supreme court and the gop continuing to infringe on lgbtq rights in this country. there is the hamas attacks on october 7th and israel s indiscriminate retaliation, which have, quote, loyalty s inhumanity to a test. and we have seen a republican primary field that is providing moments of absurdity. and let s face it, a lot of levity. let s get started. we begin tonight with a rare warning about our democracy. it is in dire straits, and that is not according to just one or two, but rather, 13 presidential libraries dating back to herbert hoover, all of which on thursday released a joint statement calling for every commitment to the country s bedrock principles, including the rule of law, and respecting a diversity of beliefs. i can t say this enough. this is an unprecedented move, never before had the presidential libraries engaged so directly in political affairs. while their joint message stopped short of calling out individuals by name, the subject of the warning wa
the national archives has called for an investigation into how and why the messages were wiped. it sent a letter to the secret service just a short time ago asking for a report within 30 days if it is determined any information wasn t properly deleted. the committee is gearing up for the next hearing. former white house press secretary sarah matthews and former deputy security adviser matthew pottinger will appear before the committee. both have already testified behind closed doors. this time they ll do it publicly. the committee has already played snippets of their taped interviews recalling the events that unfolded inside the white house on january 6th, particularly their reaction to donald trump s repeated attacks on his vice president as rioters were calling for mike pence s hanging. we all talked about at that point how it was bad and the situation was getting out of hand. we thought the president needed to tweet something and tweet something immediately. we all got a
and that s what bank of america was for me. sandra: all right, 9:00 p.m. in the middle east and fighting is back on after a seven-day truce came to a close, signalling a new stage in this war. sirens are sounding across central and southern israel at this hour and the idf is striking further into gaza as we speak. the fate of roughly 130 hostages is still up in the air. welcome to our two, i m sandra smith here in new york. hi, john. john: good to be with you for a second hour, i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports . israel urging all civilians in gaza to evacuate as operations expand into the southern part of the strip. the biden administration warning israel to proceed with caution, raising concern more aid and support to our ally may be limited. so, what is the strategy going forward? sandra: we will put that question to mark regev, a senior adviser to benjamin netanyahu in moments. but first, to nate foy, he s live on the ground in northern isr
i m pamela brown in for jake tapper in washington, d.c. and i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv where israel has just claimed responsibility for an attack outside a hospital in gaza city. videos from the scene show multiple dead and injured people on the ground near the al-shifa hospital, which is gaza s largest medical facility. israel says hamas was using an ambulance convoy outside the hospital to transport operatives and weapons. and all this comes just hours after the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met here in israel with top israeli officials. and while blinken once again defended israel s right to respond to the horrific terrorist hamas attacks on october 7th, he delivered a strong message that suggested the white house support for israel is not without limits. we ve been clear that as israel conducts its campaign to defeat hamas, how it does so matters. it matters because it s the right and lawful thing to do. it matters because failure to do so plays into the h
happening now, breaking news. israel admits responsibility for an attack on an ambulance outside a gaza hospital saying it was being used by hamas. the bloody scenes and reports of casualties come as tough questions are being raised about the civilian death toll in this war. as israeli forces pound gaza from the air and on the ground, prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists there will be no cease-fire until hamas hostages are freed. israel rejecting a new u.s. appeal for a humanitarian pause in the fighting during a visit by the secretary of state, antony blinken. and in new york, eric trump wraps up his first time in the witness stand and says his father is fired up for his own testimony next week in the civil fraud trial against their family business. we re going to tell you where the case stands right now as the trump family is put under oath. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer reporting live from israel, and you re in th