alvarez, i will have reaction from the white house, but let's get started on capitol hill with cnn's lauren fox, lauren, i mean, the votes there now official and how are people reacting overall on the hill yeah. >> i mean, this was such a long time coming for montse administration has been imploring lawmakers on capitol hill to take action. the senate took action months ago, and it was really unclear if the house specifically speaker mike johnson was ever going to bring this package to the floor when he finally unveiled the package earlier this week, it looked so similar to what already had passed. united states senate. the biggest difference here of course, is the fact that it was really split into three separate parts. it's those bills will now be bundled together, sent to the united states senate. we expect that that process will get underway next week, but it's also just important to point out here there are so many lawmakers who were watching the newly minted speaker wondering what he would ultimately do. knowing that his job was potentially on the line if he took out action and many of th

lauren fox up on capitol hill for us on this very big day. thank you very much, lauren. let's get reaction from jerusalem and ukraine. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is in kyiv, ukrainian capital, and our senior diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us from jerusalem. fred, first to you. >> this aid has been long-delayed by the house has passed by the senate back in february. now, you've got these thanks pouring in from ukrainian officials, including president zelenskyy. i know you've been speaking with ukrainian officials. you've talked about the relief. but is there any concern there about how late this is coming? >> well, i think there's certainly a lot of concern about how late this is coming. and certainly one of the things alex, that the ukrainians have been saying at this process was going on. i can tell you, i've been i've been reporting on the delays in this aid package since september of last year when the ukrainians already back then were saying that the amount of artillery shells goals that they had was starting to run low and thin

but in the meantime, cnn's lauren fox is up on capitol hill for us. lauren does this create more headaches for house speaker mike johnson? sorry, i think i know the answer to that. and does this episode raised the question, who's in charge up on capitol hill? >> yeah, if it's a day that ends and why there's some chaos happening, especially in the house of representatives, gym and you are highlighting one of the biggest issues for my johnson right now, which is this slim majority that he has, which means every single vote, even the procedural ones like we saw yesterday on the house floor are very difficult to get across the finish line. now, there were 19 republicans who voted against advancing this legislation yesterday. it wasn't just one or two. it wasn't just a matter of twisting one or two arms. it is very clearly the a problem within his conference. now, we are getting new reporting this morning that mike johnson is optimistic that they can go back to the house rules committee try to rework this process restructuring in order to quell some of the

it's due to expire a week from now, cnn's lauren fox is up on capitol hill for us. he latest >> yeah, so just a few minutes ago, house were able to pass that rule that 48 hours ago was a major stumbling block for the house speaker. they made a significant change in this legislation in that it now reauthorize is the foreign intelligence surveillance act for two years rather than five years. that was a major victory for some hardliners who are looking at the november election, optimistic that former president donald trump could win again be in the white house and then be in a position to make additional changes to this legislation. going forward. now, this procedural cool actually passed on the floor. the next question, of course, will underlying bill passed? there is a series of amendment votes that will begin in around 11:45 a.m. this morning depending on what happens with those votes including one amendment in particular to add a warrant requirement to spying on any americans that get swept up in fisa data collection that amendment is key because if it gets included

lauren fox on capitol hill. thank you. you very much. there. that >> was quite a statement, john. all right. tomorrow we'll get a closer look at all of this when speaker johnson heads to florida to meet with president donald trump, cnn's steve contorno is joining us now. steve, what are the details of this meeting? >> well, on paper, they are there to talk about election integrity. one of the pet topics and infatuation of donald trump, and they will hold a press conference. where were they will show alignments on this issue. but obviously the timing of this is notable given everything that the speaker is facing back in washington dc and also we're that heat is coming from it's coming from a specifically representative, marjorie taylor greene, who is someone who has closely aligned with the former president, now allies for johnson had been working behind the scenes, trying to get donald trump to support speaker johnson, or at least stay out of the way but obviously he's still meddling in some of these issues with ukraine funding with the fisa wreath authorization. >> and as we >> h

lauren fox and i don't mean that to be cruel.'t been able to count on many of these belts going at lauren fox. thank you very much. sarah. >> all right. with us now is cnn political commentator and host of pbs firing line margaret hoover and cnn political commentator extraordinaire cupp, sorry, i'm to start with you, margaret this is really remarkable. what does it tell you that speaker johnson is having to show members of congress classified material as they argue over whether push through this fisa bill i'm showing them how important it says after you've already heard the fbi thing, this tool is so significant that not having it could put america endanger. >> there's an entirely new crop of republicans who are in the house of representatives who haven't had to look at a stone called reality of the aftermath of nine, 11 and how many me terrorist attacks on this country were prevented because of this tool there's, it's shocking, also worth noting that mike johnson probably go to been one of the people being shown that classified

