we are getting new reporting in after a secret service agent who is protecting president's granddaughter opened fire. three suspects at large. don jr. on the stand. what questions he is answering right now, and how the trump team hopes that he is helping in the defense. and a u.s. official just told cnn that hamas has a command center under gaza's busiest hospital as the crisis inside grows more dire by the hour. i'm fredricka whitfield with kate bolduan and john berman. sara sidner has the day off.

cnn "news central" continues right now. we have breaking news involving the u.s. secret service. an agent on the security detail for the president's granddaughter naomi fired a weapon to prevent some people from breaking into the government vehicle. this happened on the campus of george washington in washington, d.c. what do we know? >> well, this happened overnight, john, and there are a number of questions of why this secret service agent fired at those people trying to break into the vehicle, but this is highlighting the uptick of crime around washington, d.c., where in fact over the past year motor vehicle theft is up 98%. this is the statement from the secret service saying that november 12th, last night, at 11:58 p.m., in the george washington neighborhood, secret service agents encountered three

individuals breaking into a parked federal vehicle. a secret service discharged a firearm. and this is from a secret service agent. the people fired at fled in a red car, and a lookout bulletin was issued. the secret service and local washington, d.c., p.d. are helping to investigate. a source has confirmed with team that the agent involved in firing the weapon amid the attempted vehicle break-in is assigned to naomi biden's detail, and the granddaughter of the first lady and oldest daughter of hunter biden and she lives in georgetown, and this is why the government service detail was parked there.

the white house is not commenting on this as it is an ongoing investigation. details will be coming out, and why the secret service agent did fire this weapon and more details to come out about the attempted break-in itself, and the secret service saying there was no threat to naomi biden, but a lot of concern developing about this incident just about midnight, and three suspects likely still out there still being searched for by metropolitan p.d. and others. >> just getting some information as to whether naomi biden was at or near the car when it happened? >> we are not getting any details of whether or not she was there, but she was in the neighborhood, and secret service was there, and government vehicle was there, and the only thing they are saying is that no pro protectee was in danger, pointing to naomi biden. and she was apparently there,

but no official confirmation, john. >> thank you so much for that update, jessica schneider. kate? >> and joining us is the chief law enforcement analyst, and what are you picking up on this? >> this is the midnight shift, and these are often the people out with the protectee if they are out late at night or around where they are staying guarding the outside of the residence. it is a secret service car, and those are the black tahoes or the suvs. but they come upon these two or three individuals who break the back window. so, the question here is going to be what justified the shoo shooting. >> right. >> and according to the federal use of force guidelines which i was trained on, and the service a agents are trained on, and the

guidelines of threat of serious bodily harm or imminent death, and they will be interviewed, and the officer who fired the shot, he will be interviewed is of what he saw that was the threat of force and the people after they were told to freeze, was he reaching for a weapon, did he see a weapon, and right now, we don't know it, but it is a process that comes. two parts. washington, d.c., police does the criminal investigation to make sure no laws were violated, and looking for the two to three suspect, and the secret service is going to be doing the investigation as to whether or not the shooting was in policy. >> one question immediately, is did they know the car that they knew that they were break into, and it is difficult for you, because you don't know them. >> well, sometimes there is a

placard on the window that secret u.s. official on official business so that the car is not towed away, but other times they don't. so if you are a professional criminal in washington, d.c., you should be adept at recognizing official vehicle, because they have the lights behind the grill, and it matters, because if it is a law enforcement car, maybe they think that there are weapons inside, and that could be part of the threat if they broke the back weapon, and this is where the weapons were stored, and that is possibly a threat to the officers, and it could be a sign of the rise of crime in washington, d.c. >> yes, and what about the rise of crime in washington, d.c.? >> well, it is georgetown, and one of the neighborhoods that is considered one of the safer neighborhoods in washington, but

washington, d.c., is a city of 700,000 people. they have 750 carjackings so far this year. 5,000 auto thefts. new york city is a city of 8.4 million people. we have 400 carjackings here. so by scale, the crime, and violent crime which is somebody taking your car is a little bit off of the hook right there. >> thank you for coming in, john. fredricka? >> hospitals in gaza collapsing one by one. the hospital that shuttered over the weekend is now the site of intense fighting of hamas and idf forces. they say they killed 21 hamas embedded amongst the civilians at the hospital entrance. this is new into cnn, hamas has a command center underneath the al shifa hospital with the fighters regularly clustered in

