our viewers joining us in the u.s. and around the world. bianca is off the rest of the week, but you will see her in brussels later on. just ahead -- >> president biden making very clear that the world is watching to see exactly what the u.s. will do in terms of continuing to support ukraine. >> ukraine will emerge from this war proud, free and firmly rooted in the west unless we walk away. >> first caucuses are just weeks away. ron desantis finally apparently seizing the opportunity too take the shot that donald trump -- >> when he get off the teleprompter, you don't know what he will say. >> seven soldiers including a battalion commander were killed in a single incident in gaza. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is wednesday, december 13, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the ukraine president pleas for more funding for its war against russia. and the u.s. president says letting aid run out would be, quote, the greatest christmas gift for vladimir putin. volodymyr zelenskyy met tuesday with joe biden at the white house and he met separately with senators and the u.s. house speaker but republicans are unwilling to allocate more money unless they get their way on u.s. immigration controls and border security. but neither scenario seems likely to happen before the year's end. >> without supplemental funding, we're rapidly coming to an end to help ukraine respond to the urgent operational demands it has. putin is banking on the united states failing to deliver for ukraine. we must, we must, we must prove him wrong. >> clare sebastian is here to discuss those developments. i mean, you were always expecting him to have a problem here. but were you expecting him to go home pretty much empty-handed and explain that to k kyiv? >> there was a $200 million aid package that was announced, but that comes from the funding that is left. and this is pretty small package. so he got ammunition, missiles. but we were expecting this because it was an impossible task. zelenskyy was put in a situation where he was coming up against u.s. partisan domestic politics going into an election season. and i think that it was clear from this all senators meeting tuesday that while he did -- it was sort of a relatively warm welcome, he managed to convince some senators there wouldn't be any corruption issues when u.s. aid was flowing into the company, he managed to talk up some of the successes and that they could continue to be determined and resilient, but he wouldn't change any minds when it comes on whether or not to include u.s. border controls. president biden did hint that his team is looking for compromises with senators, but this was the last week that the senate and house in fapct are i session before the christmas holiday, so it is looking bleak on that side. but he's carrying on, traveling, he is in norway today which has been a major donor. so he doesn't want to appear defeated in this even though the fact of dwindling u.s. aid is a major blow to ukrainian morel ral. >> what about the incident overnight, seems pretty severe, but people didn't die, but they were injured. >> this is the third missile attack targeting the capital in three days, and this is after a 2 1/2 important break where we haven't seen major missile -- you can see the fires there. what is striking, ukraine says they shot down all these ballistic missiles launched towards the capital, that it was actually the debris falling and broken blast that caused the injuries and the fires. but this led to president zelenskyy renewing his car for a more missiles which he says have been in short supply and that the ukrainian mchlp i spoke to d they don't have enough at this moment. >> thank you. last hour i spoke with the president of the kyiv school of economics and asked how mr. zelenskyy's visit is interpreted back in ukraine. >> well, it is difficult for us to see that ukraine has become a victim of domestic political struggles in the u.s. it is very personal because i've had several friends died and killed by russians at the frontlines over the last several days. and, you know, it is true that russia is pushing. and i think there is also a blind spot that russia has also been deploying new technologies, not just people. they are throwing bodies at the war and they don't count it, but they also have increased their technological capabilities. so in fact russia in some ways is getting stronger and it is felt throughout ukraine. so it is really painful and difficult for us to see the delay in the aid. >> reality is right now ukraine is not getting the money it needs to make progress in this war. does that mean -- what does it mean for the war and their position within it? >> russia has no incentive to stop. and i think that russia wants to get into a much better position to bargain with nato or the u.s. over the next years, over all kinds of foreign issues. so it is not just about ukraine. people who think that somehow if ukraine falls or if ukraine negotiates and surrenders, russia will not use the new political geopolitical capital it will get from this victory to further some of its agenda. those people are mistaken. ron desantis came out swinging against donald trump during tuesday's cnn town hall in iowa. the florida governor looking to cast himself as the main republican rival to trump who is the party's clear frontrunner. desantis attacked trump on everything from inflation, abortion and immigration. >> first three years of the trump administration the economy is better than it has been. but that last year with covid i think was mishandled. shutting down the country was a huge mistake. printing trillions and trillions of dollars was a huge mistake. that set the foundation for the inflation that we see. one thing in this race that is important to point out, donald trump flip-flopping on the