newsnight with abby phillip starts right now. israel is testing the limits of what the united states will tolerate. that s tonight on newsnight. good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. and today a not so gentle nudge from the leader of the free world to the only democracy in the middle east. watch where your bombs drop. i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives, not stop going after hamas, but be more careful. today s warning from the president to his israeli counterpart makes what he told the world less than two months ago seem, frankly, a world away. i come to israel with a single message. you re not alone. you re not alone. as long as the united states stands, and we will stand forever, we ll not let you ever be alone. right now the two nations are no longer in lockstep. biden administration officials have advised israel that their campaign of overwhelming force needs to end and end soon, within weeks. it s not quite an ultimatum. sources
they ve named him ricardo, and we wish him all the best. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. collins starts now. see you tomorrow. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight, straight from the source, it s the $48 million question that s about to be answered for rudy giuliani, as a jury now deliberates the cost of his election lies. plus cnn getting rare access inside of gaza tonight, as clarissa ward will take us to the front lines of the humanitarian catastrophe. the horrors that she saw on the ground. also, vladimir putin taking questions in his first extended news conference since invading ukraine and evidently trying to put any rumors about his body double to bed using a deep fake to do so. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. a verdict is expected very soon in the defamation trial against rudy giuliani, and his own lawyer says that it could be, quote, the civil equivalent of the death penalty. the jury, made up of eight people of his p