i'm jake tapper and i'm standing on a rooftop looking out over tel aviv. it is just over -- just after 11:00 p.m. here. it is been 17 days since the horrific terrorist attacks by hamas caught this country and frankly most of the world by surprise. setting off a cascade of responses and consequences. that now includes a humanitarian crisis in gaza. tonight we're hearing for the first time from one of the hostages kidnapped an just released by hamas about what she endured. hamas held 85-year-old yocheved lipshitz capured and she spoke in hebrew at a hospital here in tel aviv today she describes how hamas beat her as they forced her into gaza. >> translator: it was a painful act. they brought us into a hatch of a tunnel. on the way, i was lying on the side on the motorbike. legs to one side. body to the other. they were hitting me so it didn't break my ribs but it was making it difficult for me to breathe. >> smaller groups and kept under close watch, her husband and the husband of the other hostage, hamas released yesterday, nurit cooper, are still believed

i'm jake tapper. house of representatives or more specifically the republicans in the house of representatives are no closer to finding a speaker than they were two weeks ago. so with billions of aid for ukraine and israel on the table, waiting for their consideration, with americans literally dying, house republicans did what your boss would no doubt let you do if you were way behind on crucial projects. they took the weekend off. with seven members saying they will put their names forward. the conference will convene with a possible vote back on tuesday. back with me now is liz cheney, who was once the third ranking republican in the house. i have to ask, what has it been like to watch this fiasco play out over the last few weeks? >> it is hard to describe. i wish that it were surprising. you know, what we've seen is a result of really the leadership decisions that kevin mccarthy made back after the 2020 election and certainly after january 6. and, you know, looking the other way in the face of the

it is 2 -- tapper. it is 2:00 a.m. in israel and in gaza, i'm looking out over tel aviv. it's been 22 days since the terrorist attacks by hamas caught this country, israel, and frankly much of the world, by surprise. tonight a new phase of the war against hamas rages. listen to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier this evening. >> translator: the war inside gaza is going to be long. this is our second independence war. we've got to save our country. we're going fight in the air, ground, and sea. >> i'm pamela brown in washington. we are also following breaking news back in the united states. this hour, we bring you the harrowing personal stories of war. a mounting death toll and increasingly unsurvivable conditions in gaza and what we know about does's military plans include -- israel's matter plans including reporting on which hamas leaders israel says have already been eliminated. >>> first we're going to start with the massive ground operation in gaza. cnn's nic robertson is live for us in sderot, israel. you've witnessed an eruption of activity literally

let's go to jake tapper who is in tel aviv. jake, you just heard that interview.ou did that remarkable interview yesterday. alana's plea is they deserve to come home immediately. what is the israeli government doing to do that, to accomplish that? >> reporter: well, there's a lot of -- there's a lot of friction right now between the families of the hostages and the israeli government right now. i mean, obviously when you have 240 hostages, you have 240 families and, you know, people all over the map politically, people all over the map in terms of emotions. but the individuals with whom i've spoken, a lot of them feel you know that the number one priority of the israeli government right now should be getting the hostages back. and everything else should be secondary, including going after hamas, including the ground incursion, including every -- any other consideration. and so there is a degree of frustration. i mean, there are questions about with whether or not hamas has offered any sort of prisoner exchange for the hamas individuals who are in israeli prisons.

>>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper.e start today on capitol hill where the race for house speaker is on. majority leader steve scalise of louisiana and republican jim jordan of ohio have officially joined the race. now that kevin mccarthy has officially been fired. and history making headline for the californians. a new speaker could be a fresh start tor house republicans or it could be just another hostage sitting in the same office, terrified of doing anything to offend a tiny faction of his party. so how did we get here? for the very first time in american history. speaker-less. well it might have all began when kevin mccarthy thought he could appease the maga right. with almost the notion that he would allow them to set just some of the building on fire. but that is not how fireworks. while the votes were still being counted, two days after the election of 2020, kevin mccarthy decided he would cast his lot with the election liars. >> president trump won this election so everyone who is listening, do not be quiet. do

the exclusive statement to cnn's jake tapper. confirmed a number of incredibly damning statements that the former president made behind closed doors attacking u.s. service members and veterans. kelly described the former president, as, a person who thinks that those who defended their country in uniform or shut down or susie wounded in combat, p.o.w.'s, are all suckers because there is nothing in it for them. the person who did not be seen with the president our military amputees, because it does not look at to me. in response, the former president said in part, quote, by military people picked up the theme of the radical left, lying about families and soldiers and a church of big capable of doing a good job. it was too much for him, i could not stand the guy, so i fired him like a dog. also mentioned kelly's wife, quote, before firing him, his wife who suffered a lot, told me he would never speak badly about president trump. jake tapper joins me now. jake, obviously, the former president's reaction is pretty typical. it's about

