Morning. Well stay on top of this breaking developing story. State of the union is next. Mighty vengeance. Israel responds. After a brazen and brutal hamas Terror Attacks. Citizens of israel, were at w w war. Antony blinken joins me next. And how could it happen. Israeli civilians killed and ab ducked as the world scrambled to understand how hamas pulled off such a surprise attack. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael Mccaul and former Vice President mike pence join me ahead. Plus rock solid. President biden voices strong support for israel. Israel has the right to defend itself and its people. Full stop. And congress rushes to condemn the hamas attack but without a speaker of the house, could that hamper any u. S. Response . Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Hello, im dana bash in washington where the state of our union is standing with israel. Breaking news just in to cnn, israel formally declared a state of war. And cnn is reporting mo
turn three 60, breaking news on what the idf is saying in israeli military operation underway inside gaza s main hospital. supporters of israel fill them of washington, according to parents one badly wounded american hostage. also tonight, weather is the center witness nearly coming to blows with the near house speaker urgently elbowing a fellow republican member. what is going on in congress? unless senator bernie sanders, who joins me now. preventing a fight. today we begin with the breaking news, what israeli military officials are calling the, quote, precise a targeted operation in al-shifa hospital in gaza city. it is both gaza s largest hospital and, according to israel, a base for fighters in tunnels underneath. just today john kirby said that american intelligence support of this new, and i m quoting him now, hamas in the palestinian islamic jihad use some hospitals in the gaza strip, including al-shifa, and tunnels underneath them, to conceal and support the milita
releasing video as it attempts to defend the ground operation. key world organizations are condemning the raid as we re getting dire new accounts from inside the hospital. also tonight, a rare face-to-face meeting between president biden and china s xi jinping here in the united states. president biden now prepared to answer questions about the summit and his efforts to cool tensions with beijing. and cnn presses senator joe manchin about his next move now that he s not running for re-election. will he bolt from the democratic party and set his sights on the white house? kaitlan collins debuts her interview with manchin this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, israel says its controversial military operation inside gaza s largest hospital, quote, will take time. at last resort, at last report, i should say, it was still under way as the israel defense forces is sharing some o
pretty darn good. thanks. the lead with jake tapper starts now. direct quote, stand your butt up then, quote, you stand your butt up. not a schoolyard. that was today in the united states senate. the lead starts right now. i d love to do it right now. well stand your butt up then. you stand your butt up. stop it. heated exchanges on capitol hill. one in the senator and another in the house involving former house speaker kevin mccarthy and actual physical violence. and just down the block, a massive rally on the national mall with a goal. one rally attendee has a brother being held hostage by hamas. he ll join me ahead. plus an emergency request for an emergency protective order after leaked evidence in fulton county, georgia, shows co-defendants of donald trump explaining efforts to overturn georgia s 2020 election results with shocking new details that you have not heard before. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we re going to have much more on
good evening. right now it s 2:00 a.m. in gaza, but there will likely be little sleep for many people there tonight. tonight we ve been watching multiple images of multiple explosions lighting up the night sky around gaza city. cnn s nic robertson in sderot witnessed some big secondary explosions and a huge fire in gaza. nic and his crew witnessed eight rockets being fired from gaza and israel. the idf tell cnn six of the eight rockets were intercepted by the country s iron dome defense system. israeli police say there are no reports of casualties that they can pass along at this moment. meanwhile, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting with arab leaders in jordan. he s heading to turkey. blinken stressed support for israel to implement what s being called a humanitarian pause in the fighting in gaza, that is far short of the cease-fire wanted by arab countries and international aid agencies. minutes ago israel s military said it would allow a a w