>> you just gave me candy corn going to commercial. i tried to give it to grace, our anchor producer who didn't want it because apparently it's not the best halloween candy. >> i think it's a perfectly fine candy, but you'll also notice a lot of these on here are chocol. i will note i didn't go out and buy the candy. someone was giving them downstairs in our lobby and i was, like, this would be great for television. that's what you call utilizing everything that's going on. >> is this the fun one? >> i think this is a fun one. americans who believe in ghosts. in 1979, it was just 11%. look where we are today. 39% of americans believe in ghosts. do you believe in ghosts? >> i have to wrap you up here. i want to leave you all with this. this is what i walked into in the office this morning. scooby mattingly. >> i like fun. >> you like fun.

>> and backpacks. apparently i'm 15 years old. everybody, have a great halloween. harry, thank you as always my friend. "cnn news central" starts right now. hamas. the targeted special operation overnight in northern gaza, and the moment the soldier was reunited with her family. a big moment on capitol hill. any minute now an official plea for new funds to support israel

and ukraine. i'm john berman can kate bolduan. sara is on assignment. this is "cnn news central." ♪ israel's military push further into gaza. the idf says troops are con fronting hamas terrorist cells on the streets, and now facing what they describe as anti-tank missiles and machine gunfire as the fight continues. according to the idf, the number of hostages being held by hamas and gaza is also now going up again, now believed to be 240 hostages. the idf is calling what it details as the active rescue and an idf soldier. israeli officials say hamas was holding her inside a remote building. that's according to axios. the idf telling cnn, the soldier

has shared information about her captivity with israeli intelligence officers which can be used for the future, they say. what that means for the efforts today to get more hostages out, not entirely clear, but we do know air attacks are not letting up. this barrage in northern gaza struck just hours ago as israeli leaders are firmly saying a cease fire is not under consideration right now though they acknowledge the humanitarian crisis in gaza is deepening. >> and as kate says, the israeli defense forces now say there are 240 hostages. this would be their 25th day in captivity in gaza, and even as operations intensify in the gaza strip, the idf is also conducting operations elsewhere including the west bank where just north of here, they say they destroyed the home of a hamas leader. you can see the after effects right there, that compound simply leveled from the air by

israel, and again, that happened in the west bank as opposed to gaza. also in gaza, we are getting a sense of the scale of operations. the idf says it killed a hamas leader who conducted the attacks over the border in israel on october 7th in a kibbutz in another town right here. they say this hamas leader was responsible for both attacks there. now one area we are not seeing a gree great deal of activity is northern israel on the border with lebanon. yes, we have seen an exchange of fire back and forth over the last three weeks between hezbollah and israel, but up until now, hezbollah has not launched any kind of full-scale operation into israel. let's get to northern israel. that's where we find our jim sciutto to get a sense of what's happening there. jim? >> reporter: john, i'm in northern israel just a few miles from the lebanon border.

this is an israeli tank unit back here. it's basically a staging area. they're doing exercises as well, and the soldiers, men and women who are manning these tanks right now, they're reservists. they're among those more than 300,000 reservists that have been called up since the attacks on october 7th. there actually has been a fair amount of exchange of fire between the idf and hezbollah and other fighters inside lebanon, and also frankly those fighters from lebanon and also from the syrian side targeting civilian areas. we found ourselves in the midst of it. it's a combination of artillery fire, rocket fire, mortar fire. they're even sending ieds over on parachutes, in effect makeshift ieds that drift over and drop down to the ground, and it is causing genuine fear here in the north to the extent that many of these northern communities are either under mandatory evacuation or in effect, voluntary evacuation as we have been driving through

these towns along the border here. many of them are empty, and these are not small villages john and kate. they are are major communities in the north and where we are right now which is right along the coastline. you have a combination of fear among civilians here moving south, but also deployments like this one we're seeing here in case there is a more aggressive attack by hezbollah fighters. one thing i will note, john, as well, is there's great concern about iranian proxies in this region unleashing their more advanced missile systems, and the idf saying today that for the first time the arrow missile defense as it's known -- this is a high altitude missile defense, even higher altitude than the dome we're familiar with, the air missile system was engaged for the first time of this conflict because of missiles coming from yemen,

