THIS GROUP ANYMORE. THEY WANT TO BE MORE ACTIVE. >> THE EARLYBIRD LIFESTYLE HAS BEEN TAKING OFF. WHY NOT LIVE WITH OTHER PEOPLE GETTING THE BLUE PLATE SPECIAL? ARE THERE NEGATIVE IMPACTS? >>> WE'RE BACK NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS. PRESIDENT BIDEN SENT TO SIGN A 95 BILLION FOREIGN AID PACKAGE. WE'RE LOOKING AT LIVE PICTURES RIGHT NOW OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE. THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES FUNDING FOR UKRAINE, ISRAEL IN TAIWAN. WAS PASSED BY THE SENATE OVERNIGHT AFTER MONTHS OF LIMBO ON CAPITOL HILL. THE FUNDING ALSO INCLUDES A PROVISION THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LEAD TO A NATIONWIDE BAN ON TIKTOK HERE IN THE WEST. WERE WATCHING PRESIDENT BIDEN WALKING TO THE PODIUM. LET'S GO AHEAD AND LISTEN. >> A GOOD DAY FOR WORLD PEACE, FOR REAL. THIS IS CONSEQUENTIAL. I JUST SIGNED INTO LAW THE NATIONAL SECURITY PACKAGE THAT WAS PASSED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THIS WEEKEND AND BY THE SENATE YESTERDAY. IT WILL MAKE AMERICA SAFER. AND WILL MAKE THE WORLD SAFER. IT CONTINUES AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD, AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. IS VITAL SUPPORT TO AMERICAN PARTNERS SO THEY CAN DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THREATS TO THEIR SOVEREIGNTY. AND THE LIVES AND FREEDOM OF THEIR CITIZENS. IT IS AN INVESTMENT IN OUR OWN SECURITY. WHEN OUR ALLIES ARE STRONGER, AND I WANT TO MAKE THIS POINT AGAIN AND AGAIN, WE ARE STRONGER. I'M GRATEFUL TO ALL THOSE IN CONGRESS, DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS WHO VOTED FOR THIS. IT IS A PATH TO MY DESK. IT WAS A DIFFICULT PATH. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER AND GOTTEN THERE SOONER. BUT IN THE END, WE DO WHAT AMERICA ALWAYS DOES, WE ROSE TO THE MOMENT. WE CAME TOGETHER AND WE GOT IT DONE. NOW WE NEED TO MOVE FAST, AND WE ARE. OVER TWO YEARS RUSSIA HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR A BRUTAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST UKRAINE. THEY KILLED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIANS, BOMBS HOSPITALS, KINDERGARTENS. THEY TRIED TO PLUNGE UKRAINE INTO A COLD AND DARK WINTER BY STRIKING THE POWER GRID. UKRAINIANS HAVE FOUGHT BACK, DEFENDING THE COUNTRY AND FAMILIES WITH EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE. MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN THERE WITH ME MANY TIMES. IT'S AMAZING WHAT THEY DO. IT'S AMAZING. AGAINST SUCH A LARGER MILITARY. UKRAINE HAS REGAINED OVER HALF THE TERRITORY THAT RUSSIA TOOK FROM THEM. THEY WON IMPORTANT VICTORIES AGAINST THE RUSSIAN NAVY. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT >>> THEY ARE A FIGHTING FORCE WITH THE WILL AND THE SKILL TO WIN. THE WILL ND THE SKILL TO WIN, FOR MONTHS, WHILE REPUBLICANS WERE BLOCKING EIGHT, UKRAINE'S BEEN RUNNING OUT OF SHELLS AND AMMUNITION. WELL, POLLUTANTS FRIENDS KEEP KEEPING THE WELL SUPPLIED. CHINA IS PROVIDING KNOW HOW TO BOOST RUSSIA'S DEFENSE PRODUCTION. ALL THE SUPPORT, RUSSIA HAS RAMPED UP THE AIR STRIKES AGAINST UKRAINIAN CITIES AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. NOW, AMERICANS WILL SEND UKRAINE THE SUPPLIES THEY NEED TO KEEP THEM IN THE SITE. THIS WEEKEND, THERE ARE REPORTS, I FIND THIS AMAZING, REPORTS OF CHEERS BREAKING OUT OF TRENCHES IN EASTERN UKRAINE, PROBABLY CAME FROM ONE OF YOU FOLKS, ONE OF YOU REPORTERS, I'M NOT SURE WHO IT CAME FROM BUT THEY ARE CHEERING, AS THEY WATCHED THE HOUSE VOTE IN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE. IT'S NOT LIKE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'VE DONE. IT'S NOT LIKE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW CRITICAL THIS IS FOR THEM. I MAKING SURE THAT THE SHIPMENT START RIGHT AWAY. IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS, LITERALLY