wolf blitzer starts right now. right now, more children caught in the cross fire in the middle east. victims of the failure of the cease-fire it the desperate situation on both sides with no sign of a peaceful solution that can be reached. also right now, bowe bergdahl lawyers up. but he still isn't ready to talk about his ordeal. instead, his attorney tells everyone to hold the phone on judging his new client. and right now, more anger over immigration. as local leaders say not in my backyard. meanwhi meanwhile, congress sets a timetable for takinge ining up president's emergency funding request. hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting today from jerusalem. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. rockets streak across the skies over israel. the death toll in gaza climbs,

after four children are killed, and diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed hit a roadblock. here are the latest develoments on this middle east crisis. sirens wail as a rocket from gaza is fired into israel. our cnn crew captured these images of the country's iron dome missile defense system intercepted the rocket. israel says more than 1,260 rockets have been launched from gaza since this conflict erupted a week or so ago. in gaza, meanwhile, palestinian pe paramedics say four children were killed from a round by an israeli gunship. saying the number of people killed is now over 200, most of the them civilians. one israeli has died. palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas travelled to egypt today, searching for a way to end the violence. but hamas officials are refusing to participate in cease-fire talks. the senior leader says hamas is not going to cairo and won't

discussion the egyptian proposal. it's hard to imagine the tension both the palestinians and israelis are living under. we were driving near the israeli town of ashkelon not far from the gaza border when we had to pull over because of a rocket attack. we're going to get out. you can hear the sirens. you can hear the sirens now. you can see what happened over there. there was rockets coming in. the iron dome anti-missile system goes up there, knocks off those rockets. and that's the aftermath. you see the smoke. we've got the all clear now. a lot of the cars are on highway, a lot of the cars simply pulled over to the side. we watch what happens. now the traffic is resuming. a short time later, we saw the damage caused by the intercepted rocket.

this is where the rocket that just came in from gaza landed. we're just here in ashkelon. we had earlier heard the siren, we got out of the car. this is the remnants, this is the aftermath. you can see the smoke. it landed here, relatively open field. not far from the internexsectioa major intersection. the israeli military warned people living in three gaza towns in the northern part of gaza to evacuate. the israel defense forces sent text messages, dropped leaflets from the skies, warning of plans to carry out more air strikes. the leaflets read in part, the idf does not want to harm you and your families. the evacuation is for your own safety. you should not return to the premises until further notice. despite those warning, the civilian death toll in gaza keeps climbing. palestinian paramedics say four children were killed at a refugee camp in northern gaza. ben wedeman's in gaza city for

us. these four kids who died, what do we know about this, ben? >> well, it wasn't just -- this isn't coming just from palestinian medical sources, this is from our colleagues, journalists who were there, who saw this happen. what happened was these boys, all from an extended family called the buckert family, were playing in the area of the port when incoming rounds from an israeli vessel off shore slammed into the area. four of them were killed. all of them between the ages of 8 and 11. now, cnn has been trying to get reaction or some sort of explanation from the israeli military. until now, no answer. although some israeli media are reporting that the target was something -- some sort of naval facility about 100 meters away from there. but of course these four boys,

they come from the shati refugee camp, just up the coast from where they were killed. i spoke to several relatives. they had just gone out to play. one relative, their uncle, saying they had gone to play football. and of course this is the problem, wolf. people are being told from those other areas, like beit hasi in the north to come to gaza city and they come to gaza city and it's just as dangerous. they have nowhere to go. lots of angry people. the feeling is as the death toll rises, and it's now well over 200, that the level of anger is rising, and the resentment that exists here against hamas is sort of being eclipsed by this rising anger at the death toll, most of whom, according to the u.n., 70% plus, are civilians.

