hello again, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in atlanta. we re watching breaking news unfolding in the middle east. we re told a convoy of egyptian ambulances and a bus are moving toward the gaza sild ode of the rafah border krogcrossing. the exchange could happen at any moment now. we re standing by for word from the red cross that the transfer has, indeed, happened. and this latest movement follows intense hours long delay in the hostage exchange. hamas says it disputed the amount of aid being delivered to gaza and the selection of the 39 palestinian prisoners set to be released by israel as part of this brief four-day truce. wolf blitzer is joining us now from tel aviv. wolf. reporter: thanks very much, fred, we re watching all of these major developments unfold. cnn of course as a team covering all of the late breaking developments. matthew chance is with me in tel aviv. there s a lot of work that still needs to be done. there s some indication that things are beginni
through the fog here, are we seeing the outlines of how this is going to resolve itself with the president go g ing on the national television to declare a national emergency, and gets the money from somewhere else without the approval of congress which is what the constitution says it should be done, but regard l regardless, you open up the government again. and how dare you talk about the constitution when you are talking about. this and there is a lot of confusion here for him to declare if he goes out to do this tonight, it is unprecedented step. it would result certainly in the legal challenges and then you bring in all of the three branches of government together fighting over whether the government should be be open or not open based upon the president s unwillingness quite frankly to negotiate on the money f. he has done this tonig tonight, we have ener tered into another chapter of really what has been a confusing and in a very chaotic administration. and aleck, for the fo
mired in a fierce battle with incumbent bill wilson and the election hit another snag after palm beach said that it started to overheat, and stop working which forced the staff to recount nearly 175,000 early votes that had to be recounted. and joining us now is kasie hunt on capitol hill, and you is the republicans making the decisions on the house side where that is interesting where jim jordan apparently is pushing to be the republican leader? that is the most interesting race dynamic that we have go g ing on at the capitol today, andrea, and some reports that the white house is getting involved. we don t have any indications that kevin mccarthy is in trouble in the bid to be majority leader at this point, but jim jordan is challenging him and caused plenty of problems in the past. there is some discussion, and like i said, some reports that indicate that jordan is perhaps
the world. nowhere has ha effothat effort more deadly than syria. it s hard to call anyone a win near a war that left millions displaced and a country in ruins but if there is winner in syria, it s vladimir putin. he s used syria to show the world russia is still a military force to be reckoned with. yesterday our own president announced that he plans to pull american troops out of syria soon. that news is go g ing to make things complicated on the ground because they are still fighting isis. we know because we just got back from reporting in syria. we found our ride, an air force c-17 transport on a runway in kuwait. loaded with weapons and ammunition. it s headed for one of the most
do you believe it is a turning point in the war? it potentially could be, but it is more of a psychological turning point than anything else, dana. what we are looking at here is a change in momentum, and if everything goes as planned and the iraqi military does control, and get control of ramadi, then we have a momentum, the potential to build on momentum to go after mosul, and that is of course, the stated goal of the iraqi government, and they are trying very hard to do that, and the question then remains, can they do that, and will they have the logistical training to do that and the intelligence to do that and will they have be able to make it work from the strategic perspective. the other part of it is that there is more go g ing on than t ramadi. there is an offensive going on in syria in the euphrates river valley against isis, and so with those two major movements occurring, there is a good