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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today I sat down with former senator and Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and we covered a lot of ground. |
| 0:08.0 | We talked about conflicts overseas in the Middle East and in Ukraine. |
| 0:12.0 | We talked about Donald Trump's legal jeopardy |
| 0:14.2 | and the utter chaos in the Republican Party. Chaos that by the way is on full display |
| 0:19.1 | tonight with the Senate now scrambling to figure out a path forward after Republicans killed their own bipartisan border legislation in order to appease Donald Trump. |
| 0:29.0 | For weeks, Republicans have insisted that they would not pass aid for Israel and Taiwan, |
| 0:34.0 | as well as urgently needed funding for Ukraine unless Democrats agreed to tough new border policies. |
| 0:40.0 | Now just to put this all in perspective for you Ukraine is facing some of its biggest |
| 0:45.1 | challenges since this war began Russia has ramped up missile strikes across the |
| 0:50.0 | country as Ukraine has been forced to ration munitions. The Ukrainian army is |
| 0:55.1 | fighting fatigue and morale issues among its rank and file and in the meantime |
| 0:59.9 | Republicans are playing politics. They are playing politics with the vital resources |
| 1:05.6 | Ukraine needs to defend its democracy from invaders. So Democrats agreed to |
| 1:12.1 | work with Republicans and to craft a bipartisan bill to increase |
| 1:15.8 | border security measures in exchange for that aid. |
| 1:19.8 | But then Donald Trump came out against the deal. He did not want to hand President |
| 1:24.8 | Biden a victory on Trump's favorite campaign issue which is drumming up fear |
| 1:28.8 | about what's happening at the border. And so today Republicans voted to kill their own bill in the Senate. |
| 1:35.1 | The final vote was 49 to 50 with all but four Republicans voting against it. |
| 1:41.5 | After that just stunning defeat, Democratic leader Chuck Schumer put a second bill on the floor. |
| 1:47.0 | It strips out the border stuff and just funds aid to Israel and Ukraine and Taiwan, |
| 1:52.0 | which is what the Democrats had wanted in the very |
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