let s hope they re both home soon. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, house-to-house combat, the fighting in gaza s second largest city ramping up tonight and civilian casualties are mounting. and president biden revealing he wouldn t be running for reelection, except for one thing, this as voters open up about why they are giving desantis another look at trump. and george santos s second act, making new cameos, the price has gone up. that s the old supply, demand, and people are paying up. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, surrounded. israel says its forces have encircled gaza s second largest city. there s fierce fighting inside khan younis. that s where the civilian population has ballooned, as people are told to go from northern gaza south towards khan younis, and now reports of house-to-house battles, according to an israeli km commander, quote, we are in
anniversary. we are approaching a solum anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage. oh, oh, that did not sit well with the maga cult including trump s tv boss tucker, to an entire programming mantra, it was a totally normal day. tuckham reiterated it was definitely not a violent terrorist attack but cruz, cruz couldn t handle it so went on fox to bend the knee and clear the air and ran straight into a hailstorm. the way i phrase things
yesterday, it was sloppy and it was frankly dumb and i don t buy that, whoa, whoa, i ve known you a long time since before you went to the senate. you re a supreme court contender. you take words as seriously as any man that served in the senate and every word you repeated that phrase. i don t believe you used that word accidently. it s caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. what i was referring to are the limited number of people who engaged in violent attacks against police officers. i wasn t saying the millions of patriots across the country supporting president trump are terrorists. but here is the thing, rafael, that man isn t just pathetic, it is also flatout false. cruz has frequently referred to january 6th as a terrorist attack including in at least three press releases issued last january, february, and may.
he was with lee harvey oswald prior to him being shot. the whole thing is ridiculous and nobody even brings it up. they don t even talk about that. that was report and nobody talks about it, but i think it s horrible. what? it s true. no one talks about that. here s how ted cruise responded to that. donald trump alleges that my dad was involved in assassinating jfk. now, let s be clear. this is nuts. donald s source for this is the national enquirer. the national enquirer is tabloid trash, but it s run by his good friend, david pecker, the ceo who endorsed donald trump. so the national enquirer is his hit piece. i will tell you what i think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. even at the convention, cruz couldn t bring himself to openly
the whole thing is ridiculous. what is this? right prior to his being shot and nobody brings it up. they don t talk about that. that was reported and nobody talks about it. but i think it s horrible. it s true. no one talks about that. here s how ted cruz responded to that. donald trump alleges that my dad was involved in assassinating jfk. let s be clear. this is nuts. donald s source for this is the national enquirer. the national enquirer is tabloid trash, but it s run by his good friend david pecker, the ceo, who s endorsed donald trump and is so the national enquirer has become his hit piece. i ll tell you what i think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. even at the republican national convention, cruz couldn t bring himself to openly support him. stand and speak and vote your