impeachment inquiry into president biden. the president's son, hunter biden, is scheduled for a deposition today as part of the impeachment investigation. it's unclear if he plans to attend. and actor andre braugher has died at the age of 61, his publicist said. braugher was best known for his roles on "brooklyn nine-nine" and "homicide: life on the street." for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected it's wednesday, december 13th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." the tough sell as time runs out. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy caps off a whirlwind day in washington with an urgent plea to the gop saying the country's freedom is on the line. war divide. president biden's stark new warning to israel that it's losing international support.

what he wants prime minister netanyahu to do. and remembering andre braugher. the emmy-winning actor who starred in a slew of hit shows has died at the age of 61. good morning, and good to be with you, i'm anne-marie green. the president of ukraine met with u.s. lawmakers and president biden in washington in a face-to-face appeal for more aid in its fight against russia. president biden says failure to act by congress would give russian president vladimir putin the greatest christmas gift. some lawmakers say they don't believe those pleas were enough to move congress ahead of the holiday recess. cbs' jarred hill joins us now from new york with the details on the day. >> reporter: hey, anne-marie. support for ukraine aid is still strong in the senate, but some house republicans have grown increasingly skeptical and are demanding concessions. president biden argued this is not just about the future of ukraine but europe as a whole.

>> are you confident you can persuade congress to give you the aid? >> reporter: on capitol hill -- >> good and productive meeting. >> reporter: then at the white house, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy made his plea for billions more in aid as the war approaches the two-year mark. >> we dream of a christmas in peacetime. >> reporter: next to him president biden voiced support for ukraine and urged u.s. lawmakers to act. >> ukraine will emerge from this war proud, free, and firmly rooted in the west unless we walk away. >> reporter: during yesterday's visit, the president announced another $200 million drawdown of weapons, that includes artillery and munitions. but the white house warns u.s. aid for ukraine is set to dry up by the end of the year. >> congress needs to pass the supplemental funding to ukraine before they break for holiday recess, before they give putin the greatest christmas gift they could possibly give him. >> reporter: talks toward a deal that includes billions in funding for ukraine, israel, and

the border continue, but gop lawmakers, even those who support ukraine aid, warn it's practically impossible to move a bill through congress before the holidays. >> our first condition on any national security supplemental spending package is about our own national security first. >> reporter: republican house speaker mike johnson has called for more concessions from the white house on border security and immigration and a clearer strategy on ukraine funding. and cbs news has learned that the biden administration would be willing to support new border measures including expelling migrants without screenings to see if they're eligible for asylum, but senate's top republican, as you heard there, said lawmakers are ready to head out for the week without a deal. back to you. >> all right. jarred hill in new york. thank you. president biden is set to meet in person today for the first time with the families of americans taken hostage by hamas. seven remain unaccounted for. meanwhile, israel announced ten officers and soldiers were killed in fighting in the gaza

strip yesterday. troops also recovered the bodies of two hostages found inside a tunnel. a 27-year-old woman captured at the music festival and an idf warrant officer. and the u.n. general assembly overwhelmingly voted to demand a humanitarian cease-fire in gaza. eight countries joined the u.s. and israel in voting against it. israel's envoy urged member states to call one of hamas' leaders if they want a cease-fire. and cbs' ramy inocencio reports from tel aviv, but we do need to warn you that some of this video is graphic, and some viewers may find it disturbing. >> reporter: an israeli air strike killed nearly ten people and wounded dozens more rushed in the darkness to a hospital. the bombs hit a few hundred yards from cbs news producer marwal al ghoul who was sheltering in one of the so-called safe zones of the southern gaza strip. >> netanyahu, what do you say? you must go to rafah, nowhere is

it safe. >> reporter: in rafah, different generations are mourning the loss of their families' futures after intense israeli strikes into this morning killed at least 20 people according to the hamas-run health ministry. the israeli military is consolidating control in the north demolishing a school used by hamas. israeli soldiers cheered. israel's defense minister says fighting may still last for months, but u.s. pressure is rising for israel to end its offensive sooner. new pressure is also rising against israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, with anger growing over an alleged decade-long agreement in which qatar sent up to $30 million in cash to hamas every month, a strategy known as buying quiet. >> they knew that the money was going directly into purchasing of rockets and building of tunnels. >> reporter: why didn't they stop the money?

>> obviously this concept blew up in everybody's face on october 7th. >> reporter: and in jerusalem, protesters braved the rain to march on the knesset demanding netanyahu bring all hostages still in gaza home and calling for his resignation. >> he knew what hamas is doing with this money, so he created some monster, some days a monster came out. >> reporter: and israel's military has reportedly started to pump sea water into hamas' tunnel complexes in order to destroy them. there is a concern that hostages may be in some of them. president biden says, quote, there are assertions being made that there are no hostages inside. ramy inocencio, cbs news, tel aviv. the house could vote this week on a bipartisan resolution calling for the resignation of the presidents of harvard university and mit. the resolution is authored by congresswoman elise stefanik

who, last week, questioned the heads of the two schools and the university of pennsylvania at an anti-semitism hearing. penn president elizabeth magill has already resigned amid backlash over their responses about school policy regarding calls for the genocide of jews. yesterday harvard said president claudine gay will keep her job. and the house is expected to vote today on a resolution to authorize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. the president's son, hunter biden, is scheduled for a deposition today as part of the impeachment investigation. it's unclear if he will show up, though. if not, republicans have threatened to initiate contempt of congress proceedings against him. and we are getting a look into how special counsel jack smith will try his january 6th case against donald trump. a new filing reveals three witnesses, all experts in cellphone or location data, who are likely to be called to testify. cbs' robert costa tells us how one of those experts will focus on trump's cellphone data.

>> reporter: in a filing late monday, special counsel jack smith said he plans to call an expert witness to testify about data extracted from cellphones used in the white house by the former president and another unnamed individual. how big of a deal is this? >> it could be monstrous. >> reporter: former january 6th committee senior technical adviser denver riggleman -- >> can see messages, texts, they can see files, they can see emails. they can see all the data that's on a specific device, and that can open up other individual -- individuals downstream that they can investigate. >> reporter: according to sources close to trump, he often used a personal phone while in the white house and at times used phones belonging to his close aides. the phone data would likely not contain a record of what was said in possible phone calls but would show who trump called and when, and also who he didn't call at key moments on january 6th. former joint chiefs chair mark milley said this to the house select committee -- >> commander in chief, got an

assault going on the capitol of the united states of america. there's nothing -- no call? nothing, zero? >> reporter: this comes as the special counsel pushes for the supreme court to weigh in on whether trump is immune to prosecution and ready for next year's trial. >> increasingly we see jack smith cutting out every available defense to the president. >> reporter: this new phone data could help fill in the more than seven-hour gap in the official records of who trump called on january 6th. trump maintains he is innocent. robert costa, cbs news, washington. a former georgia election worker testified she feared for her life after rudy giuliani's false claims that she and her mother committed election fraud. wandrea moss said she received threatening and racist messages and to change her appearance after donald trump's former attorney made the claims in 2020. a judge already ruled giuliani

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