All Different Levels of the administrations in both countries to make sure that israel knows the United States has their back and we will continue to make sure they have what they need to defend themselves. Thank you for your time this morning. My pleasure. Thank you. And cnn this morning continues right now. This is cnn Breaking News. The war between israel and hamas is escalating this morning. Right now israel is Pummeling Fwauz with counter airstrikes. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says this is just the beginning. Take a look at this. We are showing you new drone video of destruction inside of gaza city. We are told up to 150 hostages, including children and likely americans, are believed to be held right now in gaza after being kidnapped by hamas militants. Hamas is threat noing to kill them and televise it. Troops, tanks, Armored Vehicles are massing at the border. This is video a short time ago. The Israeli Military reported it found the bodies of around 1,500 hamas f
risk sweltz the crossing itself. finally that happened and still there was intense diplomacy across the region. president biden s envoy to the middle east, david satterfield was key among the players along with qatar and egypt to try to really get a deal in which all parties involved would be willing to let these civilians go. and so finally after days and days of everyone holding their breath and hoping it would work out, it did work out finally on wednesday. it s just a small fraction of the 7,000 as you said civilians who could qualify to leave egypt. we re just beginning at this point. let s talk about the strikes on the refugee camp. israel knows they d widely criticized and made the calculation it was worth it to get a hamas leader or two. give us a sense as to the reaction from the region, and is there a fear, perhaps, that s really going to inflame what s happening there and could widen the conflict? absolutely, john. a lot of outrage across the region, and ac
judges issued orders in both of special counsel jack smith s criminal cases against donald trump. the d.c. case involving trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and the florida case centered on the former president s unlawful retention of classified documents. so a flurry of legal action today for mr. trump, and i m going to get some expert legal help breaking down all of that in just a second. but perhaps the biggest legal news of today was this. the federal judge in charge of the mar-a-lago classified documents case, judge aileen cannon of course appointed by president trump, today judge cannon signaled she may push back the date of trump s trial in that case. the trial was originally scheduled to start at the end of may next year. that would put it a few months after super tuesday and a few months before the republican national convention, right in the eye of the 2020 election storm, if you will. now, judge cannon did not set a new date today, but in court she says