martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. breaking now, a huge moment has just unfolded at the united nations. hillary clinton and new york senator kristen gillibrand rip on progressive reluctance to condemn hamas atrocities against women. all right. you know what? we have something live from the white house. let s listen in. from jake sullivan about this. i can only speak for the president. that s who i can speak for. we ve been clear what hamas did is absolutely reprehensible and full stop. we re going to continue to be clear about that. we think about rape and the use of rape as being used as a weapon. that is also reprehensible. that s full stop. i ll leave it there. that is speaking for the president of the united states. i ve been very clear on that. any comment though congressman jayapal i just laid out what we believe is unacceptable. i know you said you don t want to i want to ask you about reporting about the border talks linking to ukraine fund
of evidence, of wrongdoing. the white house is calling it an illegitimate and unjustified move from republicans. plus, hill harper is on the ballot in michigan. we will talk to the good doctor after about why he decided to run for the u.s. senate in this critical battleground state. i am symone sanders-townsend, and i have something to say. after a weeklong truce, the fighting has intensified again in the israel-hamas war. more than 700 people have been killed in the gaza strip, according to the hamas-run health ministry, since that truce with israel fell apart on friday. that israel defense forces or idf has shifted its military operations to southern gaza, in order civilians to evacuate. if you remember, just weeks earlier, israel urged gaza residents to evacuate to southern gaza from the north overnight the idf says it targeted weapons stores, command centers, and hamas naval assets. and the destroyed 500 tunnel shafts in civilian areas it says were used by
in some ways. well, thank you. that s what i was aiming for. well done, my friend, thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so anything much going on in the news? enjoying these sleepy summer days without much happening? aghh. all right. we have a bunch of stuff to coffer tonight. first, the former president of the united states is going to be sentenced for 34 felony convictions next week on thursday. the prosecutors who brought that case and who prosecuted in court that case against donald trump, they were due today to make their sentencing recommendation to the judge. in a new york state case like this, it s not the jury that convicted trump that will decide what his sentence is. it s the judge who oversaw the case. it s juan juan merchan who will sentence trump. the maximum sentence under law that trump could face is four years in prison. it s very possible, however, that he might not get any prison time at all. for he does get a sentence of con
tomorrow. so anything much going on in the news? enjoying these sleepy summer days with not much happening? agh. all right, we ve got a bunch of stuff to cover tonight. first, the former president of the united states is going to be sentenced for 34 felony convictions next week on thursday. the prosecutors who brought that case and who prosecuted in court that case against donald trump, they were due today to make their sentencing recommendation to the judge. in a new york state case like this, it s not the jury that convicted trump that will decide what his sentence is, it s the judge who oversaw the case. it s judge juan merchan who will sentence trump. the maximum sentence trump could face is four years in prison. it s very possible, however, that he might not get any prison time at all, or if he does get a sentence of confinement, it s possible it could be home confinement, we just don t know. on the one hand, what he s been convicted of, while it is 34 felonies, it s a
night? next four years behind closed doors, president biden is huddling with advisers at camp trump were that s according to some of the sources we re talking to for his part, trump s debate prep appears to include posting on his truth, social official account. consider this rant that says, quote, drug test for crooked joe biden. i would also immediately agreed one that s from the former president and club. it s the latest bizarre and baseless suggestion for trump and his allies that biden will need some sort of performance enhancing drugs for the cnn showdown, recovering both campaigns this morning with cnn s kristen holmes and kevin lip tack. kevin, let s begin with you. there s a new ad from the biden campaign. what s it say? yeah, i think it does give you a preview of the economic message that they re going to focus on the debate because as you mentioned and as is typical, the president and his team are getting a lot of incoming from democrats. they re concerned about t