Im boris sanchez. Jake tapper is in tel aviv and were following the latest out of israel where talks are continuing to free a large number of the more than 200 people being held hostage by hamas. This as one of two israeli hosta hostages released yesterday is now speaking out about her harrowing experience. I went through hell that i could not have known. I was kidnapped on a motorbike on my side while they were driving towards gaza. As we got there, the people told us that they are people who believe in the koran and they will not harm us and we will get the same conditions they get in the tunnels. We begin walking inside the tunnels with the wet ground. There were guards and a paramedic and a doctor who took care of the fact we would have the same medicine that we need. There, we laid on mattresses. They took care of the sanitary side so we wont get sick and we had a doctor who came to see us every two to three days. As israeli troops gear up to launch a possible Ground Assault on gaza, Prime Minister netanyahu warned today that it could be a long war. In just the past 24 hours, the Israeli Military says it bombed more than 400 terror targets in gaza, killing several hamas commanders. Jake . Right now, the humanitarian crisis is gaza is dire. Residents are running out of food, water, and fuel. Today, the Israel Defense forces Chief Of Staff said efforts are being made to provide fuel in gaza, but made it clear israel will not allow it to reach hamas. Jeremy, the on going Hostage Negotiations are being complicated by a number of factors. Where do things stand now . Well, jake, these are extremely complex negotiations. The first part because they involve so many different countries. You know, the United States does not speak directly to hamas because it has designated it a Terrorist Organization nor does israel, of course, but qatar and egypt have been Playing Key Roles as mediators in these ongoing ganegotiations. And the goal now for the United States at least is to try and get a big batch of hostages released all at once. We have seen over the last several days as two americans were initially released then last night, these two elderly israeli women who were also released on what hamas is calling humanitarian grounds. Now, the goal is to try and get a larger group of hostages to be rele released all at once. There are a number of complicating factors. Not only the number of countries, but conditions. Hamas, for example, has been calling for a cease fire to release hostages. Israel said thats out of the question. Israel has previously said releasing fuel to gaza was also out of the question but today, the idf Chief Of Staff said israel will begin to allow fuel into gaza but they will ensure it does not reach hamas. Amid all these negotiations, we know President Biden and the israeli Prime MinisterNetanyahu Have remained in close touch to talk about the upcoming Ground Invasion and also these ongoing Hostage Negotiations. Yeah. Not sure how you prevent the fuel from reaching hamas given they control gaza. But jeremy, how could the Hostage Negotiations impact the potentially imminent Ground Incursion . Well, jake, for now, it appears that israel has delayed its Ground Invasion to allow for more time for these Hostage Negotiations. I spoke with two people familiar with these who told me israel appeared willing to delay this invasion for a few days to allow for some time for these negotiations to continue to take place but these people also said its very clear that israel is prepared. They are ready to begin that Ground Operation and that they simply wont delay it for more than a few days if no progress is made on the hostage negotiation front. Once again today, jake, we were driving along the border with gaza and in fact, the perimeter for where we are actually allowed in near where these hundreds of tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers and bulldozers are all stationed and prepared to go in, thats been extended. So there has been movement of troops and journalists and other members of the public arent allowed to go even as close as we were just yesterday. Interesting. Jeremy dimon in ashkelon, thank you so much. My next guest hopes he soon can reunite with his loved ones. He stayed behind at the Music Festival where we now know several hundred, 260 at least, were massacres. He stayed back to make sure his friends were okay, according to his brother who says he learned he was captive was kidnapped when he saw him restrained and bruised in a hamas video posted online. Urial joins me from jerusalem. Thank you for being here. I cannot imagine what youre going through. I have a brother who i love so much. What goes through your mind when you hear stories from the freed hostages talking about their time captive . Talking about not being treated as poorly as the you know, the 1300 israelis who they massacred brutally . Yeah, very to be honest with you, im happy to hear but need to see proof because i dont have any more information except of the video online that my brother get kidnapped. So i dont know if to believe it or no. You never know and i dont know to trust them after this. Youre now helping to care for his 3yearold child. What do you tell the child about his dad . What is he capable of understanding at this point . So, he what