wolf. >> yeah, it's an awful, awful situation. there's no doubt about that. ben, thanks for that report. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says hamas will pay the price for not agreeing to that egyptian-brokered cease-fire plan. what sis really's next move? i spoke with a member of prime minister netanyahu's inner cabinet. but he was one of those members who voted against that proposed cease-fire. we're joined now by naftali bennett, a member of israel's inner security cabinet. he's the minister of economy, minister, thank you very much for joining us. >> good evening. >> we're just getting these reports, four palestinian kids, playing on a beach, all of a sudden killed. an israeli gun boat shell landed there. you heard of these reports, right? >> i just heard about it. i think it's terrible that hamas is butchering its own children. i would never take my children and place them next to missile

launchers. here's what they're doing. hamas is conducting massive self-genocide. they're taking women and children, placing them next to missile launchers, and shooting the missiles at israel. >> but these kids apparently were playing on a beach. >> i'll tell you where we find the missile launchers. we find them in hospitals. in schools. in homes. i myself am a former commando fighter. i saw it in lebanon. you have a kitchen. you have a living room. and then you have the missile larger room. what they're deliberately doing is seeking to kill as many palestinians as possible in order to yell to the world "help us." this is cynical and cowardly. if you want to conduct terror against israelis, which is unacceptable. send fighters, not your women and children. >> these are little children, just playing on the beach, and clearly, the israeli military was aiming for some sort of target but in the process there was what they used to call at the pentagon collateral damage. these are human beings. >> israel never targets

civilians deliberately, period. what israel does is defend itself. when people shoot at us, just as you would do with your family. if someone's shooting at your family, you'll shoot back. if that coward is hiding behind his own children, they might get hit. this whole thing can go away in one moment. hamas needs to do one thing, stop shooting. >> the criticism is coming in from this organization human rights watch. i don't know if you're familiar with that. israel's rhetoric, it says, is all about precision attacks but attacks with no military target and many civilian deaths can hardly be considered the price. >> take the radical left wing organizations doesn't impress me. no one wants to save more lives than us. we want to save all lives. we want to live side by side. we handed the entire gaza strip over to the palestinians nine years ago. back to the '67 lines. vacated all the settlements. they said they would turn it into singapore of the middle east. instead, they invested billions

in missile launchers and tunnels, tnt, everything to kill people. we want to live peacefully side by side. the moment they stop shooting and disarm themselves, we stop. at that very moment. >> you voted against the cease-fire in the inner security cabinet. the prime minister wanted it. he got his way. israel accepted that cease-fire. it lasted only for about six hours because hamas rejected it. does this mean you're on the outs with him now? because one of your colleagues was fired by the prime minister, the deputy of defense minister, for speaking ill of him and that decision to accept that cease-fire. >> i fully back prime minister netanyahu. if we have our differences, it's within the inner security cabinet. i thought we have to demand not only a cease-fire but also disarmament. my opinion was not accepted. i stand behind israel's official position, cease-fire. >> neftali bennett speaking with me here in jerusalem earlier. strong views clearly from him. the fighting between israel and hamas is just one example of the

conflicts gripping the middle east. the civil war in syria. militants on the march in iraq. warring militias in libya. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is joining us now with more on what's going on. it looks like this whole region, jim, seems to be on fire. >> well, wolf, it is. it is extremely dangerous. these are all areas where the u.s. is involved. and, in fact, has made firm policy stands. syria, not intervening there, withdrawing u.s. troops from iraq, sending troops back, participating in regime change in libya and attempting but being failing to engineer a peace agreement in the middle east between israel and the palestinians. now, today, each of those areas, for a variety of reasons, facing severe turmoil. in gaza, hopes for an immediate cease-fire today up in smoke even before it started. >> there are great risks and what happening there and the potential of the greater escalation of violence.

>> it's a statement that could describe an entire region mired in conflict. >> i would argue, that given conditions in the middle east, this might be more dangerous than any time in the past. >> in libya, warring militias bombarded tripoli's airport, as the government considers asking for international troops. in iraq, politicians took a first step towards a new government, even as isis militants bulldozed barriers along the iraq/syria border and celebrated the takeover of iraq government buildings. in syria, isis is flourishing as the civil war wages on. the u.n. sending in humanitarian aid. the white house seeming to gain broad foreign policy victories in the region. >> a number of situations in which you've seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way that has furthered american interests and

improved the, you know, the tranquility of the global community. >> today, the administration insisted it is engaged diplomatically. >> this is not an administration or a secretary that rests. the fact is, there are a range of factors happening in the world that are not caused by the united states but the united states remains engaged in because we care about the stability in the region as well. >> being, the other major u.s. policy in the region, the nuclear talks with iran. the deadline for an agreement is this saturday. i'm in touch with iranians, deputy foreign minister, who's directly involved with the talks with the west. he told me, we are in the middle of negotiations and are aiming to reach a deal by the deadline of july 20th. if we cannot get a deal by then, we will then decide on how long we need to extend the agreement reached in geneva last november. wolf, a sign of hope, at least leaving the door open in the

