once again dredging up lies about the 2020 election, just six weeks before the iowa caucuses. this afternoon, trump accused president biden of, quote, waging an all-out war on american democracy, and his chain hand campaign handed out these signs, you can see it on the screen, joe biden attacks democracy. the former president told supporters at another rally today that he hopes judges will let him prosecute the 2020 election, and encouraged them to go into ballot tabulating facile at this times in 2024 to, quote, guard the votes. kristen holmes has been following the trump campaign today. she s in cedar rapids, iowa, for us. kristen, what s the latest? reporter: yeah, jim, essentially, this is the most forcible rebuttal we ve seen from former president trump to the argument that president biden has routinely made, that a second trump term would be a threat to democracy. he even vaguely referenced a speech that biden gave in september when he talked about maga republicans
the israelis are accusing the terror group of not fulfilling its promise to return all the women and children being held hostage. cnn s oren lieberman and matthew chance are tracking the latest from tel aviv. we ll start with oren. walk us through how these negotiations break down and what happens now. reporter: so the negotiations to this point focused on a very specific group of people, women and children. that was what the agreement was, to release 50 women and children at the start, and then ten women and children per day to extend the truce for 24 hours. this is where the disagreement comes in. israel and the u.s. believe that hamas is holding at least 17 women and children which would allow for at least one more day of pause. hamas says they re not holding women and children at this point and wanted to move the discussions on to elderly men as well as men and women who were soldiers. it is on that point that the discussions fell apart. hamas insisting that the women t
. good morning, welcome to cnn this morning, i m victor blackwell. and i m isabel rosales in for amara walker, thanks for joining us, israeli combat operations against hamas are entering their second day after the collapse of the week long truce. israel s military says they have hit over 400 targets in just the first 24 hours since the truce expired. they have been directing most of thatfire power toward targets in southern gaza. they ve released flyers telling civilians where to evacuate. hamas did not provide the names of women and children still held hostage, despite the truce ending, talks to release more hostages are ongoing. ben wedeman is in jerusalem. tell us about what has happened in southern gaza, specifically, over the past few hours. reporter: well, what we know, as you mentioned, is that the israeli military said they carried out 400 strikes in southern gaza, now, that compares to 300 on the last day of before the truce went into effect. so certainly i
hello and welcome to our viewers, here in the united states and all around the world i m paula newton with our coverage of israel s war on hamas. israel is rejecting calls for a cease-fire. as its troops and tanks go ever deeper into gaza. more than three weeks after the deadly rampage by hamas, the israeli ground operation is expanding and believed israeli forces are at least several kilometers or a little bit more than a couple of miles inside the enclave. the prime minister is making it clear that he will leave no troops. preparing his government stance to that of the, u.s. after his attacks on pearl harbor and 9/11. this is a time for the war for a common used to. between the forces of civilization and the forces it is a time for everyone to decide israel will stand against the forces the time israeli strike has hit gaza s top cancer hospital, and supporting it signals the damage to oxygen and water supplies. and new details are emerging about how a female israeli s