benjamin netanyahu openly rejects american plans for postwar gaza. cnn has learned that donald trump contacted a former mar-a-lago employee who witnessed his alleged mishandling of classified documents, repeatedly calling him in the months before trump s criminal indictment. we re going to get reaction to cnn s exclusive new reporting from legendary journalist bob woodward and carl bernstein. . welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news tonight. president biden and president zelenskyy trying to present a united front here in washington as aid for ukraine right now hangs in the balance. our correspondents are standing by over at the white house, up on capitol hill, and in ukraine and in russia. first, cnn s senior white house correspondent, m.j. lee. what stood out to you from what we just heard from presidents biden and zelenskyy?
border security which republicans have insisted be added to the package, zelensky met with top lawmakers including the brand-new house speaker, mike johnson, many republican holdout to meet with zelensky say a deal remains unlikely, let s go straight to mj lee who was at the white house, what are we expecting here on the two leaders beyond just a pitch to get this money from congress to ukraine? jake, this press conference obviously has been quite delayed but we did just see the ukrainian delegation in the u.s. delegation take their seats in the front row, secretary blinken, secretary austin, other officials are in the room so we should see president biden and president zelenskyy enter the room any moment, i think white house officials and u.s. officials had made the point this visit is about so much more than the issue of u.s. funding for ukraine which clearly on capitol hill right now, fans at an impasse. they re saying the world is watching right now including russian pr
jesse: hello, everybody. jesse watters along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. it s the greatest economic system the world has ever seen: capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty, allowing us all to enjoy a better and more prosperous living standard than our grandparents. well, not under joe biden. but a woke san francisco democrat is now blaming capitalism for the homelessness crisis that is ravaging his city. dean preston represents the disastrous tenderloin district, a cesspool of open air drug markets, retail theft, and homeless encampments and report of the accounts for around half of the city s homeless population. he seems to think all of this dk is because of our free markets. i think what you are seeing in the tenderloin is absolutely the result of capitalism and what happens in capitalism to the people at the bottom rung, the biggest driver of why folks a
images just in tonight. that takedown of the suspect on campus. a longtime professor elsewhere who was turned down for a job. and authorities say he had a list. whit johnson standing by in las vegas. in upstate new york tonight, on this first night of hanukkah, shots fired outside a synagogue in albany. tonight, state police and the national guard now on alert. senior investigative reporter aaron katersky standing by. tonight, the israel-hamas war, and just in, what israel is now considering. what they might do inside those tunnels in gaza. reporter: they believe hamas operatives and leaders are hiding. james longman in israel. in the u.s., this powerful cross-country storm moving from the west. ten states right now under winter alerts for heavy rain, snow, and damaging winds. then, this all moves quickly right into the northeast. when this hits. rob marciano tracking it all. in texas tonight, a young woman with her husband. she is 20 weeks pregnant. her doctors say
good afternoon. i m chris jansing live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. today another escalation in what is already a brutal 2024 presidential race. this time coming from hunter biden who says the right is trying to kill him in order to destroy his father. that accusation made in a rare interview after prosecutors filed a shocking new indictment. what his lawyer is saying and what this latest round of charges could mean as his dad tries to hold onto the white house. overseas, the u.n. calls the situation in gaza a, quote, spiraling humanitarian nightmare. people with open wounds and people stand in line for hours to use one shower or toilets. families who have lost everything sleep on bare concrete floors wearing clothes they have not changed for two month thes. the chilling new letter from the leading u.n. official on the ground who says they are, quote, hanging on by their fingertips. and the major controversy that just keeps growing after leaders of some of