>> reporter: it would. not only is hezbollah more powerful, better armed than hamas, but of course it has tentacles throughout the region. it has been involved in several regional conflicts fighting on behalf of assad forces in syria, it has alliances that might then become involved. so it is seen as a potential tinderbox in the conflict, that is why you see now two aircraft carrier strike groups the u.s. deploying to the eastern m mediterranean along with other military assets moving closer to israel on top of the diplomacy that we saw president biden in the region. i think this just shows how concerned they are and in particular about that thnorther border. >> clare sebastian, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. really appreciate it. and thanks to all of you for joining us. always wonderful to have you. i'm kasie hunt. "cnn this morning" starts right now. now.

good morning, everyone. i'm poppy harlow with phil mattingly. erin burnett is live with us on the ground in tel aviv, overnight, president biden returning to washington after a trip in the war zone in israel. today he's getting ready to give a prime time address to the nation, as he pushes for wartime aid to israel and ukraine. the congress is paralyzed right now. passing an aid package is possible at the moment. president biden says he clinched a deal with egypt's president to start allowing trucks with desperately-needed humanitarian aid into gaza where millions of civilians are stuck inside that war zone and running out of food, water and medicine. >> we have an opportunity to alleviate the pain, you should

do it, period. if you don't, you're going to lose credibility worldwide. and i don't think everyone understands that. >> the president says u.s. intelligence backs up israel's claim that a malfunctioning rocket fired by militants caused the deadly blast at a hospital in gaza, not an israeli airstrike. we want to show you new video that's emerged. it appears to show a rocket fired from gaza. if you mwatch it, it will make sharp turn back moments before the explosion at the hospital. if you wait, you'll see the flash right there. cnn has geolocated a video where you can hear whatever that was. cnn cannot independently verify what caused the blast. meanwhile, israel continueses to pummel gaza with airstrikes. this video shows huge explosions near a different hospital where

thousands of people are sheltering. >> let's go straight to erin burnett live in tel aviv. good morning to you. that is significant. on top of what cnn has geolocated, pointing to that video as additional evidence that this was not us. >> they are absolutely. because in that video, you see the rocket go up and then sharply turn around. if you put it in slow motion, you can see that. that was broadcast live. they are pointing to that. the united states, as you just said, has said it confirmed was not fired from israel. and they have pointed themselves to missile intelligence as well as signals intelligence. that could be indications like heat and light on the ground. they are saying they have come to their own conclusion, although it is inclear if it's the same phone call the idf put

out. as the president of the united states said on his way back on air force one from leaving israel, he said he doesn't think it was done on purpose by islamic jihad either, but nonetheless, they were the ones who did it. i want to bring in the idf spokesman this morning. major, good to speak with you again on this morning in the united states. there are reports from the palestinian news agency that israeli airstrikes on the crossing that we have talked so much about has killed 30 people. are you able to tell us anything about those strikes? >> i have no information that such a thing took place. i will get back to you. i would take this as an example that if that did happen, the idf will come forward and confirm.

i have no information. however, we have to be very cautious about reporting on these types of events. as we learned, and you just reported just now about the hospital, immediately they announced to the entire world within seconds that israel did it. we went through a very professional process of showing a that it wasn't us. so we have to be very careful. i will look into that. >> in the hundreds of targets that israel is striking a day in gaza t would make sense, some of them have been near the southern border, because you have your own strategic reasons for doing that. just to be clear, all understand that there would be possible targets for israel in the south of gaza and by that border. >> what i can tell you is that as we know, you have a game being played by two different rules. all our targets are military

targets. at times, those targets are incredibly difficult to reach because hamas is putting civilians in our way. this is the issue going on here. i don't think tz it's reasonable to assume. we have to check the facts on the ground. i don't trust any hamas sources whatsoever. we have to verify a lot s of sources. we're taking pain staking steps, including delaysing everything we're doing by five days for civilians to reach the south. >> last night, a gaza doctor spoke to our show to say what he's experiencing. it was a very, very brief sound byte because there's weak internet connection at the hospital and to conserve power on his phone, no water, no