IN A FEW HOURS, WE WILL BEGIN SENDING IN EQUIPMENT TO UKRAINE FOR AIR DEFENSE MUNITIONS, FOR ARTILLERY, ROCKET SYSTEMS AND ARMORED VEHICLES. THIS PACKAGE IS LITERALLY AN INVESTMENT, NOT ONLY IN UKRAINE'S SECURITY BUT IN EUROPE'S SECURITY. IN OUR OWN SECURITY, WE ARE SENDING UKRAINE EQUIPMENT FROM OUR OWN STOCKPILES, WE WILL REPLENISH THE STOCKPILES WITH NEW PRODUCTS MADE BY AMERICAN COMPANIES HERE IN AMERICA. PATRIOT MISSILES MADE IN ARIZONA, JAVELINS MADE IN ALABAMA, ARTILLERY SHELLS MADE IN OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA AND TEXAS, IN OTHER WORDS WE ARE HELPING UKRAINE WHILE AT THE SAME TIME INVESTING IN OUR OWN INDUSTRIAL BASE, STRENGTHENING OUR OWN NATIONAL SECURITY, SUPPORTING JOBS IN NEARLY 40 STATES ACROSS AMERICA. YOU KNOW, THE UNITED STATES IS NOT ACTING ALONE, TO STATE THE OBVIOUS, RI ALLIES AROUND THE WORLD WHO HAVE BEEN ASKING, ARE WE GOING TO STEP UP, WE ARE NOT GOING TO WALK AWAY, ARE WE? THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED, HAD WE FAILED TO STEP UP, LORD KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE COHESION IN NATO. THEY ARE ALSO SELLING SIGNIFICANT HELP TO UKRAINE. WE ARE ALL STANDING TOGETHER AGAINST A DICTATOR. AS I'VE ARGUED FOR MONTHS, THIS IS DIRECTLY, DIRECTLY IN THE UNITED STATES INTEREST, IF PUTIN TRIUMPHS IN UKRAINE, THE NEXT MOVE COULD BE A DIRECT ATTACK ON A NATO ALLY AND YOU ALL KNOW FULL WELL THAT INVOKING ARTICLE 5 WOULD BE THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND, WHICH DECLARES AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON ALL. IF PUTIN ATTACKS AND NATO ALLY, WE WOULD HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO COME TO THEIR AID JUST LIKE OUR ALLIES CAME TO OUR AID AFTER SEPTEMBER 11th ATTACKS. THAT'S WHY, WE ARE SUPPORTING AND SURGING SUPPORT NOW TO UKRAINE, TO STOP YOU FROM DRAWING THE UNITED TATES INTO WAR, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD TAKE A STEP BACK, AND REALIZE WHAT A CRITICAL MOMENT THIS WAS FOR THE UNITED STATES AND FOR NATO, THIS IS A HISTORICAL MOMENT. IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, WE'VE HELPED TO UNIFY AND EXPAND NATO, IMAGINE IF WE HAD FAILED TO STEP UP NOW AND SUPPORT UKRAINE. ALL OF THOSE GAINS WOULD HAVE BEGUN TO UNRAVEL, COHESION OF NATO WOULD HAVE BEEN WEEKEND, AND OUR NATIONAL SECURITY WOULD HAVE BEEN UNDERMINED WITHOUT ANY QUESTION. YOU KNOW, STARTED THIS WAR, HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASY TO BREAK THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE, WHEN THAT FAILED, HE CHGED HIS STRATEGY A LITTLE BIT. BREAK THE WILL OF THE UNITED STATES, HE HAS FAILED AGAIN. AMERICA STANDS WITH OUR FRIENDS, WE STAND UP AGAINST DICTATORS. WE BOW TO NO ONE. NO ONE. CERTAINLY NOT VLADIMIR PUTIN. LOOK, THIS BILL ALSO INCLUDES VITAL SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL, 10 DAYS AGO WE SAW YOU RON LAUNCH OVER 100 MISSILES AND DRONES AT ISRAEL. BECAUSE OF THEM AND OTHER ALLIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, NO SERIOUS DAMAGE OCCURRED. AN UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK OF YEARS FOLLOWING, THEY FUND THESE GUYS, MY COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL, I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR IS IRONCLAD, THE SECURITY OF ISRAEL IS CRITICAL. WE WILL ALWAYS MAKE SURE THAT ISRAEL HAS WHAT IT NEEDS TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST IRAN, AND WITH THE SAVE THE UNITED STATES WILL HELP REPLENISH THE AIR DEFENSE SO IRAN COULD NEVER CARRY OUT THE DESTRUCTION IT INTENDED. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THIS BILL SIGNIFICANTLY, SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE WE ARE SENDING TO THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GAZA WHO ARE SUFFERING BADLY, SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS WAR THAT HAMAS STARTED AND WE ARE WORKING TO GET AS MUCH AID TO GAZA AS POSSIBLE. THIS BILL INCLUDES $1 BILLION FROM ADDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID IN GAZA. WE ARE MEETING TO SECURE THE A AND SURGE IT INCLUDING FOOD, MEDICAL SUPPLIES, CLEAN WATER, AND ISRAEL MUST MAKE SURE ALL OF THIS AID REACHES THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA WITHOUT DELAY. EVERYTHING WE DO IS GUIDED BY THE GOAL OF BRINGING THE HOSTAGES HOME, SECURING A CEASE- FIRE AND SETTING CONDITIONS FOR ENDURING PEACE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S MORE THAT THIS BILL DOES, AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE PRESS IS HERE, INCLUDING PROVIDING SUPPORT TO STRENGTHEN EVEN FURTHER OUR ALLIES AND PARTNERS IN THE INDO PACIFIC REGION AS WELL AS HUMANITARIAN AID TO PLACES LIKE HAITI, SUDAN AND SOMALIA. BUT THERE'S ONE THING THIS BILL DOES NOT DO, BORDER SECURITY. YOU KNOW, JUST THIS YEAR I PROPOSED AND AGREED TO THE STRONGEST BORDER SECURITY BILL THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER, EVER, EVER SEEN. IT WAS BIPARTISAN. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS BILL. AND I'M DETERMINED TO GET IT DONE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE WILL COME BACK TO THAT AT ANOTHER TIME. THIS IS A REMINDER OF WHAT AMERICA CAN DO WHEN WE COME TOGETHER, DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE IN CONGRESS, WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY THE BIPARTISAN LEADERSHIP. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, MIKE JOHNSON, LEADER JEFFRIES, LEADERS SCHUMER AND McCONNELL, THEY DON'T ALWAYS AGREE BUT WHEN IT MATTERS MOST, THEY STEPPED UP AND DID THE RIGHT THING. AND I MEAN THIS SINCERELY, HISTORY WILL REMEMBER THIS MOMENT, FOR ALL THE TALK ABOUT HOW DYSFUNCTIONAL THINGS ARE IN WASHINGTON, WHEN YOU LOOK OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, WE SEE IT TIME AND AGAIN ON THE CRITICAL ISSUES, WE ACTUALLY COME TOGETHER, IT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN EASY BUT WHEN IT'S TIME TO DECIDE TO REBUILD AMERICA, WE DID IT WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL, WHEN IT CAME TIME TO INVEST IN OUR SEMI-CUT INDUSTRY, WE DID IT WITH THE CHIPS AND SIGNS ASK. WHEN IT CAME TIME TO STAND WITH UKRAINE AND ISRAEL WE DID THAT AS WELL. AT THE END OF THE DAY, MOST OF US WHETHER WE ARE DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS OR INDEPENDENT VOTERS, WE BELIEVE THAT AMERICA MUST STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, WE STAND WITH OUR ALLIES, WE DON'T LET TYRANTS WIN, WE DON'T WATCH GLOBAL EVENTS UNFOLD, WE SHAPED THEM. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE INDISPENSABLE NATION, THE WORLD'S SUPERPOWER AND THE WORLD'S LEADING DEMOCRACY. SOME OF OUR REPUBLICANS REJECT THAT VISION BUT THIS BILL MAKES IT CLEAR, I THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH AND I'M GOING OFF TO MAKE A SPEECH AT A HOTEL THAT I AM LATE FOR. >> YOU ARE JUST LISTENING TO PRESIDENT BIDEN SPEAKING ABOUT HOW HE HAS SIGNED THIS ONE BILLION-DOLLAR AID PACKAGE INTO LAW. HE SPOKE ABOUT SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS THAT THIS WOULD INCLUDE EQUIPMENT FOR UKRAINE FROM QUOTE, OUR OWN STOCKPILES FUNDING OUR OWN NATIONAL SECURITY AND OUR INDUSTRIAL BASE AND JOBS IN VARIOUS STATES. ALSO WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS BILL, IS A PROVISION THAT INCLUDES THE FUTURE OF TIKTOK. I'M JOINED BY MICHAEL EGGER HERE. GABE YOU WERE LISTENING TO THIS AT THE SAME TIME, WHAT WERE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS IN HIS MESSAGING ON ISRAEL AS WELL? >> GOOD MORNING, AS YOU MENTIONED, THAT PRESIDENT, TAKING A VICTORY LAP OF SORTS, AND SAYING THAT THIS WAS QUOTE, A GOOD DAY FOR WORLD PEACE, THAT'S HOW HE STARTED THE REMARKS IN THIS COMES AFTER INTENSE