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Now. Martha all right. Thanks. We have Breaking News right now just coming to us from the state department. U. S. Troops being told to be ready to deploy for further defense for israel if needed. Were working on how many troops have received this message. Theres some reporting from the Wall Street Journal that its in the neighborhood of 2,000 american troops told to be ready. Were going to dig into this for you this hour. Mike tobin is standing by. Rich edson will be available moments away. Well go back to john roberts who is reporting live from tel aviv this week for us. We will continue on top of these stories as we continue to get new information. Right now it is 10 00 p. M. In gaza. We are now ten days in to this war. There are 199 individuals who somewhere are being held at this moment in the hand of hamas. We know what they did to people in israel. We have seen the ....
weekend after a faltering performance in a televised debate against donald trump fuelled concern about his candidacy. the president spent saturday attending back to back fundraising events in two democratic stronghold states, in new york and newjersey. it all comes as his campaign says it has raised more than $27 million between debate day and friday evening. on saturday at chicago tribune editorial urged mr biden to step down, one day after the new york times editorial board said he should leave the race for the presidency. but campaign officials and the president himself say that he is not going anywhere. to hear more about those calls for mr biden to drop out of the race, i spoke to hugo lowell, a senior political correspondent for the guardian. let s first of all start with these newspaper editorials. the new york times editorial board i mean, that is incredibly influential, calling for president biden to drop out of the race. what kind of effect do you think this ....
guilty in a deal that ends a ill year legal battle. he s now back in australia. cheering and applause he was pursued by us prosecutors for leaking vast amounts of classified government and military documents, including those related to the afghanistan and iraq wars. in a press conference after his release, his lawyer called the prosecution the criminalisation of journalism . so, did he pioneer a new form ofjournalism by setting up wikileaks, and has his case, by pleading guilty, set a dangerous precedent for reporters? i started by talking to carrie decell, who is a senior staff attorney at the knight first amendment institute at columbia university. i think this plea deal is significant in two respects. i mean, in the first instance, it must be an enormous relief, of course, forjulian assange and his family and his supporters around the world, as well as for press freedom advocates here in the united states who have been quite concerned about a judicial ruling that w ....
cheering. i know like millions of americans know, when you get knocked down, you get back up. cheering. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal was at the rally and described whether it will make a difference for voters come november. well, bear in mind we ve got another debate potentially in september. i think for a lot of people here, just listening to what the supporters were saying, they view it as a bad night what happened last night. they don t try and sugar coat it. they say it wasn t great. one woman said to me, i was very upset by the reviews and wanted to come here to support him. they believe that we re injune, the election is in november, we ve got still some time to go. people will forget. but i don t think, or we will have to see, it will quell the fears that we are seeing in the democratic party because president biden will be doing more appearances. as i mentioned, there will be another debate in september, which he has said he will do, donald tru ....