republicans who are refusing to take action on an issue they clapriority. and asked the question whether they re smart enough to get away with it, which i actually, you know, started thinking over the past couple days. you ve got all of these republicans who are following this guy from louisiana, who just sort of stumbled into the speakership and doesn t seem to be that effective. this guy is now putting around the republican s political neck an open border for the next eight months and all that that brings, the collapse of ukraine, to former soviet kgb agent s invasion, and the refusal to fund israel in its time of need. so you have all of these republicans in the house, a lot of them who want to do the right thing but they re blindly following this young, inexperienced speaker who is blindly following there you go. a guy with 91 counts against him. that s the important point right there. yes, it s speaker johnson voicing this, but he is a vessel for what donald
says will quote, end a painful chapter. the new details on the tentative but huge civil settlement between doj and victims of the 2017 sutherland springs church mass shooting. why intelligence officials are keeping a close eye on russia and china right now after trump s indictment what they re trying to stop from happening. and republican house speaker kevin mccarthy threatens alvin bragg with action on the hill. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments i want to go first to nbc s ali vitali who has been following the threats from house republicans against bragg. we heard what donald trump had to say last night with alvin bragg, now speaker mccarthy is jumping in what s his angle. reporter: look, for mccarthy, it s more of what we have seen from him even before the trump indictment became official, we watched mccarthy mobilize here on the hill three powerful committee chairman from oversight, judiciary, and administration, all asking alvin bragg
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
at this hour, president zelenskyy is in washington pushing for critical aid for his country s existential fight against russia. his visit capped off by a meeting at the white house with president biden. in a few minutes the two leaders will hold a press conference. we ll bring you that live when it happens. we begin with a stunning revelation by the special counsel jack smith in the federal election interference trial. for the first time, the special counsel s office says it has data from donald trump s cellphone, and they plan to show how trump used his phone in the days and weeks after the election, including on january 6th. in a court filing last night previewing expert testimony, the prosecutors plan to bring to the case, jack smith says he plans to call to the stand an expert who extracted and reviewed data from trump s phone and the phone of another individual who s currently unidentified. special counsel said the expert will, quote, testify that he or she analyzed da
Them for the last three months. Four months, five months. And theyre still here. Theyre still here. Meanwhile, bipartisan efforts to Shield Mueller and his investigation are moving forward in the senate, interestingly enough after much delay. Today republican Chuck Grassley, the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary committee announced his panel will vote on a bill to protect mueller potentially as soon as tomorrow. That puts grassley on a direct Collision Course with the Senate Majority leader who says he will not advance the bill to a final vote. Theres no indication that mueller is going to be fired. I dont think the president is going to do that. Obviously a number of your colleagues fear it enough to say it should be in there. Im the one who decides what we take to the floor. Thats my responsibility as the majority leader. Well not be having this on the floor of the senate. Its possible mcconnell doesnt read the New York Times which reported on two separate occasions when the pre