and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, from name-calling to the missing candidate in the room. we'll break down the highs and lows of the third gop presidential debate and as israel said it's now in the heart of gaza. we're hearing different versions of what post war gaza could look like. plus. >> it was 100% worth it. 100% worth it. it's a seminal deal. >> hollywood actors are heading back to work after grueling 118 days on strike, the union reaches a deal with studio executives. >> live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. >> and we begin in miami where the third republican presidential debate wrapped up a few hours ago, only six of the candidates qualify for this debate. front runner donald trump skipped it again. the debate also came after elections on tuesday all significant democratic wins. the less crowded field after did to stand out as an alternative to trump. cnn's jeff zeleny was at the debate and has a report. >> at the third republican presidential debate, here in miami, the race to become the leading alternative to donald trump was more furious and louder than ever. florida governor ron desantis took immediate aim at the former president for those republican losses on tuesday night. and he said, republicans were going to get tired of winning. well, we saw last night, i'm sick of republicans losing. >> former south carolina governor, nikki haley, who is also served as human invested are in the trump administration also said it's time to move on from donald trump. >> everybody wants to talk about president trump. well i could talk about president trump. i can tell you that i think it was the right president at the right time. i don't think he's the right president now. i think he put us a trillion dollars in debt, and our kids are never gonna forgive us in that. i think the fact that he used to be right on, ukrainian foreign issues, now he's getting weak in the knees and trying to be friendly again. >> italy has been gaining momentum in the poll because of her debate performance. she and governor desantis sparred repeatedly on china, on the environment. even on the economy. and their handling of their respective governorship. but they clearly are going after one another, trying to become, again, that leading alternative to donald trump. but it was south carolina senator, tim scott we talked about abortion and urged both of the rivals to support a 15-week ban. >> i would channel both nikki enron to join me another 15-week limit, it is in our nation's best interest. the winner of the evening may have not been on the debate stage, he of course is former president donald trump and he stayed a few miles down the road, holding a campaign rally of his own. of, course he has a commanding lead in this race. and now about two months before voting begins in iowa. >> jeff zeleny, cnn miami. >> joining me now, like sharon posting -- - are you surprised that, again, we heard a little clip from nikki haley, going after donald trump. but, no one really went after donald trump. especially considering all the indictments? >>, welcome, you've got to be careful because donald trump is still regarding, quite positively. even by those republican voters that many of whom have said, i'm not really interested in voting for trump again, but i like what he did. i think he's unfairly treated. a lot of republican voters, generally, will fall into that category. so, if you are looking to garner this support of those who might be searching for a trump alternative, the answer, probably, is not to go hard after donald trump. that's the reality of the primary contest were in. and so, what you're going to see nikki haley and ron desantis do is to try as much as they can to draw a contrast not directly about the presidents character orbit to the president is but fundamentally about ways in which maybe the president didn't keep his promises. the former president may have failed, in the ways in which they're losing because of the former presidents influence, that's where you're going to see these candidates go in an effort to kick off support from folks who might be looking for an alternative. >> yes and the party also losing possibly because a very important issue to voters, abortion. all of the candidates are on the losing side of an abortion question that seemed, again, so decisive in the elections this week. did you detect any softening in their position given the results we saw? >> no i mean i think what you saw was a bumpy -- in positioning on abortion. you had nikki haley continuing the line of both a language and policy on abortion that would be more appealing to independent voters. maybe some of the suburban women that republicans have been losing support, from over the last couple of cycles. nikki haley continues her language in the contrast with tim scott, the senator from south carolina who actually doubled down on a more significant position on abortion that would be interesting to some republican voters but probably not entirely helpful as he looks towards the general election. now will be interesting to see, again, to what degree that hard-core position on abortion will benefit someone like tim scott who really is probably pretty close from the precipice in terms of needing to be one of those candidates who exits this race soon. >> yes, he might not make it next time around. okay, so you mentioned