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shockwaves around the world >> we're after president biden but it's invaded. and now the israeli prime minister's speaking out, no sin of backing down the former israeli prime minister enough, tally bennett is out front tonight. also breaking trump on a tirade, lashing out at the judge on the same day that stormy daniels clashes trump's attorney in the courtroom and a surprise move, prosecutors and the hush-money case now opting not to put former playmate playboy playmate karen mcdougal on the stand. how come? let's go out front good evening. >> i'm erin burnett outfront tonight shockwaves president biden's threat to stop providing weapons to israel if israel launches an invasion into rafah as popular center is reverberating across the globe tonight is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu was firing back at biden after his exclusive interview with us last night a more.

>> if we need to stand alone, we will stand alone. i've said that if necessary. we will fight with our fingernails stand alone. >> no signs that netanyahu will stand down a defiance and his national security minister waking up to new this morning and israel time posted online, hamas hearts biden with an emoji these fast, furious, emotional reactions because of this very clear statement, a commonly delivered statement from the president of the united states imagine clear that if they go into rafah, they haven't gotten rafah yet. >> if they go into rafah i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah to deal with the cities that deal with that problem. it's just wrong. we're not going to we're not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells and after that, i will show you the front pages of newspapers from around the world. had leinz, including

biden betrayal, joe biden's rafah read appends us israel relationship. biden makes explicit threat to withhold weapons shipments if israel enters rafah israel fury it. biden's threat to cut off weapons over rafah invasion, turning point or breaking point bytes, pause on weapons tests, ties to israel. and it goes on and on and on. >> and here in the united states, a political upheaval. many democrats support president biden, but republicans and some democrats are bulking aggressively at biden's warning and just listen to former president trump at his hush money trial today biden is doing with respect to israel is disgraceful if any jewish person voted for joe biden he's totally abandoned. >> israel and nobody can as for biden and the white house, they

own it. >> they meant what they said and they're not trying to walk the ultimate and back i can assure you that direct and forthright nature with which he expressed himself in his insurance in an interview with erin burnett is consistent with how he has expressed himself. >> to prime minister netanyahu and israeli officials i let signs is out front live outside the white house tonight. our let the white house doubling down on biden's extraordinary and significant warning to israel yeah. >> aaron, the white house has been fielding questions on president biden's comments to you all throughout the day. in fact, just moments ago, the very first round of questions to white house press secretary karine jean-pierre. we're about intense pushback that has been received from the israelis, from lawmakers, republicans and some democrats up on capitol hill to president biden congestion that he would withhold further weapons shipments to israel if they undergo a fool ground invasion of rafah. but really what

officials here at the white house have been stressing throughout the day is that what president biden said to you? is what he has been conveyed to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, to israeli officials in price i've it for months now, it really comes as the administration has been warning and phone calls and meetings that any major invasion into rafah would not be conducted with the aid of american weapons unless there's a plan in place to ensure the safety and evacuation of the more than 1 million people who have sought shelter there so far. our administration officials still say, but they have not seen such a viable plan. now, officials throughout the day, we're not trying to walk back these comments from president biden and they said that it should come as no surprise to the israelis as he has made clear in his private conversations that this was his intention, but certainly this is not an easy he a decision for president biden to go public with this warning to israel today at the white house, we also heard the white house spokesperson, john kirby

pushed back on those who have suggested that president biden is trying to walk away from israel in this moment. what officials are arguing so far he has paused one shipments and it's simply a hypothetical about but further shipments going forward, but all eyes will be on netanyahu's next steps when it comes to rafah& have president biden will hold up the warning. the he issued in his interview with you. >> all right. thank you very much. are latin, of course, the israelis appearing that they say to be shocked and surprised, perhaps that this was me public, perhaps they did and believe he really meant it. and it's clear now that he does. and there is backlash on capitol hill. now, after this republicans and send steven some democrats unsettled, manu raju is out front president joe biden, igniting a capitol hill firestorm with this blunt warning to israel, going to rafah. >> i'm not supplying the weapons, prompting gop outrage, horribly bad decision. this is insane joe biden's de facto

