republicans take a key step today even though they failed so far to find any evidence of wrongdoing by president biden. and now the supreme court will have to rule on the election subversion case. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, december 12, and in just hours president volodymyr zelenskyy will start a series of meetings on capitol hill with senators and members of the house. he will urge them to pass billions in proposed military aid to his country that have been hung up over republican demands for major changes to the biden administration border policy. speaking to national security officials yesterday, zelenskyy said the big winner of a stalemate in washington is russia. if there is anyone inspired by unresolved issues on capitol hill, it is putin. this is a last ditch effort to break the stalemate as republicans and democrats refuse to bunch on border policy. clare sebastian is joining us live from
but he ll gets the greenlight, but how soon could the captives be released. that s tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in new york. an outline gets approved and restore hope for 50 families. tonight, a significant majority of israel s cabinet said yes to a deal that trains trades israeli hostages during hamas suffrage terror attacks on october 7th. in exchange, israel will grant what i forget polls in the fighting and gaza. a senior u.s. official is telling cnn, and the last, hour three americans could be part of this deal that message from the israeli government also gives hamas and incentive to release even more hostages. for every ten abducted israelis or people in captivity that get your freedom, that translates to another full day of stoppage of fighting in gaza. hamas, minutes ago, confirmed this deal and they say that 150 or so palestinians held in israeli jails will be released as part of this agreement. let s get straight to matthew chance. he s
good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us on this monday. israel s military says another evacuation corridor in northern gaza is open for the next several hours. it is unclear if and how far that announcement is known, though, without any cell service or internet connectivity. and new this morning, further exchanges of fire reported across the israel/lebanon border. the israeli defense forces say two mortars launched from lebanon landed in open territory in northern israel on monday. and also overnight, the u.s. did carry out a new round of air strikes against iran-backed targets in eastern syria. defense secretary lloyd austin says those strikes targeted a safe house. officials believe that they re responsible for at least 60 rocket strikes against u.s. personnel in iraq and syria since october 17th. this comes as fighting intensifies in gaza. the medical system there, it s collapsed. some of the images you re about to see, i want to warn you, are disturbing. hospit
starts right now. martha: thank you both very much. i m martha maccallum and this is the story. former president trump about to hold a rally in virginia, a tight race right now. he s trying to become the first republican presidential candidate to win the state in 20 years. biden won by ten points last time around. we will see what he has to say. we expect in any moment and will take you there. clearly he will reflect on last night s debate, which was very consequential in many ways, not grade ways for joe biden. we will talk about that quite a bit. the president also on the campaign trail in north carolina trying to clean up on aisle 5, and he worked hard at that this afternoon to get a bounce back from a very difficult night last night. here s some of the reaction to last night in the media, after the debate. the biggest issue he had to prove to the american people was he had the energy and stamina, and he did not do that. how long do we continue to act like we did not
we are going to spend an hour talking about the history of the new hampshire primary. before history, talk about the current one. michael bloomberg is not competing in iowa or new hampshire. early primaries. committing lots and lots of money later on in the process. what does do to the relevance of your primary. there are always guess with the relevance of the new ampshire primary dating back to its modern day beginnings. people aren t going to campaign. who are going to spend a lot of money or not? the short answer is, i don t now. he s blowing by the early ones d thinks he can get street kred by buying it, which i think is probably not going to ork for him. i said recently even if he doesn t win the nomination he ll spend money to help whoever wins the nomination to get elected. that s just underlines i have all the money in the world and going to spend it. i don t know, people asked about the relevance of the primary with these televised debates, which i hate to call t