family ought to exist. thank you so much for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. major developments in israel s fight with hamas as international pressure grows to curb civilian casualties. i m john king in for anderson. we ll have the latest on the ground in just a moment. first, breaking news here in the states. a federal appeals courtsiding with the former president on that limited gag order issued against him in the special counsel s election interference case. let s get straight to our chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid. exactly what did this appeals court do? reporter: they put this gag order on hold, then in a little over two weeks, a three-judge panel will hear arguments about whether this gag order is constitutional. judge tanya chut kin, the federal judge overseeing the election subversion case in washington, imposed a broader set of restrictions on former president trump at the request of prosecutors. those restrictions bar him from ta
it is saturday, november 4th. i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a split screen image that perfectly represents this moment of american politics. with democracy hanging in the balance, donald trump on the campaign trail, and on trial. trail, on one side we see a disgraced, twice impeached, multiply that former president raging at the system as the walls close in on him. on the other, the seemingly untouchable front runner for the republican nomination giving his supporters and the rest of the country a preview of his return to power. what it will look like. in the eyes of the backup base, trump is barreling towards the white house in 2024, despite witch hunts on all sides. as he continues to lead his republican competitors by a long shot, he is also continue to undermine and disregard key elements of what it means to be in a democracy. and how democratic processes work. he is refusing to attend the third republican debate. instead he will hold a counter programming
an inflection point in history where what happens now will ricochet in the decades ahead. there comes a time maybe every six to eight generations where the world changes in a very short time. we are in that time now? we are. i think what happens in the next two off three years are going to determine what the world looks like for the next five or six decades. it s a sobering thought. tonight the biden administration says that the nature of israel s war is about to change from an air assault to a tactical block by block ground campaign. it potentially means fewer images like these graphic ones from the gaza strip. you re looking at here the aftermath of what the idf admits is a deadly air strike on an ambulance near a hospital. the scene is so chaotic and bloody that it s hard to even tell who is alive and who is not. we should note the idf says that the hospital is the main base of hamas operations. hours ago, secretary of state antony blinken met again with benjamin n
guys, we re going to win this thing. i promise you we re going to win it because we haven t done anything wrong. oh, eric. you re not paying attention. you have already lost, remember? in september, when the judge ruled that you and your brother and your daddy lied for years on your company s financial statements. this trial, it s really just about penalties. also tonight, president biden visits grieving families in lewiston, maine, as we learn more about missed warning signs before the gunman killed 18 people. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with another volatile day in the $250 million civil fraud trial against the trump crime family and their company. today, a new york judge ruled that a limited gag order on donald trump should also apply to his attorneys after he said they made inappropriate remarks about his principal law clerk. judge arthur engoron s order said the lawyers for the former president and his adult sons are, quote, prohibited from
judge and a combative eric trump and a prosecutor, will it be a preview of next week and the former president s testimony after his son calls the trial itself an absolute joke. the current president, sending his secretary of state on a very high stakes mission to israel, making a personal plea to stop the fighting if only for a few hours. the desperate push to get more people out of harm s way even as israeli forces encircle the largest city in the gaza strip with thousands trapped inside. a former u.s. ambassador to israel will join me to explain where things go from here. and the alarming surge of anti-semitic threats on college campuses now leading one university to pull the plug on classes today citing stress on the students. with no end to the war in sight, will the threats and the fallout get worse before they get better? but we start in new york where tensions exploded in a testy 25-minute long back and forth between donald trump s legal team and the judge at his c