At the white house. And this is cnn you. Are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean in new york. The us made its first humanitarian aid drops over gaza today, and a joint operation with jordan, us aircraft delivered some 38,000 meals. Us official saying they chose the drop zone based on me believing a large number of people to be sheltering mirror that location at the same time, a senior us official now saying, israel has quote, basically accepted the terms of a Ceasefire Deal to release more hostages how the. Decision falls to hamas to accept the deal for Scylla Alvarez is joining us now, live from washington, priscilla, the white house seems to believe this was a big success. This airdrops of aid today, thats been the resounding message from Senior Administration officials, though, while theyre touting it as a success, they are also cautioning that much more is needed as this dire humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in gaza. Now, as you mentioned, there, there were 38
dmytro kuleba, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i think we have to begin with the military situation. details are limited, but would you accept that right now the ukrainian counteroffensive has not succeeded in punching a significant hole in russia s defensive line in your country? we are moving forward. that s the most important thing. when we speak with our generals and with independent experts, they all say that in the counter offensive, the most important thing is to keep moving forward, whatever the pace is. i wish we broke all the lines by now and reached the sea of azov, but we re not stopping. and you have to take into account that for nine months russia was literally digging into the land, into the soil, reinforcing its trenches with concrete and steel, and mining virtually every square metre. in some areas, our soldiers are moving only 200 or 300 metres per day, crawling. at terrible cost, too. this is a war. and the difference between now and the russians is that we
kevin mccarthy lost the vote 11 times. do not, do not just show up at the border. president biden with a message to migrants as he gets ready to see the crisis up close. and the wrong moves made by the accused idaho killer. what investigators secretly watched him do and how it helped crack the case. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. the house of representatives reconvening again just hours from now without a speaker and no known path to picking one. lawmakers have tried and failed for three straight days to elect a new leader. the longest that has taken in, get this, 164 years. will it be kevin mccarthy in the end? he s the choice of most gop lawmakers, but even after making major, major concessions to his hard right opponents, mccarthy can t seem to lock in the 218 votes needed to win. no, no, i m not putting any time line on it. i think we have progress going on. i think we v
only scares you is only bad if he s scared of it and he said he s not scared of it. we ve seen how it s wielded in the past. he should be scared of it. the reality is the concessions he s making will make him weaker and there s no way around that very crucial fact. not even talking about this vote to oust a potential speaker but also the fact that all of a sudden he has to put freedom caucus aligned members on committees like budget like appropriations, like the rules committee. those kinds of concessions really make a strong difference in how you can govern, legislate. the rules speaker is supposed to be the speaker s committee, they dictate how the bills come up. so he is looking at a weaker speakership if he can pull this off. manu said at the end, you ve been trying for two months to get the votes. i think it speaks to why wasn t there a bigger push like this a month ago to avoid a scene like this on the floor. i think it s remarkable he went to the floor k