This is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and im standing on a rooftop looking out over tel aviv. It is just over just after 11 00 p. M. Here. It is been 17 days since the horrific Terrorist Attacks by hamas caught this country and frankly most of the world by surprise. Setting off a cascade of responses and consequences. That now includes a humanitarian crisis in gaza. Tonight were hearing for the first time from one of the hostages kidnapped an just released by hamas about what she endured. Hamas held 85yearold Yocheved Lipshitz capured and she spoke in hebrew at a hospital here in tel aviv today she describes how hamas beat her as they forced her into gaza. Translator it was a painful act. They brought us into a hatch of a tunnel. On the way, i was lying on the side on the motorbike. Legs to one side. Body to the other. They were hitting me so it didnt break my ribs but it was making it difficult for me to breathe. Smaller groups and kept under close watch, her
Recklessness. Saturday morning tweets beginning just after 6 30 a. M. The president accused barack obama of tapping his phones at trump tower. He said this is a new low. It is nixon watergate. He called obama a bad or ck guy. The source of his wiretapping claim appears to be a concerted radio hes. Host. We have a Prior Administration barack obama and his Sur Grats Who were supporting Hillary Clinton and their party using the Instrew Mentalities of the federal government shlgs intelligence activities to surveil members of the trump campaign. Thats a voice to be believed. A Spokesman Says neither President Obama or any white
house official ever ordered surveillance on any u. S. Official. If the fbi, for instance, had a court order would that be information you would know or not know . Yes. You would be told this . Yes. If there was a court order on Something Like this . Yes you cant confirm or deny whether it exists . There is no fisa court order . Not to my knowledge. Of anything at tru
i have no way of knowing that, just like you don t. you have to have something behind an assertion. but chris, all of this started with the democrats saying they had information about the trump and the russians. the only thing they have done is exposed hillary clinton was in okay. let me go on. we do know the russians said. there are a lot of context. i have been open on this every night. have they fill until this puzzle yet? no. there is a lot of frame work to it. a lot of evidence the russians on hillary losing and they lucked out and got trump elected. in terms of hacking the dnc, all of this evidence suggests a grand effort by russians to crew our election process up and hurt hillary clinton.
night. have they fill until this puzzle yet? no. there is a lot of frame work to it. a lot of evidence the russians on hillary losing and they lucked out and got trump elected. in terms of hacking the dnc, all of this evidence suggests a grand effort by russians to crew our election process up and hurt hillary clinton. there is a lot of hard evidence that were never admitted to in the first instance. people finally got caught. we didn t know jerrad was meeting with him at trump tower. michael flynn denied it. it has been kept secret and we exposed it in the media. i don t have the final answer but this other one has nothing to it. you know, john, it has nothing to it. why is the president saying
man from being president of the united states. an effort that s, i guess, a conspiracy, and that conspiracy would consist of which parties? well, i think pretty much it s the establishment we re talking about. the thing of it is who s the establishment? am i the establishment? congresswom congresswoman, congresswoman. he doesn t just appeal to he appeals to every american. that s who donald trump is. if he appealed to every american, he would be doing better in the polls, first of all, but i want to go back to the conspiracy theory that there s some sort of grand effort to keep donald trump out of the white house. well, look at what we re talking about. i m trying to steer this conversation to talking about the issues. let s talk about health care. let s talk about the fact that obamacare was hillarycare when her husband was in the presidency and it failed dramatically then. then president obama took it over. and now we have a democratic