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>> i'm kaitlan polantz in washington, and this is cnn thanks for. >> joining us in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. i'm erica hill in new york, and we do we begin this hour with breaking news. israeli prime minister benjamin, that's you hitting back at president biden tonight in a new interview, vowing to cross biden's red line
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gaza. this after president biden said this, or than he's helping cnn's scott mclean is following all of these developments for us from istanbul. so what more did we hear from the israeli prime minister >> yeah, erica, as you mentioned, president biden, et cetera. an interview on msnbc on saturday that look, his red line would be israel going into rafah, which even israel's closest allies and many other countries prison the international community would be a catastrophe because you have well over 1 million people there who are sheltering. and frankly, there is nowhere for them to go. israel, he says that they would evacuate them elsewhere, but there is fighting and bombing taking place in virtually every other part of the country. and yet despite that warning from president biden of not crossing that red line, we have prime minister netanyahu saying that that offensive in rafah will in fact go ahead saying that his red line is october 7, and making sure that that doesn't happen again. and he said that an idf incursion into rafah to
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root out hamas. there could take two months, perhaps even less than two months, and that there would be no pause in the fighting until there's some kind of deal made to bring the hostages home. he also left open the possibility of expanding military operations into southern lebanon, where of course there have been many back-and-forth fires firing between hezbollah and the israelis. in fact, do you have 100 or you have tens of thousands of israelis who've been forced to leave their home in northern israel. and this is what netanyahu said about ensuring those people can go back home, listen so we will do whatever we can to restore security for them and bring them home. and i hope we can do that if we have to do it with military means, we'll do so. if there's a diplomatic way to achieve it. >> fine. but ultimately we'll do it >> it is worth pointing out,
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erica, that that hezbollah excuse me, is a much more formidable fighting force that really dwarfs the capabilities of hamas. the israelis themselves estimate at least before the war, estimated that there were hundreds, maybe thousands of rockets stored in people's private homes near the border within firing range of israel. when it comes to the negotiations to get those hostages back, hostages back in any kind of a potential ceasefire the hopes of that happening anytime soon are pretty dim at this stage of the game, you had president biden pointing out that the cia director was in israel to meet with his mossad counterpart. but the problem is that the israelis and hamas are not actually talking to each other, at least not publicly. you add hamas leaving the last round of talks in cairo on thursday and the israelis were never there in the first place because they say that hamas has failed to address its latest demands, which include providing a list of hostages which are alive and
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which hostages are dead. so i mean that hamas says that it cannot provide. hamas is also digging in on its key demands of a permanent ceasefire and a full withdrawal of the idf from gaza. both things that are going to be very difficult for the israelis to agree to because they continue to insist that the war will only end as you heard, the prime minister saying there, until hamas is completely destroyed. and that means going into rafah, whether that's before or after any kind of a ceasefire deal is made. and they also say that the day after the war, the idf will have full control, free rein to go wherever they want inside of gaza. and the idf will also continue to control the borders of everything going in and out of the territory. we also heard from the hamas leader ismail haniyeh nia, who gave a televised address and hamas is still open to talks, but he says that it is israel who is to blame for the lack of progress. and he also insisted that there would be no hostages released until there's a deal
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>> erica wow. and as we watch all of that, a lot of really important developments tonight, scott, appreciate it. thank you. >> i also don't bring in now cnn military >> analyst, retired us air force colonel cedric leighton, colonel, always good to see you first. i'd just love to get your reaction as we start to prime minister benjamin netanyahu's comments about invading rafah, which of course come on the heels of what we heard from president biden in that interview yesterday yeah erica i think this is really setting things up for a showdown between president biden and prime minister netanyahu. it looks as if both sides, both us side and the israeli side are basically digging in and their respective positions. the israeli stamp that military basically destroying hamas and doing it at rafah because everybody seems to be concentrated in that area there in the southern part of gaza. the problem with that, as scott pointed out in his reporting, 1 million plus people are right? they are because they had to flee to