elect electricity, no medications, our situation is very, very bad. his voice is exhausted. you can tell. and then he had to hang up. how urgent is aid and assistance to gaza? >> look, i want to say very clearly. and i will answer your question, but this is a direct outcome of hamas' raid inside israel. we have to g back to where this began. the idf did not just wake up and decide to go into gaza. hamas crossed our border and create d a horrific violation o human rights by massacring our population. we're responding like any country would respond. as much as we're doing for the civilians, it must be incredibly difficult right now. there's a difficulty of getting supplies. we're working towards that, but we have to understand that historically, that aid has gone to hamas operatives. you and i both saw a

shoulder-fired grenade launcher that was made on a humanitarian building supplies, but i showed you those a few days ago. they have take a lot of these supplies, and we don't want the terrorist to benefit from them. it's not a simple situation. it's going to take time. we have to make sure it gets to the actual civilians who need it and not to the terrorists. >> we did see that. what you have gathered is stunning. the number of confirmed families who may have host acts in gaza, i understand this number has increased. we have been speaking to many of those families. i spoke to one of them. they have both their son and daughter, who were at that festival. they saw their son in a video are from hamas. their daughter was dead. they have been waiting for information. obviously, these families have incredible frustration because they want answers.

i just wanted to play something that was said to me. >> did they tell you they were with? >> they don't tell us nothing. >> we don't know. in two days. >> major, obviously, their grief and it's profound. they did say that on monday they got a call from the the idf saying that the idf knows that their daughter is a hostage. so my question to you is, i know you're not going to be able to tell us how you know these things, but is it safe to say iz know a lot about these hostages and where they are and their condition if families are still getting calls this week saying that israel has confirmed their family members are hostages? >> first of all, i very much

appreciate you bringing their family to the screen. it is incredibly horrific for all of us. the information is unfolding as the days go on, both positive and negative. last night in the area, a group of workers went up into an attic and found a mother and her 5-year-old son burnt to a crisp. i'm sorry to say that on tv. but they were burned alive in the attic trying to hide from the terrorists. so unfortunately, those are two people we understand were killed. on a different note, more and more video, we see video that hamas is putting out. more people are uploading a video. so it's so difficult because even today, we're finding more bodies. there are bodies being uncovered, there are body part you have to match dna. it's horrifically painful process.

>> indeed. i saw those body bags. and you're still getting bodies out is also a horrible thing to say, but important for people to know that missing may not mean hostage at this point. major, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you, erin. >> major spielman here in israel. back to you. >> right now, we want to turn to military analyst mark hurtling at the magic wall. this has been a 24-hour period where we have seen protests and the scale of the outrage. we have seen a significant push on both the israeli side and also the u.s. side to try to lay out why they have assessed that this was not coming from the idf, the rocket that hit the hospital, but instead came from a militant group in the area. i want to start with what we

kind of saw in terms of the blast and what that tells you. this is an annotated map that shows where the blast occurred and some of the damage. this has been pointed to as this could not have been an airstrike. why? >> first of all, you see a small crater. they do have pictures of where that crater is. it's just several inches into the ground. it's not the kind of thing you'd see with a large bomb. so when that rocket struck, it was probably a 122 millimeter, which is a significant blast, but it doesn't cause that kind of damage. there's more shrapnel than anything else. we saw in the photos yesterday was a large fireball. that's the indicator that there was fuel. >> let's play that, but also listen to the audio. >> there is the rocket going up.

