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
Backbencher representing 700,000 people on the wheezy anna, now i am representing the house of representatives, 435 people the country and i have to look at this through a different lens. and he s also you all know a man of faith and by all accounts, he, he, he, part of this process was he sat down any prayed and he said & the decision came after after that that process. and he really went out on a limb here because there s a lot of angry conservatives including the previous mentioned two who want to boot him from office, right? ron, how damaging do you think it was? two johnson that now this ukraine aid has gone through, but there s nothing on the border yeah, i ve looked that was their choice. right. i mean, you know the senate bill that included the border provisions was simply enforcement. i mean, i ve been covering immigration debate since the 1990s and every time
This is really just puts off the reckoning that is coming about aid to israel. they were not that many democrats god s willing to vote against the israeli aid package. but on may 8, when even distraction is required to report to congress whether israel is using the arms in accordance with international law and allowing international aid in. i think you re going to see a lot of pushback from democrats about continuing to do transfer offensive weapons as opposed to defense weapons to israel mike, in terms of mike johnson s fate, what did you make of congresswoman marjorie taylor greene? not pushing the motion to vacate today instead, saying, i m going to let constituents speak to their representatives. i m going to let these representatives go home and here from their voters, were you surprised by that, right? it was fascinating because you know, for for weeks, she said she introduced this motion to vacate it happened right after the last government spending bill and she said at the
Included border security measures which did not get voted through today. so to what extent is this a win for democrats politically well, i think that s a win for democrats because they ve been pushing for this for so many months biden has been pushing it. schumer has been pushing at jefferies, have been pushing it you know, they are three liters. and they see this as a direct threat not only to ukraine but to the national security interests of the united states. and putin s, they want to stop putin where he is and not allow him to to move further into europe. it is a it s an argument that resonates not only with democratic voters, but with a lot of conservatives. so they see it as i as a bipartisan victory. it put john mike johnson in a tough spot when he said no, i m not going to do it johnson has shifted. he has reversed. he had voted against every ukraine bill until he took until he took the speaker s gavel. and then when you started seeing some of the intel behind closed doors,
Johnson should be gone. she needs the support that she doesn t have right now. right? that s why we have not seen that resolution refer to those voters ron, how do you think this plays out in the campaign trail? i mean, traditionally foreign policy isn t really a deal breaker or has a major impact on presidential politics. but you ve got a lot of democrats were questioning support for israeli got a lot republicans questioning support for ukraine, house, this can impact the race i think the fractures that i talked about before really do have electoral implications the internationalists wing of the republican party, the voters not only the elected officials, but among the voters, is now the minority and there are just under half of republican voters who say polling from the chicago council on global affairs at the us should continue to take an active role in international affairs. they also tend to be the same kind of voters who are rally to nikki haley, you know, kind of white-collar su