right to life. so if you look in january of 2020 when he was president, he stood in the march for life and he gave a speech. and if you read that speech, he said that all life is a gift from god. he compared the unborn child in the mother's womb to being the image of god. he said it was important that we had protections in law. and that is what he was saying in january of 2020. now he has attacked states that have enacted protections like heart beat bills as being a terrible, terrible thing. and i remember in 2016, i went to the rallies with dutd. he donald trump. he said that he would build the wall and have mexico pay for it. that didn't happen. why? i think he got distraktsed and he didn't do it on day one, but he also didn't use the levers of power that he had. >> on the topic of the war between israel and hamas, desantis says possibility of a two state solution is not possible because some groups, quote, want to destroy israel more than they want their own state. attacking donald trump at every opportunity was a notable change in strategy for desantis. up until now he typically avoided criticizing the former president. political analysts spexplain wh that is. >> i think his theme on trump is that he is a different person today than he was when he ran in '15 and '16. he said back then it was about america first, it was about you, now it is more about him. the one answer on trump that i thought was the most interest because it is aimed squarely at the people who show up at the iowa caucus was on abortion. he hit trump on flip-flopping on abortion, which was really squarely aimed at those votings. >> one year ago ron desantis was beating donald trump 56 to 33. he was 23 points ahead of trump a year ago. today he is 48 points behind. that is a 71 point erosion after going to all the 9 co9 counties. >> he did say today that he was the only -- he take you cans about nikki haley being an establishment candidate, but he also is a establishment candidate who defendfdepends on donors who have moved on. they saw a disastrous campaign, disastrous campaign launch, and it only got worse from then. and they have moved on. >> meanwhile desantis opponent nikki haley received an endorsement from new hampshire governor chris sununu. the support from the popular governor is a major boost for haley weeks before new hampshire's primary on january 23. haley was in the new england state for a town hall on tuesday during the event, haley called out both democrats and republicans for the state of the u.s. debt. >> we are $34 trillion in debt. we're having to borrow money just to make our interest payments. china owns some of that debt. now, i would love to tell you that biden did that to us. in the 2024 appropriations budget, republicans put in $7.4 billion worth of pet projects and earmarks. democrats put in $2.8 billion. so now you tell me who the big spenders are. later today, abby phillip will host a town hall with vivek ramaswamy. that is at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. cnn obtaining exclusive new information on the trump classified documents case. we are learning about a former staffer, trump's private club, who was a witness to several episodes mentioned in the case. and the unusual circumstances around his sudden resignation last year following two decades of service. katelyn polantz looks at what it means for the case help. >> reporter: a long time employee of donald trump's at his mar-a-lago club in florida left his job last year after that search at mar-a-lago and it became quite clear that the justice department was investigating donald trump. and then a series of very unusual interactions took place. now, i've googathered this thro vars various sources and material that i was able to see. what happened with this particular former employee was a pattern of communication that really gives you insight into how donald trump's world works around the people in mar-a-lago and particularly people wrapped up in this criminal investigation that led to the indictment of the former president for mishandling classified documents as well as trying to ob strstruct the just department investigation. this former employee received a personal call on his cellphone from donald trump just days after he left his job there at mar-a-lago. trump was calling him to see why he was leaving and then word got back to him after that call took place that trump believed that he was a good guy so gray thusnesst graciousness. but what stood out is that trump never called him, didn't even have his cellphone number prior to this, and also it came amongst several other interactions that this employee had with other people he knew either quite close or people who were colleagues at a bit more of a distance who were very close to trump. people who were talking to him about the legal representation he might be using as he became a witness in the mar-a-lago investigation. turns out this former employee had witnessed quite a lot, had moved boxes, had overheard conversations and became a crucial witness in the justice department investigation just after this time where he leaves working at the club. we also understand that one of his close friends who is now charged as a co-conspirator of donald trump talked to him about getting free tickets to a golf match. donald trump might love to see him at that golf match. and also reminded him repeatedly that he could also return to his job at the club. now, taken together these could be very gracious and just the sort of interactions among friends that might be happening. but these interactions and the pattern of them did become apparent to the special counsel investigation as it was looking at trump and others. because it was an obstruction investigation and many of these things were the types of things to take a look at because this witness told the federal