let's head back in because tony blinken taking questions, you very much. >> mr. secretary, there's a lot to ask you about today. >> so with your indulgence, first on, israel strikes in iran was the us indeed alerted in advance how far ahead of time and did it raise any objections when it was? are the strikes now, over& do you have any indication at this early stage via direct or indirect messaging that iran will respond and have there been any changes in iran's nuclear program? on israel. there are reports that your department has made recommendations to cut military aid to certain israeli units for possible human rights violations. and the west bank before october 7 will you take action on those recommendations? and finally, on the recent us assessments, you mentioned that china may be growing at support for russia, for its war effort in ukraine. do you believe that president xi is sensing an opportunity amid flagging us support to the ukrainians. >> thank you, sir. >> great. >> thanks, olivia on the first question, the reports that you've seen i'm not going to

that is the message from the us secretary of state, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. >> now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the united states was not involved in any offensive operations. >> as he also said, the focus for the united states and g7 remains de-escalation you saw israel on the receiving end of an unprecedented attack. but our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so de-escalating tensions avoiding conflict. and that remains our focus so israel's strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. >> the early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. a source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. john. all right. us officials confirm that israel's attack was at a military base near the city of isfahan right here is beyond a very interesting, bea

but in just a few moments from now, we might hear from the secretary of state, tony blinken, who's with his counterparts at the g7 and coppery right now, what are we expecting on the diplomatic front? >> what we do expect secretary blinken. of course, to reiterate that the us does not want to see an escalation in the region. something of course, that diplomatically they have been trying to achieve over the last seven days, over the last ten days really since iran started striking, israel after we saw, of course, israel initially strike that but building in damascus that iran said belonged to was actually a consulate. and so what we expect to hear is, of course, a plea for calm on all sides behind the scenes. what is likely occurring here is essentially back channeling so that iran gets the message here that this should really be over at this point. we should note that we do have a regional intelligence source telling our colleague, nic robertson that in fact iran does not plan to retaliate further, and that this for tat for now at least appears to be over all right, natasha bertrand at

he's also going to be meeting with tony blinken, as you mentioned, but also top congressional leaders and john camerohad said last weekhat he is urging johnson to pass moreido ukraine. that's really the purse of is visi do you want to just read for you a statement we have received from the british embassy on this, cameron said that quote, success for ukraine and failure for putin are vital for american and european security. this will show that borders matter, that aggression doesn't pay, and that countries like ukraine are free to choose their own future. the alternative would only encourage putin in further attempts to redraw european borders by force and would be heard clearly in beijing tehran, and north korea and luck, i think that's really the key here. many countries in europe do want to see the united states pass this age package that the white house is pushing congress to do. of course, we've seen in johnson, hold this up for some time now, and is receiving a lot of backlash from republicans for considering putting this on the floor. and so a lot of moving parts here, but cam

and we wanna go straight out to the secretary of state, tony blinken.enting on that strike that resulted in the deaths that killed aid workers with world central kitchen. let's go to that right now. >> b also reiterate what's defense said about the attack on the world >> food kitchen >> members world central kitchen, excuse me first i can only say that for so many of us we, extend our condolences to the loved ones. >> so the families the friends, the colleagues of those who lost their lives as, well as those who were injured i spoke to joseon drops just about a week ago about the efforts that world central kitchen is engaged in in gaza as it is in many other conflict zones around the world, including in ukraine they had been doing extraordinary brave work. day in, day out. and critical work to try to make sure that people in need get what they need, starting with the most basic thing of all food to survive the victims of yesterday's strike >> join a record number of >> humanitarian workers have been killed in this particular conflict. these people are h

with us, there will always be an alternative, what is life under sanctions, how do you live after tony blinkenountry from the civilized world, not bad, everything is fine, i went from surprise to legitimate anger, so we were wondering how much it would cost, we all spent about 400 bucks, here it cost 104 us dollars, and after all , the united states benefited from the severance of ties between russia and europe, and european countries are going through serious trials and a lot. for gas, we are told, those who own gas should not own transport, so gazprom , together with european partners, with the germans, the dutch, built a pipeline across the baltic sea, to the bottom, they tell us, let a third person go there. participant, where should i send him? we produce gas in russia together, transport it through our common property, where we will pass a third partner, a pipe, a hole will check. where will he get gas from? they say to us: listen, what are you boiling down to? sell at the entrance to the european union a third participant will appear, the owner of this gas, but if he buys this third par

