month and together, public private partnerships with a best thing america has to offer our veterans. >> thank you so much and thank you all for joining me. jim acosta is up next. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington and we begin this hour with six days in counting. here we go again. it's been exactly six weeks since the house passed a temporary spending bill to avoid a shutdown and in just six days, we could be back in the same place waiting to see if a deal is in place to keep the government from shutting down. you might recall the last deal cost kevin mccarthy his job. now with days to go, the new speaker is laying out his plan to keep the government funded. an annie grayer is here with latest. they had a call. what tdid you find out? >> still combing through the bill. but what mike johnson did is reveal he wants to fund the government with a two-part approach. the first would fund some of the government to january 19th as you can see here with some government agencies getting that deadline. and then a second bill that would fund the rest of the government until february 2nd. this bill would not have any additional funding for the wars in israel or ukraine. it would keep funding at current levels and not have spending cuts. so, this was a plan that johnson is kind of embracing on the right in terms of approach, but he's not doing the keep cuts that his right wing of his party wanted. it's a mixed bag here. >> sounds as though there are some conservative members of the republican conference who are not happy about this already then there's the question of what's going to happen in the senate. >> right. so chip roy came out quickly and said that he is against this because he uses his keeping funding at the current levels, which is what he's been working very hard to happen again. and democrats both in the house and senate say this kind of lattered or two step approach is a nonstarter for them. so where does this go from here? as you said, only six days to go. we'll have to see, but we finally have the plan from speaker mike johnson and we know, we're now going to see how he can get the votes to pass this. >> this is the plan until maybe there's another plan. thank you very much. let's discus and more with the director of university of virginia center for politics. als larry, i will not ask you to look into that crystal ball when it comes to whether or not we'll see the government shutdown because the crystal ball might shatter. what do you think of this approach? >> we only project elections, jim. the easy part. >> that's right. >> it's a disaster. everybody knows it's a disaster. even if it passes the house, which is hardly assured, it will be all kinds of additional plans and objections and all the rest of it. the senate isn't going to go along with this and the president isn't going to go along with this. they've got one week to go because they wasted three weeks with their clown show picking a new speaker. so, really, a great start, speaker johnson. really great. >> and now just six days to put the pin back in the grenade, i guess, until a government shutdown kicks in. what do you make of the fact that the speaker just has very little time left to negotiate this? the last go around, we saw a deal struck at the 11th hour and i suspect that that's what they'll do this time around. just seems to be the pattern that's in place to avoid these government shutdowns. >> probably if they pick the sane option, which is never a good bet with this congress, jim. they could have a continuing resolution. not this latter approach, but one continuing resolution. but they could also just let the government shutdown. because some of these people and the speaker doesn't have much of a history or any leadership experience, really, with this sort of thing, they probably have forgotten that just about every time we've had a government shutdown, only one party has suffered. clearly suffered. guess which party? the republican party. so maybe they're going to do it again. >> well and that leads me to this because obviously democrats had a strong showing in the week's election results. republicans probably don't want to pile a government shutdown on top of that. but what is your sense of where the momentum is in the race for the white house for 2024? there's this recent cnn poll that shows former president trump slightly ahead of joe biden, but what took place on tuesday may have reshuffled the deck to some extent in terms of expectations of where the parties are. the government shutdown, if it hurts the republicans as it historically has, that would be good news for the democrats. >> yes. a lot of things are breaking the democrats way expect for the polls and really of all the things that we have on the plate here, the least important is polling. not to diss the cnn poll or "new york times" poll or any other poll, but polls are just a measure of what's happening today if they're accurate. what really counts is what are the structural factors that affect the election vote as it's shaping up. and most of those structural factors are helping democrats, not republicans. >> and the abortion issue really brought democrats out to the polls. in terms of the polling places where they vote. not the polls that are you get a call on. but let me ask you this. is this sort of an x factor that is just not really factoring into the polls? do the polls not reflect the i guess the energy that is generated by this abortion issue on the democratic side? >> well, voters generally don't look that far ahead. they make choices based on the choices that are defined by the candidates and parties during the election campaign. now, will abortion, abortion rights, reproductive