lauren fox. thank you so much for your reporting. their john all right. with us now, is congresswoman anna paulina luna, a republican from florida congresswoman. thank you so much for being with us. let's just do a bit of a whip count here. if we can, as things stand this morning how will you vote on aid to ukraine as of right now, i'm not going to be voting for the rule and i would like to point out that the previous commentator you're actually brought up a serious question on. well, this actually benefit the world and i think it's important for the american people to know that within this package that they're trying to bring to the floor, there's actually funding of both sides of what's happening in israel as well as with hamas. and i simply can't get behind that. but as far as it goes with the rule and i know that she just had addressed whether or not there would be something within the actual legislation that would have a motion to vacate. i would urge the speaker not to change that, and i also so know that there are democrats that will also not suppo

now cnn, congressional correspondent, lauren fox. lauren, those are some really nasty strong words and i know a top republican, it's called her a member of the chaos caucus what's the speaker gonna do about this >> yeah. i mean, she may be a member who is on the fringes of her party when it comes to wanting to oust speaker mike johnson. but here's the problem for the speaker. it's such a narrow majority right now among house republicans that any one member has excised power here. and what you're peering for marjorie taylor greene, is the idea of doing anything on ukraine could potentially trigger her decision to go ahead and try to oust the speaker. our colleague, manu raju, caught up with marjorie taylor greene yesterday over the phone, and she said one of the most egregious things that mike johnson could do right now is to go ahead and try to bring forward aid to ukraine. here's what she said it looks like we don't have that site right now, sarah. but one thing to keep in mind here is the fact that she is arguing that she's not sayi

cnn's lauren fox reports on the chaos here on capitol hill this aid package dividing conservatives, but an overwhelming vote in the house of representatives to pass additional aid for ukraine. >> israel, and the indo-pacific. now this package of bills heads to the united states senate, where we expected key vote to begin on tuesday de now the question becomes, what is speaker mike johnson future after this vote, it became clear that conservatives are still deeply frustrated with mike johnson. and despite the fact that marjorie taylor greene did not take steps in order to try to oust the speaker on saturday, it remains very clear that this is something that is looming over johnson in the weeks ahead meanwhile, you had other republicans mainly some of the key chairman and defense hawks in the house, who were applauding johnson's actions, despite the fact that he was under threat under scrutiny from conservatives, he decided to move forward with this package for additional funding thing for ukraine representative mike mccall saying that this was a defining moment for the new speaker you sh

over their opposition to sending more aid to you crane, let's go to capitol hill now with cnn's lauren fox lauren, this continues to develop really by the minute today, what's the latest right now yeah, all eyes are on that very important house rules committee meeting. this is typically the first step, jessica, and it usually doesn't get that much attention because it it's not typically this controversial, but in this congress with this republican majority, the rules and what happens to them are very important here. and that is because there are a number of republicans on that committee who have already said that they will not support the rule moving forward, that means the democrats are going to have to help in some way if this package is going going to advance. now, democrats have made clear that they do view this ukraine package. israel package, taiwan package as essential to not just the us but globally security. and that they want to take some steps, but precisely what that looks like still has yet to unfold. meanwhile, there are also questions on whether or not changes to what is kno

cnn's lauren fox on capitol hill, also cnn's kristen holmes is in west palm beach, florida. lauren, i wanted to start with you speaker johnson travels to florida. he's going to stand side-by-side with trump, but it's kind of a delicate time for him to do so, right >> yeah. it's a delicate time, perhaps it but perhaps it's also the best time for him to do this as there were a lot of questions swirling around whether or not he is going to continue to keep his speaker's gavel as he continues to try to pass several priorities in the next couple of weeks, what we are seeing today is this fight over fisa, the federal intelligence surveillance act renewal happening on capitol hill. and just a few hours ago even before this votes starting, you saw marjorie taylor greene. you can see are there on the bottom left of your screen width speaker mike johnson, they had this very lengthy you back and forth. it's unclear precisely what they were talking about, but i asked johnson about it later and said, you know, wishy applying pressure to you. what was she trying to ask? for >> any said tha