the head of the american state department, tony blinken, traveled to brussels via paris.the same as that recently had by pentagon chief ostion, to support the desire in the european allies to help ukraine, at a time when this desire in the american establishment is not obviously. cnn lamented on the eve of the voyage that it was like blinken’s mule to look the europeans in the eye. nothing, i looked and praised. washington is very pleased with how europe intercepted. will start returning home in plastic bags. even the head of the british foreign office, cameron, rejected the idea of ​​sending troops, so as not to make british soldiers a target for putin. in vain did the head of the french general staff, burghart, write a letter to his bloc partners. finding people willing to play russian roulette is especially difficult. chief of the general staff of the french armed forces thiri burghart sent a letter to his nato colleagues describing how the allies could support ukraine by deploying. financing, you need to chip in for the purchase of the third of this amount, there are

that we saw most recently with this condemnation from tony blinken when it comes to the idf.late father-in-law spent a half an hour on the senate floor warning that tony blinken was a danger to america, to america's allies, that he was unqualified. that he shouldn't be in the position of power. that it was just absolutely rank opportunism and politicking behind the scenes that led him to that point. that he should never have ascended to that position. and now that he has gotten into an even higher position of power, he has shown us what kind of world he has helped created which is chaos for every region, which is undermining every ally that we have and now at this most critical moment undermining israel's belief in their ability to defend themselves and a way that i believe is completely. >> we should point out your late father-in-law is john mccain. >> i'm not being critical of israel. i'm the one on the panel voted in favor of funding along with your late great who was my friend father-in-law. i would only say this. there were -- republicans that didn't get funding for isra

. >> this has been disastrous and tony blinken has been one of the more gnomic least effective secretariesstate's, look what is happening around the world but in the middle east. their policy is entirely incoherent. on one side of them out they talk tough against russia and china but then they embolden iran which is directly a part of this quartet of evil with russia, china, north korea and iran. going after israel the way this administration is going and reminding as a jewish-american it's passover, it's a high holiday and we still have five jewish americans won't be at a passover seder tonight because the biden administration and tony blinken have done nothing to get them home. so going after israel are democratic and free ally makes absolutely no sense. >> going after israel there are now considerations in the biden administration about sanctioning this net see yehuda battalion part of the idf and there is a report that was released by the state department highly critical of israel for human rights abuse lumping them in with those around the world, what signal is biden sending here? >>

we are also awaiting comments from the secretary of state tony blinken here at home cheers erupting outside police station as protesters are released and this shocking chant. >> we're hamas. >> you're what? you're hamas. >> yes we are all hamas, pig. [bleep] >> brian: show your face. >> we're all hamas? >> former president trump due back in court. what for as the search continues for alternate jurors who can be impartial. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> brian: fox news alert. a fox news official confirms israel has launched a strike against iran. it happened overnight. so far no comment from tel aviv. >> ainsley: the strike was inside of a major military air base contains facilities associated with the country's nuclear program. we know iran's nuclear facilities are secure. >> lawrence: we have not received any official statement from the biden administration. but a source says the u.s. was notified before the strike and was not involved with it. >> steve: all right. retired general jack keane joins us right now live from washington with expert analysis. he's in a mo

by the way, kudos to secretary of state, tony blinken, a good friend, i mean, watching the travels ofow, a couple of days ago he's in beijing going toe to toe with president xi, and now trying to get this deal of the land. i give him a lot of credit for getting out, getting into it and doing all that he can and all the administration can. i think there's a window here, and he is absolutely right to go to the bankrollers, the money that is providing hamas, and the money that could potentially rebuild gaza. that's where the pressure point is that could be applied. i think there's a 50/50 chance we could get to a temporary cease fire in the next few weeks. >> so much is at stake, and while tony blinken and his team are working tirelessly as you point out on this, we continue to hear criticisms from hostage families that netanyahu is prioritizing his own political survival over the lives of those hostages. i want to play for you, amiral of what one of the nieces of one of the hostages said yesterday. >> one of the things that worries my family and worries me is it's arguably not in prime

