-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. this is "the source" and i'm kaitlan collins. an extraordinary new israeli offensive is underway in the skies of gaza tonight. much of it is playing out right before our very eyes. cnn cameras captured these images that you're seeing here, scenes of flares raining down over the night sky in gaza. there appears to be a smoke screen that is covering the ground, potentially suggesting the possible movement of troops in that area. the israeli military says it has completely surrounded gaza city tonight. all of this is coming as prime minister benjamin netanyahu appeared with israeli troops earlier today saying -- and i'm quoting him now -- nothing will stop us. that, despite the fact that secretary of state antony blinken is pflying over to isral right now in part to press for a pause, at least a brief one, in the fighting so that hostages can get out and aid can potentially get in. all this is coming as hamas is still firing on israel tonight. they have been doing so repeatedly since those october 7th attacks. those rockets are being intercepted, i should note, by the iron dome. and given that, i want to get to ed lavender row, who is live in tel aviv. what do you hear about the live uptick in the skies over gaza tonight? >> reporter: it was intense for several hours just a few hours ago there in the northeastern part of gaza, not far from where our colleague nic robertson has been reporting throughout the afternoon and evening. this is some of the most intense fire fighting we have seen over the last couple of days. but we know that the ground operation inside of gaza has intensified quite a bit throughout the day. israeli officials saying today that they have surrounded gaza city. they say that their intent right now is to dismantle the hamas military operation there in gaza. and of course all of this complicated by the very fact that hamas military runs out of these elaborate tunnel systems that stretch for dozens of miles all around northern gaza in particular. and that complicates things, especially because these tunnels are built under civilian populations. and that's why israel has come under a great deal of criticism because of the civilian casualties in this operation. but that has continued to intensify. you saw that the fire fight erupting there just a few hours ago in northeastern gaza, the objective and exactly what was accomplished here this evening is not clear at this point. perhaps that will change tomorrow, as we learn more about exactly what the israeli operation was about, what they had hoped to achieve there. but we have not real clear details on exactly what was achieved there tonight. but dramatic images and obviously very intense fire fight that we saw unfold for quite some time tonight. >> it's much intense than we've seen any of the days over the last several weeks. but given what we saw there and z israeli forces now surrounding gaza city, is there a sense of how much the ground invasion is ramping up, given that pressure that israel is clearly facing, its growing pressure, too, for at least some kind of pause in the fighting? >> reporter: well, as calls from around the world are calling on israel to either pause or call for a ceasefire, it's clear from israeli officials tonight that that is not -- doesn't appear that that's something that's going to happen. israeli officials saying that they are trying to inflict maximum pressure on the hamas military operation. as we mentioned, you know, they say they have the gaza city surrounded, and that will change things dramatically. president netanyahu, as you mentioned there off the top, saying today that nothing will stop us. so, we're not getting any clear indication that israeli forces are intent of slowing down their operation into gaza any time soon, especially here in the days ahead. >> ed lavandera in tel aviv, thank you. for analysis on what is unfolding, joining me is lieutenant general mark schwartz, a retired special ops commander who served as u.s. security coordinator for israel. along with cnn military analyst "spider" marks is also here. so glad to have both of you here. of course as we are seeing this intense activity not long after israel did confirm that they had encircled the city, what's your read on what israel is doing tonight? >> well, i think nic earlier characterized it very well, as you just did before spider and i came on. so, the use of, you know, the flares and the significant smoke you saw combined with the aerial interdiction that was going on, typically that happens when ground forces are reinforcing or repositioning forces. so, they want to use the smoke to conceal their movements, obviously, and they'll use the flares, primarily, to make sure that the smoke they're putting down as well as the other fires they're putting down are effective. so, i think it's correct that you're probably going to see in the next 24 hours, when the sun comes up here, that a significant reinforcement of israeli ground forces did occur over, you know, this past evening as well as they're continuing to cordon off, as was reported, gaza city. that's my read of what's taken place the last 12 to 18 hours today. >> given that, general marks, if that's what israel is doing here, trying to create this smoke screen on the ground so