party actually supports ukraine, supports nato, and is shoulder to shoulder with most of the democrats who do the same. that is right. and let s remember the early days of the war where donald trump was still praising vladimir putin. and so did some of his former aides. including mike pompeo when is rumored to be running for president in 2024. praising his intelligence and savviness. no one is doing that. the republican party has come strongly in the other direction. mostly. and it was mostly. mostly. although we should note that the fox tv host we ve mentioned a few times today also said he was rooting for russia. what we re seeing here from republicans is a commitment from mcconnell to help get that aid through. but let s also not forget why the aid wasn t passed last week.