investigators about these instances. now, this is the sort of thing too that the special counsel office will continue to be looking for as donald trump and his co-defendants await trial. so at the very least something that the special counsel's office has been looking at and it provides us just another window in on to how donald trump and the people around him keep tabs on one another. katelyn polantz, cnn, washington. up next, one of the deadliest days for israeli military since the ground offensive in gaza began. we'll have the details in a live report just ahead. plus cnn rides along with u.n. peacekeepers on patrol in southern lebanon where cross border fire is a daily occurrence. israeli military now says nine soldiers have been killed in a single incident in northern gaza as the ongoing battle against hamas expands. one of those killed was a battalion commander. this is one of the deadliest days for israeli forces since ground operations began. elliott has been looking at this for us. what do we know about the nature of this? was it on the search for hostages, a single attack? >> we don't know full details. certainly not from the i ddf. but from what we understand, this commando ufnit was just eat of gaza city, one of the last two holdouts that israel has been cone centrating on. and they came under fire. there was an ied or some device d detonated. they went into a building and another one was detonated as additional troops came to join them or to help them in some capacity. and that is what resulted in these casualties. so nine deaths, several wounded. not the deadliest single incident since ground operations began. i think there was 11 killed on october 31 and november 1. but clearly this shows that even though the israeli defense minister saying that hamas is dism dismantling, people are handing in their weapons and giving them intelligence, complaining of a lack of food and lack of arms, they still have the capacity to do serious damage to israeli forces even as israeli forces kind of try to focus their attention on the southern part of the gaza strip kahn yunis where it believes the top leadership of hamas are hold up underground. >> in terms of the underground network, talk about flushing hamas out, but obviously a huge amount of concern about what effect that might have on hostages too. >> this has been talked about for a bit. it is in the testing stage right now. and they have pumps there and they are going to pump sea water from the mediterranean into these tunnels to see if there is an opportunity to flush out militants. of course as you say there is a danger that hostages might also be in those tunnels that are flooded. there are about 300 miles worth of tunnels underground. you can't flood the whole lot. >> and they are all connected? >> they don't know how they are all connected. we don't know the environmental impact. egypt did something similar which hamas and other militant groups were using to smuggle weapons and other things inside the gaza strip including necessities. and there were complaints from some farmers in that land there. so it is in the testing faphase but this is one option. >> elliott, thank you. israel's military says it struck syrian army targets amid fresh exchanges along its northern border. israel says the strikes are in response to launches from inside syria and missile and mortar fire coming from lebanese territory. cross-border exchanges have become a daily occurrence. and ivan watson rode along with u.n. peace keepers in southern lebanon and filed this report. >> reporter: on patrol with united nations peacekeepers, armored personnel carriers rumbling through towns and villages of southern lebanon. this is what a daily patrol looks like for the u.n. peace keepers and they take security very, very seriously. communities near the border with neighboring israel appear all but deserted, that is because this border region is the scene of a deadly conflict between the israeli military and the lebanese militia hezbollah. that is the israeli security fence just a couple hundred yards away and this united nations peace keeping post is as close as we can safely get to the lebanese border with israel which has been a frontline now in a conflict that has gone on for more than two months. from this post, we can easily see a village that is deserted. >> it is quieter today. there was a few explosions heard through -- >> reporter: this man commands a about platoon of around 30. have any of the munitions come close to this position? >> yes, we have had some land 200, 300 meters away. >> reporter: and the peace keeping force has been deployed in southern lebanon since 1978 and currently consists of more than 10,000 troops. its primary mission is to monitor this tense border and help the lebanese armed forces take over security here. >> our presence here makes it dink difficult for actors on either side to do youunsavory things. >> reporter: and hezbollah says it is attacking israel to show support for palestinians in gaza and israeli military is quick to reta retaliate. >> we have seen advance anti-tank guided missiles, we've seen airstrikes, we've seen artillery strikes. we've seen small arms fire. >> reporter: despite these weapons, the peacekeepers only have a mandate to shoot in self-defense. and their mission is dangerous. during a month long war with hezbollah in 2006, israeli strikes killed five u.n. peace keepers and wounded many more. and last year, lebanese gunmen attacked a vehicle killing an irish peacekeeper and wounding three others. hezbollah denied lebanese judge's accusation that the chief suspect was a hezbollah member. at sunset, the begins of israeli drones echo over the hills. >> there are ordinary men, women and children living here in south lebanon. and indeed across the border in israel. my hope is that the conflict will recede, but am i concerned that it will escalate, absolutely. >> reporter: peace keepers afraid they can't stop the conflict from spiraling into a much bigger war. ivan watson, cnn, on the lebanese border with israel. outrage in poland after a far right lawmaker disrupted a celebration by using fire workers on a menorah. the speaker excluded him from the session saying there is no tolerance for racism, xenophobia or anti-semitism. still to come, disturbing voice mails left for two georgia workers after they say rudy giuliani spread lies about them. how the recordings could impact his definamation trial. and plus house republicans eyeing a vote today to formalize the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president joe biden. details ahead. welcome back. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up-to-date with our top stories. president zelenskyy met with u.s. lawmakers on tuesday during his third visit to washington, but republicans are refusing to grant more security assistance unless their demands for tougher u.s. immigration rules are met. nine israeli soldiers have been killed in a single incident in northern gaza, overall 115 israeli troops have been killed in gaza combat since october 7 as the ground offensive continues to expand. a jury heard horrifying voice mails in the defamation trial against rudy giuliani. this as one of the two suing him broke down in tears in the witness stand. brian todd has more. >> reporter: powerful evidence in the defamation case against former trump attorney rudy giuliani, the jury hearing threatening voice mails sent to two former georgia election workers. >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> reporter: also powerful testimony from one former election worker, shaye moss, about how giuliani's conspiracy theories devastated her life after the 2020 election. moss telling a federal court giuliani's, quote, crazy lies about her and her mother spread everywhere at the time. and led to threats against her family, "i'm most scared of my son finding me and/or my mom hanging outside my house on a tree or having to get the news at school that his mama was killed." this is hours after giuliani doubled down about the lies he had spread about moss and her mother. >> everything i said about them is true. >> do you regret what you did? >> of course i don't regret it. i told the truth. they were engaged in changing votes. >> reporter: there is no proof of that. and the judge in the civil defamation case against giuliani rebuked the former new york mayor saying his negative and quite defamatory statements about the two women could support another defamation claim. >> rudy giuliani should know that this is not going to help his cause. it is going to deepen the hole he is in. and yet he keeps digging. >> reporter: the judge already ruled that giuliani spread false information about moss and freeman in the wake of the 2020 election. giuliani has conceded that he did make defamatory statements about them but he has argued that the statements didn't cause them any damage, even statements like one he made to the georgia state legislature telling them moss and freeman were corrupting the vote counts. >> they are surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they are vials of heroin and cocaine. >> reporter: moss and freeman want $15.5 million to $43 million from the reputational harm and more for the emotional distress they endured. >> i don't want anyone knowing my name. i don't go to the grocery store at all. i haven't been anywhere at all. >> these are public servants and he's essentially put them out there and caused them to be targeted by hateful people, by people who are seeking to do them harm. and he's really up ended their lives. >> reporter: rudy giuliani already shows shaye moss and ruby freeman more than $230,000 for failing to respond to parts of their lawsuit. a few months ago in a court filing giuliani said he is effectively broke because of all of his legal costs so a judgment against him in this case would put him even further into debt. brian todd, cnn, washington. the u.s. house of representatives is expected to vote today to formalize its impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. house republicans are accusing mr. biden and his family of improperly profiting from policy decisions when he was vice president. they also claim that the justice department inappropriately interfered with an investigation into mr. biden's son hunter. melanie zanona has more. >> reporter: the house is set to vote tuesday on a resolution to formalize their impeachment inquiry into president joe biden and his son's foreign business deals. the house is expected to pass this resolution after nearly the entire house republican conference has lined up behind it. this inquiry has been going on for several months after former speaker kevin mccarthy unilaterally opened this probe back in september, but now republicans are making this new push because they want to strengthen their hand in court when they try to enforce subpoenas as they try to wrap up thei investigation. but just because they have the votes for the inquiry does not necessarily mean that they are going to have the votes for impeachment itself and that is because key swing difficult moderate republicans still say that they have not seen any evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors and they are casting doubt on whether house republicans will come up with any evidence of impeacapeachabl offenses. >> let's have the information for the elections. and let the voters decide. they want to know what did the bidens do with $25 million. >> is there a chance that there won't be articles of impeachment? >> i think that is probably more likely than not. >> reporter: tuesday's house vote comes the same day that hunter biden is scheduled