weekend of campaign rallies to try and fire up his base ahead of the caucus there. president biden travels to the valley forge area, home to george washington s war encampment, to deliver a speech on america s democracy, marking three years since the capitol insurrection on january 6. secretary blinken overseas for high-stakes diplomacy, with tensions flaring throughout the middle east. a new u.s. drone strike in iraq calls for revenge from hezbollah. all as the idf is pressed by nbc on civilian casualties in gaza. good to be with you. andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary of state antony blinken in the middle east. it s january 5, 2024. president biden is beginning his campaign season, heading to valley forge where soldiers trained to fight for the new promise of america. using the historical site to warn voters that donald trump is dangerous, a threat he says to that idea of america, to our democracy. just remember what happened three years ago
. thello and a warm welcome t our viewers joining us around the world. and just ahead, five republicans running for u.s. president clash in the third gop presidential debate and the big no show was former president trump of course. we ll bring you some of the key moments. and as fighting intensifies in gaza between hamas and israeli defense forces, we ll have a report on how thousands of civilians are trying to flee the bombing. and plus strikinging hollywood actors reach an agreement to end the strike. we ll have the details . this is thursday, november 9, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in miami where the presidential hopefuls wrapped up their third debate. all hoping to catch fire with voters just two months before the iowa caucuses. and donald trump again chose to stay away instead holding a rally nearby. and this is after elections on tuesday saw significant democrat wins. and jeff zeleny was at the debate and has our report. reporter: at the third republi
new election wins, republicans are about to hold another presidential debate without their front-runner. both parties studying the results and assessing their 2024 strategies as donald trump s gop rivals are getting ready to take the stage. president biden is touting his party s new wins as defeats for trump and maga republicans. democrats political hopes rising amid fresh evidence their defensive abortion rights is a winning issue even as the president s bleak poll numbers are raising some serious red flags. and the state of new york just rested its case in the civil fraud trial against donald trump and his family business. this after ivanka trump s testimony and her attempt to down play her involvement in the trump organization. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, donald trump is deflecting blame for new republican election losses as he s set to skip another gop presidential debat
chief spokesman for the idf. this was a conversation, relatively rare for him to speak to the foreign press. i asked him about data that appears to show israel s military has killed far more civilians, much faster than the american military did in mosul fighting against the islamic state terrorist group. listen to a little of that exchange. you can really tell the world you are taking care of palestinian civilians when you drop 2,000 pound drops in urban areas? it s not the right thing to do because mosul is not gaza. gaza has been built as a terror stronghold of hamas building more than 500 kilometers of tunnel system underneath hospitals, underneath schools,
nation safe. a lot of opinions on this. and live at the dallas international airports with mor more. hello, jenna. no protest at the airport this morning, and nothing like what we saw here on saturday nights when scores of people turned out to protest the new immigration restrictions, the executive order that has created such a stir in particular, the retaining of green card holders from the seven countries that the obama industry looked at as a terror stronghold have been amended, you heard john talk about senator schumer, and here s what he what he had to say about it. it was done in such a sloppy and careless way, major agencies, the border control, they did not even know about it. major holes and how it was done. some critics attribute the sloppiness to the trump administration s newness, and the lack of experience,