To leave israel. Hes never going to cut off all weapons, leave them without an iron dome or anything like that . Clearly that did not come across as much of a threat to the israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, who said, as you mentioned, that the offensive in rafah on the ground will press ahead as planned he said that the fighting there could take two months, maybe six weeks, perhaps only one month, but it will happen regardless, despite warnings from the us and from even israels closest allies, that going into rafah, given you have well over 1 Million People sheltering there and really no other safe place for them to go inside gaza would be catastrophic. And he also said that that is israelis are byinlarge behind him. This was in response to President Biden saying that, yeah, whose policies are hurting israel more than its helping. Heres netanyahu well, i dont know exactly what the president meant but if you meant by that done, im pursuing private policies against the majority
Hi everyone and thanks so much for joining me this afternoon. Im in dc and we are following two Major International stories this afternoon. The first of them out of israel or the us and jordan have conducted more humanitarian aid drops into gaza. And the first equipment to build a Temporary Port In Gaza for aid is now in route to that region. Were going to get to more on that in just a moment. Again, in haiti, where the us military has evacuated Nonessential Personnel from the us embassy in portauprince. The Airlift Operation was ordered as the Gang Violence in that Island Nation worsens. Gang leaders are now threatening civil war if the Prime Minister does not leave office. And now at is under a State Of Emergency until april 3, cnn chief National Security correspondent Alex Marquardt is joining us by phone and cnns Patrick Oppmann is live from cuba with the latest details. Alex, lets start first with you. Tell us more about this evacuation well jessica significant concern growing abo
Democrats say they are fired up today in Chuck Schumers words, exhilarated still today day after bidens fate of the Union Address last night. Now, today, biden is hoping to capitalize on that energy very soon. Hes heading to pennsylvania to talk to voters then team biden is fanning out the 22 states, lighting up behind me on that map from coasttocoast will by the end of this month, a white house official will the visit an Administration Official will visit each one of those states. The top democrat in the senate, Chuck Schumer, last hour was talking to john, how a play for you about what he said about how hes feeling right now . The speech showed that america is strong and biden is strong, and anyone who sat in that room would have no doubt Something Else that the white house is sure to be happy about today is touting the new jobs report just out this morning. Cnns arlette saenzs at the white house for us once again, arlette, what are you hearing from there about the new jobs report ju
Entitled to a portion of that money all when 808 thats when 808, 59, 2,400 present biden and his Cabinet Members are hitting the campaign trail, taking his message to voters in Battleground States after an unusually forceful well State Of The Union speech and former President Trump is welcoming hungry strongman leader viktor orban to maralago. Today, trump has repeatedly praised him for his hardline policies. Were live in palm beach, florida, plus the pentagon is developing a ufo Detection Kit to collect better data on possible the sightings even though they say they havent found any evidence yet of Alien Technology which truth is out there. And were going to get to it as we follow these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central President Biden is about to arrive for a Campaign Event in pennsylvania, and he is hoping to bring some momentum to his Reelection Bid after last nights pretty passioned, impassioned State Of The Union address. He used
As he hits the road. And we turn our focus to this general election. Well, just these dueling rallies certainly provided a window and what were expected to see in the months to come between President Biden and his republican rival, donald trump were the president ticked through multiple themes over the course of his remarks to a rowdy audience. But one of the prominent themes and one that his Campaign Launched on was protecting democracy. And on that front, the president kicked off his remarks, talking about Donald Trumps coziness to authorities, syrian regimes, and also making clear that its a stark contrast between him and donald trump. Take a listen my lifetime has taught me to embrace The Future Of Freedom and democracy and trump and i have a very different value set of an obvious already biden is based on core values of the defined america. And the rest of the world looks at us that way decency fairness, equality were all know donald trump sees a different america and american sto