was hoarding. instead, it was sad. most importantly, it was a storm of unpresidential behavior. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. some questioning special counsel robert hur s decision to file no charges against biden and big focus on the many, many examples of a deteriorating joe biden. hur wrote that a jury would have a hard time convicting a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. he noted biden didn t remember when he was vice president. and couldn t recall when his son, beau, died. a furious president biden called an impromptu news conference. president biden: i ve seen the headlines since the report was released about my willful retention of document. that is not only misleading but just plain wrong. there is, in fact, a shortage of evidence that i willfully retained classified materials related to afghanistan. i did not share classified information. i did not share it with my ghost writer. i guarantee i did not. harris: are his handlers
are you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we are following a number of new developments in the israel-hamas war. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting with arab leader in jordan. blinken stressed support for israel to implement humanitarian pauses, as he s calling them, in the fighting in gaza. short of a cease-fire demanded by arab countries and international aid agencies. the u.s. official says hamas is blocking foreign nationals from leaving gaza for egypt through the rafah crossing. hamas is demanding that israel guarantee that ambulances from gaza, that they can reach that crossing. and egyptian source says more than 700 foreign nationals were expected to cross through rafah earlier today including 400 americans. free, free palestine! people around the world are marching and singing in rallies against the war today including this one here in washington. you can see the capitol in the background there.