are you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we are following a number of new developments in the israel-hamas war. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting with arab leader in jordan. blinken stressed support for israel to implement humanitarian pauses, as he s calling them, in the fighting in gaza. short of a cease-fire demanded by arab countries and international aid agencies. the u.s. official says hamas is blocking foreign nationals from leaving gaza for egypt through the rafah crossing. hamas is demanding that israel guarantee that ambulances from gaza, that they can reach that crossing. and egyptian source says more than 700 foreign nationals were expected to cross through rafah earlier today including 400 americans. free, free palestine! people around the world are marching and singing in rallies against the war today including this one here in washington. you can see the capitol in the background there.
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the trump davidians, that is how trump ally steve bannon sums up a movement that has swallowed whole one of our nation s two major political parties. a movement led by an ex-president currently facing 91 felony counts and on a third run for the white house on a platform of damaging democracy. that quote is from jonathan carl s brand-new book tired of winning: donald trump and the end of the grand old party. it reveals this dramatic collision of efforts to hold the ex-president accountable for his alleged crimes and misdeeds and a candidate who has no hesstation stoking the fires of right-wing extremism and sees winning the presidency as the only way out of his legal troubles. in an essay in the atlantic that is adapted from his book, john karl writes this about the decision by the trump campaign to hold its very first rally in waco, texas. the site of a standoff between far-right extremists and the fbi that ended in dozens of dea