looking towards the general way to go after donald trump, used to be the base loves him but he's not electable in the general. but the most recent polls kind of seemed to invalidate the argument. how do you think the most recent polling played into any of the arguments that we either heard or didn't here last night? >> you didn't hear, kim, i'm more electable than donald trump. because to your point the latest polling we've seen suggest that the former president is running very strongly. up against president biden. so that may not be the strongest argument. and i'm not even sure that was a strong argument to start with. i think a lot of primary voters shrugged their shoulders and say we have a guy who actually did what the presidency in donald trump versus somebody who's trying to win the presidency for the first time and ron desantis or nikki haley. so the argument about the electability i'm not really sure that is one that a lot of primary voters put a lot of stock in. the reality is this, the reason why donald trump is running so well against joe biden right now is because a lot of voters are focused on the president economic record, they're dissatisfied with their personal economic here in the united states and so biden's numbers is a result of how they suffered. and that may change as the campaign defines itself a little bit more, as it comes down to trump versus biden and things may become a little bit more clear. but, for now, at least the president is suffering under the way of what is some very difficult pony in part because of peoples considerations about the economy. >> yes, absolutely. donald trump giving these debates, and keeping the eyeballs off the debate strategically seems like it was the right move. >> yes, and he's not going to show up at the next debate if there is a next debate, the republican national committee has marked the december debate already. and they're looking to hold, if the former president is saying they're not interested in showing up to that and frankly the political analysis would say that he is right and there's no reason for him to show up he didn't show up at the first three it didn't affect his standing in the polls so i go to a debate where you're going to be the target of incoming fire. so i think the former president is not gonna show up at the end of the debate, and it's entirely possible that we may not have another debate, frankly if the field continues to win and it's clear that this is not doing the republican party any favors, necessarily. >> really appreciate your analysis, thank you so much for speaking with us. >> thank you kim. >> okay, as we just heard there, gop front runner donald trump tried to skip the debate, in favor of holding a rally in florida. this comes amid speculation about what the former president might choose as his running mate in 2024. and during wednesday interview, on a talk show, talk radio show, trump was asked if he had former news host tucker carlson in mine. here's what he said. >> what do you consider tucker, based on -- >> i like tucker, a lot. i guess i would. i think i said i would. because he's got great common sense. >> donald trump is the likely republican nominee in 2024, facing numerous criminal charges which make his ability to hold office unclear if he is convicted. >> with israeli forces intensifying operations against hamas in and around gaza city, there's been a renewed focus on what the political endgame could look like in gaza. earlier this, week prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel will be in charge of the territory overall security indefinitely after the war. on wednesday, the u.s. push back against that laying out its future for gaza feature. >> gaza cannot be wronged by hamas. that simply invites a repetition of october 7th, and gaza uses a place from which to launch terrorist attack. it's also clear that israel cannot occupy gaza. the only question is is there some transition period that might be necessary. and what might be the mechanisms that you could put in place for that to make sure that there is security? but we are very clear on occupation, just because we're very clear on no displacement of the palestinian population. >> for more, elliott gotkine joins us from london. so, elliott as you heard there were hearing different ideas about what will happen to gaza after the war. >> yes, we have a slightly different vision of what might happen after the war, kim we have of course this debate about what follows this hamas, israel war sparked by netanyahu's comments about israel maintaining a royal security -- for his, words in an indefinite period of time, they set off alarm bells which you know pushed back on any hint that israel could re-occupy the gaza strip in the way that it did from 1967 until 2005. and then we have a further elaboration from secretary of state, anthony blinken. israel, for its part isn't really going through a lot of details us through what it sees us coming after this war's over. but it is pretty clear about what went. >> israel is not interested in letting things fall apart after we destroyed hamas. we have to make sure that the security situation is stable. we have to make sure there wasn't a residual terrace element that starts to grow again. and israel cannot ignore what goes on in gaza. >> so the u.s. and israel are agreed in that hamas cannot continue to remain in power in