iranian-backed forces in yemen, the houthi rebels there. they have these long-distance precision-guided weapon that is if that it would layer those defenses. the iron dome and the arrow much higher up. you've got concerns at the ground level, concerns from artillery fire and then concerns about higher altitude greater precision weapons coming in as well. that's the level of the alert here right now, john. >> a great deal of concern as jim was saying right on the israel/lebanese border pitch di. i didn't mean to say it was totally quiet. it hasn't been. as jim was saying, including high-tech rockets that can hit almost anywhere in israel including the capital tel aviv and the airport there. hezbollah has been somewhat restrained. obviously the concern there is

they would cease to be. jim sciutto in northern israel. our thanks to jim. kate? minutes from now we'll hear from the u.s. secretary of state and the defense secretary both on capitol hill to testify before senators on the biden administration's ask for $106 billion in aid for both israel and ukraine, but this comes as we have been discussing of this growing opposition to linking these two funding requests. the growing opposition coming really amongst republicans in the house. let's get to natasha bertrand for us. what are we expecting to hear from both tony blinken and lloyd austin as they go for appropriators yet? >> reporter: we haven't getotte their prepared remarks just yet. we expect it to be similar to the pitch president biden made in his speech to the people early they are month in which he advocated for the u.s. congress to pass this supplemental bill that would provide additional funding to ukraine and israel,

and he emphasized the importance, the national security interest for the u.s. to provide that money now. he said hamas and putin represent different threats, but they share this in common. they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy completely annihilate it. that is the argument we are likely to hear from blinken and austin, is that this money is necessary in order to help these two very key u.s. allies confront the threats that they are facing right now. now a major problem as you mentioned is that the house does not want to link israel funding with ukraine funding, and the house gop they put forward a bill just last night that provides $14 billion in additional funding for israel, but punts on the aid for ukraine, and in addition to that, it also rescinds the over $14 billion in additional irs funding that had been included in the inflation reduction act passed by the biden

administration. karine jean-pierre says this bill was a nonstarter. she said, quote, politicizing our national security interest is a nonstarter. supporting israel and defending ukraine from atrocities and russian imperialism, not doing that could have devastating implications in the years ahead. senate democrats have also said this bill is a nonstarter. expect this to be a subject at the hearing today. austin and blinken are going to make the case to link these two saying that they are essentially really key for u.s. national security as the ukrainians try to fend off putin and of course, as israel tries to fend off hamas. however, it remains to be seen how this actually gets passed with such opposition in the house right now to linken ing te two, kate. >> uncertain future on what they describe as an immediate need. thank you so much, natasha. john. let's dig deeper now into

the israeli incursion into gaza. so far it has happened only in the north here. with us now is cnn military analyst, a former nato supreme ally commander, wesley clark. we can zoom in here, and we have a sense that the israeli forces are moving in three directions. from here, the north, you know, the northern corner, the other northern corner, and from the south here, somewhat toward fwaa city. what do you see happening here? >> we're moving toward the center of gravity as they see it of hamas, and they're moving very deliberately. they're moving with full security. they're drawing the resistance into them. they're forcing hamas to maneuver. they're picking up an intelligence from that maneuver and using it for targeting and we know from previous inc incursions, john, that there is -- there is a big tunnel

network under northern gaza. they're moving in where they can get at the tunnels, but they also have to be on the rooftops. >> so axios is estimating that there are some 20,000 israeli troops now inside gaza. we have no way of knowing for sure here, but if that is within the range of what israel has committed so far on the ground there, is that a lot, a little, limited? how would you describe it? >> i would say it's quite limited so far. there were about 10,000, 12,000 u.s. troops that was one-tenth the size of the gaza strip. maybe five-times loser than before. they're going to have to clear the area. they're going to have to go into the buildings, clear the rooms, check the rooftops, check the