i don't have anything but good hopes for tony blinken and bill burns.t a difficult problem set all the way around. whether it is trying to get a cease fire, trying to get people returned, trying to figure out which prisoners to be released, where there -- whether they can stave off an israeli attack into rafa, things about reconstruction, normalization with saudi arabia. there's an array of inner mashed things here they are trying to navigate. christian: there was a colleague written this week by a former eurasian bureau chief who said jerusalem now has to choose between goininto rafa, or choosing a security arrangement with riyadh, which was very much up for discussion today. what is the future for gaza and a future palestinian state? do you think it is as black-and-white as that? is it now a binary choice? robert: tom freeman is a great writer but it is far more complex than that. there are so many details here. in some ways they are intertwined. the interesting saudi's have you normalization is very important. also the fact that in response to the ir

it is worth flagging that tony blinken, the secretary of state, has been attending a meeting of g7 foreign ministers in italy. they are set to resume some of their meetings in just a few hours. and so that might be a time where, courtney at the pentagon , the white house, have been getting some information publicly from u.s. officials. we have been exciting to see tony blinken in just a matter of hours to be speaking as part of that foreign ministers brief meeting. so that might be our first opportunity to hear from a senior u.s. official about whatr is happening also is a key opportunity with our closest allies gathered in one place for the work of diplomacy to be gone and ernest if it hasn't already begun, steph. >> do you know who is with the president right now? >> we know that the president, when he returned tonight from what has been a three day campaign swing in pennsylvania, he didn't go to the residence, he went straight to the west ht wing. some of the senior advisers who had been traveling with him. be we also know that jake sullivan was in the west wing this evening. it is like

. >> thank you it's morning, secretary of state tony blinken sat down with ukraine's foreign minister to stress the importance of setting more aid to the war-torn country but in this moment, it is urgent that all of the friends supporters of ukraine maximize their efforts to provide ukraine with, but it needs to continue to effectively defend itself against russian aggression. and in particular, for the united states, that means passing the supplemental. the extra budget request. the president's made for ukraine that'd be now hope will be before the house as weekend putin is allowed to proceed with impunity. we know he won't stop, at ukraine and we can safely predict that his aggression will continue other would be aggressors around the world will take note and unleash their own aggressions. and we will have a world of conflict, not a world of peace and security here we're this now as democratic congressman john deere. many of california serves on the house armed services committee as a member of the congressional progressive caucus. congressman thank you very much for joining us. do

now, tony blinken is on his way from here to amman, and then on tel aviv. and he must be hoping that if the israeli turned now put these negotiations tomorrow because they see fit to do that, that there is a deal on a deal quickly all right. >> we'll be watching becky very closely to what happens there. becky anderson, live for us from riyad. thank you. former president donald trump is going to be back in into your courtroom tomorrow, but hanging over the trial today, questions over whether trump violated his gag order what does it say? ignore that the judge in this case is yet to rule. we'll talk about it how we'd really having with jesse l. >> martin and they at nine on cia. >> i'm jonathan larson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program if your h 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget. remember the three ps what are the three p's? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget. our price, price and price. a price you can afford a price that can't increase. and a price that fits your budget i'm 54. wh

the region certainly on edge this morning, scott, thank you very much, secretary of state. >> tony blinken expected to speak from the g7 summit in coppery. it will be the first statement from the biden administration since israel's attack on iran just hours ago, cnn's barbie being a dough is in rome. four is barbie. >> what are you hearing about? the conversations that are taking place at this g7 meeting? >> i have to think things have gotten a little tense inside those boardroom. what can you tell us? >> yeah this has been a very, very important to g7 foreign ministry meeting. and of course, the geopolitics at play mean that all these seven members don't necessarily always agree on everything including sanctions and things like that. that meeting that last roundtable is wrapping up right now and we're expecting to see antonio tajani, at least foreign minister make a few statements, have a brief press conference that will be followed by a press conference by secretary blinken. now, we can expect some self congratulations usually, these summits focused on the positive and the negative and t

even the leadership of someone like tony blinken has to be questioned when it comes to the way he hasreated the situation in gaza and these are people who are not qualified for the job, they are loyalists and checkboxes. stuart: not good. a group of republican senators wrote a letter to the ceo over npr, political bias at the network. do you think this is the beginning of the end for npr? >> i think the beginning of the end came several years ago when they debated the decision similar to what you were talking about with the motion of a woke agenda over the things they should be doing, and if you look back 15 or 20 years ago npr was pretty consistently higher up on the list of trusted news sources for independent and even right-leaning americans because they were viewed as biased to the left but still pretty fair when it came to their coverage. in the years since then, in the aftermath of the summer of florida and everything else they shifted to the point that almost every segment they have is about race, various woke priorities, disaffected groups. it is completely unlistenable and fo