>> that's the sound you're referring to. now we're going to show you the video that we showed at the start of the show and walk people through the sound and this. >> here's a rocket along that trajectory. something happens in flight. it loses its power and then the engine flames out and it drops. we were talking about that yesterday. a rocket that doesn't have forward power anymore turns into the aerodynamic capabilities of a brick. it just drops. then it explodes in a very large fireball.

much more than you'd expect from iraq. >> you are talking about the sound. does that tell you anything? >> not really. you're going to get that whoosh of a rocket going across the sky. if it's intercepted, you're going to hear an explosion. the rocket fizzles out. >> one of the things coming out of the president's trip yesterday is what happens now. we have seen the protests, we know that israel is preparing for a significant operation. it seems to be likely on the ground. you pointed to 2014, lessons learned about maybe a road map of what's next. >> first of all, we can talk about israel and what they might do. in to2014, operation protective edge, israel mobilized 70,000 soldiers. today they are mobilizing 3 300,000. they went in on three directions. one main direction in the north toward gaza city, but one in the

center and one in the south, they fought mostly aboveground and realized the extensiveness of the tunnels. there were 66 israeli soldiers killed, 7 citizens about 2,100 citizens killed in that same period, according to the u.n. so during the ten years since then, there's been several after action reports. something that militaries and think tanks do. what i have tried to do is combine what it said about hamas, what they think hamas is going to do based on reports, based on research, what was successful in 2014. the first thing they said, they are going to try to increase the rockets and expand greatly their tunnels and look for a larger conflict. in 2014, the conflict lasted 50 days. they are looking to make it last longer this time. secondly, they are incorporating new tactics. we saw that on october 7th. put squads together, go by land, sea and air into the main port. new technologies, missiles, new

types of explosive devices, get allies, hezbollah, syria, others, but the most important one is they will perfect the victim doctrine. anything that they can point toward israel to continue to embarrass them and make them look like heroes, hamas will do. they sited that doctrine several times and it becomes important. >> we appreciate it. thank you. president biden held his first on the record conversation on air force one since his presidency began. he will be joined by a cnn reporter. and the president says egypt has agreed to allow 20 trucks to travel into gaza. the united nations says it's not closes to enough that's next.

president biden shared details of his wartime visit with reporters on his way home. it's the first time the president has addressed the press pool on air force one since he was in inaugurated. he took the opportunity to tout a breakthrough with negotiations to allow somes decesperately needed aid that's been piling up on egypt's side. >> he agreed that what he would do is open the gate to two things, one, let up to 20 trucks through to begin with.

my ambassador is down there in cairo now. he's going to coordinate this. he has my authority to do what it needed to get it done. >> biden discussed what he framed as blunt warnings while meeting with leaders against blocking aid facing an unprecedented humanitarian capacity. k you were on the trip. you are the person talk to. this is a rarity. this doesn't happen with this president. unlike perhaps some of his predecessors. why do you think it came back to talk to you again? >> certainly, he had a lot on his mind on this long flight back from tel aviv. it was a surprise to see him pop up in the door of the press cabin. it's not something that we have seen him do very often. he had come back to read out that phone call that he had with

the egyptian president, but really in listening to him and watching him, he really did want to sort of read out the entire visit. he had a lot on his mind. he wanted to put in his own words sort of how he felt this historic trip to a war zone had had gone because this was not necessarily the trip that he had originally set out to take. it was overshadowed in some ways by that devastating hospital bombing in gaza. he did have to cancel a planned stop in jordan to meet with arab leaders. i did want to ask if he was disappointed in that. s i was interested to hear his answer. listen to what he said. >> are you disappointed you had to cancel the stop in jordan? >> no. i came to get something done. i got it done. not many people thought i would get this done. not people want to be associated with failure. >> so certainly, the president very confident in the outcomes of this trip. but i think when you talk to aids privately, they do

acknowledge that the real results are still in the works. it will not be clear for several days, several weeks potentially, whether this trip was a success, whether the president's advice and warnings to the israeliss about the scope of their response were heeded, but certainly the president is very confident as he was coming home that he was able to secure some accomplishments on this visit. >> i found the answer was candid. it was also interesting that he said after that call with the egyptian president, really stepped up as did bb. now the proof is does the aid come through? >> reporter: yeah, and that will be seen in the coming hours really, coming days as these 20 trucks that the president said he secured potentially start cross ing the border into gaza. but i think for the president, the objectives were not enormous. he did not fly over to try to brokeer a cease-fire.

