what she, herself was suffering from in the last decade give or take, and today when the supreme court announced her death, it noted she died at age 93 and died from complications, at age 93 died of complications from alzheimer s. kate? joan, she was put in by ronald reagan, and nominated by ronald reagan, but she was considered a swing vote, and sided with most often with the conservatives, but a powerful presence on that urt ccourt, an the american public, and when you are looking at the court today, she is a higher respect of the supreme court, and would you agree? definitely. first of all, she could garner the respect from inside of the room, and conference room, and outside. as i said, you know, she was a poli politician. she was a politician, and came to washington knowing how to count votes, and she had real authority within the court s conference room. she was also like the social glue, and always trying to get her colleagues to do things after hours together, bec
the overwhelming house vote to expel him, and the competitive special election to fill his barely cold seat, and the country now mourning the loss of the first female supreme court justice known as an undenial swing vote on the bench, sandra day o connor, that s coming up. and overseas, fighting has resumed inside of gaza with israel launching terror strikes across the territory and dropping leaflets with a warning to civilians to move further south. one palestinian telling nbc news this, every ten to 15 minutes there have been strikes. it has been all around us. we begin with that historic breaking news on capitol hill, new york republican george santos now the sixth house member ever to be expelled from congress, the first in over 20 years. more than 2/3 majority, 311 of his colleagues voted to remove him from office following a scathing house ethic report and 23 count indictment on fraud charges. his seat is in the hands of new york governor kathy hochul. the governor ga
of the fraud he perpetuated. regardless of what this report says, is your plan to serve and stay in congress and not resign? like i said before i m staying in office for sure. that last voice you heard was republican congressman george santos of new york before the release of a damning ethics report. we ll go through that and what could come next for the embattled lawmaker. plus, we ll bring you the latest out of the middle east. israel says it has more evidence that hamas was operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and also ahead we ll recap another busy day of diplomacy on the west coast for president biden where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, november 17th. it s friday. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with some good news. the federal government will stay open at lea
100 minutes of horror, and the video obtained by cnn of the early moments of the october 7th terror attack from the view of a hamas militant and what it revealed of the hamas planning and israel s security. rudy giuliani claims he is going to take the stand in a case that the judge claimed that he defamed two georgia workers and he has millions of dollars on the line. and an ethics committee could release the long-awaited ethics report on george santos, and one thing that won t be there is a recommendation to expel him. i m sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. and this is cnn news central. there are new indications this morning that israel s ground offensive in gaza could be expanding to the south. leaflets were dropped wednesday on the communities to the west of khan yunis which warned the civilians to move to known shelters. in the north, the idf is now 36 hours into the raid at al shifa hospital. the israeli forces remain both inside and in the vicinity o
risk sweltz the crossing itself. finally that happened and still there was intense diplomacy across the region. president biden s envoy to the middle east, david satterfield was key among the players along with qatar and egypt to try to really get a deal in which all parties involved would be willing to let these civilians go. and so finally after days and days of everyone holding their breath and hoping it would work out, it did work out finally on wednesday. it s just a small fraction of the 7,000 as you said civilians who could qualify to leave egypt. we re just beginning at this point. let s talk about the strikes on the refugee camp. israel knows they d widely criticized and made the calculation it was worth it to get a hamas leader or two. give us a sense as to the reaction from the region, and is there a fear, perhaps, that s really going to inflame what s happening there and could widen the conflict? absolutely, john. a lot of outrage across the region, and ac