Now on the apple app store, Android M Taylor good morning and welcome to see you im laura walker heres what were working on for you this morning than 95 billion foreign Aid Bill Sales to the senate after clearing the house in a very divided vote. But House Speaker Mike Johnsons job is still left in limbo with a fellow republican Lawmaker Calling for him to resign. And the motion to vacate, picking up steam, and the countrys set to receive the tens of billions of dollars that aid and messages that theyre sending to the lawmakers here in the were gonna have live reports from ukraine and from the middle east plus were just a day away from a sobering moment in us history for the first time a former us president will have to hear openings statements in his criminal trial. What to expect in court tomorrow. And what former president trumps faithful followers are saying about at all and tragedy at a michigan Birthday Party too young siblings are dead and a dozen others are hurt actin accused,
Presents blue carbon natures, hidden power premiers tomorrow night at nine eastern end pacific, only on cnn good morning and welcome to the best de of the week. It is saturday, april 20. Good to have you with us proceed in this morning. Im victor black wash. Just pictures opinion. I love it. Im amara walker. I love my sundays. Heres what were working on for you this morning. Were just hours away from a rare saturday session in congress to pass a critical 95,000,000,000. 04 aid package package backed by Speaker Johnson, but it could cost the republican his speakers gavel for sliding or depending on the democrats for their votes inside the deep divide in house and with The Middle East already on edge after strikes in israel and iran, what were learning about a series of deadly explosions at an iranbacked militia based in iraq. Thats ahead in life report happening today, former President Trump is set to make his First Campaign appearances since a jury was selected in his historic Hush Mon
traditional republican party as opposed to trump i m america first creed so i mean, where does this leave him with the maga supporters and the rest of the republican base i do think you. know you mentioned trump and i do think there was it was very important that trump did not come out specifically against this bill. he is obviously raised questions about how much our european allies are contributing to ukraine s war effort. he is certainly not. he does not see giving additional billions of dollars to ukraine as a priority, but i think the way that trump responded to this package did give johnson some room on this, but we re going to have to see that the reality is that republicans are very divided on this issue. there is a growing isolation is movement that has been driven by the former president and his out buys. there s no question, but there s still are more moderate traditional republican voters who do believe it is
shoulders and we accept that role and let s not forget speaker johnson when he wasn t speaker, he voted against ukraine we know that he s a fierce loyal follower of trump, yet he s, he s clearly not embracing trump s america first creed here. yeah, i think number one, it reflects the fact that representative johnson has now become speaker. johnson and that number one has a new level of responsibility, but number two, there s a new level of education that he has received. he s in these high level security briefings where he s heard things that maybe have shifted his outlook but again, i think part of what he s saying is i can no longer just represent myself for my district. i have to lead a body that ideally wants to get things done and he s talking about history and his role is in history at this very pivotal point internationally. and so he s broken again with kind of