. >> cnn's lauren fox. is there. lauren, tell us about this foreign aid package and house speaker johnson's gop critics are reacting to this plan. this is all unfolding in real time to yeah, exactly. jessica, a busy day on capitol hill. we just got that bill text not too ng ago and it is essentially lookg lot,ike e nate bill, t only in thre different parts. there ia component of ts that it providesid to ukraine, a proponent thatncdes aid to israel and a component that includes aid to the indo-pacifegion. but altogether, that fding adds to about 95 billion. there is one small change in that about 10 billion of th funding actually a repayable loan to ukraine. there ia catch though the president ia couple of years, i can forgive that loan entirely. buthat was t in there because the loan ia was something that former president donald trump had suggested that he would be supportive of. meanwhile, a lot arliners very sappointed in speaker joson. many of them not ing quite as far as marjorie taylor gree and threatening his jo

hour, the house voting right now on a modified fisa bill, let's go straight to capitol hill and lauren fox for the very latest lauren >> hi, brianna. yeah. they are just in the midst of voting on this final version of the bill. but a couple of things have unfolded. in the last half an hour. one of them is that a key amendment that was really important to some of those hard line republicans failed. they'd failed on a ti, the vote was serenely close, 212 to 212. so what you were seeing play out on the floor, right now is a vote on the underlying bill. the final version of this legislation that does not include an amendment that was very important to some of those conservatives that would have required a warrant. >> even >> american citizens sam was picked up in some of those dragnet searches that are part of the federal intelligence surveillance act, section 702. so right now, what you're for seeing as many more democrats voting for this legislation, then republicans, of course, there are some democrats who are on the side of the privacy concerns that hardline republican pins but this is a v

lauren fox, thank you very much. let's discuss that and more now, a cnn senior political commentator in navarro and cnn, a little bit commentator, maria cardona, i do want to talk about my johnson. i do want to talk about donald trump in a moment, but anna, can i go to you first and let me just ask you, do you buy with this congressman from michigan is saying when he says, oh, i wasn't really talking about you know hiroshima and nagasaki when he when he drops those names in, that comment it's unreal >> hiroshima and nagasaki or not. it's not something that's to be left to the interpretation, right? we all know what it was >> and you know, i often see this the session going on in the democratic party about this in the question i asked democrats war expressing discontent with a biden administration on the issue of gaza. and i think they have a right to express that discontent. but the question is, do you think helping people like that congressman or helping donald trump get an office is going to do anything to help the

. >> let's go straight to cnn's lauren fox lauren. when the speakership is hanging by a thread these days one or two votes might make the difference. i suppose this is, this is kind of important yeah, i mean, this is a very significant development and that is because after april 19, when gallagher of republican steps aside, gives up his seat, that means johnson can only lose a single republican member if there are two members wishing to oust him, that would be enough to do the job in less democrats step in to save him and we should note that two democrats reaffirm this morning, jared moscowitz and tom suozzi, that they would be willing to vote yes. >> on a motion to table that essentially is a procedural step. they could take two essentially neutralize an effort to oust johnson from the speakership. now, johnson is defiant this morning saying that he will not step down here. he was just moments ago i am not resigning and it is it is in my view and absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to

congresswoman marjorie taylor greene to remove johnson as speaker and idea that johnson calls absurd cnn's lauren fox is live force on capitol hills. >> lauren, what happens next? >> yeah. marjorie taylor greene has not said exactly or when or if she is actually going to bring this effort to try to oust so johnson. but she now has backup in representative thomas massie. he serves on the house rules committee and he's been very disappointed and frustrated. wood johnson leadership relating to a series of issues including ukraine aid and the issue of the renewal of the federal intelligence surveillance act last week, right now, what we are waiting to see is whether or not they give any further direction as to when they would move to try and oust speaker mike if johnson it's important contexts to keep in mind that at the end of the week, bye gallagher, a republican, is expected to step aside from his seed once that i'd happens, mike johnson will have just a one seat margin, which means he cannot lose more than one republican on any given vote. now there were already a number we're of democrats who have s

lauren fox for us on capitol hill. thanks so much for us >> right now world leaders are bracing for israel's response to the unprecedented attack from iran. the state department says that us officials haven't been informed about the plan despite israel's war cabinet meeting earlier today for the fifth time since the attack, joining us now is global opinions writer for the washington post, jason resign. we should note he spent 544 days wrongfully imprisoned in iran he's also the author of prisoner my 544 days in an iranian prison. jason, thanks so much for being with us. us intelligence is suggesting that israel is weighing a response inside iranian territory, though reportedly a limited response in scope what do you think potential targets could be >> well, or first and foremost, i think we have to think about iran's nuclear programs. other military installations, places where they might be building plastic missiles. >> but you got >> to remember a lot of these facilities are underground i think it's unlikely that they

