the second amendment, uh, yes, yes, it’s mailer green, our representative from georgia, the most i would say is now a harsh criticism of aid to ukraine, but this amendment is not there at all, there is no way to pass, you know that among the amendments of ms. green, let’s say, replace all numbers of aid to ukraine with zeros, that is, it's just a game like that, mayjory. knows very well that the amendments will not pass, and as you can see, if the victoria sports amendment had some supporters among the republicans, then there is not even a split in half here, the majority of republicans vote against this amendment, and almost all democrats, i wonder who this one democrat who agreed with it, maybe mixed up the button, will say later what is necessary, will say later what is necessary... to withdraw this vote, since we have

this actually happens to the verkhovna rada of ukraine. well, here we also see that the congress has an absolute consensus to reject this amendment, yes, that is, we are actually observing this situation with you now according to the procedure, in 30 seconds it ends, well, i think we see that... and donald trump became more be careful with aid to ukraine, andriy, you see what he said, that he believes that it can be given in the form of a loan, that the united states is not interested in ukraine falling, he also said that, moreover, i told you i will say, mr. vitaly, that this week there was a statement by donald trump, where he said that europe should give more, that the problem is exactly that europe does not add, that is, the rhetoric that ukraine actually... does not need to give, what is needed

is more, but not for us, because here, after all , we need europe to join, and then they will to join the united states of america, that is , the rhetoric has changed, and you said, i absolutely agree with you that most likely the issue here is that the majority of voters, even republicans, they still support ukraine, maybe they do n't an increase in support, presumably among democratic voters in all opinion polls. but at least the majority is in favor of maintaining the current support of the united states of america for ukraine at the current level, and this is already a victory, which is actually the opinion of the voters after all, it influenced even such a person as donald trump. well, you see, by and large, the iranian attack on israel also showed that these are all things that really happen in one thing. that

israeli politicians have already started saying this, and you understand, when this is the next one, the third one was missed for some reason, well, it’s interesting how difficult it is for us to fully understand this procedure, it’s a different law, this legislator from these radical trumpists, taylor could remove her third amendment, after the friend failed. but by the way, we observe here that , nevertheless, among the republicans, the support of mr. kenmick , it is greater than divided, and more support his amendment, but less with the fact that we understand that it will not pass, it will not pass, we are all democrats. vote against,

the republicans are two/thirds in favor, but one third are against, so it is clear that in fact 60% of the house of representatives will vote against this amendment, well, it is interesting that it can be removed your amendment, if you understand that it does not pass, that it does not pass, that you understand the mood of your colleague by one of your amendments, you do not bother them. and again , someone would definitely be scratching their heads, right, vote, vote, yes, here we see the situation, well, 260, even more, 200, almost 300 votes will be against this amendment, so it also does not pass in the you see, unfortunately, we do not know the text of these amendments, it would be interesting to know them so that we understand in general what the democrats can support in such in such a quantity, we will now try

to find out, it would be good, right, because of course it is unprincipled, but just interesting, you know? i wonder what causes such support? well, it was zero, right? yes, the fourth amendment, a chemist, it says to remove all non-military aid to ukraine, but you see, yes, to help only by military means, and it did not pass, well , you see how many republicans supported it, as many as 150 people more. edit number one sports, it had to exclude 8 billion dollars of non-military aid, that is, in fact, it is both of these amendments, and the most, let's put it mildly, inadequate amendment, is ms. mergeriler green, who wanted

to stop aid to ukraine altogether, this is basically, to put it briefly, so that you understand, about that each of these edits is all but a number. yes, it did not pass, but you see that the majority of republicans supported it, this is also an interesting point, of course, it is not fundamental for us now, even if this non-military aid was withdrawn, well, that would be bad, but it is not fundamentally, but it is interesting from the point of view of the section of this electoral electoral and the section of understanding how and which point of view. republicans have, and maybe, maybe, where ukraine needs to work, and with whom we need to work in the future in order to convince, support ukraine more. do you remember when they talked about the fact that our people's deputies should travel and should

meet with congressmen and senators, then this is very important for us, our legislators, to understand what is needed. i understand that this is also to remove some documents, these are already all the amendments, as i understand it, voted, so now the law must be voted, but the amendment does not pass, by the way, how much is needed, it is just a majority. what happens as a result? oh, one more blow and one more announcement of the law,

as far as i understand, this is already a law, so this is already the final vote on our ukrainian issue. this is just being announced, this is the name of the law, and now we will see it, the voting procedure itself, you see, the house of representatives works like a clock, just concretely, everyone knows their function, their place, three strokes. at the same time, it cannot be said that everyone is sitting still. this, as i said, is the configuration for a feature film,

not for parliament. people behave differently. democracy, it is like that, well, yes, like that. no, not everyone should sit like in. the state duma of the russian federation, yes, where no one, where no one goes anywhere, or in the so-called parliament of belarus, people approach, have their own points of view, we can see some flaws in this, but we understand that such flaws are better than than what has than what is in authoritarian states, in which in principle. voting does not exist as such.

