will be released. we need to see abigail come out and then we ll be able to believe it. it is possible the u.s. says that three americans could be released. how would we feel if it is not our child. we want a chance to see our loved ones back. these children, women, babies, every minute matters. this deal for the israelis has been so controversial. this a first major step, the first 50 coming over the course of the four days. we have team coverage on the big breaking news this morning, kaitlan collins, clarissa ward, israel and hamas reaching a deal to release hostages for a four day pause in fighting. so here is what we know. the deal causes for a four day truce and we re expecting to find out today when that fighting might actually be put on pause. hamas has agreed to release at least 50 women and children. hostages abducted during the october 7 terror attacks. in exchange, hamas and israel have agreed to let 150 palestinian prisoners, we re told some of the
with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. good morning. home of the xfinity 10g network. it s sunday november 19th. i am charles coleman junior, filling in this morning for my friend ali velshi. unfortunately, at least tested positive this morning for covid, we are wishing him a very speedy recovery. we begin this morning with a litany of legal matters that donald trump faces in the weeks ahead. less than 24 hours from now, a panel of judges at the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit will hear arguments regarding the gag order filed against the former president in the federal election interference case. that order was originally imposed last month by the presiding judge, tanya chutkan, intended to stop trump from making incendiary comments related to the case, including threats against possible witnesses. attorneys with the special prosecutor s office say that the gag order is necessary to ensure a fair trials
today. the cnn newsroom continues right now. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news. president biden has written an op-ed in the washington post where he rejected calls for a cease fire in gaza. priscilla alvarez is with the president in wilmington. what is the president s message tonight? this covers a few things related to both the israel conflict as well as ukraine. to start, the president does reject those calls for a cease fire. those have been mounting both domestically and abroad and he writes quote, as long as hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease fire is not peace. to hamas members, every cease fire is time they exploit to rebuild their stockpile of rockets, reposition fighters, and restart the killing by attacking innocents again. this is in line with the administration s position, which is that there shouldn t be a cease fire. instead, they have been advocating for pauses in the fighting to get those hostages released as
bob casey, but he has joined us to explain pennsylvania in a way that no one else can. can i tell you, lawrence, that was camped out in pennsylvania the week at the 2020 election. bob casey arrived to the interview that i had with him, spreadsheets, he is a walking encyclopedia on all things elections in pennsylvania. he ll be exactly like i need tonight. he s the guy. he is the man. after a day of meeting with china s president xi jinping in california today, president biden held a press conference. president biden said the number one issue indeed discussions today was fentanyl. first, i am pleased to announce after many years of it being on hold, we are restarting cooperation between the united states, prc encountering narcotics. in 2019, you may remember, china took action to greatly reduce the amount of fentanyl shipped directly from china to the united states. in the years since that time, the challenge has evolved, from finished a fentanyl to fentanyl chemical
u.s. commander there s this moral ambiguity, not on college campuses, the elites, there is no moral confusion here. if a u.s. commander ever suggested or ever moved troops in a hospital to hide from the enemy, they would immediately be court-martialed. they would be taken out of the command structure of the united states military. they would be court-martialed. they would be dishonorably discharged. if just one did that. with hamas, that is their strategy. we knew from the day the attacks came, they were going to go. they were going to hide behind civilians. they were going to hide in schools. they were going to hide in the hospitals. we knew that. and it s exactly, willie, what it s exactly what s happened. again, wall street journal editorial page talking about it in their lead editorial, talking about the fact that today in gaza, hamas terrorists used the same war crime tactics that isis did in the battle of mosul. only now observers rush to apologize for it. when is