rights be a part of that? well, of course. you know, when roe v. wade was overturned, jim, i know you remember this, people said women and other democratic leaning voters are angry now. this is june. a lot of it will have faded by november. well, democrats did very well. much better than expected in the midterm elections in 2022 then the critics said it will never last to 2023. no issue lasts that long. we just had the 2023 election. what happened? abortion rights pushed those elections to the democrats. so i'll make a bold prediction using the crystal ball. we're going to see abortion rights be a major issue again in the fall of 2024. because people aren't forgetting about it. in part because republican legislature and governors are passing restrictions right and left on abortion rights. >> let me ask you about the 2024 match-up between biden and trump. if trump looks like he's going to get the nomination if he is in fact the nominee. this afternoon, trump held another rally. this time in new hampshire, where he was gushing over hungary's leader. he made this comment that made is it sound as if he thinks barack obama is the current president. >> the head of hungary, very tough, strong guy. they were interviewing him two weeks ago and they said what will you advise president obama, the whole world seems to be exploding. >> larry, trump has had a lot of these slip ups, mental lapses. just getting things wrong. some of his recent rallies. he did one earlier this week where he was down in highleah, talked about kim jong-un being in charge of a country of 1.4 million people. what do you think is going on? "the washington post" has a story out today on how trump's 2024 republican rivals are looking for ways to stop his momentum and they're seizing on opportunities to challenge his acuity. talking about trump's acuity here, not biden's, which is something that republicans like to talk about. what's your sense of what's going on here? >> well, good luck to his opponents in the republican party because the base, the trump base, which is the biggest part of the republican base, isn't listening to any criticism of trump. they don't care even if they think it's accurate, but it is important. maybe the press reports should be more balanced. when president biden's age and questions about his so-called mental acuity or race may be the very same thing should be mentioned for donald trump. i think that would be fair. i've got to say, jim, i just hope president putin's feelings weren't hurt by the good things putin said about orban. i hope he's not switching dictators here. >> joe manchin and this announcement he announced this week that he's not running for re-election next year. he made it clear in this video that he's leaving the door open to a possible third party bid for president. is there, what is your sense of this? yes, rfk jr. is out there, actually maybe affecting this race more than people think right right now. but could manchin do something similar in a different kind of lane? a centrist lane as he likes to describe it? what do you think? >> personally, i doubt manchin runs for president as an independent or no labels candidate or anything of the sort because i think he knows deep down he would lose. probably badly. and it is possible if he attracts enough centrist vote, he could spin that election in the electoral college right to trump. i don't think he wants to be known for that in american history. that's just a guess. but i'll tell you, if there's anything that president biden does have to worry about, because you can't do anything about your age. are these third party and independent candidates because we're getting a crowd of them. you mentioned manchin is a possibility or larry hogan, the former governor of maryland for the no labels people. but you have jill stein reappearing. the green party candidate who cost hillary clinton michigan. probably cost her wisconsin and may have cost her pennsylvania and therefore, the election. but rfk jr., who may be hurting trump right now at least, more than biden. cornell west. who is a liberal and one assumes as an independent if he can get on the ballot, he would hurt biden. so to me, as you look at the election structurally, the greatest threat to president biden's re-election isn't his age. it's third party and independent candidates. >> yeah because all it takes is a slice here and a slice there in some key states and that's it. gr to talk to you. thanks a lot. the united nations relief agency in gaza says people are being quote choked by continuous bombardment as there are large palestinian rallies unfolding across europe. we'll have the latest from the war and from the demonstrations. that's ahead. in gaza, intense fighting continuing around gaza's biggest hospital. this as the international community for the red cross says gaza's healthcare is past the point of no return. oren, what are you learning? >> jim, what we're seeing and hearing, over the course of the hour, we heard more artillery although we couldn't see where it landed. now unclear exactly on that point but now instead of artillery, we're hearing more fighter jets and have seen one or two explosions from the jets from our vantage point here. about an hour ago, we heard machine gunfight which would have been closer to us. in terms of what we're hearing from inside gaza, much of today has focused on the largest hospital in the gaza strip. that according to information we know, has about 400 patients and perhaps more importantly, 20,000 palestinians taking refuge in the hospital. the director general says the hospital itself is surrounded by idf force, tanks and other forces. meanwhile, the hospital itself faces a critical shortage of food, water