. >> tony blinken met with them a number of times. the pack last may. >> this helps.biden's tendency to freelance a little bit. you can see people -- >> i thought vital to the region. we need a base there. we lost the solomon items, and islands. these guys are highly insulted. that was one portion of our history deep in our history. we hope that the president will come around and apologize and fix it. keep in mind, lender else i'm story wasn't true. remember he said he gave a purple heart to his uncle who died before he was vice president. he died in 1999. he saw two men kissing out in the street in the 1950s. nobody thinks that is true. there was a happening of the 1950s. that is the one thing -- we can find corn pop either. >> dana: quite a resume of life experiences. "one more thing" is up next. to me, harlem is home. but home is also your body. i asked myself, why doesn't pilates exist in harlem? so i started my own studio. getting a brick and mortar in new york is not easy. chase ink has supported us from studio one to studio three. when you start small, you need

cnn is doing our job, the new york times is doing our job tony blinken is doing our job.matter how many people die gaza, hamas will continue so the biden of administration is not only betraying israel, it is betraying the peace process. it is dripping to a continuation of hamas. i have to tell you, if joe biden with his original statement in support of israel, this war would be over. >> i couldn't agree with that more. let me say, we interviewed the economic minister, a rising star -- here's one of his lines yesterday coming up. >> i did not hear one word demanding hamas to surrender. i expect people to say hamas surrender. we will haunt you all over the world. qatar, we are going to haunt you from now on, you have to choose sides. >> i didn't hear hamas surrendering and biden's phone call either. what is this about? >> not even the criticism of the refusal by hamas to come to the bargaining table, israel has come made efforts, not everybody in israel supports this. some really want to not stop the work. israel is put on the table and the united states has as well and ham

. >> trey: before i will let you go, tony blinken is worried china will interfere in the coming generals, and i will ask you a quick question on the other side. >> i have seen, generally speaking, evidence of attempts to influence and arguably interfere. we want to make sure that it isq cut off as quickly as possible. >> trey: you know, congressman, i think the irony of talking about election interference is actuallyrfer prosecuting of nominee is lost on him. but regardless of the outcome every cycle we hear allocationsy about election interference by foreign actors. how concerned shouldrs we be ths cycle? >> we should turn the concern dial all the way up to 10 up you were window during the lastn an election, three quarters of the miss information campaign on fak were traced backca wer to russian tool farms, china has made a bigger investment in recent years and chinese hackers and propaganda artiststist outnumber our cybersecuritybu professionals witht the federal government by probably 50-1. we have to wake up to this threat, and frankly, all of us have got to quit sharing information

. >> tony blinken expressing his condolences. >> we have impressed upon the israelis the imperative ofng more to protect innocent civilian lives, be they palestinian children, women and men, or be they aide workers. as well as to get more humanitarian assistance to more people more effectively. >> joining me now is josh lederman. this incident has started a new round of outrage around the world, spotlighting the issue of civilians and particularly aide workers killed in gaza. what else can you tell us about what happened? >> reporter: as you can imagine, the global condemnation is pouring in from all over the world, from parts of the arab world or countries like jordan that have made peace with israel, are calling this a war crime to the countries that lost their own citizens in this tragedy, the u.s., the uk, australia and poland. those governments now have to explain to grieving families how it is that a country, israel, that they have largely stood behind, went and killed one of their own citizens who was simply trying to bring food to people who are on the verge of famine. all of t

we know secretary of state tony blinken is in the air right now, on his way to saudi arabia where hees. he also plans to talk about israel's military operations as they relate to rafah. i want you to hear what the national security council spokesman john kirby have to say about that. ha