next several days. all the other officials i'm speaking to now say that's doubtful and, in fact, really, the real question is, now, how long they extend those negotiations, whether it's a few weeks, a few months, to try to get that long-term deal. >> critically important issue right there, jim sciutto, thanks very much. dick cheney is taking a major swipe at president obama. that's not a huge surprise. he's also coming to his defense. we're going to tell you why the former vice president doesn't think president obama should be impeached. up next, more on the crisis in the middle east. we'll get the palestinian perspective. nabil asha standing by to join nabil asha standing by to join us live. shopping online is as easy as it gets. nabil asha standing by to join us live. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. we've made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. buy their services directly at angieslist.com no more calling around. no more hassles.

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a day after ignoring an egyptian cease-fire, hamas has officially rejected the idea, quieting their rockets earlier today. the former president bill clinton weighed in with his thoughts on the current conflict, while on a trip to india, and he placed the blame squarely on hamas. >> hamas was perfectly well aware of what would happen if they started raining rockets into israel. they fired 1,000 of them. they have a strategy designed to force israel to kill their own civilians so the rest of the world will condemn them. now, i believe that prime minister netanyahu can and should make a comprehensive peace agreement with the palestinians. >> joining us now from ramallah, the west bank, the senior palestinian adviser nabil

shaath. thanks very much for joining us. did hamas make a major blunder in rejecting that egyptian proposed cease-fire? >> well, we think hamas should have accepted. we want to get a stop to the spilling of blood and the horrible tragic war being waged on gaza. now, hamas has questions about the unwillingness of israel to fulfill any of the obligations made in the agreements that they made in 2012 and 2008. gaza is still fully under siege. and none of the agreements that have been signed before have been implemented. but we think this is something that can be discussed later. what we should do now is proceed

to an immediate stop of the israeli attack on gaza and, therefore, an immediate cease-fire. and we are working very hard to make that happen as soon as possible. >> i know that president mahmoud abbas, president of the palestinian authority, he's meeting with egyptian leaders, including the egyptian president al s el sissy right now. are hamas involved in the discussions in cairo, as far as you know? >> yes, president has been baabn in touch with his deputies in gaza. but making decisions today are the military, and they do not really accept that cease-fire. they think there are other conditions that have to be met

before they accept that cease-fire. but i think that we should continue to try. president abbas is in cairo. he's going to turkey next and then back to the gulf, and he will do everything possible to get that cease-fire on as soon as possible. >> so what i hear you saying, nabil, is that the political leadership of hamas, not necessarily in control, they can't necessarily control what's happening militarily, that military wing really is in charge, is that right? >> that is right. there is a difference of opinion between their military and the civilian government. both of the leaders of hamas outside palestinian and inside. and -- but i think this has to be discussed with them, has to be negotiated. we are could be ducting these discussions. we would lake to assure them a cease-fire this time would be a

real cease-fire. there will be no more israeli attacks. gaza will be set free. at least ending the siege of gaza. allowing people to move in and out. and allowing product, to come, fresh water and electricity. i think this is what is being discussed today. no doubt everybody wants to see a cease-fire. the question we feel that all the other questions can be dealt with a little later. >> nabil shaath, thank you for your perspective. we'll check ba wick with you tomorrow as well. coming up, sergeant bowe bergdahl is back on active duty in the u.s. army. he's taking a step forward in his defense. we're going to hear from his new attorney. plus hillary clinton getting some big laughs on "the daily show," possibly dropping a major hint about her plans for 2016. ♪ [music]

