tapper. wolf blitzer is over in the situation room. have a great day. happening now, president biden just announced new action aimed at easing student debt after the u.s. supreme court blocked his loan forgiveness program. he s slamming the ruling as wrong and accusing republicans of hypocrisy. we re also following the fallout from the high court s other major decision today putting limits on lgbtq protections. the senators warn the ruling may open the door to discrimination of all sorts of protected minority groups. and growing questions right now about the fate of the russian mutiny leader yevgeny prigozhin. are kremlin spies plotting to kill him as ukraine s intelligence chief claims? i ll ask top white house official john kirby about that and much more. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin with today s one-two punch by the u.s. supreme court, decisions limiting lgbtq protect
that. in terms of where it was flying, it was well-clear of any territory in ukraine. it was international airspace over international water. thank you. nancy? thank you. during secretary austin s visit to egypt he held meetings with officials even though all press were banned from covering it. past defense chiefs when they ve been in similar situation have refused to proceed. given the biden administration has said one of its key pillars in terms of foreign policy is when presented between a choice of autocrats and democracies that it stands with democracies. can you help us understand why the secretary proceeded with those trips given the ban. our relationship with egypt is obviously an important strategic partnership. the secretary did appreciate the opportunity to meet with his counter parts and talk about that. i will tell you when it came to the press coverage of that portion having looked further into it, the egyptians lived up to what they had agreed upon. some of
This is cnn breaking news. Hello everyone and thanks for joining us. Im Christiane Amanpour and london and we continue with our major breaking news, israel declaring its war with hamas following an unprecedented attack on israel where at least 70 people and maybe more according to officials , are dead, and 985 wounded, again, the numbers are probably already higher and expected to rise. The attack catching israel by surprise, at Sunrise Hamas launched their offensive by air, sea and land, the fighters infiltrated israeli towns and launched rockets. Scenes of Urban Warfare as gunfights unfolded between israel and hamas. The israeli president reacted saying we saw the true face of hamas a Terrorist Army whose only goal is the coldblooded murder of innocent men, women and children. I call upon the upon the family of nations, this war waged upon us mark a line in the sand. Israel is watching airstrikes into gaza were palestinian say hundreds have been killed. New video shows a Tower Collap
Unprecedented Surprise Attack on israel, the likes of which this country is never seen since the Yom Kippur War that happened more than 50 years ago almost to the day, also happening on the jewish holiday. It is shabbat as well but since 6 30 this morning, sirens have been blaring across israel including here in jerusalem we had our fair share of Air Raid Sirens going off alerting us of incoming rockets. We heard several explosions ourselves overhead of either intersections or rockets making impact. Did you know there were some impacts made a Run Jerusalem . Sirens going off as far as tel aviv. Its been quieter in the last few hours, but just to give you a sense of scaled numbers we hear from the Israeli Military at least 3000 rockets have been fired so far today. This is where we are approaching our tent in this conflict with that. 21 war that lasted 11 days between israel and hamas militants. There are some 4300 rockets fired just in those 11 days. So we are approaching that number j
President trump. Just a few hours ago we got news the push to remove donald trump from office has actual and very real momentum from congressional republicans. Check this out. New york times reporting, senator Mitch Mcconnell has told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses, and that he is pleased that democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party. If this is true, and there is good reason to believe that it is, it is a very, very big deal. No Single Person could do more to evict or help donald trump than Mitch Mcconnell. It remains an open question whether mcconnell will actually do anything, but with every hour that passes the dam sustaining trumps support crumbles a little bit more. Times also reports House Minority leader kevin mccarthy, of course who supported the president in his seditious attempt to overturn the election, has asked other republicans whether he should call on mr. Trump to