h says, we are simy hererying to do our bs with is now se as lauren fox, it' lay a tree and lauren, let' start with you and get a sense of where t things stand at 9:00 a.m. on wednesday morning for mike johnson yeah. john, the biggest thi tt capitol hill is whate haven'seen. and that is the legislive tax. exactlyhat but the plans to keep several fug bills moving through thuse ofepsentatives we still don't know whae plan is to fund ukraintaiwan, israel, and and another fourth bill that inudes miscellaneous items that the house, right now, wiout th legislative texts, house publicans caot begin the process of even reviewing th legislation or knowing how they would vote. this votalso would like slip into the weekend if they reveal that republicans have a 72 hour rule that requires them to look over that text for three days. so that's the first item of businessis tt just not haening because it's taking time to write the legislation? in or is that not happening because there is this threat against johnson relating to whether or not he keepe speaker's gavel right now, we know of two republican

cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox is with us on this story. lauren, what's the speaker doing here? what's his plan to try to? keep his job >> yeah over the course of the last week and a half as lawmakers have been a wave for their for their april race as what you've started to see, speaker johnson doing is really keeping his options open. he is having conversations with members. he is trying to understand the best path forward, but understandably, he's in this very difficult position of trying to thread the needle in a way in which he brings ukraine aid to the floor of the house, but he doesn't trigger this effort to remove him from office. and that is proving to be very difficult and conversations i've had over the course of the last two days. it's become clear that johnson has not decided brianna on what the best strategy is at this current moment, we've heard him floating a couple of ideas, perhaps using this as a way to give a loan to ukraine that they could pay back another option that he has floated is doing some kind of lend-lease progra

they spied on my campaign and glowed cnn's lauren fox is up on capitol hill watching all these important developments. lauren does this underscore the question, who's really in charge? on capitol hill >> well, certainly donald trump's influence here on capitol hill was seen by those who wanted to oppose the fisa rule yesterday as a major victory for their side. i actually talked to matt gaetz moments after that truth, social post went up and dates was arguing that he believed it was going to hell pam take down the rules, certainly that is what happened yesterday on the floor of the house of representatives. and we should just underscore how unusual it was before this congress for rules to go down. these procedural votes in this kind of fashion. usually, if you don't like a bill, you don't vote for the bill. but the tradition has always been that the majority party would help get the process started on the floor. that is simply what this rule vote was. and yet they still couldn't get it over the finish line right now. now what we are hearing from the speaker's office is that there is a ho

evidence and the allegations here fall short of the high crimes and misdemeanors threshold cnn's lauren fox is up on the hill for us and lauren, do we know yet how this might play out well, we've gotten some early indications, jessica, that this trial is not going to last long. >> we do expect the democrats will likely bring a motion to dismiss or emotion the table to wrap things up relatively quickly. there hadn't been some discussion about trying to get a time agreement to allow republicans to have some amendments, to have some discussion around this impeachment trial. but so far i just talked to joe josh hawley as he was headed to the senate floor. it doesn't appear that they've been able to clinch any agreement. democrats obviously have the majority and the united states senate and you've heard from the majority leader, chuck schumer that this in his mind does not meet the threshold of taking up the kind of senate floor time that is so valuable right now on capitol hill, he's are i'm you'd that this is really a policy disagreement between republicans and democrats and that this does not

let's start with cnn's lauren fox on capitol hill to help break it all down. lauren, what is the latest yeah obviously this vote a long time coming. alex and there's been a lot of questions about whether or not speaker mike johnson was ever going to get to this point, putting this ukraine aid package as well as additional aid for israel and taiwan on the floor of the house of representatives. >> and the reason for that, of course, was because of these threats coming from conservatives against his job. the question of whether or not he could continue to serve as the speaker of the house. and get aid to the us's allies across the world. the main concern coming from people like representative marjorie taylor greene was additional funding for ukraine, but you are hearing despite the fact that conservatives are frustrated, they are mad at the speaker. they are questioning whether or not he deserves to be in this job. you are still hearing from defense hawks like representative mike mccall, like representative don bacon, who are applauding the speaker for his efforts

