on that. ainsley: they work together really well. brian: hard to know who is a democrat or a republican because they think so much alike. steve: no killed. been a while on that. it s been a while since they come together. brian: maybe i missed off. i know on friday they were together i don t know what happened over the weekend. ainsley: cold out there. steve: 46 degrees. brian: not too bad. just going out today wear under arrest underarmor. steve: you mean long johns. brian: like under armor you wear it and keeps the heat in. are you wearing it right now. brian: i m fine. washington it s cold. steve: in washington, d.c. they need overarmor they come at you. that china select committee they are coming together. actually working together and mike gallagher s leadership. president biden is expected to announce his re-election bid tomorrow a new poll shows he may not have the support he was hoping for. the white house is going to host three democrats a
losses has been you know force of our due process, ha been a force of th constitutional you know system of government and so i mea everything about, this even th trial that they, had the verdict was decided before w even started talking we will not quit fighting and that s the reality we believe it s so possibl even in a state like this that real gun reform legislatio that protects communities, tha protect schools is possible. simone sanders thompson got a sit down with the tennesse three, the two black lawmakers who were expelled on the one white legislature who wa spared simon will join me shortly also this hour, the shocking revelations involving suprem court justice clarence thoma and the lab is tripsavvy too on a billionaire dime. i will speak with a journalist that broke that story. and the house gop has a ne target unit strengthenin investigations of the manhatta da s office over its indictmen of donald trump. plus chilling surveillance video, released and th sta
hello i m abby phillip in washington. welcome to cnn newsroom we begin this hour in the middle east, where both violence and tensions are escalating. today israeli forces unleashed air strikes in southern lebanon and gaza and israel says it struck targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas. israel blames hamas for firing 34 rockets from lebanon yesterday and the latest barrage since the two countries were at war back in 20 in 2006. now that has raised fears of an escalating conflict across the region, and just overnight, we learned that israel has mobilized some of its military reserves. a short time ago, israel s defense minister ordered security bolstered across the country after two israeli women were shot to death in the west bank. israel has called it an act of terror. let s get straight to cnn s fred pleitgen, who is near the israeli gaza border, and scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, for us as well. but let s start with you, fred. fred you did talk to t
happy friday it s 4:00 in new york. he has held no press conferences, done no interviews that we know about he is elusive. the inner workings of his highly sensitive assignment a bit of a mystery outside of what some journalists worked to uncover. when it comes to the special counsel jack smith and his federal investigations, plural, into donald j. trump it takes an ear to the ground adept and trained to know when progress is being made this afternoon trusted voices suggest it is time to buckle up. here s why in dates since the federal appeals court in washington rejected the ex-president s bid to block former staffers from testifying in the january 6th investigation, ex-aides have paraded in and out of depositions without fig leaf protections of executive an attorney-client privilege. on tuesday it was stephen miller late yesterday it was former dni john ratcliffe soon it could be the star witness, donald trump s former vice president mike pence himself. last week an advisor
attorney general merrick garland identified him as 21-year-old air national guardsman, jack tech t teixeira the new york times spoke with members of the private group teixeira oversaw the chat where 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games. it is in that group that airman teixeira is said to have uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings, according to the times joining me now is justice correspondent, ken dilanian. the details are unbelievable in this case. walk us through what we know one more time, what is out there and how we think it got out there. what is out there, alex, are some highly classified documents showing the fruits of american eavesdropping, signals intelligence on russia and many other countries. very embarrassing revelations that the u.s. has supplied on allies not surprising to the allies, but embarrassing when it becomes public, ukraine s air defenses and w