and electricity and that's made a difficult situation more dire as the hours tick by and the fighting in the area itself. meanwhile, the hamas controlled ministry of health says that again they are in need of supplies here. the palestine red crescent says only 53 aid trucks entered today. that a tiny fraction of what normally comes in. officials there have said the main complex of the hospital hasn't been targeted by other structures, the maternity ward, external clinics, have been damaged by fighting in the area. as is the case when talking about anything here, there's a competing narrative coming from the israelis who say look, there is fighting in that area, but each side of the hospital is open and they will assist and provide whatever assistance needed for those looking to come into or out of the hospital there. they say they're in touch with hospital officials there and will assist in the evacuation of people in the pediatrics unit tomorrow. that coming out from the idf. they said they've taken over six military posts. and that is where the idf has focused much of its operation and fighting. we'll certainly continue to see how it develops now only in the reports we're getting from inside gaza, but the northeastern corner of gaza. >> and tonight, we heard from prime minister netanyahu. what did he say? >> in terms of the overall message, a lot of what we heard here is what he said. they're going to continue to go after hamas, hit hamas, and that's the ultimate goal here as they keep min mind trying to ge some hostages back. he didn't specifically say the palestinian authority wouldn't be returning to gaza, but he said a civil authority here that hasn't yet condemned the october 7th attack would in the be in charge of gaza and israel would have security control and be able to go in at any point. that leaves open the question of what is israel's post hamas plan for if and when it defeats hamas. that is very much an open question because that sounds a lot like israel's plan is to re reoccupy gaza on the ground. >> now want to go to cnn senior white house reporter. the president is in delaware and we're seeing protests outside his wilmington home. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah. it was a sizable protest, jim. hundreds of pro palestinian protestors. i've been in wilmington a fair amount over the last couple of years. you don't really see a lot of protests when the president is in town for the weekend so it does reflect this growing anger among a certain portion of the american population at how president biden has been handling this conflict and it mirrors some other protests that the president has seen over the last week. he saw them in illinois when he was there for a speech. he's been interrupted two times by people calling for a cease fire. now, today, the president drove into his house so he didn't necessarily see these protesters firsthand, but he is aware of this divide among the american public about how this is being handled. it's a divide among democrats as well. just this week, a majority of the democratic caucus in the senate wrote president biden, asking more questions about that $14 billion request for emergency military assistance to israel. asking for guarantees that israel, that the funding come with it some guarantees that israel mitigates civilian deaths. we also heard today from the french president saying that a cease fire would benefit israel. that there's no justification for its bombing of civilians and calling on other leaders including in the united states to join him in making that call. and so certainly president biden has been standing shoulder to shoulder with israel throughout this conflict saying that it has a right to defend itself. a responsibility to go after hamas. but you have seen president biden and other administration officials injecting much more cautious into their public remarks and in fact, we heard just this week from the secretary of state blinken saying that too many palestinians had died in this conflict. saying that much more needed to be done to protect civilian lives. president biden has been calling for these humanitarian pauses in his phone calls with the prime minister netanyahu. the white house did announce this week that israel would be implementing these four hour pauses each day to allow more aid to flow in and allow civilians who want to flee to get out, but president biden when he was asked about this this week, did acknowledge that he hoped netanyahu might have agreed to that sooner, jim. >> all right. thank you very much. back in the middle east, a major wartime summit just wrapped up in saudi arabia. the president of iran met with the saudi crown prince, the first such visit in more than a decade. and a final resolution agreed to by more than 50 arab and muslim leaders that condemns what they call israel's war crimes against gaza describing it as quote, barbaric, brutal and inhumane massacres, end quote. joining us now, aaron david miller. you know, what do you think of the iranian president going to saudi arabia? we typically think of the iranian and saudis as being just you know, not really on the same page on very much in the world and yet here we are seeing them together meeting with these other leaders and issuing some strong condemnations today. >> as you know, jim, the chinese brokered i guess i would call it an iranian saudi detente at the end of last year. i think that has created an opening for improved relations. the saudis clearly want to keep iran as quiet as possible given the fact that the export of oil is critically important and regional stability for the saudi co crown prince's plans and looking to come in from the cold. i think the oic