breaking news this morning. the house ethics committee finds congressman george santos blatantly stole from his campaign and deceived his own candidacy for his own personal profit. now we are expecting a new motion to expel him from congress. new signs this morning that israel s operation in gaza may soon move into southern gaza. the idf s call for civilians to move into known shelters. and now, new video showing how alec baldwin handled guns on the rust set. john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner, and this is cnn news central. happened a little bit ago, we start with breaking news. the house ethics committee releasing the long-awaited report of congressman george santos. in it, they say that santos, quote, fraudulently sought to exploit every aspect of his candidacy for his own financial profit. the committee says they are referring substantial evidence that they found in their investigation to the doj. cnn s manu raju is joining us from capitol hill, and you a
minutes from now, president biden will speak after making progress with china, but then calling president xi jinping a dictator. the live remarks ahead. plus, new indications that israel s ground offensive in gaza could be expanding to the south. leaflets with being dropped in the area warning civilians to move toward known shelters. all of this with the idf six hours into its raid at gaza s largest hospital. questions still remain about what was found inside. and congressman george santos says he will not seek re-election after a damning ethics report, one that found, quote, substantial evidence he used campaign funds for personal purposes including botox and onlyfans. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to c cnn news central. president biden says he made progress with chinese president xi jinping in their four-hour meeting yesterday, but did president biden squander good will with their off the cuff statement after thei
an injustice senior justice correspondent ivan perez. he s covering the hearing for us in fort pierce, florida, just north of palm beach oven, you were inside the court today. how to judge cannon handle today s important hearing? well, if this was a very unusual hearing in the first place, and judge cannon had some very sharp questions for the government, for the prosecution she questioned the prosecutor s about what specific actions the attorney general, merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically and personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other of people who worked for him. here in fort pierce and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys, emil bove beauvais said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government. the argument that they were making here today, wolf, was that j
actions the attorney general merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith, the special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically on personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other people who worked for him here in fort pierce. and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys emil bove beauvais, said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government the argument that they were making here today will, was that jack smith was illegally appointed by the attorney general because he came from outside the government. he s not someone who has been approved by the senate. this is a long-shot request, but it is one that the judge for some reason decided needed to be heard, needed to have have an entire hearing. and she also allowed outside parties are groups that had nothing to do with this case, to actually spend a couple of hours making argume
with us. our biggest hour of cnn news central starts right now all right. new york times, maggie haberman says donald trump is prepared to go after president biden on hunter. biden cnn s historic debate. now, just a week away, new details on the final preparations. that s ahead. plus were standing thing by for a possible a huge supreme court decision. many decisions major questions involving trump s immunity and of course, abortion rights unlinked the line and repeatedly reckless with guns, how prosecutor planning to go after alec baldwin, kate bolduan, out today. i m sarah sided with john berman. this says cnn news central just one week to go until the first presidential debate here on cnn no general election debate has ever been this early or potentially this important. and we re you are getting details on how the candidates are getting ready. president biden is headed to camp david. we re told that donald trump is talking to his vice presidential hopefuls, outside alli