jake tapper reports. >> it is an uneasy journey back to a place he barely escaped alive.>> i don't know how to feel. >> place so many others did not.>> this is the first time.>> it's so hard to tell where everything was. >> i was over there.>> they had been back to the site of the nova music festival. 260 people were slaughtered here, on october 7. it was an overnight party to celebrate peace, and an easy place to make new friends. they were taking photos with a vintage camera.>> i saw your jacket, and thought he looks like a cool guy.>> the next memory is more permanent. >> the terrorist attack begin. with rockets. this new one, two, three, four, five rockets. they weren't stopping. >> the sky became fireworks.>> in the next hour we were here backing up. >> then came the sound of gunshots. >> gunfire, really fast. >> he and his friends began to flee, with so many others. >> evacuate immediately, evacuate immediately.>> that starts coming from over there. here it was a small stage, friends of my brother were killed . >> they saw the atrocities committed.>> more cars the side of the road

jake tapper joins us live with this reporting next. ♪ >>> now to a cnn exclusive, former trump white of staff john kelly setting the record straight on the record. confirming a number of damns statements made by former president trump. our colleague jake tapper has it all in this report. >> i, donald john trump. >> reporter: no other president had so many former top aides making such harsh public assessments. most recently, cassidy hutchinson. >> i think that donald trump is the most grave threat that we will face to our democracy in our life time. and potentially in american history. >> reporter: she joins a growing chorus. >> i think he's unfit for office. >> he will always put his own interest and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else. >> reporter: and today, trump's longest-serving former chief of staff john kelly is chiming in with his harshest criticism yet. in an exclusive statement to cnn, kelly says about trump, what can i add that has not already been said? calling president trump, quote, a person that has no idea what america stands for and has no idea what ameri

jake tapper joins me now. jake, obviously the former president's reaction is pretty typical.s about what one would expect. he of course even brought in general kelly's wife into his argument. >> yeah. but fundamentally the stories that we have heard that john kelly is now confirming on the record were sourced by multiple people when jeffrey goldberg wrote that story for "the atlantic" in 2020 about all those horrific thing that donald trump, as president, said about veterans who were killed in action, about veterans who were in the cemetery in france, killed in world war i, about wounded veterans, and on and on and on. those were sourced to multiple people behind the scenes. john kelly is just the first person to acknowledge it and confirm it on the record. >> the thing that has, again, shocked, not surprised, me is the lack of response from republicans. i don't know if privately you're hearing from republicans something. but publicly certainly, if any other politician, democrat or republican, would have said anything like this, you would think there would be outrage. >> when

i'm jake tapper.ts started saturday expecting the federal government to shut down, but by the end of the day it was still open and they had made no concessions to the republican majority to keep it that way. joining us now new york democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez. first of all, you just heard congressman matt gaetz saying he will move to oust mccarthy as speaker this week. if a motion to vacate the chair comes to the floor how would you vote? >> well, my vote beginning this term for speaker of the house was for hakeem jefferies and i do not intend on voting for a republican speaker of the house, but i believe it is up to the republican conference to determine their own leadership and determine their own problem, but it's not up to the democrats to save republicans from themselves, specially. >> do you think there might be democrats who might vote to save mccarthy? >> i certainly don't think that we would expect to see that unless there's a real conversation between the republican and

jake tapper joins us with these new statements from kelly. jake, it's extraordinary the things that general kelly said. it confirms a lot of reporting that has already been out there. but to hear it point blank from general kelly is extraordinary. >> yeah. he's setting the record straight about things that have never been confirmed on the record. he is donald trump's longest serving chief of staff at the white house, and he's confirming that donald trump turned to him at arlington and said, i don't get it, about all the dead soldiers. what was in it for them? confirming that at the world war i centennial anniversary, donald trump didn't want to visit a cemetery full of american soldiers because he thought they were suckers, confirming -- >> let me just stop you there. if any other president had ever said anything like that, they would have been -- i mean, can you imagine if president obama had said that? i mean, people would understandably be up in arms. and yet he still said -- >> he's confirming that donald trump called john mccain and geor

