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"cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. we're so glad you're with us. a lot to get to on this tuesday, november 14th. president biden's foreign policy set to face yet another major test as he departs today for a high-stakes meeting with chinese president xi jinping. they will be meeting on the sidelines of major economic summit with other global leaders. we're learning of a u.s. fentanyl deal. the president is now urging that those facilities, quote, must be protected. and biden's government is now just three days away from a potential shutdown. a vote to avert it set for today. but the measure includes no funding for either of the two wars his administration is supporting. >> public pressure for biden to maintain his support for israel will be on full, literal display today. a huge rally at the national mall planned with tens of thousands expected to attend. meanwhile, concern is building around donald trump's rhetoric about a potential second term as president. one of his former georgia confidants says she was told trump never intended to leave the white house after his 2020 loss. we have all these stories and angles covered with analysts right here in studio and team of reporters around the world. "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ just hours from now president biden will leave washington and fly to the west coast where he will be meeting face to face with chinese president xi jinping. that will happen today. it's one of the huge foreign policy tests he is facing right now, so many fronts he's grappling with the dire humanitarian crisis in gaza. street fighting intensifies and israeli troops surround gaza's largest hospital al shifa. >> the hospitals in gaza, have you expressed any specific concerns to israel on that, sir? >> well, you know i have not been reluctant in expressing my concerns what's going on. it's my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital. the hospital must be protected. >> the al shifa hospital director said there's no food, water or milk for children and babies. heartbroken images of newborns taken out of incubators due to lack of electricity. the israeli military accused of hamas of storing weapons in hospitals and using them as command centers. the idf brought nic robertson to the basement of a children's hospital in gaza where they say hamas kept guns, explosives and possibly hostages. two reporters covering our story this morning. arlette saenz is at the white house. tell us more about the white house response to what we're seeing in gaza. we saw john kirby from the white house come out after the president made those remarks we just played to try to explain them more. >> reporter: yeah. and the white house is watching these situations happening at the hospitals in gaza. and is aware of the humanitarian impact, the concerns of the state of those hospitals. but president biden there really issued a word of caution to israel as they are conducting their operations around the hospitals. he said that he believes that these hospitals must be protected, that he wants to see less intrusive operations on the ground there in the areas of the hospital. that is something that was echoed by white house national security adviser jake sullivan yesterday when he said the president does not want to see fire fights in the hospital. now the white house national security council spokesperson john kirby yesterday tried to explain there's a high burden that the israeli defense forces have at this time as they're trying to go after those hamas forces but also need to balance the concerns about the civilians and the impact that the fighting around that hospital could have on the situation on the ground there. but this all comes as you heard the biden administration really ramp up their warnings, their concerns about the loss of palestinian lives in gaza. you heard that from secretary of state antony blinken who said far too many palestinians have died in this conflict, but the white house right now is really trying to strike this balancing act not only trying to support israel's right to defend itself, go after hamas but also balance those humanitarian concerns, including around the dire consequences, situation that has been happening at many of those hospitals. >> let's touch on what's happening on the ground in gaza. we're hearing that the two largest hospitals are no longer operating. what more do we know at this point. >> reporter: well, phil, as we have seen over the past few weeks, you have seen hospital after hospital going out of service, going dark in gaza. more than half of the medical facilities that are desperately needed right now have essentially collapsed. the latest that we're hearing, the two largest medical facilities al shifa hospital and al-quds hospital are no longer functioning. they have no power. they have no fuel to run their generators and they have been saying for days right now that they are struggling to keep patients alive. they say that they have lost several patients, including three neonatal babies because they no longer can run their incubators. you have the israelis on the other side saying, well, they believe and they have intelligence, they say, that there is hamas command and control center underneath that hospital. they're not targeting these hospitals that they are going after hamas. you have the palestinian officials. you have hamas. you have doctors all denying that and saying that -- international independent organizations should send missions to investigate these allegations. and then you've got al quds hospital, according to the palestinian who runs that hospital, 300 patients, their family members and medical staff inside that hospital. they say they are surrounded that they are being targeted, they say, by the israeli military, the israelis have denied this, saying that they have come under attack by hamas militants outside that hospital. again, something denied by the palestinian saying there's no armed persons inside that hospital, that there's been no shots fired out of the hospital. they are calling for an urgent evacuation. they are trying to get those patients and their families, phil, who include an american teen, a family we have spoken to in recent days. they want to get them out of the hospital, but they just can't right now. >> thank you so much for the reporting. one of the big issues is the lack of ability for many journalists to be inside gaza. we're going to see from our colleague nic robertson later, he got in with the idf. when you don't have a