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other political news involving big names. they're all making some headlines today. joining us now nofrom washingto gloria borger. let's start with dick cheney, the former vice president. he appeared on "the lead" with jack tapper. he was asked if he agreed with sarah palin when she called for the impeachment of president obama. listen to this. >> i'm not prepared at this point to call for the impeachment. think he is the worst president of my lifetime. i fundamentally disagree with him. i'm glad to see the house republicans are challenging him at least legally at this point. but i think that gets to be a bit of a distraction it just like the impeachment of bill clinton did. >> so on the one hand, the former vice president sticking up for the president as far as impeachment is concerned. also calling him the worst president of his lifetime. so is this sort of classic dick cheney? you've covered him, gloria, for a long time. >> well, you know, cheney wants to sort of get ahead with the

business that he cares about, which is the way he feels barack obama has bungled foreign policy and domestic policy and he knows from experience that if you start an impeachment process, it kind of takes you off on a tangent. your party become, the target for overreaching. and the issues upon which you disagree with the president become secondary. so what cheney is saying, he's not defending president obama by any stretch, as you know, wolf, but he's saying, you know, don't go off down that road because that isn't going to get republicans anywhere. we need to talk about the issues we care about. as you head into the 2014 election. >> all right, from dick cheney, let's turn to hillary clinton. she's still out there. she's promoting her book. last night, during an appearance on "the daily show," she hinted of a possible presidential run. listen to this. >> i kind of prefer a home office, that's where i wrote my

book. it was on the third floor of our house. so that worked. >> do you have a favorite shape for that home office? do you like -- do you like that office, let's say, would you like that office, would you like to have corners or would you like it not to have corners? i don't know. >> you know, i think that the world is so complicated, the fewer corners -- >> a little humor from the former secretary of state. gloria, how did she do? >> i'm kind of over the book tour, wolf, to tell you the truth. i think she did just fine. i think she tried to sort of get around the problems she's had in this month-long book tour by talking about, okay, you know, maybe she misspoke and was in artful when she said they were dead broke and then turned into a conversation about income

inequality. i think a month-long book tour is enough. and there was a really interesting piece written about this in "the new york times" today by a woman named lynn vabrik that made the point there could be a downside to all of this for hillary clinton which is the american public has known her for two decades. it's not like she's written a book and she's introducing herself to america. they know her. so on this tour, they're evaluating her not necessarily as a potential nominee but they're evaluating her as a potential president. and because they're there hasn't been that much substance in all these interviews and there hasn't been sort of a vision for how she would run the country, penal may come away from the book tour kind scratching their heads saying why does she want to be president. >> you know, gloria, republican congresswoman michele bachmann, she's certainly no fan of hillary clinton's. >> she wanted to be president. >> talk a little bit -- yeah,

she talked a little bit about the challenge hillary clinton could face from within her own party as she referred specifically to massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. i want you to listen, gloria, to this. >> i don't see her as necessarily taking republican votes, but i think she will an extremely attractive candidate for the democratic voters in 2016. if she chooses to mount a run for the presidency, i would agree with newt, i think that if i was mrs. clintclinton, i'd be extremely concerned with what i see. >> does she have a good point, should she be worried about elizabeth warren? >> what michele bachmann is trying to stir the pot, you know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. flatter elizabeth warren, say that hillary clinton should be worried about a challenge from elizabeth warren. warren does represent a different wing of the democratic party. she's anti-wall street. she could, if she wanted to, paint hillary as somebody who's

earned a lot of money from wall street, but i have to say, if hillary clinton runs, i don't think elizabeth warren is going to get in her way, at least not at the outset, okay. i don't see elizabeth warren mounting a sort of frontal attack on hillary clinton. at this point, as much as michele bachmann might want it. i think she does want it. she'd love to see warren get in there and mix it up, particularly since republicans are going to have a pretty -- a pretty big fight on their hands among a whole list of candidates. >> gloria borger, thanks very much. excellent -- >> we miss you, wolf. >> -- analysis as usual. thank you, see you soon. still to come, emotions run high across the country as the government tries to find housing for undocumented kids crossing the border. due process prevents sending those kids home right away. so where can they go? also coming up, defending bowe bergdahl. we'll hear from his new attorney who has a special message for president obama.