and around the city using fuel intended for the hospital. the hospital says there is no fuel left to run the generators. all operating rooms are now closed and the hospital director is warning that if the patients need surgery, they will die. we want to warn you that the next couple of videos we are going to show you are disturbing. in a desperate bid to keep the babies from the neo natal unit alive, they have wrapped the babies in foil and warm water. and this is also bodies piled up outside discarded to the elements. >> this is the stuff that they can hardly move in corridor for fear of being shot. they are not able to bury the bodies in the courtyard. they describe things like dogs

arriving and eating bodies, because they cannot go out into the carport to bury the bodies for fear of being shot. >> cnn's report is joining us to tell us what to learn about the command center that is operating right under the al shifa hospital. >> we are learning that there is a control center of hamas underneath the hospital, and we have not confirmed that. we have worked there for decades at al shifa, but we have not seen a hamas presence at the hospital, but this is the primary focus according to idf of this ongoing military operation. they say they are focused on targeting hamas, but as we know, there are thousands of

civilians, of patients at the al shifa hospital, and some 1,500 of hospital patients and hospital staff and other residents have flocked there for weapons, we will see the ground fighting circumstance 8 around the death toll, and it is only going to continue to rise. take a look. >> reporter: these are the sounds of the final gasps of gaza's final health care system. the medical staff in gaza city working under relentless israeli bombardment for over a month. but now, the chorus of the frantic voices seen here working under a torchlight tells their own gut-wrenching story. the second largest hospital has now collapsed. it is one of the hospitals in gaza completely out of service

according to the officials. those remaining now on a cliff ed edge. >> it was a direct injury in the head, and we cannot do injuries, no electricity, no oxygen, and we are working manually, and we are using a manual resus taresu, and we need to have surgery to survive. >> reporter: this father who was in the same building did not survive. the gaza officials say that three babies died after a generator powering the incubator was hit in a air strike and the

hospital electricity went down. they are completely surrounded. >> we are completely surrounded. >> reporter: they said that they have sent 300 liters to the entrance of the al shifa hospital, and said to be enough to power the hospital's generator for 30 minutes, but they blocked the hospital from receiving it. and they have sent israeli tanks to collect the fuel. inside of the hospital, the morgues are long beyond capacity. with communications cut off, the contact with the medical teams on the ground and the outside world is growing increasingly difficult. the hospital officials say that thousand of displaced civilians are thought to be in the compound, and taking shelter in what was once thought to be a

sanctuary in this nightmare. >> translator: we naught the hospital was a safe place, but it was not. if we stayed another five minutes, we would have been killed. they started to bomb us, and we ran away from al shifa. >> reporter: the military says it is a passage from three neighboring hospitals in gaza. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu telling cnn that there is no reason that the patients can not be evacuated from shipley. but doctors stay and there is no way for the patients and athe doctors are looking to evacuate. >> reporter: she has a brain injury, and no way to evacuate. >> reporter: the safe zones are

outlined by israel warning that no place in gaza is safe for civilians anymore. and for those too injured or too sick, e wac -- evacuations are too unsafe. we are waiting to hear from the doctors without borders to hear if they can evacuate the paetschs at this stage, and looking to get the patients and staff out of the al shifa hospital and this area of the gaza strip. >> that is terrifying and sad. thank you very much. also, with us now is nato supreme allied retired commander, wesley clark. and as you are looking at this, an official familiar with the

intelligence say ts that they a certain that there is a command hamas center underneath the hospital, and they use the fuel intended for that hospital, and from that official from the quods, they are waiting to be evacuated, but you can see in the footage of the idf, and what they have circled as a door and going in and out of the door, and general, can you talk about this, and how hamas uses these structures, and how that come pli kates the yerl effort -- ho complicates the efforts in that region. >> this is long developed by hamas to use long developed land

