The Man Trump Belittles as sleepy joe seemed quite fiery last night as the president tries to flip the script launching a campaign blitz, just one day after his forceful kind of political state of the Union Address. Plus Donald Trumps oneonone at maralago today, meeting with Hungarys Viktor Orban ban. The authoritarian leader, knowing, known for antiimmigration nationalist rhetoric, who often cozies up to Vladimir Putin and attempts to stop the aid. See what happened when cnn confronted israeli protesters, determined to make sure little food, if any, makes it into gaza despite the overwhelming human and tharon crisis welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we start today with our politics lead in the white house in an all Reelection Blitz trying to capture on any momentum from President Bidens fiery and rather political state of the Union Address last night in which the president referenced donald trump, at least a dozen times in less than an hour, we expect to hear from the president
thanks forjoining us, welcome to the programme. russia strikes kyiv again, just as a delegation of african leaders visit the ukrainian capital to discuss peace solutions. joining me to discuss that, and a range of stories over the next hour, is former labour cabinet minister caroline flint, and ron christie, former adviser to george w bush. also on the programme tonight: a two year investigation into the minneapolis police department in the wake of the killing of george floyd has found that officers routinely used excessive force and discriminated against black people for years. we ll have an update from kalamata, in greece, where officials have denied a series of reports that suggest the migrant boat capsized 50 miles off the south coast because a rope was attached to it by coastguards. and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology has lead to a lot of fear and concern, but also a lot of new and exciting solutions. we ll look at how ai is being used to predict pol
inside, killing a number of the people who were in the bomb shelter, blew half of herch s lower arm off, so like one of the other israeli hostages, mia shem, who had serious injuries, he was taken captive and brought into gaza with very, very serious injury, and his mother rachel has no idea if he survived that ordeal. if he received appropriate medical treatment, where he is, what his status is. so it has to be awfully difficult seeing these hostages come home known her son, herch, is still in custody somewhere in gaza. sandra: ophelia brightman, 77 years old, also one of the hostages just released, she came to israel from argentina holding argentine citizenship. she s the wife of hector, mother of three children, grandmother of nine children. she had sent her last message to her family asking for help, stating that the terrorists were in her house and since that moment of her that she was taken, john, her contact had been severed and you can only imagine what is happeni
not in the face russia s aggression in ukraine. shame on you all. palestinians aren t animals. committee will suspend and i again ask that those from the audience respect the people in the room and allow us to continue the hearing. john: as harris just mentioned, awaiting updates from the white house, the state department and the pentagon on the war in the middle east as anti-israel demonstrations intensify around the globe, including on capitol hill. and so we begin tuesday afternoon, john roberts, good afternoon to you. aishah: aishah hasnie in for sandra myth. america reports . so the chaotic scene was playing out at a senate hearing this morning as secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin were making their case for congress to approve more aid to israel. you can see nearly two dozen protestors there were slamming the biden administration for funding what they say is the genocide of palestinians and accusing u.s. officials of being te
turkey deploys troops and tanks to syria s last rebel stronghold as pro-government forces claim a crucial town. now donald trump is being accused of seeking revenge after removing 2 officials who testified against him at the impeachment trial the firings come just 2 days after trump was acquitted by the republican majority senate gordon songs and was the u.s. ambassador to the european union while attendant colonel alexander venkman had been the top ukraine expert in the national security council both officials testified to a house committee about the president s efforts to pressure ukraine 10 best against his political rival joe biden. had said he wanted alexander vandeman gone. well i m not happy with them if they go supposed to be happy with the bomb not they ll make that decision you ll be hearing they ll make a decision now the top democratic senator chuck schumer was quick to respond to the news on 2 s a he said the pentagon assured me that patriots and whistleblowers l