position is for a hamas victory over israel. >> and dividing his party between what pro democrats, i'm concerned that in some sense, some way it demonstrates the hamas that they're winning the pr war. your song in a tough the hamas and those who accuse prime minister benjamin netanyahu recklessly targeting palestinians in the war initiated by hamas brutal october 7 attack, the president has made clear by his actions that all us military aid is conditioned in this case, prime minister netanyahu has created a humanitarian disaster and he will be held accountable for that. that should not be a blank check to the netanyahu government. this will not involved in hamas in any way. hamas is actually benefiting from the fact that the humanitarian crisis is so bad last week, biden prevented 3,500 bombs from being shipped to out of fears that it could

be used in densely populated rafah a southern gaza city with more than 1 million palestinians? yeah, biden says the us will still provide aid to israel and help us defense against hamas winning applause amongst some senior democrats, their goal should be to separate palestinian people from mom. >> but should he be telling israel how to conduct its wars? >> well we are providing a huge amount of support. >> this all comes amid the unrest within biden's own party campus demonstrations and protest votes in swing states threatening his chances at reelection. >> he, it's disgusting and disturbing to see president biden continued to play more into election politics, yet some vulnerable senate democrats in swing-state, an with the president's mood. >> are you comfortable with the president holding shipment to israel releasing you, do that.

why? >> because congress passed it, that was their intent. they should put these you should release israel is bill to protect themselves. i made clear from beginning that israel has the right to exist and defend itself i've also made clear that humanitarian aid needs to get to gaza and nobody should stand in the way of that. >> i need to know more about the president's proposal d supported yet need to know more about the proposal even as he has won some praise from progressive democrats like alexandria ocasio-cortez heralding the president's move. there has been some silence. aaron, amongst them top quarters of democratic leadership. in fact, chuck schumer, senate majority, the first ever jewish majority leader of the united states senate, did not address this issue at all on the senate floor today, he was asked yesterday about the initial delay of those weapons to israel when he was asked about it, he said that the israel and

america had an ironclad relationship. and he says, quote, if faith and what the biden administration is doing my thank you and out front now, former israeli prime minister, enough tally bennett, president biden, making it clear to me that if israel launches a ground invasion into rafah, into the population center, that the united states will halt weapons shipments here's what he said. if they go into rafah, i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities that deal with that problem. we're going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks like came out the least recently but it's it's just wrong. >> what do you say to him well, certainly president biden has always been a great friend to israel, but i think this decision is deeply misguided

what are we being told here? >> we have a radical jihadist terror organization on our border that's telling us it's going to continue trying to murder as many jews as possible. obviously, we have to get rid of it. we have no choice now, talking about civilians. if hamas is granted immunity because it hides behind civilians billions, that's not only a problem with hamas, that means that the whole global jihad organizations are all going to adopt human shields as the core wherever of conducting terror. so this would be a profound mistake and we think that we have really no choice we've gotta do what we gotta do so let me just ask you though because he made very clear to me that some of the weapons that the united states has provided, including those powerful 2000 pound bombs he says that those bombs have been used by israel to kill civilians in gaza.

>> that that has happened. i want to play that exact soundbite for you civilians have been killed in gaza is a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers are you able to confirm whether us bombs have killed civilians in gaza well, of course, bombs when they target key hamas they're sometimes as collateral damage and all wars all wars in every urban war in the history of the world, there's collateral damage, especially when hamas is using the civilians as human shield. there's no doubt, but as israel using bumps to target civilians, absolutely not. never. we never target civilians. in fact, we have the lowest ratio of collateral damage in the history of urban warfare fair? there's about, let's call it 30, 32,000 palestinians who died, half of them are terrorists. that's

one-to-one in afghanistan and iraq, it was one to nine for every terrorists you killed, there were 6789 civilians were bending over backwards in order to prevent unnecessary deaths. otherwise, we'd get this whole thing done within three days if we didn't care about it. >> so are you using is not cavalier about this. >> all right. so are you going to continue? i mean, there was a video just put out by prime minister netanyahu. and what appears to be very clear and aggressive response to biden. he says, quote, if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. >> and then the idf said israel has the weapons for rafah invasion my first question to you, i guess on this is a very basic one. >> or any of those weapons at the idf says that you have stockpiled four rafah invasion american weapons and stockpile i don't know. >> i assume that some of them are i mean, just i'm not in government right now so do you