warfare to bring global pressure against the israelis when they retaliated. so the tunnel at work has been built the hospitals, and this is the nexus of the tunnels. hamas did it deliberately. and now, the israelis are under international law. they cannot bomb hospitals. they have not bombed this hospital, but they do have the right to self-defense. they have the go into the hospitals and get into the command nodes, and maybe they have been evacuated by then, but there is a fight for this, and a concern about this by the israelis, and to try to avoid the global implications of what they are doing. but they are still bound by the laws of planned warfare. so you have one side legally trying to deal with the enemy,

and the other side which is cynically exploiting international law, band putting their own people at risk and using them as hostages. that is what this is about, john. >> again, you are seeing the images of the ones of the babies there of the neonatal unit out of the incue bays or the and warmed by tinfoil and waters, and images that are doing the work of hamas, because people are suffering inside of there, wesley. >> yes, it is a terrible condition, and it is the fault of hamas. under the international law, hamas should have no military operations, and no doubt of that hospital. leave it. leave the doctors and the pati patients but, as long as they

are using it by hamas as a base of operation. and as long as they are using it as a tank let me you about a tank that is used as proxies there to attack american interests. what is happening here? >> well, this is an effort again by the united states to strike back at iran who is the source of the problem, without escalation. so it is balance between hitting the forces, hitting the command nodes, and hitting the logistic

s as i understand it. because we are hitting the iranian revolutionary guards components uranium, and so as i understand it, it is representing a slight escalation. >> thankyou, retired general wesley clark. now, we are hearing that the eldest sister of president trump has passed away. >> yes, she was 86 years old, and those familiar with the matter is that she has passed away in new york, and the causes of the death are unclear, but a couple of things to note about who she was. as you noted, she was a former federal judge and prosecutor, and first appointed to the bench, and the federal district court in new jersey by ronald reagan and later to the third district court by bill clinton, and little is known about the

deepness and the relationship between donald trump and his sister. while she never spoke out publicly and critically about his presidency, his niece and her niece mary trump did release audio records of his sister talking critically of trump while he was president. we have not heard of the former president on this death, but it is a developing story of the details that she passed. and she was the eldest of five siblings, and we know that donald trump's youngest brother, robert, passed away in 2020. >> all right. yes, more information to come on this. thank you, kristen. we will continue to follow this, and also coming up for us in the civil trial of donald trump and the business empire, and while the trump just sided with trump's legal team while don jr. is on the stand. and a big question in congress is can the house republicans avoid another government shutdown. we have new reporting of where

the vote count stands and how challenging math is looking right now for house speaker mike johnson, and not donald trump jr. though. and the popular weight loss drug wegovy, and the promising studies coming out for your heart. you will want to hear this.

all right. happening now, donald trump jr. is on the stand in the $250 mel

yon civil suit fraud against the trump empire. he was on the stand earlier in the case, and the judge has found the trumps liable for fraud earlier, and he sided with the trump's attorneys on the matter of how much testimony can be heard. cnn's brynn gingras is with us from the courthouse steps. what is going on inside of the courthouse, brynn? >> well, the judge is giving more breadth to them, and right now, the court is seeing an entire promotion al video of th assets dating back to 2019, and he is calling his dad an artist saying that his dad sees things that other people don't see. and the defense attorney said, does this fit within the statute of limitations, and the judge sided with the defense saying that he would allow this video to continue playing, saying that

he does not want any issues from the defense that he did not give them their fair shot, and retrial in this case. so this video is coming into play as we speak taking up much of the testimony of don jr. so far. prior to this, don jr. did talk about his role within the organization and said that when his father became president, he and his brother eric became asset managers. he and his brother handled the day-to-day, and it is a light hearted feeling in there, and the judge said at one point welcome back to don jr. on the stand, and don jr. said basically he would like to say that he was happy to be back there, but he didn't want to be charged with perjury there by the attorney general. and so, we will do expect there to be some testimony about the financial statements, but as he is getting questions from the

defense, he is able to give broader answers to the questions, and not like he could o only give yes or no answers to the direct questioning. >> so we are seeing them leave the courtroom, and this could be the lunch break there. he did not comment as he departed the courtroom, and he looked happy. is this the short break or the lunch break? >> just a short break. the court reporter says back at 11:45 after watching this short video. >> i like the universal sign for short break. thank you very much for your reporting. kate? >> joining us is former federal prosecutor kristen greenberg, and also the chief of the southern district, and good to see you.

