iowa caucuses and instead of being in iowa, the front-runner, donald trump was in court. using the civil fraud case to grandstand before the judge sent him fresh off the cnn debate and income i haley and ron desantis debated in iowa as he tries to sway any possible votes their way. joining us now republican presidential candidate asa hutchinson, the former governor of arkansas. thanks for joining us. i want to get your response to something donald trump just said outside the courtroom in his civil fraud trial against him. take a listen. my legal issues, every one of them, every one, civil and the criminal ones are all set up by joe biden, crooked joe biden. this is something that s never happened in this country. even the civil ones, this civil and they re set up by biden. every single, just about case that i m involved in they re doing it for election interference. obviously, there is zero evidence that president biden had anything to do with the civil suits or the prose
It is contingent upon how many people vote to a candidate by name. The number goes up and down depending on how many people are on the floor. During the weekend you have people go away. So maybe there would be a path for jim jordan to be elected if just the right number of people go away on the democratic side of the aisle. Hakeem jeffries said well have all our people here. The flip side of that. There is a danger for jim jordan if he forces these votes and just enough republicans disappear on that side of the aisle or people who support him because then you could be in a scenario where they do, in fact, elect Hakeem Jeffries if just the right mixture of people goes away. If they do that, as they say in the movies, they play a very dangerous game, mr. Bond. So this is kind of where we are right now. Republicans right now who are trying to figure out which is the direction to go. They dont know if they want to maybe put a resolution on the floor to empower Patrick Mchenry. Right now ji
Natasha ber grand and Becky Anderson is here with me in tel aviv. Jeremy, the Secretary Of State took cover in a bunker alongside Benjamin Netanyahu for a few minutes as i understand as Air Raid Sirens went off. What are you learning about whats come out between them today . Reporter yeah, thats right. Secretary blinken has been meeting with the israeli Prime Minister over the last nearly three hours now at Idf Head Quart nurse tel aviv. During that time we have heard not one but two air ride sirens going off in tel aviv and you are very well aware. We know during that first instance that the Secretary Of State and the israeli Prime Minister went to a bunker for about five minutes before emerging and continuing their discussions. I would assume that the same situation happened just minutes ago when those Air Raid Sirens went off once again because as far as we know Secretary Of State and the israeli Prime Minister are still there having those meetings. During this day weve seen Air Rai
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we begin with an urgent call for evacuations across gaza, as israel expands its fight against hamas. the israel defense forces are now telling civilians in parts of both southern and northern gaza to evacuate as it carries out hundreds of air strikes. the u.n. estimates that more than 1.8 million people, nearly 80% of the population of gaza, have to leave their homes for safety since october 7th. and in the red sea, a u.s. defense official says an american warship shot down drones and responded after a cargo ship from the bahamas was attacked. let s go straight to cnn s matthew chance live in tel aviv for us. matthew, what is going on? what s the latest? reporter: well, when it comes to that attack on the cargo ship in the red sea, it issued an alert, a warning, and a call for help, a distress call, after a ballistic missile was fired toward it by houthi forces. these are iranian-backed forces i
israel defense forces are almost a full day into what they call a precise and targeted operation to hunt out hamas in a hospital. what exactly does that mean? the lead starts right now. inside of that hospital, in gaza, now a military scene where israel and the u.s. say hamas is hiding a command center under the hospital. what is the goal of this targeted operation? also brand-new on the lead. 100 minutes of horror, exclusive video from the body cam of a terrorist for the first time, you could see video from inside of a hamas tunnel. before that group s horrific october 7th attack. plus, you might not believe this, hunter biden wants to subpoena donald trump. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. gaza s largest hospital is under siege. israeli forces launched a raid on the al shifa hospital in the early hours on wednesday after accusing hamas of operating from tunnels, souped by american intelligence. a report he inside of the hospital said the complex is surround