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that location and to get them out of there to get them out of harm's way is going to be really difficult to do under the best of circumstances. and in these conditions, those circumstances are certainly quite difficult. so it's one of those areas where we're going to see a lot of difficulty, a lot of problems. and this could portend a rift in the us israeli relations he's to some extent. and that could be really interest for any peace, prospects for this area >> were you surprised at all at how far we saw the president go in those comments yesterday. so saying that rafah would be a red line when asked about other specific red lines, he a little less committal he will visit there can't be another 30,000 another 30,000 palestinian civilian deaths, for example, the fact that the rhetoric is now ramping up and to your point, the impact that this could have moving forward, especially given the u.s.'s role in these talks, in these
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efforts to try to get to a ceasefire, to try to get some of the hostages home. how damaging could this be at this point? >> this could be very damaging. it can be damaging for the israeli hostages that are still being held by hamas. it could be damaging for all the palestinians, civilians that are caught in this in gaza, especially in rafah. i and from a political standpoint, i think what you're seeing here is on the one hand domestically, president biden is trying very hard to placate concerns from the arab american community. and on the other hand, you still wants to show himself as being a strong supporter of israel. but there's things that israel is doing that make it very difficult for the us to an essence, sell those policies would move ben those policies in international forums like the un or with a european allies in the union and with international public opinion at large. and so this is where the
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united states finds itself. i, and it's going to be really difficult for them to be for the united states to be in lockstep with him israel at this particular juncture. >> let's talk about the aid situation. so news today that some of the equipment for this new floating pier is actually on its way to gaza. so the pentagon has said, that pier is going to take probably at least a month to construct. it would require as many as 1,000 troops to get that completed. that's a long timeline. when we look at just how acute the needs are today, what do you make of that timeline >> well, it's certainly a long timeline. i do think that it is possible to do some things. i a lot quicker than that timeline for example, we know that there's a barge that's on its way from cyprus right now to gaza so at least it's supposed to be on its way sometime today if that is the case, then that will help alleviate some of the things that are that are plaguing the population in gaza in terms of hunger and a
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possible famine but the fact is then to the military, the us military is going to have to the move very quickly to install this floating pier and to make sure that the requisite number of ships can actually come into the kind of support that's necessary. i think i it is something that should have been done a bit earlier. but sometimes we just don't know how difficult a situation is. are dire situation is until we start seeing the pictures from places like gaza. >> one qatari officials said that this new marine corridor would bring some 200 truckloads of aid via barge from cyprus to gaza each day. do you think that is a realistic number? >> i did a little quick math just based on how many containers can fit on barges and how many shipping containers in food on trucks. and it does seem a realistic possibility, assuming that all of the flows from places like
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cyprus are going to be interrupted they're not going to be any security issues once everything gets to gaza. so if assuming all of that works perfectly, it is realistic that somewhere around the order of 200 truckloads of foodstuffs and other necessary of men can get into gaza using this method. of course, the other thing i think we went before this crisis occurred on the october, i read somewhere around 400 to 500 trucks that were needed. justice, sustain the gazan population. so this is about a little less than half of what they really need in order to sustain themselves. >> really quickly before i let you go, we have seen an analysis of satellite images which show israel building this road that runs across the gaza strip. the israeli military has said that r2p will help it to establish an operational foothold in gaza. what does that say to you >> well, it says to me that the israelis are going to try to
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maintain some degree of presence of military presence in gaza. and they're going to make it as much of a permanent presence as they possibly can. basically, this road will facilitate them getting in and day very quickly. i and it may facilitate the idea of lightning raise against hamas terrorist cells, installations of that type possibly walk at launch facilities, things like that. so they're building it for military purposes and they want to continue to have a say in gaza. and basically the security situation they are and they want to try to protect them sounds from hamas at this point, colonel cedric leighton always appreciate your insight, your expertise. thank you. >> you bet. >> anytime erica turning now to this worsening situation in haiti, the german and eu missions say they have evacuated diplomatic staff from port-au-prince due to the gang violence in the capital. and we're also learning president and biden did approve the overnight airlift operation to get non-essential personnel out of the us embassy there, a