basements and go into tunnels. this is the beginning of a lot of hard, dangerous work with the idf. >> gaza city is right here, and we have a sense there are tanks in infantry in every direction of it. are you talking about something that would be like a siege surrounding gaza city for some period of time or will they go into the downtown area in force do you expect? >> i think it depends on the reaction, and what they get out of hamas. i think if hamas holds up in a definite zone, then they will close on, squeeze that, and penetrate that zone. if hamas comes out at them and they can conduct sufficient attrition against hamas by its attacking their fixed positions, then you won't see as much movement into the center of the city, but yes, they're going to occupy the whole city. >> jim sciutto, we just saw him,

and he's reporting on the constant activity that's been going on back and forth with hezbollah targeting the israeli villages. the idf conducting some operations in lebanon, targeting hezbollah, but up until now, hezbollah has not launched anywhere near the kind of operation they did in 2006, firing thousands, if not tens of thousands of rockets into israel, using their well-trained militia groups to invade or try to cross the border into israel. why not do you think? >> i think the iranian bosses there, the moulas are carefully watching the situation. they recognize the united states as two aircraft carriers there. i think israel is better prepared to defend itself than it was in 2006 on the northern border, and i think they recognize that should hezbollah really commit full board against northern israel, hezbollah will

be destroyed or substantially destroyed, and they'll lose a major face in the region. the iranians will, and they'll also lose their ability to influence lebanese politics, and also syrian politics. course, working in three different directions. this is one of them. this is posturing by hezbollah thus far as the iranians continue their calculations. israel puts 100,000 troops into gaza. they're stuck in there taking heavy casualties and then the iranians will recalibrate, and at that point, they might well decide to launch hezbollah, but not yet. >> general wesley clark. we should note that the leader of hezbollah said he will speak on friday, several days from now. obviously the world will be watching very closely what he'll say. general clark, thank you very much. kate? coming up for us, donald trump's kids are set to testify in his civil fraud trial in new york. what that could mean for them, for their dad, and for the

family's business empire. and we're also learning about new warnings that were coming from the main shooters, the murderer's ex-wife and son. what they told police back in may, and what we're learning about how he acquired up to 15 guns. and ron desantis speaking out this morning after nikki haley is now touting being in second place behind trump in key early primary states. what this race looks like now after the first major republican contender drops out. mike pence's former chief of staff is our guest.

donald trump's kids are taking the stand starting this week in the $250 million civil fraud trial against trump himself. a lawsuit that is threatening donald trump and the entire family's business empire. backwards to forwards, ivanka trump is expected to testify next week after the judge in the case denied her motion to quash

her subpoena. she had argued that she shouldn't be forced to take the stand after she was removed as a co-defendant in the case by a lower court judge. the judge also indicated he's g giving ivanka trump time to appeal. >> as soon as tomorrow, in fact, ivanka trump's brothers donald trump jr. and eric trump will testify again as soon as tomorrow. let's bring in our legal analyst, former ambassador norm isaac to join us. norm, what does the attorney general's team want to get out of donald trump's children? >> john, he wants to get out of donald trump's children additional admissions that they engaged in the falsification of business records, issuing false financial statements, and insurance fraud. now they're not going to say, yes, i did it, but what he's

going to do -- what the lawyers for the ag are going to do are confront them with the inexplicable discrepancies in the valuation of specific properties ranging from trump's apartment to the seven springs estate to 40 wall street to show that there was in a nutshell, fraud. >> norm, can they avoid doing damage to their dad? >> well, they're in a very tough spot because the discrepancies between these numbers, sometimes variations on these properties of hundreds of millions of dollars in the internal records of the trump organization put them just in a corner. on the one hand, if they tell the truth, it appears they'll be

admitting to the wrongdoing. on the other hand, if they're not candid, they're exposed to potential perjury. if they take the fifth, then that will count against them in the case, and all of this is happening in front of a judge who already had a partial summary judgment finding on the persistent fraudulent behavior. that's the first count of the complaint. so it's an impossibly difficult situation for the kids, and ultimately for trump himself. >> again, you can see right there on the calendar, it spells out in detail, we'll hear from trump's children as soon as tomorrow. from trump himself, the beginning of next week. in a jury trial, you can understand the emotions that might be at play here. as a jury would see the children of the defendant testifying, there's no jury here. this is a judge. so how does that change the