the law is voted ukrainian. well, in 5 minutes we will find out everything, yes, as far as i understand, this is not a law. so what? is this a deviation of something? that is, it is still up for voting according to the law, right? no, unfortunately, we haven't heard, it's just that, what they said, what they said so, the representatives of the congress, and accordingly we can only agree, this is a procedural vote on this law, right? yes, that is, they must logically fail

this procedural vote in order to directly to proceed to the vote, 3 minutes, yes 50, seconds before completing this procedural vote, and then , accordingly, there will probably be a transition to... our ukrainian draft law, by the way, we can observe the same way, you see on on their screens, that in fact, the majority of republicans also vote for the failure of this, this, this procedure, the absolute majority of democrats 2203 already vote also for failure, 71 republicans vote. for carrying out this procedure after all, and this is most likely

plus or minus will correspond to the number of votes for our ukrainian draft law, that's it. the self-formulation of this, of this procedure, is interesting, this is a re-vote, in fact, it is a re-vote, but we have to explain it now, probably to our viewers, what it is in general, it is the last opportunity of the minority to make changes to the draft law before its final adoption. that is, now it is voted whether someone else can make any changes, and if the majority votes that they cannot,

then all amendments end there, this is the essence of this, this procedure, in fact, now we will see. well, that is, you can not look at it, there are already 340 votes against making any new changes to this legislation, there will be another vote, yes we are. unfortunately, we may not have time to finish our broadcast, we have such

a strange conversation today, of course, but i think that now it is important not so much to talk, but to watch the congressmen, we see that... so what does this mean that after this vote, the vote for the law itself will obviously begin, and we can see the number of those who vote for it to be voted for now, 336 votes, this means that and when they will start voting. for the law itself, there will be such a figure, so now, we will now, now we will

hear the translation of what is happening in the house of representatives with you, so we will switch to a live broadcast so that you can already see this historical moment as it is happening, now we are coming back on the fact that... for 5 minutes in order to specifically vote on this same project 8035, the project is being voted on: aid to ukraine, well, you can see, 5 minutes to vote, a lot, friends,

we are now seeing a historic vote if we can get the numbers themselves back. this vote, let's go back to the screen, but we will comment on what is happening, so if you now, i hope, now you will see the vote on your screens, you can see it, so now the decisive vote for aid to ukraine, which ukrainians have been waiting for , is taking place it's been six months since the president of the united states, joe biden , requested additional funding for ukraine, and we can already see that this the bill passes the house of representatives, the vote is not yet complete, but... look at the numbers: 275 votes in favor, now 98 against. in order for this bill to pass, a simple majority is needed, which is a little more than 218 votes, 281, 282 , 4, 5, we already see that this draft law is being approved, but we will, of course, summarize it with our colleagues, so now we are waiting for 3

minutes to the end, but everything looks like the ukrainian draft law is being approved by the chamber. representatives, yes, we see that on there are ukrainian flags in the congress, marcy kaptur, other representatives who are part of the ukrainian support group in the congress are waving ukrainian flags, expressing, expressing their support for ukraine and the mood, festive, we see that those who support ukraine are really smiling, congressman. ukrainian flags are still being handed out to us, that is , of course, there is hope, there are still 2.5 minutes, a little more until the end of the vote, but we can already see that the congressmen have risen from their seats and are approaching the rostrum, everyone is already talking and sharing their impressions, this is really

such a solemn day, a solemn moment, that congressmen have been talking about since the beginning. who called it a historical moment and pointed to the role of the usa in supporting ukraine in the face of russian aggression. friends, this is actually a very important point, the last time the house of representatives approved aid to ukraine in 2022, at the end of the year, if you remember, look at this footage, look at this footage, it's footage of american lawmakers, with ukrainian flags, and the numbers that you see now on the screen, by 310. votes, against 111 votes, 310 votes - this is already much more than the minimum required for this bill to pass the house of representatives, so it is not official yet, but we can say that the bill on aid to ukraine passes the house of representatives, very long work, extraordinary, long work to get this

bill approved, work went on from the ukrainian side, from... american friends of ukraine, from legislators, from europeans who came here to actually lobby for it question, but you can see that it worked, and finally, after a six-month pause, the house of representatives of the american congress approves, it already looks like the bill on additional funding for ukraine will be approved. friends, i just invite you to look at this moment, please be quieter. we remind the members of congress that we need to finish the vote in 45 seconds, reminds the presiding officer that we need to finish, there are still 30 seconds left, but you can already see the emotions in the very house of representatives, and we