he fly over to secure the release of the hostages. the objective was to show the utmost support for israel in this time of national trauma. you did see that when he was on the ground, the full scale embrace of benjamin netanyahu, but also these emotional encounters with people who had been touched by the events, but a grandmother who had been barricaded at gunpoint by a man who recounted these horrific traumas the president really feeling the emotion of the visit. so for the israelis, this was a highly successful visit by the president, but behind the scenes, you saw the president ask the tough questions of benjamin netanyahu talking about what happens in the days and weeks ahead. you heard him aftermath come out and deliver a statement talking about the mistakes that the united states made after 9/11 talking about the importance of having clirty going forward. it's easy to hear to imagine the

president in private as well. >> take us behind the scenes. it was not just his 9/11 comments, but this trip itself was extraordinary. it was an active war zone. it's the first time a u.s. president has visited in the middle of a war, the decision to do this happened over a very short period of time. you weren't allowed to tell us where you were most of the time. what was happening behind the scenes from your vantage point? >> what the white house had seen were these previous leaders, including secretary of state antony blinken, but also the engineer man clans life-support. when they arrived in tel aviv, we heard air raid sirens. there was evidence of this conflict at close range. when we were flying over, we got this briefing from white house staff about what to do if an air raid siren goes off standing next to air force one. that has never happened before. when we're on the ground. things seemed relatively calm.

we saw people taking a jog. so the president didn't see the conflict at close range, but he heard about it from all of thiz encounters while he was there. >> a heck of a 24 hours. we appreciate you bringing it to us. thank you. >> let's go to our chief anchor christiane amanpour. the president said clearly, came to get something done. i got it done. what do you think he got done? >> i just want to say i spoke to one of the former senior state department officials and he said the president was delivered a very bad hand, which he played very skillfully. so in other words, not raising all the expectations, but yes, this idea of unblocking the crossing is paramount, really important. but remember it is only a it's. it's 20 vehicles and apparently won't be able to go in until tomorrow. that's the start. they do to fix roads because there's been israeli airstrikes. so it's not even fuel, we

understand, coming in. which is what all the humanitarians tell us is necessary to purify water, to run hospitals, to do all those humanitarian needs. but if those 20 trucks do come in, then that would be important. this is what the chief humanitarian official told me yesterday. >> it's the safety of aid, which sass important as its dependablity. we can do it because we have the aid. we have the people. we have the trucks and we certainly is have the will. there's 14,000 stops still in gaza. 14,000 stops. along with many others. and those people are available to deliver according to the usual mandate. we need clarity about the circumstances of that aid

program, and then we need to get moving. >> so urgent, obviously, and the conditions are none of it can be diverted to hamas. don't forget also that palestinians who have been told to move from the north are under bombardment still in the south occasionally. they are asking where is a safe zone. ast fraction of what they need on a daily basis. >> kevin just made a great p point. the extraordinary statement and the remarks after the visit with the prime minister about the mistakes of 9/11, don't let the rage consume you in this moment, despite the fact everyone can identify with the why. why do you think he said that? >> well, because he knows what happened. the backlash of that war in

iraq, even the post war in afghanistan continues to reverberate. so he did say don't let rage blind you to what is justice and accountability. and remember this is a warning from a friend, advice from a friend that what we did was mistaken. in many aspects, look at afghanistan after 20 years it is now back in the hands of islamic extremists. those are the taliban. look at iraq. it's still unstable. look at that whole region. here the papers are covered with this warning. that seems to be the big take away. they are continuing to suffer the consequence etc. like the rest of the world. so this was an extraordinary comment to be made, advice to a friend because in previous rounds in the gaza/israel wars, it's hardened and more

militarized and more militancy has come out of each ouncne of those. we'll get back to you. thank you. a trove of hamas battle plans found on the bodies of militants. >> the size of our security team they knew everything.

