Im happy to send you an email with the accomplishments. We have been working hard trying to get the middle east to be a more stable, prosperous region. Obviously these attacks on october 7th were horrific, and the israelis have a right and responsibility to respond to those attacks. I think everybody understands that. And so we also understand that the focus of countries in the region, particularly israel, is going to be on that. Its our focus, too. But that doesnt mean we are going to give up. It doesnt mean we are going to walk away from it. We still believe in the promise of a twostate solution and still going to work for that. As a matter of fact, key to eventually getting a twostate solution and we are going t focus on that as well. The twonation, i feel like enough to win the war knowing what the president was aiming to to bring normalization through two states, and that has been put down i just told you, sir. No change in our desire to see a twostate solution. No change to get n
Health ministry, 436 people were killed in the strikes overnight including nearly 200 children. Anderson. This all comes as were learning the u. S. Is pushing israel to delay its Ground Invasion of gaza in hopes of getting hostages out and letting humanitarian aid into the south. Although a israeli official has denied this. Carrying supplies into gaza, Relief Groups are warning much more is needed as the crisis deepens for many palestinians running out of food and water. Cnns chief International Correspondent Alex Marquardt is live in washington. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is in ashkelon, israel, lolgalong the border. Jeremy, what are you hearing, seeing, about possible incursion on the ground in gaza . Reporter well, anderson, it really is about the combination between what were seeing on the ground what were hearing from officials and also, frankly, hearing this evening, as we listen to the gaza strip behind us, we have been hearing the steady thud of israeli artillery and air strikes all t
Reiterate a list of accomplishments. Im happy to send you an email with them. We have been working hard to get the middle east to be a more stable prosperous region. Thats not going to change. These attacks on october 7th were horrific. The israelis have a right and responsibility to respond to those attacks. I think everybody understands that, and so we also understand that the focus of countries in the region, particularly israel, is going to be on that. Its our focus, too. But that doesnt mean were going to give up. This doesnt mean were just going to walk away from it. We still believe in the promise of a twostate solution, and were still going to continue to work for that. We still believe, as a matter of fact, key to getting a twostate solution is normalization between israel and saudi arabia, and were still going to work on as well. Why is the president not focusing in the last couple of weeks on his agent that was basically for feuding. I feel like this war, what the president
not the highest level of sophistication but it is sophisticated enough to create some havoc and these bombs have all gone off as intended. now there s a randomness that is very disturbing. do you see this particular suspect or suspects if there s more than one, if you think there is one bomber or several, do you see him getting bolder? i think so. this person enjoys the limelight. it is obvious because this person keeps coming back, person or persons keeps coming back, has spread his bombs out across several neighborhoods. initially thought there may be a racial hate crime motive to this, that notion was dispelled when the latest bomb went off in a predominantly white
do. i mentioned roof s comment about attacks on, quote, white people. does that help establish a hate crime motive? it could. but really there is so many aggravating circumstances in this case, the fact that he killed nine people, again, i don t think there is going to be any doubt that his motives were just pure racism. the question is, will the jury find any reason to be mitigating, a number of the victims families have come out against the death penalty based on their moral principles. they think he should be under the jail, but he should not be put to death. roof is still planning to represent himself in the sentencing phase. if it comes to that, what do you make of that? you know, they say that the man who represents himself has a fool for a lawyer and that goes double or three times in the case of this defendant. his only hope is that the jury will exercise some mercy and not sentence him to death. if this man gets up in front of the jury with all they know about him, i