he s there at a pivotal moment. today, a senior commander with the islamist hezbollah movement was reportedly killed in an apparent israeli drone strike in southern lebanon. and israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu was on the northern border today, where he signalled that he is prepared, if necessary, to escalate military operations in lebanon, with 80,000 israeli s now displaced from their homes. with 80,000 israelis now displaced from their homes. to the south, the death toll in gaza stands at 23,000, according to the hamas run health ministry. and so intense is the fighting that several aid agencies have now begun withdrawing medics from the only functioning hospital in central gaza. on his visit to qatar, secretary blinken said washington has an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading and a warning to some members of the israeli government. well, first in with regard to the lebanon. it s clearly not in the interest of anyone israel, lebanon, hez
states and all around the world. i m paula newton, and ahead here on cnn newsroom. ron desantis s big announcement. yes, the glitchy beginning to a campaign that has donald trump in team biden trolling. but is there a pathway to the presidency for florida s governor? the u.s. territory of guam, clobbered by a cat four typhoon. live on the island where power is out, water has been cut and there is still assessing the damage. plus the queen of rock and roll tina turner dead at the age of 83. we will discuss the impact that she had on music, pop culture and curl power. with one of the industry s top writers. we begin with the 2024 race for the white house and it has a new candidate, florida governor ron desantis, the 44-year-old republican posted this announcement on twitter just a few minutes before a live chat with the platforms owner elon musk. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. in common sense can no longer be an u
hi everyone. happy friday. it has been building all week long, you can feel it, the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today the new york times is naming names. new york times today reveals the workers who removed boxes caring white house documents ahead of a meeting between don trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet and that they, quote, moved the boxes into the room before a search of a storage room that same day when evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump, who was in discussions with mr. brat of the fbi. he set up a meeting the next. day prosecutors have been trying to determine whether trump had documents moved around mar-a-lago or sought to conceal some of them after the subpoena. part of their interest is in trying to determine whether documents removed before corker
new information about how trump will respond today. a typhoon packing wind gusts over 100 miles per hour and it is battering the island, a look at the devastation and the danger as the worst of it hits at this hour. a brain decoder or mind reader? a scientific breakthrough that is remarkable. scientists in texas on the brink of training artificial intelligence to read your mind. this is cnn news central. ron desantis is running for president. not a news flash, exactly. everything he s been doing the last weeks and months have helped position for that. his announcement with elon musk on twitter tonight will be a culmination of that. what is new is information about what the florida governor will say and how he intends to run against donald trump. also new, how his opponents are positioning themselves. this is a video commercial. out just moments ago from former south carolina governor nikki haley. in it, she paints desantis as an echo of trump. whatever i want he
we will see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good, evening lawrence. good evening, alex. imagine you have a ticket they don t actually have tickets. but imagine you have that to get to that brooklyn courtroom courtroom today, where draymond dearly held his first special master session in the case of donald j trump versus united states of america. what would you do with your one seat for that courtroom? i d scalp. it no, i wouldn t. i would eagerly use it, because what an extraordinary hearing, elsewhere return to normalcy, to hear adjudged say, no, no. this case, you guys have not been arguing very well. that s a subtext, right? it can be classified campy declassified if you are not obviously classified. i just got so many aspects of what transparent in that courtroom where they ve analysis and discussion, because there was a lot packed in there, and we re getting great indication of where the special master may be headin