the gaza strip. obviously the most convenient and the most logical administration that would follow, this is what the secretary of state was saying that the palestinian authority would come back and retake control of the gaza strip. which it had between 2005 until 2007 when hamas violently removed from power there. but there are a few problems with that, it's not going to be easy. because first of, all the palestinian authority is. week it's unpopular. it's widely viewed as corrupt and it lacks legitimacy. the palestinian authority which administers parts of the west bank, the israeli occupied west bank is in the 19th year of a four-year term. and he's hardly going to want to add to that laundry list by being some kind of puppet of the israeli or the u.s. by going into the gaza strip and taking control there as well. although he did say that he would consider doing what he's did with anthony blinken. only as part of a broader political agreement that would lead towards an independent palestinian state, on land occupied by israel in 1967, and with east jerusalem as this capital. but that, of course are, now seems pretty found the full. you can speculate some international peacekeeping force led by allies of the united states -- right now they're focused on this, more on destroying hamas militarily and perpetrate a massacre that they did on october the 7th or third in israeli civilians. -- there was a ten hour firefight in which what it describes system military stronghold in jabalia and they recovered weapons and destroy tunnel, shot and killed the militants and alike. but it's clear that this war still has a lot of time to run and although it's very useful and probably advisable to start thinking about what comes next i think that it's still quite a long way to go. we don't even know what the gaza strip would look like the day after the sports over, kim. >> elliott gotkine, in london, thanks so much. in the skies about syria, the u.s. retaliated for a second time against iranian-backed militias attacking forces. the pentagon says, to f-16 fighter jets struck weapons depot in eastern syria accused by the revolutionary boat and other groups. but as for trump or, it's the u.s. is taking a measured approach to striking back. >> the u.s. conducted an airstrike against a weapon storage facility in eastern syria, that u.s. officials say were being used by iran and its proxy groups to store weapons that were being used to carry out attacks on u.s. forces in iraq and syria over the last several weeks. there have been over 40 such attacks in recent weeks since october, 17th by iran-backed proxy groups on the u.s. and coalition bases in iraq and syria. and the u.s. said they conducted this strike, which is the second in just over two weeks on these kind of weapon storage facilities in syria in order to degrade iran and its proxies ability to carry out these attacks in the future. they said they're targeting this infrastructure, in order to send a message to the iranians that these attacks will not be tolerated, and also to destroy their weapons stockpile. now secretary of defense, lloyd austin did release a statement about this and said that the strike was carried out in self-defense. it is a precision strike and he emphasized that the u.s. does not want to see this war expand any further. but that the u.s. is committed to defending its troops. and that it will do so in every possible scenario. and other defense officials really emphasizing that they're carrying up the strikes unlimited self-defense in order to destroy iranian weapons supplies. but that this does not indicate a broader desire by the u.s. to escalate the conflict any further. however, all of this comes on the same day that to these in yemen, who are backed by iran, they shot down an empty nine reaper drone that was carrying out surveillance activity over the red sea. and so this conflict, obviously, the u.s. is very concerned that it could spiral, that it could expand. but right, now doing everything possible to take-limited steps to try to defend u.s. troops as well as degrade the iranian proxy groups ability to attack u.s. forces in the future. natasha bertrand, cnn, at the pentagon. after almost four months, the actors strike is over. it and the union is celebrating, what we know about the tenth agreement with hollywood studio ththat's coming g up after t the brbreak. stay with h us. the months-long actors strike azov fish ali ended just hours after the actors union reached a union with the major flynn and studios like one state. the group representing the studio praise the deal saying that it has the biggest contract gains in the history of the union. it also gives compensations protection in the use of artificial intelligence, which has been one of the main sticking point. the president of the actors union posted on instagram, quote, we did. it's a billion-plus dollar deal three times last contract. the agreement still has to be rectified by the roughly 160,000 members of the stack after union. let's bring in cnn media critic, brian larry. live from los angeles. so, brian, lots that we still don't know. but what can you tell us in terms of any details here? >> all the details will come out over the course of the next few days. but the broad strokes or that it sounds like the actors got concessions on practically everything they wanted. they got races, they got addition