she told cnn's jake tapper yesterday that she would vote for jordan when it got to the floor.n claimed there were some democrats -- not republicans, democrats -- who said they could trust jordan, one of the most pro-maga members of congress who helped instigate the january 6th coup and her claim left tapper in stunned disbelief. >> well, i think jim jordan is not out of the mix i've talked to a lot of people who still support him. i've actually talked to democrats who trust him at his word i don't think that's out of the realm of possibility >> jim jordan? [ laughter ] >> yes, i talked to democrats over the last week on who do they trust, even though they wouldn't agree with him on many issues he has - >> the jim jordan from ohio? [ laughter ] >> oh, yes the jim jordan from ohio >> democrats in congress >> yes, they can work with him, and those -- >> name one democrat from congress that trusts jim jordan. >> i'm not going to name people off the record they trust him more than they trust the former speaker in my private conversations with democrats -- >> seth: the worse republi

. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. and i'm standing on a rooftop looking out over tel aviv. it is just after 10:00 p.m. here and it is been 23 days since the horrific terrorist attacks that -- by hamas that caught this country and much of the world by surprise. we start today by this declaration from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, quote, this is a time for war. netanyahu said during an address a few hours ago. despite the humanitarian crisis in gaza, and the thousands of casualties, including an untold number of civilians and children, netanyahu dismissed calls by some for a cease-fire. although the united states is not among them. saying israel simply cannot stop its mission to target and destroy hamas. the government that sent invaders into israel to cruelly slaughter some 1400 israelis. >> the united states would not agree to a cease-fire after the bombing of pearl harbor. or after the terrorist attack of 9/11. israel will not agree to a secession of hamas after the horrific attacks of october 7th. calls

i'm jake tapper. live on a rooftop overlooking tel aviv, israel. it's just after 11:00 p.m. here. it's been 16 days since the horrific terrorist attacks by hamas caught this country and, frankly, much of the world by complete surprise. we'll start with breaking news. hamas has released two more of the hostages it kidnapped from israel during the october 7th terrorist attack. that's according to multiple sources who say the hostages are nurit cooper and yocheved lifshitz. the lifshitz family said in a statement the women were handed over to the red cross and will shortly return to israel. we happened to be at the time with israeli defense spokesperson jonathan con reek cass when the news came in. this is part of his reaction. >> they are differentiating, distinguishing between only israelis and double citizens or perhaps only foreigners which rings familiar for me as a jew and third generation holocaust survivor, rings familiar from other types in our history. >> israel believes around 220 people, kidnap victims are still being held by hamas. the white house believes a handful of t

i'm jake tapper live in tel aviv. we're getting new information about the two hostages released by hamas earlier this evening. the israeli prime minister's office says that 79-year-old nurit cooper and 85-year-old yocheved lifshitz are headed now to a medical center in israel where they will be reunited with family. israeli officials say that their husbands who were kidnapped are still being held by hamas. cnn's matthew chance is with me here in tel aviv. matthew, we know that hamas did not release these two old ladies, these two elderly ladies for humanitarian reasons. they're not -- they don't do anything for humanitarian reasons. so why did they do it? >> well, i mean, it's difficult to say, isn't it? but we can say that hamas has been releasing -- these are the second group of two hostages they've released. the last group were on friday. >> the last two were americans. that was significant. >> but they're doing it sort of almost on the eve of when expectations rise for that land offensive we're all expecting so it

. >> an israeli mother speaking with our jake tapper, describing the moments that militants kidnapped her children. >>> the u.s. vowing unwavering support for israel as the country grapples with the unprecedented surprise attack from hamas. details ahead. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to destroy the palestinian militant group hamas after its fighters invaded israel from gaza and killed hundreds of israelis. idf says it has already struck 426 targets inside gaza, including ten towers used by hamas. and it says tens of thousands of soldiers are operating on the ground around gaza. israeli sources say up to 1,000 hamas militants breached the barrier separating gaza from israel saturday morning and began attacking israeli towns. and the idf says fighting to get them out is still going on in eight locations. we're now seeing disturbing video of one of those attacks. you can see people here trying to escape, apparently from hamas fighters. and hear the sound of gunfire. >>> meanwhile, washington could announce new assistance for israel as early as sunday. that's ac

. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. i'm standing on a rooftop looking out over tel aviv. it is just after 10:00 p.m. here and it is been 24 days since the horrific terrorist attacks by hamas caught this country and frankly much of the world by surprise. we start with breaking news. israel said it is behind an enormous explosion at a refugee camp on the gaza strip. this was the aftermath of the blast at the camp which the united nations said is the largest refugee camp in gaza. israel's military said it killed a top hamas commander in its air strike. a man they say was one of the leaders of the october 7th attack. and was hiding amongst civilians inside of the refugee camp. israel also claims to have killed around 50 hamas terrorists in that strike. it is not clear how many people were killed or injured. but the director of a hospital in the homeas controlled area said he has seen hundreds of dead bodies and wounded patients. he described it as a, quote, scene no one can imagine. cnn's wolf blitzer pressed a spokesperson for the idf on why israel would carry out a strike w

jake tapper asked if he is worried that israel's air strikes will make it tougher to get his sister home>> this is my main occupation, and every day, we have significant worries. every day -- i'm sorry. it can be a day of rape, torture, a day of dying, dead, illness. every day is a worry and most of my worries come from my treatment of hamas or disrespect. i don't know which stronger word to use to think what hamas might be using. i have more -- let's say respect to what our military is doing, and i hope they are cal culativ in their operations, and whatever happens inside gaza. >> jake tapper there. now, a northern israeli town next to the gorden in lebanon has been a ghost town. civilians have been replaced by israeli soldiers. cnn's jim from northern israel. >> reporter: now, the town is abandoned. the 2,000 residents fled in the wake of the attacks. israel's too close to the board with lebanon. >> from too many windows. >> reporter: now based here are hundreds of idf soldiers. we don't eidentify them due to security. >> here and other places in the area. so we need to keep ourselves

i hope. >> that was jake tapper reporting.e'll bebe right bacack. >>> star soccer player has flown home to deal with a situation. the star's parents had been kidnapped at gunpoint. his mother rescued but his father remains missing. don riddell has the details. >> reporter: just an awful situation for lewis diaz and his family and difficult for his teammates at liverpool too. colombia national media says that his parents were kidnapped by armed men on motorcycles at a gas station. the director general of colombia's national police force says they are offering a reward of more than $48,000 for information leading to the rescue of diaz father. and 130 police officers are out there looking for him. you can only imagine the anguish that diaz must be feeling right now. liverpool say he has returned to colombia and he will be away indefinitely. his teammate honored diaz by lifting up his number 7 jersey after scofscoring on sunday and team dedicated their win to him adding that it was really difficult for the players to everyone thin

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening, l i'm jake tapper and you're watching special cnn coverage of israell's cabinet convenes later this evening after a terrorist assault by hamas who has left at least 300 israelis dead and 1500 injured. prments prime minister benjamin netanyahu went on to say quote the first phase ends by the destruction of the majority of the enemy forces, end quote, we will restore security to the disins and we will win -- citizens and we will win. >> towards israel although they have slowed down, we had at least five or six rounds and had rockets exploding overhead here but it's been quieter for those in t tel aviv. israel authorities have confirmed, that situation has been cleared. they were holed up apparently in the police station there. this was hours long gun battle with the militants there it will it is not clear yet whether the israel authorities have cleared all the israeli towns and villages near the border. this has been their number 1 priority is to clear all the militants. as we have been hearing and seeing there residents there it is just the harrowing ex

i'm jake tapper. in a few hours president biden will address the nation in only his second-ever oval office address. the goal, convince the american people that it will be important to spend $100 billion of their tax dollars, majority of which would help israel and ukraine. bottom line, sources tell cnn, that president biden will not only try to make an argument about the immorality what russia's vladimir putin and the terrorist group hamas have done but that the costs of u.s. inaction of not supporting israel and ukraine would be harmful to u.s. national security. president biden arrived back in the u.s. early this morning after roughly seven hours on the ground in tel aviv. president biden says he pressed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu there on israel's plans for the next phase of the war and worked to secure propositions from the israelis for humanitarian aid for the innocents in gaza. president biden will also speak about trying to bolster the ukraine military further. ukraine, recently

news. >> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. and we start with breaking news. the white house said 20 or more americans are missing in israel. this is an addition to the 14 americans killed. this is after the terrorist attacks carried out by hamas. u.s. officials say it is not clear if all of the these 20 americans missing are being held hostage, just that as of now, their currently unaccounted for. this aunnouncement came minutes ago after a speech by president biden where he pledged support for israel, the pure unadulterated evil of hamas. >> hamas offers nothing but terror and blood shed with no regard to who pays the price. and let there be no doubt, the united states has israel's back. we'll make sure that the jewish and democratic state of israel could defend itself today, tomorrow and as we always have. it is as simple as of that. >> this afternoon we learned that that evil of hamas, has resulted in more than 1,000 deaths in israel so far. mostly of civilians. the death toll also tragically includes a number of civilians