have any doubt when you hear that that prime minister netanyahu plans to go forward with a full incursion into gaza, into rafah we should have done rafah four months ago. >> i don't know why this wavering we should have just done it stops talking about it all day. >> just go and destroy hamas, destroy those four battalions kill the leaders of hamas unless they are released. it's the hostages that's what i would have done. were doing way too late, but it's better late than never. and really we have no choice when there's four battalions, just imagine the fund on the border of texas, you had isis that that murdered roughly 50,000 americans, kidnap 6,000 americans in a highly popular bladed city in mexico. what would america do? what would you do? so we're going to do just that and we have to do it there's no choice. we don't this is not on the other side of earth. >> this is on our border i'm

just doing the math here. if you did that right. so you'd have 50,000 times 17 that would mean the united states was willing to kill 875,000 mexicans. do you think we'd really do that? the united states rightfully so during world war ii killed hundreds of thousands of germans, millions of japanese, in order to bring an end to the war, the best way to save lives is to end the war as quickly as possible. >> this lingering is the problem if we have the backing of the united states that'll happen. i also want want to say one more thing. >> this partial embargo senza, a very bad message to us and wore the commander of hamas, because if he was going to reach a deal, he'll say i don't need to do a deal anymore because anyway, israel can come into hamas if america is not supporting it moreover, hizballah in the north, all of the terror organizations in the middle east going to save

themselves weight if america is withholding arms from israel, this is a great time to attack israel because they won't have enough farms. >> so i think this is not the right approach one more question i wanted to ask you about the response within your government biden's comments have sparked a lot of anger and alarm clearly, netanyahu's national security minister reacted by posting a tweet and it says, hamas heart emoji biden. >> it was all he posted. i've seen it. you've seen it is that the, right sentiment that's a childish and infant tile response and i'm certainly not going to defend every stupid thing that any minister says. i'm speaking mostly on behalf of mainstream israel, right and left religious, secular we want gonna be close with the united states of america. >> we know america's our biggest friend. this is a time where we're being attacked

from yemen, from iraq, from iran, from syria, from lebanon, from gaza. this is the time where we need to stand together, fight back terror when get it over with all right. >> well, thank you very much. a farm prime minister, enough taliban and i appreciate your time thank you next, stormy daniels going toe-to-toe with trump's lawyers pushing back after hours of cross-examinatio n, did the trump team's strategy backfired and they're paying people to stand in line for hours for them in the hopes of getting a glimpse of what's going on inside the trump courtroom what time did you get here? 12, a.m. once you before for wow, a new video. >> justin of a strike in rafah. we're going to take you inside southern gaza where people are now bracing for that all out assault today at america's beverage companies, are bottles might still look the same, but

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is not anticipates take the stand in that post comes just hours after we also saw a very different sayyed of stormy daniels on the witness stand. daniels defined as she repeatedly sparred back-and-forth with trump's lawyer hitting back at attempt after attempt by the defense to discredit her and disparaged her. paula reid is outfront donald trump continuing to fight back today. >> there's no case should never have been brought out as his hush money trial entered its 14th day his team attacking stormy daniels credibility in a tense cross-examination, you have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real defense attorneys is it nicholas said, wow, daniels replied with a pause. >> that's not how i would put it. >> the sex and the film's is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room. >> nicholas asked daniels if she made up the story with trump. it that story was untrue. i would have written it to be a lot better. daniels shot back the defense, zeroing in on small inconsistencies in

the details of daniel story, hoping to undermine her credibility with the jury, your story has completely changed nicholas said daniels and raised voice, replied, no, you're trying to make me say that it changed, but it hasn't changed. and then they question daniel's earlier testimony that she felt powerless in trump's hotel room, you acted and had sex in over 200 porn movie's nechele said, but according to you, seeing a man sitting on a bed in a t-shirt and boxer shorts was so upsetting that you got lightheaded. this wasn't the first time in your life someone made a pass at you? daniels replied, no, but it's the first it's time they had a body guard standing outside the door. adding trump was twice her age and bigger than her when pressed, daniels explained my own insecurities made me feel that way. he did not put his hands on me. he did not give me any drugs or alcohol and he did not hold a weapon or hold me or threatened me. nicholas also i really critical

of how daniels profited off the encounter, even calling out her strip club tore make america horny again, daniels responded, i did not name that tore and i thought it tooth and nail. but nechele is said daniels has made nearly $1 million from a book deal documentary, and selling products on her website hi, you're celebrating the indictment by selling things from your store, right? nechele less pressed. daniels quipped, not unlike mr. trump. trump frowned as photos of the various merchandise were shown before the court daniels defended herself by saying she did an interview with anderson cooper on 60 minutes for free. >> did you want to have sex with no but i didn't i didn't say no. >> i'm not a victim. >> the prosecution later calling two witnesses who were involved in trump's business, a junior bookkeeper at the trump organization, and madeline western, the former director of trump's oval office operations. she confirmed evidence that supports a key part of the prosecution's timeline, an

