check out this wild delay for late morning commuters in new jersey. a bull, that s right, a bull on the tracks at painstaking. trains to and from new york city or delayed for 45 minutes until it right off the track. police eventually corroded and offense. no word we are the bull came from, there are reports it escaped from a new york slaughterhouse. at any rate, that breakup worked e bull has been moved to an animal century to lift out the rest of its days. that s it for us the news continues. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. . i ll see you tomorrow. what tonight, stream from the, source the 48 million dollar question that is about to be answered for rudy giuliani as a jury now deliberates the cost of his election lies. plus, cnn getting rare access inside of gaza tonight as clarissa ward will take us to the front lines of the humanitarian catastrophe. the horrors that she saw on the ground. also, vladimir putin taking questions in his first extended news confe
president to his israeli counterpart makes what he told the world, less than two months ago, seem frankly a world away. i come to israel with a single message, you are not alone. you are not alone. as long as the united states stands, it will stand forever, we will not let you be alone. right now, the two nations are no longer in the biden administration officials have advised israel that their campaign of overwhelming force needs to and, and and soon. within weeks, it is not quite an ultimatum, sources made that clear. but the united states is now more willing to say that quiet part out loud. they believe that israel is simply killing too many palestinian civilians, and far too many palestinian children. president biden outright accused israeli forces of, quote, indiscriminate bombing. it s an accusation that israel heard, and looked right past. he is saying, you are bombing gaza without care. absolutely not. and you know what, you know, let s just see history. ame
he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresnahan.
easter sunday from new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour in the middle east, where israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing a video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem fred what s the latest? fredricka. well, certainly pretty big incident that happened there today on the border with syria when you had those rockets that came flying over from syrian territory, the israel defense forces say they say that those came flying towards the golan heights, which, of course are held by israel and t
potentially coming in days. they attack medication that for 20 years the fda ruled as being safe. se restrictions on abortion. that s where i do believe in commonsense restrictions on abortion that s where america is at as republican presidential hopefuls continue to struggle with the abortion issue post-roe. i would literally sign the most conservative pro-life legislation that they can get through congress. even if it was six weeks. i m not going to talk about six or five or seven or ten. and the gun debate, after more mass shootings in tennessee and kentucky - oh, my god, there s an active shoot are there! the nra holds its annual meeting and republicans pledge support. with me at 1600 pennsylvania avenue no one will lay a finger on your firearms can the two parties find common ground on issues that have divided the nation for decades? my guests, tammy baldwin of wisconsin and bill cassidy of louisiana. also, rising tensions. israel is facing