[inaudible conversations] thank you to secretary pompeo. Ive a Pretty Amazing bus, right . That was a great speech. [applause] so as we just from secretary pompeo, the United States believes strongly in supporting the rights of the people of iran and in ample find their voices as they call for the freedom they so deeply deserve. To that end i am now glad to be joined onstage by my friends and u. S. Officials who are working to ensure we are able to continue a hope to hold the arena regime accountable for its humor its abuses as we Work Together to empower the iranian people. First well begin with assistant secretary to my left. We also have doctor bill ambassador brownback who we discussed earlier. And all three of them will be sharing some of their experiences working on this issue that relates to iranian human rights, what they learned this morning and now theyre putting these lessons into practice. We will after the session in q a will take questions on the audience as well. Lets fi
Report. Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon, jessica. Thanks for having me sitting in the chair, come back tomorrow. You do the same but dont go anywhere because the leader, jake tapper starts right now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper and we were falling Breaking News out of new york. Of course, were day and Donald Trumps hush money trial. The defense rested right now in court, theres a meeting to determine what the judge will tell the jury next week before the jury begins debilitating the deliberating. What will no doubt be a monumental verdict one way or the other in the very first ever criminal trial of a former President Trump himself is at this court meeting. And well bring it you all the updates coming up, but leading this, our israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joins us live from jerusalem a day after the historic decision by the International Criminal court in the hague to seek Arrest Warrants, not only for the three top leaders of th
Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum live in washington today for our special coverage tonight of president Bidens Oval Office address on americas role in two wars. Now in israel and also in ukraine. Were going live to the pentagon. A very important briefing about to get underway. Well take you there live as soon as that gets started. In israel, john roberts stays with us this hour in jerusalem. Mike tobin in southern israel and israeli Prime Minister netanyahus spokesman joins us live. First, the pentagon about to update on the situation as americans have four warships now in the region. Our u. S. Forces are in the region as well or headed to the region. A huge u. S. Commitment is underway and we expect that were going hear more about that from the pentagon in just moments. A u. S. Cargo plane delivered armored vehicles. Heres video of that as they rolled off of this c17 in israel. The Israeli Defense minister gives his troops the green light for entering gaza.
Its a privilege to work with this extraordinary team. I thank them for their constant work and love of craft. I thank you for the privilege of your time. That wraps up the hour. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, Robert Menendez and his wife appeared for their arraign money and pleaded not guilty in manhattan on federal Bribery Charges. The senators grip on his seat slips with a growing majority of his democratic colleagues calling for his resignation. Its debate night at the Reagan Library. Seven republican primary candidates try to break away from the pack. The heavy favorite, former president trump, skipping the debate but heading to an event for striking auto workers in michigan. The house and senate remain far apart on a way to avert a Government Shutdown three days from now. Breaking news overseas. Travis king, the american soldier who crossed into north korea in july, is back in u. S. Custody. Officials say happy to be back.
This entrepreneur in india said that new help for start ups could be just his cup of tea. Well, tie want will get its first female president. The economy in taiwans relations with china has been the main election issues. We have reports from taipei. History was made on saturday night. The first woman president was elected by a landslide. Tsia ingwen was elected, and on this night, the woman who likens herself to angela merkel, stands as president. We have told the International Community that democracy is part of the lives of th taiwanese people. Sorry, everyone, i, eric chu, let you down. We have been defeated. The kmt lost the election. We didnt do well and failed our supporters expectations. Some nationalist Party Supporters are not sure of what comes next. This is a big impact for our country. I feel taiwan is stepping into an unknown situation. We dont know what will happen in the future. You canning in a new championship for for taiwan, it is now the ruling party, representing a