now, with what brynn is detailing, and the rare instance of the judge siding with the defense team in this. so, allowing them to admit this powerpoint presentation of the long history of the trump organization over the objection of the attorney general's office. and why would the trump team want to showcase the history of the trump organization, and spend time doing that as they are just starting out the defense? >> two reasons. one it is more of the political defense and putting on a p.r. campaign of how great the organization is that the consequencef this case could be to shut it down. so, there is a p.r. aspect to it, but to the legal aspect, they are going to be looking to build on, this and the defense is going to look to make the argument when these banks were doing business with the trump organization, it is special. so the nitty-gritty of these

financials are less important than the personal or the private wealth management group looking to build a relationship with the trump family business. >> hmm, that is interesting. what do you think of the choice of the defense team to bring don jr. first to the witness stand. brynn was describing light hearted atmosphere within the courtroom today. and do you think it tells you anything about the approach going forward for the defense team? >> i think that you will hear from eric trump, and maybe even the former president himself. they are looking to tell their narrative, and the state has gotten their opportunity to tell their story, and now they want to show that the trump organization that in their words that there was iconic circumstances, and don jr. talking about how spectacular it was, and i don't know the relevance of it, and i don't know if it is going to be moving the needle on this who has already found persistent fraud, but he is willing to give them

the leeway to tell the narrative they want to tell. >> and so when it is coming to the nitty-gritty and coming to be asked about the financial statements from this perspective, do you see it as the job of don jr. and others would be to play cleanup a little bit, or do you think they have room to run here? >> well, based on what the reporting is that has been coming out so far, the testimony is like a love letter to the trump organization, and to his father, but again, the legal significance of all of this, and how is it going to be all of them is if there was intent to defraught, and were they materials, and did anyone rely and if this testimony is going to be key to those aspects.

>> i am interested in the key testimony for the trump businesses, and is there a limitation to the scope of the questioning? >> yeah, i mean, this is right on the line of whether or not it is relevant. i think that he is giving them a lot of latitude here. but at some point there is going to be, i would imagine the judge is going to rein it in, and say, let's get to the actual facts of the case. >> yeah, move it along, folks. at some point. good to see you, and thank you for coming in again. >> thank you for having me. >> fredricka? >> thank you, kate. can the house avoid another threat of the government shutdown, and the threat that mike johnson faces from within his own party. and the man who is accused of attacking nancy pelosi's husband is also continuing

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u.s. government funding runs out friday at midnight unless congress can agree to keep the lights on. this morning we are learning house speaker mike johnson does not have the support he needs from the republican colleagues to pass his funding bill. at least six house republicans are opposed to the two-part proposal that would keep some

government programs funded through mid-january and others through early february. this could force johnson to turn to democrats are for help. lauren fox is on capitol hill. is there a chance for democrats to help keep the speaker's bill from sinking completely? >> yeah, fredricka. it does really feel like we were just here for the last government shutdown showdown last month, but what is becoming very clear is that johnson needs the democrats to get it across the finish line. the expectation is that the two-step proposal is not what the democrats were envisioning. it is a bill and a plan that does not cut the current government funding. it keeps the government funding where it was, and that is a red line for the democrats. they are open to the proposal, and maybe they will be able to open the door, and back it, but

it is a big test for johnson, because it is a first fiscal crisis that he is coming to as a newly minted speaker, and how he handles the next couple off days and if he can get some democratic support is going to say a lot about the tenure and moving forward to govern both his own conference and make sure that the base of work of governing is going to get done up here on capitol hill. >> and lauren, what is the first hurdle that he is going to have to overcome at this juncture? >> well, the house rules committee is going to meet today, and that exek ptation is obviously that they have to be able to pass the rule in order to vote on the underlying bill. this is weedy, but important, typically the majority party is to pass the first step of the part of the bill, but if they don't want to support that rule on the floor, that is sending a significant symbol to johnson

that some of his members might be harder to deal with going forward. there were a lot of conservatives who used to bring down rules when kevin mccarthy was the speaker just to put a finer point on the fact that they were opposed to something. that a liability for johnson here if he cannot pass a rule with republican votes, and he may need democrats, and another part of this is that he could pass it with a suspension of the rules which is 2/3 majority, which is a higher threshold to ensure that his house could pass in the america. >> thank you, lauren fox. >> the man accused of attacking nancy pelosi's husband is in court right now, and paul pelosi, himself, he could take the stand today. we'll be right back.

