the gunman remain at large. thanks so much for joining us. we ll see you back here tomorrow. ac30 60 starts right now it s thursday, may 16, right now on cnn this morning it s on joe biden and donald trump signing off on do debates. the first one next month, right here on cnn plus trump s lawyers planning a new strategy with michael cohen former fixer, back on the stand this morning in the hush money trial, and two partners with a pledge, vladimir putin and xi jinping together in beijing vowing to deepen their ties. what does this mean for the west? all right. 5:00 a.m. here in washington alive. look at capitol hill on this thursday morning, we re almost there. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us. joe biden and donald trump will be face-to-face next month for the first presidential debate of this election cycle, the two presumptive nominees have accepted debate invitations from cnn and abc cnn s set to take place first, it s going to
brand-new information breaking out of the criminal trial. day two of testimony from michael cohen. his witness resume as you would know would lead most people to begin with one single fact, he lies as he breathes. cohen has been convicted of lying to congress and even admits he is a liar. he is forced to untangle now some of those lies after admitting he submitted false invoices. when your testimony stabs even yourself. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. who knows if that s true? who knows if anything he says is true? yesterday cohen testified about his close working relationship with the former president. he says trump knew the reimbursement for a payment to the sex film worker stormy daniels, ahead of the 2016 election, would be labeled as legal services. but some big questions over whether the jury will believe cohen, an admitted and convicted liar. right now he is still under the prosecution s direct questioning. that has been many hours. one headlin
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington alongside erin burnett in tel aviv with our coverage. several developments this evening. today israeli defense forces raising the death toll to more than 1400 israeli armored vehicles are now staging near the border why gaza in anticipation of what they call significant ground operations. that invasion expected to happen at any moment. the idf confirms hamas has more than 150 hostages eight days their after attack. and israeli air strikes continue to pound northern gaza and idf shelled 250 targets today. tens of thousands in gaza are still scrambling to find safe passage to the south. but the raffa border crossing in egypt is closed. waiting for authorities to open the gate for days now. today tony blinken promised that the border will open as the u.s. appointed a new special envoy to coordinate aid into the gaza enclave. let me go to erin burnett live on the ground in tel aviv. i understand you were able to
hello. thanks for joining us. i m dana bash in washington. and i m sara sidner in tel aviv with cnn s breaking news coverage of israel at war. israel says it is gearing up for the next stage of its response to the unprecedented terror attack by hamas eight days ago. israeli officials say they see a strong flow of people leaving northern gaza, this just a couple of days after it gave a stark warning to civilians living there to get out before it s too late, and we just learned that israel is now working to set up a place to get aid to evacuees once they arrive in the south. already 700,000 people left their homes and we are in the process of establishing humanitarian zone, a big hoo up an tearian zone in the southern part of gaza and they will go there and are in the humanitarian zone and they will get all of the essential provisions like water, medicine, food and things like that. israeli defense forces say they are now preparing for a significant ground operation
include 30 americans among the more than 1400 killed. israeli prime minister netanyahu has invited president biden to visit israel as israeli forces prepare for a ground offensive and i m joined now by erin burnett live in israel. we re here just after 1:00 in the morning in israel. and it is clear skies behind me. we ve been talking about the forecast for some extremely violent thunderstorms that could impact any possible plans, any kind of heavy rainfall obviously incredibly disruptive when you talk about the terrain in gaza sand along that border where 350,000 or so israeli troops are gathered right now. you mentioned 250 air strikes as we are looking at gaza, the air strikes just today. and they say another hamas senior commander was killed in those strikes today. the idf spokesperson just joins us saying they killed ten hamas members so far since the beginning of the war and there are many more to come. still calling them dead men walking and which reflects the still r