on the ground. israel expands its ground operations in gaza. we re going to fight in the air, ground, and sea. what does the escalation mean for the region s future? and for the hostages trapped there by hamas? national security adviser jake sullivan joins me live, next. and then, intelligence which he republican senator, james langford. plus, blackout, as israel s barrage picked up, gaza went dark with communication services cut. palestinian civilians must be protected. now with communications partly extraordinary, what is the latest inside gaza? and, new beginnings? finally, the u.s. house elects a speaker. one more sign of republicans embrace of donald trump. another? i have decided to suspend my campaign for president. gop candidate chris christie on what it all means, coming up. hello. i m jake tapper in tel aviv, where israeli bombardments of gaza lit up the sky overnight. cnn teams are hearing constant explosions and some machine gun fire with drones
president. we don t know what the outcome will be. only they decide that. that is how our system works, as it should. i know it sounds sur role. it is all really happening, starting tomorrow morning. and if one person appears to be feeling the heat right now, it is clearly trump himself. who, surprise, surprise, lashed out at the judge and the district attorney on the case as a whole over memorial day weekend. trump is pretty clearly testing the bounds ever his gag order because he knows at this point hours away from closing arguments, the judge is past the point of wanting to derail the trial and as the case enters the final phase, you could find any prediction for how it may end. the jury may find the prosecution did not make its case or be acquitted or deadlock and this could end in a mistrial. or the jury could convict trump as former fbi director james comey predicts. that would make trump the first former u.s. president to be convicted. by the end of the week, we may kn
infrastructure in a neighborhood in northwest rafah. it s a stunning incident for israel and one of the deadliest days for the idf since teuber seventh, the short time ago, people gathered for a moment of silence to pay their respects for the eighth lives lost. cnn s oren liebermann is joining us now, live from a haifa israel or and what are you learning fredricka as you point out, this is one of the single deadliest incidents we ve seen against israeli soldiers in gaza since the beginning of the war, a total of eight soldiers were killed. one of those has been identified to this point, a captain who was with those eight soldiers who are part of a combat engineering brigade, the idf says this is still under investigation, but according to what they know, now, there was an explosion from what they call a sidebar them near their armored personnel carriers. so an armored vehicle. now they don t explain what a sidebar is, whether it was something affixed to the vehicle itself o
diplomacy, the president meeting with world leaders at the g-7 summit. his message on gaza and ukraine. good morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s get right to breaking news on capitol hill where former president trump has arrived in just the last hour, his first visit to the hill since his supporters tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power on january 6th, 2021. a reminder, trump himself didn t go to the capital that day, and he won t be in the capitol building today. instead he s holding meetings with sitting lawmakers nearby. right now he s behind closed doors with members of the house. later he meets with senators. nbc s ali vitali is staking out this meeting and joins us live from the hill. also with us former democratic congressman from new york, steve israel, and former press secretary to republican house speakers john boehner and paul ryan, brendan buck. ali, what have you seen out there this morning, and what should we
the front line as soon as possible, not in another six months, so that they would be able to move ahead. well, the foreign aid radiating new questions today on whether some house republicans will trigger a motion to vacate speaker mike johnson. congressman marjorie taylor greene escalating that threat today. mike johnson speakership is over. he needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. if he doesn t do so, he will be vacated. does this mean you will file the motion at some point? it is coming regardless of what mike johnson decides to do. a brand-new poll gives a fresh look at the presidential race and finds trump narrowly ahead of biden by two points in a head-to-head matchup. that being 46 to 44%. that is down from trumps five-