Destruction still raging today. Later this afternoon President Biden will hold his first News Conference since hamas carried out the Terror Attacks and escalating threats from iran target u. S. Forces in the region. A bunch of things moving on that front as we say hello. Im bill hemmer. Here we go today. Dana im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Hamas terrorists also trying to infiltrate israel from the Mediterranean Sea and foiled by the israeli navy. A whos who of top officials of hezbollah, hamas and Islamic Jihad holding talks how to achieve total victory over israel. The pentagon revealing more than 14 attacks, one more than yesterday against u. S. Forces based in the middle east in the last week. The white house trying to connect the dots saying all these militia and all these Terror Groups are working hand in glove with tehran. Iran is certainly complicit here. Without them there is no hamas or hezbollah, without them there is no Militia Groups firing rockets at our tro
[explosion] harris they are taking out the targets they want to hit. Israel steadily eliminating hamas terrorist leadership. Idf forces say they now have taken out a top naval commander and killed nearly two dozen senior hamas leaders since the start of the war which was only 19 days ago. And we are learning about this. A literal whos who of Terror Leaders had a meeting in beirut. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the Faulkner Focus. A summit of hate i will call it. Top killers from hezbollah, hamas, Palestinian Islamic ji hard holding talks on achieving, quote, victory over israel. It is their first reported meeting since the war begin and cements concerns that analysts are having that the war is now getting wider and more intense and emboldening a host of The Middle Easts worst actors. Israeli forces striking syria after a Rocket Attack in israel, aleppos International Airport a target. State run media is claiming eight soldiers were killed. Secretary of state Antony Blinken confirms
Jack smith has secured his most valuable witness yet, mark meadows. Prosecutors dont hand out agreements like candy. Mark meadows was at the center of so much of this. He could speak to trumps mindset in a very specific way. Welcome, everyone. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. We begin with the federal election interference case against donald trump. The former president s Chief Of Staff mark meadows we learned was granted immunity by special counsel jack smith and met with his team more than once according to a abc news. He allegedly told investigators he didnt believe the election was stolen and talked about this moment on election day in november 2020. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election. [ cheers and applause ] meadows reportedly telling investigators that he believed trump was being dishonest and saying that cnn anchor of the source, kaitlan collins, joins us now. We have been asking for, i dont know, a year plus, whats up with mark meadows .
You see her there, the 85yearold grandmother recounting her harrowing experience. Her daughter was by her side translating. Yoesh shed lifshitz said hamas stormed her kibbutz and abducted her on the back of the moto motorbike. Each captive had their own doctor. There are huge, huge network of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spider web. When she first arrived, they told them that they are muslims and theyre not going to hurt them. And that they shared they ate the same food that hamas was eating. Hamas has now released four hostages as israeli troops gear up to launch an assault on gaza they say by ground, sea and air. The Israeli Military says it struck more than 400 targets across gaza in the past day killing hamas commanders and fighters. More than 200 hostages are still believed to be inside gaza. And as we learned from israels president overnight, that includes 30 children. Go to erin burnett she joins us live in tel aviv. Erin, to you, incredible to hear those details of how t
Report. Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon, jessica. Thanks for having me sitting in the chair, come back tomorrow. You do the same but dont go anywhere because the leader, jake tapper starts right now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper and we were falling Breaking News out of new york. Of course, were day and Donald Trumps hush money trial. The defense rested right now in court, theres a meeting to determine what the judge will tell the jury next week before the jury begins debilitating the deliberating. What will no doubt be a monumental verdict one way or the other in the very first ever criminal trial of a former President Trump himself is at this court meeting. And well bring it you all the updates coming up, but leading this, our israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joins us live from jerusalem a day after the historic decision by the International Criminal court in the hague to seek Arrest Warrants, not only for the three top leaders of th