meeting, this organization of the con tferenc if you stop the conflict today, iran would have been a winner. clearly backed hezbollah. keeping the israelis occupied on the border. they believe their support of hamas, $100 million a year, has paid off. you've got regional tensions. anger at the united states red hot. white hot heat. anger at the israelis. thousands of palestinians killed. destruction in gaza. all of this plays into tehran's objectives. they'd love to see the israelis say in the west bank and occupy gaza forever. >> and do you think that's a little bit of why we're seeing the biden administration recalibrating its message? yesterday, the secretary of state said that he would like to see fewer palestinians killed. quite candidly. he said there are too many palestinians being killed. what do you think of all that? >> we talk about this the other day, jim. there are two clocks ticking. one, the israeli military clock which is moving very slowly as the israelis seek to eradicate hamas' military capacity. the other is the president's political clock, which is ticking down much more quickly under pressure from democrats, arab partners in the region. you now have the french president calling for a cease fire. so the administration is really caught here. they still are very supportive of israel but the longer this goes on, the more exponential deaths there are among palestinians, the more destruction. the greater chance that at some point, these clocks are not going to be synchronized. what it would take to produce that, i don't know, but the israelis are thinking months here, not weeks of military activity and that frankly is going to set matters up for the possibility of increasing tensions between washington and jerusalem. >> and what are the stakes for prime minister netanyahu? u.s. senior official tells cnn hostage negotiations are working toward a deal that would include a day's long pause in the fighting to get a large number of hostages out of gaza. whether or not that happens is really up in the air, but netanyahu has been just really dead against any kind of a pause that is longer than a day or so. and i'm just curious what your thoughts are on all of this and whether these pressures that are mounting from the biden administration in the muslim world, whether any of that have an impact on netanyahu's thinking do you think? >> you know, i think he's tethered his political, what remains of his political future because i think that's quite dire. presiding over the largest terror attack over israel. the greatest intelligence failure since the 1973 war. on trial three years in running for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in a jerusalem district court. his political future is fried. he's hanging it seems to me under the assumption that israel can somehow succeed in eradicating gaza and that i suspect he understands is a lifeline in order to somehow resurrect himself. but the average length of israeli government's independence is 1.8 years. if you and i were having this conversation next year at this time, i doubt if this israeli government will be the one the united states is dealing with. >> interesting. speaking of clocks that are ticking, there's one for netanyahu as well it sounds. aaron david miller, thank you very much. appreciate it. still ahead, why the fbi seized new york mayor eric adams' phones. that story just ahead. c'mon, we're right there. c'mon baby. it's the only we need. go, go, go, go! ah! touchdown baby! -touchdown! are your neighbors watching the same game? 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>> so despite the contiroversy n the lead up to this event, it has remained very organized but the scale reflects this growing public mood that despite the horrific attacks of october 7th, the response may have gone too far. cnn, london. >> the united nations relief agency says that works in gaza says the people there are being choked by continuous bombardment and there's increasing concern over the medical system. the red cross says the healthcare system has passed the quote point of no return. the colonel works for the israel defense ministry. colonel, thank you very much for joining us. what is the situation tonight at that hospital in gaza that has been the area of concern for a lot of people? not only in gaza but around the world? what can you tell us? >> thank you for having me. i want to remind your viewers that we are in the 36th day of the war that have been forced on us by the terror organization of hamas that invade the villages in gaza. murdered, slaughtered, raped 1,400 people. and kidnapped 259. citizens. part of them are foreign nationals and this is the case that we are now in in gaza and regarding hospitals, we are trying to evacuate the people from the hospital. from the north to the south. mostly because we understand that hospitals are a part of a humanitarian, of a headquarters that have been held by hamas. >> and so what is the plan for getting some of these innocent civilians out? the babies, for example. is there a plan? >> hamas terror organization twofold. from one hand, they're an operational strategy. from the other hand, they are humanitarian strategy. in this strategy, they are using every civil infrastructure, humanitarian infrastructure, even the u.n. infrastructure and also hospitals. so what we are trying to do, we are trying to encourage the people that are inside the hospital to evacuate from the north to the south and all the people that are independently can move through the humanitarian corridors that we established, they can move and we will facilitate their move. regarding the people that cannot, we will engage and coordinate it with international communities