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sensitive site expiration is done. to be thanks very much, we appreciate it. kristen o leary is the former director of hostage recovery for the united states. he s a senior vice president of global affairs for the group. coming up, donald trump continues to take a page out of the authoritarian playbook as his legal troubles grow. i ll speak with the woman who wrote the book on authoritarian leaders. ruth joins me. then, with israel and hezbollah trading fire over lebanon s threatens to spill over into the region. we ll go to lebanon for the latest on the ground. plus, lbj and by the former vice prime minister of israel, another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you, it is sunday the 22nd. with wars regime between ukraine and russia, israel and hamas, and threatening to spill into other continents, global leadership is critical. we re facing our own crisis of democracy in her own home, one that is easy to overlook when the news of the world s war. lega ....
hello. thanks for joining us. i m dana bash in washington. and i m sara sidner in tel aviv with cnn s breaking news coverage of israel at war. israel says it is gearing up for the next stage of its response to the unprecedented terror attack by hamas eight days ago. israeli officials say they see a strong flow of people leaving northern gaza, this just a couple of days after it gave a stark warning to civilians living there to get out before it s too late, and we just learned that israel is now working to set up a place to get aid to evacuees once they arrive in the south. already 700,000 people left their homes and we are in the process of establishing humanitarian zone, a big hoo up an tearian zone in the southern part of gaza and they will go there and are in the humanitarian zone and they will get all of the essential provisions like water, medicine, food and things like that. israeli defense forces say they are now preparing for a significant ground ope ....
terrorist assault on israel this weekend has climbed to at least 22, and that number may rise on top of that, tragic news. the white house announced today another 17 americans remain unaccounted for. and the white house expects the number of known american hostages taken by hamas to we know that a number of those americans are being held hostage right now by hamas. i think we all need to steel ourselves for the very distinct possibility that these numbers will keep increasing and that we may, in fact, find out that more americans are part of the hostage ctpool. hamas is believed to have taken around 150 hostages, and the group is threatening to execute those hostages one by one in retaliation for israeli air strikes that hit gazans in their homes. the scale and the brutality of this crisis is without modern precedent. today m as israeli troops clear the sites of hamas attacks near gaza, the scope of this weekend s violence became clear. soliers were seen recovering ....