for current military operations in the region in response to recent attacks. i m going to ask all of you to stay with us as we wrap up one hour. we will start another one right now. will start another one righ now. a very good day to you. it is top of the hour on the east coat. welcome to alex witt reports. we have ben following breaking news the last few minutes, all unfolding on capital held in a rare saturday session. the house has approved tens of billions in aid for ukraine. lawmakers waving ukraine s national flag on the house floor minutes ago. there are numerous votes happening today on critical foreign aid. the house has also passed more than $8 billion in aid to taiwan and the indo pacific. up next, what we are watching underway right now is billions more in aid which i have articulated the details of. it will be going to israel. i will bring in nbc political reporter sahil kapur and staying with us is aaron gilchrist and peter baker. sahil, so far, have there be
trump testify. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. opening statements come monday morning. in the first ever criminal prosecution of an american president, donald trump has said multiple times that he will take the stand a week ago, friday at mar-a-lago, he was asked by reporters there s whether he would testify testifying. i tell the truth. i mean, all i can do is tell the truth and the truth is that there s no case they have no case he repeated that plan yesterday outside the new york city courthouse where he s being tried. of course, just because he says he will testify, doesn t make it. so it s not required to testify in his civil fraud trial last year. he said the same thing before he was scheduled to take the stand for a second time, only to cancel the day before yesterday at his so-called sandoval hearing, trump was put on notice of the prosecution s desire to cross-examine him. if he does testify on several specific matters, including the verdict in his civil frau
hostages. but doha is now also questioning whether the talks can succeed. the qatari leader saying efforts are being undermined, causing his country to reassess its role as mediator. take a listen. translation: unfortunately, i mean, we have seen - that there s been an abuse of this mediation in favour of narrow political interests. this means that the state of qatar has called for a comprehensive evaluation of this role. we re now at this stage to evaluate mediation and also evaluate how parties engage in this mediation. tensions in the region remain high, with israel s prime minister insisting his country will make its own decisions about how to respond to iran s drone and missile attack. israel s western allies fear striking back against iran could trigger a broader war. with me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. thank you for coming along. what kind of response when it comes to what you ranted to israel is israel considering? apparently israel is about to strike on iran dir
my dearest martha, wow. today we fought at gettysburg. it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and so beautiful in so many ways. but all worth it to protect every person, woman, man, camera, and future tv. for as it says in the declaration of independence, all men are endowed with certain rights that are unaddlinable, unbabble, forget it. i m dead. oh, my, pretty good. the original, though, how can you top the original? donald trump s speech, wow. i don t know. it was so interesting. so wow. who says that? it was so much. so much. then he i go to watch. i don t know what to say about it. i go there to watch. wow. so much. what s going through his mind? not much. but president biden is incognitive decline. i mean, the argument is the president can t talk his way out of a paper bag. watch any donald trump rally. yeah, there s just no there s no comparison on any of these fronts. he s just rambling. i mean, i guess, i guess, jo