it all comes 24 hours after militants fired off 18 drones and three missiles towards ships in the red sea, their largest attack yet. american and british forces shooting them down. tonight, at this hour, the military action from the u.s. and the uk now. the white house tonight saying the u.s. will, quote, counter and defeat these mounting attacks from the iranian-backed houthi rebels. mary bruce standing by live with what she s learning right now. in new york city, donald trump lashing out during closing arguments in the $370 million civil fraud trial against him. trump blasting the judge in court. the judge telling the defense, control your client. what comes next now for trump? aaron katersky outside the courthouse. in the northeast, rivers dangerously high, with this new storm now set to sweep across the country and right into the northeast. the tornado threat right now in the south. how much snow will chicago get? and the east set to get hit again as it barrels right
this comes 24 hours after militants fired off 18 drones and three missiles toward ships in the red sea, their largest attack yet. american and british forces shooting them down. at this hour, the new signals tonight that significant military action could be coming. the white house tonight saying the u.s. will, quote, counter and defeat these mounting attacks from the iranian-backed houthi rebels. mary bruce standing by live with what she s learning right now. in new york city, donald trump lashing out during closing arguments in the 37 $0 million civil fraud trial against him. trump blasting the judge in court. the judge telling the defense, control your client. what comes next now? aaron katersky outside the courthouse. in the northeast, rivers dangerously high, with this new storm now set to sweep across the country, and right into the northeast. the tornado threat right now in the south. how much snow will chicago get? and the east set to get hit again as it barrels ri
i m dana perino. bill: i hope you had a good weekend. quite relaxing. bill hemmer, good morning. the biden campaign getting off to a slow public roll-out and republicans are busy courting support coast to coast focusing on important primary states. desantis telling voters why he wants to send biden back to the basement in delaware. you have to recognize our country is in decline right now. i don t think decline is inevitable and i m running for president to reverse that decline and to put us on a path to american renewal. we can do it and we ll get it done. i know it can be done because we did it in florida. dana: bret baier joining us in a moment. first rich edson live in washington. you have an update. good morning, rich. good morning. republicans are courting primary voters across the country. governor desantis campaigned in oklahoma where he picked up the governor s endorsement. his first from a sitting governor. we have an opportunity to get a big coalition tog
keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. the new york times reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6 unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks this email before the insurrection. the times says this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. much more on this in just a moment. but first cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will say at today s hearing which focuses on th
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News. The Israel Defense forces announced this evening it is expanding its Ground Operations against hamas in gaza. This was the scene just moments ago. It has been nearly constant rocket fire and explosions. Gaza residents tell cnn that these are the most intense air strikes that they have experienced since the war began 20 days ago. And there are reports of widespread power and cellular and internet outages across the gaza strip. It is unclear what these ramped up attacks will mean for Hostage Negotiations. Today israel said it believes hamas is Still Holding 229 innocent people that they kidnapped october 7th. In the United States, the white house says it is in, quote, active conversations with israel about a humanitarian pause to work on the release of the hostages. Diplomatic sources told cnn earlier today that significant progress had been made. U. S. Officials are insistsing those talks are going to continue, although t