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for. the president hoping to deter wider escalation. right now the military says there's been a significant escalation not in gaza, but by hezbollah in the north coming from lebanon in a growing battle there. the idf says they fired pneumonia antitank missiles, where there's been a buildup of forces along that northern border. they say hezbollah forces attempted infiltrations into israel with forces. pro palestinian protests continue across the middle east and around the world in the u.s. and europe. the kept demonstrations are ramping up since the hospital explosion in gaza. even though israel has denied responsibility for the blast and provided evidence to make that clear. we're learning the precision of hamas' assault on israel, though was no accident. in fact, we have video and documents obtained by cnn that show that the the militant group had a shocking amount of detailed information about the

israeli communities where they slaughter more than 1,400 people. if you just heard moments ago, they found two people last night in an attic, a mother and child huddled together burnt to a crisp. the material we understand includes attack plans, specific information about security and homes and even the best places to hold hostages. we do caution you some of the images here are graphic. matthew chance is live in israel with more this morning. so matthew, let's just start with how hamas got all this information and obviously what it is. clearly, it took a long time to put all this together. >> it took a long time to collect all this information. there are ways in which they do that, they did that by being looked at. we spent a week collecting all these various reports and bits of intelligence together from israeli government officials.

one of the sources there, first responders from israel and israeli who is witnessed the attacks at first respond. it built up this picture of the amount of intelligence that hamas had acquired on the israeli communities they attacked or targeted. details on the h mass assault inside israel. including disturbing video taken by the attackers themselves as they rampaged through israeli homes kill ing on site. and then being killed. searches of their dead bodies revealing a trove of highly specific hamas battle plans. including these detailed maps now shared with cnn by the israeli government showing

communities near gaza targeted by the attackers. these were the terrifying scenes inside. this hamas gun recorded themselves moving freely through the gardens of israeli homes. code red, code red, the israeli loud speaker blares. after the attack, israeli first responders saw bullet holes and bloodstains in room after room. what looks like a methodical killing spree. while hundreds of israelis were killed, some israeli communities managed to repel the gunman and save lives. residents pushed back at hamas attack and found documents on the bodies of the militants they killed with disturbing highly accurate intelligence, including

precise numbers of armed guards there, regional defense force, at least 20 residents, one document reads and 10 soldiers. >> they knew the size of our security team. they knew about other three or four entrances. >> it sounds like they knew everything. >> they knew everything. where the generators are, they knew where the armory is, they knew about roads around the area. >> security footage shows how hamas killed an israeli outside the gates before being repelled. even with detailed intelligence on their targets, not every hamas objective was achieved. nearby wasn't even attacked, although we now have evidence that hamas intended to inflict the maximum possible human casualties there. and to hold hostages.

a highly detailed street map found on another hamas gunman and obtained by cnn shows individual buildings inside identified for their military value. the communal kitchen, for example, is described as the main place suitable for holding host ajs. inside the guard room, the soldiers must be neutralized, the instructions say. they designated a place for first aid for both enemies and friends. israeli residents say i they also found that level of detail astounding. >> shockingly, the details are very accurate. the map is a map of our home. it's very accurate. it's horribly accurate. >> if they had come, they would have known exactly where to go, exactly where to cause the most damage. >> yes, and we now see that

their goal was to take hostage, including children. >> reporter: israeli officials found other documents that advise attackers to kill anyone posing a threat or causing a distraction, to keep captives away from arms or means of suicide, and to use them as canoned toer. it is a dark turn. even for a group seen here parading before the attacks, it's come to symbolize the unu uncompromising resistance and violence against israel. israeli officials say a document referencing isis and al qaeda, which cnn has not been able to authenticate, was found on one hamas gunman killed during this attack. the document given to cnn by a sewn your israeli government official praises jihad against jews and crusaders.

israeli officials say that's evidence that hamas is increasingly influenced by global jihad ideology, an assessment many experts had dismissed. but in the wake of the unprecedented brutality of these attacks, u.s. officials tell cnn the hamas threat may now be reassessed. erin, experts here that we have spoken to say this wasn't just a hamas success. it was also israeli failure as well because, first of all, they took their eye off the ball. they didn't have enough boots on the ground to physically defend the communities near the gaza st strip. and according to the security experts, had too much of a reliance on technology and not enough on human intelligence. >> an incredible statement in this day in age. we know human intelligence still

the most crucial of everything in a world where everyone relies on technology, signals intelligence, thank you. phil? >> we're going to continue to cover these new developments in the middle east, but here in the u.s., a murder confession for a man expected of killing natalee holloway. that's next.

