good evening. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. in just the past few minutes, the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. this is a huge relief for president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy and you can argue, the global financial system. a vote could happen in the senate as soon as tomorrow. we ll take you live to capitol hill. plus, first on cnn, the justice department has an audio tape of donald trump at a meeting in the summer of 2021 acknowledging that he kept a classified pentagon document after he was out of office about a potential attack on iran. sources say he suggested he would like to share that info with a group of people at his golf club but he was aware that there were limits to his ability to declassify documents. that, of course, is the opposite of what he later claimed that he could just declassify anything by thinking about it. what does this development mean for the special counsel investigation? a lot more only in a moment. and neil de grassi is
tonight on three, 60 only on cnn, our clarissa ward has more careful about civilian lives as he goes after hamas. also, tonight will rudy giuliani have to pay $48 million, or even more for the has election lies did to a moment daughter who did there come. violence plus iraq since fast, approaching how republicans are weighing their choices, or in some cases changing them. cnn s john king joins us in the latest on our election series. we begin with a close-up and unfiltered look at life and death in southern gaza. our clarissa ward and her team or the first many western media outlets to go there without an idf escort. now reporting airs with national security adviser jake sullivan and israel holding what he describes tonight, as, quote intense and it detailed conversation with prime netanyahu and his war cabinet. a conversation centered on, among other things, shifting to lower intensity, more surgical strikes, something that president biden underscored today. i want
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newsnight with abby phillip starts right now. israel is testing the limits of what the united states will tolerate. that s tonight on newsnight. good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. and today a not so gentle nudge from the leader of the free world to the only democracy in the middle east. watch where your bombs drop. i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives, not stop going after hamas, but be more careful. today s warning from the president to his israeli counterpart makes what he told the world less than two months ago seem, frankly, a world away. i come to israel with a single message. you re not alone. you re not alone. as long as the united states stands, and we will stand forever, we ll not let you ever be alone. right now the two nations are no longer in lockstep. biden administration officials have advised israel that their campaign of overwhelming force needs to end and end soon, within weeks. it s not quite an ultimatum. sources
president to his israeli counterpart makes what he told the world, less than two months ago, seem frankly a world away. i come to israel with a single message, you are not alone. you are not alone. as long as the united states stands, it will stand forever, we will not let you be alone. right now, the two nations are no longer in the biden administration officials have advised israel that their campaign of overwhelming force needs to and, and and soon. within weeks, it is not quite an ultimatum, sources made that clear. but the united states is now more willing to say that quiet part out loud. they believe that israel is simply killing too many palestinian civilians, and far too many palestinian children. president biden outright accused israeli forces of, quote, indiscriminate bombing. it s an accusation that israel heard, and looked right past. he is saying, you are bombing gaza without care. absolutely not. and you know what, you know, let s just see history. ame