of foreign aid, the gop's hope of al-zeitoun, my orcas, it may all come down to democrats cnn's lauren fox joins us now for more on this. okay, what's going to happen? >> well today we expect that the senate is going to begin this effort to process the impeachment of mayorkas and first what you're going to see on the floor is senator is being sworn in as jurors that will happen at 1:00 p.m. today after that, it is a little unclear what the next steps are going to be. conservatives in the senate have been pushing majority leader chuck schumer to hold a full trial to have witnesses to make this a real discussion around what they view as the biden minutes striations, failed immigration policy is but democrats including schumer have argued that the house's impeachment effort against mayorkas was a sham, that this was really a difference of political opinion, that this is not the kind of high crimes and misdemeanors maynor's that rise to the level of impeachment. that is why we expect the democrats will move too quickly brush this aside and either a motion to dismiss or a motion to table, then

lauren fox, you are watching it all. thank you so much. cian. >> all right. with this now seen in senior national security analysts, juliette kayyem in this case, juliette, you need to be are human glossary section 702 of phi is what? >> yeah >> okay. so section 702 fisa is gibbs the federal agencies and intelligence agencies the capacity to have. and i'll be clear here, a warrantless search of a non-us citizen not in the united states. so this is someone is abroad. were worried about them. we want surveillance, we want basically a wire tap on it on them and we're collecting information in the past, there have been concerns that united states citizens have been captured in this communication. so let's say a foreign person calls me. we're talking and the fbi then is capturing my conversation without any chord because of that 702 was reformed to make sure that there's disclosures to a specialized court so this process has worked pretty well and has gotten tighter over the years. in particular, after september 11th this reauthorization should have been ayana, ho

see it in congressional correspondent lauren fox joins us now lorand, what is the speaker's plan to try and keep his position? >> yeah. i mean, he's obviously very >> confident and he's been going around doing these interviews and conservative media to boost what he believes is a path to keep the speakership. mike johnson saying yesterday he says frustrated as marjorie taylor greene when it comes to how limited their ability has been to get conservative wins. but here's what he says. >> the solution should be >> she's trying to send a message. i respect the message. i share her again, her her frustration about the process. but the way for us to fix that is to grow the house majority. and the way to do that is the stand united together on the agenda going forward speaker johnson has said repeatedly over the course of the last several days that he does plan to talk to marjorie taylor greene this week. but the next weeks ahead are going to be very difficult for the speaker to really thread that needle because he is staring down to issues that could give him problems with the right flank. o

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let's get right to lauren fox. luck, he may need democrats to help him keep his job over the next few days, laura yeah. >> exactly. uh, john, he is relying on democrats at every step to get this aid package passed through the house of representatives this has been months in the making and for months, the administration, senate democrats, senate republican leadership have been urging mike johnson to take action on this this morning, the biden administration issuing a new statement urging support on this piece of legislation in order to advance it. and obviously sending a message to house democrats to go ahead and help in whatever way they need to on the floor. this morning, the house is going to put forward this rule vote. this is typically a procedural vote that the majority gets across the finish line that is in order to start debate on the underlying bill you saw last night and committee either democrats were needed there. we expect democrats are going to be needed once again, but this is all culminating and a qu

this beaker will see lauren fox. thank you so much for your reporting. >> is there with his caucus rock hard place speaker johnson? that's where we're at. yeah. all right. thank you, john. or a crucial talks on the war in gaza after weeks of tension, the us and israel will gossett today. this is israel's prime minister is facing massive protests at home. the largest since the war began and a surge in measles cases in the united and it states, we just reached april. it is the first and already there have been more cases this year than all of 2023. what is going on >> i've been to, the world with my music now, i want to focus on what's happening to our planet i'm going to visit coastal communities that have a new ally in the fight against climate change. this is blue car business, blue carbon. >> we just need to plant and we need to protect nature will do the rest kim carbon. cnn, sunday, april 21 at nine >> hey, you've seen this, right? >> where's the dish? >> one? you're telling me you can get direct tv. god good stu

. >> cnn's lauren fox has very latest. i mean, i went to sleep and things have changed even and i slept very few hours that things have already changed since i woke up. what's going to happen now? >> yeah, it's so important to undersre thathe rules mmite is typicallynown as the speaker's committee cause people who serve on it typically serve at the leisure and at the direction of the speaker of the house obviously, that shifted a little bit when kevin mccarthy was the speaker. but now you're seeing these problems really stacking up for johnson and this border security bill was supposed to be a bone that he was throwing at his hardliners to tell them and send them the message. i do care about the southern border if we're going to help ukraine, i understand the sentiment that we should be doing something at our own border as well. and yet, even that couldn't get through the house rules committee. now all eyes are on what happens to this series of supplemental packages to help israel, taiwan, ukraine in the hours to come. and

lauren fox let's thank you very much okay. >> joining us now is cnn political commentator and democratica cardona, and republican strategist and host of the focus group podcast cast sarah longwell. thanks for being here guys. it's sarah. what do republicans do with this continued fight over the speakership and fight over ukraine aid. what do you see here? >> yeah, this is a nightmare for republicans and it's interesting because normally these kinds of fights are between republicans and democrats. but this byte is not between the two parties. it is between the old guard of the gop and the new guard of the gop, which marjorie taylor greene represents and frankly, she represents a lot a voters. there's a reason that she feels emboldened to push forward with this, despite the fact that it would further caucus in the chaos. and it's because she knows that there is almost half of the republican party when it comes to voters that do not want to see ukraine any more ukraine funding. but there were also a lot of republican voters and we're running a campaign in dc right now using the voices of re

so obviously wolf, we are waiting to see what demo crowds will do lauren fox up on capitol hill. >> thank you very much. let's discuss what's going on with congressman mike lawler. he's a republican from new york congressman. thanks so much for joining us. first of all, will you vote for speaker johnson's foreign aid bills as he announced the details today. and did speaker johnson do the right thing here yes, i will be supporting the speakers legislation inclusive of the bill are two bills that i am long advocated for. >> an introduced and pass through the house. the ship act and the iran, china energy sanctions act so i'm happy to see that included, so that we can go after the source of iran's funding of terrorism, the illicit oil trade the speaker did the right thing. we are the leader of the free world and we must act and by putting this legislation on the floor, the speaker is showing leadership. he's showing resolve and courage regardless of what the political consequences may be. and i think this is a moment for the institution russian as a whole to put politics aside and do right,

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straight to our repo reporters covering all the drama happening right now on capitol hill, cnn's lauren fox and melanie zanona. melanie first eu, the senate showdown going on over us homeland security secretary mayorkas impeachment trial. the first cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly one 50 years. melanie, are there any sign? let's to suggest this trial is going to go forward the way republicans wanted to well, jake, republicans wanted a full trial be also want this to end in a conviction, but that is just not what we are seeing play out on the senate floor. >> that first impeachment article was already killed on a party-line vote with all democrats voting to kill it. and one republican, lisa murkowski of alaska, someone we are watching very closely, voting presence a sign of her discontent with the process. now, chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, has teed up a second vote to kill that 2nd article. but republicans at the moment, or forcing a number of procedural votes. this is a delay tactic they're really trying to drag this out as long as possible. so we're seeing some the

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. >> i'm lauren fox on capitol hill and this is cnn closed captioning brought to you by mesobook.comne have mesothelial will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and we'll come to >> you 808 to one 4,000 >> as hamas began releasing hostages, yard dan roman, gods, family members were climbing walls literally this, was an event to honore yarden, an avid climber as well as remind the press, the public, and politicians that jordan was still being held captive, awaiting release well, today we already know the idea was born here. >> the >> roman family home turned into a sort of control room for the efforts to get yarden back. >> our assumption is that you will hopefully be among the extra ones reeling breaking news 12, more hostages are now back here in israel and having to israeli hospital on day 53 when the four de, a hostage deal was extended for at least two more days your dan was not among the released but the next day >> really happy moments been guards hair in blogs and hugging hair and we talked all night. it's like >> the pure joy you can't imagine >> we

lauren fox. thank you very much. let's discuss more now democratic congresswoman jasmine crockett of texas. she is a member of the congressional progressive caucus, congresswoman. thank you so much for being here. i guess, just very quickly secretary mayorkas was impeached in the house. now this moves over to the senate. what are your thoughts? on all of that as this may actually happened now over in the senate and impeachment trial of the homeland security secretary yeah. >> unfortunately, the chaos that you were just discussing is pouring over into the senate and the american people should just be looking at this and recognizing this for what it is. in fact, you're talking about retiring here minutes. we know that one of the members of the republican party recently left simply because he said it was too much. and we're talking about a freedom caucus member who felt as if we had the sham impeachments that they work trying to push through, whether it was on mayorkas or whether it was on the president of the united st

