confirming to abc news that israel has begun flooding the hamas tunnels to destroy them and hamas. but what about any hostages who might have been held in those tunnels? first tonight, president biden and president zelenskyy before the cameras late today, pleading for help from congress in passing new funding. but tonight, house and senate republicans blocking that help. president biden warning failing to help ukraine will, quote, give vladimir putin the greatest christmas gift they can possibly give him. mary bruce standing by live at the white house. also this major headline from the israel-hamas war tonight. two u.s. officials now confirming to abc news that the israeli military has, in fact, started pumping water into those tunnels run by hamas. james longman standing by with late reporting from israel. back in the u.s. tonight, and the deeply personal issue of abortion. and the young, pregnant wife in texas. her health in danger. tonight, the texas supreme court ha
tonight, u.s. officials now confirming to abc news that israel has begun flooding the hamas tunnels to destroy them and hamas. but what about any hostages who might have been held in those tunnels? first tonight, president biden and president zelenskyy before the cameras late today, pleading for help from congress in passing new funding. but tonight, house and senate republicans blocking that help. president biden warning failing to help ukraine will, quote, give vladimir putin the greatest christmas gift they can possibly give him. mary bruce standing by live at the white house. also this major headline from the israel-hamas war tonight. two u.s. officials now confirming to abc news that the israeli military has, in fact, started pumping water into those tunnels run by hamas. james longman standing by with late reporting from israel. back in the u.s. tonight, and the deeply personal issue of abortion. and the young, pregnant wife in texas. her health in danger. tonight
isn t commenting, and i have to ask, what do you think this does to the campaign? the first thing is, we don t know yet, because this is going to have to play out in the public, whether this is seeing some of the trial, reporting on some of the trial, or all the events that are going to happen between now in november 2024. what we do know is while we ve seen in recent polls, including the new york times siena poll, this is startling to me, 22% of respondents who thought that trump had done something criminally wrong, also still supported him. so that is a troubling sign for our democracy and the republican primary. but we also know in 2022, that democracy was on the ballot. people ran on it. candidates ran on it. people who ran against democracy lost in the primaries, lost in the general election, or lost in the general election, i should say. that is a good sign.
it. russia has forced ukraine s hand with this brutal and unending invasion. that s, i think, the problem way to look at this difficult decision. tomorrow is two weeks since prigozhin ended his armed rebellion and two weeks since he was last seen in public. we were told he was in belarus. lukashenko said he is in russia. the kremlin isn t commenting. how concerning is it that no one seems to know exactly where he is? look, i mean for prigozhin and his supporters, it s very concerning. for the rest of us, we might have a different look at that. the concerning thing is the instability in russia, what it means for the war in ukraine and what it means for where the russian government is going to go in the future. we want to have a reliable partner to ultimately negotiate a peace on this. the instability in russia is undermining that.
kennedy. kennedy is also a member of this country s most famous family of democrats. my whole family, including myself, have long, personal relationships with president biden, many of my family members are working in the administration. but the administration isn t commenting. so 2024, the hatch act, just not going to touch that with a 12 eye foot pole. next week president biden will meet with top campaign donors outside the white house according to the new york times. but, this year s pitch may be a tougher sell. there s no good economic news out there and it s clearly suppressing the president s own approval rating. peter: there is a renewed effort to blame others for inflation. putin s war in ukraine was disrupted energy supplies and food supplies. yet, only 12% of adults polled by cnbc are optimistic about the economy. 69% are pessimistic. talk about. peter: why aren t people buying it.