put it, many in the media badly screw up when it came to that terrible bombing of the hospital grounds in gaza city. new york times, and the paper was not alone, ran this banner headline: israeli strike kills hundreds in hospital, palestinians say. at least there s that attribution, but that really means hamas said it. the terrorist group that controls the gaza government with, that launched the war with unspeakable atrocities, that that has a long history of deception. well, it turns out the accusation wasn t true. israel never targeted the hospital. what sense would that make in it s hamas that carries out massacres. israeli intelligence said it was an errant rocket fired if from within gaza by the palestinian islamic jihad, and president biden backed that up citing pentagon intelligence. based on what i ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. howard: israel s channel 12 the later showed video of a rocket being launched near the hospital and
the possibility of himself serving in that position before he has indicated he is opposed to that and this shows a desperate moment that republicans are in, jake and there are other possible candidates who can yet emerge and try to run for the spook speakership and they will run into the same problem, and nationally with kevin mccarthy who was pushed out of the speakership that they would have a difficult, if not impossible time of getting to the 217 votes needed to be elected speaker given the significant divisions that are still within this badly divided republican conference traying tra tra traying to figure on the a way forward and jim jordan could lose the vote by potentially a worse margin than yesterday. it is unprecedented and frankly, embarrassing. we ll get back to the vote that we ll see happen soon, but now let s go to israel and the american president and president biden and the anger rippling across arab capitals specifically about that incident at the hospita
right now. outfront next, donald trump says he s accept the role of house speaker, quote, for the party and for a short period if necessary. it comes as he s placing himself in the capitol hill chaos. and abc news reporting that donald trump discussed sensitive information about submarines with a mar-a-lago club member. how does this fit into jack smith s case? and russia launching one of the deadliest strikes on ukraine yet. putin claims he didn t start the war. he s just trying to end it. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. tonight, donald trump for speaker? trump saying tonight he will take the job, telling fox news digital today, i quote, they have asked me if i would take it for a short period of time for the party until they come to a conclusion. i m not doing it because i want to. i will do it if necessary. also telling fox he ll visit the capitol on tuesday. the vote is expected to be wednesday and this will be trump s first visit to the capitol
pete: another skyline. read that top of the stadium. will: i can t either. we try to figure out what skiesline this is. pete did a great job last hour. figuring this out. pete: it said alliance bank maybe. still dark so we re looking west coast here. will: what does that stadium say? pete: not seeing mountains something center. will: pete takes this denver, phoenix, no mountains. will: in the background, in the dark. pete: not going to denver. phoenix i said phoenix. pete: it doesn t count when you change your guess. give me a win this morning. pete: that s right i was looking for the mountains. up on your knees and monitor. close trying to pay attention. interesting endeavor there. that brings me a lot of stress i really enjoy that game. will: our success rate is not as high so i ve started to check out. pete: that s what s enjoyable about it. and i think there s probably 40 more skieslines out there that we could put up. we ve reported phoenix. kayleigh:
on the line. the united autoworkers hit the picket line demanding higher pay. it is a fight to take on corporate greed. with automakers warning the strike could hurt america s economic recovery. how long could this last? senator bernie sanders joins me for an exclusive interview. plus, reaching out in a crowded 2024 field. a former vice president hopes his record will earn evangelical voters support. pray and stand and vote. but leading the field is former runningmate. no president has ever fought for christians as hard as i have. can his message compete? gop presidential candidate mike pence joins me in moments. and pile on, another test for president biden as he confronts a looming government should thedown, the indictment of his son and house republicans impeachment probe. will it all hurt his campaign? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is at each other s throats. for the first time autoworkers are on strike aga