Im bret baier. President biden and his team send mixed messages over whether he has Apentagon Guised for calling Immigrant Murder suspect illegal. Common ground suspect deals with how the Border Crisis is affecting congressional Threat Assessments and another major city contemplates using the National Guard to deal with violence and Public Transportation facilities. Bret but first, breaking tonight, we are getting new information on the dangers of illegal immigration as reports of arrests for Violent Crimes escalate across the country. The director of the fbi was grilled on the subject today during the senates annual worldwide Threat Assessment hearing. You can expect more of the same tomorrow in the house. Some headlines today. Correspondent Gillian Turner has details from the State Department tonight. Good evening, gillian. Gillian good evening, bret. We got a rare glimpse into the Intelligence Communitys thinking about what exactly america is up against in the intel chief did not pa
Impede the counting of electoral votes. All he wanted to do is impede the process that is stated in the constitution, thats all he wanted. All i wanted to do was rob a bank. Take all the money. I mean, this is exactly what he is charged for. And he admitted it. Yeah, you know watching mr. Laura and political defender like Lindsey Graham, attempt to defend donald trump over the last couple of days, its clear they dont have a lot to work with. Mr. Lauro is a real attorney, not like the other attorneys that mr. Trump had around him, he was a prosecutor, and if he cant seem to come up with a cogent theory of the case of why donald trump was acting legally around the 2020 election in the days leading up to january six, its because the evidence in that indictment are so overwhelming, they are hopscotching around hoping to find something, but nothing is hitting yet. Well, of course they wont find anything illegal because they are boxed illegally, they will lose legally, what theyre trying to
overhead is constant. nabila is taking care of her nephew. he has lost half of his family. ask god for their return, she tells him. he can barely mouth the words. there is a mental health unit at the al aqsa hospital. they say they are overwhelmed with traumatised children. what conditions have you seen? the doctor is asked. while they have now suffered many more casualties, the trauma caused by this conflict is not limited to the people of gaza. more than 100 israeli hostages still remain in captivity, three months after hamas and other militants captured some 250 people and killed around 1200. over the weekend, thousands of israelis gathered in what has become known as hostage square. this is my big brother. he is kidnapped by hamas. he is held hostage from the 7th of october, 100 days. we hope he come back, we wish he comes back. every day, every night, every hour, every minute that passes is harder. the families of the hostages gather almost every day, calling for thei
the kremlin is calling it an alarming situation. at least one person killed, six others injured in strikes in russian territory. what the buildup to ukraine s counter offensive says about where this war is headed. 2024 republican presidential candidate ron desantis is on the trail in iowa. ahead, his message to former president donald trump. so it looks like a scene out of fast and furious. a car launches off the end of a flatbed tow truck and flips through the air. so why on earth did that even happen? this is cnn news central. so this just in to cnn. an important development for those counting votes on the deal to avoid a u.s. default. democratic representative pramila jayapal, the chair of the house progressive caucus, says she will not support the deal. she is a no. this, as house democrats are meeting behind closed doors right now. cnn s manu raju is with us on capitol hill right now. all right, manu. where does that put things as the morning moves on
hello, welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, made a statement at a joint press conference with his israeli counterpart in tel aviv. he met that is really prime minister, lloyd austin said the us commitment to israel was unquestionable. he also met his counterpart in the past hour the pair held a news conference in which amongst other matters he confirmed they discussed the past or future for gaza. israelis and palestinians both deserve a horizon of hope. so the united states continues to believe, as we have under administrations of both parties, that it is in the interest of both israelis and palestinians to move forward toward two states, living side by side in mutual security. here s the israeli defence minister, yoav gallant, who also made a statement following talks with his us counterpart. in northern gaza, our troops have eliminated thousands of terrorist, destroyed mil