this morning, the painful mystery behind the disappearance of natalee holloway seems to have been solved. it includes a confession with a fight he had with the teen on the beach nearly 20 years ago. jean casarez has been following every twist and turn and is here with the brand new details. you have been following this for years. >> since it began. it was so long ago. jorn van der sloot has given so many stories through the years,

and they have all been lies. he admitted they were lies. in 2010 he told natalee holloway's family give me $250,000 and i'll tell you what i did with the body. and so a family representative, their attorney went over to aruba and he said she's buried in this area. it was a lie. but he took that money and went to peru and murdered someone, a young girl the same age as natalee. but then came extortion charges and the u.s. has been working with peru to get him over here to face them. he flew here in may, and they said we'll give you a plea deal. you plead guilty, but you've got to tell us what happened to her. it's got to be the truth. and we are going to have a polygraph by verified agents. he said this is what happened. with never heard this before. he was walking with with her on the beach. we were kissing. i wanted to go a step further. she said no. kept going. she hit me. i hit her many the head and then on the beach, there was a cinder

block. i took that cinder block and i hit her. he goes on to say at this point she was deceased. i decided to take her and to put her in the ocean, so i grab her, half pull and half walk with her into the ocean. i push her off, i walk up to about my knees in the ocean, and i push her off into the sea. after that, i get out and i walk home. natalee holloway's mother got to give a victim impact statement feet away from joran van der sloot yesterday. she talked about it after it happened. >> i think in this long-ending nightmare, we were able to express things i. ing to tell him as far as telling him who he is. he is a killer. he is a killer. he will always be the killer. he will always be now the black mark in aruba.

>> the sentence was 20 years. but you say plea deal, so what's in it for him? you're supposed to get a benefit. it's going to be concurrent. it's going to run at the same time that the murder sentence continues to run in peru. he will be going back to peru, but i read the legal documents and the fine print says if peru would decide to let him out early, because at this point his exit date is 2045. if they let him out early, he will have to serve the remainder of that time in a u.s. prison. >> a remarkable turn on a story you have covered every step of the way. thank you so much. >> thank you. a republican lawmaker who pulled her support from jim jordan is and his bid for speaker says she received death threats. where the speaker race stands, that's next. and house democrats are pushing president biden to urge restraint by israel as it prepares if art ground invasion of gaza. we'll be joined by a house democrat about the split in his party.

a third vote for the speaker of the house could happen today. jim jordan failed to win the speakership, fairing worst than he did in the first round, but he's staying in the race even with deep divisions within his conference. multiple detractors say they have been receiving threatening messages since voting against hymn. here's what jordan had to say about that. >> it should never happen. we don't want it to happen to any american, any member of congress. it's just wrong. >> now some members are saying they are preparing to try to step up to the role with others pushing to expand the powers of the interim speaker patrick mchenry. >> this was the scene inside the capitol yesterday. some 300 people were arrested at

this protest demanding a cease-fire by israel in gaza. it was organized by a group called jewish voice for peace. outside one of the speakers at the rally took aim at president biden for his support of israel. >> president biden, not all americans are with you on this one. you need to walk up and understand that. we are watching people commit to genocide. >> it's part of a house that urges the biden administration to immediately call for a cease-fire. joining us is another democrat from congress, jonathan jackson of illinois. he's a member of the house foreign affairs committee. he met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and sign ed that resolution this week. congressman, thank you for being with us this morning. i wonder if you agree with congresswoman talib that president biden is out of step

with at least some of america. >> it's the fact that there should be an immediate cease-fire. i agree with the secretary general and a growing body of people that want to see hostages released, want to see humanitarian aid sent into the gaza strip. that's our focus right now. we want a deescalation of the violence. we're seeing mounting death tolls, maybe 1,400 israelis that have been killed, and as the government gets ready for a ground oimpbs, we're concerned about how to protect the life of innocent civilians. hamas is not the two palestinians. this was an intelligence failure that we first had had have to address. i'd like to see stronger defense for israel. i'd like to see justice, if you will, for the humortarian efforts. many people have been dislocated in the last 11 days. they have to get aid.