. >>> secretary of state tony blinken is call on ukraine's allies to provide kyiv with aid to defendession and emphasizing the need for congress to pass that $61 billion aid bill. blinken met today in capri at a g7 meeting on the sidelines of the foreign ministers meeting. >> i would remind the profound space that the united states has in ukraine's success. if putin is allowed to proceed with immunity, we know he won't stop at ukraine. >> i would like to call on the members of the house to support the supplemental that will literally, without exaggeration, help save ukrainians from russian missile slaughter. >> joining me now is the prime minister of ukraine. thank you very much, prime minister, for being with us. >> thank you. >> first of all, we have been talking with the house intelligence chair, mike turner, about how critical this is. there's still opposition among some republicans in the house. tell us, what is the situation on the ground right now? what are the biggest needs for this aid for the military? >> thank you for having me here. situation on the ground is difficult, b

tony blinken right now as we speak is in the middle east pressuring the israelis not to launch an offensiveng at what the effect you are having on the biden administration why would you stop? >> bret: leslie a poll out of monmouth says 34% of voters say the israel-hamas war will have significant impact on their choice for president. 18% say it will be determinative, they will determine their vote from that. tonight, there's breaking news, cbs is reporting that the biden administration is considering allowing palestinian refugees into the u.s. and providing them a path to become american citizens. we have not independently confirmed that, but cbs is citing sources saying that is under serious consideration tonight. this becomes a major issue in the presidential race, does it not? not? >> oh, yes. definitely. when you see the images at columbia. columbia. you are not seeing images at brown university where it's been peaceful and negotiated a deal between brown university and the protesters. there are some people who if they remember history in 1968, they saw images like this at columbia, at t

what do you expect from tony blinken, and his ability to push the ball forward? ant about secretary blinken's trip is that it is not just a u.s. official meeting with a saudi official. there are officials from many governments across the region, as well as from europe, all gathering together. what they are talking about again is renewed pressure on hamas to take this agreement that is on the table, to release the hostages that it holds, whether dead or alive, to get to a cease-fire. and from that cease-fire, everyone is working toward a massive expansion in humanitarian aid to help all of those civilians in gaza, who had no part in what hamas did on october 7th. and then, to really begin the day after planning. not just humanitarian aid, but clearing out the rubble, getting people back to their homes, getting water turned back on. all the things we need to ensure that there is a viable future for gaza that is not under the stranglehold of hamas. >> one reason that has been offered for cease-fire negotiations being stalled is because it is still unclear how many ho

tony blinken said getting that aid to ukraine is imperative.rom president zelenskyy, they are running out of ammo. they need american weapons, they need weapons they can only get from the u.s. >> the senate vote on this aid was overwhelmingly bipartisan. that bill is pending in the house. we are just back from a recess. the votes are there on the floor. will speaker johnson allow the package to be voted on, or will he allow a different package to be voted on? when the votes are there, i always believe we will find a way to get there. i think we will. >> do you think that -- do you think they will end up taking israel out of the package, because you will lose some progressive democratic votes in the senate? >> you may -- >> to get ukraine done. >> you may end up losing votes on both sides. the republicans who will not vote for some of the ukraine aid. there may be democrats who would have a question about israel aid. that wasn't the case in the senate bill. the senate vote on the supplemental package, it was 48 democratic yes and three no. on th

were informed shortly ahead of time, just before the strike, secretary of state tony blinken emphasizeda g7 meeting that the u.s. had no part in it. >> i'm not going to speak to anything other than to say we were not involved in any offensive operations. >> last weekend's iranian strikes were in retaliation for an israeli strike on an iranian consular building in damascus, killing a general and several others, dismaying u.s. officials who feared it was an unnecessarily provocative move. joining us is raf sanchez in tel aviv and courtney kube. iran is minimizing the strike. it's limited. what is israel saying? >> reporter: we are hearing nothing officially from the israeli government. their position is that they are neither confirming nor denying israel's involvement in the strike. we have heard nothing from prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the sun is about to go down. we are not expecting to hear anything from him. all of this appears carefully designed to give iran an off ramp to allow them to choose not to retaliate without losing face. the israelis are not crowing, they are not glo

