Smarter, which won by morning. Got it. Got abbas, daughter, youve got this is cnn Breaking News youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We do begin this hour with Breaking News out of the middle east. Israels military says it has rescued a hostage from a hamas tunnel in southern gaza. He had been held captive since the Terror Attacks of october 7. The father of 11, and spent the last 320 six days as a prisoner there he is in the hospital right there a short time ago reuniting with his brother, cnns jim sciutto joins us now from tel aviv jim, the details of been trickling in whats the latest that youve learned . Well, first of all, certainly youre happy fomin moment for, for him and for his family after these painful days, weeks, and months captivity. But this has also been quite a rarity for the idf of the close to 250 hostages taken on october 7, only aides have been freed alive via Military Operations. And this is the first one based on the details provided to us
Not so fun. Hours from now, former President Trump will be sitting in a manhattan courtroom as his Hush Money Trial is set to resume. This as the judge overseeing the case has yet to rule if trump violated his gag order. In washington, d. C. , the Supreme Court will hear Oral Arguments over trumps claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution in the d. C. Election interference case. Plus, arizonas Attorney General has charged mark meadows, rudy giuliani, and other key trump allies, as well as 11 socalled Fake Electors with state crimes after they attempted to keep trump in power following the 2020 election. I dont know. Did you see that coming . I did not. I didnt see that coming. I really didnt. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, did you see that coming . Not this one. I mean, we suspected it was coming sometime, but didnt see it coming yesterday. And some boldfaced names apparently among the group of aides to donald trump. Giuliani, meadows, eastman. Yeah. Apparently a
problem, that people are. ben: changing the conversation. steve: no problem. if you don t think it s a problem that there are people on the right who are pretending in the manner of just asking questions that there is no difference between being vaccinated and unvaccinated i do think you ought to pay close attention. ben: i said it was a problem when kamala harris said there was questions about vaccines under donald trump and it s a problem, obviously with anybody questioning. i don t see anybody of the stature of kamala harris on the right today saying that people ought not be vaccinated. bret: juan is on this panel too. i can t wait until you get back in studio so the whole box thing and brady bunch thing goes by the wayside. i want to play soundbite about kid masked in schools. ben mentioned it take a listen. the cdc is going to say that what you should too is everyone every over the age under the age of 12 should probably be wearing a mask in school. that s probably wha
people, making up evidence, targeting individuals, deciding that the ends justifies the means. a lot of people who don t through it say that can happen. we are seeing it happen at federal level. it s an education for all of us. not just at that level but at the local level as well when it comes to what law enforcement is willing to do. the cleanup that has to happen around the country for all of us when it comes to who we trust and whether or not we are going to take it seriously. juan: in other words, you are just happy defaming the fbi, justice department, anybody questioning president trump. this is the story. here we are. this means there s nothing, nothing that the president has done wrong. president trump is a victim. this is madness. you have to ignore the facts on the ground. greg: we are just reporting the story about this guy. juan: you have to ignore the fact that bruce ohr is an expert on russia. you have to ignore the fact that they are for people like
committee. mccain predicts that trump will eventually change his tune on putin. matthew, is that likely? i think the republicans have been changing hoping that trump changes his tune on many issues since he started running. we ve been hearing things like this all along. there s no reason to believe trump is going to change his mind now. but listen, what s happened here is while all of our national security agencies, the fbi, the cia, have been telling the government that russia got involved in the election on behalf of trump, trump says that really didn t happen or we have no evidence of that. and the reason he says that is because he doesn t want anybody questioning his very small victory, right? because he lost by 3 million votes to hillary clinton in the popular vote he doesn t want any questioning of that. well, the problem is he s catering to putin and not to the facts here and that is going to be an issue for the remember party. i know you want to get in on there. i have to