lauren: fox polls. stuart: let's get back to sean.e is still tieded the, but trump does have the edge. my question to you, sean, is are trump's court appearances having any influences on voters so far? >> they're not having an influence right now, stuart. i think we don't know what's going to happen if there's a conviction or a jail seasons. that would shake it up -- sentence. we've seen his poll numbers go up with all of the indictments and the trial activity. but i think it's interesting, the medias has worked so hard to demon ifize donald trump and lift joe bide, and donald trump's favorability rating still is better than joe biden. that is remarkable. what's interesting, if you add back in arizona and nevada and you include georgia and michigan, donald trump wins the election. donald trump can lose pennsylvania and wisconsin and still win. this is a dumpster fire for joe biden. if he was to change policy, if he was to say, you know, listen, we're going to start to put pressure on iran, we're going to actually secure the southern b

lauren fox said this afternoon that he does not know what the judge will award these people but the costsence fox. thejudge said proceedings are enormous —— laurence fox. the judge said the original punishment, they will not be a prison term in terms of the punishment, it will be a financial compensation punishment that he will now have to pay these individuals. have we had any reaction from those individuals? i know this has only broken in the last half an hour. just in the last few minutes, so we have not had any reaction as yet. but in court today the judge said her written warning, by calling mr blake and mr seymour paedophiles, laurence fox subjected them to an undeserved public ordeal. she went on to say it was a gross groundless and indefensible libel with distressing and harmful real—world consequences to them both. greg, distressing and harmful real-world consequences to them both. greg, in the newsroom. _ consequences to them both. greg, in the newsroom, with _ consequences to them both. greg, in the newsroom, with the _ consequences to them both. greg, in the newsroom, with the

aid bills over the finish line, he may have to rely on democrats to save his speakership cnn's lauren fox has more on this. lauren, what is happening? where do you want to begin yeah, a lot going on on capitol hill right now, kde and specifically, all of this really escalating for mike johnson yesterday after thomas massie and a closed door republican conference meeting basically asked the speaker to resignhe saker said that that was not what he was going to do, but massie announcing in front of the whole conference that he was joining marjorie taylor greene. if and when she brings forward that motion to vacate that effort to oust the speaker that could come at any time. now, marjorie taylor green has an outlined if or when she's ultimately going to move forward with that. but she is indicating that moving forward with ukraine aid for the speaker could potentially end his job as the speaker of the house. now, on friday, mike gallagher, a republican, he's going to step aside from his seat. that means that that point that mike johnson has a one vote margin. he can only lose one republican u

. >> i'm lauren fox on capitol hill. and this is cnn cnn's breaking news >> hello and welcome. in washington, a massive wave of iranian attacks on israel appear to have subsided. say us officials, this is what it all looks like though. just a few hours ago the idf says >> iran fired >> more than 200 missiles and drones on israel overnight. with the vast majority of them but shot down before reaching israeli aerospace including by us forces stationed in the region to iran called a response to an israeli fairly strike on iran's embassy in damascus earlier this month, prime minister benjamin netanyahu has spoken with us president joe biden on the phone. he told mr. netanyahu biden did the attacks were largely unsuccessful, which he described as a win for israel, are mj lee has learned the president told the israeli prime minister, the us will not take part in any israeli offensive action against iran president biden will meet g7 liters on sunday to coordinate a united response to arounds action among its allies and israel mr. netanyahu addressed his nation earlier today >> marcia

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let's get the very latest cnn's lauren fox is joining me nowith all of this. d lauren hse democrats came to johnson's rescue le last night in another key vote are they. readto dit again yeah, obviouy, what you are talking about is what unfolded on the house rules committee last night, typically, these are rules that are passed out of this committee. >> this is known as the speaker's committee, and it is passed out of this committee with the republican or the majority support in this case, there were three republicans who voted against the rule which meant that democrats swooped in at the last minute, voted to advance these bills. that means get this debate to the floor and we do expect that to also occur today because there are a number of republicans who have already said they are not only opposed to this legislation, they are opposed to voting on this procedural step known as the rule that means that democrats are likely going to step into advance this set of three important supplemental packages, including one for israel, one for ukraine, and one for the in

harris >> longer liquor, neutrophil is life changing for me, get growing at neutrophil.com i'm lauren fox on capitol hill and this is cnn >> all right. are you among the millions of people traveling to be with a 32 million americans living along the path of tomorrow's total solar eclipse there's a lot of excitement to witness the moment the moon, the moon rather moves across the sun's face and totally blocks it's light, something that will last just four minutes, but the entire process leading up to it. well, the many phases well, that covers many hours and that's where some of the fun is. we have completed the coverage starting with meteorologists, elisa raffa and space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. and first up, kristen, where it's windy right now in downtown indianapolis. they're expecting somewhat 20,000 people at one of the largest free eclipse viewing areas in the state. so what's going on now? >> well, you know, fred indianapolis has always been one of those key big cities, right within that path of totality. but it's really taken on renewed and even greater importance

