Im Boris Sanchez live in washington where at any moment President Biden will address the nation and the world on the escalating war between israel and hamas. We are going to bring that you speech live. A speech in which weve learned biden is not expected to urge israel to exercise restraint in a potential Ground Incursion into gaza, something that President Biden weve learned has not tried to dissuade Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from carrying out. We want to take you live to israel with my Colleague Anderson who is on the group with us. Thanks very much. Today the bulk of the fighting has been in the skies here, israel air strikes, Hamas Rocket Attacks ra ramping up on this fourth day of blood shed. Here, take a look at the aftermath of air strikes on gaza, entire city blocks wiped out, the Israeli Defense forces say that they have hit hundreds of hamas targets. On the israeli side the scale of hamas atrocities is now just really fully coming into view. New video shows the scene
27th, well before yesterday s tweet storm. i guess the question is will the president pay any attention to that. boris, thank you very much. the wall street journal reporting a republican operative tracking down hacked e-mails from hillary clinton s server implied he received the help of fired national security adviser michael flynn before the election. cnn s phil mattingly is live on capitol hill with the details. phil, walk us through this. the story which cnn hasn t corroborated yet, done by the wall street journal details how a republican opposition researcher, peter smith, believed that hillary clinton s e-mails had been stolen from her private server and had been reaching out to hackers and hacking groups in an effort to try to get those e-mails. according to the wall street journal, some of the individuals he reached out to said he claimed he was working with or corroborating with michael flynn, then a senior foreign policy adviser to candidate donald trump who event
this is just fighting fire with fire. also this morning, the wall street journal is reporting a long-time republican operative tried to get hillary clinton s e-mails from hackers, implying he had some connection to fired national security adviser michael flynn. we have it all covered for you as always. we begin with boris sanchez live in washington. boris, what are you hearing? good morning, clarissa. the president has already tweeted out twice this morning, first about crime in chicago and potentially sending federal help there, and then about the repeal and replacement of obamacare. these early morning tweets very different than yesterday s, in which he went in a very personal direction attacking a cable news host and taking the national conversation about politics in this country in an unexpected direction. mr. president, do you regret your tweets?
and it was really nasty last night as we were watching it. but as that was happening, there was a steady stream of headlines coming out of washington, we should point out. the reaction after the presidential pardon, a former arizona sheriff joe arpaio is one of them. we know civil rights groups and lawmakers are criticizing the decision. we have boris sanchez live in washington to walk us through all that happened in washington overnight. hey, good morning, victor and christy, this has become a bit of pattern for the white house, a huge dump of stories on a friday. this one with this giant storm looming nonetheless. first, the pardoning of sheriff joe arpaio once known as america s toughest sheriff. this is something that the president had put out references to on twitter saying it was something he was seriously considering. then at that rally on tuesday night in phoenix he said that he predicted the sheriff would be okay, leading many to believe that a pardon was in the works,