Professor gardner, i appreciate your time. Thank you very much. And thanks for joining u. S. The news continues right now on cnn happening now, Breaking News. And exclusive new sierra, an interview with President Joe Biden hes explaining the decision to pause some u. S Bombs Shipments to israel as new Israeli Military strikes around raffa are raising urgent concerns let many more civilians in gaza will be killed. Also tonight, the president and his calling out donald trump and a crucial swing state unveiling a new Economic Investment on the same site where a trumpbacked project failed. Plus Breaking News up On Capitol Hill right now, the House Of Representatives just voted to kill republican Marjorie Taylor greenes attempt to oust the speaker, mike johnson the gop leadership moving swiftly against her motion, this fight apparently being caught off guard welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, a urine. The Situation Room the skis, cnn Brea
You again next week hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Right. Now us is on high alert and actively preparing for a significant potential attack by iran on us and israeli targets in the middle east soon as next week, thats according to a Senior Biden Administration official, iran is blaming israel for an airstrike in syria this week that killed at least seven iran let me and officials, including two top military commanders, were also following an Important Development in the humanitarian aid crisis in gaza israel is preparing to reopen the Erez Crossing in northern gaza, at least temporarily to bring in aid that move follows a meeting between President Biden is israeli Prime Minister met navajo. This wig the backdrop to all of this tomorrow, mark six months since the hamas attack on israel sparked, which sparked the war in gaza. Priscilla alvarez is in washington for us and Nic Robertson in jerusalem. Priscilla, you first,
president is four criminal trials. look at the case tomorrow with it a job. they know jury has ever had before deciding whether or not to convict a former president united states and current candidate for the office again, of as many as 34 felonies today was the final chance for both sides to persuade them. we re talking about it tonight, joining the panel, retired new york city criminal judge george grosso, and jury consultant to alan. alan tuerkheimer. just grosso. it is great to have you with all your experience here what did you make up closing arguments night, i mean five hours two-and-a-half, three hours. is that it was a long day for the most part. i found it i was totally zoned in that one pretty pretty quick. i felt towards the last hour, so that mr. steinglass couldn t move to the long and i didn t know if we needed like six book excerpts more choice choice xors. i think less for the been a little more with some of that, but i think i think look, on the defense
you don t i m saying all right. i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for being with me today. cnn newsroom continues with omar jimenez, right now. welcome everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we begin tonight with breaking news. the israeli military says they are investigating what they re calling an incident in southern gaza that killed eight idf soldiers, making it one of the single deadliest incident involving israeli troops since the october 7 attacks. now, earlier, the militant wing of hamas says, it, quote, carried out a complex ambush against enemy vehicles meanwhile, rafah s civil defense says there has been new airstrikes and artillery shelling by israeli forces in the areas it s done. cnn s oren liebermann is in haifa for us now, or in the idf just released some preliminary findings from their investigation. what are they saying happened here? so this again is preliminary as you point at the investigation itself is ongoing
feel that they ve really heard moscow s black sea fleet and essentially finally rendered ineffective and the ukrainian say they will continue to develop those sea drones to hurt vladimir putin s naval forces even more, aaron. all right, fred, thank you. thanks for joining us. the situation room begins now happening now, breaking news donald trump returns to washington to rally republicans on capitol hill learning. new details from our sources inside the meeting, including the moment the former president shook hands with one of his toughest critics, turned supporter senate minority pretty leader mitch mcconnell, plus, we re following president biden at the g7 summit in italy, where he just signed a historic ten year security agreement with you grain. ukrainian ambassador to the united states joins me. this hour also tonight, fulton county district attorney, fani willis is lashing out at her critics what the woman leading the trump prosecution in georgia said about her detr