ac 360 starts right now. all right. the breaking news, and it is big, just a week after colorado did it, maine becomes the second state to bar donald trump from its republican primary ballot. john berman here in for anderson in the decision from maine s secretary of state cannot be any plainer. quoting now, he is not qualified to hold the office of the president under section 3 of the 14th amendment, period. she joins us momentarily. this comes on a day in which the former president was temporarily back on colorado s ballot pending a supreme court decision. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us now with this breaking news out of maine. what can you tell us about this decision, katelyn? john, there is a lot of meat to what secretary of state shanna bellows wrote from maine today in her ruling. one, january 6th was an insurrection. she made that finding. two, donald trump engaged in that insurrection. three, that means he s not qualified to be on the primary ballot in maine. and
but the question remains. why did hamas strike now likely knowing the devastation that it would provoke in gaza? hamas spokesman name checked events at the mosque earlier this year as motivation for their attack. hamas has called this operation the storm of in reference of course to the mosque compound known as temple mount a place so holy to both jews and muslims here in jerusalem. earlier this year police raided the third holiest site in islam during the month of adan and pass over just as police step inside the mosque is considered incredibly provocative and aggressive . but many experts say the timing of hamas attack has to do with mecca, the holiest place of all of islam, saudi arabia. hamamas was c concerned aboue saudi moves to build ties with israel and the u.s. one concern was that saudi money would then bolster the palestininian authorority in th west banank. hamasas looks at this worord an ememerging alliliance betwee moderate arabs and israel and de
evening. reporting from washington, i m jim acosta. the whole story with anderson p cooper is next. p cooper is next. good night. captions by vitac www.vitac.com has entered a new phase. what that means for the more than 200 people held hostage in gaza is unclear. most of those hostages were taken on october 7 from israeli communities, or kibbutzim, close to the gaza border. on a kibbutz called nir oz, it s estimated a quarter of the 400 or so people who live there were either killed or captured. the whole story of what happened at nir oz is only now really coming to light. tonight we want you to meet those who survived the attack at nir oz who are now fighting for answers about what happened to their missing loved ones and neighbors. this was the nir oz kibbutz before october 7. noam peri: nir oz has huge and beautiful fields all around it. many of them are potatoes, but some peanuts and carrots and many, many othther crops.. gaia kalderon: it s like you walk without s
anderson cooper: welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper in tel aviv. as we ve seen this weekend, israel s war against hamas has entered a new phase. what that means for the more than 200 people held hostage in gaza is unclear. most of those hostages were taken on october 7 from israeli communities, or kibbutzim, close to the gaza border. on a kibbutz called nir oz, it s estimated a quarter of the 400 or so people who live there were either killed or captured. the whole story of what happened at nir oz is only now really coming to light. tonight we want you to meet those who survived the attack at nir oz who are now fighting for answers about what happened to their missing loved ones and neighbors. this was the nir oz kibbutz before october 7. noam peri: nir oz has huge and beautiful fields all around it. many of them are potatoes, but some peanuts and carrots and many, many othther crops.. gaia kalderon: it s like you walk without shoes with your dogs. noam peri: it
The families of American hostages have called on the Biden administration to ramp up pressure on Qatar to in turn increase pressure on Hamas leadership to accept a deal.