to the pension health fun, and they got retention for the use of a.i. and digital imagery which at certain points it was suggestive that they would be able to digitize an actor's license and used in perpetuity without permission. this, the writers guild got a number of key concessions. and i think that was a byproduct of them feeling like they had to take a stand, now. and not wait for another contract three years from now. >> why is that? i mean they got these big concessions from a.i., and on streaming residuals. why were they so determined to stick this out now. >> well you, know the strikes in hollywood are traditionally driven by technology. and the change to a streaming has really ended the business, and up and did the business model of hollywood. and actors of various levels have been suffering as rioters have other talent. and i think that once the strike started to drag on which is usually the way the studios do to sort of break the result of the guild. what instead happened was the guild said that if we're going to enter this pain let's endured now. let's take us long as it takes to get a deal that we want so that as one actor put, it several months ago, so that we don't have to do this again in three years. so, six months that really have this year has been sacrificed two strikes by the rioters and the actors. and i think the longer it drags on the more that they felt that this really had to be sort of a watershed deal to justify that. >> yes, for the studios, the clock was ticking. they were losing a lot of money, and the calendar, the timing is important here, right? >> right, well the studios and screening services, obviously, they have much deeper pockets than actors and writers, even while paid actors and writers. but this drugged on long enough that the initial savings that they were enjoying from not spending money on producing movies in tv started to get to the point where they were worried that the pipeline was going to dry up. and that some of their summer releases wouldn't be available for next year, that there would be big gaps, and the movie released calendar that television networks would have no original programming. and come next spring. and i think that they really reached a moment where they felt like they had to make a deal, which was -- gave the guilds the leverage they needed to get some of the concessions that they were asking for. >> so some of the issues are solved, i guess, as you said. they don't have to come back to the table on these for another three years. but the industry still faces lots of challenges. and there still lots in store here. >> there's a tremendous amount. i mean it's been said, several times, that this is an inflection point for the industry. and the issue with screening, what everyone saw as a salvation during covid was that screening offers tremendous revenue. and in some respects, you see what netflix has done with it. but, for the traditional studios it cannibalize their existing businesses. it takes people away from traditional net worth's and then it has people staying home instead of rushing out to the theaters to see movies. so it's a very rough time for hollywood, i and you may see a reduction in productions in the months ahead. and it's anticipated. so it may be kind of a bittersweet victory for these guilds because -- i broadly speaking, good news for many actors. but many across the whole industry. brian lolly, thank you so much for being with. us really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right, coming up, the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls lay out their foreign policy platforms, while attacking donald trump for not joining them on the debate stage. stay with us. >> welcome back, unionists and all around the world, i'm -- and this is cnn newsroom. u.s. republican presidential candidates have just survived a mother raucous debate full of foreign policy arguments in name-calling. the candidates were mostly in alignment, with support for israel in that country's war with hamas. but there was a wide amount of opinions about giving support ukraine. candidates took 99 minutes to address the elephant in the room, the republican parties losses in elections on tuesdays because of their unpopular positions towards abortion. right now, one of the key players wasn't in the room, former president donald trump did not stand on stage with his rivals, a fact that florida governor ron desantis tried to use to his advantage. here he is. >> now, if you look where we are, now it's a lot different than where we were in 2016. and donald trump is a lot different guy than he was in 2016. he owes it to you to be on the stage and explain why he should get another chance. he should explain why he didn't have mexico pay for the border wall. he should explain what he racked up so much debt. he should explain why he didn't drain the swamp. and he said republicans are going to get tired of winning. well, we saw last night, i'm sick of republicans losing. >> the debate came just one day after democrats scored some impressive winds in tuesdays off year elections. they include democrats retaining control of the governor's mansion in deep red kentucky. ohio voters approving the right to abortion in the states constitution. -- republican governor, democrats won control of the state house and kept control of the state senate. all right, here is how