cnn, our clarissa ward inside southern gaza as president biden warns israel to be more careful about civilian lives as it goes after hamas. also tonight, will rudy giuliani have to pay $48 million or each more for the harm his election lies did to a mom and daughter who volunteered to count ballots. plus, with iowa caucuses fast approaching, how republicans there are weighing their choices, or in some cases changing them. john king with the latest on our election series all over the map. good evening. thanks for joypgs. a close-up and unfiltered look at the look in gaza. clarissa ward and her team are the first of many western media outlet to go there without an escort. jake sullivan in israel holding what he described as an intense and detailed conversation with prime minister netanyahu and his war cabinet. the conversation centering on, among other things, shifting to lower intensity, more surgical strikes, something president biden underscored today. i want them to b
yet there are quite obviously thousands and thousands of innocent people that the idf is killing who are not members of hamas. and whether you blame hamas for embedding within the palestinian population after the october 7th brutal terrorist attack on israel or you blame the idf and netanyahu or both, this is the ugly and brutal reality of the slaughter of innocents that clarissa ward brings us now. a warning. that many of the images we re about to show you are difficult to watch. reporter: you don t have to search for tragedy in gaza. it finds you on every street, strewn with trash and stagnant water, desolate and foreboding. so we ve just crossed the border into southern gaza. this is the first time we ve actually been able to get into gaza since october 7th, and we are now driving to a field hospital that has been set up by the uae. up until now israel and egypt have made access for international journalists next to impossible. and you can see why. since october 7th
conspiracy theories about them. the first day of deliberations wrapping up a short while ago after giuliani opted not to take the stand. vladimir putin is vowing there will be no peace in ukraine until russia s military goals are received. krrn was inside the russian president s marathon end-of-the-year news conference, his first since the start of the war. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with the war in gaza, president biden stressing just a short while ago that he wants israel to, quote, be focused on how to save civilian lives. we ll have more on the mounding u.s. pressure on israel to be more targeted in its battle against hamas. cnn s alex marquardt is standing by live in tel aviv. first i want to go first to clarissa ward who made a truly extraordinary excursion into gaza. cnn is the first western media outlet to gain independent access to southern gaza without an id