the white house pushing israel to adjust rules of engagement after the idea of accidentally killing three hostages the idf. new gripping accounts from hostages formerly held by hamas, their horror while in a captivity including dodging airstrikes from israeli forces, plus in america targeted again, more than 200 eight bomb threats and swat calls, swatting calls in one week alone. what law enforcement sources are telling cnn about what is being done to track down those responsible. as donald trump claims immigrants are poisoning the blood of america, cnn s underthings trumps defense of a man convicted in election interference crimes once best known on twitter for racism, anti-semitism, homophobia and worse. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start, top biden administrators suggesting israel needs to change its approach, more than 10 weeks into the war. u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin met with his counterpart and israeli prime ministers benjamin netanyahu d
get this, 240 of those were minors. some as young as 12 years old. researchers highlighted improvements two took their own life and eleven considered suicide. this was a tax payer funded study. it was widely embraced this improved their mental health. republicans in the house and senate express grave concerns and demand answers writing this in a letter to the nih. rather than shutting the research down. researchers published saying the study was a success. the law makers are also questioning the so called success. the experiment had no control group. why wouldn t it have that? that s par for the course for an experiment. law makers say four of researchers involved were out outspoken advocates. north carolina senator is accusing nih for acting on political motivations. the attacks payer expense. 240 of them were minors at young as 12 years old. we think this is absolutely tragic. first of all taxpayer expense. second at the expense of minors. researchers are justifying ane
i mean, it s a little bit comical. everybody who s ever met me can tell you i love all people, i love all cultures. you can tell by my past and all of my travels and adventures around the world. i was actually planning a road trip through africa when this happened. penny also opens up about the death of jordan neely saying, quote, i m deeply saddened by the loss of life. it s tragic what happened to him. hopefully, we can change the system that so desperately failed us. joe, i think i want to start with you here. okay. you have some experience traveling through the city. yes. as do many new yorkers who have been on the subway. your thoughts on this, on what neely has said or on what penny has said about the death of neely. penny s words are important, obviously, but it s the witnesses. those words are even more important. his lawyer is saying, and you re going to see video around this as well, that time and again during whole incident neely wasn t trying to kill a
trump, she s considering picking a fight with the ex president. then, santos circus george santos facing 13 new federal charges the indications of the republicans might finally drop him. plus, the definitive clarence thomas timeline. we take you back almost 20 years to get to the bottom of his serious ethical lapses. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. donald trump might soon be facing e. jean carroll in court yet again. this week the twice impeached and now indicted ex president was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation. a new york jury awarded e. jean carroll $5 million in damages that after she said that trump sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and the jury found that trump defamed carroll by saying that her accusations were a hoax and a con job. now, when trump was astonishingly given a public platform to discuss the verdict the very next year, well, he immediately fell back into his old ways. i never met this woman. i n
weekend. steve: that s right. and today is easter monday. historically down at the white house they do the easter egg roll and we are going to have the first ever in studio, fox & friends easter egg roll live within 10 minutes. brian: i don t even know the rules. i thought you pick it up and run with it. lisa: i thought so too. steve: the way they do it at the white house. you have got to scoop it. it s an easter egg roll it s not easter egg carry. lisa: hopefully none of us have to get manhandled like joe biden by the easter bunny. steve: that was last year when a reporter asked the president about afghanistan and then the bunny goes come on, mr. lisa: which makes she suspicious the easter bunny was a press secretary. steve: absolutely was. that s what you do. and by the way, they use actual hard boiled eggs. we, in the interest of keeping the studio tiedy, are going to be using plastic eggs. lisa: i m 38, i don t know if i can that looks very involved.