Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News. The Israel Defense forces announced this evening it is expanding its Ground Operations against hamas in gaza. This was the scene just moments ago. It has been nearly constant rocket fire and explosions. Gaza residents tell cnn that these are the most intense air strikes that they have experienced since the war began 20 days ago. And there are reports of widespread power and cellular and internet outages across the gaza strip. It is unclear what these ramped up attacks will mean for Hostage Negotiations. Today israel said it believes hamas is Still Holding 229 innocent people that they kidnapped october 7th. In the United States, the white house says it is in, quote, active conversations with israel about a humanitarian pause to work on the release of the hostages. Diplomatic sources told cnn earlier today that significant progress had been made. U. S. Officials are insistsing those talks are going to continue, although t
From israel to gaza. As a Ground Defensive is expected to begin soon. More than 360,000 military services have been mobilized. Just to put the size of that in perspective, the total number of u. S. Forces in the reserves across the air force are marines and navy. It is just over 330,000. Israeli Men And Women Living Overseas in the United States and across europe are getting notifications that they are being called to serve. They are packing their belongings up. Theyre returning to fight. Over 100 hostages remain unaccounted for as families in israel play pray for any sign of survival. The Israeli Military is also preparing for a potential second front in the israeli lebanon border, with a buildup of battle tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers a few miles from lebanon. This comes as the idf attacked several hezbollah targets today in lebanon. Late today, axios reporter said that iran sent to message to israel on saturday, saying that it does not want further escalation in the hamas isr
Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. And we tart with our world lead and a vow from israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his countries response to the horrific Terrorist Attacks carried out by hamas over the weekend is just beginning. [ sound of gunfire ] this is just a glimpse of what that response from the Israeli Military has looked like over the last few hours. Explosion after explosion. Lighting up the night sky in gaza with very real consequences on the ground in gaza. As isreal launched what it is called wide scale strikes on hamas targets. The israeli army released video showing some of the strikes it carried out earlier today. You could see the buildings absolutely flattened. Hamas retaliated by firing more than 100 rockets at the coast. This is the scene in ashkellon after they intercepted most if not all of the rockets. Cars on fire, debris and littering in the streets. At least 900 people have been killed so far in israel by Ha
outfront next, trump lashes out, taking the witness stand in his own fraud trial. outfront legal analyst ryan goodman is here. plus, strikes on gaza lighting up the sky tonight, while thousands of miles away, vladimir putin is embracing hamas despite his own citizens killed and kidnapped by the militant group. so what role is putin playing? and james carville is outfront even though his party wants to shut him up. how come? let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, showdown in court. trump versus the judge, the former president taking the stand for nearly four hours in his new york civil fraud trial today. going after the judge, losing his tim per. at one point the judge saying to trump s attorneys, quote, can you control your witness while judge said to the judge, it s a terrible thing you ve done, you believe this political hack back there, and that s unfortunate. trump left the court tonight, though, projecting confidence. i