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i want to bring in jake tapper who is in tel aviv. i know you just arrived, but what is the feeling now on the ground? >> reporter: well, i'm in tel aviv and it's just after 7:00 p.m. it's very quiet. one of the reasons of course is that fighting age men have been mobilized and are in the reserves and are around gaza ready to invade, but there is still, it's only been two weeks and change since that horrific terro terrorist attack of october 7th. there's still a sense of mourning, of sadness, in israel. and beyond that, of course, a sense of anxiety about what is going to happen next. how long is this ground incursion going to last? will it be a matter of months? of years? what will happen after that? does this current netanyahu government that was in charge of course on october 7th, do they have a strategy for the ground incursion about the war, what happens next. it's quiet. it's mournful and a lot of anxiety, dana. >> i'm sure that quiet you're feeling and you can see it, the quite eerie. jeremy, what is the latest there on the gro

today jake tapper spoke to jake sullivan to press him on whether the u.s. has pressured israel in any way to limit its operations particularly with civilian casualties inside of gaza in mind. here is how he answered. >> we could go back however many years people want, if whether they want to start in the hasha mite kingdom or 1948 or 68 or 73 or 2008, whenever you want to start the october, but if you want to start on october 7th and the bottom line is as far as the idf is concerned, the government of the country next door, invaded, killed 1400 of their kritss and they have a right to take out that government and i get that the biden administration is on board. my question is, is the idf going about this the right way? do you think they're going about this the right way? >> what we believe is that every hour, every day of this military operation, the idf, the israeli government should be taking every possible means available to them to distinguish between -- >> and are they? >> civilians who are not targets. and i'm not going to react to every strike, every

john tapper joins me now.do to the restaurant business in chicago and other places that do the same thing? >> this is the continuing -- if i look at the uaw strike, they talk about the impact of inflation, beating their income levels. the cost of inflation is causing them to take a different approach with their employers. in the restaurant business, i get it, the employees are killed by governmental policies, they need greater income. the restaurants are getting killed by the cost side as we just saw with french fries as examples, a crunch on the energy side, the labor side, i get it, restaurants are struggling, we are trying to find the dollars that pass through to keep our teams intact. i don't argue with anyone's posture in this but this is the result of the inflationary impact of our businesses. stuart: here is something else that might be hit on bars and restaurants. we are seeing more skip out on happy hour, they head straight out, that's another hit. >> of course it is. a lot are not consuming product a

i'm jake tapper. we start with breaking news. the israel defense forces announced this evening it is expanding its ground operations against hamas in gaza. this was the scene just moments ago. it has been nearly constant rocket fire and explosions. gaza residents tell cnn that these are the most intense air strikes that they have experienced since the war began 20 days ago. and there are reports of widespread power and cellular and internet outages across the gaza strip. it is unclear what these ramped up attacks will mean for hostage negotiations. today israel said it believes hamas is still holding 229 innocent people that they kidnapped october 7th. in the united states, the white house says it is in, quote, active conversations with israel about a humanitarian pause to work on the release of the hostages. diplomatic sources told cnn earlier today that significant progress had been made. u.s. officials are insistsing those talks are going to continue, although they warn it's, quote, touch and go given the kinetic operations go

i'm jake tapper. two massive stories today. israeli defense forces today just a few minutes ago said that it was actually a misfired missile by islamic jihad, a group in gaza is the reason why 200 at least were killed in a hospital strike in gaza. in the hospital doctors and nurses were treating hundreds of already wounded palestinians. cnn reports thousands of others were taking shelter at the hospital at the center of gaza city. the palestinian health ministry which is controlled by hamas blamed the incident on an israeli air strike and just seconds ago on its telegram channel announced that the strike was caused by this misfired missile from islamic jihad. cnn has not independently confirmed this. we will have much more on all of that in a moment, but first, here in washington, d.c., weeks of republican dysfunction, house republican dysfunction crippling the legislative branch of the u.s. government. today we saw a new chapter in this chaos here in d.c. as house republicans tried and failed to elect republican representative

and so if you saw the interview with jake tapper, he blamed it on hamas. and egyptians are blaming it on the israelis because it is tied to the issue of how to get palestinians out and how to get aid in. so without security you can't get humanitarian aid in and without humanitarian aid in, you can't get people out. so kind of like four dimensional chess and blinken has to fly to different places do. i don't think you need secret sources to know that he would have succeeded because if he had succeeded we would have heard about it. so you don't need to read the tea leaves here. none of these problems are solved but he is working on all of them all at once. >> incredibly difficult. and juliet, you heard josh talking about in difficult mission that tony blinken is on right now. one of the things that we've heard from not only israelis but also fleleaders from hamas tell palestinian civilians not to leave. and so we've heard it with our own ears that the mixed messages that these civilians who are just trying to make sure that their families live another day ar

