Good evening and welcome to the source. We start with Breaking News here tonight, as President Biden will be going to israel on wednesday, a critical trip that comes at a critical time. The major announcement was just made by the Secretary Of State Antony Blinken following a nearly eighthour long meeting that he had with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wartime cabinet he has recently formed. This trip is going to amount to a massive show of support for americas closest ally in the middle east. It is also going to be extremely high stakes both politically and securitywise. Secretary blinken previewed part of what will be on President Bidens agenda when he lands in the grieving nation. Hes coming here at a critical moment for israel, for the region, and for the world. The president will reaffirm the United States solidarity with israel and our ironclad commitment to its security. The president will hear from israel what it needs to defend its meme, as we continue to wor
Im Anderson Cooper in tel aviv with john berman in new york. Youre watching cnns Special Coverage of israel at war. Israel is promising that a new phase of its war in hamas is coming, just not clear when exactly that will be. Troops have been amassing for days now near the border with gaza getting ready for an expected Ground Operation. Israel pounded the territory again today with air strikes. Officials say hamas commander who played a key part in last saturdays attack was killed. Hundreds of thousands of civilians tried to heed the idfs warning to get out. U. N. Official warns such a large scale evacuation under siege could lead to a humanitarian disaster. Anderson, there is an Important Development tonight from the pentagon as well. We learned a second u. S. Carrier strike group led by uss dwight d. Eisenhower is sailing to the middle east, sailing to the mediterranean. It is designed to sell messages to israel and proxies including lebanon and hezbollah not to get involved. The Eis
good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. here is the story. former president trump back on the stand right now behind those doors in new york city. he and the judge went at it this morning with trump telling him this is a very, very, very unfair trial. and then the judge asking trump s attorney to get control of his client at one point. before we take you to the courtroom with the very latest and the reporting inside, look at these new polls that came out over the weekend from the new york times sienna polling group shows trump beating the current president pretty handily in the battleground states right now. take a look at the margins. this is nevada, georgia, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania. if you can see those numbers. maybe we can take them tighter. most of these are really the battleground, the deciding states for 2020. when you look back at 2020, the same period of time, biden was ahead in these states. he went on to win all of these states. now you have big-name demo
Reporters at the pentagon, calling the collisions preventible. This is 40 minutes. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen. Start withan opening statement. Thank you first for the opportunity to be here today and brief you o. The recent incidents in involving Surface Forces in the western pacific. The comprehensive review that examined the systemic issues surrounding these incidents and then review the corrective action. Before i begin, i must say that throughout this investigative process, our first and last thoughts have been with our fallen sailors and families. I want to offer my deep condolences to those who lost a loved one and ensure them they will always be part of the navy family. A review of your navy today shows this morning there are 100 ships and 64,000 sailors and navy civillages Forward Deployed. This includes three Carrier Strike groups and air wings, three Amphibious Readiness group and their embarked Marine Expeditionary units. The vast majority of these sips are conduct
Good morning, this hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets to continue informing our members and the public about the ongoing readiness crisis that all of our military services find themselves in. Readiness includes many things such as and strength, chair training and modernization. Today we will focus on he house sequestration in the years of continuing resolutions in our budgetary process have impacted the marine corpss ability to modernize the current force to ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned for the army this week. Id like to welcome our witness, gary l thomas, the deputy commandant for resources at the marine corps. General thomas, we thank you for your service and look forward to receiving your important testimony today. Todays hearing will allow for a much deeper review of the modernization and Readiness Challenges identified by the assistant commandant to the marine corps during last months hearing on the sta