Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin Burnett Outfront starts live from israel right now. Outfront next live from israel. Breaking news. The us navy intercepting drones. The pentagon Officials Say theyre potentially targeting israel. It comes as Officials Say the army has been given a green light to wipe out hamas. Plus, a new dispatch from inside gaza. Youre going to hear tonight from the brave cnn journalists who have been documenting what its like inside gaza. He says air strikes are intensifying where he is in Southern Gaza. And the incredible story of how a group of Volunteer Israeli Guards took on hamas and protecting an entire community from a massacre and what they found in the bodies of dead hamas gunmen more chilling. Youll see their story. Lets go outfront. And good evening. Welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. Im erin burnett from tel aviv. We begin with breaking news. Shot down. Cnn is learning that a u. S. Warship stationed In The
joe biden, thank you for everything, joe biden. the border is overwhelmed. yesterday s numbers over 9,000. add 1500 got-aways, plus the thousand through the port of entry, it s not slowing down a bit. arizona can t do this alone, nor should we have to. the reality, help is not on the way. sandra: outnumbered and outresource, migrants on the border each and every day. the flow of people is constant day after day after day, and unprecedented levels. live pictures from arizona screen right, and on the left that, is texas. these are checkpoints showing large groups of migrants that have already crossed over and they are waiting to be processed before they come on in. hello, well come, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to begin another hour with you. john: i m john roberts in washington as we kick off hour two of america reports . lukeville, arizona, quickly becoming a hot bed for smugglers. fox has learned more than 600 migrants arrived there overnight, some
saying, quote, it s despicable, simply despicable. biden also referred to trump s comments on fox earlier this week, when the former president was asked whether he wants to become an american dictator. here is what trump told fox. under no circumstances, you are promising america tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. except for? he s going crazy. except for day one. meaning? i want to close the border, and i want to drill, drill, drill. that s that s not now, if there was any doubt about what trump meant, the host, sean hannity, gave him a few chances to step back from those extreme words, but trump did not. we love this guy. he saysays, you re not going to a dictator, are you, i said, no, no, no. except day one. we re closing the border, and we re drilling, drilling, drilling. trump has repeatedly promised to seek vengeance against his political enemies, promising to vastly expand presidential powers.
no more insight on this week s billboard hot 100 chart isn t from the senior, actually, from this decade, or the decade from where that. it s actually twice my age and then some. in fact, if it were person it would be old enough to collect social security. as the holidays near though, it s it s probably when you ve been hearing a lot. brenda leaves, rocking around the christmas tree is making history, 65 years after it was released. now, breaking the record for the longest time to debut between, debuting and reaching number one. this achievement, fueled by a music video and tiktok campaign from lee, who recorded the song when she was just 13 years old. she is now 78, and celebrating this milestone, as she turns 79 next week. a nice early happy birthday to her. the song is set to break the record, that also is a christmas classic, of course, a lot of christmas music around here for the next several weeks. i want to thank you so much are joining us tonight, cnn
Question this. what is the question? thank you. did the president talk to the ukrainian president about what he wanted done with joe biden and what he wanted done with paul manafort? i have no idea, i never asked him that, i don t know if he did, and i wouldn t care if he did, he had every right to do it as president of the united states. he had every right to say to the ukrainian president, we have two outstanding allegations of massive corruption did he ask you to do what you were doing? no, i did what i did on my own and i told him about it afterwards because i m his lawyer. well, there was a lawyer who said something similar and we know what happened. but listen, evan, is that true? i mean, does he have the right to do that as president? well, he does have the right to tell the ukrainians, if we re going to give you money, we want to make sure you are doing everything you can to fight corruption. what i think is the question you re asking is whether it s an abuse of