and then there are the families who have not been contacted. who spend every day by the phone, and tonight will know the wait will go on. it is exhausting, it is hell. in the past seven weeks all the it is exhausting, it is hell. in the past seven weeks all the families have been in the nightmare. all israelis, actually. we have been doing everything we can to bring our loved ones back, talking to the press, like i am doing right now. meeting through government officials, meeting with the israeli government. joining me in the studio tonight isjustin crump, a former british army officer and ceo and founder of sibylline an intelligence consultancy, and also guto harri, a former director of communications at downing street. welcome to the programme. guto, i shudder to think what the families are going through, seven weeks of war, and some of them will know their loved ones are not coming out tomorrow? it their loved ones are not coming out tomorrow? , their loved ones are not
56 hours until the polls open with a leader is campaigning for every single one of your votes, but what is really going on behind the scenes? welcome to newsnight, for your nightly interviews and insight. and we will bring both to you on the week when you decide who s going to run our country for the next five years. tonight, we have the man who compiles the exit poll which you will see at 10pm this thursday on the bbc one election programme, professor sirjohn curtice. that should give you us, we hope the first accurate forecast of the election result. we also we have harriet harman, former labour minister, former labour deputy leader and an mp for over a0 years, standing down this time. and we have sir craig oliver, former director of communications for prime minister david cameron. welcome. and nick is here as always. cards on the table, i m after numbers, sir craig oliver, what would be a best and worst case scenario for the conservatives politically this thursday? the
jesse: welcome, everybody, this is jesse watters primetime and i am brian and for jesse. terrorist strongholds out from every direction in gaza. [inaudible] brian: meanwhile, israeli forces have begun reading these underground layers with explosives, the same time going in one by one to clear them out. that takes guts and guile. and they have announced that they lost 20 soldiers sometimes face-to-face, the airstrikes continued to pummel israel. just 100 feet away, from a rocket filed earlier today. you know, we just heard direct impact, a rocket slammed into the building next to where we are at, and you can see something coming off the strip, sirens sounding, 10 seconds of recovery here. we are a little out of breath because we had gone straight to cover. and just by sheer chance we were parked on the other side, normally parking here. brian: war is brutal, this one especially. today, president joe biden s secretary of state, he had to get there quickly. visit
washington. i m gillian turner in for bret baier. tonight, international outrage after israel admits dozens of civilians were killed in in wrath fall. columbia for whatever happened to segment on pablo escobar infamous cocaine hippos. bret baier with a memorial day special. he digs into efforts to solve some of america s most enduring mysteries locating and identifying service members who remain missing in action. gillian: we begin first with a democracy 24 report. president biden spent his day honoring service members who died in the lining of duty. and tonight we are learning plan to break his silence on former president trump s criminal trial once a verdict is reached. closing arguments in manhattan begin tomorrow. over the weekend, former president trump and robert f. kennedy jr. address the libertarian pottery s convention. hoping for a chance to sway third party voters. white house correspondent peter doocy has the details from the north lawn tonight. hi, peter. p
today, and donald trump arriving just moments ago. a rematch four years later. both ready to make their case before the american people tonight. the first debate between a sitting president and a former president. strict rules in place tonight. no audience. the mics muted when it s not their turn to talk. our team is all here tonight. this evening, the major abortion ruling from the supreme court. 24 hours after that court document was mistakenly posted online, the justices officially issuing their decision today. testing state aboar shoulrtion deciding whether women whose health is at risk should be allowed an emergency abortion in the er. the ntsb sanging boeing today. tonight, oklahoma, effective immediately, requiring all grades 5 through 12 to teach the bible in the classroom. tonight, the state calling the bible a, quote, necessary historical document. deadly storms in the northeast. a man killed by a falling tree. we re also tracking a new round of severe weath