tony blinken secretary of state with a warning to china over its role in the ukraine war.with president xi early this morning. and ukrainian forces hitting a russian airfield. look at this they had line in crimea already. after the u.s. secretly shipped them atacms. long range missiles and they are getting more. here to react fox news senior strategic analyst retired four star general jack keane. general, your thoughts, first off about the secretary of state calling out china said he did a face to face about them backing up russia's defense arsenal. >> yeah. it's pretty significant. while they are not providing weapons' platforms as an end item. they are providing much of the components that make weapons' platforms and all the other things that you need to sustain an army on the battlefield. there it is significant upgrade in russia's defense industrial base that china is providing. and the administration admits it's been long-coming to recognize how comprehensive this support has been because it's obviously been under the table and china keeping it a secret as possible. b

we know secretary of state tony blinken is in the air right now, on his way to saudi arabia where he will discuss several issues. he also plans to talk about israel's military operations as they relate to rafah. i want you to hear what the national security council spokesman john kirby have to say about that. >> we have to have a better understanding from the israelis about what they want to do. we have had several staff talks with them. we intend to do that more. they have assured us they were not going to rafah until we have had a chance to share our concerns with them.>> reporter: there have been working level conversations between the israelis and the biden administration over the last several weeks about the administration's concerns and thoughts about what israel could do differently in rafah. we are still waiting to hear, alex, exactly whether the u.s. recommendations are being taken to heart and will be used in rafah to try to mitigate some of the death we've been saying in gaza over the last 6-7 months. >>> the donald trump trial through the eyes of a former insider, sarah m

be happening in just a few hours in italy by coincidence of the schedules, secretary of state, tony blinken, someone who has been at president biden's side in the foreign-policy business for more than two decades now is meeting with his counterparts at the g7 minister summit. they do have some public forums, some public sessions, as well as the secretary giving what is typical of the end of one of the summits, solo press availability. so at a time where we haven't heard very much from officials at the white house or at the pentagon, that might be the first opportunity for us to get a response from a senior u.s. official in just a few hours. >> michael, you make an interesting point that they are doing their own reporting, they're trying to get good information before they spread it, in a tense situation like this. it is kind of remarkable that america would need to do that as it relates to an israeli attack obviously in an iranian attack on israel we do not enjoy diplomatic relations with iran so they aren't calling us to tell us stuff but in this particular case, america's influence over a

. >> ainsley: so you are watching tony blinken, is he there in china. it's a three-day visit to china. he met with the president of china. >> this is the second time they have met in less than a year. is he over there, basically, to stabilize the relationship between america and china, talking about ai. that was interesting news. because now they're agreeing in the coming weeks to talk together as two countries about the growing threats of a.i. talked about the -- they did talk about the aggression in the south china sea. he hasn't gotten to that yet. trade and economic practices and then counter narcotics that we heard. that relationship with russia has with china he is saying you cannot expect to have good relationship with america or with europe when you are funding or helping russia and you are their biggest contributor. >> brian: we told him not to. we said, whatever you do don't supply russia with any weapons. >> ainsley: they are. >> brian: they said okay they are. using components with their duel use. this is for a refrigerator and also for a ta

skillfully worked the diplomacy, the arab partners that tony blinken and sullivan have been courtinghem to the hostage talks and all that, so all of that working them to communicate directly and indirectly with iran to say you know worker don't want this. we don't want this to spread and to get the communications back that iran doesn't want a wider war. and i think that's also what you saw retaliation was bigger than expected. for damascus. and there's u.s. concern- happiness with the hit in damascus they were terrorists, all of that, but the timing was terrible with the hostage talks right on the verge of hamas accepting something. however, that said, last night what the president was saying we are with you, we showed this, you have succeeded take the win. you succeeded beyond all expectations, the layered defenses worked our defenses helped and work and we had the allights ready to fire on the jordannians helping and saudi quietly helping as well. so take the win and don't retaliate. we will be with you to defend you it's ironclad. but we will not join in you in any offense actions