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spokesperson telling cnn, president biden is deeply concerned about the situation on the ground. and of course, in terms of that situation, gang leaders, as you likely know by this point, are threatening civil war if the prime minister does not step down well, haiti, at this point is under a state of emergency until early next month, seen as patrick oppmann is in nearby havana, cuba monitoring the situation in the region priscilla alvarez is in washington for civil. i do want to start with you here. what more do we know about that decision which the president made to evacuate? these personnel from port-au-prince >> well, erica, this was a situation that you us officials have been closely monitoring that includes, of course, president biden, who has been briefed and updated regularly over a situation that a spokesperson tells me he is deeply concerned about now, president biden did approve this operation that included the evacuation in a nonessential personnel canal from a us embassy in haiti. now, according to the state department, the reason for this in part was because of escalating gang violence near
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the us embassy compounds. and the airport. now this was an airlift why the us military, this, according to us southern command, the state in practice, this under these circumstances and there were no haitians on this military aircraft, but they were able to help evacuate an airlift out. those non-essential personnel, we should note though, that the us embassy is still operating now, of course, the concern here is what the haitian gang leader has said about out of civil war also saying that there will, there will be a genocide if the prime minister doesn't step aside. now, it is believed that the prime minister is currently in puerto rico and secretary of state antony blinken earlier this week, spoke to the prime minister and talked about accelerating the transition of a more inclusive government. so this is clearly top of mind here in the united states as they watch the situation unfold with this extraordinary move to evacuate those non-essential personnel from the us embassy
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as violence only worsens in that country and patrick, when we look at what is happening in that country, right? gang leaders threatening civil war. now, if the prime minister does not leave office, give us a closer look. if you could at that both the situation on the ground and what we know about the prime minister's whereabouts you know, for months, if not years now, the gangs and solely been taking more and more territory to the point where it's believed that >> control on not only most of the capital port-au-prince, but, but most of the country tree there have been instances in the last several years where the prime minister of 80, he's not been able to travel in certain parts parts of port-au-prince because the gangs simply do not let him. so even for diplomats who know haiti well, the escalation of violence and lastly, has really caught everyone off guard. i talked to him today's it goes in port-au-prince and they said that yes, they had stores of food and water for an incident like this, but >> those doors were now running low because people really have
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never had a situation quite like this one. aware there is no safe places go they can't leave the apartments, can't leave their compounds. and so what you're seeing now is not only with the us, but other nations, other aid organizations helicopter airlifts. it's really the only a reasonably safe way to believe the country, because a driving out to the up to the border with the american republic is too risky. and we saw the airport close down after claims were actually shot at it, at least we want to hit by by some gunfire from the gangs so the concern now is, will the haitian national police, will they essentially collapse as the gangs continued? take the fight to them in a way they haven't before. and ariel, henry, he's been receiving pressure both from the us and from within within haiti to announce a trend. additional government to essentially announced what elections could take place and indicate when he plans on
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leaving power, something he is i'll resisted up until now, but it has been essentially radio silence all week throughout this crisis. and even though he as a received calls from the us and calls from other political parties in haiti to come out and announce the wave. >> ford. he appears to be resisting that, at least for the moment, but tremendous pressure on him right now to begin to come up with a solution to this problem that has affected so many haitians live so many haitians have had to flee the further from their homes, can't find food or water and are living a really an increasingly dangerous circumstances. >> they certainly are patrick oppmann, priscilla alvarez appreciate the reporting. thank you, both just ahead here, more on the breaking news this hour, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu signals he plans to in fact cross that red line that president biden said he had with a push into rafah will speak with him as lawmaker erin burnett outfront week nights at