problems with a dedicated restoration agent, life flock identity theft protection starts here >> i'm lauren fox on capitol hill, and this is cnn ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling for stronger air >> defenses in the northeastern region of kharkiv after russian missile attack today killed six people and injured 11 more. this week, nato allies agreed to look for more air defense systems to send to ukraine let's talk more about this with our next guest, cnn's military analysts, cedric leighton and retired colonel in the air force. colonel late and it's always great to have you on right now. ukraine, a short on troops and ammunition. is there an opportunity to win on the battle? is their opportunity to win on the battlefield, slipping away well, just gets good to be with you and it's pains me to say this, but yes, if ukraine in stone get the aid >> that they need, it's going to be a real problem for them because at this particular point in time, we're looking at munitions scrooge's weapons shortages, troops shortages, things that you've basically outlined get the crissman zelenskyy

make more of a job you can't buy a best friend but you can adopt warning >> because we i'm lauren fox on capitol hill, and this is cnn >> iranian officials are calling its attack on israel last night retaliation for israel's strike on bronze consulate in syria two weeks ago earlier today, the commander of iran's armed forces said that for iran the matter is now concluded but he said that could change if israel were to retaliate cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joins us now with the latest and fred, we've heard somewhat conflicting words from iranian officials here. they say it's concluded, but they also seem to be communicating that now they reserve the right to retaliate for any israeli attack by striking back on israeli territory. >> yeah, you're absolutely right, jim. and i think it's quite interesting to look at some of the messaging that we've been getting out of tehran. and from the iranian officials. and also some of the nuances in that as well. one of the things that i picked on which i thought was really interesting was the fact they're obviously trying to

. >> i'm lauren fox on capitol hill. and this is cnn pro protests like this are sweeping across college campuses in the country with demonstrate are showing their support for people in gaza and demanding that their universities divest from israel-linked companies that are profiting from the conflict there are now many of the protests have been peaceful and on some campuses, students chanted slogans while in others the scenes turned chaotic. >> as schools called him police to disperse the crowds, leading 200 periods of arrests nationwide the demonstrations, there's just far to bangor and division within student communities and resulted in a surge of anti-semitism with many jewish students feeling unsafe on campus columbia university senate has voted to create a task force to investigate the university leadership's handling of those protests and universal let's see, officials have banned a student leader who says, in january, he said that in january the zionist don't deserve to live. >> cnn's mega marquez has two tails zio

get started today at accustoming.com i'm lauren fox on capitol hill, and this is cnn >> right now. fbi director christopher wray is testifying on the hill about national security threats and rages, spoke about fi, which is t foreign intelligence sueillan act, ich was e republicans after rmer ome esident trump to them to specificale're talking about section 702 or fis here is his warning f lawmars about at could happeif fa n renewed. this is ray let me be clear. failure to reauthorize seven o2 or >> gutting it with some new nd of warrant requirement would be dangerous and put americans lives at risk specically section seven over to expires on april . and yesterday, trump allies in the house blocked it from getting renewed after the former president called on congress to quote, kill fisa. that's even though that as president trump himself reauthorized it let's discuss further with leon panetta, who served as defense secretary and cidirector undepresident obama serwer. thanks so much for being with us. there appears to be confusion even by former president trump over which part of fis

cnn's lauren fox tracking all of this for us lauren, what are we going to see happen in the senate today? >> yeah the senate was supposed to be on recess this week. k, but they view this package, this aid package is so crucial and so necessary that lawmakers returned in order to try to get this through the united states senate. what we expect to see today is that 1:00 p.m. they will begin a series of procedural votes. now there are still negotiation happening between republican and democratic leadership to try to find some kind of an agreement to expedite this process and potentially get a final vote on this package. today, that agreement has not been reached. those so there is a possibility that the senate will come back tomorrow to try to finally finish this work up. but again, lawmakers were supposed to be gone. and oftentimes jet fumes can be really motivating when it comes to getting senate agreements to move things through the process more quickly, you're also going to see this moment for minority leader mitch mcconnell, which i think is just really important to point out, he has b