lot of independent journalists in there it's hard to see what's going on at these hospitals. >> one side versus the other and still a lot of gray area. also, as we mentioned, today tens of thousands of people are expected to gather on the national mall for, quote, march for israel rally in washington, d.c. nearly 6,000 miles away, in israel, families of hostages being held by hamas are marching from tel aviv to jerusalem, calling on their leaders to do more to bring their loved ones home. cnn's oren lieberman is there live. oren, this march in israel, is there a singular message here? what are they trying to convey to the israeli leadership? >> reporter: do whatever it takes to bring the hostages home. that's what we heard from so so many here both in the statements they made in talking to them on the side. you can see a group here behind me, this is the march just beginning. it's starting here. it will go a few miles today, and then it will make its way all the way to jerusalem over the course of the last several days. the families of the hostages have been in hostage square here for the last 11 or 12 days, trying to get answers from the defense ministry on the other side of me where the war cabinet met repeated will. they feel like they're not being heard and their message is not getting through and demanding more asking why the hostages are not home yet and why a deal hasn't been made yet. for them the priority is bringing the hostages home. and the march reminiscent of another march from 2010, an israeli soldier who was captured in 2006, his family marched from northern israel to jerusalem. by the time they arrived there were thousands of people with them putting tremendous pressure on prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the time to make a deal. that's exactly the point here as they demand answers. here is the mother of one of those who was kidnapped. >> i want to ask all the -- in our country, i demand that you will come. we are going to jerusalem, but you will come and talk to us, and we want answers. we want answers. >> reporter: that sense of frustration palpable here as they demand not only some sort of meeting but progress on hostage negotiations. one of those we spoke with trying to keep the hope that he might see husband girlfriend who was kidnapped within a week. >> oren lieberman, please keep us posted. thank you. newly obtained video former trump loyalist who pleaded guilty in georgia reveal conversations about alleged efforts to reverse the 2020 election. what they're claiming and what does that mean for trump's upcoming trial. for the very first time, the supreme court puts new ethics rules in place, but the big question, who is actually going to enforce it? we'll have more next. ♪ this morning new videos obtained by abc and "the washington post" reveal conversations between former trump loyalists about efforts to subvert the 2020 election. here is former trump campaign lawyer jenna ellis telling georgia prosecutors about a conversation with top trump aide dan scavino in late 2020. >> he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, well, we don't care and we're not going to leave. i said, what do you mean? he said, well, the boss, meaning president trump and everyone understood the boss, that's what we all called him, he said the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. we are just going to stay in power. and i said to him, well, doesn't quite work that way, you realize. and he said we don't care. >> this private interview with investigators took place on october 23rd, that's reporting from abc. the next day ellis pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements in the aftermath of the 2020 election. let's bring in cnn john avlon and cnn elie honig. great to have you guys here. how does this proffer statement and get to sidney powell, because there's that one as well, i think in the court of public opinion, it's like wow. but what about in the courtroom? >> so people understand what this is. when we say a proffer statement. this is jenna ellis with her attorney present giving a statement to prosecutors saying here is what i have to offer. my big take away is jenna ellis does appear to be a viable, useful witness for prosecutors. she appears to have come clean about both election fraud and the claim of election fraud being a lie. and her own participation in sort of furthering that. this particular piece of testimony that she gives that she has this conversation with dan scavino where dan scavino says trump told me he's not going to leave. it's really interesting. it's really important. i'm not sure it'se admissible a a criminal trial. it's hearsay. here is what dan scavino told donald trump. i'm not going to turn this into an evidence class. but you have a real battle on your hands to get this statement in actual evidence at a trial. >> i would attend that class just to start. i want to ask you about sidney powell, not just because she acknowledges that she knew absolutely nothing about election law, which is rich on so many levels. but she also talked about white house lawyers repeatedly telling trump he lost the election and his response. take a listen. >> what was president trump's reaction when i guess this cad ray of advisers would say you lost? >> it was like, well, they would say that and then they would walk out. and he would go, see, this is what i deal with all the time. >> see, this is what i have to deal with all the time. the practice gesture, not the articulation, but i think indicating that the people who are giving him real information were seen as being on team normal, not sufficiently in support of donald trump. and his aims to overturn the election. that's where you bring in. i think it's interesting sidney powell being normal. jenna ellis thing, it's so stark to me. this is her -- one of the president's chief lawyers talking about a conversation she had with dan scavino was tight as anything with donald trump. social media, but almost a body how much he travels and is close to the president. i want to use this word advisedly, from a civic sense, scavino saying we're not going to leave, we don't care, in a civic sense evil. it shows contempt for our democracy on the fundamental level. let me connect the dots. it's a foreshadowing the campaign donald trump vuning which is essentially a promising and more authoritarian autocratic campaign, matter of policy and rhetoric. contempt for democracy. contempt for democratic norms. that's the way they're campaigning. that was their mindset at the end of the office, we'll just refuse to