factors in play, demographic factors, the pandemic through a hammer in everything. i think if they say, look, here s what we know, here s what we don t know and we re doing the best we can, i think that s trust building. any one of the cross currents in the global economy now would be newsworthy and unsetting. and there are many. and coming out of this pandemic, we tried to measure the economy, is it recession, maybe not recession. we re just trying to get back to normal at this point. we re still reacting to a pandemic, and trying to figure out where we go from here. fair question about what would be normal in 2022 and going forward because i think another thing he has to address, and you talk about this, is possible we re just in a different era, that the u.s. economy and the world economy is moving to a new place where, you know, we can t expect 30 years of low, really low interest rates. i totally agree with that. i ve been writing that for some time. i have a new b
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
voting has ended for the fourth and final of the foreign aid packages as of today s very rare saturday session, there in us house of representatives. and you look at the toll those 366258 in favor of passage of this 26 israel aid package, 17 billion of it would go to offensive and defensive weapons for israel, 9 billion in humanitarian an aid for gaza. of course, we still have to hear them officially say that this has been passed, but manu raju, back with this, they re outside outside there on capitol hill. they have four items today to accomplish. checkmark on three of them. you ve got to national security aid package that s been approved the ukraine package approved and money for the indo-pacific region and allies that of a taiwan as well so this seemingly was embraced by a majority. they re just looking at the tally this was to be expected for israel package yeah, there was still some opposition and then as you say, it looks like this vote is not yet finalized yet. i m
house lawmakers moments ago passed foreign aid bills to support ukraine and taiwan. right now voting is underway on aid to israel. but at any moment the house and may vote on a measure calling for the house speaker s job over that aid to ukraine. what hello everyone welcome to fox s life i arthel neville. bill: i m bill melugin peru got a lot going on today eric shawn is on assignment let s get right to it with chad pergram. he s joining us live on capitol hill. what is going on? works what is going on over the past couple of minutes very busy. right now they are passing the bill to aid israel. this is a final vote in the series a few minutes ago. they approved $61 billion to ukraine. you had a lot of democrat supporters waving ukrainian flags on the house floor. that is against a quorum. they were admonished by mark who is a republican from new york who was presiding. 366 devoted to getting close to this not that many days of the board 58 but there are a lot more republica
on the last day of this parliament before the general election and june the 8th. coming up, condemnation from labour on the government s brexit strategy. is not the truth that, far from uniting this country, this tory government and its ministers have been dividing it since they took office? but the brexit secretary says, out in the country, there is huge support for theresa may s approach. massive respect for our prime minister, and a belief that she will deliver the best outcome in bracts in negotiations. the government faces more questions over taking child refugees, and parliament comes to a close with the traditional ceremony of pro rich in. as the last two pieces of legislation finish their passage through parliament. but first, theresa may called the election arguing she needed a strong hand in the uk s brexit negotiations. eu ministers are due to meet in luxembourg over the weekend to hammer out their final negotiating position. on wednesday, theresa may met the europ