they can move those forces, what does that signal to you about what's next for this ground operation, as israel is referring to it. they won't call it a ground invasion, but, i mean, we can see what's happening on the ground. >> sure, it's a ground operation. as mark has described, when the smoke clears tomorrow, if you flew a drone on top of gaza city, you would see that there would be strong points around the city that create this outer cordon around the city. and then you would see operations taking place within an inner cordon. outer cordon to protect what's taking place inside. so, you've got ingress and egress that you want to try to control because you realize that the urban operation, which has to concentrate on trying to recover hostages, and that requires a credible, very deliberate, very patient operations, because of the tunnel network that's been described by everyone, which is really -- it's got the hostages probably moving around in there under the control of hamas. and you have very precise operations by the israelis to go after political and military leadership of hamas to try to kill and capture. mostly this is going to be a kill mission. so, realizing that this is urban terrain, this will suck up manpower. you need to clear areas, and then you have to hold those areas, or hamas will simply roll back in. so, you're going to see very deliberate operations on the part of the israelis, and it's going to be an acknowledgment on their part. if they're going to be there -- this isn't a quick operation in and a quick operation out -- they will have to clear, and they're going to have to hold until they're satisfied that their objective has been met. >> given that description, general swartz, i mean, you have deep expertise in this area. and obviously the sense of what is awaiting these israeli forces in gaza city seems to be quite brutal to say the least, this, kind of, urban warfare. do you believe that the israeli forces, these that are going in, certainly some of them. but is the vast majority prepared for what they're going to be facing? i mean, they're going to have to differentiate between civilians, hamas fighters. we know they use civilians as shields. what's that going to look like for them? >> kaitlan, you're correct. you know, the israelis have some specialized forces and special operations forces, specialized forces that are, you know, deal in underground warfare. and their special operations forces and some of their infantry have done extensive training in urban combat operations. but as spider rightfully points out, these types of operations and the size of gaza city that has to be deliberately cleared, very methodically, is going to absorb a significant amount of ground forces. i think in the thousands. and you know, i know from experience that majority of the israeli defense forces are not trained to the degree that you would want to be going into a fight like this, which will also, i think, set the tempo for the operations. and certainly, you know, as i would also highlight, split second decisions are going to be made by very young soldiers, as they're clearing these rooms and being caught under fire. so, as a result, the palestinian civilians that have not been able to leave, there's a likelihood that we're going to have, you know, killed and wounded as a result of that. >> yeah. we know there's still a lot of them who didn't evacuate, who weren't able to go. but given that, given the concerns, we're hearing so much outrage that's growing in the international community about that civilian death toll. and general marks, we're seeing secretary blinken on his way to israel right now to meet with the prime minister. part of what he said about what this trip is going to look like -- here's how he described it before taking off. >> we've seen in recent days palestinian civilians continuing to bear the brunt of this a action, and it's important that the united states is committed to m evething possible is done to protect civilians. >> so, they're pushing for what they're calling a humanitarian pause, not an all-out ceasefire, because they say that would give hamas time to regroup. a pause, is there a real distinction there, general marks? >> i would tell the secretary, he understands this. look, the first conversation that we need to have is with hamas and say, stop holding the palestinians hostage. stop using them as human shields. look, this is not a video game. and the narrative increasingly becomes that this becomes an antiseptic type of engagement where we can delineate very precisely civilians and we go after hamas. this is an incredible, messy battlefield that needs to be able to have humanitarian assistance come in and be used for the purpose of taking care of the palestinians. but at the same time, there is no tactically feasible way for the idf to stop what they are doing right now and take a pause. they become targets. they give up the advantage that they've achieved on the ground. and they're not about to do that. so, both can occur, both humanitarian assistance can occur and military operations can occur simultaneously. that's what needs to have to happen. but we've got to get away from this notion that it can be a very clean, very neatly sliced type of a battlefield. it's not possible. >> general "spider" marks, general mark schwartz, thank you both. i'm sure we'll be speaking to you both a lot over the coming days. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, kaitlan. >> thank you. a member of israel's government is going to join us here next with our questions. of course president biden and his top aides, they have been warning israel about that growing outcry over the suffering that is happening in gaza. also tonight, the u.s. promised to help israel, but the house just passed a funding bill that's facing a veto threat from president biden and no thanks from the senate. soso, what nowow? we're keeping a close eye on the skies over gaza tonight following that dramatic intensification of bombardment by the israel defense forces. this is all playing out as secretary of state blinken is on his way to israel right now. when he was pressed on whether or not he believes israel is showing restraint when it comes to this offensive, he reiterated that israel has a right to defend itself. and also, i'm quoting blinken now, the responsibility to do everything possible to protect civilians. air strikes on united nations refugee camps have prompted concerns about the war crimes from the united nations. israel says that hamas is using those places and those civilians as human shields, covering its terrorist bunkers and tunnels that it's using to wage this war. i want to bring in former israeli ambassador to the united nations, who is also an influential member of parliament for the la qud party, led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. ambassador, thank you for being here tonight. can you tell us what is happening in gaza tonight. are we going to wake up tomorrow and see that israeli ground forces have reinforced themselves inside gaza? >> kaitlan, we continue with the ground operation with the same goals, to eradicate hamas and bring home the hostages. we have 30 babies in the hands of hamas and many families in the hands of hamas. so, we continue. we still try to convince the population to move thousands, i think, mostly of the civilian population left. so, we are fighting the hamas. but it is very difficult to fight with them because they are cowards. when they have to kill women and babies in israel, they fight with them. today when we're coming in, they're hiding in the tunnels. so it will take time for us to find them and kill them. >> why now? why are we seeing such an intense bombardment playing out over the skies of gaza? >> basically that's part of the ground operation, which is the air force working together with the ground forces, moving very slowly, very carefully. when we locate, when we have the intel about the location of the hamas headquarter, we attack and we paid a heavy price. we had casualties, unfortunately, but we are committed to go all the way until we finish the job. >> was this attacking a hamas headquarters tonight? is that what that activity was? >> so, basically either we attack hamas headquarters, as we did in the last hours -- mainly when we know about those place, when you see the explosives, usually it means there was something there, a storage of explosives or we found a place where they were hiding rockets. that's why you see big explosives. >> so, you're attacking hamas targets? >> absolutely. absolutely. and we have thousands of targets in gaza. it became a hub for terror. they took all the weapons and funds they could achieve. and today what we find there unfortunately, they build -- state in gaza. >> secretary blinken is on his way to you right now, to israel to meet with the prime minister. he wants to call for a pause in the fighting. they would like for hostages to be able to get out, for aid to be able to get in. is israel open to having another pause? >> i don't get it. why we speak about a pause or a ceasefire? we had one. until october 7th, we had a ceasefire with hamas. they broke it. they came in, massacred 1,400 israelis. so, now it's the time that we will eliminate. so, if there will be a pause in order to release hostages, we can discuss. but to have a ceasefire, what will happen then? they will regroup. they will be ready to attack us again. it will be a mistake and we're going to pay a heavy price. every hour you give them to regroup, it means more casualties to our troops. >> okay. but you do -- you are saying that israel is open to a temporary pause. how many hostages would hamas need to be prepared to release in order for israel to agree to a temporary pause? is there a number? >> no. we are not conducting negotiations like that with them. but we know that they're trying to play with us. if they will release hostages, we will allow it, you know, to happen. we will make sure it will happen safely for both sides. but we will not let them maneuver the war with the hostages. we are committed to achieve both goals, to defeat them and release hostages. it's complicated. it creates a lot of dilemmas to our troops, but i'm confident we can achieve it. >> secretary blinken also made clear that what he is concerned about is what happens after israel is done with this operation in gaza. when he arrives there in just a matter of hours, does israel have a plan now for what comes next? >> first, i think it's very smart to start the discussion about the day after, who will be running gaza. we know that hamas will not be