releasing video as it attempts to defend the ground operation. key world organizations are condemning the raid as we re getting dire new accounts from inside the hospital. also tonight, a rare face-to-face meeting between president biden and china s xi jinping here in the united states. president biden now prepared to answer questions about the summit and his efforts to cool tensions with beijing. and cnn presses senator joe manchin about his next move now that he s not running for re-election. will he bolt from the democratic party and set his sights on the white house? kaitlan collins debuts her interview with manchin this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, israel says its controversial military operation inside gaza s largest hospital, quote, will take time. at last resort, at last report, i should say, it was still under way as the israel defense forces is sharing some o
urging americans not to let their guard down. also the justice department here in washington announcing today that two men have now been arrested and charged with assaulting officer brian sicknick with a toxic chemical spray. let s begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. the president is taking his covid relief package straight to the american public. give us the latest. reporter: yes, wolf. he s basically mentioning it every time he gets near a microphone. tomorrow he ll be going to pennsylvania. i ll be traveling with him. that s going to continue with several more stops this week not just for president biden, but for his top aides. he want to pitch this plan to the american people, make sure they know it s not just stimulus checks. all this means the bigger plan you have to have to implement that bill. that s the challenge facing the biden administration right now. today it is going to be complicated, but he says he wants to make sure
Locations throughout the United States. This is a shared fate that everybody has to come together. Law enforcement, the community, has to, you know, solve for this problem. All right. Jonathan and josh and phil mudd in studio, thank you so much. You can follow me on facebook and twitter at jake tapper or tweet the show at the lead on cnn. Our coverage on cnn continues right now. This is cnn Breaking News. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in the Situation Room. Were following Breaking News. The investigation into home made bombs sent to cnn, the clintons, the obamas and other political figures in what New York Citys mayor is now calling an act of terror. None of the devices exploded, but there is fear, serious fear, that there may be more out there. President trump called the
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that have been publicly reported, they likely have much more than that. so, i think it s reasonable to expect that this thing is in its final stages on the investigative site. what do you get from kaitlan collins reporting about the mar-a-lago pool flood, raising suspicions among prosecutors? yeah, that s a really weird one. it certainly indicate, it gives you an indication of the high degree of suspicion that, you know, each side has of the other, certainly doj is investigating obstruction here. we know that from the search warrant application. so, they re gonna look at every possible act as a possible, you know, every act as a possible element of obstruction. in this case, with the witnesses already saying that a flood didn t really damage the computers, it s hard to say, until you hear that the trump team is actually claiming that they cannot produce videos requested under the subpoenas because the material was
was damaged when this flood happened in this room where these servers are stored that kept the surveillance footage. but they view it as suspicious, and they ve been asking witnesses about it and raising questions about it. and of course they re investigating whether or not there was any obstruction in their investigation. so, i think it s just an odd instance that raises a lot of questions. yeah. certainly. has all the video been handed over that was on the servers? do we know? we know a lot of it has been given over. but they have been raising questions, what we re told. we learned so much of what investigators are asking people. they ve interviewed everyone, i m told. they were asked about gaps in surveillance footage. we know they ve had questions for the security guys who were running and in charge of the security footage. there have been questions among that nature of what exactly was turned over. trump attorneys have said that everything has been turned over. this was techni