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president biden's response. >> his red line, but i'm never going to leave israel. the defense of israel is still critical, so there's no red line. i want to cut off all weapons so they had don't have the iron dome to protect them. they don't have. but there's red lines that if he crosses they can cannot have 30,000 more palestinians dead >> joining us now is florida democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, congressman. it's good to have you with us tonight. as i know, you've been very aware just to just a short time ago, prime minister benjamin netanyahu remarks were released in an interview that he did with politico in a german news it's outlet and he said specifically in regards to this, i'm quoting the prime minister here. we'll go there. we're not going to leave. he said, you know, i have a red line. that red line is october 7 and that it doesn't happen again what are your main concerns? what is your initial reaction at this hour to this very public back-and-forth between president biden and prime minister netanyahu. and what it could mean well erica
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thanks for having me and my reaction is this. what i know and what gives me confidence is that there really isn't a country in the world that we have a closer relationship with, where our intelligence officers and our military leadership are working side-by-side each and every day on and are able to communicate effectively about about operational decisions. and next steps. and so this is a nation in which we are aware and they are aware of where each of us comes down on the new military decision making. and that's incredibly helpful so that there are no surprises. president biden made it clear in his comments this morning that he is not planning on conditioning and our assistance in terms of the defense of israel, making sure that we have iron dome in place. that israel has the ability to
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continue to defend herself, that she has the right to that. while also underscoring that the death toll in gaza is significant and we need to make sure that that's addressed through to that point. he did say and as we just heard from him, that this would be a red line, but in the words of president biden, which we just heard him say there, and i'm quoting, i'm never going to leave israel. the defense of israel is still critical. that being said, the fact the president biden went on the record saying this is a red line. prime minister netanyahu came out and said, too bad, i'm going to do what i'm going to do, right? this is my country. i'm going to make these decisions. do you believe there needs to be some sort of a consequence or further reaction from the president, given the fact that he said this is in fact a red line what i believe erica is that hamas needs to release the 134 hostages and as >> well as the bodies of the deceased who died in their calf, in their captivity. what
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i believe is that hamas needs to end the threat that they, that they represent to israel's very existence, that they have committed repeatedly. and people keep forgetting this or it's, it's shoved aside because we the distance of time that they are sworn to have october 7 be the first. there'll be a second, a third. and if time. there's no country on earth, including, and especially the united states that would tolerate conditions like that. and neither should or is israel and so this can end tomorrow if in five minutes. if those if those conditions are met. so let's make sure that qatar and egypt and other countries that have sway with let's make sure that they use their leverage and help get the hostages home, including the six american hostages that are still in captivity, and ensure that that threat ends you mentioned that the situation on the ground for
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civilians. bernie sanders said this morning, senator sanders, that president biden needs to make it clear in his view that the us support for israel does in fact have some limitations. here's more of a senator sanders said united states of america cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children. what you can say to netanyahu, stop the slaughter no more muddy. the netanyahu's war machine to kill palestinian children president biden yesterday in that same interview and he was asked about a red line. he went on to say 30,000 additional palestinian deaths would be a red line. do you also see that as a red line? >> what i see is that we have to make sure that iran, who is obviously tied closely to hamas hamas, hezbollah aren't able to declare victory because this was all part of their plan they intended and knew that israel rightfully so would respond forcefully in their defense and
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the goal by using civilians as human, as human shields, by putting their people in harm's way, they don't really have the same value for human life as other civilized nations in the world do and this is all part of this all by design, erica, they want to turn the world against israel. and we have to make sure that while making sure there is humanitarian assistance and the hunger that is growing as addressed, that israel has the threat removed hamas says the terrorist organization that it is continues to represent an hostages are released. both things have to happen and the world and the arab world in particular, needs to lean in on hamas and its allies and ensure that we can have peace. we don't need to be talking about conditions in the united states on our aid we need to be talking about pudding worldwide pressure on this terrorist organization who was holding
