atop israeli official is meeting with the house over israel s war over hamas. the lead starts right now. meetings are underway with a close confident and senior white house officials as the administration asks israel to scale back the war strategy and the prime minister says he s not backing down. a new caravan of thousands of migrants is headed to the u.s. border from southern mexico. one day before secretary state antony blinken heads to mexico city in an effort to deal with the crisis. if you re planning to return an unwanted holiday gift, it may cost you. we ll tell you why. hello and welcome to the lead. right now, top biden administration officials are set to meet with ron dermer in washington, d.c. a close confident of benjamin netanyahu. antony blinken and jake sullivan are expected to press dermer are moving israel to a more targeted phase of the war. this as netanyahu vows a long fight in gaza. israel defense forces are using the ground, air and naval troops t
other residents left to run for cover. translator: we were on the eighth floor with my 4-year-old son. we first ran to the corridor, and then down the fire staircase to get outside. reporter: as you can see, this building sustained some pretty substantial damage, and the drone attack went on for several hours last night, with the drones hovering over the city center and ukrainian air defenses frantically trying to take them down. ukraine s military says it shot down 29 of the 31 uavs the russians sent. kyiv s mayor vitali klitschko comforting his citizens, and telling me western air defense systems kept many people here safe. if we didn t have our defense, modern defense from our partners we have much worse situation in our hometown. more destroy the buildings and it will be more civilians killed. reporter: but russia has already threatened massive retaliation after the drone attack on moscow, leaving people in kyiv and elsewhere bracing for what could be worse to com
federal prosecutors. the lead starts right now. breaking on cnn this minute. a meeting recorded. sources tell cnn donald trump not only knew he kept classified documents, but talked about them in a meeting captured on tape. what sources say they discussed and the significance of what was said. we have the breaking reporting right now. this hour the debt limit deal put together a growing list of house republicans and democrats coming out saying they plan to vote no. i ll speak with one of them coming up. bullet through a prayer book, a survivor who hid in a closs set. the stark new details in the trial of the tree of life mass shooting suspect. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. a new piece of evidence that undercuts donald trump s defense in the classified documents investigation. federal prosecutors obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting where the former president acknowledges he held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack ag
as a new problem for speaker mccarthy has emerged, the rebellious conservative freedom caucus, including some members threatening to oust mccarthy over the deal. russia s capital city attacked. putin blames ukraine. the trial begins for the gunman behind the deadliest attack on jews in american history at pittsburgh s tree of life synagogue in 2018. the shooter hasn t disputed he s the one pulling the trigger. why did his lawyer enter a plea of not guilty? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. in our money lead, a make-or-break moment. the committee is debating the bipartisan debt ceiling deal struck over the weekend to try to avoid an economic catastrophe. but there are multiple hard line republicans on that very committee, the rules committee, who are furious with the deal. they have the chance to derail it all right now. one of those conservatives, congressman chip roy joined his freedom caucus earlier to urge the entire republican house caucus to vote no. they re
a day after the six-week abortion ban went into effect, a judge has ordered the law to be put on hold. anyhow it s up to the all-male justices of the state supreme court. plus we re on standby for another member of the oath keepers to be sentenced for their role in the january 6th capitol insurrection, one defendant telling the judge she was just another idiot running around the hallway. then, 12 people are injured and the big question is, why did he do it? hello, everyone, and welcome to the lead, i m biana. a judge has blocked south carolina s new abortion restrictions from going into effect. yesterday, governor henry mcmaster signed a law banning most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy before many women even know they re pregnant. it did allow for some exception b s but it s all on hold. dianne gallagher is following these developments for us. what happens now? zbl. reporter: so, at this point in south carolina, the limit on abortions returns to wha