. >>> secretary of state tony blinken meets with china's president in beijing and is asked by a reporter about the anti-israel protests on college campuses across the u.s. >> it's a hallmark of our democracy that our citizens make known their views, their concerns, their anger at any given time. i think that reflects the strength of the country, the strength of democracy. >>> jake sullivan will be here to talk whether china is interfering in our election, the wars in ukraine and gaza and whether a new hamas offer could break that logjam on freeing the hostages. ♪♪ >>> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. cross-examination of the first prosecution witness in donald trump's hush money trial is heating up in new york. former "national enquirer" publisher david pecker being cross-examined. they are trying to establish he had a longstanding relationship promoting trump's interests and burying embarrassing stories about him before he was a candidate for president. we begin with vaughn hillyard outside the courthouse. what's the latest from the courtroom? >> reporter: andrea,

so, this is a bit of a victory lap and a very tough journey for tony blinken, the secretary of state,ll of this lined up, he's going to watch it being loaded on to trucks and tomorrow he'll start a week long journey to herez to get into israel, north gaza, which means it desperately, rather than in the south. the critical question now is how does it get inside gaza to the people who desperately need it. that is relying on unrwa, the u.n. agencies at the u.s. and israel. the u.s. has been forced to cut off money to israel, very critical of, but that's another challenge. >> andrea mitchell filing that report for us as she travels with secretary of state antony blinken. black to the new york city courtroom, the hush money trial where we have been watching a number of fact witnesses today. now we're on to keith davidson, the lawyer for stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, talking about the agreements he was negotiating for them, with the "national enquirer" and ultimately with michael cohen. catherine, when we get to the negotiations with michael cohen, what does the prosecution want to get

if you could have had this personhood second, i'm so sorry to interrupt, but secretary of state tony blinken is speaking right now from the tarmac. let's listen, man, that israel is taking full responsibility for this incident. it's also important that appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable even more important is making sure that steps are taking going four, to ensure that something like this can never happen again prime minister netanyahu indicated to president biden that israel would be making further changes to his procedures to make sure that those who are providing assistance to people who so desperately needed in gaza are protected. so we're going to be looking very carefully at what those steps are, how it achieves better deconfliction better coordination. so that aid workers are protected. same time as israel pursues any military operations against hamas. it has to priority your ties, the protection of civilians. it has to make that job. >> number one >> to many people have been caught in this crossfire of hamas making children women, men losing their lives.

. >> i see the secretary of state right behind you, tony blinken and kaitlan collins. wow, things are happening, things are popping and whoa things are happening. >> all right, we'll see you. >> well, that's the ultimate celebrity wolf blitzer all right, we'll see you all very soon, harry. >> thanks so much cia and joining us now is democratic strategist and former speech writer for president biden, geoff nussbaum. >> geoff great to have you on thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. >> you have worked very closely with president biden and his speech writing team. >> what's their goal for tonight? >> well, i haven't talked to anyone about tonight. >> this is this is their show and they're in good hands the goal i think always is to use humor to make a serious point and especially now when things feel particularly serious, it feels that a lot of the world feels like it's spinning i can out of control the goals for president biden are similar to his goals. >> in any event, is show his canned, share his accomplishments. but in this case, he wants to show that he can

so you mentioned, you know, all of these advisers, including jake sullivan, tony blinken, a lot of the people in that circle, they came up in kind of the same space. they worked for the obama administration. they worked together afterwards, the think tanks. there has been a lot of among some that you know that makes them a little bit insular and that perhaps, you know, their worldview is a little bit elitist or not connected with the realities of what is going. for example, when they tried to do a reset with the russians, for example. so like that, i mean, that there is a certain kind of naivete attached to kind of foreign policy that they have practiced. and so i just wonder what you learned about how they were able to overcome that, if at all, and whether and how relationships with each other kind of have informed they've approached foreign policy. there's no question that groupthink plagues, the administration now, not always in bad ways. it's just they as you mentioned, they've known each other in past administrations. they live in general area together. they work together. they kn

a secretary of state, tony blinken said this warning that the us was not involved in any offensive operations in iran as of now, the israeli military said it was unable to comment and tehran has not identified a source behind this attack. so this is another sign of rising tensions between israel and iran. and further raises the threat of a broader conflict in the middle east he's joining me now, former defense secretary under president obama, former cia director leon panetta. ms secretary, what what's your reaction to all of this? i mean, was this a bit of a gamble on the part of israel might've gone spectacularly awful way. i mean, it didn't do a whole lot in both sides are sort of stuff okay. we're moving on now. but it could have ended up a lot worse well, there's there's no question that the rules of engagement, if changed in that part of the world. >> i mean, we've just had not only israel striking an embassy complex in damascus, but iran then striking back with 300 missiles into israel and now israel has struck at a target in iran having said that it also appears that israel did pay att

