against them. and a secret service agent involved in protecting one of president biden s granddaughters opens fire in response to a car break-in. and the response. and senator tim scott drops out of the presidential race, and his staff didn t even know. who might be the next to go. i m john berman with kate bolduan and fredricka whitfield is in for sara sidner. this is cnn news central. happening right now, donald trump jr. has just gone into the courtroom in manhattan and soon he is going to be taking stand, again, to testify, and this time, it is going to be as the defense team s first witness. still at stake, the fate of the trump business empire as you remember the judge in this civil case has already found the family liable for fraud, and so what is donald trump jr. going to try to do to tip the trial in favor of he and his family, and these are the live pictures that you are looking at of donald trump jr. sitting and waiting for the proceedings to get under way.
screen to follow. stay right here on the screen to follow. stay right here ayman is up next. good evening, tonight, the coordinated attacks on the justice system, a campaign of vengeance. trump is finally held accountable. a i knew investigation that looking into the efforts to keep the criminal court off of its back and harvard s new policy of silence that reveals a sad truth about where we are in america. showing empathy is now somehow controversial. let s do it. immediately after trump made history last week becoming the first u.s. president to ever be convicted of a felony. republicans rush to his defense and they have not left his side ever since. we saw the ex-president and his ride or die followers echoing the same. people get it. it is a scam the republican party they stuck, they stick together. representation of the justice department, the fbi, that is all coming out of washington. i think anybody who is not speaking up in the face of really something that sh
with more news, right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports president biden calls for cease fighting on hamas terrorists as people around the world and here at home hear about the casualties in gaza. not a primitive cease-fire, even though protesteres like this rabbi are calling for them. i am a rabbi. i would call for a cease-fire right now. stand down. we ll get reaction today from a top adviser, to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and a new strike on a palestinian refugee camp today. donald trump jr. on the witness stand and his brother, eric, in the on-deck circle for the civil fraud trial against the trump organization. and the frustration. a senate from alabama is coming out of the senate, with a growing number of his months-long hold on approximately 300 military promotions. this is doing great damage to our military. i don t say that lightly. i ve been trying to work with you for nine months. if this keeps going, people are going to leave. that w
hello. and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. you are watching cnn s continuing coverage of israel at war. it is 3:00 a.m. here in atlanta. 9:00 a.m. in gaza. israeli air strikes, again, lit up the skies overnight. israel s military says its forces have reached the outskirts of gaza city, for the second time in as many days. israel hit the refugee camp in northern gaza with the devastating air strike on wednesday. local hospital officials say 80 people were killed. here s what an idf spokesperson told cnn earlier. you should have evacuated. you and your family, you shouldn t have been there. that doesn t mean that we wanted to kill anybody. it means that when we warn palestinians two weeks ago to evacuate that specific area, because there was going to be major combat operations, they should have heeded the warning and should have left. the sad reality that is unfolding now is that the civilians in gaza is
hi, everyone. i m jessica dean alongside boris sanchez here in washington, d.c. and for the first time since the hamas terror attack on israel a small number of civilians are being allowed to leave gaza and escape the several hundred strikes a day by israel on hamas targets. egyptian state affiliate media reports the first group of foreign passport holders has arrived into egypt through the rafah border crossing. and sources are telling cnn the opening is the result of a deal mediated by qatar among israel, hamas and egypt. a senior u.s. official says this deal could ultimately lead to about 7,000 people allowed to cross. stressing that total, though, is far from exact. and just minutes ago president biden posted on social media that some american citizens are going to be among those departing gaza as soon as today. he hailed u.s. leadership and efforts to help some gazans and foreign nationals leave amid what is obviously an escalating ground offensive in the north of gaza