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
Maneuvering is that they are the minority in the party and that their views are not going to be reflected in the dominant direction of the republican party. and it kind of adds another account to the question of whether they feel that they will stay in the republican party going forward and then on the other side, as you note, i wrote in last week that i if you look at all the dimensions public opinion in congressional resistance & public activism, i think biden is facing more resistance in the democratic coalition to his support for netanyahu in the gaza war than any democratic president has faced for a foreign policy decision of their own since vietnam, iraq was a foreign policy decision by a republican president that also split democrats. and i don t think becabetter if you look at the campus controversies that we re seeing literally from coast to coast to colombia to usc biden has a problem in his coalition here, a clear majority of democrats, democratic voters now oppose sending m