Internationally were creating the evidence what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it oh, i love that. Ill be sure to tune in next saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for that champions for change, onehour special and thank you so much for joining me today. Amphoteric a Whitfield Smerconish starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stop short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the State Department said, investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information. This followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if isra
News on significant tightening in the democratic president ial race. Cnns justreleased poll shows joe bidens lead is now down to five percentage points. His support shrinking after his lessthanstrong showing in the first round of debates. Kamala harris and Elizabeth Warren, they have made steep gains with harris moving into second place after she confronted biden on racial issues during the debate. Also tonight, biden and other 2020 democrats are blasting President Trumps photo op with kim jongun inside north korea, accusing him of legitimizing a murderous tyrant with almost nothing to show for it. This as the New York Times reports the Trump Administration is weighing a new concession to kim, potentially settling for a freeze of his Nuclear Weapons instead of full denuclearization. Ill get reaction from a House Foreign Affairs committee member, democratic congressman Gerry Connolly and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First to Cnns Phil Mattingly with more on the
Cnn just out with a poll, the first one conducted after the debate and revealing a big crack in the front runners facade. Biden still in the lead and Kamala Harris is up there in second. Dig in a little deeper and you will see bidens lead has narrowed to just five points. The 22 is down ten points for may. Harris who took on biden at the democratic debate is surging up nine points from may. While harris is making significant strides with democratic voters, she is behind biden among one key segment of democratic voters right now, africanamerican voters trailing him by 12 points in this poll when it comes to support there. And this is despite harris being seen as the top candidate to handle Race Relations right now. Biden is leading on issues like economy and the environment. Like our new survey also shows, its still a real race. And the candidates are seeing an opening. Listen to cory booker. You have one destiny in this nation and right now the Vice President to me is not doing a good