specialized home for wounded veterans. thank you so much. wolf blitzer picks it up right now in the situation room. see you tomorrow. happening now, president biden says gaza s largest hospital should be, should be protected as israel insists it s striking medical centers hamas is using as cover. hospital officials reporting catastrophic conditions and increasingly desperate measures to keep premature babies and others alive. cnn goes inside gaza with israeli forces getting an up close look at the enormous scope of the destruction. the idf showing tunnels use bid hamas including beneath a children s hospital. donald trump jr. wraps up the testimony for the defense in the $250 million civil fraud trial against the trump organization. trump jr. praising his father as a real estate artist, even as the case threatens the family s entire business empire. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . we beg
ted, what do you see? ted rowlands, you there? apparently ted as soon as we get ted, we will go to him. but again, this is what you re looking at. i m curious, i m not sure, paul or ted, since they ve been down in this crowd, if we ve had any chance to do any sort of reporting here for the number of injuries, the number of people who have been detained, who have been arrested, and i would like to know that. and the crowd numbers as well. ted rowlands talking now. reporter: again, it seems as though we might be looking at a situation where so ted is on the air. he s not sure that he s on the air, and when we get ted for sure, we ll go back, okay? thank you. but again, this is live pictures and this is from cermak and michigan avenue, right near michigan avenue in chicago, and mccormick place is where they re holding the nato summit, and this is not that far away from mccormick place, so police are trying to push people west. they re saying, move west, move west, which
campaign, if not the pivotal moment, was when senators ted kennedy of massachusetts endorsed barack obama. sure was. and implicit in that was the promise which the president carried out, barack obama carried out as president, to push for health care reform. and this was the chosen path. don t forget that the president has chewed to the dismay of the agressors of otherwise own party what would basically be an extension of health care. he said, no, he was going the compromised route, the route that president kennedy had accepted. ted kennedy spent his whole career arguing for national health insurance. this is the result of that. professor gruber, i ve got a curveball for you from left field. if the supreme court strikes down the original mandate which is the most conservative way to have national health for everybody, requiring people to take responsibility, if that fails and the left of the democratic party says no, now is
said, this works. i think i m wrong. i think a mandate is the way to go and he adopted that. i think he deserves praise for what he did. he also did it for two other reasons, chris. i think one of them was personal and political in that a key moment in the obama presidential campaign, if not the pivotal moment, was when senators ted kennedy of massachusetts endorsed barack obama. sure was. and implicit in that was the promise which the president carried out, barack obama carried out as president, to push for health care reform. and this was the chosen path. don t forget that the president has chewed to the dismay of the agressors of otherwise own party what would basically be an extension of health care. he said, no, he was going the compromised route, the route that president kennedy had accepted. ted kennedy spent his whole career arguing for national health insurance. this is the result of that.
this tax cut for the american people and jeopardizing our economic growth. north korea s newly declared great successor steps to the forefront. kim jong un views his father. it is the first time the 20-something-year-old has appeared in public since his father s death. he has inherited the north korean leadership, including its weapo nuclear arsenal. many around the world are worried about how he s going to lead. state-run tv continues to show pictures like these, north koreans weeping uncontrollably as they supposedly mourn the death of their so-called leader. the nation is now if an 11-day official mourning period. reactions from the international committee to the death of kim jong il are somewhat muted. south korea s government did express their sympathy to the people of north korea but will not be sending a government delegation. the last u.s. air man coming home from iraq arrived today. they touched down on u.s. soil just a short time ago. they had a lot of great sup