i am wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. a major allegation, that there is a hamas, we take you inside the hospital to see where israel says it has found weapons and evidence that hostages are also being held there. breaking news, from lawyers , saying that he was not going to leave the white house even after he lost. the chinese government is now going after people on american soil, just for being critical of china. this investigation is coming just before president biden meets with the chinese president xi jinping. you will see it here first. let s go outfront. good evening, i am erin burnett. the defiant message from benjamin netanyahu, he insists that israel will not let up in its assault on gaza until hamas has been eliminated. as the fighting continues, the civilian casualties continue to climb. the largest hospital in israel is caught in the middle. that hospital complex is massive, as you can see, spanning more than 10 acr
democrat is leading an election denier. first in a gretchen whitmer, she builds on the lead she had when we last checked in on this race against tudor dixon, now sitting 112,000 votes ahead with 30% of the vote in in the state of michigan. an update now, jake, from your home state, the commonwealth may be? josh shapiro, the tierney general, therefore have 30,000 votes ahead of documentary on, all with 56% of the vote in. meantime, our first look at the arizona governors. raced with this key race of. lured katie hobbs, the secretary of state that helps certify the 2020 election results in arizona. she is leading former tv anchor turn unrepentant election denier kari lake, 184,000 votes, half of the vote in the state of arizona. then in new york, a race that nobody expected to be as close as it was in polling. and the end, kathy hochul, the incumbent democrat, 646,000 votes in front of lee zeldin, who you may recall voted to reject certify the election
in georgia, where we have 646,000 georgians, 4.4 million americans, in the coverage gap. i ve been focused on child care, on expanding the child tax credit, on jobs, infrastructure. all of these things are important. but even as we push forward infrastructure, we ve got to deal with the infrastructure of our democracy. and that s the question confronting us right now. and the issue for democrats is what are you going to do? sadly, our republican counterparts have already made their decision. i m not about to let them off the hook. if they are the party of lincoln, they they ought to stand up for liberty. and i ll continue to make that case. but we just can t afford to wait given all that s going on. voter suppression bills introduced in some 49 states. dozens of provisions to subvert the will of the people. our democracy is in a 911 state of emergency.
economy it s also right to protect the democracy and it s a contradiction, it is sheer hypocrisy to say otherwise, to change the rule in order to raise the debt ceiling while the ceiling of our democracy is crashing in all around us. i think history s going to judge us for this moment. and be really clear. i ve been focused during my year now almost in the senate on a whole range of issues. i ve been focused on getting medicaid expansion, for example, in georgia, where we have 646,000 georgians, 4.4 million americans, in the coverage gap. i ve been focused on child care, on expanding the child tax credit, on jobs, infrastructure. all of these things are important. but even as we push forward infrastructure, we ve got to deal with the infrastructure of our democracy. and that s the question confronting us right now.
it is dysfunctional right now. are haitian refugees though being treated differently than other immigrant groups? when we know that of the total amount of encounters at the border in 2020, for example, 646,000 and only 5,000, you know, were plus were from haiti, which made up .8% of those encounters at border, so 2021 the total was 1.5 million and only 30,000 from haiti which is less than 2%, so when we see these numbers we can say that the haitians are being singled out for discriminatory treatment by the u.s. government. but explain more than that, beyond the numbers, why do you mean that their treatment is different? because haitians are only a