signals it may restore donald trump s gag order in the federal election subversion case but loosen some restrictions. we ll tell you why the former president took the green light for some public attacks on special counsel jack smith. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in israel. the families of hostages held by hamas just made an urgent appeal to the netanyahu government, pushing for action to bring their relatives homes. cnn s nic robertson is following all the new developments from his position overlooking gaza. nic, what is the latest? reporter: there does some to be some optimism around the hostages. the reality is in every sort of hostage family that i ve talked to here reminds me when i speak about the possibility of getting their loved ones home, they say you have to recognize and understand that hamas is not a state actor. it is not a ration
Good afternoon. The president and the entire administration the president and the entire administration is continuing to monitor the situation in the United States virgin islands, puerto rico, and all areas affected by hurricanes. Traveling the affected eric as today and the president will president is demonstrating now why he is a true leader who can bring people together. He wants to build unity by working on more issues supported by both parties, especially restoring fairness to our broken tax code. Last week in north dakota he invited democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp up on stage to welcome her during his tax reform event in her home state. Tonight he will host her along with colleagues of hers from both parties, senators donnelly, dinner at to me for the white house to discuss working together to achieve real tax reform that allows americans to keep more of their hardearned dollars. It will bee meeting, a continued conversation with key members on this important policy push. The V
Democrats and republicans have been in the same room talking about those topics. One of the points many of us made republicans and democrats is that the process in the house is broken. Theres no interaction. And the president made the point that the most significant legislation has to have bipartisan support. We havent had that. So in that perspective, it was quite impressive the president invited both sides. On the tax issue coming up, thats the most dominant right now. The president repeat what had he said in his original address about it being progrowth and promiddle class. Indicated explicitly that this would not be a tax cut pardon me . You could find this cameras by yourself . It wasnt that hard. Thanks. And so in terms of the broad general principles, the president recited what he said before. And basically everybody will be a winner. The question is when the ink is dry, will you be able to do the math and see that, in fact, middle class folks particularly Rural America that ele
Are using the u. S. Financial system. And, you know, were talking about something that, you know, is matters on a number of levels of american life. Whether youre applying for a credit card or whether youre applying for a mortgage, a checking account. All of these things factor into this data breach in one way or another. 143 million credit files put at risk here. What does that mean to consumers . What can they do . Should they be doing at this point . Security experts are generally recommending a couple of steps. The biggest step you could take is to freeze your credit. This essentially makes it so anyone who is trying to start an account fraudulently in your name wont be able to have, you know, the bank pull your credit in order to start the account. You know, that actually takes a few steps. You have to call each of the three Credit Reporting agencies and say, hey, i want my credit frozen. In some cases you may have to pay a small fee. Equifax has waived that fee temporarily. But f
Minister, and to rose hudson wilkins, our wonderful chaplain, for accompanying me to the vigil for jo last friday. At the priestly statute in the center of that lovely town. We, all of us, were moved by the energy and warmth of the crowd brought together in grief and solidarity. Ive been very moved when the public outpourings since her death. The hundreds of letters and emails weve all received in solidarity with joes family in their hour of grief. And by the outpouring of charitable donations to causes close to her heart, hope not hate, and the royal voluntary services. Last night my honorable friend the member for south and myself held a vigil outside our townhall. One of hundreds of vigils attended by tens of thousands of people the right across our land who are so shocked i what happened, and what to express that shock and grief. Also what you think of the parties in this house who offered their sympathy and support at this very difficult time. We united in grief at her loss, and w