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welcome back. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. once again, we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. it's been six weeks since u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl was released from taliban custody. now he's back on active duty. he's also hired an attorney to help him through the investigation into his initial disappearance from his base in afghanistan. his new attorney spoke with our kate bouldoun about what's next. >> in due course, the country is going to have more factings in from of it as the pending investigation unfolds, but for the moment, i would ask that everybody sort of hold the phone. i think the one thing i might say is that sergeant bergdahl

has had a close brush with death over a prolonged period of time. he understands that his life has been saved. he's grateful to president obama for doing that. >> ed lavandera is joining us now from dallas. do we have any indication, ed, when we might hear from bergdahl himself? >> i don't think any kind of public statements will be made any time soon, wolf. we do know his attorney now says at some point he will meet with the two-star general investigating his situation, his capture and his disappearance from the base there in afghanistan. obviously, that is a move that has come under great criticism where sergeant bergdahl has been criticized intensely by his fellow comrades that served with him. now that bergdahl has finished this reintegration in san antonio, the army has said

at some point he will be spoken to and the investigating two-star general will speak with bergdahl. that really is the missing puzzle in all of this. the army has had five years to investigate and speak with his fellow soldiers that served with him and all of the surrounding pieces of this puzzle. they haven't spoke within bowe bergdahl directly. that is the missing piece of all of this. his attorney says he will meet with him, his attorney will be present. after that, the question becomes what will bergdahl's future in the army, if any, what will that look like. and his lawyer says at this point his main concern is to get through this process so that bowe bergdahl can get back to living a normal life. >> i know people are interested. i would ask everybody have a little patience here. he's gone through an unimaginable ordeal. the mind boggles when thinking about spending five years in the hand, s of the taliban. imagine your worst nightmare. that's all i'll say on that.

obviously, the hope is that he can return to a normal life. and, you know, reintegrate properly within american society as well as the army. and sort of get on with his life. >> wolf, the investigating general has about 60 days to complete his investigation of this. the clock started ticking on that back in mid-june when he was first appointed. so somewhere in the next couple of weeks, by mid-august, we should have a better sense, barring any kind of extension that is given the general, we should have a better sense of what direction the army will go in and if any criminal charges will be filed against bergdahl. wolf. >> what else, ed, do we know about his duties, now that he's been returned to active duty? what has he been doing on that base? >> on monday, he was assigned to a new unit. very close to san antonio where he's been going through this

reintegration process and his medical team and psychologist, that sort of thing. he basically has a desk job. he's doing administrative duties for this new unit. the army says the kinds of jobs he will be doing, they're trying to treat him just like any other soldier, that he's doing the kind, of work and the kind of job, administrative job, that any other sergeant in the military would be doing. but obviously, bergdahl is not your average soldier at this point, given the amount of attention he's getting. the army insists they're trying to treat him just like any other soldier. but obviously, this investigation he's facing is really at the forefront of his mind, you would have to expect, but, you know, he's getting up and going to work every day like any other soldier. >> and very quickly, i take it, he has not yet been in direct contact, hasn't spoken with his mom and dad? >> as best we can tell, no communication has taken place

between sergeant bergdahl and his parents. and, you know, that's obviously been of great interest over the last few weeks. as far as we know, no kind of communication has taken place. >> ed lavender ra on top of the story for us, thanks very much. rupert murdoch's 21st century fox tries to buy time warner, which owns cnn. it was a massive offer that was rejected. so will rupert murdoch give up? we have the story. and the governor of maryland doesn't want the federal government to send immigrant kids back home to certain death but he adds that parts of his own death wouldn't be suitable for them either. we'll explain. stay with us. (vo) you know that dream... where you're the hero? hey... you guys mind warming this fella up for me? i'm gonna go back down, i saw some recyclables. make it happen with verizon xlte. find a car service. we've doubled our 4g lte bandwidth in cities coast to coast. thanks! sure.

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emotions clearly boiling over as the obama administration struggles to get a handle on the surge of undocumented people from central america entering the united states illegally. many of them children, unaccompanied by a parent. the house of representatives says it will take up, next week, the president's rekwefquest for nearly $4 billion in emergency funds to deal with the crisis. the solution can't come soon enough. immigration facilities are clearly overwhelmed. under a u.s. anti-human trafficking law, unaccompanied minors are required to have a hearing before they can be deported back to their home country. time ran out for about 40 people, mothers and their children, who were put on a chartered flight back to honduras on monday. democratic governor martin o'malley of maryland is one of those politicians opposed to sending those immigrant kids back home to, quote, certain death, his words, certain death.

