getting out of gaza, hundreds of people have now been able to evacuate gaza. americans are now getting out as well. on the list to get out today, possibly 400 names of u.s. nationals. there s a lot of action at the rafah crossing. we ll take you there. israeli forces say they have broken through the front lines of hamas fighters and are at the gates of gaza city. don junior back on the stand. the former president s season is headed back to court soon. what he is and isn t saying about how much his family is worth. i m kate bolduan with john berman. sara sidner is off. this is cnn news central. all right. happening now, the first americans are getting out of gaza. down here, part of the stream of people we ve seen moving through the rafah crossing. we ve seen ambulances lined up there, people on foot moving through the crossing itself. ultimately they end up on the peninsula and are processed through makeshift hospital and warehouse here. this is part of the deal to get
lauren boebert likes to go from offense to offense. she fund-raisies out of it, and we re talking about it. that being said, how do you not respond to an islamicphobic attack? what message does that send to little muslim boys and girls all over this countrisome i just don t know. at some point you have to be above the craziness and let them spin and toil and look bad. and you take the high road. scott, i don t know, am i wrong? what do you think of that? i think as a strategic matter, you raise exactly the point. the reason someone would tell this kind of a joke, the reason someone would fabricate this kind of a story is because they re trying to attract attention. and when you elevate it to the extent that it s been elevated in our public discourse, we have obviously been discussing it now for days and days and days and days. this is what they want, and the
clearly mark short is a former chief of staff is cooperating, because mike pence has a good story to tell. he was, in fact, a victim of this attack. and he in the end, he did the right thing. and he s trying to draw a little bit of a contrast and separation between himself and the former president. and he thinks this might help him, i suspect, in his presidential did. but still, it s trump s party at the moment. this may not help mike pence as he would like, even though he did do the right thing in the end. good luck, if you re thinking about 2024, mike pence. thank you, gentlemen. joining me now, cnn s white house correspondent kaitlan collins. in studio, not at the white house. we re glad to have you. kaitlan, thank you for joining us. listen, joe biden was in kansas city, touting his economic message today on the heels of some good economic news,
and text messages about the need for president trump to issue a public statement to stop the january 6 attack at the capitol. now, mark meadows clearly has key information for the committee that doesn t seem to involve national security conversations with the former president. that s correct. and it just seems to me that he s chosen not to cooperate at this point. i suspect because president trump is upset about the book and wants him to walk it back. he s not happy about mark meadows cooperation. i don t know how meadows thinks he can recall all those documents he dumped to the committee. so this is a rather odd situation as far as i m concerned. mark meadows was one of the senior republicans on the house oversight committee. and he would have gone an
kavanaugh s confirmation must be derailed regardless of whether or not the accuser ever even comes forward and tells her story. in a letter to senator feinstein today, judiciary chairman chuck grassley summed up the situation best. he said sexual assault allegations should not be deployed strategically for the political again. he for political gain. he is right. this is just another sad chapter in what is sadly the democrats predictable play book. we see it every four years. republicans are racist, islamicphobic, xenophobic and they want dirty water and they want paul ryan look-alikes to throw granny over the cliff. you see it every election season and every confirmation hearing just like you are seeing now. smears. slander. lies. character assassination. no due process. no presumption of innocence.