to sit for a closed door deposition. he was subpoenaed by house republicans to come sit. but hunter biden has said that he would only public willy appear for an open forum testimony. so this set up a showdown. republicans are threatening to hold him in contempt if he does not show. unclear whether he will show up tomorrow. our colleagues have reported that hunter biden is in washington, d.c., but all eyes on whether he shows up tomorrow the same day the house republicans are set to formalize their impeachment inquiry. melanie zanona, cnn, capitol hill. an historic deal has been announced at the cop 28 conference. it urges nations to transition away from fossil fuels, the ones blamed for global warming. but the new deal reached just hours ago doesn't obligate countries to phase them out all together. instead, it presents a series of 80s options to reduce emissions and asks countries to, quote, contribute to the goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. the agreement leaves open loopholes that will allow the continued use of coal, oil and gas, some climate experts say the deal marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. david mckenzie is joining us with reaction to the agreement. at least fossil fuels are mentioned because it would have been slammed if they weren't. >> reporter: it certainly would have been, max. and it is historic in a sense say many that fossil fuels are explicitly noted in this climate change agreement saying that they need to transition away from fossil fuels within the next decade especially aggressively. now, that obviously includes oil, gas and coal. but it does leave many loopholes as you say, allowing countries to continue to exploit fossil fuels by pushing for things like carbon capture, renewed push on energy transitioned through the use of cleaner energy like solar and other forms of energy. here are live pics in fact as we see the delegates talking at the end of the meetings. it was a theirmarathon session negotiations. cop president said it is historic and it could turn the page on the efforts to fight the climate crisis. take a listen. >> we have delivered a comprehensive response to the global and all other mandates. together we have confronted realities and we have set the world in the right direction. we have given it a robust action plan to keep 1.5 within reach. >> reporter: thousannow to keep within reach as the president says there, you need to have at least a 40% reduction of emissions globally. that is a tall ask at this point, max. countries need to wean themselves off fossil fuels. there was a lot of pushback from nations like saudi arabia, the oil giant, but also from countries here in africa that saw the future of not exploiting the fossil fuel reserves as punishing the countries that have had little do with the climate change crisis. this will be seen as a compromise document. it is not legally binding. and that is worth again mentioning. but it is an important step say scientists and activists to ending the discussion of keeping fossil fuels as the singular way that the world powers the planet. >> david mckenzie, thank you. to give you a sense of why these talks are so important, a new report says the arctic region experiences hotter summer on record in 2023. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration says it was record 43 degrees farenheit and also reports sea ice is continuing to shrink exposing the dark surface of the ocean which means that it is absorbing more heat from the sun. scientists previously have reported that 2023 will officially be the hottest year on record worldwide. still to come, dozens of new deals signed between china and vietnam including on maritime security in the disputed south china sea. we'll have a live report from beijing on xi jinping's state visit to hanoi. loving this pay bump in our allowance. wonder where mom and dad got the extra money? maybe they won the lottery? maybe they inherited a fortune? maybe buried treasure? maybe it fell off a truck? maybe they heard that xfinity customers can save hundreds when they buy one unlimted line and get one free. now i can buy that electric scooter! i'm starting a private-equity fund that specializes in midcap. you do you. visit xfinitymobile.com today. vietnam says 36 deals are signed with china during the state visit to hanoi. they reportedly include agreements on maritime security in the disputed south china sea. xi said china's relationship with vietnam is a priority in building neighborhood diplomacy and praised their strategic and economic partnership. this visit is just three months after joe biden was in vietnam looking to strengthen ties with china's neighbor. marc stewart is joining us from beijing. i wonder if that visit by beijing really set the tone in a way for this visit from china. >> reporter: well, look, vietnam is getting a lot of attention lately especially by president biden, but also by a lot of u.s. business interests. and the last time xi jinping was in vietnam was six years ago. so, you know, i think it is fair to say that there was pressure for him to make his presence known. these nations are neighbors. they are both communists, but there is also some division especially when it comes to the south china sea. but as we are hearing from chinese state media, there is this new positioning of relations, at least that is the term that is being used. and xi jinping was welcomed to vietnam in grand style. there was a 21 gun salute, we saw children waving flags. there was a military band giving a serenade. so certainly full of the optics that are very important in this part of the world. xi jinping mets with vietnam's prime minister. he met with prime minister's president. they did discuss some of these maritime issues, south china sea. in particular there is an area of the vietnamese coast, it is