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members of his family, including the first lady, in that courthouse. the prosecution aware of that during closing arguments, and what the prosecutor told the jury about the family sitting in those front rows. also breaking tonight, donald trump s interview with a new york probation officer. that interview required of all convicted felons. what that probation officer will now do with the judge set to sentence trump in weeks. the chilling new images here from inside the israeli operation to rescue four hostages in gaza. the moment soldiers find three of them. coming under fire while getting them out. israeli special forces posing as palestinian refugees. saying, we got the diamonds. when they found the hostages. you ll see these harrowing images from the inside. here in the u.s. at this hour, the severe weather threat and the record heat across multiple states. then all of this heading east. and florida bracing for potential flooding, up to 20 inches of rain. also, th
not just me who has to be concerned about what he intends to do, what he knows that he is capable of doing because the first run whether it will was the insurrection, the unconstitutional, what this is for him, this is a practice run, the second time around. he will make a more sophisticated game plan to achieve what he wants and that is total control. not just me, what do you mean by that? you, too, anyone who is critical. just a few weeks after, trump gave the keynote speech at seatac and proclaimed for the first time, quote, i am your retribution. that has become the guiding mantra of his bid to return to the white house. in june of last year, shortly after he was indicted for the second time, he took to social and vowed that he would, quote, appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the united states, joe biden, the entire biden crime family and all others involved with the destruction of our elections, borders and co
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seed.com to order. now news. night, with abby phillip week nights at term eastern on cnn you are in the scene and newsroom. i m jessica dean in new york, and we are following breaking news out of the middle east today as israel welcomes home, four hostages rest this morning from gaza during a special military operation. all four were kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the october 7 attacks. that was eight months ago. they include 22-year-old almog meir, jan, 25-year-old noa are argamani, 2020, 7-year-old, andre cause levin 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andre in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks, where we saw her screaming as a mosque fighters drove away with her on a motorbike israel saying this morning s rescue mission took place at two separate locations in central gaza near refugee camp palestinians. they re described the raid as hell on earth