for the first time people getting out of gaza, an opening at the rafah crossing. hundreds of foreign nationals could getit out over the next f days. a second strike has rocked the refugee camp in northern gaza. what we are learning about this blast. the strike yesterday in the same area took out a hamas commander, but dozens others feared dead, as well. donald trump junior set to take the stand in a $250 million trial where donald trump has been found liable for fraud. i m john berman with kate bolduan. sara sidner is on assign. this is cnn news central. two big developments right now in the israel-hamas war. first, let s talk about the rafah crossing. according to officials on the palestinian side of the crossing, as many as 110 foreign passport holders are traveling through the checkpoint at the gaza border. the crossing, you remember, has been closed since hamas attacked israel sparking this war. since then people have not been allowed through. now they are.
A recap of the days news. Love trump or whether you disdain him, i think everyone can collectively agree that his relationship with the truth theres a major disconnect. There was one report i saw said he told 2100 lies since office. Another one said 3,000. Another five a day. Another ten a day. If you sit down with mueller, if they dont have obstruction, we dont know whether they do. Hes tweeting. His State Of Mind is all over the place. He could say he fired comey. If they dont have obstruction and there is no collusion conspiracy, its conspiracy, but the fact is you can get him on perjury. So why take the chance of going sitting with mueller no matter how smooth you think you are, no matter what you think you can say when youre going to get caught in a lie because you will lie because thats what this president does, period. Harry, so far mueller hasnt moved on this demand that he wants trump to sit down in person. This negotiation has been going on since january that we know about. A
father, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter talking to cnn. these are records provided to the senate intelligence committee that show the calls were between trump junior and two of his business associates and this is significant, jake, because this new information appears to contradict democrats long-held suspicions that the blocked number was from then candidate donald trump and that that would show if it was true that he did have knowledge of the meeting at trump tower. so this information came to light recently, jake, and it could answer one of those key questions. as i said, over the meeting of trump s eldest son don junior had set up to get russian dirt on the clinton campaign. blocked numbers have been lingering issues as investigators have probed the meeting and whether trump himself had advanced knowledge through any means of that meeting. we should note, jake, that don junior s attorney did not provide a comment for our story. pamela, let s go to manu ra
with pg&e in the sierras. and i m an arborist since the onset of the drought, more than 129 million trees have died in california. pg&e prunes and removes over a million trees every year to ensure that hazardous trees can t impact power lines. and since the onset of the drought we ve doubled our efforts. i grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly it s heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me is ensuring that the public is going to be safer and that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future. the president s eldest son don junior is no stranger to shocking and false statements. but this one is truly stunning. as if i don t know. it gets worse. listen to as he compares democratic party platform to
this is all said and undid, if the information comes out, there may be political damage to the president because it shows that the fbi was acting appropriately. but i m much more worried about the political damage to the country, the political damage to the fbi s ability to protect its sources, the fbi s ability to recruit sources around the country than i am whatever political ramifications may happen if and when this information is turned over and eventually becomes public. point taken. two department of justice veterans, one of whom i think oured herself as a washington capitals fan tonight. they have been victorious. matthew miller, cynthia allingsny, thank you for coming on. coming up, new reporting suggests russia may not have been the only country interested in the trump campaign. the latest on the second trump tower meeting, again with the president s eldest son don junior when the 11th hour continues. intelligence, covering virtually every part of your manufacturing busi