situation? >> well, there's been controversy about whether a jury might have even been available or not. trump's lawyers didn't ask for one. that's the latest in a series of moves that have been questioned by his lawyers over the years. they say no jury was available so they didn't mess up. you know, the real audience here is not just the judge who has profound doubts about the candor of the trump family. he's made that clear already. whatever happens is going to be reviewed on appeal and, in in particular, john, the penalties which are in effect already upon appeal, and for the summary judgment, and in effect a corporate death penalty. so what's going to happen is building the record for appellate review. i think the bottom line is when you look at these papers, it certainly appears as the judge

found on partial summary judgment, two sets of books. you just can't do that. it's going to be a very tough case upon appeal. they're going to try to make it a little less bad. >> a little less bad. not a goal and not a way to live life. good to see you, norm. thank you so much. >> it begins tomorrow. a troubling trend we are seeing here in the united states. a rise in anti-semitic incidents. what's behind this, and what can be done?

this morning, trouble ahead once again on capitol hill as

lawmakers are now trying to figure out how to send help to israel and also ukraine if they're going to at all. on the senate side, there seems to be a rare display of bipartisanship as leaders of both parties agree that israel funding should be part of a larger package that includes aid to israel and also a boost to funding for the southern border of the united states. in the house of representatives though, the new speaker, mike johnson, he's readying for a fight it appears, pushing a stand-alone bill that does not include any money for ukraine and also calls for scraping some $14 billion in irs funding that was part of the big bipartisan infrastructure bill. manu raju is on capitol hill. do you see a path forward yet? >> reporter: it's really unclear. in fact, there's real concerns that all of this could get stalled, could get bogged down and could potentially collapse amid divisions within the gop and uncertainty about whether

the votes exist for any of packages that are now being considered. now the split really is between the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell and the house speaker mike johns on son on st a -- strategy and the price tag. they want to include israel aid as well as ukraine aid as well. they're pushing for $105 million including with issues at the southern border and the south pacific and the like. mike johnson, the new speaker wants a separate bill just to deal with israel, but included in that are spending cuts to the irs enforcement, meant to offset the cost of the price tag. that has prompted a furious democratic revolt and the chairman are about to give testimony in a matter of minutes from top cabinet officials. she says that house republican plan is dead on arrival, and in talking for the number two senate republican john thune, he made clear it is an open question about how any of this

will get resolved. >> would you be okay of separating the two out? >> it's going to be what the traffic will bear. will they have the votes to pass? we'll see what it looks like. if they send something over separately and it has bipartisan support coming out of the house, then it's probably going to be hard not to take that up here. >> reporter: and that is the real question, is exactly what can get out of the senate that can pass the house and if the house plan does pass this week, democrats are saying it has no path in the senate. so what ultimately happens here as israel awaits raid from the united states, as ukraine awaits aid from the united states, will all of it collapse amid infighting on capitol hill? that's the question, but the administration, in just a matter of moments here, secretary blinken as well as secretary austin making their case to tie it together saying it's central to the american security. will it change the dynamic on

capitol hill? that's another question altogether, kate. >> it's important to hear from both the secretary of state and the defense secretary on this very issue. great to see you, manu. you'll have updates coming up on that. john? jared mosqkowitz, a democra from florida, is with us. thank you for being with us. this idea of tying aid to israel and cuts and funding for the irs, debbie wasserman schultz says this is political funding. you also said you would vote for this. why? >> they're setting a political trap. it's completely outrageous. it's not serious policy, and don't listen to me. go listen to the national republican congressional committee. they put out a tweet saying, democrats are going to have to choose between israel and the irs. they're admitting this is a

campaign employ to decide not to defund the irs. this is what we're doing with our national security. this is what republicans are doing while there are american hostages. they're going to politicize funding for israel in their greatest time of need in 50 years and that's why we're calling out. that being said, listen. i'm not going to fall for their trap. i am going to support israel's funding because it's super critical in the world we live in today that we give israel the support that they need. >> why isn't that falling for the trap though? >> it's not falling for the trap because they want us to vote no. they want us to vote no. that's the trap. they want us to choose the domestic spending over the foreign spending, the domestic cuts over the foreign spending. that's what they want. they want us to fall right into it and i'm saying i'm not going to do that. this violates their single subject spending rule. they said they won't mix

subjects and a bill, and this will add to the deficit which is what they're not supposed to be doing. they're violating every rule they've set for themselves all in the nature of politics, not about bringing americans home, not about helping our ally in the middle east, not about doing any humanitarian aid by the way for the folks that are in the gaza strip. there's none of that. that's what they're doing, but i'm not going to fall into that trap they're strtrying to set f democrats. >> your synagogue in parkland, florida we might add over the weekend, there was an anti-semitic digit outside, and if i'm getting this right, it was what appeared to be kids on bikes riding by yelling things about jews. what's that feel like for you to have that happen outside your synagogue? >> well, i mean, john, we've seen this now unfortunately all over the country in universities and in the streets, on social media. i mean, it's the cool and hip thing. i have no doubt that these kids saw this on tiktok or instagram

or somewhere and thought, oh, this would be cool. let's put on ski masks and go to our local temple and yell, kill the j wews. we've also seen complaints about israel to jews. you know, we're -- the jewish community is constantly told you can be anti-israel, but not anti-semitic and i would surmise that you could, but what we're seeing in the street is not. what we're seeing is the call to gas is jews, cleanse the jews, from the river to the sea, right? kill everyone in between. it is concerning. this is what my grandmother who was a holocaust survivor as a child, you know, told me stories. you go to the museums. you think to yourself, there's no way that this can happen again. how could people be so blindly hate a religion and people that they don't -- they don't even

know, and then you see this, and you realize that what happens is that when there's so much propaganda out there, and it's fed the po people by algorithms day long on social media, you can see why is around the world again, john. it's really scary. >> the old saying it can't happen here clearly does not apply. you get to a key area of discussion which is the line between being critical of israel and anti-semitism, and i bring that up because rashida talib, there's going to be a motion on the house floor on her, and you said that everyone should consider that strongly. so why? where do you draw that line between free speech and being critical of israel and anti-semitism? >> well, again, i think you can be critical of israel's policies, but when people are -- start using the word jew,

clearly that's no longer about foreign policy, and we've seen the word israel disappear and the word jew replace it all over college campuses and universities and in big cities across the country, and online, john. it is pervasive online. that's where you draw the line. that's clearly now not about israel. that is clearly about anti-semitism. you know, as far as congressman rashida talib, that's about the fact that she still went out and told a lie after u.s. intelligence said that it had nothing to do about israel at the hospital. first of all, let's go through that. the hospital wasn't hit. it was the parking lot. there weren't 500 people that were killed because hamas makes up the numbers, and by the way it wasn't israel. the biggest part, it was not israel. every intelligence agency we have in this country has confirmed that. there were riots all over the place. the president had his meetings canceled with foreign leaders.

we see mobs in russia looking for jews on the plane from tel aviv. all of this goes back to people believing that the hospital was bombed, and so spreading dangerous misinformation is something people in congress shouldn't do. when republicans do that, democrats call that out, okay? we censure them for when they do that or say they should be cen censured, and that's why i said it's something i think should be considered. >> congressman, we do appreciate your time. please come back and see us again. >> thanks, john. all right. the battle for number two. things getting very interesting in the republican race for president. new sharp elbows between ron desantis and nikki haley. and could hollywood actors be back on their way to work soon? there is new reporting on progress in the strike talks.