i'm jake tapper in tel aviv. republicans have finally chosen a new leader in speaker mike johnson of louisiana is already laying out his pray orits. one of the most pressing issues on his plate aid to israel. our next guest is on the senate intelligence committee, senator james lankford from oklahoma. thank you very much for joining us. so the u.s. has been encouraging israel to delay a full ground invasion in order to make an effort to get all 230 hostages, i think it is, out. israel has announced the second phase of the war and is launching more attacks in the gaza strip from air and also from land. does the intelligence suggest that delay would hurt israel's goals to destroy hamas? >> yeah. obviously, i can't get into the actual intelligence documents itself, but it is a very complicated issue where hamas has 500 miles worth of tunnels underneath all of that area in gaza, so it is a very complicated environment to be able to hide hostages. right now israel is trying to bombard the areas where there are hamas f

i'm jake tapper. and we start today with our law and justice lead. and donald trump turning a potentially devastating trial in new york no a campaign stop. the former president inside of the courtroom right now. attending the first day of a civil fraud trial against him and the trump organization. but mr. trump was not required to show up today, so why did he make an appearance? >> mr. trump, why did you want to be here in american today. >> because i want to watch this witch hunt myself. this is a pure witch hunt for purposes of interfering with the elections of the united states of america. it is totally illegal. >> it is not totally illegal. it is perfectly legal and it is easy to see why donald trump is so unhappy about this trial in addition to the embarrassment, it hits at the core of the very identity that he's built up over decades. this image of a super wealthy, incredibly successful business man. before the trial even started, the judge found trump and his co-defendants liable for fraud. he already ruled they grossly inflated the values of

jake tapper, cnn, washington. >>> the u.s. postal service is moon orring a long serving supreme court justice and cultural icon. the usps unveiled its latest forever stamp featuring ruth bader ginsburg. she spent 27 years delivering progressive votes on social issues including abortion rights, same-sex marriage and access to health care. >> john roberts praised his late colleague at the dedication event saying that it was a fitting time to honor ruth bader ginsburg 30 years after she sat on the court for the very first time. >> everyone here knows that the court has had another new yorker so iconic that mail could have been delivered to her by a mere sketch of her appearance. indeed perhaps even a sketch of just her signature collar. and now a new stamp will honor this outstanding american and imminent jurist who gave so much to our country as scholar, teacher, lawyer, judge and justice. >>> still to come, new reports of an attack on armenian soldiers and tensions at the border with azerbaijan. >>> and plus that isnasa is pro

national security adviser jake sullivan did talk to our colleague jake tapper and explained a little bit of where this process stands. listen to what he said. >> the egyptians are prepared to allow american citizens and foreign nationals to come through the rafah gate into egypt. the israelis have no issue with that. hamas has been preventing their departure and making a series of demands. i can't go through those demands in public, but that is the subject of the discussions and the negotiation that are ongoing. >> so certainly, not a lot of answers about what hamas is looking for in these negotiations, but it was interesting, the president also spoke earlier today with the egyptian president. in that conversation, they made the point that egypt would not take palestinians if they were to leave gaza, if they were displaced. so egypt willing to take foreign nationals, but not necessarily palestinians as it concludes these talks with the u.s., jim. >> and even, the white house has repeatedly refused to criticize israel's strategy in gaza. how is the white house balancing support for is

more details now from cnn's jake tapper. >> donald john trump. >> no other president has had so manyformer top aides making harsh public assessments. most recently, cassidy hutchinson. >> i think that donald trump is the most grave threat that we will face to our democracy and our lifetime, and potentially in american history. >> she joins a growing chorus. >> i think he's unfit for office. >> he will always put this on a just and got by his own ego ahead of everything else. and today, trump's longest serving chief of staff john kelly is chiming in with his harshest criticism yet. in an exclusive statement to cnn, kelly says about trump -- what can i add that is not already been said? calling president trump, quote, a person that has no idea what america stands for. and has no idea what america is all about. for the first time, ever kelly sets the record straight with on the record confirmation of a number of damning details about donald trump, from background sources, including from a 2020 atlantic story reported with unnamed sources by editor in chief jeffrey goldberg. including th

it's our responsibility to be better than them. >> thanks to jake tapper for that interview. thank you so much for your company. i'm lynda kinkade. "cnn newsroom" continues with max foster and bianca nobilo next. stay with us.

