Earlier today israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at the compound, in jerusalem, and police say they were responding to a riot at this holy site, let s go to the ground, cnn s hadas gold is in jerusalem. Is this ceasefire expected to hold, out doesn t seem like the underlying issues that led to this outbreak of violence have been resolved. That s a great point, ana, so far since that ceasefire came into effect, 2:00 a. M. Local time, overnight, it has held in the sense that there haven t been rockets fired into gaza. And air strikes into gaza. People coming out and assessing the damage, people in israel starting to feel as though they can go about their lives at the fear of rockets being launched. But that doesn t niecely mean that things are completely calm. Earlier in jerusalem, and at the compound, known as the noble sanctuary, it s a place very holy to both muslims and jews. There were thousands of palestinians there, protesting, chanting, waving both palestinian
Breaking news in the middle east. 16 hours into a ceasefire between israel and hamas. Already, a test, just this morning, at the temple moun in jerusalem. In the last couple of hours, clashes broke out between israeli police and palestinian protesters. Video showing police clearing protesters. Israeli police saying a molotov cocktail was hurled at them. We want to start with the ceasefire. Richard engel is in the region on the ground in gaza city. Richard? reporter: for now, the ceasefire does appear to be holding, since it was announced. There haven t been any rockets fired from the gaza strip into israel and any israeli air strikes on gaza. This is what is left of gaza city. This was the cost of this. You can see behind me one of the tallest buildings what was one of the tallest buildings in gaza, offices and apartments, completely flattened by an israeli air strike. Israel didn t just flatten buildings. Look across the street. You can see a more precision strike where israel targete
at issue on the senate floor today. brian williams here with you along with nicole wallace picking up our special coverage of the reckoning over the deadly insurrection, the looting of our u.s. capitol on 6th january. the former president on trial today for his role in inciting that violence. the evidence against him unfolded before our very eyes on live television on that day as he took to the podium at a rlly in washington and rallied what would become a riotous and violent mob, calling on his supporters to march to the capitol and fight. we re going to walk down to the capitol! we re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we probably won t be cheering so much for some of them. because you ll never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength and you have to be strong. and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country anymore. today we are learning the democratic impeachment managers prosecuting the case
speak to that. i think it s important to just note these past few weeks trump himself down in mar-a-lago, he s playing a little golf, probably watching a lot of television. he s been silent. he has been relatively silent. a few statements put out by what he calls the office of the 45th president. hold on. this session is about to begin. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead us in prayer. order and the chaplain will lead us in prayer. let us pray. oh, lord, our god, yesterday this chamber reverberated to a standing ovation for the courage of officer eugene goodman in defending this building and human life. may our legislative jurors strive to emulate his courage in their defense of the united states constitution. lord, touch and move them to believe that the end does not justify the means. help them to remember that the end is inherent and built into the means. fill our senators with a spirit that combines common sense with commitment, conscience and courage. we p
to the stories that you have told, including the story of veronica s family. very moving. if i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. i would not be coming in with any agenda. i would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. sen. hirono: so are you saying that the impact of the affordable care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address? sen. hirono: senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the affordable care act. you set the policies. and i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a certain circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants b