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for certain cnn this morning with kasie hunt. >> next this is. cnn breaking news we begin this morning with major breaking news out of the middle east hamas political leader ismail haniyeh nia killed in tehran. >> according to hamas and neo was killed during an israeli strike on his residence with a hamas official saying his death, quote, will not pass in vain. us defense secretary lloyd austin, reacting to this news overnight i don't have anything for you on that it we'll certainly have heard the reporting, but i don't have any any additional information and just moments ago, iran supreme leader vowing to avenge the killing of haniah, writing in a statement, quote you killed are deer gas in our house now have paved the way for your harsh punishment. we consider it our duty to ask for the blood of our dear guests. cnn has

reporters all across the region as the story continues. i'm used to development cnn's ben wedeman is in lebanon, but we're going to start first with cnn's jeremy diamond, who is in israel. jeremy, what are you hearing from israeli officials this morning? >> well, jessica, israeli officials are not confirming that they were responsible for this assassination in the heart of tehran but as saying that they do not comment on reports in the foreign media, bus, hamas, as well as iranian state media are confirming that ismail haniah was assassinated they dated in a building in tehran. the ukrainian state media saying that it was an airborne guided projectile that was fired at the building where he was staying hamas describing it as an airstrike. what is clear is that ismail haniah it is dead. the target of quite brazen assassination by which certainly raises the stakes for this region. we just need to

take stock of what just the last few days as we have watched, really tectonic shifting of the situation in this it's region after earlier this weekend hezbollah carried out a rocket attack on the golan heights. israel, how severe you saw that response play out last night as what shakur? shakur, a hezbollah senior military commander, was taken out in an israeli strike and within the very same 20 four hour period, israel appears to have then taken this assassination out in tehran on hamas's political leader. so not only is this potentially we are pushing this region closer to the brink of war, a region that was already very much on edge. but in addition to that, this will also have significant implications on those ongoing ceasefire and hostage release talks earlier this week, israel submitted its response to those going negotiations, but for the short-term, at least, i think it's very clear that those negotiations are going to go

absolutely nowhere now, it's mile hania with key interlocutor with the qatari's, the mediators in these negotiations and we will have to see in the medium and the long term what the impact will be. but at least for now, it appears that those ceasefire negotiations, the momentum at least has been lost. jessica all right. >> jeremy diamond for us in israel. thank you so much for that reporting and this breaking news coming just hours after a hezbollah commander was killed in lebanon, according according to israeli defense forces an airstrike near beirut killed hezbollah commander who had sugar an idf spokesperson saying that strike was in retaliation for an attack earlier this week in the golan heights that killed 12 children at a soccer field cnn's ben wedeman is joining us now, live from beirut ben, what are you hearing from lebanese leaders are leaders in beirut about this attack this morning well this attack this morning comes it's sort of a double shock after what happened yesterday, just before 8:00 p.m. local

time when that senior military commander of his butler was assassinated in the southern suburbs. >> although his butler has yet to confirm that. we've gotten a statement from hezbollah, which describes a smile haniah, the assassinated the hamas leader into hanan is one of the great resistance leaders of our present era. they put out a statement saying that we in his butler share with our dear brothers in the hamas movement, all the feelings of pain over the loss of this great leader. the feelings of anger at the enemy's crime. now also this morning, the iranian ambassador here in beirut has giving a press conference. he said that iran does not seek war but does not accept the region falls pray to the united states. and israel. so we're really teetering on the brink of something much larger. there's already, in the sense, mulch civil fronts in this war.

there's of course gaza, where more than 40,000 people have been killed in the last ten months. the border between israel and lebanon has been a battle zone also since last october, you have the houthis who have made interfered with navigation in the red sea. you have pro iranian militias in syria and iraq did occasionally fired toward israel or us bases in the region. so it's sort of this the stages set for potentially a much greater conflict. and now that the israelis appear to have assassin it's needed in the heart of the iranian capital tat on the political leader of hamas is ismail haniyeh, a man who was active lee engaged in the negotiation process for the release of israeli hostages in gaza. so as jeremy rightly pointed out, that process, the possibility of a ceasefire the

possibility of the release of those hostages is now very much back jessica wait, a man for us in beirut. >> thank you very much for that reporting and for more on this breaking news, let's bring in cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier, and cnn chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh. good morning to both of you, kim it's the first with you. this is this is a very significant 48 hours that we've seen really weaken even backup to the weekend with the attack on the golan heights that killed those 12 children. and now what has followed after this? we have the killing of this hezbollah top military commander in beirut. and now the hamas political leader in tehran set the stage for us, where we are this morning is everyone's waking up how this conflict has evolved, had it stayed just at the presumed killing of flood sugar inside beirut this might have been for tat gone back to his below

attacking israeli military targets on the border now presumably israel has escalated to killing the political leader of hamas inside tehran. we've got a number of layers of complications by hitting them inside iran this man was an official iranian guest as well as of course, as us and israeli officials tell us a proxy for iran but he was also the more moderate wing of the party he was the one who most of the peace talks were going through he'd actually been one of the few voices within hamas urging a more political track as opposed to yahya sinwar and the military wing inside gaza, that masterminded october 7 haniah and many of those in qatar, the hamas leaders in qatar had said they weren't part of the october 7 planning that they weren't aware of it. and now that moderate potentially moderate voice is off the stage, and that leaves israel

that leaves iran and hezbollah wanting some sort of revenge against israel. will lead to something like the 300 missile strike that are on, took on israel after one of its own was killed filled in a presumed israeli strike that's the question that's the big question. >> and nic, to that point, as kim points out, these are iranian proxies just to connect the dots and the question now is what does iran do and how much does this escalate? >> you look, it doesn't have a particularly great options. and when you hear supreme leader ayatollah khamenei saying this is essentially a guest in their house and they must be harsh punishment for israel. he doesn't have, as kim was saying, they're vast amounts of proven effective means at his fingertips. now, yes, certainly has below the main proxy to the north of israel could potentially launched the full-scale conflict that many have been concerned of. you heard ben talking about there for months, but be devastating for both sides of the border. and it would leave hezbollah

most likely weakened at the end of this is most likely as well. so does iran want to play that car that can be played once now unclear. you mentioned there to the 300 missiles and drones that were fired intercepted by western allies isn't israel's air defenses well, in the modern era, it's pretty clear. it runs longer-range missiles aren't that good at hitting israel. so what is really left for them? remember too, how many speaking now, 24 hours after he's just seen a more moderate president sworn in and perhaps he might have wanted in his wildest dreams after years of unrest inside of iran or weakened economy from sanctions and a tough neighborhood friends in play for a decade for iran in which it seemed to rise up, but it's also now seeing its power ebb to some degree. so how many is not speaking from a position of strength? he certainly had to project strength internally. but what he's actually able to do in the coming 24 to 40? she eight hours is subject to question, and this is all really dependent on the narrative we start getting out

of tehran. how did this really go down? was this an israeli airstrike and israeli drone controlled from tel aviv, for example, or was there a group? of israeli backed agents on the ground executing this? how precise was it? how embarrassing is it geopolitically for iran, these are all urgent questions. and interestingly enough, we just had a statement from the irgc, the revolutionary guard corps, in which they it kind of suggested they give us more details about what happened, but it was empty. it talked about the grave violation really of their sovereignty and so we're still waiting on exactly how this happened. and that will tell you yes, how brazen israel was, but also the scale of the embarrassment here that iran is having to deal with and having to convince its allies in the region and the world that it's able to respond to absolutely no guarantees in this region after last month's because all the key players continually change or their own domestic sense pressure. but it's a very volatile morning. we wake up to i thought that when i went to bed, frankly and heard about

the strikes in southern beirut that made me think region wasn't a dangerous precipice. now we're seeing a whole new phase here but the unpredictability can work in both ways. we can find ourselves dragged towards conflict, but also surprisingly finding people step back from it. we simply don't know. but my gosh, what a morning. >> yeah, it is certainly been a morning and kim, just before we go a couple of thoughts to just listening nic one, the fact that this struck that this strike happened in the heart of tehran is significant, but beyond that separately, we have these hostage and ceasefire it's fire negotiations that you were mentioning where do those stand now? and what happens now? >> now first of all, we're not likely to hear israel claimed responsibility for this. there have been a number of top iranians killed inside iran, even near tehran, including the head of the nuclear program in 2020 and israel never said yes, we did that. but it was done in a similar fashion with a drone

or some sort of aerial device. where this leaves this though with everyone presuming that it was israel carrying it out is i think we're going to see the peace talks get frozen. this is a scary, scary time for the families of the hostages because the hamas wing inside gaza was the hardest to convince to take a step towards a ceasefire and exchange hostages for palestinian prisoners without someone like the political wings leader pushing for that without ismail haniah, there i think we're going to have a big gap before any return to talks alright, kim, thank you so much. >> nick paton, walsh and kim dozier. we'll be back with you guys in just a little bit for more on this story. but up next on cnn this morning you got something to say kamala harris

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introduced to the stage by robert quaver and during her speech, harris made the case to move into the white house, but also had a message for her opponent about the now canceled debate in september you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage because as the saying goes, if you've got something to say wants to take the vice president's job, also staying busy with under 100 days now to election day on saturday at vance and donald trump will hold a rally at that same atlanta venue. were harris held her rally last night? also last night, vance hitting the trail in nevada while speaking to route in reno, he suggested without evidence that harris had been in charge all along there's nothing they can do

about the fact that kamala harris, she owns every single one of the biden administration's failure of the last four years? >> biden didn't know what he was doing. so clearly it was his vice president who was running the show and joining us now to discuss, were both campaigns, stan, mariana alfaro breaking our politics, breaking news reporter with the washington post marianna good morning. >> thanks for being here. i'm just thinking first that last clip there from senator j.d. vance, it is fascinating to see how republicans have moved from kamala harris can't do anything, has no power to now she was she was in charge all along. there is still clearly trying to figure out how to message against her. >> yeah, there i mean, all these lines of attack that honestly are not landing and the thing is, and that's why as you probably said that yesterday about the debate, you know, say to my face and come here and then let's talk it out and i think that that's because she he's really good at those snappy replies that they haven't been able to master. i think thinking about to her time when she ran for da even want her first big raise she

was always really please tonight really fast, really quick. and i think that republicans haven't been able to figure out how to handle that, especially, you know, we heard j.d. vance say that they've also been coming on her for being a woman, for being childless. i think donald trump's suggested yesterday that she wouldn't be able to hold her weight against foreign leaders. and i think that those are not really landing because there's always a way that she and her campaign have been able to reply to two they're attacks? >> yeah. and were seeing immigration, obviously a very big issue for a lot of americans. and we're seeing it not surprisingly begin to emerge from both? sides as they start is as the harris campaign starts to kind of go on offense, they're they released an ad trying to make the case that she's for all of these things we're in that legislation that republicans blocked on capitol hill, of course, trump and j.d. vance are really trying to hold democrats and kamala harris accountable for everything that's going on at the border. how do you see this playing out and now under 100 days left? >> yeah. and i think i think

the very interesting that is going to emerge from this is that she's going to be able to ron and that prosecutor record of hers because she did come after, you know, smugglers. she did come after human traffickers. she didn't come out after drug cartel leaders during her timing california and i think that that's you know, a tool that they haven't really spoken about when she was running for vp, when she was running for senate. but i think that right now they're trying to emphasize so much that like prosecutor peter versus criminal aspect of the race that even going into immigration, she actually has a record of showing, you know, i did come after the other guides, the bad guys, and i think that borders our situation that republicans are really trying to nail on it. it's going to take them a little bit. it's going take them that's a little bit more explaining to figure out what she was actually doing there. she was supposed to be talking to central american leaders about the push factors and everything. but that's not something you can get on equipe message. i think that that's going to be a challenge to be like, no, this is actually what she had to do. but then compare that to the rest of her record and see how that goes as a message. >> and going back to where we began with this segment, that rally in atlanta last night with vice president harris a big crowd, pretty rock as you

mentioned, these one-liners and zippy zingers there it is such a difference to see versus president biden on the campaign trail. of course in that state of georgia, which democrats are hoping maybe can come back to them now, i mean, it definitely felt like georgia is backup play, you know, that's 10,000 people in that stadium and, you know, president trump's going to be there next week. >> we'll see what how he draws in. but, you know, the folks there seem very happy. my colleagues who were there on the ground said, you know the energy here has not been felt as campaign so far it kind of makes me you know, think 2008, it kind of makes me feel like people just receive that sap of energy that, you know, ten days ago when this all began. again, it's kind of crazy to think that it's a whip now us, yeah. and again, i mean, we even saw that in her smaller rally last week and we apple said she is drawn these crowds because people are kind of are feeling that you know, just speaking to sources, speaking to democrats

on the hill, they're kind of feeling this new hope or this new reenergize station that i think that they kind of forgot that they could tap into in the last so you're of campaign and there is a different dynamic in this race. there's no doubt about it. all right, mariana, thank you so much. great to have you here this morning up next the latest on breaking news, how the killing of a hamas leader peter could impact the ceasefire and hostage negotiations plus after concerns over water quality, olympic triathletes will swim in paris scene in river today that was his aim in the american spirit i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your presence, 1960 years sunday at nine on cnn, you found the right model for sure. >> now, how can you be sure you're getting the right deal? >> i have to talk to my bestie hey girl this one's like your last boyfriend. >> it's got issues let's ask

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shockwaves through that region sources telling cnn honea was quote, instrumental and ceasefire talks in his death could complicate those efforts cnn's paula hancocks is he's joining us now from abu dhabi. paula, what's the reaction from countries across the middle east and the world been to all of this well jessica, we've had an interesting reaction from one of those key mediators when it comes to the possible hostage ceasefire deal. >> and this is qatar they really have been instrumental in trying to so this deal and the prime minister has just issued a statement on x saying political assassinations and continued targeting of civilians in gaza while talks continue leads us to ask, how can mediation succeed when one party assassinates the negotiator. on the other side. now is male honea had actually been a key interlocutor in

recent months when it came to these talks, we had seen recently, his willingness to push forward a deal. if israel was going to agree to withdraw all of its troops out of gaza. and we really juxtapose that to what we saw from the hamas leadership inside gaza, yahya sinwar, the leader who is believed to be the holdup underground in gaza at this point, appears it's to be far more hard line when it comes to pushing for this deal and what it wants from israel in this deal and tenure had really been considered the interlocutor that was more likely to agree to a deal. so we are seeing certainly from qatar's point of view surprise that this has happened at a time when those talks were really appearing to make some progress early on sunday, there were there was a

meeting between qatar, egypt, the two mediators, and the united states and israel. now we have heard from the hostage families themselves pushing for this deal to go ahead, wanting to see the hostages released in return for a ceasefire and potentially thousands of palestinian prisoners and as released, but many experts are now questioning whether this can go ahead certainly in the short term, it seems unlikely we have heard some very fiery comments and statements from hamas officials after this assassination, calling it a grave escalation, saying it will not pass in vain also hearing from the iranian supreme leader saying that you killed our di, a guest in our house. we consider it our duty to ask for the blood of our dea guess jessica? >> hi, paula hancocks for us in abu dhabi. thank you so much for that reporting and still to come on cnn this morning, the results are in for some key primary races in error zona

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projectile that killed him, where he was staying in tehran. >> iran is blaming israel for that strikes so far israel has remained quiet. we've just learned israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will hold a security assessment in tel aviv later today. and of course, we're going to continue to fall on this story throughout the morning. we will bring you any new developments as we get them. turning now to politics, kari lake clenching the arizona republican senate nomination conservative firebrand beating out penal county sheriff mark lamb and neuroscientists elizabeth re in last night's primary election. she's going to take on democratic congressman ruben gallego this fall. >> it's a key race that could decide the balance of power in the senate in her speech last night, late gave a special thanks to former president trump i think we all share one common hero and i think i'm safe to say that we think of our favorite president donald j. trump as a hero, right? this

is not a battle between democrats and republicans. this is a battle between good and evil. this is a battle between the people who want to destroy this country and the people who want to say america lake and guy ego are competing to replace independent senator kyrsten sinema, who he's a retiring and joining us now, axios political reporter, stef kight and punchbowl, news congressional reporter max cohen. >> good morning to both of you. so let's start in arizona first steph, this is a race that a lot of people have had an in for a long time. it was we'll sinema ron won't she run now we know she's not. and so you really had this classic matchup democrat and republican, kari lake and ruben gallego help us understand the dynamics of this race. >> one thing that's really interesting about this race is the fact that both kari lake and ruben gallego are both accusing each other of being on the extremes of their party. and we've actually seen both of them try to moderate on a few issues. we've seen kari lake for example, on the issue

of abortion. she has tried to kind of step away from her her harder stance that she had in the past. she has said that she's opposed to a national abortion ban for example well you know, was in favor of a more moderate arizona law after an initial old law came into play on earlier this year and the same thing for ruben gallego, especially on the border issue. another issue that's very important in arizona as a border state, we've seen him as well, try to say that he's for stronger border security, trying to step away from maybe past comments where he has been more of a more lenient on border policy. and so it's been something that's been fascinating to watch. and of course to both pointing fingers, and it'll be interesting see whether especially kari lake has a real shot at winning at this point, it seems like you go still tends to be doing better in the polls. there's not a lot of faith in kari lake's campaign and when you talk to senate republican leadership, they see other states. it's more likely for pickups, seats, for republicans in arizona. >> yeah, maxim republicans certainly hoping to pick up

seats and flip the senate. this go round, but arizona specifically quigley has found his old back in the spotlight because, you know, with biden running, it looks like it was probably out of reach for democrats. >> now, democrats of course, the harris campaign, hoping that her being at the top of the ticket opens that back up. so you have this senate race. you have kind of the dynamics at play at the top of the ticket, where do you think it goes from here? how long? how real do you think that possibility is for democrats? >> i think the enthusiasm you saw last night and that georgia rally for kamala harris is incredible in terms of democratic enthusiasm and where we were just a couple of weeks ago when democrats had to hold their breath. every time president joe biden stepped before a camera now, it's excitement to turn out to these rallies, and i think that extends, as you mentioned, to the sunbelt just a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin as those kind of rust spelled the wall and as the only way for democrats to win exactly. >> now with the map, perhaps expanded because whereas harris doing better in polls, it seems he's doing better with young

voters. voters of color that is more of a georgia arizona situation than perhaps the rust belt states. so this could expand the senate map as well for democrats and someone who's excited about that is ruben gallego, who ended the worst. kamala harris very quickly after she announced her beta couple of weeks? yeah. yeah. >> and i want to talk a little bit about immigration. we're seeing new ads from both of the campaigns. let's play both of those and then step we can you talk about it a little more hang on one second. as a prosecutor, she put murderers and abusers behind bars as california's attorney general, she went after the big banks and 120 billion for homeowners and as vice president, she took on the big drug companies to cap the cost of insulin for seniors because kamala harris has always known who she represents this campaign is about who we fight for joe biden made kamala harris border czar to fix immigration. >> first, she ignored it. >> you have any plans to visit the border at some point and

she just lot hi to the border is secure kamala harris failed week dangerously liberal and so what's clearly emerging is, is republicans want to hold her and only her accountable for every three issue at the border. she was in charge of economic development for some of the countries in south and central america trying to promote business there people, there wouldn't be as many people at the border and democrats also in another ad going on the offense on immigration. how do you see this? playing out? >> and we look, there's no question that immigration has become a top issue for voters this election cycle. and we see that repeatedly in the polls. and of course this is republicans favorite issue and it has been going back to 2015 when donald trump made his campaign focused around building the wall, some of the language has changed, but they still see the border and the record numbers of illegal border crossings. we've seen in recent years as a key issue

and something that a lot of americans, including those nowhere close to the southern border really care about. and of course, we've seen republicans immediately go after kamala harris for her role in dealing with the border and back in 2021, biden did get a hearse, an important portfolio, an important part of the border issue to handle focusing on central america and nations where at the time most of the migration was coming from, that was during the the migrant child crisis early in administration, it was definitely an important role for her, but it was not to address all of the complicated border nuances and domestic policy as well but we do see republicans trying to take the role that she did have and kind of give her a responsibility for all that has happened bend at the border and there is, this going to be an issue for kamala harris, no matter what, because she's part of the biden administration, she is going to have to make clear whether she supports the actions that president biden has taken on the border, or whether she's

going to take a different direction and i do think we're going to have to we're going to see her make that very clear. we're starting think to see that in some of these early ads, max, do you think that the harris campaign can effectively fight that republican messaging? >> it's going to be a tough fight on the guy's steph mentioned what a lot of people people on politics observe is that immigration, if you talk to voters and say, what is your top issue, and they see immigration the more likely to be republican. so she's fighting an uphill battle here. but what we see in that ad that you played it is her kevin to go on offense to say, look at this great bipartisan border deal that remember senator james lankford, a the conservative oklahoma republican very conservative. >> yes. >> and that deal? so they can point fingers and say accurately that former president donald trump told his allies in congress, i don't want this before the election. i don't want democrats to get a win at the expense of my man so john, the border, which is at it's a mess. so they tried to fix them hill that would hurt him. and i think that is legitimate point. the question is in the eyes of voters and voters who might not be following politics at closing this is, we are in dc. do they understand the nuances of these dc debates? that's what the harris campaign is going to

have to get into their minds and convinced it's easier if you don't have to explain a lot of steps. all right steph thanks. thank you so much for being here up next, heightened fears of a full scale war after top hamas political leader is assassinated in iran plus gymnastics gold for the us women's team leader report straight ahead the moments that shaped our culture coming this fall on cnn. to me, harlem is but home is also your body. last one? i asked myself, why does it pilates exist in harlem so i started my own studio get in a brick-and-mortar in new york is not easy. chase ink as supporting he does from studio one to studio three. when you start small, you need some big health and chase ink with that for me, earn up to 5% cash back

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and ask about the bosley guarantee i'm melissa bell in paris and this is cnn closed captioning. he is brought to you by skechers hands free slip-ins step in the future like i did when you hands-free skechers slip into the secret is floods have an invisible built-in shoehorn. >> to your foot slides into place try skechers, slip in the reports and what all i can tell you right now, is i think nothing takes away from the importance of just that a moment ago getting to the ceasefire, which is manifestly in the end chris of the

hostages and bringing them all to manifestly in the interests of palestinians who are suffering terribly every single day children, women, men in golf we've been caught in this crossfire of hamas's making is profoundly in the interest of trying to put things on it better perhaps. >> that was secretary of state antony blinken in singapore just moments ago, reacting to this breaking news that's coming out of iran, that the top hamas political leader has been assassinated in tehran. >> a hamas accusing israel of targeting ishmael honea, where he was staying in tehran following his participant it's patient in tuesday's inauguration of the new iranian president a mosque official saying his death, quote, will not pass in vain. israel has not offered an official response to honey it's killing. this is the second leader of an iran backed militant group to be killed within hours of each other escalating fears of a broader regional war in the middle police and i'm joined once more

by cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier and cnn chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh in london. kim, let's just start with you here. tony blinken there talking about the importance of a ceasefire. the importance of moving forward. >> and yet this man who was assassinated, this politically for hamas, was playing a role in all of that. >> where does it all stand? now at this point, we don't know, but it's mohenjo was one of the main proponents of continuing to talk with israel through interlocutors to try to get a ceasefire, to try to get number of palestinian prisoners back. >> and he was having to argue with the military wing, the military leaders inside gaza towards this end. so this is a very dark day for the families of the hostages right now as for the assassination itself israel seldom comments on these things, but what we are hearing from israeli media and regional media is that this assassination was so precise,