email setting up a february 2017 oval office meeting between trump and michael cohen, which cohen has claimed was to discuss, reimbursement for daniels hush money payment prosecutors are expected to call a few more witnesses like those 40 flee to help them bring in evidence before they call the man whose testimony could decide this case? michael cohen. >> and depending on timing, quick call him late tomorrow, but more likely they will want to kick off with him on monday and his appearance on the witness stand is expected to last at least through the week. erin. all right. thank you very much, paul, ryan goodman, terry austin are back with me. so ryan, you know, you warned that the extended cross exam of stormy daniels, which was a choice, they could be done, they could've gone fast. they decided to sleep on wednesday and come in and try to make this a dragged out thing on thursday and and really humiliate or that's what they tried to do. did it backfire? >> it sure seemed to i think the one word that's been most commonly associated with stormy

daniels testimony today's that she was unflappable. so she came across very credible and if anything they went deeper about what happened with the sexual encounter and she comes across as credible and knowing the details and staying consistent in this small minutiae of discrepancies that they find doesn't really undermine the core account that she's given. so i think at the end of the day she comes out ahead, which is quite remarkable, given that this was cross examination by the defense counsel against her, right. >> i mean, tarragona think they're spending time. did you did you mean the tiles where this color or that hello. oh, my goodness. i'm just in it and it sends it also the bizarre thing for any person, but certainly a woman asking a woman apps to actually think you're going to remember that. i mean, that was bizarre. >> it was bizarre and it wasn't just the way that nichols was asking the questions. it was what she was asking to your point, she asked about the floor and what color what it was, and she kept harping on these very small issues like, will you go to dinner because when you were at this interview, you didn't mention that it was dinner. you

said it was a meeting and here you said yes, you went to dinner and it was just minutia that didn't make any sense. did you walk to the hotel or did you call the car and every time stormy daniels actually had a decent it's an explanation or explanation for the food, was it was a dinner meeting. we didn't eat if we had showed up, she said and then there was no food which she thought they might go downstairs. they didn't they sat there upstairs. she said and no food came? correct. and then for the car, she said she started walking, but then she ended up taking a car. so i think nichols made a mistake trying to get this discrepancies that really were so minor. and to your point, i do think that she really held up. well on cross-examination. >> she even had a reason right. for why she took the car because her shoes were to high-heeled and so she took a car i mean, you know i'd reasons for these things ryan you felt there was one thing that was sort of under the radar today. so i'm going to read exactly what happened in this exchange. tell me why it matters. so this is the prosecution when you're on

redirect and stormy daniels so she's asieh by the prosecution, do you recall that his attorneys, mr. trump's attorney in court papers in june of 2018 confirmed that donald trump it had reimbursed michael cohen's company essential consultants for the hundred $30,000 that was paid to you in 2017, de as answers, yes, i saw that prosecution. so that was confirmed and mr. trump's submitted court papers, correct? she answers correct. >> okay. put that in english? >> so it's really remarkable now it's thinking that there'll be a moment in which the prosecution would try to enter this into the evidence, and this is what they did. so there is a civil bunch of civil cases that are going back and forth between stormy daniels and donald trump in california.& in 2018, don't trump's submits a court filing in which he admits to most of the facts in this case and the fact that he admits to is he pay repaid that he might reverse out when $400 for hush money to stormy

daniels pursuant to the nda. >> so that's that's that's the scheme. and just to contrast it with the opening statement by donald trump's lawyer, todd blanche, in this trial, todd blanche in this trial says to the jury, you're going to hear that there was no reimbursement what happened today? >> they just hit donald trump himself in a court filing in 2018 and california, so that he did reimburse him and that's really deeply the way for me to say someone else did that filing or he didn't sign it or he didn't know. this isn't a court filing and under oath sort of equivalent yes. >> and it's just an it is donald trump is hits his representation in that court and it's the statement that he made. and also i should say, not only did he make it in the court, but there's then a subsequent court opinion in california and it actually says we consider that to be an admission by donald trump so let me ask that as a follow to that though, a reimbursement at. >> this goes back to one of the key things in this case, righteous is when you reimburse somebody for business expense or legal fee, it's a one for one, but that's not how this was accounted for. that's already been established that this was accounted for. they

