media outlet to gain access to southern gaza without a military escort. we ll bring you that report ahead as the defense minister says the war in gaza will last several more months. and exonerated. a man in illinois spent 35 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. and now his conviction has been vacated and he is a free man at least. he will join us live just ahead. we re following these major developing stories and many more coming in to cnn news central. thanks for joining us this afternoon. it s the top of the hour, and we re tracking a set of counterterror operations in europe. multiple suspects were arrested in germany, denmark and the netherlands today. german officials arrested 3 hamas members for allegedly planning to attack jewish institutions. authorities in denmark made several terror arrests that are unrelated to the germany case. israeli officials claim the suspects were also acting on behalf of ha mast. alex, all of this is confusing as you try t
adding he regrets his blind loyalty that and that is a theme he hid in his only interview since his sentencing. first of all nothing at the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. trump. and trump called for scrutiny of cohen s father-in-law which several chairs in the house warn could be criminal witness intimidation and reporting showing that intimidation could be working. cohen worried about threats to his family before his appearance to congress. now donald trump is arguing basically that michael cohen is not credible and is just out to lie about trump. donald trump publicly threatening cohen s family, a sign that trump is afraid of what cohen will say. and then you have cohen s side arguing, this is not about what he said, it is about evidence and what he knows. now people can debate who has the better argument between these two. but i want to be clear about what we re learning. tonight s news scores one round for cohen. this new story is not about
something like this? well, it is possible, but the environment has been so poisoned by this first year. and now we re headed into a very competitive election year in which i m sure democratic leaders are not eager to hand victories to the president. they also remember that for six years president obama proposed major investments in infrastructure and for six years the republicans refused to do so on the grounds that they said it was unaffordable. and now having passed their tax bill that added $1.5 trillion to deficits, that will be ringing in people s ears and you ll find republicans on their side arguing that now having done this on the tax bill, we certainly can t move forward on infrastructure. so there are a lot of obstacles here. there s also a question of what kind of infrastructure investment will it be?
anything out. i m the guy who said it. you should know. you have seen thing and lived through things that people never thought were possible. i m living through it right now. we are arguing every day, you hear everybody in the debate on each side arguing about whether or not this deal with iran is right or wrong. we have left the hostages and those being held almost out of the conversation. you are hearing about them once every day when something is released about iran. iran shouldn t be controlling the conversation about the americans being held in prison while we talk about donald trump. the president said and his advisers said he didn t want the hostages to be part of it because he didn t want harm to come to them. they were clearly part of it. do you think they should have been. they are part of it. clearly are part of it right now. they are not going to be released until money is released. i think this needs to be elevated to a conversation we all as a nation should be
more americans polled say they know someone who is gay. shannon travis is at the supreme court. shannon, the justices examining the constitutionality of prop 8. what is each side arguing? reporter: yeah, obviously, they ll be laying out their arguments in a short time here at the supreme court, christine. obviously, this is proposition 8, the 2008 passed measure, voter-passed measure that banned same-sex marriage in california. on the pro side, the people that are actually in favor of the proposition, they argue a classic conservative argument, christine, that the definition of marriage in the united states has always been between one man and one woman. they will also be arguing that this is a voter-approved measure, that the voters approved it on the cons, the people that are actually against this. they ll basically say you know what, this violates the equal protection clause of the constitution and also that the heightened level of scrutiny should be applied when you re talking abo