this morning, ron desantis is responding to some of the news out of iowa, the new polling data that shows he remains in second place behind donald trump, a distant second place, but he's also now tied with nikki haley among likely republican caucus-goers. desantis says he still feels confident about his campaign, and what it's seeing in iowa. >> donald trump is spending a million dollars attacking me in iowa. hal haley's superpac is spending big money to attack me in iowa. you don't do that unless you view me as the threat. so i look at how the campaigns behave, and if donald trump had it sewn up, he would not be

attacking me there. we would not be the point of the focal attack. >> haley all too happy to tout her rise in the polls. listen to this. >> if you saw the polls today in iowa, i am now in second place in iowa, second place. [ applause ] we are now second place in new hampshire. we are now second place in south carolina. i got one more fella i got to catch up to, and i am determined to do it. >> that fellow though at a distant first, being donald trump. in iowa, this comes just after the first major republican candidate dropped out of the race. former vice president mike pence making a surprise announcement this weekend, and joining me now is mark short, senior adviser of mike pence and also the former chief of staff to vice president pence. it's good oto see you, mark. what was the final straw? why do you think he did not gain traction?

>> well, kate, i think the campaign afforded him an opportunity to give an admonition to the direction our party is headed. i think that in 2016 when he joined the ticket, there was a promise to govern as conservatives and i think he and donald trump did. whether or not it's border policy, historic tax relief, we did rebuilding the military or reforming the courts, but i think today the front-runner of our party has run a campaign based on grievances and there's no real promise to conservatives and how they govern. in fact, if you look at his campaign messaging proposing perhaps the biggest tax increase on american history with a 10% tax on all products coming into the united states, abandonment of our international commitments, refusal to address the fiscal crisis that we're in. there's nothing that the campaign is offering to conservatives. instead, it's basically, you help me fight my grievances, and i think the campaign afforded the vice president that chance to give caution to our party

about the direction that it's headed, but i think that the reality is that donald trump remains the front-runner for our party and, you know, other candidates will have to make decisions about timing for them, but i think some of the conventional wisdom is we need to narrow it down to one-on-one. i don't think that applies here. i think the reality is that as candidates drop out, there will be inevitability of trump as the nominee and i think it's a different dynamic. >> but when it comes to -- i m mean, when you said the campaign afforded mike pence, people were not buying it. you know it. you were seeing in the poll that is it didn't cut through. it didn't give -- people were not giving him another look, but i wonder then if this, pence leaving the race, coupled with trump's dominance and also even mike johnson's rise to becoming house speaker, is that confirmation that 2020 election denialism is a prerequisite or

at least a big factor of people being able to win leadership positions in the republican party? >> i don't know, kate. i think there's no doubt there's a sense of allegiance in our party to donald trump and i think some of it -- some of it could be election denial. i think a lot of it is also believing that there was a lot of accomplishments those four years, and so even if we don't agree with him about january 6th, we want to stand with him moving forward. so i don't know if it's as simple as that, and look. i'm well familiar with speaker johnson's brief, but i don't put him perhaps in the same crowd. mike johnson is a committed conservative who has been a man of conviction throughout his public career, and so i'm not necessarily attaching some of the same election denialism there. >> who do you think is now the strongest candidate against trump? >> you know, kate, i think that right now that donald trump is on a pathway in each indictment

that continues to rally more people behind him. i think as you mentioned, there is a fight for second place, but that's a distant fight from where donald trump is in the standings. >> are you seeing an ability there? >> i don't want to say inevitability because i think there's an enormous amount of legal hurdles, but there is a compelling case to overtake him where our party is right now. >> can i ask you this real quick? >> yeah. >> pence joined most of the other republicans running for president in raising his hand on that debate stage to say he would support whoever the eventual nominee is, whoever it is, and the suggestion there is donald trump. now that he is no longer bound by any rnc rules which was part of it to get on the debate stage, do you see mike pence really voting for trump if he gets the nomination? >> i think that mike's a man of

his word, and i think he's been a lifelong republican. i think he's been committed to our party ands as you said, it was prerequisite for the debate. >> if he stands up for his ideals, how is that standing up for his ideals? >> he's always going to make the case, but at the same time, if you are a conservative like he is, and you look at the direction of our country under joe biden, there's no way you can support joe biden. so i think that there's certainly a conflict there for sure, and it's hard to support somebody who abandons the rule of law, but i would let mike's the question as to who he's going to vote for, but it's hard for me to see him going out and campaigning against the republican nominee. >> it's great to have you, marc. great to have your perspective throughout the rest of this primary. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks, buddy. john? very shortly, actors and major executives set to meet at the negotiating table. is the deal to end the strike increasingly imminent?

