Is doubling down on its assessment that israel was not responsible for the deadly explosion at a gaza hospital. Our Defense Department says its highly unlikely that it was israelis. Loo im not suggesting hamas deliberately did it, either. The president is urging israelis to avoid the mistakes after 9 11 that the u. S. Made that led to 20 years of war. Im sure those horrors have tapped into some kind of primal feeling in israel like it felt in the United States. Shock, pain, rage. I caution this, while you feel that rage, dont be consumed by it. After 9 11, we were enraged in the United States. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington where a lot of news is breaking. House republicans are punting after two weeks of failed attempts to find a permanent replacement for ousted speaker Kevin Mccarthy. The new propoal is to give temporary speaker Patrick Mchenry the power until january to move legislation to the floor
Yeah. The president making clear that United States would stop at nothing to gethose hostages back. Thats right. The lead with jake tapper starting right now. This is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Were following two major breaking stories, first on capitol hill, where House Republicans are meeting behind closed doors, right now tallying the results of a Secret Ballot where they are trying to decide who their next speaker nominee will be. Our teams are stationed across capitol hill and assuming House Republicans are finally able to nominate a speaker after ten days without one, in the midst of two wars and a pending Government Shutdown we will bring you the results. That is an assumption. Not sure if thats going to happen but well bring you the results. Our other story, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing this afternoon this is only the beginning of israels fight to destroy hamas. This time one week ago, one week ago today, right this moment, it was just after 11 00 p. M.
The light of our lives. Police are continuing to question a teenage boy in connection with the stabbing. Lets cross to croydon and our correspondent barry caffrey. What is the latest . The shock and sadness here what is the latest . The shock and sadness here in what is the latest . The shock and sadness here in croydon what is the latest . The shock and sadness here in croydon really what is the latest . The shock and sadness here in croydon really is| sadness here in croydon really is palpable, with people questioning how a 15 Year Old Girl making her way to school at half past eight in the morning could have been knifed to death. She has been named, Elianne Andam, she has been described as much loved. Within the last hour, herfamily described as much loved. Within the last hour, her family have released a statement and written some words about her. I will read those to you now. They say that their hearts are broken by the senseless death of our daughter. Elianne was the light of our
in fact the longest serving conservative defence secretary ever, ben wallace, who stepped down from his job in the summer citing the cost of what he said was putting work and country ahead of my family. a member of the government in some form ever since the conservatives came to power in 2010, he can now reflect on what he s learned about politics and about defence as he prepares for a life outside westminster. ben wallace, welcome to political thinking. thank you. we are speaking a few hours after the chancellor unveiled what he called his largest ever tax cut for workers. if you were running at the next election, would you be preparing for a spring election? no. i would probably be waiting for september. i think it is a good autumn statement. jeremy has gone on the right place around national insurance, effectively rewarding effort, work and trying people who we need to generate wealth and pay tax receipts so we can have more to spend and grow the economy. i think he has do
you hear that? you hear it? underneath the music? crickets. republican party getting remarks from donald trump. donald trump on a 2024 campaign of vengeance and vile remarks vowing to root out his political opponents and labelling everyone against him as vermin and making some rather extreme plans to round up every undocumented immigrant and put them in camps. meanwhile, donnie trump jr. is back on the stand as the defense team begins their case in civil fraud. plus, cnn cameras going deeper into gaza than any past reports. this time up close near hamas tunnels under a hospital. running to the heart of the terrorist operation. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. you know, it is become cliche to ask americans how they respond to something that donald trump has said to ask if such a thing were taking place in neither country, what they might think. it is so cliche that i ve never asked you engage in this exercise. but his comments as of late have been so stark, and so s