good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us on this monday. israel s military says another evacuation corridor in northern gaza is open for the next several hours. it is unclear if and how far that announcement is known, though, without any cell service or internet connectivity. and new this morning, further exchanges of fire reported across the israel/lebanon border. the israeli defense forces say two mortars launched from lebanon landed in open territory in northern israel on monday. and also overnight, the u.s. did carry out a new round of air strikes against iran-backed targets in eastern syria. defense secretary lloyd austin says those strikes targeted a safe house. officials believe that they re responsible for at least 60 rocket strikes against u.s. personnel in iraq and syria since october 17th. this comes as fighting intensifies in gaza. the medical system there, it s collapsed. some of the images you re about to see, i want to warn you, are disturbing. hospit
against them. and a secret service agent involved in protecting one of president biden s granddaughters opens fire in response to a car break-in. and the response. and senator tim scott drops out of the presidential race, and his staff didn t even know. who might be the next to go. i m john berman with kate bolduan and fredricka whitfield is in for sara sidner. this is cnn news central. happening right now, donald trump jr. has just gone into the courtroom in manhattan and soon he is going to be taking stand, again, to testify, and this time, it is going to be as the defense team s first witness. still at stake, the fate of the trump business empire as you remember the judge in this civil case has already found the family liable for fraud, and so what is donald trump jr. going to try to do to tip the trial in favor of he and his family, and these are the live pictures that you are looking at of donald trump jr. sitting and waiting for the proceedings to get under way.
rumsfeld. the elder bush criticized for being too rigid in beliefs. bush 41 said specifically of cheney, he became very hard lined and very different from the dick cheney i knew and worked with. just iron, knuckling unto hard charging guy, used force to get our way in the middle east. dick cheney saw the term iron-asa as a mark of pride. bush 41 is getting up in years and misjudges bush 43. who i found made his own decisions. odd statement there. kasie hunt sat down with jeb bush on the campaign trail today, she asked him about the book. i think my dad, like a lot of people, love george i, want to create a different narrative, perhaps, just to because that s natural to do right?
new generation. it s very important yesterday as you listened to his speech he had coded messages that could have applied to hillary or jeb. i thought the most striking thing he said was when he said i want to live in a country where the son of a bartender and maid can have the same dreams and hopes as somebody who comes from power and privilege. that when i heard that at least i heard jeb bush. he s very much making it a forward looking argument. he s doing that in a way that really nobody else on the republican field can. kasie hunt sat down from marco rubio before he flew out today. here s part of that. do you think jeb bush represents the older generation you reference this your speech yesterday? ultimately candidates are judged on ideas not biological aid. but you re running on your biography. i want people to know how i