there. they're either surrender or will die. i think it's a legitimate debate. and i think we should involve regional players about the day after. and we are often to listen to the ideas, to discuss it. we want to live peacefully here. we have no intention to stay in gaza. we don't want to run the lives of the palestinians there. so, i think it's an important discussion. and i think it should involve not only israel but also other countries in the region. >> so, what i'm hearing is there's not a plan yet, but you are prepared to start discussing one. is that right, ambassador? >> that is correct. we are talking about it. we have internal discussions. and i think -- important because it will require other players to be involved. and i think it's capable of putting everything together even though now we are focused on the military action. but at the same time, we are hoping to discuss it with our partners. >> okay. ambassador, thank you for staying up. i know it's very late there. appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you very much, kaitlan. billions of dollars in aid for israel was just pushed through on capitol hill by the republican-led house, but only for israel, not any money for ukraine. this is setting up a major clash with both the senate and the white house. two congressmen who voted to pass that bill from different sides of the aisle are here next. the house of representatives passed $14.3 billion in emergency aid for israel tonight with the newly elected house speaker tying that aid to cuts in other government spending. but that bill is not going anywhere after majority leader chuck schumer said they will not be taking it up in the senate. there is a bipartisan support that is building for combining assistance to israel with ukraine. i'm joined tonight by republican congressman mike lawler and democratic congressman jared moskowitz, both of whom voted for that bill. congressman lawler, let me start with you. a stand alone bill probably would have passed. why are didn't republicans do that? >> look, the speaker made a determination, obviously to advance aid to israel, $14.3 billion. but we need to pay for it. i know a lot of my democratic colleagues are saying, this is about conditioning aid for israel for the first time. it's not conditioning it. we're going to support israel. we're going to pass legislation that provides israel with all the support that they need financially and militarily. but we have to pay for it. we're deal being a existential crisis in this country approaching $34 trillion in debt. only in the united states congress would showing how you're going to pay for this be a problem. >> but it does add to the deficit. if this had passed as is, without the irs spending cuts, does that not add to the deficit? >> the scoring has often been wrong. and the reality is that cutting spending is not going to add to the deficit here. we have a responsibility to pass aid to israel. the speaker put that forth on the floor today. it garnered bipartisan support. obviously the senate has their idea of what they're going to do. and we're going to negotiate and go from there. but, you know, i don't really, frankly, understand all the hubbub about this. at the end of the day, we're still going to have to pay for this one way or the other, whether it's included as a stand alone bill or if we show the pay-for in the bill. so, we're going to have to get there somehow. >> i should note everyone always criticized the cvo when they say something they don't like, both parties do. >> with all due respect, kaitlan, the cbo has continually revised their estimates time and again. it's not a function of criticizing it when you don't like it. it's the reality. >> it's a pretty big number to add to the deficit. it's not like it's within the margin of error. congressman markowitz, you are a democrat. democratic leaders did not want you to vote for this bill, but you did anyway, despite having ca called it a political trap. tell me why. >> you don't have to ask me, you can ask the nrcc, who the very day they came out with this bill post democrats have to choose between israel and the irs. that's why i was calling that out. i don't think the speaker should have done this. this is the speaker's first full week. he's talked about trying to bring the house together. we're having these international issues. this is a national security issue. israel is our number one ally. there was no reason to divide the house. it could have been a real unifying moment. but instead he chose the other way. i voted for it because my grandmother is part of the kinder transport out of germany as a child. she told me about these things that are happening in the world right now, and it sounded like something happened a long time ago. you go to the holocaust museums, see pictures, people tattooed with numbers on their arms, and we've seen the largest number of jews killed on october 7th since then. and protests around this country and cities and other cities around the world, on university campuses. jews can't even walk to class without getting accosted. so, for me, this was a personal vote. it's unfortunate they made it political. i'm happy chuck schumer will not pick it up. i know we like to politicize the cbo, but the cbo said it won't offset the cost of this. i'm for the american