as soon as today, paul pelosi, the husband of former house speaker nancy pelosi could take the stand in the trial of the man accused of attacking him with a hammer. the man accused of attacking them inside of the home of the pe pelosis. what are you hearing in >> just moments ago, the court convened for day, and a special agent is on the stand testifying. of course, this attack against paul pelosi who was the husband at the time of the house speaker which brought in the federal agents to testify.

and paul pelosi could be brought up on the stand when david depape is accuse of the attempted kidnapping and assault. depape is facing serious charges including the assault of an immediate federal official. and we will see whether paul pelosi takes the stand today, and that could be gripping testimony of what he endured that day. john. >> and what is the defense saying that depape went after him with the hammer? >> no, they are admitting that he did assault paul pelosi on that day, but the issue of the strategy is coming down to the lawyer is the why. these are very serious federal charges pertaining to nancy pelosi's association of the

family member of a federal official that the suspect had told paul pelosi that he was waiting for nancy pelosi to come home so he could kidnap her. and david depape's attorney who had plead not guilty to the charges, and she laid out the strategy, and she said to the judge, this case is about whether david aked because of or on account of nancy's duties in congress, and he didn't. he struck paul pelosi in a moment of despair, and the larger plan was thwarted when the police arrived. now this is a troubled individual, but according to the interview with the authorities after the arrest, he said that in his view, nancy pelosi was involved in some plot to take votes from donald trump, and of course, that is following along the lines of the conspiracy theories that we have heard, and he seems to have bought into those according to confession, but the attorney saying that he did not assault paul pelosi and

it is not because of his association with the house speaker, but if he is convicted of the very serious charges he could face up to 30 years for one set and 20 year for the other. >> and we could again hear from paul pelosi as soon as today. fredricka. >> and the weight loss drug wegovy and other landmark findings.

semaglutide. a big flu finding from a landmark clinical trial about the weight loss drug wegovy.

new data is showing it may be good for your heart. the trial finding a dramatic kit in the risk of heart attacks, stroke and heart-related deaths in patients taking the medication. meg trout is back with us. talk to us about what this trial has shown. >> it's never been shown with a weight loss drug that you can prevent things like heart attacks and strokes. everybody takes the conventional wisdom if you have obesity or in the overweight category, losing weight should protect your heart, but it never has been borne out in the gold standard clinical trial. now we are seeing that with a major clinical trial. more than 17,000 patients followed for an average of more than three years, folks that already had some heart event like a heart attack or stroke or clogged arteries in their arms or legs and this was to prevent another one. what they found was that not only did this lead to weight loss of almost 10%, but lowered blood sugar, blood pressure, and triglycerides and had a 20%

reduction in the risk of heart attacks or strokes and heart-related deaths. this was presented at a heart meeting of doctors in philadelphia and lot of folks in that room going to start prescribing this for their patients. >> any safety concerns? >> no major ones emerged. so many people are taking these medicines for diabetes and weight loss, but we did see that 10% of patients on wegovy stopped taking the drug because of gi issues like constipation and nausea and vomiting. >> because so many people have been taking it, it means there's been a shortage, right? >> there has been. people who are just starting out on the medication getting prescribed sometimes have trouble finding it because novo nordisk is limiting the starting doses because they can't make enough to satisfy the whole market. there was a new al professional that will compete with this called zepbound from eli lilly. it doesn't have the heart data yet, but folks expect it's probably going to work in the same way. >> fascinating. >> thanks, meg. and thank you all for joining us. great to have you here with us. >> it's been fun. >> back tomorrow? >> i'm back tomorrow. >> excellent.

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