[background sounds] neil: one month in, and israeli troops continue heading in, now encircling gaza city, home base to hamas, as the war with expands to close-up urban combat. at this are hour, a three-hour window announced by the israeli military for evacuees to flee along a main highway in the gaza strip. it was just closed. we re going to talk to a u.s. citizen who who escaped the war zone with her husband and five kids. terrifying, the say the least, but alive. also at this hour, secretary antony blinken in jordan meeting with arab leaders. they want a ceasefire while the u.s. wants a humanitarian pause. israel wants hostages freed before considering either. and are we any closer right now to ultimately seeing something, anything constructive happening? i ll ask israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s top adviser and former u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo. and get ready, protest are everywhere again from iran s capital to england s capital, to a massive pro-fall s
victories for veterans go to dab.org. i m gustavo valdes in mexico city, and this is cnn here on the cnn newsroom. hi everyone, i m jessica dean in washington convicted felon and former president donald trump is still six weeks away from finding out what he his sentence will be and his history, historic hush money, conviction. but trump says he d be okay with serving prison time this morning. and the lander view he s done since being convicted. the current republican candidate for president warn fox news a harsh sentence could lead to anger from his supporters judge could decide to say, hey, house arrest or even jail. it could face what that okay with it, i saw one of my lawyers. he had today on television saying, oh, no, you don t want to do that to the i don t know. beg for anything you ve just the way it is. i don t know that the public would stand it. you know, i don t i m not sure that the public would stand for with a house arrest for i think i think it would be tough
all thanks for joining me today. i m alison camp maratha. i ll see you back here tomorrow. and newsroom with jessica dean starts right now. you re, in the. cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica lean in washington and we begin today with former president and now convicted felon donald trump boasting a surgeon campaign donations following the verdict in his historic hush money criminal trial the trump campaign says it is raised nearly 53 million since he was found guilty by a manhattan jury of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. the judge has set trump s sentencing date for july 11. that s just days before the republican national convention, where trump is expected to be time tapped as the party s nominee trump, of course, planning to appeal and yesterday he gave a glimpse of how we intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and claiming political persecution this is a case where if they can do this to me, they
before the republican national convention where trump is expected to be picked as the party s official nominee. trump is planning to appeal yesterday, he gave a glimpse of how he intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and attacking the judge we had a conflicted judge highly conflicted there s never been a more conflicted, judge. you saw what happened to some of the witnesses that were in our sayyed, they were literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but he s really a devil just hours after that vinge volt press conference, president biden for the first time, commented on the verdict saying no one is above the law cnn s priscilla alvarez is joining us now in the studio with more on the response from president biden and priscilla, the president came out with strong words, but they ve been very careful. both he specifically and the broader campaign and the white house to really keep their distance from all of this, they cert
proposal, because netanyahu at the same time reiterating that it will not agree to a full cessation of hostilities until its war objectives are met, reiterated what those objectives, what those conditions chins for an end to the war are mainly destroying. hamas has military and governance capability. getting all of the hundred and 25 or so hostages, the living and the dead back in israel after they were abducted as part of hamas s terrorist attacks of october the 7. and ensuring that the gaza strip that gaza no longer poses a threat to israel. and then from netanyahu s perspective because let s not forget that he is part of the war cabinet. that signed off on this seesaw ceasefire proposal from his perspective, that ceasefire proposal does not preclude israel from meeting its war objectives. and i think that he put this statement out so quickly on the jewish sabbath, which as i say is quite rare for him to do in order to both getting his narrative out to clarify the situation from hi