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berlin. we do expect to hear from him this hour. we will bring that to you live as we cover all this breaking news out of the middle east. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us on this friday morning. this just in senior hamas leaders have confirmed the deaths of their bare leader and the mastermind of the october 7 terror attacks yahya sinwar is dead. israel's military announcing yesterday that sinwar was killed in gaza on wednesday, according to israeli sources, the hunt for sinwar came to an end when israeli forces came under for fire during a routine military operation in southern gaza, the idf returned fire and one of the militants fled into a nearby building. what you see now is drone video edited and released by the idf. they say it shows sinwar hiding. after that firefight, hiding sitting in that chair. israeli troops later fired on this building again and they killed the man

in the chair at this point. is really forces didn't know the identity of the man that they had killed. >> but upon closer inspection, they noticed that he looked very familiar so we're now going to show you a photo allegedly showing sinwar's body after he was killed. >> we want to warn you this image is graphic and may be disturbing for some viewers. so we're giving you a second. if you don't want to see it on your screen but we are going to put it up now in this image taken from social media, you see here the body of a man resembling sinwar, buried in rubble and surrounded by israeli troops cnn can't independently confirm the photos authenticity, but our analysis found no signs that the image had been manipulated israeli police say that sinwar's body was positively identified using dna testing with hamas. now at a major disadvantage, president biden calling on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to end the war in gaza.

>> what >> cnn political and national security analyst, white house national security correspondent for the new york times, david sanger, cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny, republican strategists partner at on-message, brad todd and cnn political commentator karen finney. welcome to all of you david sanger, i want to start with you on this operation because the details of it are quite frankly, just stunning and i'm interested to know what your insights are, your reporting is around. i mean, this was a routine operation that drone footage just kind of showing him sitting in the chair at one point, he throws an object perhaps a stick at this israeli

drone as he sits there in this chair. i mean, this is a man who, the world wondered, was he alive? was he dead? they were hunting him and tunnels underneath gaza it just feels stunning to that they, they, they stumbled upon him aboveground and that these are the scenes of his final moments. what do you see when you look at this? what have you heard? what do you understand about how this came to be kasie? >> good morning. it's a remarkable turn of events because as you suggest hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, were spent in the broader intelligence finding, the hamas leadership and specifically looking for him and in the end, they came upon him by accident in a firefight above ground it sort of defied everything with the israelis and the americans who were helping israel special forces

units and tracking technology and so forth believed would be the case for the end of sinwar and to some degree, the fact that this took everybody by surprise. >> especially took the israelis by surprise. may tell you why you are hearing such dissonance, right now between what the president and the vice president are saying and what you're hearing from prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> those were very coordinated statements by a president biden vice president harris who were saying using the key words of day-after time to move on. >> and the war and then, of course, when you heard prime minister netanyahu, he was saying this war is not over and that's why the surprise here has brought us to such a hinge point, because no one knows which way netanyahu is going to

turn. >> now, will he heed the advice from the u.s. for the first time, or will he say we've been successful? we've gotten the head of hezbollah. we've gotten ahead of hamas. let's move on to tehran david, what would netanyahu's rationale be for continuing this? this does seem like an opportunity for him to declare victory, essentially over hamas. what are the factors that are going to affect how he proceeds how much influence, for example, might it be depending on who ends up leading hamas? i mean, what are the variables here in your view couple of variables. >> the first is the internal politics of this. he's under great pressure from his right-wing he wants to stay in power. he's on a roll. the second is i think he believes that he a nord president biden's advice and following his own instincts worked. i mean, he was able to kill nasrallah, the head of hezbollah three weeks ago. they got lucky and crypt across and

killed the head of hamas sinwar eye yesterday and so he, well, he may well be thinking you know, follow your own instincts, use the moment to defeat israel's adversaries. what the president is saying to them, this essentially take the win, convert the military victory into a longer lasting political victory? otherwise, the military victory is just a passing tactical thing and that's going to be the fight of the next couple of weeks. it's why secretary of state blinken is being sent to israel and that why he's been talking the middle east leaders to all put pressure on prime minister netanyahu to use this as a turning point if an unexpected one so of course in terms of the politics here in the u.s david mentioned the coordinated

