Turning to the scalpel to trim the out-of-control population. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from washington with adriana diaz. i m nancy cordes. adriana is off. tonight, after six months of wrangling, the house has passed $95 billion in aid for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. it now heads to the senate. the hold-up was the funding for ukraine, which the white house says is crucial to help that country repel the ongoing russian invasion. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy expressed his thanks to congress on social media today. fewer than half of all house republicans, though, voted for that funding, and now some of them are threatening to oust one of their own, house speaker mike johnson, for allowing that vote in the first place. natalie brand has been covering all of it on capitol hill and joins us now.
It, but that would be an instance in which certainly he would not be on the table for contempt of congress charges. that is a good faith sort of immunity defense to being able to testify. however, i would note that it s not just a blanket. he couldn t say i m going to take the fifth amendment and not show up. you have to use a scalpel with these types of assertions with privilege and things like that. he would have to show up to the deposition and answer by answer, question by questions say i ve been instructed to take fifth amendment. he can t just say fifth amendment i m not showing up. how serious are these tax charges he s facing and will be, you know, in court facing tomorrow? they re very serious. i ll remind people that just last june he was offered two misdemeanors and no time meaning probation, and he was offered no prosecution of the gun case. so they re very serious, but just six months ago the government was offering him misdemeanors. it s a very serious indictment. g
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