lawyers who led that case were in d.c. for a meet and greet with their client. before they walked into the oval office, they were told do not give him false hope, do not indulge the conspiracies about the election. some of them listened, some of them didn t. here is a clip from ken chesebro what the lead attorney in wisconsin told donald trump. it is clear that troops personally told the president there was zero hope in wisconsin. as part of this message, i think trying to get him to concede, give up this long shot challenge. so there was a conscious effort to deflect him from a sense of any possibility that he could pull out the election. zero hope. that s what he said. so, look, some people around trump told him that he couldn t win and he tried ty eied to ovee election any way. that s a part of the criminal case. that indictment is filled to the brim with examples of trump being told that he lost. this oval office meeting was not in the indictment, so it builds on the
for the white house. new cnn pulls out today show president biden, trailing donald trump in critical battleground states. laces that biden won in the last election and needs to win again. with just five weeks until the first votes are cast, republican presidential hopefuls are stepping up their attacks as a new poll in iowa shows donald trump s lead is only getting bigger. and under pressure. the president of the university of pennsylvania is force out and now calls are going for harvard president to resign after her comments on the rise of anti-semitism on campus. many jewish students at harvard say they don t feel safe. it felt like a failure of leadership. i was expecting a clear statement against anti-semitism and either here is our plan or we need your help implementing this and that instead of this, when hearing the lack of response, they attempt to evade. it just made us feel like alone in this. we start today with cnn s exclusive battleground state polls. who
jansing. israeli soldiers conducting a targeted raid searching the medical complex for hamas, something the idf calls an operational necessity, but it s one that sparked massive pushback from the u.n. and perhaps the strongest statement yesterday from the biden white house. how might what happened inside the hospital today change the face of this war? the victory in the house, a bipartisan group of lawmakers passing a stopgap bill and kicking it to the senate with just days to go before a possible government shutdown, but it is also just a band-aid on a gaping wound. so what will happen after the holidays? and throwing elbows, inside the nasty battles on the hill. with no one backing down, no one apologizing, and other members taking sides. plus, they haven t been face to face in a year, but that s going to change in just about an hour. the eyes of the world now on president biden and president xi jinping today. can anything be done to turn down the heat and find some l
visit finishyourdiploma.org to find free and supportive adult education centers near you. happening now, thousands are gathered on the national mall supporting israel and demanding the release of the hostages that hamas is holding. plus, the health care system in gaza collapsing. the u.n. warns only one hospital in northern gaza remains operational. but israel insists hamas is using civilian infrastructure to hold weapons and hostages. and the house set to vote this afternoon on speaker mike johnson s plan to fund the government with just three days left before a potential shutdown. the far right house freedom caucus already came out against the plan. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. today, tens of thousands of people are marching here in the nation s capital, showing solidarity with israel and demanding the release of hostages that hamas is holding right now. the rally is coming as joe bide
world and an international backlash against israel s proclaimed second phase, with growing concern about the safety of hostages, including ten americans. as the new speaker takes the gavel today, mike johnson is already under fire from senate republicans for removing all new ukraine war funding from the president s emergency spending bill. in favor of $14 billion for israel. the powerful republican house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccall will join me life. donald trump junior will take the witness stand in the manhattan civil fraud trial one day after his father s appearance at a courthouse in downtown miami. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington with the first escape from gaza through the rafah crossing into egypt for at least a handful of americans since the war began. a small group of americans, u.s. officials say fewer than ten, were finally able to get out after egyptian ambulances crossed into gaza to bring out injured gazans. de