in order to allow them to evacuate themselves from the hospital to other hospitals in the south. >> and colonel, as you know, there have been bombings and blasts at these hospitals. and i know you and others with the israeli defense forces have said that this is because hamas is operating in some of these hospitals but despite that, this was the message that we heard from one norwegian doctor who has volunteered at the hospital. we're going to play that sound then get you to respond if possible. >> president biden, mr. blinken, mr. blinken, can you hear me? prime ministers and presidents of the european countries, can you hear me? can you hear the screams from the hospitals? can you hear the screams from innocent people? refugees sheltering, trying to safe place, being bombed by israeli attack forces. hospitals that are the temples of humanity and protection. >> colonel, what's your response to that? >> israel is not firing and not targeting hospitals. yesterday, there was a misfire by hamas to try to launch a rocket against the state of israel and fell inside shifa. we are not targeting hospitals and not firing on them. >> that doctor seems to be saying that he would like to see these hospitals, these areas around the hospitals, not be the targets. by israeli defense forces. haven't there been some hits, some strikes a that have occurred by these facilities? >> as i said, we are not targeting hospitals but let us remember that hospitals above the ground and headquarters under the ground trying to save lives. above the ground and trying to take lives under the ground. so this is why we ask and we're still asking that people that are inside the hospital to evacuate themselves from the north to the south. we will facilitate their movement and we established a humanitarian corridors and there's a way to get out from the hospitals and move to the south. >> and as you know, colonel, the united states, president biden, the biden administration, they've been standing shoulder to shoulder with the israeli government throughout this entire conflict. this war. as you said, that was started on october 7th by hamas. tony blinken saying right now that the israeli military is simply killing too many palestinians. he made that comment just in the last day or so. what's your response to that? >> i want to be clear. we are not in war against the residents of gaza. we are in war against the terror organization of hamas. in the minute that we are trying, while we are trying to reduce and to distinguish between hamas terror organization and the residents of gaza, the terror organization of hamas is trying to think how to put this civilians as a human shield between us and them. so we are trying to do everything in our power in order to reduce the number of casualties and they're trying to do everything in their power in order to increase it. >> but when you have the secretary of state of the united states saying far too many palestinians have been killed, does that give you pause? >> we are fully coordinated with the u.s. administration. this is why we established yesterday and today a humanitarian pauses and we established two humanitarian corridors and we asked the population to evacuate from the north to the south where the humanitarian assistance will be delivered. we are trying to do anything in our power to do reduce the number of casualties of civilians. >> cnn is reporting there have been discussions going on among multiple parties that might facilitate a longer pause that could lead to the release of hostages. is israel open to that? is the israeli, are the israeli defense forces open to that? >> we cannot address this question because this is a question for my leadership. the idea we continue to engage and we are in war in order to eliminate the threat and eliminate hamas. >> all right. colonel, thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. we'll be right b back. president biden honoring the nation's veterans during a ceremony at arlington national cemetery today. he praised them as the steel spine of america. >> we come together today, once again, to honor the generations of americans who stood on the front lines of freedom. to once again bear witness to g who risked everything, everything to give us a better future. >> the president also laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier and gave thanks to the families of fallen servicemembers. governors island in new york city is setting an example of sustainability with its zero waste. >> governors island is 172 acres that's off of the tip of manhattan. the concept of zero waste island is to create a system reducing the waste that we produce. earth matters and we are dedicated to recycling people's food scraps and other yard waste materials and teaching leadership. when people are picnicking, anything that people are distributing into what we call resource recovery stations, is something that we will then take out the organic matter and we will composted. composting is taking those organic materials, food scraps, yard waste, and it's transforming them into something we apply to the existing soils. we are trying to reversed the trend of spending all of our resources and having them end up in the landfill. if things are in a landfill, they will be buried and they won't down and they will admit methane gas. all of the vendors have to make sure that the food that they are providing is served in compostable where that goes into our piles to break down. last year we produce 720 tons of compost over 500 community gardens that are receiving that to grow food and we want to feel that we are leaving this planet for the next generation in a better spot. if we can do it here, we can do it anywhere.