i'm jake tapper.raeli government warns against a new phase, brand-new polling shows how americans are feeling about this war, the u.s. broadly feels israel's military response to the hamas terrorist attack is fully justified, but the difference by age, is quite stark. 81% of americans feel the response by the israeli government is fully justified, but just 27% of americans 18 to 34 feel that way. the humanitarian crisis is also top of mind for many americans and 71% of americans feel a lot of sympathy for the people of israel. 41% feel a lot of sympathy for the palestinian people. former u.n. ambassador and 2024 republican presidential candidate nikki haley joins us now. ambassador haley, thanks so much for joining us. if you were president right now, would you consider using the u.s. special operations to rescue american hostages being held in gaza? you just heard jake sullivan say that one of the complications with that is we don't know exactly where the hostages are and but i'm wondering if you wou

one never-scaliser is south carolina representative nancy mace, who went on jake tapper's tappity tappitye to explain who she would support. >> i think jim jordan's not out of the mix. i talked to democrats whose trust him and his word. that's not out of the realm of possibility. appeared >> jim jordan? >> yes i talked about who do they trust even though i don't agree with them -- >> the gym jordan from ohio? [laughter and cheering] >> stephen: i've never seen jake tapper that surprised beard and jimmy, you played that last bit of the tape? >> jim jordan from ohio? >> stephen: since the republicans can't settle on someone to bring in for the job, they're considering hiring a temp. reportedly, there was talk in the gop meeting of putting in a temporary speaker for 90 days to provide more time to figure out a plan. they could even give the temp job to the old guy. you can see it all on the sexy new reality show, "90-day mccarthay." to add insult to unpopularity, scalise is even getting the cold shoulder from new york representative and airbrush american, george santos. [boos] last night, sa

our coverage continues from israel with jake tapper. that's next. see you tomorrow. good night. >>> welcome to "cnn newsroom." i'm jake tapper. i'm standing on a rooftop looking out over tel aviv. it's just after 2:00 a.m. here and in gaza, a a new phase of war begins, it has been 22 days since th

[laughter and cheering] >> stephen: i've never seen jake tapper that surprised.my, can you play the rest of the tape? >> jim jordan from ohio? >> stephen: since the republicans can't settle on someone to bring in for the job, they're considering hiring a temp. this is true. reportedly, there was talk in the g.o.p. meeting of putting in a temporary speaker for 90 days to provide more time to figure out a plan. they could even give the temp job to the old guy. you can see it all on the sexy new reality show, "90-day mccar-thay." to add insult to unpopularity, steve scalise is even getting the cold shoulder from new york representative and... airbrushed american, george santos. [boos] last night, santos tweeted, "it's just past 9:40pm and i have yet to hear from the speaker-designate. so i've come to the conclusion that my vote doesn't matter to him. i'm now declaring i'm an "anyone but scalise," and come hell or high water i won't change my mind." wow. i haven't seen him this upset since he lost the nba championship to michael jordan and the toon squad. he played f

to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we start with breaking news. two american hostages have been released by hamas. and any moment we expect to hear from the secretary of state antony blinken after a spokesperson for the israeli prime minister's office confirmed that judith rannan and her 17-year-old daughter natalie are now back from the gaza strip. let's listen into secretary of state blinken. >> -- held by hamas were released. these two americans are now safely in the hands of israeli authorities in israel. we expect a team from the u.s. embassy to see them very shortly. over the coming hours, they'll receive any support and assistance that they need and of course we're very anxious to reunite them with their loved ones. we welcome their release. we share in the relief that their families, friends and loved ones are feeling. but there are still ten additional americans who remain unaccounted for in this conflict. some of them are being held hostage by hamas along with an estimated 200 other hostages held in gaza. the

i was listening to those comments and also struck by our colleague jake tapper's -- >> milley sayingout, kelly, former chief of staff confirming that to jake at the same time. >> it's a very big deal. he confirmed reports that not only trump repeated will disparaged wounded warriors and people died in the service to their country but one of the things he said he described trump as a person that has nothing but contempt for our democrat ic institutions, our constitution and the rule of law. that's trump's former chief of staff, general john kelly. >> longest serving trump chief of staff. >> yes. so, you know, this is not a partisan critique of donald trump. these are people who worked with him and know him well, warning about donald trump to republicans today. >> thank you both. >> great to have you. come back. >> you're always welcome. >>> so this is really fascinating. the head of microsoft, ceo of microsoft, takes the stand in this very high-stakes anti-trust trial against google and warns of a, quote, nightmare scenario if google's dominance over online search is allowed to contin