family spending less. i'm happy for government spending less. i'm happy the speaker is going to to do a budget commission. >> congressman lawler, what's your response to that? >> i respect my colleague from florida. obviously we have a bill tomorrow that we have worked on together, the ship act, which will increase secondary sanctions on iranian petroleum. so, we'll agree to disagree on this inso far as the spending offsets. the reality is the white house has asked for over $100 billion in supplemental aid. it's going to have to be paid for. so, whether it's included in the bill or figured out down the road, the reality is it has to be paid for. no municipality or state in america could put a bill forward without showing how you're going to pay for it. what the speaker is saying is we have nearly $34 trillion in debt in this country. this administration has spent over $5 trillion in new money over the last two years. it's unsustainable. it is the reason we had record inflation. we have to rein in spending. that's why we're going through the appropriations process. we support aid to israel. it is bipartisan. there is broad support for it. we can disagree on how we're going to pay for it. the reality is we have to pay for it. i think anybody acting as though showing you have need to pay for it in a bill is somehow a major crisis just highlights the problem in washington, where people think you don't need to pay for things. you can just spend unlimited. >> kaitlan, if i may, let me add something to that. >> go ahead. >> listen, the congressman and i agree a lot more than we disagree. we have a number of bills we're working on together. one of the precedents here that the speaker is starting that i think is extremely dangerous. we do need to learn to pay for things around here. i don't disagree with my colleague on that. but the next time there's a hurricane in florida and we need a supplemental, next time there's superstorm sandy, hurricane harvey, next time there's an earthquake or fire in california, fire in hawaii, nec time there's something in guam, in the virgin island, puerto rico, are we going to have to demand that we do pay-fors on emergency supplementals on community times of need? that's the real question and concern that many of my colleagues share myself. >> these pay-fors, i should note, they're not going to happen. they got passed in the house, but it's not going to go anywhere because the senate is not taking it up. the white house has said they'd veto it. >> the majority leader has said that before and the white house has said that before, and yet they paeszed the d.c. crime bill we put forth -- >> but democrats had overwhelmingly started to support that. you don't often see a republican and a democrat standing side by side doing an interview. the two of you have introduced this bipartisan legislation. congressman lawler, as you mentioned, it imposes new sanctions targeting iranian oil imports. how confident are you congressman markowitz that this is going to become law? >> well, listen, i think you're going to see extreme bipartisan support tomorrow on this piece of legislation. it has almost 90 democrats that have cosponsored this. i expect an overwhelming majority of republicans to vote for it as well. so, it's going to get the two-thirds it needs to pass on suspension. so, i think the senate should take this up. i think we need to send a strong message to iran and the world that we're not going to tolerate the world's largest sponsor of terror making money by selling their oil to china and funding hezbollah and hamas and other destabilizing forces around the world. there is no doubt right now that hamas, russia, china, north korea, are all talking to each other. so, this is extremely important w. e have to cut off all sort of financing. and this is one way to do it. >> congressman lawler, what's your message to the senate on getting this done? >> look, china is the biggest purchaser of iranian petroleum. and iranian petroleum sales are up 59% over the last three years. they are using these funds to fund terrorism, to fund hamas, to fund hezbollah, to fund other terrorist organizations with the sole purpose of wiping israel off the face of the earth. we need to impose stricter sanctions on the buyers of iranian petroleum, starting with china. these secondary sanctions are critically important. so, i think it is time for congress to act to make it very clear to china, to russia, to iran, that we will not tolerate their malign influence in the world and the conduct that they have engaged in that has undermined and destabilized the free world and especially with the most recent terrorist attacks on the state of israel and attempt to annihilate the jewish people. we will not tolerate it. we will not stand for it. and that's why it's imperative that congress pass the ship act and the biden administration sign it into law. >> congressman mike lawler, congressman jared moskowitz, thank you both for joining tonight. thank you. up next, both of donald trump's adult sons were on the stand today, i should say, at a trial centered around fraud that threatens his entire empire. first eric trump claimed he had nothing to do with documents at the heart of the case. but then he was shown emails by prosecutors suggesting otherwisise. everytything that t