For the next debate. State of the union live tomorrow morning at nih you re in the cnn newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and this how are we are still following breaking news out of gaza, israeli forces saying they quote, located a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us live from jerusalem. Nic, we re still learning more details and expect more details. What do you know right now yeah, that statement by the idf is unusual. They would not normally talk about finding bodies and being in the process of a combat operation. They wouldn t comment on those details. Normal normally, i think the expectation here is for the people of israel when they hear this and for the families of the hostages, and we should be very clear here, the idf is only talking about discovering bodies, but obviously for the families of the hostages, when the idf says something like that, they re going to listen to this still stands to be p
plus with friends like these, a month until the iowa caucus and on the trail, donald trump is quoting dictators such as vladimir putin. it shows the rottenness of the american political system. in a month will he be his party s de facto nominee? chris christie is coming up. and israel reels after troops kill three of its own hostages waiving a white flag. will that change the way israel is waging war in gaza and affect crucial help from the united states? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is frankly stunned. watchs the leading republican candidate donald trump quote one of our nation s foremost adversaries, vladimir putin, as a sort of character witness while on the stump in new hampshire last night. vladimir putin, of russia, said that biden, and this is a quote, politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for russia because it shows the rottenness of the american political system which can not pretend to
trying to offer their thoughts and prayers. but not once mentioning the word guns. we heard rehab centers, we talked about mental health. everything in the statement except dressing the guns. one of the women that we heard from yesterday, a local resident of texas, she just wants to move out. she does not feel safe anymore in her community. can you blame anyone for saying that? exactly. i think more and more people are sharing those thoughts exactly. mehdi, thank you so much my friend, always great to see you, enjoy the rest of your evening off. , always great t coming up a . tonight, holding up them countable, the environment that we are seeing in texas and their refusal to change it. plus, damning video from the donald trump s deposition in the e. jean carroll case an all in the family, occurrence thomas s ethics scandals are growing by the minute and now involve his wife jeanne. surprise. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. we start tonight with that breaking
with their radical ideology, are successful and build a nuclear bomb, the united states , israel,, the entire middle east, all of our allies, we are all in deep trouble.ep we ll have a lot more on this straight ahead tonight. but we als n with this fox news alert, the housee house sen china, they are now select committee on china. they are now in session tonight. needless to say, their wory thee never been more important with democrats in charge. there were ne,o hearingshere whatsoever, no investigations, nony scrutiny into china s n malicious behavior. now, this committee didn t evenn exist, but thankfully, elections matter. and now for the first time in in many years, the malignant communist party of china is under a microscope and hopefully there will be consequences. take a look. we ma we may call this a strategic competition, but it s not a polite tennis match. this is an existential what struggle over what lifeli will look like in the 21stst fua century. and the mo
unprecedented. i believe it s also unconstitutional well, this is all unprecedented. meanwhile, fresh off his arraignment in new york, the former president is doing th one thing we have seen him d consistently, attack, attack attack today he called on republica lawmakers to defund the doj an fbi, until they, quote, come t their senses trump s legal team is no staying silent either. here is his defense attorney earlier today. after seeing that indictment, and knowing what the law i regarding federal election campaigns, i don t think we re getting close to a - on this case it s going to fall on it merits, on legal challenge well before we get to jury trump s allies in the house are also keeping the pressur on manhattan da alvin bragg. after we ve seen all that yesterday, i think people thin it s even more politically tha we thought this case never should hav been brought, and what shoul happen, now it get dismissed we re not going to stop o this nothing changed. we