NEGOTIATIONS OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, AND WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THIS BEHIND THE SCENES NEGOTIATIONS WHERE THAT BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS, TRYING TO GET THIS OVER THE FINISH LINE. THAT WAS BACK IN OCTOBER THAT THE PRESIDENT DELIVERED THAT PRIMETIME ADDRESS, HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE, REALLY MAKING THE CASE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY PACKAGES. WELL, IT TOOK SEVERAL MONTHS BUT FINALLY, THIS IS THE RESULT AND WE ARE LEARNING THAT HE REALLY REACHED OUT TO SPEAKER JOHNSON OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND EVEN DIRECTED HIS TEAM NOT TO ANTAGONIZE SPEAKER JOHNSON. ONE POINT I DID NOTICE, THE PRESIDENT ALSO BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE OF THIS PACKAGE NOT INCLUDING BORDER SECURITY, OF COURSE, YOU WILL RECALL IN THE FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL AID REQUEST THAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PUT FORWARD, THERE WAS A REQUEST FOR BORDER SECURITY, THERE WAS EVEN A BIPARTISAN BORDER SECURITY BILL THAT MADE IT PAST THE SENATE BUT THE HOUSE WAS DEAD SET AGAINST IT, AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TANKED IT ESSENTIALLY, BY URGING REPUBLICANS TO VOTE AGAINST IT. I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN REALLY DIDN'T GO AFTER REPUBLICANS MUCH. IN THESE REMARKS, HE THANKED SPEAKER JOHNSON FORGETTING WHAT HE WAS ABLE TO OVER THE FINISH LINE AND OF COURSE, HE MADE THE CASE ONCE AGAIN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF JUST HOW IMPORTANT THIS HUMANITARIAN AID IN THESE MUNITIONS ARE TWO UKRAINE BUT ALSO, TO ISRAEL, ONE THING THAT DID NOT COME UP IN THESE REMARKS, VICKI, YOU ALLUDED TO IT, THE PROVISION THAT WOULD REQUIRE THE SALE OF TIKTOK WITHIN THE NEXT NINE MONTHS TO A YEAR, THE PRESIDENT DID NOT MENTION THAT. WE HEARD SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED TO AND FROM REPORTERS AND QUESTIONS CERTAIN TO COME UP AS YOU JUST HER, THE PRESIDENT WALKED AWAY WITHOUT ANSWERING ANY MORE QUESTIONS. HE'S HEADED TO AN EVENT IN WASHINGTON WHERE HE IS EXPECTED TO PICK UP AN ENDORSEMENT. >> IT'S INTERESTING HOW YOU MENTIONED AND NOTED THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN DIDN'T COME AFTER REPUBLICANS, AND HE THINKS HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON, IT WAS ALSO INTERESTING HEARING HIM REALLY STRIKE THIS TONE OF DEFIANCE WHERE HE REMINDED THE COUNTRY, WE ARE THE INDISPENSABLE NATION, WE ARE THE ONES THAT SET POLICY AND DETERMINE AND DON'T REACT, BUT IT'S ALSO INTERESTING HOW LONG IT TOOK US TO GET HER BECAUSE THE WHITE HOUSE SINCE THIS PACKAGE BACK IN OCTOBER, SO WHAT ARE THE LEADERS SAYING THIS MORNING, WHAT IMPACT HAS THIS DELAY HAD ON UKRAINE? >> IT'S BEEN FRUSTRATING FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WHICH HAS SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT REPUBLICANS NEEDED TO COME TOGETHER AND BE ABLE TO PASS THIS NATIONAL SECURITY PACKAGE BUT AS I LAID OUT, THIS KEPT GOING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AND IT WAS ONLY IN THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS THAT SPEAKER JOHNSON CHANGED HIS MIND, ESSENTIALLY AND BROUGHT THIS VOTE TO THE FLOOR. WE ARE HEARING FROM SOURCES THAT THE SPEAKER WAS PRIVY TO CLASSIFIED BRIEFINGS AND OTHER LAWMAKERS, WHO REALLY STRESSED THE NEED FOR THIS, AND ALSO, YOU REMEMBER, MORGAN, THE URGENCY OF THIS HAS REALLY BEEN RAMPED UP IN THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS AND WE BEEN HEARING REPORTS FROM THE FRONT LINE IN UKRAINE THAT THEY'VE BEEN SAYING THAT UKRAINE IS USING THIS WAR AND WILL LOSE THIS WAR IF THIS AID DOES NOT GO THROUGH CONGRESS SO AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS OF INTENSE NEGOTIATIONS, TAKING THE BORDER