happened, ,s nenext. moments ago, a court just denied ivanka trump's latest request to avoid testifying in the trump organization civil fraud trial that is happening here in new york. this, on the same day that donald trump's two adult sons sat for hours inside of a courtroom. both donald trump jr. and eric trump, as you can see here, took the stand. they are both accused, along with their father, of falsely inflating the value of company properties. and while the former president has been on a social media barrage, not necessarily new, claiming among other things that his adult children are being persecuted, it is important to remember who made it a point of putting them in charge of the company just days before he was inaugurated. >> my two sons, who are right here, don and eric, are going to be running the company. they are going to be running it in a very professional manner. >> i'm joined now by maggie haberman, cnn political analyst and political correspondent for "the new york times." we'll talk about the ivanka development in a moment. just that moment there, i was thinking about it all day today, as i was seeing eric trump and donald trump jr. in court. that was almost seven years ago. as they are on the stand talking about their roles, can you just walk everyone through what their roles -- their whole career has, kind of, been defined by the trump organization. >> yeah and before trump put them in charge, he was grooming his children, including ivanka trump, to take over this company. they were trustees of the company. that was the official title. i think they had some kind of vice presidential title as well prior to that and after that. basically they were running the company. i will say, in reality according to everyone i have ever spoken with, don jr. was far less involved in the day to day than his brother eric. eric really became the person who was running the company. and i think, kaitlan, that was reflected in part in how much more combative eric trump's testimony was in court today. don jr.'s was relatively less so. >> it got increasingly combative in emails even dating back to 2010 when he was saying, i wasn't involved in that, and the attorney general says essentially they provided these false valuations of even the family's estate. she noted at one point that donald trump jr. had personally certified the financial statements. but they were saying, well, i was just doing this, it was based on the valuations of others, not necessarily me. >> there was an effort to distance themselves from things that they signed or from decisions that were made. and we have seen that over and over. and that's also something we've seen donald trump do about his own company, something we saw him do in his presidency. i was acting on the advice of whomever. i suspect you'll see that in his upcoming trial on overturning the election results in 2020. advice on council. someone else was making these decisions. i don't think for the purpose of the outcome of this trial that any of this testimony matters because the outcome is fairly determined. the judge has issued a partial judgment, suggests that trump sr. is going to face some problems in trying to keep his company together. in terms of having to lay out the guts of their company, i think that this was uncomfortable for both sons. they both had some stumbles. at the end of the day, i don't think either -- neither one had an earth shattering moment on the stand. >> just before we came on air tonight, we got the news that part of the appeal that ivanka trump's attorneys filed today, trying to pause the whole trial while they figure out whether or not she has to testify has been denied. she's been fighting it, in part saying it would be undue hardship because it's wednesday, middle of the school week that she would have to come to new york to do that. what's your sense of why she's fighting testifying? >> i think there are a couple of reasons. the whole trump ethos is fight, fight, fight, delay, delay, delay. the house committee investigating january 6th was played at a public hearing, i think more than one. it infur rated former president trump. i think this creates potential for some moments that would be, again, very uncomfortable for ivanka trump. i think lots of parents and children -- she has three children. i think lots of parents with three children still are forced go to court and don't end up in various cases describe it as an undue hardship, especially somebody with the means that she has. i think it is not surprising to see her trying to delay. >> and your latest reporting, all of this fitting into this bigger picture -- and i should note donald trump is also going to be on the stand -- this bigger picture of a second trump term and what that's going to look like. right now it's so clear that trump is going to be the nominee. we don't know for sure, of course. anything could happen. but right now, if it was tomorrow, he would be. and the idea of him potentially having another term, he would, kind of, just be unrestrained. what's your reporting on what that would look like? >> you are correct that elections aren't over until they're over. but at the moment he has an overwhelming lead in the national polling and even iowa he's well ahead, all the early states he's well ahead. there's reason to look at what a