right now on early start, dropping out. senator tim scott suspending his race for president. plus. bidenomics is not working. my one-on-one interview with dean phillips who s defying fellow democrats by challenging president biden in the primary. troops advance in gaza where the w.h.o. says the largest hospital isn t even functioning. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s monday, november 13th. it s 5 a.m. here in washington. also 5 a.m. in south carolina where tim scott stunned republicans by announcing he was suspending his campaign. the timing took many of his campaign donors by surprise. it s been clear since last month when they canceled a multi-million dollar slate of tv ads. his team worried about whether he d even qualify for the fourth gop debate next month. scott told fox that he s not going to back another republican in the race but that he would try to advance the message about the kind of person that
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we start this hour with the breaking news. the white house says a toddler, a 3-year-old toddler is among one of the nine americans and 200 others currently being held hostage by hamas following that deadly attack more than a month ago in israel. let s go straight to cnn senior white house reporter kevin liptak in delaware. this is just a heartbreaking development. what more can you tell us? reporter: yeah. this news coming from the white house in a readout of a phone call that president biden held with the amir of qatar. qatar has been acting as a broker in these talks to get these hostages released. the president conveyed his unequivocal condemnation of the holding of hostages in gaza, including this 3-year-old american toddler, whose parents were killed in the hamas attacks in israel on october 7th. so we don t know many details about this child, but he is one of potentially as many as 10 americans who are being held
on. clearly you know, i was a company commander in vietnam. we actually drafted foreign students who were here in the united states and sent them off to fight in my company and they were great soldiers. in every war we ve ever fought, we ve had immigrants. it s a great path to citizenship. my pakistani driver, green cardholder, i helped get one son in the air force and another in the navy. so i can t understand what s going on. i ll bet this is not supported by the department of defense in any way. i can imagine it s not. i remember talking to leon panetta about how great these soldiers were. i ve been to a naturalization ceremony in baghdad with joe biden. very moving. very moving. that was before daca, but these are great people. thank you both. a lot to talk about, a lot to worry about. thank you, ambassador, general. coming up, race against time
perspective in the immigration system, how it works or how it didn t work in this case, and what are the sorts of things that our administration is proposing to change to make it better. so as you all know, yesterday the suspect akayed ullah was arrested in an attempted bombing in new york city. there is an immigration aspect to this. the aspect is that he was a green cardholder, lawful permanent resident. he came to this country based on a family connection to a u.s. citizen. he was a national bangladesh. the u.s. citizen in question was his uncle. and that u.s. citizen many years ago came to this country originally as a visa lottery winner. so this is the general background. i now want to try to explain what all that means, where those terms come from, what the significance of all that is. first, i would explain that for those who aren t aware, our