This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzales.

President Biden said Tuesday he'll ask Congress to approve emergency funding to bolster

Israel's retaliation on Palestinians and the Gaza Strip after the surprise attack by Hamas.

On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Congress could pass a single emergency

defense spending bill in coming weeks for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.

In order to vote, Congress must move past political chaos after hard, right, Republican

lawmakers who oppose aid to Ukraine ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week and

have yet to approve his replacement.

For more, we hosted debate on Ukraine military spending with two leading progressive activists.

We'll also talk about increased spending for Israel.

Media Benjamin's co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, author of War in Ukraine, making

sense of a senseless conflict.

Code Pink is calling on U.S. lawmakers to push for a diplomatic solution to the war in

Ukraine instead of sending more weapons.

Last week, 11 members of Code Pink were arrested as they occupied the DC offices of Vermont

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders to call for peace talks.

So, let's sit down, let's negotiate, and let's come up with a diplomatic solution.

That is the good Bernie, that's the Bernie we want.

Not the other Bernie who is okaying billions and billions of dollars in weapons and says

you can't talk to Putin.

And we have one word answered to Bernie when he says you can't talk to Putin because he

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