we tell his son that he is walking right now, is far away, and because theres many, many people that come to visit us and he wants to see his father and he see a lot of his friends. So we explain to him that his father is walking right now and everybody here come to help us and his job. Something like that. He start to ask where is may father . Where he is . He always want to be with his mom. Dont want to a second. You can see the situation. Its changed. Cnn spoke with you the day after Hamas TerroristsAbducted Elkana as the Music Festival. Do you know any more about his condition . If hes still being held by hamas or given to islamic jihadists or another group . Its disappointing but we dont know nothing more than that video. All what we can do is just to get my brother out with his picture, with his story, to the world to share. And to make sure everybody know about him. I really worry about his safety, about his health. And thats all i can do. We have talk with the government. He visiting us every two days but there is no new information. Nothing. So far, the Israeli Military, the idf, has held off on its Ground Incursion into gaza but they obviously continue to prepare for it. There are obviously a lot of concerns that any incursion into gaza you know, might have a bad effect on the hostages. If you could talk to netanyahu or to the head of the idf, what would you say to him . As someone whos brother is believed to be held in gaza right now . So, hopefully theyre doing something on the ground that nobody knows to get out all the hostages before they do anything that can you know, make this opportunity to get them out. Dont want to wait. My opinion is to bring my brother home as soon as possible. Bring them now. I dont care about nothing else. Bring my brother home. Yeah. Thats what i would be thinking, too, if it were my brother. I hope that elkana gets brought to his son, back to you, and his wife soon. Thank you so much. We are tracking Breaking News from capitol hill which started this morning as nine republicans running for House Speaker is now down to one. A short time ago, House Republicans had a meeting and revealed that tom emmer of minnesota is their pick for speaker but lets be clear. This is their latest nominee and we know what that means. That doesnt mean necessarily hes going to be speaker. Lets get to melanie whos on capitol hill. He wins the nomination, but he has some hurdles ahead of him as you see. Thats right. Its a twopart battle. He did win the gop nomination. It took him five rounds of Secret Ballot Voting but now the question is whether he can get 217 votes on the house floor, which both have been an Impossible Task in this badly divided gop. Now, emmer is taking a slightly different strategy than other nominees. He is currently having roll call votes Behind Closed Doors on his nomination to see if he can get to 217 before he leaves that room. He does not want to exit that room and go to the floor until he knows for certain he has 217 votes. Really trying to avoid the same public displays of embarrassment and dysfunction we have seen in the past. As of right now, we are hearing he does not have the votes. Opposition is over 20. Emmer is in the room fielding questions and concerns from members. We talked to some of those members even before the vote about some of the concerns. Concerns about his Voting Record on spending, support for gay marriage. There is also concern he is not closely aligned enough with former president trump. Lets listen to what they had to say. Would you be comfortable with tom emmer given his votes on spending . How concerned are you about his vote on samesex marriage . Very concerned. Vote against him . Yes. Any way youd vote for him . No. So of course the question is if and when emmer can get to 217 and if he doesnt, what do republicans do next . Do they have yet another candidate . Elect another speaker candidate or look at alternative options. I caught up with a congressman from ohio. Hes pushing a resolution to temporarily empower the Interim Speaker, patrick mchenry. The Interim Speaker can do more than just reside over floor votes. He said if emmer cant get there, he is willing to potentially bring that up. At this point, guys, emmer still trying to lock down those votes. I feel like weve been here before. I say that every time. Melanie, great to see you though even under the circumstances. Thank you so much. Another former trump Attorney Flipping in the Georgia Election subversion case. What this signals for the former president. And the president in court today in new york facetoface for the first time in five years with this man. His former fixer, Michael Cohen, taking the stand against his old boss. Live outside the courthouse next on cnn news central. Jenna ellis is the latest attorney to flip. She pleaded guilty to one count of Aiding And Abetting false statements. And for her to pay 5,000 in restitution. The former trump attorney delivered a tearful statement to the judge while pleading guilty, disavowing her participation in the former president s effort to overturn the 2020 election. I endeavored to represent my client to the best of my ability. I relied on others including lawyers with more experience to provide true information. What i should have done was to make sure