Welcome to the Lead I'm Jake Tapper in just a few hours, President Biden will address

the nation and only his second ever Oval Office address his goal is to convince the American

people that it will be important to spend 100 billion of their tax dollars, the majority

of which would help Israel and Ukraine.

The bottom line sources tell CNN is that President Biden will not only try to make an argument

about the immorality of what Russia's Vladimir Putin and the terrorist group Hamas have

done, but that the costs of U.S. inaction, of not supporting Israel and Ukraine, would be

harmful to U.S. national security.

President Biden arrived back in the U.S. early this morning after roughly seven hours

on the ground in Tel Aviv.

President Biden says he pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natsun Yahu there on

Israel's plans for the next phase of the war, and he says he worked to secure promises

from the Israelis for humanitarian aid for the innocents in Gaza.

The White House says this evening President Biden will also speak about trying to bolster

the Ukrainian military even further Ukraine where recently delivered U.S. weapon systems have

led to some of the most significant strikes against Russian forces in the last few days,

but it's not just the public that President Biden needs to convince.

It's also, frankly, some uncapital hill after House Republicans once again woke up this

morning and chose incompetence.

It's not clear that any aid package can get through Congress given that there remains

no speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

For two weeks in a row, the Republican speaker designated today, Congressman Jim Jordan

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