there's medical supplies they can not get into the gaza peopl. so we're seeking diplomacy of the warships and to bring the deescalation to the entire region. >> i will say president biden is confident that that aid will get in. but we have to see it get in. to your call for a cease-fire, your signing of this resolution calling for one this week, does that not contradict the resolution you signed on october 11th presented by congressman meeks that reaffirms israel yes, sir right to defense. >> defense is not on the offense. it's a protective measure. diplomacy is where we'd like to see strengthened. the united states does not have a confirmed ambassador from the united states to israel. we do not have a confirmed ambassador from the united

states to egypt. we should strengthen our diplomacy efforts. >> the the question is as israel continues to be attacked by hamas, their response to that, do they not contradict? but israel is saying this is our 9/11 moment. >> if you look at the consequences of what the united states did at 9/11, we created the department of homeland security. let's first addresses what was the intelligence failure. the israeli defense force is outstanding. how did this information go by? how was it missed? that's one part of it. the second part is wemented to make sure all the weapons are degraded. there's no more weapons being attacked in israel. how do we get to that solution? we have to go through information and get to that. what we have right now is great dislocation of a million people. if we cannot fix that, we're going to have a larger problem. >> how important do you think

clarity is in terms of information? one example is the intelligence that the united states has gathered on the bombing of that hospital in gaza this week, your colleague also tweeted this week israel just bolled the hospital killing 500 palestinians just like that. she's standing by and has not taken it down and that's counter to what u.s. intelligence tells us what the president tells us. does that concern you? >> it does. there's information that's moving around. there's information that's going on. i have not seen in the intelligence to give me satisfaction of the validity on which side. so i have no further comment on that. but more importantly, this information in our modern era of warfare can be used as weapon sit. so people are going to say things in their own benefit. that's why it's so imperative we have deescalation now. we have to take the swelling out.

we have to bury the dead. we have to get the hostages returned. that's my priority. we have to get to humanitarian aid and make sure israel is safe. >> so congressman, you had an impossible conversation this week with the father of a 6-year-old boy in illinois who was stabbed to death by the landlord of the building. we have the pictures of him. that's half a heart he's making and his father says that he would complete the heart with his son. it was just his birthday. i just wanted to ask you about being at his funeral and speaking to his father. so. >> i went to the event that happened after the funeral. commiserated with the father and the community, but to be in the aftermath of a 6-year-old child that was stabbed 26 times, his mother is still recovering.

she's been stabbed. this was a landlord, a person that knew the young child. he heard so much vicious talk, dehumanization of a group of people, and somehow he conflated hamas to this 6-year-old child. and so that 72-year-old man had overdosed of toxic information and compelled himself. you want terrorism to stop. that's the first act of terror on our shores. this can easily spiral out of control. that's what i'm asking for. people of good faith to deescalate. it's hopeful to see the prime minister of the uk going into israel to talk. it's great to see the united nations secretary general going into israel. i have great deal of optimism because more people are talking. i applaud president biden for having the courage to go into a war zone to talk to a friend.

the united states has a special friendship relationship with israel. and when you have a special friend, you're able to talk to them you're able to give them additional insight. you can also share things that will be in their best interest. so president biden enforcing diplomacy and extending a hand of friendship and going at a tomb of need, i him. >> i'm sure it was meaningful to the family in illinois to have you there. thank you. tonight president biden will speak directly to the american people from the oval office, only the second time a prime time address in his presidency. what to expect as he seeks more funds for the wars in israel in ukraine. we also have new details on the investigation into the hospital blast in gaza. how the u.s. made its determination that israel is not to blame.

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