putin's tanks are getting. the question for us is how long is this going to take. the question for them is how much longer can they hold out. we cannot leave them waiting. so i urge my colleagues to support moving forward on these votes. vote to waive the budget point of order and let's keep this bill moving and once we get it through the senate, we're going to push every way we can to get it to the president's desk and signed into law.

for israel, ukraine, and taiwan. this is live coverage on c-span2. >> how many got more than three hours' sleep. raise your hand. well, thank you all who had to stay up. all right. so good morning, everybody and thank you for joining us after a long night. today, after not just a long night and weekend, but after months of work we can say it's been worth it. today we witnessed one of the most historic and consequential bills pass the senate, a bill so greatly impacts not just on national security, not just the security of our allies, but also the security of western democracy as we know it. tonight, finally, america led the way for freedom and democracy and with this bill, the senate declares that american leadership will not

waiver, faulter or fail. today the senate keeps its word to ukrainians in need, desperate need of supplies and ammunition, to innocent palestinians civilians in need, so much need of relief, to israelis in need of support and to u.s. service members on patrol in the indo-pacific, the red sea and around the world. today we sent a clear, bipartisan message of resolve to our allies in n.a.t.o. with the strong, bipartisan vote in the senate, it's clear that if speaker johnson brings this bill to the house floor, it will pass with that same bipartisan support. the responsibility now falls on speaker johnson and house republicans to approve this

bill swiftly. and i call on speaker johnson to rise to the occasion, to do the right thing, bring this bill to the floor. as i said, given the large, robust majority here in the senate, it is clear that if that bill is brought to the floor, our bill is brought to the floor, it will pass. but if the hard right kills this bill, it would be an enormous gift to vladimir putin. it would be a betrayal of our partners and allies and abandonment of our service members and as i said, i believe if this bill is brought to the house floor, it will pass with strong, bipartisan support. there are large numbers of democrats and republicans in the house who know we have to stand up to our responsibilities and aid ukraine. i thank all of my colleagues in

the senate who supported this bill. thank you to senators murray and murphy, sinema and lankford, collins, leader mcconnell as well and thank you to the senators and staff who worked through thanksgiving, christmas, new year's and even the super bowl to get this done. finally. these past few months have been a great test for the u.s. senate to see if we could escape the centrifugal full of partnership and summon the will to defend western democracy and our own country's values when it matters most. today the senate passed that test and makes me proud of the senate. today the senate makes sure that the united states is closer to meeting the monumental and consequential moment that we are in and now it's up to the house to meet

this moment, do the right thing, and save democracy as we know it. questions? we'll take this subject first. ryan, go bills. >> next year. >> you're wearing your ukrainian outfit. mine is on purpose as you can probably tell. >> speaker johnson has already put out a statement great skepticism with the package. will you speak to him directly and if you do talk to him directly, what will your message be? >> my message, i would hope to speak to speaker johnson directly and my message is this is a rare moment where history is looking upon the united states and seeing if we will stand up for our values, stand up to bullies like putin and do the right thing. i will say to speaker johnson, i am confident that there's a large majority in the house who will vote for this bill. i am confident there are many republicans in his caucus.

i know, i've spoken to a whole bunch of them who feel strongly we ought to pass this bill and i will urge speaker johnson to step up to the moment and do the right thing. >> yes. >> do you think it's time for the white house and speaker johnson, and with the-- >> i think the house should pass the senate's bill. it's been through lots of negotiation. it's got a large robust vote, 22 republican votes in the senate, they should pass this bill. >> are you ruling out adding any border security language to this bill, either through amendment in the house or congress negotiation, ruling out anything-- >> look, the bottom line, this bill passed with a majority. and we cannot dither back and

forth. we must pass this bill. we democrats as you know were willing to go steps and a bill supported by the wall street journal editorial page a bill supported by the border patrol union, very much a republican organization, supported by the chamber of commerce and unfortunately too many republicans succumbed to administration of donald trump and too many who said the border is in an emergency. in his own words, crass political purposes, let's delay this for a whole year because it might bring me help in my election, that's not going to wash with the american people. >> would you encourage house democrats and others to discharge petition and if speaker johnson doesn't-- >> i leave that-- i speak regularly to hakeem jeffries, maybe as much, maybe

as much as i spoke with speaker pelosi, and his great help in getting this done. >> this funding, ukraine through the end of the year, how long do you think the u.s. needs to fight ukraine's fight and how do you build a coalition given this took several months to build for the next round of funding? >> i think that the strong vote, particularly on the republican side in the senate, despite the fact that they're, you know, punitive presidential candidate argued so strongly against it gives us more momentum and i think that it will be, if we have to pass future aid to ukraine, it will be easier, not harder, but right now this is a robust package that lasts until the end. year so i'm glad it was full and robust, yes. >> when you come back from recess, it will be a very short period of time until we have government funding deadlines. where does that stand? and what are your thoughts on that. do you think that ukraine aid,

would you like to see that possibly rolled in. >> first, patty murray and susan collins are working as a really good team together. there's broad support in the senate and i believe in the house where we worked with speaker johnson on the last bill, to not shut down the government and fund things. we've done our 302a's, 302b's, and almost as we speak, maybe not early this morning after we were all up last night, but as we speak in day-to-day talk, they're working on getting these bills done. so i'm very optimistic that we can get them done by march 1st. as for adding one they think or another, we'll have to wait and see. the first step, the next step is for the house to bill the house the senate passed. >> former president trump seemed to suggest the other day he might want to see foreign aids be turned to loans and this package would that be a nonstarter? >> look, the house should pass our bill.

it's been through the crucible of four months of negotiations and ups and downs. it passed the crucible on the republican side of almost a majority of republicans, rejecting the results of their punitive presidential candidate. we ought to stick with this bill. i mean, no one even knows how this loan program would work, you know, because donald trump says something off the cuff doesn't mean republicans should march in lock step to do it. >> and polls shows that voters president biden, the state of his memory, you deal with him a lot what is your personal information on that and what about your practical political concerns that he might not be able to get reelected. >> okay, on the first one, i talk to president biden you know, regularly, off, sometimes several times in a week, usually several times in a week. his mental acute is great, it's fine, as good as it's been over the years.

i've been speaking to him for 30 years since we worked on the brady bill and the assault weapons ban when i was a young congressman and he's fine. all of this right wing propaganda that his mental acutety is wrong. he's going to win because of his record, because the americans see the record, the economy is improving, and a large number of republicans fear a donald trump presidency for the future of our democracy. >> last one. >> you talked a little how trump was able to influence or attempt to influence this negotiation, is that something you're expecting to deal with for government funding, everything else this year, the trump factor? >> look, donald trump inserts himself almost always for his own political purposes and it's no way to govern and i think the american people are getting wise to that. thank you, everybody. >> thank