you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we ve been watching some pictures of multiple explosions lighting up the night sky around gaza city. nic robertson in sderot, israel, witnessed some big secondary explosions and a huge fire in gaza. you re looking at the images there. that s what his crew witnessed. they witnessed eight rockets as well, being fired from gaza into israel. the idf says six of the eight rockets were intercepted by that country s iron dome defense system and israeli police say there are no reports of casualties just yet. the night is young. on the diplomatic front, secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting in jordan, with the request to implement pauses. in tel aviv, the family of hamas hostages held a rally in front of israel s military headquarters. organizers say it was not an antigovernment protest but rather a call for israel to do more to secure the hostages released. and cnn was part of the first group of foreign press g
not just basic but chess. i want to play the sound bite, byron. write about this pariah chess club, a week of games at your house. do you still play? no, i gave it up. it s an addiction. bret: completely. it s a poison. [laughter] i mean, you know, you reach a point when you are on the internet, you know, middle of the night and you are playing speech s or you realize you are in a motel room and you are drinking al drg aqua velva. for chess. you cancel your subscription and don t do it again. yeah, i have binges. for several years, this has happened to me ever since i was about 20. [laughter] bret: he could crack me up, byron. it was amazing. talk about a mind that was working all the time. one thing did i on all of these things that have been said about charles. i went back and looked at the transcripts of some of the special report panels here. he had an incredible gift in
students who walked out probably put it best when they said that on this campus, which is a catholic university, they learned to stand up for the marginalized, for the poor, for the lgbtq, for immigrants, and for religious freedom for everyone, for all, not just their muslim brothers and sisters, a message they say came straight from pope francis, these students walked out saying they don t believe that vice president mike pence embodies those teachings. take a listen. either we are all notre dame or none of us are. and if you are trying to silence and not listen to the presence of one group and their families, then you re not listening to any of us. and that was a speech s or i guess that was what we wanted to say today, to the administration, more so than anyone else, the administration, you need to listen to our peers, you need to listen to our peers
ridiculous to say you didn t do proper footnotes. do you write your own speech s, senator. a lot of people participate, not attributable to one person. the thing is if you look at any of my speeches there has never been any indication that i am trying to take credit for some one else s work. so really this is really about information and attacks coming from haters. the person who its leading this attack, she has been spreading hate on me for about three years now. i don t intend for it to go away, i don t see her as an on joke tiff news source. senator, you can call me whatever names you want few. trust me high have been called worse. this is not a personal thing for me at all. i feel no emotion about this, i do not hate you or try to spread hate on you. i am sorry you feel that way. also you didn t borrow plot
will see in the coming months. the re-election campaign will be focusing on the auto bailout. it s a new phase in this campaign and joe biden in the state of ohio to do it. the speeches came at the exact same time, we asked the white house about that. they batted the notion away saying people have busy schedules and they happen to fall at the same time. there s no doubt that president obama s re-election bid is taking a new step today. the two major speech s, but there s a documentary coming out that s going online; is that right? reporter: that s right. this is a 17-minute documentary that was put together. this is the person who directed an inconvenient truth, waiting for superman. definitely high profile. tom hanks narrates this video. i watched a clip. it runs through the president s