viewers joining us this the united states and all around the world. ahead, on cnn newsroom the gloves were off at the fourth republican presidential debate last night. who swung at who and the man who was missing from the stage. plus, a shooting on the las vegas campus of the university of nevada leaves three dead and a fourth wounded. i ll speak to a gun violence survivor about the latest mass shooting in the united states. and benjamin netanyahu says israeli forces are encircling the house of a top leader of hamas in gaza. a live report with the latest. we re following two major stories. in alabama, four presidential hopefuls met on a cage. six weeks before the contest in iowa. these clashed from electability, to the border and whether donald trump is fit to return to the white house. the former president chose to skip the debate. we re looking at the shooting on the campus of university of nevada. the gunman is a retired college professor. it s not clear what con
later. thank you for joining us. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. the number of hostages believed to be in gaza has risen, 240. according to the israeli military. this comes as israeli soldiers and tanks push deeper into the gaza strip with prime minister benjamin netanyahu refusing to halt the ground and air assault on hamas. just as the united states would not agree to a cease fire after the bombing of pearl harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, israel will not agree cessation with hamas after the horrific attacks on october 7th. calls for a cease fire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas. hamas has released a hostage video of these three israeli women being held captive. one of them begs netanyahu to secure their release. netanyahu called the video cruel propaganda. troops have been battling terrorist cells armed with
from it. you know here is the kind of coverage green gets on russian state tv. watch this. congresswoman marjorie taylor green is proposing for the united states to withdraw from nato. she believe that americans should help putin win. so what can putin accomplish knowing that he has compromised the united states congress? i mean the session that i was invited to talk in was about political warfare and the reason that was so important is that the chinese idea of political warfare means that they are using media, law to get you to do thing that aren t in your own interest. the russian idea is very much the same so this stuff only works with if americans take in russian or chinese tropes and repeat them and then they become meaningful and then the russians can pick them up and then the cycle begins and it starts to all seem normal.
that s vladimir putin s demand. there s thousands of ukrainian children being kidnapped, murders, atrocities. isn t that letting putin win despite his war crimes? you left out the most important part of the deal, which is what the united states wins. that would only be conditioned on vladimir putin exiting his miitary alliance with china. that would be excuse me. excuse me. that would be conditioned, you said, on russia containing control of the land he has grabbed. china is another question. let s move on to china. it s not one second. this is really important to understand. let me follow up. there are two sides to the deal. exit the military partnership with china. in terms of china, you have talked about staying a force
enemy, is now safely ensconced in a neighboring state in belarus, under surveillance, probably in fear for his life at any moment. and the 25,000-plus mercenaries that were behind prigozhin are now going to be folded into putin s direct command, right? and some of these are the best fighters in ukraine which he now gets to direct. the only thing we don t know is did prigozhin get some sign-off on getting rid of the defense minister and gerasimov. this looks like a putin win. the most important thing is the elites, the oligarchs that everybody keeps waiting to turn on putin. this was their shot, and they didn t take it, john. i think that hope that putin is going to be ousted is really gone now because there s no other insurrection coming anytime soon. you say there s no other prigozhin in the wings. there s no other prigozhin in the wings, right?