for you. hello everyone. thanks again for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with more massive protests on the streets of israel. the demonstrators are demanding that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu abandoned controversial judicial overhaul and legislation. it s the 14th straight week that israelis have protested over the proposed changes. and this time it comes against the backdrop of days of violence between israel and palestinian militants in gaza and southern lebanon. cnn s fred pleitgen is intel aviv. so you still have a whole lot of people who are turning out for the same cause. 14 weeks in a row. is there anything different about the tenor or the motivation here? hi there, fredricka. well, first of all, you re right. there are a lot of people who came out on the streets at night tonight to protest against that planned judiciary reform or overhaul bill. but of course, this current security situation does play a role in this as well an
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amanpour in london. thank you for watching and i ll see you again next week hello everyone thank you so much for joining me this saturday on a greek a whitfield. and with just five days until the historic presidential debate between president joe biden and former president donald trump, both candidates are spending today preparing in their own unique ways for the upcoming showed him that will air right here on cnn this morning. biden is at camp david, where he and his team are spending the weekend poring over we re briefing binders and holding mock debates sessions as he prepares for this high-stakes moment. meantime, trump is shunning traditional debate prep and spending his saturday on the campaign trail in an our trump will speak to a gathering of christian conservatives in washington before traveling to philadelphia fia for rally tonight, we ve got team coverage. kevin lipped is covering president biden s debate preps. but let s begin with even mckinnon in washington at
the skis, cnn, breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m proud rica whitfield, and we re tracking two major breaking news stories this afternoon, next hour, president biden is set to attend a state dinner in france. i will bring that to you live as it happens, you the is there in paris with the first aid dr. jill biden, plus the french president and first lady. and dramatic new developments in the middle east for israeli hostages rescued from gaza the israeli military launching that daring rescue mission in broad daylight, the government media office in gaza says the operation left more than 200 people dead in central gaza with hundreds more injured. the mission ultimately freeing four hostages from the clutches of hamas, all of them were abducted from the nova music festival on october 7, all right, now, back in israel for the first time in eight months making emotional reunions with family members who never gave up hope. president
say that his aides are being pressured by special counsel smith, especially in this documents and boxes inquiry, but at this time no one has been charged. and it s unclear exactly where this fits in the investigation. katelyn polantz thanks so much with me now to talk about all this michael zeldin. he is a former federal prosecutor and a former special assistant to robert mueller at the department of justice. always great to see michael. hi fred. all right, so that the special counsel prosecutors would be asking witnesses for details about how trump paid for their lawyers. are we talking about, um in the beginning stages of an investigating of witness tampering, potentially. well, it could be, but we have to back up one second to say in investigations of corporations or other organizations. it is not unusual for the corporations to pay for the lawyers of individuals. you ll see it where the ceo or the cfo, but organization is being paid by