But it is just, you know, just an awful none of us have ever been in a position of reporting some of the things were seeing right now. And it is just a hard assignment. Colleagues are Bearing Witness for sure. Wolf, thank you so much. Well see you in the situation. Cnn news central starts right now. Were tracking major developments on day seven of fighting in the middle east. Im Brianna Keilar In Washington with Boris Sanchez. We have Anderson Cooper on scene in israel. We do have Breaking News. Israeli troops conducting raids inside gaza, they have done this, the Israel Defense forces saying they targeted terror cells and searched for hostages here in the past day. Hamas is believed to have up to 150 hostages inside of gaza, including some u. S. Citizens. Last hour President Biden spoke with the families of 14 americans who are still unaccounted for since the weekend attacks. Earlier today, the idf dropped flyers on gaza. Youre seeing them there on the screen. The flyers tell people i
i don t mean that there s deceit, i mean that confusion. trump doesn t want it to have been said today, but thursday he didn t mind. but today he minds. it is maddening. first of all, the president is not shy about contradicting his subordinates at any time, publicly or privately. aisles it s part of how he views his negotiations. he wants the wiggle room. he doesn t want anything said definitively. he wants preconditions one day, no preconditions the next. it s how he s approached this. bolton was more focused on the policy. for the president it s the personality. it s about trying to make that connection with the foreign leader. whoever that might be. often an authoritarian figure. thinking he himself, as he phrases it, the ultimate dealmaker, can bring this together, some sort of agreement that potentially could end this crisis. i was reminded the president actually said that, no preconditions, to chuck todd, when he met with him. yep. on meet the press. so yes, simp
jim engel talks about that tonight. reporter: when most americans tick down the unemployment rate, they take heart. but the stock market sometimes taking encouraging economic news as a sign that the federal reserve will reduce the efforts to stimulate the economy and stock traders run. the market itself is a little manic depressive on this note. sometimes it seems like good news is good news and sometimes it seems like good news is bad news. it seems to have some sort of magic powers over the direction of equity markets. reporter: depending on how he phrases it, ben bernanke can send the stock into a friz zy. he gave an optimistic forecast but also talked about when the fed may stop the $50 billion a month stimulus saying the fed would probably, quote, slow or moderate purchases sometime later this year and then through