a man whose father and grandfather that were killed in a bombing in gaza can t communicate from ckhan yunis because of a blackout. we have new details in the hunt for the hamas leader. putin speaking out for the first time about reports he has a body double, taking it on, as a series of questions flashes across a screen during putin s annual press conference. why are so many people in russia poor? who is behind the scathing questions? she may be the only republican woman in the presidential race, but are women voters buying what nikki haley is selling? that s our special story. so let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, a blackout. gaza s communications network nonexistent. as of tonight, there is a near total blackout in gaza. no way to get a message in or out. just before the show, we tried to speak with a palestinian man who was in gaza. now, when we first heard from him this morning, he was able to share with us so
yet there are quite obviously thousands and thousands of innocent people that the idf is killing who are not members of hamas. and whether you blame hamas for embedding within the palestinian population after the october 7th brutal terrorist attack on israel or you blame the idf and netanyahu or both, this is the ugly and brutal reality of the slaughter of innocents that clarissa ward brings us now. a warning. that many of the images we re about to show you are difficult to watch. reporter: you don t have to search for tragedy in gaza. it finds you on every street, strewn with trash and stagnant water, desolate and foreboding. so we ve just crossed the border into southern gaza. this is the first time we ve actually been able to get into gaza since october 7th, and we are now driving to a field hospital that has been set up by the uae. up until now israel and egypt have made access for international journalists next to impossible. and you can see why. since october 7th
helped dig up dirt on joe biden. and really, clair, this underfliens more specific detail because there s follow-on investigation of what we read in the phone call yesterday, this gives us much more detail. what s interesting is the white house distributed talking points, ham handedly because they sent them to the democrats too, and part of that talking point was that zelensky brought up giuliani first. right. well, let s look at this document in that context. and let s go back to april when the president called him first after the election as matt reference and started talking about how you ve got to work with giuliani. right. then giuliani announced he was going to the ukraine. now, wait a minute. what is giuliani doing going to ukraine? and he says that the state department sent him. so talk about ensnaring a web of so pompeo now has some explaining do. exact. i and obviously they knew they brought up giuliani because
infamous ukraine call that he talked to the ukrainian president just now, quote, he is prepared to receive the president s call. we ll assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and turn over every stone. and then you have mick mulvaney responding in these newly leaked emails. i asked the national security council to set up the call for tomorrow. now this is important, because consider how the house republican lawyer picked at certain details in his questioning, offering a kind of defense by emphasizing things like the ukraine president brought up giuliani first. didn t bring up donald trump bringing up giuliani, that somehow maybe this was just something that was kind of unfolding in front of the president, that trump wasn t pushing a planned bribery conspiracy to get something from ukraine, but things just popped up. now lawyers make those kind of defenses all the time, and they can work if they re true. so why am i telling you this right now? because these n
that s according to a person on the call. and who also urged that taylor was urged to stop texting about his concerns. two aides tell nbc news that sondland, taylor and former u.s. envoy to the ukraine kurt volker also used encrypted whatsapp. the use of whatsapp has raised constitutional issues with federal record keeping requirements. and directing rick perry and two state department officials to speak with his private attorney rudy giuliani when the president sought to meet trump, according to two sources familiar with the conversation. one of those sources said trump believed ukraine was still corrupt and said if president zelensky wanted to meet with him, he would have to push giuliani first. and what kurt volker disclosed