all right. shortly, sag-aftra, the union representing 150,000 hollywood actors is going to be back at

the negotiating table. and the negotiator told "variety" he is cautiously optimistic about the talks though they are far apart on key issues. the actors have been on strike since july and that is more than 100 days now. c nnn politics senior correspondent vanessa yurkevich is saying they could be closer to a negotiation? >> yes, we could see a deal this week or next, because we have heard about movement, but caution you that we have heard about movement before to have both sides walk away abruptly and all key items are being discussed including artificial intelligence which could be used to create background actors in shows or movies or paying the actor for one day of work and use their likeness in perpetuity

and that is something that the actors have said is an existential crisis to their livelihoods. we know that the writers guild however, was able to come to the deal with the studios earlier in the month, and able to put up the guardrails around artificial intelligence and involved in the final days of negotiations between the writers and the studios where all of the studio heads including ceo of our parent company warner brothers discovery and we know that from the sources, those same studio heads are back at the negotiating table trying to push this deal through. john, the clock has always been ticking on this, but the clock is really ticking now, because if they don't come to a deal soon, the studios are going to have the cancel the production of the winter shows, and this is only going to prolong the actors being out of work more, and addit additionally, all of the other workers who are supported by hollywood who have been impacted, and they are going to

be out of work even longer. so a little bit of hope this week that maybe there is a deal in our near future, and that would be the best gift ahead of the holiday season, john. >> back at the table, and thank you, vanessa yurkevich. we will hearing from secretary tony blinken and lloyd austin, who are set to make the case on capitol hill for more aid to ukraine and more aid to israel and getting it to them as soon as possible. we will bring you some of the remarks when they begin. also come up, the israeli forces are reaching deeper into gaza with the ground operation now. what that look like today, actually -- back to capitol hill. secretary of state tony blinken is beginning his remarks. let's listen. >> it is a pleasure to testify before you -- >> sir, you need to stop.

>> stop supporting the genocide -- >> sir, sir! >> the people of gaza -- cease-fire now. save the children of gaza. save the children of gaza. cease-fire now! where is your pride, america. >> i do recognize that people feel passionately, but i recognize that we have order in the hearing room, and respect to the speakers and we will move forward with the hearing and allow the people here and the american people to hear from their witnesses. senator blinken. >> thank you, chair. 2 1/2 years ago, our adversaries assessed that the united states was becoming permanently divided at home, and alienated from the allies and partners at home and around the world, and working together, we have demonstrated that america's resilience and leadership in the world remain unmatched. we have made historic investments in america's source

at home and our infrastructure and economic competitiveness and invested in the modernization of the military and invested in the greatest strategic investment abroad our network of allies and partners which is growing stronger and larger and more capable than ever. we are standing up for our investment of values and not shrinking back and not the aggression of ukraine. and not in the -- >> 66% -- >> if the witness will suspend and i ask everyone, again, to respect this hearing. we will suspect until the room is cleared. >> cease-fire. shame on you all. the american people don't want to support this brutal war -- stop the war, stop this cease-fire now. stop funding this brutal

massacre that israel is doing on the people of gaza. cease-fire now. cease-fire now. cease-fire now. >> thank you, senator blinken. you may continue. >> as i said, we are standing up for our values and not shrinking against the russian invasion of ukraine, and the indo pacific or around the world or in the face of the terrorism or the state-sponsored fire, and america does not stand alone and we have built extraordinary coalitions. and our competitors alike recognize that the strategies are working and they are doing everything that we can to disrupt us. wret standing at a moment where many again are making bet that we are too divided and too divided at home the stay the course, and this is what is at stake with the president biden's supplemental funding request. the president's request would

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