statements of the president of the vice president, who is of course also the democratic nominee to be the next prime as it in brad todd actually a question for you because we have yet to hear from donald trump on this particular question, why is that? >> when he was posting things on truth social, overnight, it's not as though there hasn't been an opportunity for him to do so. but clearly, this man was the mastermind of an attack the killed so many israelis on october 7, it's a bit mystifying. we haven't heard yet from the republican nominee well, he's been pretty clear that hamas had to be eliminated. >> and i think also you're probably gonna hear from him today remind people that kamala harris suggested last month that israel should stay out of rafah sinwar was killed in rafah if israel doesn't go to rafah, sinwar still alive, still directing terrorist attacks all over the middle east. so i think today you'll hear him make that contrast with the fact that she was wrong once again, on a major national security issue, jeff zeleny, the sort of looming prospect of an expanded conflict in the middle east has

been hanging over this presidential campaign here i mean, they've been a lot of jokes about october surprise rises and could we be surprised by anything anymore? a but that is one when, when israel is considering their israeli, former israeli officials out saying this is the moment for israel to hit irans nuclear sites. we're still waiting for their retaliation against the most recent attacks from iran. how, what have you been hearing from the campaigns in the course of your reporting about how each is thinking about this conflict and how it may mean we are 18 days out from presidential election and voting is underway service is a part of the campaign. >> it has been a part of the campaign. both harris and the former presidents are going to michigan today front and center. donald trump is going to be having us the meeting with some arab american leaders. so look, this has been the white house back when president biden was the candidate advisers were long hoping that by fall this issue would have been resolved at least for the moment domestically that has not

happened. so it's hard for me to imagine, despite the gravity of yesterday's news, which it was remarkably significant, it's hard for me to imagine it having much effect on this election. obviously, the vice president is very eager for this to be over. it's not going to be over so we'll see what donald trump says today in michigan. but i think it's still very fraught for the harris campaign and for democrats. >> well, a couple of things. i mean, to a touch so we don't actually know where sinwar brett, i'm so sorry, brett. time. >> we don't actually know worse sinwar i don't think you can blame her for having being incorrect because we don't know where he's been all this time and they stumbled on evaded know where he was. they happened to find them. they may have still been able to find they may have been able to find them somewhere else. you never know. but more importantly, i here's what i do think matters when people are thinking about these global conflicts. and the more we are seeing, like we saw last night on hinge donald trump going off on random tangents, profanity-laced

rants. he seems less stable. and even in 20161 of the things we found in the polling consistently even though people said they were going to vote for him and they liked him, they were nervous about him having his hand on the nuclear codes. and so i do think what these conflicts remind people is, do you want? a stable leader or do you want somebody who's coming out and live along him? she was not going to have the same kind of guardrails around him. frankly, to keep him in check. we know how he said he wants to use our military they've said that, you know, his own military his own advisers have said he is a national security danger. so i think that also comes into play here. >> do this weekend said be see polls showed only three issues. >> were kamala harris doesn't lead. she leaves on more issues than trump does on how we work. people trust her on, but she doesn't lead on inflation. the border in handling the war for with israel. this is not a good moment for her when israel succeeding in defeating his

enemies, and she was wrong. she said i'd studied the maps. israel shouldn't go into rafah, go into rafah was the right thing. >> we're going to we're going to play later in the show what appears to be the closing message from the harris campaign, which i think speaks to some of what karen was talking about there. and we're going to dig further also into all the points i was making as well. and david sanger, i just want to thank you very much for being with us this morning. no no person better to start us off on a day like today than you. so thank you very much all right. coming up next here the gender gap that has come to define this stubbornly tight presidential race ahead. which way could women tip the scales in this election plus fans around the world mourning the death of former one direction member, liam payne. we're going to dig into the new details surrounding his death and presidential candidates going after each other, not on policy, but for laughs. >> don't say anything negative about catholics. >> i would never do that no matter where i was, that would be like criticizing detroit in detroit

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their neighbors, election results just, you know, there will be a fact checker there tonight oh, that's great. >> who jesus and maybe don't say anything negative about catholics. i would never do that no matter where i was, that would be like criticizing detroit in detroit actress molly shannon reprising her role as mary katherine gallagher from snl, trump used his time to take swipes at harris, her running mate, governor tim walz, and other democrats, and also his own legal trouble these days you it's really a pleasure anywhere in new york without a subpoena for my appearance unfortunately, governor waltzes in here. i'm self, but don't worry, hill say that, he was he's going to say he's the only piece of advice i would have for her and the event that she wins would be not to let her husband, doug anywhere near the nannies. just keep them away that's how i see although i hear that kamala and her

