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jake tapper and we start today with breaking news and a cnn exclusive for the first time the man and only previously known as employee number five. in the trump federal classified documents case, is publicly going on the record about what he saw behind the scenes at mar-a-lago and how he ended up handling boxes of classified documents without even knowing it or having the clearance to do so trump employee number five is a man named brian butler he has worked at mar-a-lago for 20 years. he wasn t just any regular employee. we should note he handled the car service at trump s florida resort. often directly making sure that donald trump and all of his belongings were moved from place to place, meaning he saw moments and movements and heard conversations that are now part of special counsel jack smith s indictment of donald trump s cnn s kaitlan collins, katelyn polantz, our breaking the story for us and joining us now, kaitlan collins, it start with you, so you sat down wi ....
districts and don t want to be seen as being overly supportive of jim jordan. that said, they might vote differently on the second or third ballot. i think the first ballot is kind of posturing. a sense of where everyone is. and now as you have reported, jim jordan knows who is left out there, who opposes him. and we ll see if he s there to pull them over. i don t think the party wants a repeat of either what happened two weeks ago or what happened, you know, when mccarthy was first elected. all those ballots. right now i think there is a sense, it s more important to have a speaker at this time than maybe your first choice as speaker. john: well, better some speaker than the one you want, interesting way to put it. right. john: if i was curious to note that the number of people who voted no for jim jordan was about the same as voted no for mccarthy back in january. he eventually won them over after extraordinary amount of horse trading, including a measure that ....
reunited with their families and the. and as and i was taking us through in the last few minutes, we have had the first official confirmation of two of those hostages, a 72 year old and 78 year old, so we know among the hostages those two, but a number of children that we knew had been negotiated in this the first group on this the first of four days of hostage releases. let s go straight back to tel aviv. my colleague anna foster is in tel aviv. you ve been talking about how all the people gather behind you there had been trying to keep a lid on their emotions until they got to this moment, it must be a very different feeling in the last few moments. it different feeling in the last few moments. , ., different feeling in the last few moments. , . ., , moments. it is, and as we say, we have spoken moments. it is, and as we say, we have spoken to moments. it is, and as we say, we have spoken to so moments. it is, and as we say, we have spoken to so many moments. ....
officials spent an hour at the al shifa hospital and reported evidence of shelling and gunfire, and the site of a mass grave. hundreds of people left the hospital yesterday but around 300 critically ill patients are still there. israel is seeking to eliminate hamas, which is designated a terror group by most western governments, after its fighters killed more than 1,200 israelis and took around 230 hostage on october 7th. 0ur correspondent mark lowen reports from jerusalem. the echoes of history are beating loud here. forthe the echoes of history are beating loud here. for the palestinians last played in such numbers 75 years ago, when israel was created. fled. and now, once again, hundreds of thousands are on the move, these crowds fleeing al shifa hospital, saying israeli troops ordered them out. israel insists the hospital asked for their evacuation. they take what they can, not knowing if they will be back. doctor ramez warns says the israelis want them to leave, wi ....
blitzer. he s over there in the situation room, also live from tel aviv. zblf happening now, breaking news. israeli tanks and troops push deeper and deeper into gaza as prime minister netanyahu declares this the time for war. rejecting calls for a cease fire. the air and ground assault on hamas targets intensifying while gazans face a new level of desperation and destruction. the israeli military says it rescued a female soldier kidnapped by hamas during ground operations in gaza. this as we re getting our first look at the three women who were shown in a new hamas hostage video. and an antisemitic mob at a russian airport underscores the climate of hate towards israelis and jews that s clearly spreading around the world. the biden administration taking new action in response to the disturbing rise in antisemitic rhetoric and threats in the united states. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you ....