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claudine gay stepping down. the protests now plan and will more college leaders be next? i m rahel solomon alongside john berman today. sara and kate are both off. this is cnn news central. this morning the white house is blasting house speaker mike johnson just hours ahead of his visit to the southern border. the biden administration claims he is holding up border funding and hamstringing security over what the white house calls extreme partisan demands. today speaker johnson will lead a delegation of more than 60 republicans to eagle pass, texas, where he is expected to criticize the surge in migrants and demand policy change. this comes on the heels of his party formally opening impeachment proceedings against alejandro mayorkas earlier this morning. cnn s ed lavandera is at the border. what will lawmakers see today? well, they re coming at an interesting time because december was a record breaking month in terms of illegal crossings here at the u.s. so ....
ripped their lives apart, their devastating personal stories were revealed today in the most emotional january 6th hearing yet. plus, new details on trump s highly illegal campaign to pressure state elections officials to install fake electors. just a few hours ago the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection laid out in clear terms just how broad donald trump s thirst for power and how deep his acceptance for violence really went. the committee outlined how trump knew he had lost but plowed ahead anyway with a plan to get what he wanted. part that have plan included a cordnated campaign of harassment where he and his allies repeatedly bullied state elections officials in key battleground states to reject ballots outright while also targeting local election officials with unfounded claims of fraud. privately he and his allies led by an unmoored rudy giuliani hounded officials while publicly waging a smear campaign fueled with lies that led to a ....
then lose the confidence of the jury. special live coverage of donald trump s hush money cover up trial continues. right now. thanks for watching. i ll see you back here in three hours s you re watching cnn special live coverage of donald trump s first criminal trial. i m wolf blitzer, our nation s capital, laura coates is outside the manhattan courthouse worth today michael cohen laid out once again today the who, the what, and the why behind that payment to silence porn star stormy daniels. he detailed two jurors how the hush money scheme continued after trump became president of the united states talking about a february 2017 meeting he had with trump. and then trump organization, chief financial officer, allen weisselberg, and a set up how trump was going to pay cohen back for the hush money initially paid stormy daniels, laura yeah. and wolf cohen also described the fallout after the fbi raided his properties back in 2018, describing what cohen testified woul ....
hamas is a bunch of cowards that are hiding behind the civilians, they put their their headquarters where civilians are and buildings and the like, but to the extent that they can separate out and avoid i m confident the israelis will do everything in their power to avoid the killing of innocent civilians. let s get straight to israel where cnn s nic robertson is. nic, what is the latest on the ground at this hour? reporter: it s been a relatively quiet day in terms of rocket strikes, missiles, artillery going into gaza and not many missiles coming out of gaza, either. it creates the impression that there is not a pause but at least diminution in the amount of military activity to perhaps give some space to some of the political discussions. i said that and you heard the explosion behind me. yes, the afternoon has become increasingly punctuated by heavy explosions. that does sound like a missile strike landing on gaza there. and perhaps as we go into darkness ....
positive sign harris gave a thumbs up to the fans as he was loaded into the ambulance. we are staying on all the breakiking news out of israel a gaza. stay with cnn news central. starts now. hello, thank you so much for joining us, i m kate bolduan with john in new york, sara sidner is in israel. the breaking news we re following right now, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is back in israel this morning. blinken has been shuttling around the renal for days now. this morning he met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he s also meeting with the israeli president and we re standing by to see if blinken will be speaking after these critical meetings. one major focus, the horrifying news we re learning this morning the idf says 199 are now being held hostage by hamas in gaza, that s a huge and significant jump from what was believed to be the number of people taken after the hamas terror attack. the latest from the biden administration is that at least 15 ....