did it doubled to account for taxes. how does that fit? >> well, one of the things that the prosecution is trying to say is that they entered all of these payments as kenya agreements in that michael cohen was giving them legal advice. and in fact, it was reimbursement for this hush money. so it's inconsistent. i think that helps the prosecution and it hurts the defense. and i do think it's something that's slipped under the radar. >> how does it fit this admission to a reimbursement with what we saw on the documentation with jeff mclean fani that showed gross up and double the amount to michael cohen. do those two these two things fit? >> absolutely. they completely fit because that is actually mcconney as the control of trump organization and weisselberg as the cfo in their handwriting writing down the true scheme, the true underlying scheme, which is as terry just said, it's a embarrassment and then they're grossing him up times two. and then mcconney actually writes for taxes. and what is the predicate crime here that can make this a felony that they were doing it for taxes that was committing tax fraud because on their tax papers,

they were not saying that this was a hush-money payment. they were saying legal services. that's why he earned twice the amount. >> so now it's all all there. it's just getting donald trump to know that he knew that that piece of paper happen, but that grows up happened. that's right. >> and that's what we're going to see if they are able to prove with this crucial michael cohen who we anticipate coming at any moment out to the court. all right. thank you both very much. >> next, we're just learning prosecutors will not call karen mcdougal, who also claimed to have had a long-term i'm sexual relationship with the former president. they will not call her to the stand. >> why many had thought they would? >> ronan farrow has reported extensively on mcdougal's relationship with trump ease out front next, and caught in the crosshairs more than 1 million refugees and rafah bracing for a full-on assault by israeli forces. even as president biden has now told prime minister benjamin netanyahu in no uncertain time, in terms this is the red line. are clarissa ward is on the ground at fisher investments.

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for free visit otter.ai. ai or download the app i'm tom forming and washington. and this is cnn tonight keeping karen mcdougal off the stand. prosecutors and trump's hush money case revealing they do not plan to call the former playboy playmate to testify about her alleged affair with donald trump. that major

development coming shortly after trump's defense attorneys filed a motion today to try to block mcdougal from taking the stand following stormy daniels, six hours of graphic testimony about her affair with trump and what happened after i'd front now, ronan farrow contributing writer for the new yorker, who's done incredibly extensive reporting on trump's hush money payments, wrote the book catch and kill lies, spies, and conspiracy to protect predators and ronan is so great to have you back so you broke the news about trump's alleged affair with karen mcdougal for the new york or that was in 2018. so you broke that news as a journalist, you're also of course, a lawyer. why do you think she is not being called to testify in this case in the first days her name was front and center. if anything, uttered more than stormy daniels well, we carried the first on the record, comments from mcdougal about it in the first detailed account of that affair, the wall street journal had also done excellent prior reporting where they acknowledged that the

transaction had happened, that the allegation of the affair existed out in the world world this is very much something a lot of publications contributed to meaningfully. >> now, in terms of this particular witness not making it into the case, it makes a lot of sense with the way that the prosecution has structured this for the jury. they've started out by laying out the part of the story that karen mcdougal would have featured in her alongside another story that we've broken the new yorker about a door man who was paid off to conceal a rumor about a loved child those figure in this scheme that prosecutors say was undertaken with ami, the publisher of the national enquirer, to cover up unflattering stories during the election that's step in the story is necessary for providing contexts so that by the time you get to the testimony we've seen this week, where they're talking about what exactly happened with stormy& the transactions between michael cohen and stormy daniel and their allegation that those were disguised, those were concealed

you need to know the preceding information. now, it makes a lot of sense that they ultimately chose to go with david pecker, the former head of ami, because he was the one who is in the room for the hatching of those schemes. so they're selecting him over. karen mcdougal as a voice. you could actually speak to that intent very directly, i think was a smart player ultimately and crucial & because trump of course, was at that meeting as they laid out with david pecker. >> now, karen mcdougal post a picture on social media over the weekend of your book. >> reading your book. and she writes in the post quote, reflecting. so she's relaxing the bath of the glass of wine and your book reflecting what, what, what did you interpret as you saw that well you know, it's some expertly judged shade right at the heart of this trial, where people know that she is one of the examples that goes to this case. >> prosecutors are making for intent where she was as prosecutors acknowledged today on their witness witness list she was very much in the air as

