it is the top of the hour. i m boris sanchez along side jessica dean in washington, d.c. tracking an israelied a vance inside gaza right now and the rush to get thousands of civilians out of gaza through egypt while another high-stakes visit to israel conducted by u.s. secretary of state antony blinken. weighing all factors trying to avert a wider war in the region. the secretary of state departed last hour. before leaving he reiterated israel s right to defend itself and addressed the immense civilian suffering unleashed inside gaza. listen. we will be talking about concrete steps that can and should be taken to minimize harm to men, women and children in gaza, and this is something that the united states is committed to. i m not getting into the details here but it s very much on the agenda. when i see a palestinian child, a boy, a girl, pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child in israel or anywhere else. notably,
conditions for a durable, sustainable peace. durable, sustainable security for israelis and palestinians alike. we re focused on the day of. we also need to be focused on the day avenue. so in conversations we ll be having through the course of this weekend i expect you ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get over time to two states for two peoples which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state they re entitled to. so these will be the things that we re focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues. but i m convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place. that s what we re working to do. i ll take questions. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point in their offensive in gaza, and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on? an
judges issued orders in both of special counsel jack smith s criminal cases against donald trump. the d.c. case involving trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and the florida case centered on the former president s unlawful retention of classified documents. so a flurry of legal action today for mr. trump, and i m going to get some expert legal help breaking down all of that in just a second. but perhaps the biggest legal news of today was this. the federal judge in charge of the mar-a-lago classified documents case, judge aileen cannon of course appointed by president trump, today judge cannon signaled she may push back the date of trump s trial in that case. the trial was originally scheduled to start at the end of may next year. that would put it a few months after super tuesday and a few months before the republican national convention, right in the eye of the 2020 election storm, if you will. now, judge cannon did not set a new date today, but in court she says
hey, everybody. good morning. good to see you. 11:00 a.m. in the east. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m yasmin vossoughian in for jose diaz-balart. coming up, we re going to talk with an american pediatrician who was able to get out yesterday after spending nearly a month trapped there. meanwhile, the white house clarifying what president biden meant when he called for a humanitarian pause in israel as strikes continue against hamas. in new york city, donald trump jr. back on the stand in the civil fraud trial against his father. we ll tell you about the other trump expected to testify today. in acapulco, a desperate situation after hurricane otis hit the city. families wait outside the morgue as a funeral director says he cannot prepare bodies for burial until the electricity is turned back on. good to see everybody. we begin this busy hour with new comments from the white house on israel-hamas war. yesterday, a protester pushed president biden for a cease-fire. mr. president, do
price because it is worth, it s a good one. you never will know. but i direct everyone to go listen to the podcast. definitely go check it. it thank you, my friend. and thank you at-home for joining me this hour. and thanktoday in new york, dod trump s eldest son john junior took the stand in the civil fraud case against the former president and his family and his business. down in d.c., and in florida, judges issuing orders in both of special counsel jack smith s criminal cases against donald trump, the d.c. case involving trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and the florida case centered only former presidents unlawful retention of classified documents. so a flurry of legal action today from mr. trump. and i m gonna get some expert legal help breaking down all of that just a second. but perhaps the biggest legal news of today was this. the federal judge in charge of the mar-a-lago classified documents case, judge aileen cannon, who was of course appointed