there was another top hamas official staying in the same lodging on a different floor. but this wasn't targeted at him it was targeted specifically at haniah to take him out and his incredible precision and nic i want to ask you in terms of the broader implications here. >> there is deep concern that this could become all-out war in that region, something that the u.s. has certainly been trying to avoid. what do you see happening? we are kind of just sitting right there on the edge this morning? >> yes, certainly. i mean, hearing secretary blinken's comments, they're talking about a ceasefire so far from people's minds now, frankly, given the lead, hamas negotiate a killed it seems by israel you have to wonder about us traction in the region full stop. did they have any full knowledge of this? perhaps maybe we simply don't know that israel go ahead and kill a leading hamas negotiator go stations the u.s. is invested months and huge amounts of capital that they simply kill someone without telling the u.s

first huge questions for the u.s. to answer. and i think questions essentially over their relationship with israel after the less than positive netanyahu visit to washington in the last week or so. so that's a key question we need to hear an answer from, from the biden administration grayson the next question is, how does iran respond essentially saying there supreme leader ayatollah khomeini, that a guest in their house had been killed and vowing harsh punishment against him throughout. but it's options are limited. he's 85, he's just seeing more moderate president's sworn in, then it perhaps would have liked after years of unrest internally, he's seen potentially a drone us strike against israel in april, intercepted by israel and its allies. and maybe reluctant to play the one card they have their proxy hezbollah in lebanon to the north of israel, unless utterly vital. so many questions here. and i think a lot of them will be answered when we start hearing the details of exactly how this killing occurred. just alright. >> nick paton walsh and kim dozier our thanks to both of you taking a look now at sports

gymnast simone biles, making history, leading team usa to gold in the team event, while olympic triathletes hit the water after safety concerns amanda davis joining us now with more from paris and amanda, we're looking at the paper, golden girls hear the american gymnast that people are just waking up having stayed up late to watch simone biles and company what show yeah. it was absolutely incredible and they all rightly emblazoning the front and back pages of the newspapers this morning. >> but if people are just waking up, having stayed up late to watch savvy early news here from paris have got to bring you the triathlons are underway on day five after the men's event was postponed because of the poor water quality in the river. and concerns about now athlete safety, swimming in the polluted water fans were lining the streets from 3:00 a.m. to get the best spot of the superstars on the bike and

running legs and it was worth it for the french supporters. another home gold in the women's race. thanks, took us are under a boat grand grabbing her moment in stone dial's speaking of which? yes, a stunning night at the gymnastics hall. let's turn to the golden girls as simone biles has dubbed the team, not only biles, of course but sunisa lee jordan chiles, jade carey, and hezly rivera channeling of it a taylor swift on what they've dubbed their redemption tour to claim an emphatic gold in the team competition and lay those ghost from tokyo three years ago to rest at the beginning of the day, i started off with therapy this morning so that was super exciting and then i told her i was feeling calm and ready and that's exactly what happened. >> but after i finished vault i was relieved. i was like uhf because least know flashbacks or anything, but i did feel a lot of relief and as soon as i landed vowed i was like, oh yeah, i'm definitely we're

going to do this that's a real insight into simone biles changing the game, talking about therapy on the morning of such a big occasion, but were two goats in sarina will sims and michael phelps watching on biles help the team she claimed a fifth olympic gold, medal overall, securing her place as the greatest us gymnasts of all time. >> and if that got you inspired by the idea of competing at an olympics, but perhaps gymnastics isn't your thing. well, the u.s. women's rugby sevens head coach, emily bidwell, has issued a shout-out to give rugby a try she led the team to a first ever rugby sevens metal in spectacular fashion. shan the rugby version of a buzzer-beater, giving the usa the bronze medal finish over australia with coach bidwell saying, you could stop playing rugby to me and still being with a chance of playing at the next olympics in la, in 2020. and jessica, there's been

a huge boost michelle can use really set out to develop when women's sports she has pledged 4 million investment to usa rugby over the next four years in that buildup to 2028 amazing. >> all right. amanda, thanks so much. >> and there is a major breaking news out of the middle east this morning, the political chief of hamas assassinated in iran, we are alive throughout the region with the latest details and analysis for you plus the harris and trump campaigns policing dueling, new attack ads you singing this what's, the one you're telling me? >> you can get direct tv, god good stuff and you don't need a satellite dish. i used to love doing my business on most things. you know, one sick pigeon, then dishes kept the rain off our beaks. we just have different priorities is all satellite-free directv.

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