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
Live from washington, im paula reid in for jim acosta. You are in the cnn newsroom. Former President Trump is pushing back on the new criminal charges hes facing. The former president took to social media today to deny that Security Footage from maralago was deleted, but thats not what prosecutors have accused here. They allege that he was part of an attempt to delete the footage. Prosecutors say a maralago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, urged another employee to scrub the footage, saying that, quote, the boss, aka trump, wanted the entire server deleted. De oliveira is accused of lying to investigators about moving classified documents at the resort, and the indictment alleges that the desire to have this footage deleted was all aimed at trying to conceal critical information from investigators. De oliveira is due in federal Court Tomorrow morning. Trump also says that the footage was voluntary handed over. Thats also not true. It was subpoenaed. This weekend, trump has been on
Is up next the art of the deal by joe biden at Michael Smerconish and philadelphia. Did President Biden just snuck or President Trump with regard to the debates . By now, you know, the candidates reached an agreement this week, they will debate outside the framework of the commission on president ial debates. Theyll square off twice first in june, then in september, potentially with a Vice President ial debate inbetween, it seemed quick and organic, but i have my doubts two weeks ago, cofounder and cochair of the commission on president ial debates Frank Fahrenkopf was my guest here. I asked him if hed heard from either campaign other than the criticism that we just heard from the Trump Campaign with regard to trying to move the bates earlier in which we think weve answered as best we can, we can answer it. Weve had no contact with either campaign, which is not unusual cycle, where you normally dont have contact with pressed republican and democrat and other people who may be able to b
Ill see you back here next saturday at 8 00 a. M. Eastern summer cottage starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas on Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stopped short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the state Department Said investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information this followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if israel were to carry out an allout offensive in that city, the increased Military Operation in rafah has put ceasefire for Hostage Talks on pause to us officials told cnn all of this follows a Turning Point in us, israel relations this we
Internationally were creating the evidence what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it oh, i love that. Ill be sure to tune in next saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for that champions for change, onehour special and thank you so much for joining me today. Amphoteric a Whitfield Smerconish starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stop short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the State Department said, investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information. This followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if isra