we have heard repeatedly from the family, katelyn polantz and i have spoken with the family. they have really put pressure on the government and the israeli community to do everything in their power to bring that family home. they waited every day to see if the names would comp up on the list of hostages to be released. every day they were in anguish as the names were not on that list. earlier today, hamas' military wing put out a statement with very little information simply saying that the 10-month-old and 4-year-old and the mother had been killed in an israeli airstrike. we are on day six of a truce, meaning there hasn't been an israeli airstrike or strike otherwise in gaza since friday. it's unclear when hamas claims this happened. israel real clearly holding hah responsible. even as the admiral said hamas had transferred or given the family on to another terrorist organization in gaza. the idf still hamas responsible. they put out a statement. hamas is wholly responsible for the security of all hostages in the gaza strip. hamas must be held accountable. hamas must immedi

katelyn polantz has the story. >> reporter: we're now getting a picture of just how many witnesses or types of witnesses who may be called to testify against donald trump at his upcoming trial on the handling of documents in florida. so this is exclusive new reporting from paula reid and i here at cnn, and what we've learned is that there are notable figures around donald trump, people from his white house, people who may be former intelligence officials, secret service agents, political advisers and others who are very likely possible witnesses against trump at that trial that prosecutors would call, but there are also lower level workers, staff members at mar-a-lago, even contract employees that were coming in and a out of his no florida resort property who could be witnesses in this case and could build this picture that prosecutors want to tell a jury about on how unsecured the documents were that donald trump had after the presidency, those people include a plumber, a maid, a chauffeur, a woodworker even and we have heard what some of these people were seeing. the maid was cleani

what do you make of katelyn polantz's reporting? >> i think this is very common for prosecutors. it's prosecutors 101. especially when you're dealing with very wealthy people who have staff and very wealthy people who have staff sometimes treat them as if they are just not exist tnt. they are the sigh elect witnesses who they don't realize they are talking in front of or doing things if front of. so it's very common in a situation for a prosecutor to expand their investigation to try to speak to those ind individuals, to see if they overheard or saw anything unusual. so it's not surprising that this is what jack is doing. they could be very valuable witnesses, who were privy to things that people don't even realize they were privy to. >> i'm sure they were privy to a lot of things. maybe this is just the tip of the iceberg. this is playing immediately on the campaign trail. and chris christie, who reminds us that he is not only a former friend of donald trump, but a former federal prosecutor, was talking to kaitlan collins last night. >> i think what you're seeing is how thorough

katelyn polantz has the details. what have you learned? >> reporter: we've never before seen these text messages from scott perry, the republican congressman from pennsylvania. and the reason they are important right now is because there had been a whole aspect of the special counsel's investigation looking in to perry's cellphone, to see exactly what he was saying to other people. some of these text messages are really startling to see exactly what he is saying to people that were even in the trump administration. so totally different branch of government than congress. some of those text messages are directly between scott perry and jeffrey clark, the official at the justice department that donald trump wanted to install as attorney general because clark really wanted to question the election results. those text messages include this exchange, at the very end of the year of 2020, just before clark makes the bid to be the attorney general of the united states, scott perry writes, potus seems very happen with your response. i read it just

cnn's katelyn polantz joins us now. this trial originally set for may of 2024, but she apparently said in the courtroom that she does not believe this work can be accomplished realistically in this period of time. >> reporter: boris, that is the quote from judge aileen cannon here at the federal courthouse in florida at a hearing this afternoon. at this hearing donald trump's lawyers were telling her that they have so much work to do this is so much evidence to go through and they are handling so many things for their client, donald trump, who has trial after trial scheduled for the spring, including this trial still on the books to begin at the end of may next year here in florida that they can't possibly meet the deadlines that she set in this case and she needs to move them back. judge cannon at this hearing did not say she was moving the dates right now. she said she was going to consider it as she would let them know in pretty short order, but within two minutes of the justice department prosecutor standing up at t

with us now, cnn senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz, and elie honig. this is fascinating new reporting you guys got, and it's just remarkable in the detail and who and what they may say on the stand. what do people need to know this morning? >> a lot of these people had been approached during the investigation before trump was charged, and now what we're learning is that they still could potentially be witnesses because there were so many people at that property in florida. the resort, who were moving in and out, and were noticing things. they were seeing things that were suspicious. and one of the things that happened was that there was this wood worker. he was in donald trump's bedroom installing the crown molding, noticing stacks of papers, and those papers were so suspicious to him because they were very likely classified documents or had some sort of marks on them to make them secret or classified that he thought they were movie props, and so he told investigators about this. we learned about him. we learned about the maid cleaning trump's bedroom

joining us now showing a byline's katelyn polantz. what more do you know about who might be called to testify? >> anderson, it very well could be the person who brought the coast. we don't know who it was, but it could be that person who we do not know is a long list of potential witnesses in this case. we have been able to cobble together, and they are people who are notable people around donald trump, the presidency, after the presidency, after the, club and they are also people who are moving in and out of the club, who might not have been that noticed by the visitors, who were, there or even trump himself. but the were people who noticed things. new things that they noticed, we heard about a woodworker for instance, someone who was installing crown molding -- and that person noticed a stack of documents that looked rather suspicious to him that he thought they were movie props, looked like ossified records of some sort. that person we were told does not actually know what he saw, but this is the sort of person who could be called

