start, former vice president mike pence will testify against his old boss, what dropping his appeal means for the case against trump and more bad news for the former president. top national security officials testify against him in the 2020 election subversion probe plus put your hands up in some noise for brandon. ahead we re going to have my interview with chicago s new progressive mayor elect brandon johnson, about how he pulled off his upset victory. what s going on everyone welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for the wonderful christine romans a lot to get to this morning, so let s get to it. we re gonna start with former vice president mike pence, deciding not to appeal a federal judge s order for him to testify in the case against donald trump. we don t know what date the date yet, but pence will now testify to a grand jury in a special council probe into efforts by trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 20
Than 4,600 people have been killed in gaza. Thats over the past two weeks since israel launched retaliatory airstrikes, in the aftermath of hamas s attack that killed more than 1,400 people in israel. Now, israel is warning that its Military Campaign against hamas could last several months. The idf say the next stage, a widely anticipated Ground Offensive, would happen soon. With more, heres our correspondent wyre davis from jerusalem, and a warning, you may find parts of his report distressing. The human toll in gaza is mounting. These casualties brought to the al aqsa hospital in central gaza are outside the zone from which israel had told civilians to flee. Its not known from where the victims came, but many of the dead and injured are children. Some images, too distressing to broadcast, show the bodies of at least a dozen children. Translation we have been here since the Crack Of Dawn L and the bodies have completely filled the hospital yard. This is in addition to the bodies in re
of development in and around israel s war on hamas. a new focus tonight on allegations that sexual assault was a central part of the atrocities against hamas to start the war. it s been a heavy day italy airstrikes in gaza. about 200 targets hit according to military officials. separately, new video surfaced of the on social media of israeli forces using explosives to demolish large buildings in central gaza. justice ministry and court houses. elsewhere, on the ground, meantime our first evidence that the idf is carrying out the plan it announced yesterday to launch operations in southern gaza. video, geolocated by cnn showing is really troops at least one tank operating in the south. as the fighting their picks up, the humanitarian crisis grows from garden to not have few options where to go and very little to eat. world health organization team a hospital in khan yunis saying conditions are, in their words, catastrophic. warning that intensified ground operations in t
out front tonight, party like it s 1984. today s job news might start to seal the deal for re-election. that s his hope. unemployment in america fell to 8.3% as the country added 343,000 jobs. the recovery is speeding up. we ve got to do everything in our power to keep it going. which reminds us of another president who found himself in a similar situation during his re-election year. i am pleased to report that america is much improved. and there s good reason to believe that improvement will phenomenon through the days to come. reagan won on this. it s morning again in america. today, more men and women will go to work than ever bachelor in our country s history. with interest rates about half the record highs of 1980. tonight, we ask a question we asked before when the jobs picture improved the last time in our country. the last time when reagan was reelected, the unemployment rate was 8%. compare that to today s 8.3%. by the time the re-election rolled aroun
their fair share. that brings me to what s being called the buffett rule, named for billionaire who says the super rich are undertaxed. the president is insisting people who earn is million a year or more pay as much in taxes or more as ordinary wage earners do. republicans are up in arms but the president says it is not class warfare it is math. gloria, does the president s math actually add up? well, what he did today really was lay down a political marker. this is a president who s been accused by his base of not participating enough in his own health care reform plan or of negotiating with himself too early. what he did this time he said, look, if this were a perfect world for me, this is what i would do, and you ll notice in here that there aren t real entitlement cuts to beneficiaries. there are some to providers in medicare. so he largely left social security untouched. medicare cut-backs to providers. so what he s saying is, i m leaving that off the table, let s