again. and so i don t want to be in the prediction business with something as heavy as that. what i will say is that my meeting with the director of the masad last night, we met for more than twice the expected 45 minutes because we had a very detailed conversation about how to move forward to secure the release of the hostages. ultimately that will be something that we have to work in a very sensitive way between the u.s. and israel, working with qatar, with egypt, with other actors. and so i will leave that conversation where it belongs in those sensitive channels. but i will just say this has seized the attention from the very first day the president of the united states and every other senior member of his team and just this week the president met with the families of the american hostages to reaffirm for them that we re going to do everything in our power working with our israeli counterparts to ensure every hostage comes home safely and i ll leave it at that for today.
they ve named him ricardo, and we wish him all the best. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. collins starts now. see you tomorrow. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight, straight from the source, it s the $48 million question that s about to be answered for rudy giuliani, as a jury now deliberates the cost of his election lies. plus cnn getting rare access inside of gaza tonight, as clarissa ward will take us to the front lines of the humanitarian catastrophe. the horrors that she saw on the ground. also, vladimir putin taking questions in his first extended news conference since invading ukraine and evidently trying to put any rumors about his body double to bed using a deep fake to do so. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. a verdict is expected very soon in the defamation trial against rudy giuliani, and his own lawyer says that it could be, quote, the civil equivalent of the death penalty. the jury, made up of eight people of his p