katelyn polantz has more on this. >> david weiss out of the justice department who has been investigating hunter biden for many years now is using this grand jury now, indicating more charges to come, and indictment perhaps out of the grand jury of california against the president's son hunter biden. what we know about the grand jury investigation is that we don't have a full idea of the scope of it. we do know that it is likely very much about the business dealings of hunter biden, and perhaps the fact that he did not pay some of the taxes in 2017 and 2018, and something that he tried to have a plea deal at the misdemeanor level that fell apart on the charges in delaware and now the special counsel is looking to the charges in california and something that weiss signaled he would do before, but the other thing is that this is subpoenas for documents and testimony including a subpoena to the brother of the president james biden who is somebody who has insight into hunter biden's income, and some other financial interests, and that is one of the reasons that james biden may be brought into

katelyn polantz has more on that. >> judge aileen cannon said that she spoke on the court docket, and that his trial is still on, and the trump team has not wanted for him to go to trial as a criminal defendant in this case or any others before the november election of next year, but judge cannon says, we can revisit that and i will give you time to prepare for that from now to spring, but the trial is set for may of 2024. part of the reason that cannon is giving donald trump's legal team more time to work on evidence, and work on the motions leading up to the trial is because it has so much to do with classified documents in the ca case. it is a complex thing for someone to go to trial around, and where donald trump is accused of mishandling 32 classified documents. and it is not just documents, because there a human element where paula reid and i understood that there a woodworker, a maid, a chauffeur, and other people who were around donald trump in the white house or the political sphere or people working at mar-a-lago or temporary workers going in and out that the prosecutors cou

cnn senior crime and just reporter katelyn polantz is with us in studio.is the latest, what should we expect? >> reporter: we should expect this to go to trial in may as of now. judge cannon did have an order today in the court saying, yep, that trial date will stay for may, but she's going to give the trump team more breathing room to do the work they need to do to prepare for trial. she's acknowledging they're very busy, they've got a lot of cases on their hands. there's -- this is a complex case, there's a lot of evidence, there's closs fide material in it -- classified material in it. they're going to revisit the trial date in march at a hearing. that's when we are likely to see the trump team come back into court and push again to get this moved until after the election. because as much as it's about documents that donald trump was han handling, there also is a high likelihood that a very large amount of people around donald trump will give quite a portrait of what it was like inside mar-a-lago after the trump presidency, including we're learning abou

. >> katelyn polantz, thanks. with me elie honig, kaitlan collins, host of "the source" coming up at 9:00. elie, how important could this source be? >> this is a dream scenario for prosecutors. ordinarily in the federal system, when you're a prosecutor, you build your case on a cooperator, who is now your witness. what happens? the defense lawyers stand up in closing and they say folks, you're going convict my client based on the word of a criminal? and then we prosecutors stand up and say to the jury, look, we'd love to call honest, hard-working people to come in and tell you about a crime, but that type of person inside on the inside of a crime. here they're literally on the inside of a crime. these are honest, hard-working, regular folks, had nothing to do with the crime. even if they can't give the whole story a to z, they can give important details. they saw a box here or there, overheard a conversation. if i'm a prosecutor, this is the best case scenario. >> is it clear what trump world thinks of all this? >

of the courtroom to relay information from inside to outside of the courtroom, and outside is katelyn polantz and paula reid. and kate kaitlan collins, and w are you seeing? >> i saw two attorneys, and more in the back of the room, and those are several of the political aides to the former president who are working on the 2024 campaign to give you a sense of who is in the room for the testimony before trump moves from where he is sitting there to actually getting on the witness stand in a few moments from now, and you are right, kate, we did hear from the former president, and he came out and spoke as he typically does before he goes into the courtroom, and it is not likely the last time that we hear from him in front of the cameras, and of course, what he says in front of the camera is different from what he says under oath. that is what we are watching closely for, and it is noticeable that we heard from the attorney general here letitia james, because she has not been in every single appearance here, but she did come out of the steps behind us a few moments ago and she was exactly predicti

i want to bring in katelyn pol polantz, who helped break this story as well an ellie hon ig. >> ago paula was explaining, there was a plea agreement that fell apart. now this signals there could be different charges brought against hunter biden, but his lawyers have been quite clear in the court in delaware, hey, we had a deal, and that deal was you can't charge him with tax crimes elsewhere. we're very likely to see his lawyers argue to the judge in del delaware, he's immune from an indictment, that he can't be charged elsewhere, he can't be charged on financial matters or anything else that the special counsel might be looking into. the other thing it tells us, jake, is we're watching this case in delaware, the federal case move forward. hunter biden's team is incredibly ace gressive. they want to fight the facts, they want to fight the law. they want to claim that donald trump initiated a vindictive prosecution. so whatever they're doing, they'll always be aggressive to fight whatever may other may not come out in this grand jury as well. eli hoenig, how worried should they be? >> ther