some republican lawmakers characterize the election results. listen to this. >> it's about execution. it's about messaging. yesterday, to me, was a complete failure. >> anybody who's trying to engage in culture war, is going to lose. >> when we're talking about some social issues, they can become a highly divisive and we end up not doing as well as we could've. >> and those losses are now prompting republicans to debate whether they need to change their policies and messaging on abortion and other key issues. cnn's manu raju reports from washington. >> now, republicans are reeling after tuesday's election losses across several key states. this, coming after other election cycle losses, including one that is still fresh in the minds of senate republicans, 2022, when they fell short of taking back the senate majority when they had a clear chance of winning the majority. but also in the house, despite winning the house majority in 2022, falling short of the landslide they had hoped, a big majority now having a narrow majority, something that has caused them problems all year long. now, many of them say there needs to be another message, better message when it comes to abortion. that was a key issue across several states, some of them played out ever since the dobbs decision last year, something we saw on the midterms last year, saying they needed to discuss the issue differently, embraced federal legislation or -- perhaps avoid it altogether. there's a debate within the republican party about how to deal with it. there's also a debate about the top of the ticket. one of donald trump's closest allies on capitol hill, marjorie taylor greene, made clear to me that she believes that republicans are losing in part because they are not embracing donald trump. >> there are multiple problems. one of them is that republicans are weak. they never come through on the promises they give to their voters. stop backing away from president trump. he's winning the primary by massive numbers. he is winning the polling for the general election. clearly, people like president trump and his policies. so i think there should be changes. >> but in large part, the real concern among republicans is the failure to effectively sell their message, their agenda, things that they believe they can win on. the economic issues have not played as well as they expected biden's sagging approvalte joe numbers and the fact that polls after poll have shown that donald trump is actually beating joe biden in ahead head matchup, many republicans are worried that if they don't change their approach on these key issues and broaden their appeal to some of the key demographic groups, namely suburban women, that they can once again not just lose the white house, but also control of the house next year, those are major concerns that republicans have as a try to figure out a way forward and make sure that what happened on tuesday does not repeat itself again next year. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >> efforts to keep donald trump off the minnesota primary presidential ballot failed, for now. some voters in that state allege that trump's behavior leading up to the january 6th riot on capitol hill disqualifies him from running. they cite a section of the u.s. constitution that prohibits people from holding future office if they, quote, engage an insurrection. well, the state supreme court did not go along, saying quote, there is no state statute that prohibits a major political party from placing on the presidential nomination primary ballot or sending delegates to the national convention supporting a candidate who is ineligible to hold office. now, the case is not over. the challenges can appeal the decision. the court ruled they can re-file a case for the general election if trump wins the republican nomination. ♪ ♪ ♪ all right, a deadly strike on a cargo ship in ukraine. coming up, why russia is ramping up attacks on vessels entering and leaving odesa ports. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. >> the war in ukraine is grinding on, with russia ramping up attacks on some frontline settlements in the east. a ukrainian official says villages in the southern zaporizhzhia region are seeing more than one her in 50 attacks a day. and on wednesday, two civilians were injured. for the, south ukrainian officials say russian missiles struck a civilian vessel entering a black sea port in the odessa region, killing the ships pilot and injuring four others. now, officials say this is the 21st attack on black sea ports in the odessa region since russia left the grain deal in july. meanwhile, ukraine is claiming responsibility for the assassination of our russia-backed official in the occupied eastern city of luhansk and a car bomb it wednesday. ukraine claims mikhail philippe ivanka who was involved in the organization of torture chambers in the region. