game? let s bring in michael pillsbury, senior fellow at hudson institute and author of book the 100-year their mono. marathon. michael, thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. thanks. gerry: a lot of sound and tour fury around speaker pelosi s itinerary. did this visit achieve anything? well, it achieved a lot, but a lot depends on what nancy pelosi does when she gets home to washington. she refused to join a series of republican initiatives including a task force to deal with china. she s kind of cold shoulderedded any cooperation across a broad range of issues. so if she changes that approach when she gets back, then trip will have had a huge impact probably on her. as you know, she was quite the china hawk back in the 90s, demonstrating in beijing on behalf of tiananmen students who were killed, doing a whole series of things to hurt china badly. she then shifted over to a more moderate view, and if she shifts back now to how she was in the 1990s, that will b
Ability to fund itself beyond the middle of november. So the president has a real sales pitch to make to the American People, to leadership on capitol hill, north of 100 billion in the coming days. Kaitlan, President Bidens popularity here in israel has soared since this attack began, both for the speech he gave and also for the speech he gave here and the visit here, first time a president visiting during wartime. What are you expecting tonight . Its kind of remarkable how tied he is to everything that is happening here. Well see what that looks like once israel go into gaza, as we expect them to do. Obviously as kayla was noting, this is going to be a bigger speech on multiple fronts, ukraine, taiwan, democracy period, and how the u. S. Helping these countries fight these fights keeps u. S. Troops out of it, keeps the u. S. Out of it to a degree. But he is so closely tied to this. He came here yesterday and sat in on a Cabinet Meeting. Not just any Cabinet Meeting be, ah wartime Cabi
The east coast. We begin with a Rare National address from the oval office by the u. S. President , who urged all americans to stand for both israel and ukraine, arguing that military and economic assistance to both countries is vital to global stability in u. S. National security. During his 15minute long speech, President Biden said while ukraine and israel faced a different enemy, the threat is the same. Annihilation by tyrants and terrorists. Hamas and putin represent different threats, but they share this in common. They both want to completely annihilate democracy, completely annihilated. By now plans to ask congress for 18 Billion Dollars in Emergency Assistance for israel, such A Billion Dollars for ukraine. This just today earlier biden was in tel aviv under dramatic show of support for israel which also saw a deal to allow humanitarian assistance into gaza. Our reporters live with this hour from london. The agreement to let the humanitarian assistance into gaza, is against th
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. In a few hours President Biden will address the nation in only his secondever Oval Office Address. The goal, convince the American People that it will be important to spend 100 billion of their tax dollars, majority of which would help israel and ukraine. Bottom line, sources tell cnn, that President Biden will not only try to make an argument about the immorality what Russias Vladimir Putin and the Terrorist Group Hamas have done but that the costs of u. S. Inaction of not supporting israel and ukraine would be harmful to u. S. National security. President biden arrived back in the u. S. Early this morning after roughly seven hours on the ground in tel aviv. President biden says he pressed israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu there on israels plans for the next phase of the war and worked to secure propositions from the israelis for humanitarian aid for the innocents in gaza. President biden will also speak about trying to bolster the Ukraine
it comes after warehouses containing flour and other basic supplies were ransacked by thousands of people. the international red cross is warning that no adequate humanitarian response is now possible in gaza, which it describes as a catastrophic failing . israel had said egypt and the us would be expanding humanitarian aid into gaza today. but egypt has blamed delays on israel s inspection regime. it comes as the israel defense forces continue their ground offensive in gaza, entering what they say is the second stage of the war. the idf say they ve targeted a50 military targets belonging to hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by many western governments, after moo israelis were killed in hamas raids on southern israel, on october 7th and more than 220 taken hostage. phone and internet communications are gradually returning to gaza, after being cut off by israel as it began its ground operation. there s a warning from iran of the conflict widening: its president, ebra