Welcome to inside politics. Im Dana Bash in washington. We have a lot of Breaking News this hour we begin with major news out of the middle East Israel says it has struck hezbollahs Central Headquarters in the lebanese capital of beirut. Cnns Jomana Karadsheh is now here with us from beirut. Jomana, what are you seeing and hearing . Well, dana, a short while ago, we were here on the roof and we heard massive blast that shook our hotel as well as the rest of beirut. And then we could see the thick plume of smoke rising from the direction of beiruts Southern Suburbs that is an area one of the most densely populated areas of the country where you have hezbollah presence, where their leadership has been known to have been based in the past where we have seen multiple Israeli Strikes in recent days. But this certainly was the largest blast that anyone here has witnessed since the start of this escalation, according to lebanese colleagues, they say that this is the biggest Israeli Strike tha
That they have gone through, frankly, are continuing to go through. This crisis is far from over. Theres so much frustration, theres so much suffering, you know . The real mourning has not even been able to begin to start because of people really looking to how do i just get me and my family to tomorrow. Joey yeah. And even still firefighters are working to pull ily contain some fires burning on the island. Officials calling it the worst Natural Disaster in hawaiis history. To a fox news alert, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing a Special Counsel to the hunter biden criminal probe. Rachel but republicans and if even some democrats arent happy with who he selected. Will Alexandria Hoff joins us live washington. Reporter good morning. It is an interesting turn of events or at least title, right . Now Special Counsel david weiss and the Attorney General, they both previously maintained weiss did not need Special Counsel powers in pursuing charges against hunter biden. Of course,
Because they emit so much gas. Apparently electric or solar. Looking at potential biden vs. Trump rematch. Heat. One lawmaker admitting the threat is that trump could come back. Elon musk revealing his upcoming fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be livestreamed on x. Zuckerberg says is he consuming 4,000 calories per day to geek up. Geek turning into zuckerberg 2. 0. Good morning, everybody. 6 01 on the east on this monday, august 7th, 2023. We start with this. Donald trumps legal team facing a 5 00 p. M. Eastern time deadline today to respond to federal prosecutors request for a protective order in his latest criminal case revolving around the election. Ainsley meanwhile, the former president has some requests of his own. Judge recusal and a change of venue. Brian doesnt sound like too much to ask. Alexandria hoff is here with the latest. Lets get to the protective order first. Not unusual in criminal cases. In fact, one was granted in the classified documents case down in florida. But t
For joining us, cnn newsnight with abby phillip starts right now carnage and catastrophe in black and white. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby philip in new york. What is it like to watch chaos unfold at your feet, unable to stop it, unable to do anything but watch well, tonight, the world knows this is video from the Israeli Defense forces. And thats warm, that buzzing nucleus. Those are people, Desperate Gazans surrounding aid trucks, who are carrying food and supplies now this hour, 112 of those people are now dead. Hundreds more are injured as cameras caught. A clear eyed view of what this war is doing to innocence inside of gaza. All of what youre about to watch is disturbing and its shocking. And we thought long and hard about whether to show this to you but the brutality of what happened is in escapable. This was the scene that was surrounding that aid convoy before the disaster intervene, palestinians huddled there chatter. You could hear here it there over the d
Impede the counting of electoral votes. All he wanted to do is impede the process that is stated in the constitution, thats all he wanted. All i wanted to do was rob a bank. Take all the money. I mean, this is exactly what he is charged for. And he admitted it. Yeah, you know watching mr. Laura and political defender like Lindsey Graham, attempt to defend donald trump over the last couple of days, its clear they dont have a lot to work with. Mr. Lauro is a real attorney, not like the other attorneys that mr. Trump had around him, he was a prosecutor, and if he cant seem to come up with a cogent theory of the case of why donald trump was acting legally around the 2020 election in the days leading up to january six, its because the evidence in that indictment are so overwhelming, they are hopscotching around hoping to find something, but nothing is hitting yet. Well, of course they wont find anything illegal because they are boxed illegally, they will lose legally, what theyre trying to