During the debate, lawmakers in support of the legislation urged their colleagues to swiftly approve the aid, saying time is running out for the ukrainians. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of those to address the house. Vladimir putin has instructed his troops to use rape, kidnapping and murder in front of Family Members as a weapon of war to demoralise the people of ukraine. I hope that our colleagues will choose democracy and decency rather than autocracy and evil. Because i fear that if you choose the putin route, you will have blood on your hands. Blood of the children, blood of their mothers, raped in front of their parents, raped in front of their children. I vote on this and all of the other bills before us today. The only us lawmaker born in ukraine, victoria spartz, a republican representative, who has been known for her staunch support of donald trump, has actually proposed an amendment that reduces military aid for ukraine. She called the package a blank cheque, a narrat
later. thank you for joining us. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. the number of hostages believed to be in gaza has risen, 240. according to the israeli military. this comes as israeli soldiers and tanks push deeper into the gaza strip with prime minister benjamin netanyahu refusing to halt the ground and air assault on hamas. just as the united states would not agree to a cease fire after the bombing of pearl harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, israel will not agree cessation with hamas after the horrific attacks on october 7th. calls for a cease fire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas. hamas has released a hostage video of these three israeli women being held captive. one of them begs netanyahu to secure their release. netanyahu called the video cruel propaganda. troops have been battling terrorist cells armed with
brin: ou happening there right now? just to bring you up-to-date happening there right now? just to bring you up-to-date with - happening there right now? just to bring you up-to-date with where i happening there right now? just to l bring you up-to-date with where we bring you up to date with where we are right now, forgive me for looking after the side because i am just watching the floor of the house right now. we are on the first of five votes today. this one is specifically with regards to immigration, a southern border bill and we are on the amendment stage of that but vote right now. i should stress that this particular vote needs a two thirds majority and it is unlikely to pass right now but you can see that they have still got a few minutes left on the clock right now, having that discussion and voting on the amendments that will be put forward. then what we will be put forward. then what we will see is, similar scenes throughout the course of the next couple of hours. we wi
they passed one conservative wish list bill with cuts for food stamps and meals on wheels. they passed that. but not by much. and not by enough to make john boehner think that he could pass the rest of this supposed plan b thing that he was working on. 22 republicans voted no on their own party s plan. and then the house republicans just suddenly gave up, turned off the lights, and announced they were going home for christmas, they considered themselves to be done. nobody knew this was coming. the republicans had no idea this was coming. speaker boehner issued this statement by way of explanation. he said, the house did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass. this whole episode has been like watching a puppy having a frenetic random action period before collapsing asleep in its own bowl. i mean, it is adorable. it s transfixing. but it is motion without meaning. it is motion without mastery. it s chaos. it is chaos in the
it cuts wall street reform. it gives a pony as a going away present to jim demint and dick armey and grover norquist. it s just a random conservative wish list of stuff republicans like. and that s what john boehner had them doing in the house tonight. it has nothing to do with what they thought was what we all thought was being worked on in washington. the president s not going to sign this thing. he s not even going to have a chance to sign it because it would have to go to the senate and the senate is never even going to look at this, let alone pass it. and it turns out that the house itself, john boehner s house, the thing he is in charge of, couldn t bring itself to vote on it because they were going to lose their own wish list. with food being brought in to the capitol in anticipation of late-night votes tonight, the house unexpectedly went into reset. this was unplanned. they passed one conservative wish list bill with cuts for food stamps and meals on wheels. they passed that