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
Taiwan. so what is that message that russia, china, and iran are receiving right now? well, i think it s important to remember that there were four bills. it was a ukraine bill and israel bill, and indo-pacific bill, as well as the bill on tiktok and freezing russia acids. what this is saying to what i would call the authoritarian quarter of a rain russia, north korea, and china. is that the states in italian looking at all of them as one large threat. it s an entity that the democracies of the world are going to push back on.& the us funding in these bills will be a critical part of that all right, retired major general mc ryan joining us from brisbane in australia. thank you very much for your thoughts on all these subjects today. really appreciate it thank you. secretary of state antony blinken and his state department are not losing sight of keeping relations with china s secure. they have been battered in recent years, but both sides trying to make them better and smooth out ten