second administration would look like. we focus this week on a piece about efforts by two key trump allies, stephen miller and johnny mcinty, stephen miller, his policy adviser. johnny -- took over the personnel office in 2020 with a mandate to purge the government of people who were seen as opposed to trump or trying to stop his agenda. they are trying to find lawyers who could staff a second trump administration. lawyers who would fill agencies, not white house counsel, lawyers who would find ways to get him to yes on the kinds of policies he wants to enact. he has laid out several of them on his campaign website in some detail. it's a pretty radical agenda. >> lawyers defined the first four year of trump to a degree. they were, kind of, the seat belts, if you want to put it that way -- >> the guardrails phrase gets used a lot. lawyers -- very conservative lawyers, many of them -- >> incredibly conservative. >> correct -- were saying no on things trump wanted to push through, particularly on matters related to immigration. that's always going to be a big driver with trump. you are seeing a push of trying to get lawyers who will not raise those kind of objections, who will try to find ways he can accomplish what he wants. and we will see what that looks like if he becomes president again. >> maggie haberman, great reporting as always. thank you. we'll be back in a moment. there is breaking news tonight on another major verdict happening here in a courtroom in new york. that's next. tonight, a verdict for the falling crypt toe king, sam bankman-fried, the 31-year-old founder of ftx has now been found guilty on all 7 counts of fraud and conspiracy. now, convicted of steeling billions of dollars from his own crypto currency customers. one of the biggest white color crime that is we've seen since bernie madoff was sent to prison. how long did the jury deliberate before the verdict tonight? >> reporter: kaitlin, they deliberated for four hours. convicted on all cubitis including wire fraud, securities fraud, and commodities fraud. anyone watching the trial really not surprised of the outcome, given the overwhelming amount of evidence that prosecutors presented during the course of the trial including financial documents showing fake balance sheets showing that they were trying to show that they had more money than they did. incriminating conversations between bankman-fried and some of his former executives, and testimony from his former executives saying he very well knew that he was stealing interest his customers and using that money for whatever else he wanted. throughout the it trial prosecutors portrayed this man as someone obsessed with greed, someone who was overly ambitious and a man who thought he could bye-bye president one day. he see creatly used this ftx, and secretly used customer's money for whatever he wanted t. could have been to contribute to a political campaign, to buy property, or, as they also said to really prop up alameda research this trading business that he had founded which was financially. one of the star witnesses that court watchers saw during the course of the trial, his ex-girlfriend, carolyn he willson, a former ceo, and she said that he very well knew he was stealing money from customers, funneling it to other places, she said they lied to investors and auditors, and of course, the man testified himself, bankman-fried testify add and showing himself as someone trying to make as much money as possible and give as much money away to good cause. but, he really didn't do himself any favors because on cross examination when he was asked over and over about specific details about his business, he said "i can't recall or i can't remember" he said that more than one hundred times, jurors didn't buy it, kaitlin. at the end of the day, $8 billion gone, lost, money that people had for investment, money that people were going to use for savings, all of that money gone, prosecutors say because of this man's greed. the u.s. attorney came outside court just tonight and said the following, the government has no patience for fraud and corruption, he will be sentenced on march 28th. and jason, just before you go, given he was at the top, i mean, he was the pinnacle of cryptocurrency, what was his reaction in court today when they read that guilty verdict? >> reporter: well, he was clearly nervous, before, earlier during the evening when he was standing in front of the court, he was tapping his foot. and a number of court observers, again, no surprise here, given the overwhelming amount of evidence that was presented here, and everyone was wondering, what could possibly be the defense here, and again, at one point, the defense said he told jurors if a mistake was made, it doesn't mean it was a crime. it was clear that he was nervous given the amount of time the jury had to make the decision, four hours, they in all likelihood knew what the outcome would be. >> jason, thank you for the report. in this time of global crisis, one senator's block cade of crucial. now, members of senator tommy tuberville's own party are clashing with him. more on n that, nextxt. nice footwork. man, you're lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. now you can stream all your games like it's nothing. yes! 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