the white house. joe, what will we hear from the president tomorrow in this big labor day appearance? he s really kicking off the start to the mid-term cycle. reporter: you know one thing that is very clear and that is the president, jim, is definitely interested in getting out there and showing his stuff, as it were. he s going not only to wisconsin. he s also going to pittsburgh. and later in the week he s going to columbus, ohio. that, of course, is going to be essentially a groundbreaking for a microprocessor plant that he s been promoting. labor day, around labor day, is the time of year where campaigns really start bearing down. it s also a time, very important to say people start looking more closely at the candidates. of course joe biden s name is not on any ballots. just the fact he s getting out to the three major battleground states does tell you that the biden people are thinking carefully about the president and his posture. you know it was just a few weeks ago
hello, everyone. thanks for joining us for another hour of newsroom. i m michael holmes. i appreciate your company. we begin in gaza, as the war between israel and hamas is about to enter its second month. the israeli military says it is carrying out what it calls a significant strike on the territory. an idf spokesperson says a strike was very extensive and targeted hamas infrastructure above and below ground. its soldiers reached gaza s coast, in an effort to cut off the northern part of the enclave. in the meantime, communications are down again in the besieged terr territory. a local operator said there was a complete interrumgs. d gaza faces a third communication blackout. a diplomatic push is under way to prevent a wider conflict in the region. antony blinken landing in turkey. and the leader of the cia is traveling to meet with multiintelligence counterparts and country leaders. for more, let s go to elliot godkin standing by for us in london. bring us up to date on th
And republicans, in elected office, should call this out. this is not proper behavior. and one of the rally speakers was somebody named cynthia hughes. she runs a group that raises money for january 6 defendants. our marshall cohen points out last night she told a story to get sympathy for her nephew who is a convicted capitol insurrectionist and this is her nephew here posing as adolf hitler. his former colleagues testified he said, quote, hitler should have finished the job. he was convicted on all five charges he faced. do you think this belongs at any kind of a political rally, this kind of speaker given this sort of platform? when president biden warned there are some elements in this extreme group that are semifascist, maybe he didn t need to use semi.
when you said he likes the crazies, were you talking about president trump? yes, i was talking about president trump. he loved people who viciously defended him in public. consistent in terms of the support for these people, at least with what the president likes from what you could tell. yes, these are people that would be very, very vicious and publicly defending him. on january 2nd, miss pearson s concerns about the potential rally speakers will grown serious enough she reached out to mr. meadows directly. she wrote, good afternoon, would you mind giving me a call regarding this january 6th event? things have gotten crazy and i desperately need some direction, please. according to phone records obtained by the committee, miss pearson received a phone call eight minutes later from mr. meadows. what she said about that conversation. so what specifically did you tell him, though, about other