Before go to harrys. Com slash a shave to claim your 7 trial im pete muntean at Reagan National airport. This is cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt and washington. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin with a pivotal vote on capitol hill after months of delays and political wrangling rare saturday session today, house lawmakers passed a 95 billion foreign aid package for israel, ukraine, and taiwan. Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was finally able to advance the bills through congress with the help and must be noted of democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners his party of threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his speakership the senate is now set to take up that aid package on tuesday, President Biden now urging senators to send the legislation to his desk quickly so that he can sayyed them into law, quote right away. Lets get straight to our correspondence in both jerusalem and kyiv two countries set to benefit directly
European commanding places throughout your little being planing on a very quick injection and once this bill was play. so we should see that moving quickly. but more importantly, it provides a beat morale boost for ukrainian citizens and for their soldiers on the front line they know that aid is on the way and that will help where we saw the russians take the town of avdiivka, an eastern ukraine and that s just one example of where russia has been able to progress in the past few months how do you think ukraine has been directly impacted as us lawmakers were going back and forth about what to do well, it certainly had a significant impact on frontline soldiers. great shortfalls of artillery munitions is one of your previous speakers, noted general cobolli and europe recently stated that the russians will probably double their overmatched will be attend to one without significant help. but also it s resulted in a shortfall in a defense missiles over cities, but also over the front l