but he also does not want to send them to a facility in western maryland, his state. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta says the issue has caused a serious rift between the governor and the white house. >> wolf, maryland governor o'malley was a top sur grade for president obama during his election campaign in 2012 but not anymore. late last week, the maryland governor, who is ink thissing about running for president in 2016, was sharply critical of white house plans to return thousands of undocumented children back to central america who are at the heart of this border crisis. that criticism prompted a phone call from what i understand from a top white house official, cecilia munoz, to o'malley, who took issue with his comments. it was during that phone call, sos f sources familiar with the conversation say, that o'malley asked nunoz to send them to a

site b site. saying he was being hypocritical in asking the children not be sent to maryland. i asked o'malley whether he was being hypocritical. do you feel like they threw you under the bus? >> i really don't care. i'm far more concerned about children being penned up and cooped up in conditions that look a lot more like kennels than they look like the way a humane country should be treating refugee kids. and i will say it again and again. and continue to call all of us to the most important work, which is doing right by these kids. because it's not just about them, it's about the sort of country we want to give to our children. and we are not a country that should be returning refugee kids back to certain death or war-torn areas. these kids deserve their due process. >> o'malley later told us in

that interview he is open to other sites in maryland being used to house those children. the white house is saying many of these unaccompanied minors may actually qualify for asylum status and be allowed to stay in the u.s. the president will be hearing for other democrats later on in the day when the house democratic caucus comes to the white house to talk about this with the president. wolf. >> thanks very much, jim acosta, reporting for us at the white house. deportation is an easy abc nsweo the crisis but sending people back to countries like honduras can certainly, at least at times, become a death sentence. we'll take you to a place where the dead are gathered from the streets on a daily basis. what if it were more than something to share? what if a photo could build that shelf you've always wanted? or fix a leaky faucet? or even give you your saturday back? the new snapfix app revolutionizes local service. just snap a photo and angie's list coordinates a

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be divided into two eras, before man walked on the moon and after man walked on the moon. >> the sixties. >> on this day in history, 1999, his wife carolyn and her sister, lauren bassett died when the plane crashed into the coast of martha's vineyard, massachusetts. and now to big news on the business front, we learned 20th century fox tried to buy time warner, cnn's parent company. but that bid has been turned down. cnn money correspondent, christina aleschy, joins us. tell us about the offer. what do we know? >> we know it was a huge offer. $80 billion that would be one of the biggest media deals on the programming side in quite some time, wolf. look, this makes sense for fox,

right? it gets more television programming, it gets more sports programming. at least that's what it wants. it wants leverage with the pipe companies or the distributors that are coming together themselves. and getting more powerful. so from fox's standpoint, the more content it can get, the more leverage it has. of course, time warner has rejected this offer. here ceo, jeff buickis, on another reason they turned down fox. >> the board concluded, continuing to execute our strategic plans and business plans, will create significantly more value for the company and our shareholders, and that that's superior to any proposal that fox is in a position to off. to offer. >> reporter: now what's also interesting here, wolf, there would be obviously some antitrust regulatory concerns about two major media organizations like this coming together. so as part of the proposed offer, last month, fox actually

proposed spinning off cnn, and as you know, analysts have been talking about who would be interested in buying cnn. we've had some analysts tell us that cbs and abc would be interested in cnn. >> probably would be. a lot of people would be interested in cnn. could murdoch come back, christina, with an even higher bid? >> reporter: well, you know as well as i do, he's a pretty aggressive, determined person. and i've spoken with sources close to this deal who say he's not going away. so there is a possibility that he comes back with a sweetened offer that could potentially put some pressure on time warner to reconsider. obviously, they have a fiduciary area duty to do so. but here's the thing. a lot of this deal actually rests on fox shares, nonvoting shares. you've got to question the valuation on those nonvoting shares, at least from the time

wa warner perspective. >> christina, welcome to cnn money. good to have you on our team. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern. a special "situation room" report from here in jerusalem. stay tuned for amanpour. for our viewers in the united states, "newsroom"with brooke baldwin starts right now. wolf, thank you so much. let's begin with a murder case that has absolutely stunned investigators. this alleged high-price call girl is suspected of shooting up her client with heroin, and then watching him die from an overdose, all the while drinking a glass of wine. alix tichelman appeared in a california courtroom today, le