this is cnn news central. defense secretary lloyds atin, and secretary of state tony blinken is on capitol hill right now, and the goal and the mission for them today is to make the case to lawmakers for president biden s $106 billion ask for an aid package that he wants in order to support both ukraine and israel, two nations at war, two allies of the united states. but what has happened is protests. blinken interrupted multiple times by people protesting, angry over israel s action in ga gaza. cease-fire now! cease-fire now! cease-fire now. sasha bertrand is tracking hearing for us and joining us again, and they have essentially been able to make the opening statements and to the questions from the senators, and what is the case they are making for the aid package? well, kate, one of the big themes that we are hearing from secretary blinken and acetin is that the wars that ukraine and israel are fighting is inextricably linked and you can t divorce the two in a
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