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is wrapping up talks in south korea as he gets ready to head to new delhi next hour. he met with south korea's president and its foreign minister to discuss growing military ties between north korea and russia and pyongyang's six -- suspected supply of arms to moscow for use in ukraine. he also thanked the president for south korea's pledge to provide humanitarian assistance to gaza. washington remains focused on the indo-pacific regions, despite other challenges, including the israel-hamas war. blinken's visit comes after a world wind trip to the middle east, the meeting of g7 foreign ministers in tokyo. ♪ ♪ ♪ all right, thanks so much for joining us. i'm kim brunhuber. for viewers in the u.s. and canada, i will be back with more cnn newsroom in a minute. for international viewers, world sport is up next. >> welcome back to all of you watching us here in united states and canada. i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. nine republican presidential candidate appeared in miami was a day for the third televised debate, just two months ahead of the iowa caucuses. donald trump didn't attend. in foreign policy, the candles were mostly in alignment with support for israel in the country's war with hamas, but there are differences on giving support with ukraine. at times, the debate got personal. listen to nikki haley as she was vivek ramaswamy in one particularly heated exchange over the controversial app tiktok. >> i want to laugh at why nikki haley did answer your question, which was about looking at families in the. i in the last debate, she made fun of me for joining tiktok, while her own daughter was using the app for a long time. she might want to take care of your family first. >> leave your daughter out of my voice. >> -- the next generation of americans are using. and that's actually the point. you have supporters propping her up, that's fine. >> you are just scum. >> former new jersey governor chris christie, one of trump's more vocal critics, blame the former president for failing to act against tiktok when you had the chance. listen to this. >> and this is one of the big feelings among many of the trump administration. he talked tough about tiktok. i heard him do many times. but when it came down to it, he did not banned them when he could have and should have. >> and now since, then we've had an additional nearly six years of this type of poison being put out to the united states, even putting aside the spine which we know is going on and the theft of american personal data and information. so in my first week as president, we would ban tiktok. >> and with us from portugal's michael moreno, lecturer at the kohrville school of international affairs at the university of denver. thanks so much for being here with us. so for you, are there any winners or losers here last night? did any debate performances move the needle at all? >> you know, a lot of people expected that nikki haley would come in for criticism, for attack. it did happen. she has been, you know, having some momentum in recent weeks in polling in key states. that's put her in the spotlight. but also, obviously the fact that the world is so incredibly unstable right now, the eruption of the hamas israel war has put her foreign policy expense in the spotlight as well. she's the only one with any foreign policy experience on that rostrum. so she had a night that she didn't hurt herself. she withstood a lot of attacks on her ideas. and i think, you know, in a lot of ways, you look at, this and you look at where president trump's, and the pools, former president trump, and you wonder, is this just a race for vice presidential nods? it's really hard to separate, you know, sudden surges in the polls. these only thing that's taking trump down at this point is either the quality or mortality. i mean, he's really dominating this field. >> yeah, absolutely right. so listen, you mentioned foreign affairs there. so i want to tap into your expertise on that subject. the candidates answers on their support for israel, they're pretty similar, they differ quite a bit on ukraine. >> yeah, there's just no consensus in the republican party anymore for the kind of automatic u.s. response and leadership and willingness to support allies that are used to be. the republicans have a very strong isolationist streak now. vivek ramaswamy was probably the most vocal example of that last night. the old school republicans still believe that, you know, ukraine has got to be supported, that the united states has longer term interests in countering what haley rightly pointed out as, you know, kind of an axis of powers that would like to see ukraine lose, if only to hurt u.s. interests and show up the u.s. and the west. so that being of course china, russia, and iran. what was striking was the vitriol, i, mean the degree of simplistic vitriol with regard to iran. obviously, no american candidates going to stand up and for iran. but there was a real kind of concerted attack from every candidate on iran, to the point where you wonder if any of these people were president, would they have to make good on some of these threats? >> yeah, good, question i'm not sure that any republican voters will be ultimately making any decisions based on the nuances of foreign policy here. but you never know. trump was sort of an afterthought for most of the night in terms of the candidates, you know, going after the front runner here. any surprises there? >> right now, i think, you know, you've got chris christie, of course, you can count on him to go after donald trump. doesn't appear like he has much of a chance in the nomination. to look at where desantis's is an interesting exercise right now. i he's gone back and forth on trump. he realizes that he's very much seen as the trump-ish alternative to donald trump. so he walks a very fine