good morning. welcome to this special edition of cnn this morning. we are continuing our coverage of this temporary truce between israel and hamas and the expected release of more hostages today. my colleague, kaitlyn collins, is live in tel aviv and we ll have more from caitlyn in just a moment. this morning we are monitoring the situation in gaza and israel. this is day two of are this negotiated four-day truce and now we re watching for the release of the hostages being held by hamas. they re expected to free 14 israeli hostages, according to an israeli source. in exchange, israel is prepared to release up to 42 more prisoners today. cnn has learned no americans are to be freed today. they are freeing three palestinians for every israeli out of hostage situation. 13 israeli, 10 thai citizens, 1 filipino were in that first tranche of captives freed. this video was released by hamas. cnn, we should say, had no control over this content. four children were among those release
it abroad, is really where he s got to start. certainly has a lot going on at the same time but he is the president. david senger, thank you. appreciate it. thank you very much. great to be with you. in the u.k. the partygate scandal has prime minister boris johnson clinging to his job. he s facing growing calls to resign after news emerged at numerous parties at 10 downing street while the rest of the u.k. was in lockdown. nina dos santos joins me. can the president survive all of these crises one after another? reporter: good morning. well, at the moment because of the mechanics meaning you have to have 53 letters expressing in writing no confidence from his party is premature. the wheels are coming off a little bit and the car is going
are being picked up. a lot of assets being picked up and being targeted by western authorities. now putin is targeting his own people. christine? jim bidder man, bizarre indeed. bugs in your mouth to spit out. thank you. let s bring in david senger, national security. putin ranting against russians with a western mindset. what does he gain by acknowledging there are people against him? i think at this moment i think he s recognizing that he s not doing well in this war, to put it mildly, and that the west has found ways to got at him, particularly through the sanctions that i don t think he anticipated would be this successful. he s lashing out. you saw him lash out at his intelligence chiefs two weeks ago. we ve got reports that he may be blaming the fsb for many of husband problems, for failing to
senger reports on today inside the white house? well, i think that, you know, david s excellent story really put its finger on an important fundamental point here it is a real problem that this president has. and by the way, i mean, obviously donald trump presents a unique problem with his repeated falsehoods almost on a daily basis. it, you know, damages his credibility in ways that become very dangerous when you have a national security crisis like this but there is as you suggested also a larger context from the iraq war especially when it comes to intelligence involving what exactly is going on in that particular part of the world so those two things are coming together and having almost a kind of exponential effect where there s going to be a lot of skepticism and doubt but having said that, you know, i would say in this case there are some signs that, you know, even president trump recognizes that s the problem
chairman of the jcs who s got weapons experts on the ground in saudi arabia understands what the options could be we could go after their air defense system, the submarines, the irgc fast boats. we could definitely take military action. very few americans would be at risk and we might probably would ignite a shooting war in the gulf no one thinks that s a wise outcome. michael crowley, your colleague david senger with the front page piece in your newspaper this morning before this disparity between donald trump and mike pompeo. and it would just seem as if donald trump was trying to give us exhibit 11,000 or 12,001 in terms of that credibility problem that david senger who has written about this region including the one in which i served writes about. what is the sort of state of awareness of exactly what david