that when he talks about what she would like to do to people he perceives as his enemies, he s often not lying. new reporting to that effect tonight, in cup with several other reports suggesting that he meant what he said over the weekend, when he said this. we pledged to you that we will root out the communist, marxist, fascist, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that s a lie and steal and cheat on election. vermin, the former president on veterans day nola s went on to say, quote, the threat from outside forces is far less sinister dangerous and grooving the threat from within. our threat is from within. after that, he pays foreign dictators calling russia, china, and tough. the washington post story right on the hitler, misogyny. cnn presidential telling the postal language is the language that dictators used to instill fear. that s what dictators do. other historians and scholars of fascism echoed that assessment
evening. reporting from washington, i m jim acosta. the whole story with anderson p cooper is next. p cooper is next. good night. captions by vitac www.vitac.com has entered a new phase. what that means for the more than 200 people held hostage in gaza is unclear. most of those hostages were taken on october 7 from israeli communities, or kibbutzim, close to the gaza border. on a kibbutz called nir oz, it s estimated a quarter of the 400 or so people who live there were either killed or captured. the whole story of what happened at nir oz is only now really coming to light. tonight we want you to meet those who survived the attack at nir oz who are now fighting for answers about what happened to their missing loved ones and neighbors. this was the nir oz kibbutz before october 7. noam peri: nir oz has huge and beautiful fields all around it. many of them are potatoes, but some peanuts and carrots and many, many othther crops.. gaia kalderon: it s like you walk without s
anderson cooper: welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper in tel aviv. as we ve seen this weekend, israel s war against hamas has entered a new phase. what that means for the more than 200 people held hostage in gaza is unclear. most of those hostages were taken on october 7 from israeli communities, or kibbutzim, close to the gaza border. on a kibbutz called nir oz, it s estimated a quarter of the 400 or so people who live there were either killed or captured. the whole story of what happened at nir oz is only now really coming to light. tonight we want you to meet those who survived the attack at nir oz who are now fighting for answers about what happened to their missing loved ones and neighbors. this was the nir oz kibbutz before october 7. noam peri: nir oz has huge and beautiful fields all around it. many of them are potatoes, but some peanuts and carrots and many, many othther crops.. gaia kalderon: it s like you walk without shoes with your dogs. noam peri: it
month of ramadan and the jewish passover. it s considered incredibly provocative and aggressive. but many middle east experts say the timing of hamas attack had more to do with the country that is home to mecca, the holiest of places in all of islam, saudi arabia. > h hamas was really concern about the saudi moves to build ties with israel and the u.s. one concern was that saudi money would then bolsterer the palestininian authorority, its revival inin thehe west bank. > hamas looooks at this worl an emerging alliance between the modern arabs and israel and decides we re gogoing to blow this wholele thing up. if ththe scale e of civilian casusualties in n gaza is s hih if thehere is protractcted conflict, there will be strong pressure within hezbollah and within iran to say we ve got to wiwiden the coconflict. we veve alreadydy seen hehez firing rocockets. wewe ve seen uprisingsgs in tht west banank. t the p possibilityty of escalalation is vevery real. i f fea
we are in the final stretch of the first criminal trial of a former president. the defense is presenting its closing arguments in donald trump s hush money trial. the former president s lead attorney, todd blanche, has spent the morning trying to plant seeds of reasonable doubt by saying the prosecution s trove of checks and documents do not link president trump to the crime. they can only believe this if they believe michael cohen. they moved on to stormy daniels, suggesting she hasn t told the truth either. once that s done we think it s getting close to the end of the defense case the prosecution will follow with what s expected to be four hours plus of their closing argument as they tie together their sprawling case after jurors heard from 20 witnesses. they saw about 200 pieces of evidence over a six-week period. the challenge? to sum up those arguments behind the 34 felony counts against the former president. remember, the prosecution has to connect donald trump n