fredericka witfield. israeli forces fire new strikes at gaza as fighting resumes following a weeklong truce between israel and hamas. those strikes include targets in southern gaza. it s an area that remained largely unscathed during israel s initial assault of northern gaza. talks of a new truce have reached, quote, a dead end, according to prime minister netanyahu s office. israel blames hamas for the breakdown in talks and accusing the terror group of not fulfilling its promise to return all women and children being held as hostages. the idf says there are still 136 hostages in gaza, including 17 women and children. 110 hostages were released during the week-long truce. let s turn to our team on the ground, ben wedeman in jerusalem, oren liebermann in tel aviv. tell us the latest on these negotiations to bring the remaining hostages home. reporter: the negotiations have all but collapsed at this point as benjamin netanyahu ordered the mossad to pull back its negotiations
you ve live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. former president donald trump is campaigning in the key battleground state of iowa, and he s back to pushing his lies about the 2020 election. the former president told supporters he hopes judges will let the 2020 election be prosecuted in court. the gop front-runners encouraged his supporters to go into vote-counting facilities in 2024, saying they need to watch the votes. let s go live to kristen holmes in cedar rapids, iowa. kristen, you re there with the former president. looks like he ll be talking there shortly. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, jim, i mean, as you noted, right now, we are just about six weeks away from the iowa caucus in 2024, and donald trump is still talking about the 2020 election. now, earlier today at another event in iowa, he asked his voters, encouraged them, actually, to go into big cities, democratic strongholds, and watch the vote. take a listen. the most important part
lends credibility to a policy that you might not agree with. all i can say is, yes, that is a risk, but there were occasions where we overtly, at the podium, disagreed on the evidence that was underlying, or at least explain to the evidence that underlay a decision. so, for example, in the move of the two metre rule to a lower figure, example, in the move of the two metre rule to a lowerfigure, i was clear on the podium that two metres is safer than one metre, full stop. it does not mean it is unreasonable to make a policy decision to move, but the evidence base was clear. so thatis but the evidence base was clear. so that is a rather long answer to your question, because i do not know whether, ultimately, it is the right or wrong thing for us to have been there. i think it is something worth looking at. my gut feeling is it was probably overall beneficial for us to be there. probably overall beneficial for us to be there- probably overall beneficial for us to be there. , .
country and giving us an early read on what they re thinking as the nation is heading into an unprecedented, unprecedented presidential election year. the contest american democracy as it s never been tested before. this is cnn s coverage of america s choice 2023. i m erin burnett. and i m jake tapper. we are about to get the first results of the night possible clues about the political trends in 2024 and the potentially historic and divisive rematch between president joe biden and former president donald trump. polling places just closed in the eastern half of kentucky. the commonwealth has one of two governors races tonight. new measure of the democrats strengths and weaknesses on republican turf. popular democratic governor andy beshear is fighting to keep his job in kentucky, where president biden is in louisville, kentucky. let s go to king in columbus, ohio. she s tracking the state s abortion rights ballot measure. king has there been last minute campaigning on thi