the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were true. In the fren etic pace to have attempting to race challenges of the election in several states, i failed to do my Due Diligence. I believe in and i value election integrity. If i knew then what i do now, i would have declined to represent donald trump in these post election challenges. I look back on this experience with deep remorse. That tearful admission comes after last weeks guilty pleas from Sidney Powell and kenneth chesebro. Elliot, if youre on Donald Trumps legal team, they continue to claim that this is a political hit job. Its hard to do that when your own former attorneys are pleading guilty. Thats exactly it, boris. In order for someone to plead guilty, they have to admit they committed a criminal offense and a judge has to accept the plea. If the judge thinks that either something is political or a person is just pleading guilty to make a case go away, they wont accept a guilty plea so the whole idea this was a hit job keeps getting undermined. If i knew then what i knew know, we all knew then what she knows now. It was widely available to her. She was doing interviews. She wasnt in a silo. She was confronted with the information over and over and over again including by bill barr. Is she a witness that is really going to work for the prosecution . Yes. In so far as shes an attorney who would have had private conversations with the defendant and Rudy Giuliani and others. The thing thats hard to stomach is this i didnt exercise Due Diligence. If youre an attorney, you have one job. That is to exercise Due Diligence on behalf of your clients. Now all of a sudden once youve been charged with a crime and are starting to come to jesus about it, it is nonsense. You made a point to emphasize giuliani here. How much trouble does this mean for the former new york mayor . Certainly trouble, maybe more than the former president. She interacted with the him indirectly. Its hard in these conspiracies to tie it to the person at the top but when one person is testifying, they can testify against other codefendants. Look, this is not great for donald trump. Anytime youre charged with other defendants in your criminal proceeding and they start pleading guilty, its more likely theyll have evidence against you. You would think there would be others who might plead guilty in this georgia case. Even so, just now with three former attorneys, what does this mean in the federal Election Subversion case . Because of the fact that this is all Election Subversion and facts as alleged in georgia also irrelevant to the federal election case, these folks may have testimony to provide there and perhaps theyre having conversations with jack smith. I know it sounds cute and coy but its not just great, but its really not good when your folks start pleading guilty in the other case as well. Elliot, thanks so much. So he was once Donald Trumps loyal fixer but now Michael Cohen is testifying as the star witness in the former president s civil fraud case in new york. Yes. So the two, they havent come facetoface in five years, not since cohen flipped on his old boss testifying before congress about some of trumps alleged business practices. Allegations that triggered the lawsuit that brought the two full circle to where they are right now. Bryn is joining us from outside of the courthouse. What are we learning from cohens testimony and what is it like there inside the courthouse . Reporter yeah, dramatic. Were actually at a lunch break right now, but Michael Cohen was on the stand before that resces was taken being questioned by the new York Attorney generals au office. He talked about those 2018 federal convictions. His role within Trump Organization and for the president as his personal attorney then it got to the part that is really pivotal to this case. Thats testimony Michael Cohen said that basically in conversations with donald trump, trump would just throw out a number, a net worth he wanted to achieve and cohen claimed or testified that it was up to him and former cfo Alan Weisselberg to reverse engineer in his words, the numbers, to achieve that net worth. Thats basically the whole crux of this case summed up in that sentence. Thats what we left on with this recess. Pretty dramatic moments. The fact that cohen and trump have not been in the same room together for five years. Theyve taken out lashings at each other publicly, on social media, in interviews, but facetoface is a whole different story. My colleagues said trump just sat back in his chair with his arms crossed Listening Intently to the testimony of cohen. When they left for lunch, cohen said quote, that was a heck of a reunion. As for trump, he said Michael Cohen has a horrible record and hes not too worried about his testimony. We expect cohen to be on the stand today and tomorrow. Well see how the testimony picks back up but again, before he left, that was the main part of the new york generals case in this civil trial is what cohen said right there. Guys . Thanks so much. House republican lawmakers have picked tom emmer as their new speaker designate. Its the third time republicans have tried to find a new speaker. Well take you live to capitol hill to see if the third time is the charm. Yes. 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