a very resource rich area. the nations agreed to joint patrols in that area. they also agreed to set up a hotline if there is any kind of incident from fishing boats for example. and then there were other agreements signed. not necessarily very headline grabbing, but it did show that there was an effort of cooperation between the two nations. also a lot of discussion between economics. but again, the timing of this likely cannot be ignored, again president biden was just there in the fall. we now have president xi who has been making his presence on the world stage much more visible lastly. we saw him at the apec summit in san francisco just last month. so he is certainly trying to produce this idea of a new world order. and alternative to the west. and so in many ways this visit to vietnam falls in line with president xi jinping's broader goals and expectations. >> and this is a country with ties to both countries. it will be interesting to see how it sustains that over time. >> reporter: right. in fact in the case of the united states, the united states is now elevated to the highest level of diplomatic relations, i guess you could say, between vietnam and the united states, highest level in the eyes of vietnam. so certainly a lot of benefit for the united states to have that relationship especially from a business standpoint. because if there is, you know, any kind of slowdown with supply chain issues in china, vietnam has been seen as an alternative. so it does make sense for these relations to move forward for both nations. >> marc stewart in beijing, thank you so much. british lawmakers have advanced the government's controversial plan to deploy many migrants to processing despite widespread divisions among conservative lawmakers. the draft bill passed the first hurdle tuesday with 313 lawmakers vote fing for the legislation. dozens of right wing conservative mps abstained over objection that the bill is not tough enough. it was rewritten to override legal challenges. the conservative government defended the bill's legality in parliament. >> the new treaty that i signed last week with rwanda and the bill that accompany it is are game changer. the pre-support of relocating people to a safe country to have their asylum claim processed there is entirely consistent with the terms of the refugee convention. both the high court and the court of appeal unanimously confirmed this point. >> the legislation is likely to face additional challenges from lawmakers on all sides as well as opposition from the upper house -- house of lords. we'll be back in a moment. the world of turkish football is in turmoil after the club's president punched a referee in the face. the person has resigned. scott mclean has more from istanbul. >> reporter: the man who ran on to the pitch of a top tier football match in turkey on monday and punched a referee in the face is facing criminal charges. he is also now resigned from his job, the job by the way is as the president of one of the teams that was playing. now, in the video you can see the president of the mid table team in the turkish super league run on to the pitch and deliver a blow directly to the ref's face. two other people kicked him while he was down. not long after that ref had a very noticeable black eye. now, the man arrested not long after announcing his resignation tuesday saying in part, quote, in order to avoid any further harm to the club and fans, and my family, i'd like to announce that i've resigned. i hope that this incident, which i more than anyone else cannot accept will provide a froen purification of shortcomings and culture of violence. this though is a far cry from his initial statements after the match. he told turkish state news agency that he lashed out because of the referee's wrong decisions in the game and said that his aim was to react verbally and spit in the ref's face. he said he slapped the ref rather than punched him and denied that his supposed slap could have caused the referee's skull to be fractured as his doctor reported. now, according to cnn turk, he told another tv channel that he blacked out and didn't remember what he did. the turkish football federation announced that all matches in the top tiers had been suspended indefinitely and the referee's soerng association called on refs not to work any matches in protest. the incident has received widespread condemnation across turkey. erdogan called the referee in his hospital room to wish him a quick recovery. scott mclean, cnn, istanbul. stories in the spotlight, hollywood mourning the loss of an delay braugher who died after a brief illness. he made his debut in a film glory about a unit of black soldiers during the civil war. he went on to have dozens of television and film roles demonstrating his range in both dramas and comedies including in the series "brooklyn nine-nine." he also won an emmy for life on the street. the head of epic games make of the popular fortnite says google executives have only themselves to blame for the defeat in court. monday a federal jury found google was running an illegal monopoly with its app store stifling competition and violating u.s. antitrust laws. tim sweeney says that google executives have too much of a paper trail for the jury to ignore having written down all their ideas and contradicting themselves on the witness stand. it is considered the first major antitrust decision against the tech giant since the u.s. government took on michrosoft i the 1990s. google vowed to appeal. thanks for joining me here. i'm max foster. "early start" is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ right now on "early start," complains on capitol hill taking aim at the biden family on two fronts today. plus israel now deploying a new weapon in gaza. will water help flush out hamas from the tunnels. and -- >> when gets