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 representat
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 p
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
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 r
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