husband carve-out some really beautiful alone time at the end of the day for an instrument dinner, just dug her and the teleprompter that she uses quite with you saw chuck schumer down there in the corner his basis, that means all all by itself. this is normally i mean, i know you've covered these in the past. i you know, i've been in room for them in the past before. it used to be in some ways, it kind of crystallizes the way our politics has completely changed in the last decade sure. i mean, there's a lot of hand-wringing in this time zone. oh, vice president harris was not there it's the end of comedy, i think comedy and ended a long time ago i-t-y exactly how many no one no one cares about the al smith dinner except people in the east coast in the new york media circles, i'm catholic, the catholic

charities obviously do very good work. >> it makes zero political difference if vice president harris they are not probably wiser for her to be in green bay where she was that said, who didn't love seeing mary katherine gallagher i thought that was very good, certainly for people over 60 age. we all remember her on snl. i'm not sure this is a young voter thing necessarily, but it was very funny now, she's learning about the fact checker, but i thought donald trump, in that moment he was also showing a bit of humor, maybe went on a bit too long, but this is something that is so him he talked about how he went there with his father. he loves that room. he loves the new york the adulation, around him. so this was more important to donald trump than it was to the presidential campaign or vice president harris. >> i don't enjoy all donald trump speeches, but this one was really funny and i would encourage you, but whose burnout on this presidential race to watch it because he did make front of himself. he made front of cnn

own jokes that fell flat. this is a place where it's very hard speech. i've helped prep people's speak at this dinner and it's a really hard thing for politicians to do because they're not used to making front of themselves or being funny for more than one or two lines. and you have to tell a joke after joke after joke. i thought it i thought it actually is going to be probably the best moment of the campaign. >> i actually agree with jeff because here's part of the way our politics have changed the dynamics that is a stuffy room full of insiders. this is the quintessential backroom kind of old new york olds stodgy mostly white men, as you saw in the image, who had to wear white tie, who had to her white-tie and she's not the of that that's not who she is. that's not where she comes from. you know, she is somebody would be the first president who has served at the local, state, and federal level. >> she's women and usually women account. >> we aren't in those back rooms and we aren't in those spaces. so for her to be out with the people that was a

smarter campaign choice for multiple reasons. there was not anything for her to gain by going to that dinner. there was a lot more for her to gain in 100 day campaign in particular, to be on the road. >> i'm not sure she'd be funny either. and then you have to be funny to do it and it's hard. it's hard for most people. i thought her video with mary katherine words pretty funny. i don't know whose idea that was, probably why i thought the video was funny. i'm not sure how it went in the room, but they played that video before the former president spoke. that was the context all right. both us and israeli officials are praising the killing of hamas leader yahar sinwar by israel. i ahead, what this means for the war in gaza. we're live in tel aviv and we also expect to hear from president biden live this morning, we're watching for that class with just 18 days left, polling showing a wide gender divide between the two presidential candidates will dig into it working folks in heavily red areas that are getting together with other

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about how the death of sinwar may change the game going forward question. >> i mean, first of all, there is some jubilation and some celebration amongst israelis that this figure who led hamas, who was seen as one of the main architects of the october the seventh killings inside israel has been killed many israelis have been voicing the opinion that justice has been, has been served but why that's a tactical victory for the israelis and no one is questioning that. and there's political benefit for benjamin netanyahu. the israeli prime minister it doesn't necessarily mean that the hostages are going to be released and that the war in gaza and in the wider middle east is going to suddenly come to an end. there's a possibility that it could move towards that it is not a certainty. it's more like a hope at this point. and so we'll see how things develop over the coming hours. and in

the coming days, whether the death of yahya sinwar, which has now been acknowledged by senior hamas leadership figures. that for the first time since wednesday when he was killed, we'll see how that affects the outcomes inside, inside gaza. in the meantime, there is a high level meeting that is, we think underway right now between the israeli prime minister and other senior security officials inside israel. to discuss gaza, to discuss iran, and to discuss lebanon, where there's also israeli military activity taking place and to particularly focus on what impacts the killing of sinwar may have on the timing, for instance, on a strike against iran whether now maybe the time to look at, our hey, hiatus, look at a pause in military activity to perhaps give space for some kind of hostage deal to be done. that's certainly something the hostage families want in this country. there are still about 100 people israelis

held inside gaza dead or alive. not quite clear what their condition is and the families of those individuals are pushing a doubling their efforts to push the netanyahu government to try and get a deal. now at this stage, to get those people act kasie. >> all right. matthew, chance for us this morning in tel aviv, matthew, thank you so much for that report coming up here on cnn this morning, the election just over two weeks away, vice president harris, trying to attract republican voters. i'm going to talk with former gop congresswoman barbara comstock about who she thinks it's going to help harris win and new evidence in donald trump's 2020 election interference case could be released today after the judge denied his request to delay lay the release of the findings getting a walk in terms well,