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i will save democracy. what would a second trump term look like? top trump ally j.d. vance of ohio is ahead. plus on the line. a split over foreign aid divides congress as world pressure grows over the civilian death toll in gaza. there s more that has to happen. does the biden administration have any conditions in its support for israel in the war? secretary of state antony blinken is next. and survival, world leaders meet to confront the climate crisis and consider phasing out fossil fuel, but will they go far enough? if there is an agreement to phase out fossil fuels, it will be a success. if there s not, it will be a failure. former vice president al gore joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is preparing for what looks to be a quite ugly 2024. we are closing in on a presidential election year in america already feels irreparably divided. late last night we saw former president donald trump leaning into ....
which he teased a future in american politics, and there is something he said back then that he all probably should have taken a bit more seriously. it was just a year after the chinese government used a massive amount of military force to violently crack down on pro-democracy student protesters who had been occupying tiananmen square in beijing. the chinese government declared martial law and it massacred hundreds of civilians. and here was donald trump s take on that incident one year later in thet pages of playboy. when the students poured into tiananmen square,ed the chinese government almost blew it. then they were vicious, they were horrible,y but they put i down with strengthen. that shows you the power of strength. our country is right now perceived as weak. okay, at this point, people can be forgiven for not believing a lot of things donald trump says. they don t think he actually means what comes out of his mouth. and yes, this interview was in playboy, wh ....
sderot, israel. how is israel expanding its ground assault? reporter: i sat down with israel s top tank commander to talk about how tanks are going to play a central role in the offensive in the south as today the first israeli tanks were spotted in southern gaza. as israel expands its ground offensive into southern gaza the brigadier general, the head of israel s armored corps, said tanks will once again be central to israel s war strategy. reporter: israeli tanks were at the tip of the offensive into gaza in october, clearing the way for infantry troops to move into dangerous and densely populated cities. ibrahim says this kind of coordination is a lesson learned from russian failures in ukraine. translator: we saw where they only fought with tanks alone they were more vulnerable. this overcomes almost every problem on the battlefield. reporter: israeli tanks are pushing through, not around residential buildings, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble to ....
in iowa just six weeks away. also this hour, the u.s. aid to ukrainian forces about to run out, the white house is turning up the heat on congress. arguing the war against russian aggression will be kneecaped on the battlefield. i ll get reaction from the ukrainian ambassador to the united states. and the israeli military now says its objective in northern gaza is nearly completed. as the ground assault against hamas expands in the south. the united nations says the number of civilian deaths is rapidly increasing in this new and intense phase of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with presidential politics as the nation closes in on the first contest of 2024. one of donald trump s most vocal republican critics is offering a very chilling new assessment of what his second presidency would actually look like if, if, he s re-elected. here s kristen holmes. ....
tonight on the reidout this is a scam. it s a rigged trial. it shouldn t have been in that venue. we shouldn t have had that judge. it s reckless. it s dangerous. it s irresponsible. for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don t like the verdict. a stark split screen today as donald trump lashed out about his 34 felony convictions, while president joe biden defended the american justice system. plus, the unhinged republican response. they want to tear the whole system down and punish everyone involved. because that s what authoritarians do. but we begin tonight with the man nicknamed teflon don, and no, i m not talking about the mafia boss of the gambino crime family. i m speaking about donald trump. but like gotti, trump has a history of not only skirting the law but always finding a way to evade any serious accountability for his actions, despite being constantly under legal scrutiny. trump used his wealth and fame to make his own rules. it wa ....