leave power on the basis of no evidence after losing all the cases. that's contempt for our democracy. >> john brings up a really important point because it couples with the vermin comment that trump made this weekend about political opposition in his speech around veterans day, it couples with the reporting over the past two weeks from "the washington post" and "the new york times" about trump's plans what he would do at doj, going after political opponents, the administrative state, what kind of lawyers he would surround himself with. >> believe him. take him seriously. take it at face value when he says it. he's saying it out loud and couldn't be more important. phil turns to me when this came out. we hear all these things from donald trump and they tend to roll off your back. phil turned to me on our show friday, that's insane. i said, yeah, you're right. that's the best way to put it. i stand by that. even if it's repetitive and does it over and over it has to be called out and named every single time. it's so dangerous to weaponize prosecutorial power, i held that power in very small sense, you don't realize how much power you have to ruin someone's life, even as a low-level prosecutor like i was. never mind weaponizing the entire justice department. it's scary, legitimately scary. i don't scare easily. needs to be called out. >> last night trump's top two campaign advisers put out a statement about the policies of a next trump administration. kind of saying, hang on, we haven't said -- don't take -- just wait. if it doesn't come out of the president's mouth or not from the campaign, that's not what he has planned. go on the website. the vast majority of what the "t "times" and "post" and cnn have been reporting what trump wants to do in 2025, it's there. it's not made up. >> it's there on the website, comes out of the president's mouth. who are being floated for serious administration jobs. steve bannon on the circus, final episode said one of the people saying we're going to deport 10 million people is a front-runner to be attorney general. and then that troll filter. no, this attempt by -- this is part of the spin the trump campaign keeps trying to do to folks. look, you know, don't believe all the hype. this is a more mature, disciplined campaign. techerred by the experience of having run an administration before. we're moderates in the context -- >> tempered? >> this is the pitch they're making. some people keep buying. it's utter b.s. mie owe anglo, when people tell you who they are, listen, believe them when they keep telling us. >> let's ditch the whole seriously but not literally thing in the trash can for eternity. appreciate it. president biden and xi jinping expected to announce a big crackdown at fentanyl at their highly anticipated meeting happening tomorrow in california. new reporting ahead. new reporting on the fbi probe into new york mayor eric adams and his campaign. what is exactly being looked at herere, accordining to sourcrce. stayay with us.. ♪ c'mon, we're right there. c'mon baby. it's the only we need. go, go, go, go! ah! touchdown baby! -touchdown! are your neighbors watching the same game? yeah, my 5g home internet delays the game a bit. but you get used to it. try these. they're noise cancelling earmuffs. i stole them from an airport. it's always something with you, man. great! solid! -greek salad? exactly! don't delay the game with verizon or t-mobile 5g home internet. catch it on the xfinity 10g network. is this just in hours before president biden's highly anticipated face to face meeting with chinese xi jinping tomorrow in san francisco, there's a key breakthrough on one key issue. you have important meaningful over fentanyl. >> they have been trying to hammer out agreements on a set of issues that the two leaders can talk about. obviously the two leaders, two most powerful countries in the world, this is a critical, highly consequential bilateral meeting the second they have had in person since president biden has been in office. one of the areas where they are on the brink of agreement according to two people familiar with the matter is on the issue of fentanyl. this is a major issue inside the u.s. it's a major issue for inside the biden administration. one of the issues they have been trying to deal with, trying to grapple with are the precursor chemicals that can be put together in mexico to make fentanyl. china has cracked down on actual fentanyl itself but the precursor chemicals are being shipped on a regular basis which are then put together for the fentanyl been so deadly inside the united states. how deadly? well, if you look at this map -- of this chart in terms of how overdoses have risen over the course of the last several years, 112,000 overdoses in the u.s. between may of 2022 and may of 2023, 77,000 of them were due to synthetic opioids or the fentanyl-related crisis. this has been a top issue from a domestic political perspective. republicans asking president biden to take this issue on when he meets face to face with president xi on wednesday. but also, globally. this is something the administration has been trying to key on, what the agreement would entail and it's not finalized yet but essentially the chinese would agree to crack down on the companies that make these chemicals and export those chemicals. u.s. would give them something in return. we'll have to see the details when it's announced. these leaders will talk about a great power competition. there's question about that, one from a relationship perspective in a very, very low place over the course of the last year or so. one of the critical issues, one of the critical agreements that u.s. officials say they absolutely want to secure along with fentanyl is on restoring military to military communication, basically broke off all together after speaker nancy pelosi traveled to taiwan back in august of 2022, trying to restore that finally at this meeting also the issue of taiwan, always a hot-button issue between these two countries. climate change, an area where they can have agreements with on china in trying to mitigate conflicts. at least manage them, understand where both sides stand. that more than anything else at this stage with this type of tension around the globe, not just between china and the united states but the middle east, obviously in europe as well, that relationship, the ability just to communicate, that more than anything else is what u.s. officials are seeking. i want to bring in cnn's mark stewart who joins us live from beijing right now. mark, what's your sense of, we have some ide