a name that was mentioned a lot during this trial for her to post with her bubble bath, enjoying yourself on a saturday night with a book on this subject is obviously something pointed and there were a lot of chuckles about it and circles around this story. >> so we know michael cohen is going to be coming up really any day tomorrow or monday. paula reid is reporting that he will be the last big name expected to be called by the prosecution. and it's expected to last all next week, which of course we're going just to be clear, that would be three court days now, you talked with him many times for these stories in recent years, how do you expect his examination and cross-examination are going to go, right? this is what it all comes down to. >> well one of the weaknesses in this case for prosecutors is that when they actually grilled the trump organization, folks who were involved in bookkeeping they had to concede that they didn't have knowledge

of trump directly ordering the covering up of these payments it all went through intermediaries and prosecutors would argue that's by design, that the effort to cover this up that is at the heart of this case, to some extent, worked. but nevertheless, they need a connecting voice, someone like michael cohen, who could say donald trump actually knew about this and ordered it. and so cohen is indispensible to the prosecutor's case. he also presents challenges michael cohen has admitted to lying to congress. in other contexts and he's also been very noisy in a way that has alarmed prosecutors. he tweeted not that long ago hey, i'm now going to shut up. so they're hoping they can make the most dependent and as a witness. >> all right. rohan, and thank you very much. great to see you always a pleasure. all right. next we do have new video into outfront. >> this is a strike. we are learning of in southern gaza, people screaming for help. there are no ambulances i'll

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man is heard yelling. >> there are new ambulances to help the wounded and rafah clarissa ward is out front in jerusalem tonight and clarissa president biden sent shockwaves around the world. of course, when he issued this ultimatum to netanyahu, he also admitted that american bombs were responsible for the deaths of palestinian civilians in gaza. what has been the reaction in israel? >> well i think erin, this really was a pretty stark admission even though those of us who are following this conflict very closely know that us bombs have been killing palestinian civilians to hear the president express that, we have seen amnesty international has released a number of investigations over the past few months where they have found us munitions at the sites of strikes where dozens of people, many of them civilians, have been killed. we have seen of course, the video, the aftermath that these 2000 pound bombs, which have left honestly

much of gaza looking like a sort of moonscape, if you will. but it was that ultimatum to netanyahu that really has people here, israel talking. we have seen very strong reaction come from a number of the officials, prime minister netanyahu himself saying today that if israel needs to go it alone, we will saying that we will fight if we have to win our fingernails. we also heard from war cabinet minister benny gantz who said, quote, the us has a moral and strategic obligation to apply israel with the necessary tools to complete its mission. we heard from far-right national security minister ben-gvir, who just posted on x saying hamas hearts biden, but perhaps most importantly, we also heard from idf spokesperson daniel hagari, aaron, who said that this is not going to change things essentially, and that the idf does have the weapons. it needs to continue its fight in rafah aaron to go and do it alone

with the stockpile that they have for prime minister natalia, but i was so i may assumes that many of that stockpile is also us weapons, but ones that israel already has i mean, this comes down to clarissa, the agony& the suffering in gaza. and the more than rep million refugees and rafah who have sought refuge there. how dire is this situation now for them? >> the situation is absolutely dire. we are seeing a number of aid organizations who are really sounding the alarm bell 1.4 million people have been hunkered down in rafah somewhere between 8,150,000 people have already evacuated since the idf started this latest operation. but the places that they're being evacuated to al-mawasi, for example, these so-called designated safe zones simply don't have the infrastructure or the space to support them. and perhaps most crucially,

these border crossings, aaron, which are a very limited but vital lifeline to get aid into get personnel aid. personnel and to get fuel in according to the un no trucks have been passing through kerem shalom rafah is closed according to the israelis, dozens. the state department said some, we just don't know and very tellingly, we saw a really stark warning from the un humanitarian chief martin griffiths. he took to x as well, and he posted a longer posting basically that they have not been able to get anything in in three days and talking about the impact of that, no fool. fuel for generators for hospitals. and he finished with this one line. our teams are stuck. civilians in gaza are being starved and killed and we are preventing we are prevented from helping them. this has gaza today, even after seven months of har erin course. >> so thank you very much. live

