hunter biden on capitol hill, pushing back on house republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of congress and calling him out from the committee room. coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls. five days from the iowa caucuses, with front-runner donald trump going from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again to potentially speak at his civil fraud trial tomorrow during closing arguments. all as ron desantis and nikki haley go head to head in a gop debate tonight. and our andrea mitchell joining us from tel aviv this hour, with more of her exclusive interview with secretary of state antony blinken. with 90% of gaza s population struggling for food and growing concerns of a broadening conflict. it is 11:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you so much for being here. jose diaz-balart will be up next hour. we begin with breaking news
on the drone strike claim. in his first interview since the war began, the palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas, who is based in the west bank, described the conflict as a grave crime against his people. translation: what is happening in the palestinian translation: what is happening in the palestinian territories translation: what is happening in the palestinian territories is - translation: what is happening in the palestinian territories is far beyond a disaster and far more than a genocide. the palestinians have never seen anything like this. even during the catastrophe of 1948, what is happening today is far worse. a huge crime is being committed against palestinians over the past 79 days, notjust in gaza, but also in the west bank and jerusalem. unfortunately, whenever the international community, the un, security council and the general assembly tried to stop the war, the us disrupts these attempts by using its veto and refusing to bring fighting to a h
alive and stop the fighting. they need to look at other options. they re putting pressure on the israeli government the military pressure will continue. but we see they don t have any results. the head of the israeli army, herzi halevi, said the war could take many more months. there are no magic solutions, he said. there are no short cuts in dismantling a terrorist organisation, only determined and persistent fighting. in gaza itself, hospitals are overrun with the injured and the dead. the world health organization says almost all the hospitals in the gaza strip have now stopped functioning. there s blood everywhere in these hospitals at the moment. we re seeing almost only trauma cases come through the door and at a scale that s quite difficult to believe. it s a bloodbath, as we said before, it s carnage. in his first tv interview since the war began in october, the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas, described the situation as a catastrophe and warned the west bank
from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the 6th of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful tremor hours later increased the death toll even further. i was one of the firstjournalists to reach the epicentre, travelling through the devastation towards the city of kahramanmaras and broadcasting from my phone. this was one of my first live reports. what we re talking about here in maras, right at the epicentre of the quake, is notjust single individual collapsed buildings, we re talking about whole city blocks. when i arrived here, we drove down a street and the whole of one side nine, ten, 11 buildings had just completely collapsed. the red cross esti
we ll see. thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. a huge damage award in the rudy giuliani election worker defamation case. we ll tell you how much the plaintiffs are supposed to receive. the top democrat in the senate says congress is getting stonewalled over ufos. we ll bring you that story. and we look at whether hydroelectric dams are having a dangerous effect on the salmon population. but first breaking tonight, president biden s national security chief says the u.s. and israel are discussing a timetable for scaling back intense combat operations in the war with hamas. jake sullivan speaking again today with israeli leaders and with the palestinian president. these meetings come as we learn of a huge tragedy in northern gaza. our correspondent starts us off tonight live from jerusalem. good evening, nate. bret, israel continues facing pockets of the resistance? the northern gaza strip. israeli soldiers encountered three hostages, but they believed they were hamas t