we see, when the camera shows the congressmen, then in fact the congress hall is in yellow and blue colors... almost all of them have ukrainian flags, they are waving them, marci kaptor raised this flag above her head, oksana, look, there are 7 seconds left, come on, let's listen, let's listen , what is happening now is direct speech, oh speaker johnson comes to the podium. do you hear the ovations of duguka, greetings? friends, the bill on aid to ukraine has been approved. house of representatives, now it's official, and now we 're waiting, you see mike johnson, the speaker of the house of representatives, now on the podium, we expect him to speak, we expect

now to make the official announcement of the moment you've all been waiting for. and please, you practically do not have the right to use the flags of other countries in the voting hall, please take them away. please order, has everyone voted, or does

anyone want to change how they voted. and in this, at the moment, 311 voted for, 112 against, one abstained, which means that the draft law has been adopted, please be quieter. please be quieter, but the head wants to remind that, unfortunately, our regulations do not

allow the use of flags of different countries at the meeting in the hall, please, the gentleman from florida wants to propose something for what purpose, this is the lady from florida. wants to propose something, and the chairman does not support the new proposal, but please be in order, observe order, all deputies must obey the rules to the speakers, a warning to the speakers, they must... turn to the chairman, now we will vote on another bill, which was not voted on, house bill 8034. clerk

now reading the title of this bill, the bill on the provision of additional security assistance to israel, which will be in effect until the end of the fiscal year of september 2024, well, congratulations , andria, so congratulations and congratulations to everyone. ukrainians, all the people who support our country, and thank you, thank you to the congressmen, thank you to all the democrats and those republicans who voted, after all, how many, six months, almost six months, dragged on with this law or with these similar bills, and fortunately, you have already voted, so congratulations once again, it's real today is a day that... without exaggeration can be considered extremely important for our country and for the entire world community, you saw, you saw how the congressmen were with

ukrainian flags, that was also a very interesting moment, but it was also very interesting for me moment, absolutely incredible, which is connected with the fact that republicans, the majority of republicans voted against this bill. yes, that is, even, it can be said, this is the real defeat of the speaker michael johnson, not even, not even 50 by 50, as we just discussed with you and thought or even hoped that it would be possible for a majority of republicans and a minority to be against, but unfortunately we have what we have and that's really what's a little sad, well at least it shows how there is a mood of the republican party, the republican party is split around the ukrainian question, but we are now watching the vote in support of israel, there is no such problem there. republicans and democrats vote almost synchronously, indeed there is some number

of democrats who do not support. this bill, but it is small, it is not what happened in the faction of the republican party, this is also such a moment, but we have to say right away, this vote is not over yet, it will continue for 3 minutes, but its results already show that the entire package of bills proposed by mike johnson has been voted on and will be sent to the united states senate. er , in the next few hours, and if the senators decide to vote tomorrow, then in principle this bill on support for ukraine can be approved tomorrow and signed by president joseph biden on monday, if the senators don't get it done before their recess, then it will happen a week from the 29th april 29th comes back and then he votes on

it. on the 29th and 30th of april, this decision will be made, what is the meaning of the senate vacation, why can they still work tomorrow and work until monday evening, we also have to explain this, because pesach begins on the evening of the 22nd, the jewish passover, as a rule , congressmen there respect their colleagues. which celebrate this day, and therefore in jewish religious holidays, as well as christian holidays, on such major holidays, congress suspends its work, but fortunately it will not happen until after sunset on april 22, since there are practically two working days, sunday and monday, if chuck schumer has his way, chuck schumer is the first

jew. the speaker, the majority leader in the senate of the united states of america, so this is his holiday, also what kind, and he can definitely say to himself, you know, let's go to the holiday, we will work, and by the way, we already have to state that the aid to israel is also as of now voted, therefore, therefore, therefore, it is also very important for the world community in general. because it demonstrates that one of the, shall we say, the main hegemons, dominant states, democracies in the world, the united states of america did not make a mistake and followed the path it should have followed last fall, and in fact all four bills at the moment, so we welcome you, our dear viewers,

it's a pleasure to be with you in these minutes in these... live broadcast with you to see how this law was voted on, we expected this vote seven months in a row, we will now hope with you that this vote will change the situation at the front, it will at least create serious problems for the russians regarding their intentions to attack ukrainian positions there, it will change the situation in the macroeconomic sector of ukraine, you see, we wanted to suppress it somehow , but it didn't work out, and you and i will hope that this to... help will be quickly approved, i want to thank all those who were with us along with this broadcast, thank you, thank you, thank you vitaly portnikov, once again greetings to all ukrainians, of all citizens of ukraine, all those who supported us, the saturday political club, we were live and followed this historic event, discussed all the most important events of this week. thank you and

see you soon. a week, goodbye, good luck, victory to you and glory to ukraine. greetings to all viewers of espresso, i'm anyavamelnik, and it's time to learn about the main news of the hour. in odesa , an explosion rang out during the alarm, according to the correspondents of the public service. the air force warned of the threat of a ballistic strike, and the head region oleg kiper urged people to stay in shelters. two people were injured as a result of the morning attack in kherson, the military administration of the region told...