i'm jake tapper. >> i'm dana bash.ington where jim jordan is hoping to finish the fight, but that hope is not looking that way, because at moment, there is very little reason to believe that there is a third vote to earn the speaker's gavel is going to end any differently than in defeat. jordan can only afford three defections and on the second vote he lost 22. >> not close. i'm erin burnett here in gaza where everyone is waiting on edge. trucks carrying medicine, food and desperately needed water on the rafah crossing where they need water, water, water, and hundreds of navy reservists are waiting to invade those along that border as missiles are ricocheting across today from yemen. looking at the picture now in yemen. people are packed shoulder-to-shoulder as far as the eye can see, and thousands upon thousands upon thousands of them in sanaa in the south, jake. >> looking at the pictures, let's start here in d.c. with the coverage at the u.s. capitol e

>> exactly. >> let's listen to what alexandria ocasio-cortez told jake tapper about that. >> my vote beginning this term for speaker of the house was for hakeem jeffries, and i do not intend on voting for a republican speaker of the house, but i believe that it's up to the republican conference to determine their own leadership and deal with their own problems. but it's not up to democrats to save republicans. >> so you -- >> from themselves, especially. >> but she also said, you know, i do have a vote and it's not free. other democrats have said that too. translation, sure, i can support kevin mccarthy if he makes a deal with us that we like. >> exactly. so to get the speakership, kevin mccarthy had to make concessions with his party. we're looking at what the democrats are going to be asking of him. that's the biggest question of the week. how will they navigate this? this is a big deal for them. covering the hill for the last few months of this congressional term, you usually hear from democrats that they're the party of unity, they have used that as their mantra the whole time. t

jake tapper said it well, fox news, clicks, getting on tv, and self-grandizing. just run the government. >> it's the worst job on earth right now. thank you for coming in, your first interview on "the source" since your book came out. >> thank you, kaitlan. >>> the search for the 9-year-old girl who went missing on a camping trip. c charlotte sena has been found alive and safe tonight. the suspect accuse of abducting her is in custody. a lot of questions remain, including how investigators found her. we'll give you the details next. >> tonight, we just learned that a ransom no with fingerprints is what eventually led police to a suspect in a missing nine year old girl. charlotte sena is now safe and back with her family after she went missing on saturday night while riding her bike alone during a camping trip with their family in new york's moreau lake state park, it's just north of albany. joining me tonight is cnn correspondent brian todd, who is tracking the story. ryan, obviously that's the big question, how they got to this, how they found him. what did you

"state of the union "qwe" with tapper is up next. he'll have the latest on israel. that is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> next stages of war. nine days after the brutal terrorist attack by hamas, israel ramps up for a ground war in gaza. >> it's only the beginning. >> but how will civilians including americans avoid the violence? israeli ambassador to the u.s. michael herzog joins me live next. and then vice chair of the senate intelligence committee marco rubio. plus, on edge. as president biden strongly

i will say i'm not surprised and a couple of examples i've seen, jake tapper from cnn who showed discussd court msnbc reporting and they are surprised but deep down they are surprised at all because the left if coalition comprised of different fringe groups and they have one common theme that unifies the and that is republicans. right now you can see with the conflict they do not have the unifying source so what's happening, they turn on each other and it's happening qui quickly. >> also from dan abrams did a takedown of msnbc, you pointed out jake tapper, watch in here and you will see a democrat running away from reporters questions about support of hamas terrorists seem to be, who spent a lot of time during the term years and anti-semitism on the right, last few days have been an eye-opening. for democrats and progressives in terms of anti-semitism on the left. people who seem shocked at dehumanizing language used by leaders to describe, and what hamas perpetrated. >> it's despicable what you are protesting for in the fact that women and children are in the streets. >> do you condemn

i'm jake tapper. i'm going to start today with our world lead. number of developments happening right now, including the immigration crisis and the chaos at the u.s. southern border. in moments, we're going hear from top biden cabinet officials who are down in mexico for meetings about the surge in might grants entering the united states, along with the flow of fentanyl and gun trafficking. this comes hours after the biden white house announced it is waiving dozens of federal laws in order to build more border barriers. it's a move president biden tried to defend this afternoon after a number of critics pointed out that he promised not to build one additional foot of wall while he was running for president. >>> also today, a federal court heard arguments over the state of texas's decision to install buoys on the rio grande river after the biden administration sued the lone star state trying to get them to remove them. texas official claims that the buoys are meant to deter migrants from crossing the river, which can be deadly. all of this as gove