israel defense forces are almost a full day into what they call a precise and targeted operation to hunt out hamas in a hospital. what exactly does that mean? the lead starts right now. inside of that hospital, in gaza, now a military scene where israel and the u.s. say hamas is hiding a command center under the hospital. what is the goal of this targeted operation? also brand-new on the lead. 100 minutes of horror, exclusive video from the body cam of a terrorist for the first time, you could see video from inside of a hamas tunnel. before that group s horrific october 7th attack. plus, you might not believe this, hunter biden wants to subpoena donald trump. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. gaza s largest hospital is under siege. israeli forces launched a raid on the al shifa hospital in the early hours on wednesday after accusing hamas of operating from tunnels, souped by american intelligence. a report he inside of the hospital said the complex is surround
Rushdie has spoken excusively with the bbc about the attack that left him blind in one eye. rushdie spoke candidly about his recovery both emotional and physical. actually the physical stuff is more or less ok. with the exception of having lost and i stop it otherwise, the physical stuff is reasonably all right. the emotional stuff, it takes dealing with. i have a very good therapist who has a lot of work to do. i have crazy dreams. but i think really the main difference is i don t know when i will again do a public event is open to the public that anybody can show up. a look now at some other stories making headlines. in guatemala, electorial confusion as a prosecutor
Hack democratic party e-mail accounts. now, let s assume that all of these deeply worried people are sincere, that they really care about the integrity of our democracy. then why has almost nobody said anything about the tech monop y monopolies that dominate the exchange of information in this country? if a few dozen facebook ads are enough to subvert an election shouldn t we be worried about facebook itself which controls literally bill lons of ads? a couple of times on this show social scientist robert epstein has pointed out that google alone could determine the outcome of almost any american election just by altering its search supgts. we d never know what happened. oh, say tech defenders don t worry, these are businesses, they exist to make money not push plirt cal agendas. turns out that s not true and woe can prove it. an e-mail obtained excusively by this show revealed that a senior google employee deployed the company resources to increase