releasing video as it attempts to defend the ground operation. key world organizations are condemning the raid as we re getting dire new accounts from inside the hospital. also tonight, a rare face-to-face meeting between president biden and china s xi jinping here in the united states. president biden now prepared to answer questions about the summit and his efforts to cool tensions with beijing. and cnn presses senator joe manchin about his next move now that he s not running for re-election. will he bolt from the democratic party and set his sights on the white house? kaitlan collins debuts her interview with manchin this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, israel says its controversial military operation inside gaza s largest hospital, quote, will take time. at last resort, at last report, i should say, it was still under way as the israel defense forces is sharing some o
that warning to congress. it hasn t happened in a year, but it s happening today just a few hours from now, president biden will be speaking face to face with china s president xi. what might come from today s critical summit? we ll have it. i m sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. cnn news central starts now. a senior israeli official says details are coming including footage later today of what s described as concrete evidence of a hamas terror headquarters in al shifa hospital and evidence uncovered in the ongoing raid by israel of that medical complex. idf troops, soldiers, they entered the hospital early this morning and hamas has now acknowledged that israel is in control of the hospital and gaza s large of the hospital. the idf already did release this video that we re showing you right here upon soldiers delivering incubators and other medical supplies to the hospital today they say and cnn has geolocated the video and however it is not on the grou
yes, we were observing it. that s our job is to collect intelligence. we were in benghazi primarily to collect intelligence on this surge, right, of growth of islamic extremism in eastern libya and benghazi. that s why we were there. now we have a situation where kadafi is gone and now that things are worse off. yes. you have saddam hussein is gone, you could argue things are worse off for us intelligence wise. and assad is barely holding on. that seems to be the nexus of the terror headquarters over in raqqa today. how do we solve this problem? i have a whole chapter on this, it s called the al qaeda spring. not the arab spring. did we misinterpret what that spring was supposed to be? absolutely we did. cia, when the arab spring first happened, my analysts said we think this is going to undercut al qaeda. this will undercut their