line. he didn't really act aggressively at all in this debate. and that was probably a mistake. he has to start to separate himself and make the case that, look, we can all agree to disagree here, but somebody has to be the non-trump candidate in the primaries. and if there's five or six of, us there's no point in having the primary. so i don't think he succeeded in that regard. and on that level, none of them really broke out in this debate. >> yeah. and some will likely end up dropping out before the eyewall caucuses, for those who make it. clearly, that's the big hope, to come up with something. could i walk, you, know pose any surprises here? >> it always has. there are always surprises in either iowa or new hampshire, those first states, they're not very representative states, and interestingly, when you look at united states demographically, they are both predominantly white states, they are both conservative in a kind of old school lower see case way. these are places where maverick candidates have tended to do well, people like the late john mccain. so ultimately, i think what you're going to see is they are going to hold on to as long as they can, especially i think desantis and haley, i think they have to see if they can pull out something in iowa. and after, that it really becomes a game of arithmetic. money starts to flow if you don't do well. and ultimately at the end of the day, it takes a lot of money to run for president. >> yeah, absolutely. all right, we have to leave it there, michael moran, thank you so much for speaking with, us appreciate it. >> thank you,. >> he ivanka trump took the witness stand in new york wednesday, testifying the civil trump -- civil fraud trial against her father, donald trump. the new york attorney general says ivanka was cordial and very courteous in court, unlike her brothers and father. but she says of all his testimony raises questions about her credibility. clara scannell has the latest. >> the new york attorney generals office rested their case today after calling their final witness, ivanka trump. she was on the stand all day long and the focus of her questioning had to do with her involvement in two loans that she shepherded at the trump organization for the golf course in florida. as well as the old post office building in washington, d.c.. so ivanka trump testified that she was involved in the loans at a high-level, but she said with the nitty-gritty details, she didn't recall much of that information. and these loans are the center of the case because the attorney general had alleged that the banks received false financial information on their statements, and that they provided better interest rates to enrich the trumps. so that is part of the questioning today that they really focused her in on. they also asked her about an apartment that she owns in manhattan. she had the option to buy that apartment for about 8.5 million dollars one year. on trump's personal financial statement and that apartment was reflected with the value more than twice as much, north of $20 million. anand she was asked about that and she said she was not privy to her father's financial statements, did not know what went into them. distancing herself from them, just as her brothers don junior and eric trump did when they testified last week. so after she completed her testimony, the a.g.'s office rested their case. here's what the new york attorney general letitia james said outside of court. >> at the end of the day, this case is about fraudulent statements of financial condition. that she benefited from. she was enriched, and clearly, you cannot distance yourself from that fact. the documents do not lie, the numbers do not lie. >> trump's lawyers are going to begin their defense on monday. they've signaled that they might call back eric and don jr., as well as some experts and some bankers to bolster their defense. kara scannell, cnn, new york. >> if you felt the works of shakespeare seem out of this world, you may be an on to something. filmmaker jack jurors said this portion of shakespeare, along with the speech from one of his best known marks, the edge of space, that comes 400 years after the publications of the first folio on november 8th, 16 23. weather balloon with a camera and gps tracker took the portrait, accompanied by a speech from a mid summer night stream -- atmospherically. part of the short film lovers amendment, which features -- aren't contest by attempting to set a portrait of shakespeare into the air. all right, and before we go, a moving tribute to the late jimmy buffett at the country music awards in nashville. listen to this. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we stun away in margaritaville. searching for my lost shaker of salt. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> countries start kenny chesney, mac mackinac, and allen jackson laid down a live version of buffett's signature hit margaritaville for a crowd. buffett died in september, one to cma awards during his career, and was inducted into the national songwriters hall of fame in 2006. all right, that wraps this hour of cnn newsroom. i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back in just a moment more news. please stay with us. in a crisis caused by a terrorist massacre. warning civilians to clear out, while hamas forces them back. allowing in food and water, which hamas steals.