from jerusalem of course, of course, has spent time in gaza in this horrific war. it all happening as the complicated relationship between biden and netanyahu is now coming to a head oren liebermann front an airtight embrace between world leaders in the days after october 7 has given way to barely contained anger, a personal and political fight decades in the making. president joe biden has more than 50 years of history dating back to 1973. >> i've worked with every prime minister of israel from golden may year right through to the present prime minister, he first met prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the 80s, biden, a young senator on the foreign relations committee, where they're not in israel, the united states of america would have to invent an israel israel's longest-serving leader than working at the embassy in dc the relationship has more often than not had some friction. >> i signed a picture long time for vb. he's been a friend for over 30 years. that should bb i

don't agree with the damping is saved, but i love you but we really are good friends. >> biden has long been seen as a pro israel democrat. he surged aid to israel after october 7 and signed off on congress's supplemental designating $14 billion for israel under president barack obama, biden was seen as an asset able to work with netanyahu. but the tension between biden and netanyahu burst into the open last year when netanyahu tried to push through a major judicial overhaul like many strong support of israel, i'm very concerned concern that they get this straight it cannot continued on his throat even so never before has it spilled over like this? >> i've made it clear to bibi and the war cabinet. they're not going to get our support if in fact they go on these population centers in an exclusive interview with erin burnett, biden said the us wouldn't now, supply bombs to israel if it invaded rafah, where more than 1 million palestinians have sought refuge, we're not walking away

from israel's security rockaway, israel's ability to wage war in those areas, biden has grown increasingly frustrated with netanyahu telling his advisers that the israeli leader is ignoring his advice the relationship may be beyond repair. it can't get better as long as mr. netanyahu was in power, what may happen is that these differences could be mitigated, alleviated, but that would be only a temporary relief seven months into the war, the us openly opposes and israeli ground invasion of rafah offer one netanyahu promises is still coming. me. third lot more levada. if we need to stand alone, we will stand alone. i have said that if necessary, we will fight with our fingernails, the short statement posted on social media didn't mention biden but it didn't need to adding to the tension between the two liters is prime minister benjamin netanyahu's internal domestic politics and that's because of the far-right flank of his coalition. >> they have threatened his government if there is a

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before for more than 100 people hoping for for a coveted seats inside the trump trial. >> i mean, it's the first time in history that president has been brought through this process. it's very historic, usually no more than 12 members of the public get inside the courtroom where trump is just yards away. those are the green ticket holders awarded to the first view in line od been here since 11:00 p.m. last night so you haven't slept with sleep he is a professional line holder, making roughly $50 or to stand here and guarantee his client entry since this whole thing started. we've been getting calls constantly. that we've been here almost every day. >> joseph walsh, bob, the retired criminal defense attorney. he's been here all week. >> i went to rei and bought this and i also bought yes. a tush, cush, because those wooden benches, a brutal you are now very prepared. yes.

>> most prepared one online, i think fell both of these for a hefty profit. >> there are more seats available in the overflow room this golden ticket gets about two dozen more people into a room located down the hall from the proceedings. there boxes on large tv screens show the judge lawyers, trump, and witnesses like stormy daniels like watching a soap opera the whole thing and just wanted to see that people, the characters hamilton, clancy and his wife karen, came to court tuesday. >> those my birthday wish. i mean, it's here in new york. we're here in new york. this is a once in a lifetime thing. who wouldn't want to be here. it's democracy in action. >> those here say the weight goes quickly either with a good book, coffee or friendly debate. >> it's a fake trial and i can't believe that they do this. they're doing this to him. it's fine to disagree with this. how much work to the trial, like more testimony. michael cohen possibly trump

himself this line expected to only get longer and brand, you know, i've seen you out there talking to people and you've had such amazing people. you've met our, the leinz getting longer? >> yeah, listen, this is the longest line that we have seen yet people fully knowing that stormy daniels was going to be back on the stand today but with an arrow, this is where they actually line up, right? the public really forms this line here and then over here is really for the press and like i said, we might start seeing people within the next few hours because people are anticipating michael cohen to take the stand and i have to point out we have actually met people from all across this country. i talked to one couple from utah in new york city as a tourist and they're like, hey, let's just go line for the trump trial everybody really wants a piece of this history, aaron. >> it's nice to see people care so much and be willing to do that. yeah, 50 bucks an hour for the line sitter. he's a busy man.