good morning. it is saturday, may 13th, 2023, of course, that is the year we are in. i m amara walker. thank you for the reminder. sometimes we need it. ikt victor blackwell in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the escalating violence between israelis and palestinians in gaza. the israeli defense forces, they ve launched a series of attacks today. the idf attacked islamic jihad sites in the gaza strip, they say. these deadly strikes on palestinian targets have been ongoing since tuesday. palestinian officials say at least 33 people have been killed so far including militants and civilians and an israeli medical service says a rocket hit a residential building there this week. one person was killed, five were hurt. cnn s ben wedeman is live in southern israel, near gaza, hi there, ben, what s the latest. what s going on there on the ground? reporter: what we ve seen throughout the day here is there have been occasional volleys of rockets being fired out of gaza, and mor
liable for sexual abuse. desantis is driving home his record of turning culture war issues into laws. then there s nikki haley and senator tim scott, calling for a return to true conservatism, without directly attacking donald trump. former vice president mike pence worked in the trump presidency but also became a target of it, said he too wants to return back to the party s original roots. and there are those presidential hopefuls and potential candidates who said trump should never step foot in the oval office again. that is where asa hutchinson, former new jersey governor chris christie, and new jersey governor chris sununu land. more candidates, with less name recognition, are also jumping in with various platforms. for his part, desantis travels to another early nominating state tomorrow when he visits new hampshire. here now, with his take on the road to 2024, michael smerconish, host of smir connish here on cnn and of the michael smerconish program. desantis is say
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they rolled out the razor wire and redirected migrants to official points of entry. president biden said this on his bike on sunday. secretary mayokas said the numbers at the border have gone down since title 42 was lifted. are you confident the numbers have peaked and they ll continue to go down? president biden: they have gone down. we have a lot more work to do and we need more help from congress as well. in terms of funding and legislative changes. dana: resources are stretched to the limit. new video shows a holding center jammed full of adult men. facility meant to hold 1,000 right now is housing more than 6,000. the problem goes far beyond the southern border. cities like new york city and washington, d.c. struggling to accommodate daily bus loads of migrants. that is prompting a heated legal battle on where they can stay. team fox coverage, david spunt reports from the white house. let s start at the border where matt finn has been up for hours live in el pa
Inside the president s garage with his corvette. Hence the New York Post headline anybody vette this guy . We have a look at past cases involving Classified Information. Lets begin the hour david spunt reports at the Department Of Justice where he was yesterday when the news broke. David, hello. Two Special Counsels investigating two president s in a span of two months. Welcome to the Department Of Justice. It has been busy. Robert hur is the latest Special Counsel on the job as of yesterday to specifically investigate these classified documents taken from the president s home in wilmington, delaware and his office at the Penn Biden Center. Jack smith, the appointed is neck deep and the President Trump documents. Attorney general garland who has lived in a Pressure Cooker the past six months was most recently with the president in mexico. They sat together and spoke multiple times on the trip. A source says the Attorney General never spoke to the president about this investigation, not