president. telling cnn, quote, this testimony will lead to dime. her bombshell testimony including trump knowing some of his supporters were armed in the hours before the capitol attack. he wanted to join them there despite a warning from former white house counsel pat cipollone that trump and others could face criminal charges if they did. today one of the two republican lawmakers vice chair liz cheney is calling on cipollone to testify. as we heard yesterday, white house council pat cipollone had significant concerns about january 6th activity. it s time for mr. cipollone to testify on the record. any concerns he has about the institutional interests of his prior office are outweighed by the need for his testimony, she writes. meantime, both trump and the secret service are denying hutchinson s second-hand account that trump flew into a rage when he was told not to go to to capitol. she said she was told he lunged at the steering wheel of the limo and at the secret service
We are covering the israelhamas war. Were Tracking Developments late today as republicans are scrambling to agree on any replacement for ousted House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. We have a report on that and all its implications later in the newscast. Today u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken was in israel for meetings with prime Minster Netanyahu as troop amass at the border. Amidst blinkens trip, the Israeli Government today released new graphic Photo Evidence of the mass atrocities. Israel says the photos show how hamas murdered and burned babies, which blinken acknowledged while pledging u. S. Support. He a reiterated bidens views that the destruction is on par with isis. Soldiers beheaded, young people burned alive in their cars or in their rooms. In a litany of brutality and inhumanity that, yes, brings to mind the worst of isis. The first accounts of those acts came initially from israeli soldiers. They recounted what they had just seen after reclaiming areas under attack. Its no
All Different Levels of the administrations in both countries to make sure that israel knows the United States has their back and we will continue to make sure they have what they need to defend themselves. Thank you for your time this morning. My pleasure. Thank you. And cnn this morning continues right now. This is cnn Breaking News. The war between israel and hamas is escalating this morning. Right now israel is Pummeling Fwauz with counter airstrikes. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says this is just the beginning. Take a look at this. We are showing you new drone video of destruction inside of gaza city. We are told up to 150 hostages, including children and likely americans, are believed to be held right now in gaza after being kidnapped by hamas militants. Hamas is threat noing to kill them and televise it. Troops, tanks, Armored Vehicles are massing at the border. This is video a short time ago. The Israeli Military reported it found the bodies of around 1,500 hamas f
one guy grabbed a child, rushes behind a tree. one person jumps into that pond there as the debris, the hot shrapnel rains down. it is terrifying. it is nowhere near the front line, probably 100 miles away to the south. so by and large, life would be going on as normal. people would be taking a stroll in the park. there is not war at the door steps. everywhere there is a constant missile strike. which is perhaps why everyone not heeded the warning to stake i take shelter when the sirens went off. the russians say they were aiming at a military target arc cache of foreign weapons. ukrainians say there were no military targets in sight and they were aiming at incident civilians. you mentioned the cleanup efforts. there is a shell of a building. they found 18 bodies and 11 body
without resorting to nukes or chemical weapons, but in your mind in your assessment, is he still a rational actor? or is everything really truly still on the table? oh i don t see any reason right now to suggest he is not a rational actor. we are horrified at the way the russians are fighting this war. their brutality. their callousness. they re shooting of incident civilians. but they ve been doing it for years. they ve done this in chechnya, in aleppo. this is the russian way of war and in vladimir putin of mind and the new general dvornikov s mind, this is the way they re going to fight this. thank you so much. a quick programming note. the unbelievable true story of the man who took on putin and lived to expose the truth. the sundance award-winning cnn film navalny airs next sunday right here on cnn. coming up, cnn goes inside