including the nation meeting its new speaker from the house from the very real questions facing the real mike johnson to the saturday night live debut what you see there in a mock meeting with president biden for halloween. we have more on that and a special guest on that longtime biden chief of staff, ron clain is here and it s the first time on the program since leaving the white house and also later tonight, a report from the middle east, but our top story right now is a new procedural victory for doj prosecutor jack smith and the legal loss for defendant donald trump who got in trouble for his own recent aide turned dishing doj mark meadows. they re-gagged trump and that s a technical legal way to put it. you may have heard about this, i ll walk you through it right now. basically late sunday the federal judge overseeing that open coup case reinstated a partial gag order that bars defendant trump from attacking witnesses and others and that order had been on hold basica
to be continued. cnn this morning continues right now. well, good morning, everyone. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow. it s 8:00 a.m. here in new york, 2:00 p.m. in gaza, where right now israel is ramping up its ground assault with tanks and infantry pushing deeper into the gaza strip. overnight, israeli forces are pushing deeper into gaza. heavier air strikes pound gaza as the fighting rages on the ground. iran is accusing israel of crossing red lines and the white house is warning there is a real risk of this war spreading into a wider conflict. and we, of course, are taking every measure necessary to protect our forces, to increase our vigilance, and to work with other countries in the region to try to keep this conflict that is currently in israel and gaza from spinning out into a regional conflict. the risk is real, and therefore our vigilance is high and the steps we are taking to deter that and prevent that are serious, systemic, and ongoing. meanwhile
the white house to meet with jake sullivan, secretary of state lloyd austin and several senators. you are watching fox and friends, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. israel expands in gaza and carry out raids in west bank and targeted strikes in syria overnight and a lot of concern this conflict could spread throughout the region. we have no intention nor plan to send combat troops into israel or gaza. what is the message to iran? don t. as president biden said, just don t. exactly. one word. pretty straight-forward. todd: trey yingst live in southern israel with the latest on the war. what are you seeing right now? trey: good morning. we are learning at this hour, israelis have expanding ground operation into the gaza strip behind me. the level of destruction we can see from this location is the northern part of the gaza strip, where hallies and hamas say there was a gun battle yesterday. hamas engaging israeli forces and israelis killed dozens of mi
day for the jewish people since the holocaust. the difficulties of urban warfare, as much of gaza plunges into darkness, with phone lines and internet cut. the concern tonight about civilians. more targeted attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east after american fighter jets launched a retaliatory strike on iranian-backed facilities in syria. the massive manhunt for the suspect and that deadly maine mass shooting is over tonight. what we are learning. he wouldn t want to go out any other way. that s exactly who he is as a man. he would give you the shirt off his back even if he had to walk in the snow with no shirt on. it s the only honor the victims. an interview with the family of a man who died a hero. my husband went to the kitchen and grabbed a butcher knife went after him to save the patrons that were in his establishment. norah: a major recall to tell you about after a dozen people are burned by the pressure cookers. and fall may be in full swing, but are you on
somewhere around 10%. it has a lot of weaponry that it can on leash, on israel. now, the tragedy and all of this is, i don t think either israel or iran wants the beaver war clearly the united states has used its leverage to try to prevent the region from deteriorating into something that is no one can contain. one of the big questions of course, is also what is israel s long-term strategy isn t seeking to prevent a nuclear weapon of capability or is it trying to encourage or do things that lead? eventually to some kind of regime change. and i think israel has proven. its short-term effectiveness in taking out iranian or iranian proxy assets. it s weapons depots, its military personnel, but it s not clear what its long-term threat is. iran on the other hand, it has a long game. it has proven that it is the inferior military power,