Staff member. Speaker kevin mccarthy. And the time to george santos. And pleaded not guilty, and the indictment says he asked for more than a dozen contributors to fund santoss campaign. He also got a 15 commission from it. Prosecutors allege hero a letter to santos back in 2022 saying quote, thinking my identity to big donor. You also wrote, highrisk reward. In everything i do. Something he said that in turn out to be true. Thank you so much for joining us tonight, cnn prime time with wolf blitzer starts right now. Excellent show, caitlin, thank you very much. To our viewers, good evening. Im wolf blitzer here in washington. We want to welcome you to cnn prime time. Theres Breaking News were following right now. A texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voice mail to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former president donald trump. Over his attempts to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The suspect, allegedly called the chambers a fede
More charges could be on the way, but for now, three white men have been charged with assault in the third degree for allegedly attacking a black boat cocaptain in a fight that quickly morphed into an Ugly Riverside Brawl in alabama this weekend. Videos of the incident went viral. And it showed fighting broke down largely along racial lines. But last hour, police in montgomery said, none of the actions they have investigated so far have met the threshold for hate crime charges. Heres cnns ryan young who was at the Press Conference where we just learned a whole lot. And, ryan, i know that you have been speaking to officials there. Youve been speaking to witnesses. What are they telling you . Reporter yeah, absolutely. After talking to mayor reed, its pretty clear here everyone in the city was shocked. This is obviously a place a lot of people like to enjoy on the weekends. The video has obviously shocked the nation as its gone viral. We do believe the suspects theyre looking for are in
[bombs exploding]. To the war in the middle eas as expended. Israel is no longer just fighting a Battle In The South against hamas, a second front i opening in the north. Hezbollah in lebanon is intensifying their campaign. E their goal Scimmers Thomas this made israel with rockets and mortars. [rapid gunfire] [bombs] [people shouting]. Israel just any casualties already this weekend from the iranian backed hezbollah forces. Israeli Military Bases are unde assault. Hezbollah snipers also neutralizing israeli Surveillance Cameras on the border in creating blind spots. Appearing to gear up for a full on invasion. And israel is responding, evacuating towns and villages near the border. And proactively striking hezbollahs installations. [explosions. Israels promised to destroy hezbollah if they formally ente the war. Service for israel israel. If hezbollah fully engages israels northern flanks, they would be forced to divert resources from the south, reaching their ground action in gaza, a
saying not without the hostages being returned. sandra: and the hezbollah leader is threatening further escalation against israel and the united states, warning that our warships stationed off the coast of israel will do nothing to deter the iran-backed proxy. john: joint exercises in the mediterranean sea with more than 11,000 u.s. troops participating. sandra: complete coverage for you now, and idf spokesperson is moments away with the latest from the battlefield. john: alex hogan live in tel aviv. what s the reaction been there to blinken s comments about the pause today? john, sandra, there was a lot of concern for residents here worried about the potential for a ceasefire but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu shut down that possibility. we also heard from u.s. secretary of state antony blinken saying the u.s. goals for this conflict, really four of them. the first would be to prevent the conflict from spilling out into other countries, that s something
have a major counteroffensive going, coming toward kupiansk in kharkiv. this is really of concern. we re not seeing that much. occasionally, the ukrainians say, we re holding some troops back. the russian plan, obviously, was to thin out their defenses in the south, absorb the ukrainian push with their minefields and fortifications. and build up forces in the northeast. and try to breakthrough toward kharkiv and then kyiv. because kyiv is ukraine. ukrainians know this. they are on guard against, it they re working it really hard. so, i think we ve got to understand what the dynamics of this battlefield are. this is a tough fight. it s an infantry fight in the south to clear those minefields. they ve got to do, that they ve got to hold in the north. by the way, wolf, we can t be saying, oh, this has to be finished by the middle of october, because if it rains, that s the end of the offensive. not true at all.