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134 people in captivity there is obviously those hostages need to come home, right? there's so much talk about a ceasefire. there's talk about how that is connected. there is also a very real conversation about aid and what we have seen in terms of serving and malnutrition amongst civilians. i was struck. my colleague clarissa ward was reporting in the region this week, and i was struck i buy an exchange that she had and i just wanted to play part of that for you >> they should get only the minimum calories required to survive they're starving to death because there are no, they are starting to really make, you know what starving, starving to death give us give the hostages back no, a single loaf of bread should goes to our hostages are coming back. >> but what you say to those, those women what i would say to those women, i know that there are palestinians that believed that are
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>> fed up with hamas, but just want the violence to end that they are experiencing and they are victims of hamas as well what i would say is that speaker johnson needs to put the national security package that includes aid to israel as well as humanitarian aid to the palestinians on the floor for a vote he knows there are 300 plus votes in the house to send that bill to the president. and he refuses to do it because he cares more or about staying in power. and he does about the suffering of the palestinian people. and he does more about the protection of the people that we need for the people of israel. and the and, and cares more about holding onto power than he does about making sure that hostages are released this is an outrage. we could we could send this assistance from the united states tomorrow when we go back to washington and both speaker johnson needs to put that bill on the floor he's been playing little games for months. it has to add
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amount of momentum very quickly. and so we'll see where this bill goes. i do think it's interesting that both president biden and president trump they have they sort of due to some extent, maybe support that biden got on the app recently and that actually ruffled some feathers, i think from people who said, wait a second, we're talking about whether this app is secure from a national security stand. points and you're now on the app. and trump, who was very opposed to the app during his own administration is now coming out and saying, wait a second, don't don't maybe pass this and taking a shot at more zuckerberg saying it's going to be good for him in the long term. and so i guess we'll see where this bill goes. there's always been some hesitation to outright ban tiktok because of maybe if some political blowback that the lawmakers would get in, you're already seeing tiktok poured the gasoline on that they were encouraging their users last week to call congress and they were flooding the congressional the phone lines their
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supporters saying don't ban this app, we have to keep in mind that this is awesome so this is a free speech issue. there are a lot of people who have built businesses now on tiktok who rely on this app. and so it's a little more complex. i think an outright banning it, this bill would force bytedance, which owns tiktok to divest from the app before they effectively ban it. but there's a lot of issues at play. we'll see where this goes. >> yeah, absolutely. and we can't ignore the fact we are talking about an election year. and so when you see there are the concerns and the talk of hypocrisy, right? all the outcry about potential national security concerns. then you see, oh, wait, this is a great way to reach younger voters and we see more and more politicians, including president biden, as you point out jumping on the old tiktok yeah. more to come in this space as we would say, i didn't want to get you quickly to since we're a little bit more time, the ratings for president biden, state of the union, they were up 18% over last year. some 32.2 million people, i believe it is tuned in to watch this live from 5
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million from 2023 is this simply because it's an election year high figures probably because it's election year. look these, these numbers do fluctuate quite a bit year to year. and so last year was down from the previous year. this year is up i do want to say i think largely speaking, if you look at the broad trends from decades ago, the numbers have slipped, you know, you're not getting maybe the 50 to 60 million people you would have gotten a few decades ago. but this is still by far the largest audience of president gets to speak to live unfiltered every network carries the speech. they don't edit it, they let the president have his say with the american people, connect with them. and so very important, particularly when you're heading into an election year and you saw biden obviously take advantage of that delivering a very campaign or campaign like speech in front of the joint session of congress. >> oliver darcy, good to see my friend. thank you. >> thank you. >> ukraine's armed forces and
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the winds >> rahel solomon in new york and ms is cnn thanks for joining us in to >> cnn newsroom this hour, i'm erica hill in new york. we do begin with breaking news. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu hitting back at president biden tonight, that's in you telling politico and german news outlet bild that he will cross biden's red line and invade rafah. israeli leader is also defending his policies in gaza after biden said that netanyahu is hurting israel more than he is helping. senior scott mclean is following these new developments for us from istanbul has got what more did we hear from the prime minister tonight? >> hey, erica, yeah, so first it's important to know that president biden in an interview on saturday said that invading rafah was a red line for him, but he also couched it by