now we see that everything is different, and the approach, and the approach is demonstrated by tony blinkenes a different approach in general to how it should be, well, he’s such a mess... well, on press conference alone, there’s no one next to him, it’s like he’s speaking to a vodinar, listen, as we have long told china, ensuring transatlantic security is one of the fundamental interests of the united states. in our discussions today, i made it clear that if china does not act on its continued support for russia, we will. the united states has already imposed sanctions on more than 100 chinese organizations responsible for exports and other matters. and we are fully prepared to take additional action. and this is also very revealing, very important, very interesting, this can also be important to discuss, but as i already began to say, today i suggest to my guests, since today is such an unusual day, either friday, or thursday, the second, and in the week, and some kind of may 31st, but to speculate, based on the fact that this news is very important. well, if you like, these are the brick

>> where do you think the biden ministration comes in on this in terms of me clearly tony blinken as dana notes, is there in riyadh. >> it seems like this would be a positive step for them and they've been trying to convince netanyahu not to go into rafah. >> yeah and these larger normalization accord is something that's been a priority for the administration. >> it's something the national security team has been focused on and as dana said, they were really on the cost before october over seven. so this is a huge priority for them and i think i certainly don't speak for them. i won't speak for them, but i would imagine they will accept anybody's help on this. and if lindsey graham wants to be helpful and wants to help try to bring the republican conference on this. then i'm sure they would welcome that. so ultimately, i think if they were able to get this done it would it would certainly be an incredible talking point in the election in terms of what president biden said about being able to reassert kind of american interests on the world stage and be able to lead in that way, it wo

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targeting the stakes of ceasefire negotiations all too clear and tomorrow secretary of state, tony blinken heading to jordan. and after that, he will head into israel to try and push forward those ceasefire negotiations will jeremy diamond in jerusalem for us? >> jeremy, thank you very much and we'll be right back with more news erin burnett, outfront next on cnn. there's nothing better than a subway series foot-long, except when you add a new foot-long sayyed king, like ultimate bmt with the new foot-long pretzels, nothing like a sayyed kicker steps up and time not cool man, every epic foot-long deserve the perfect sidekick, the ancient rash of moderate to severe eczema disrupts my skin. >> night and day despite treatment, it's still not under control, but now i have revoke run is a once-daily pill that reduces the itch and helps clear the rat ash of eczema fast summer invoked patients felt significant inch relief as early as two days. some achieved dramatic skin clearance as early as two weeks and many taking or invoke saw clear are almost clear skin or invoke can lower your ability to f

extensive damage at that site and the us says it was not involved in the attack as secretary of state, tony blinken says, the focus is on de-escalation to avoid a broader war in that region, seen as nic robertson is in jerusalem for us, nick, what, if anything israel saying about this attack well, it's interesting because israeli officials aren't saying anything about it at all. >> and it really does seem to indicate that we're into a period now of ambiguity and not escalation shan and is a sort of strategic off-ramp that both israel and iran appear to be taking. the reason i say that is a few hours after the explosions were reported. in iran, i contacted a regional intelligence source who told me from all the information he had, it didn't appear that iran was going to respond. and what we heard from iranian officials today was saying that this these incidents were under investigation, that the air defense systems that have been triggered earlier in the night had intercepted some objects which in iranian political he called speak really is nothing to see here. the reaction that we did see in tehran

thanks so much this morning, we should also note a plane that was meant to take secretary of state tony blinken to brussels for a nato meeting was grounded in pairs due to a mechanical issue. instead, blinken and the rest of the us delegation were forced to travel to a brussels by car we're telling you this not because it's been an inconvenience to the secretary of state, but kylie atwood joins me now at the state department. kindly, this is the second time the secretary of state's plane had an issue and this is a boeing plane that we're talking about here. what more can you tell us? >> yeah, that's right. so the secretary flies on planes that are part of the air force's slate and this specific plane is a version of the boeing's seven, for 7307 aircraft. it had mechanical issues and therefore, as you said, jim, the secretary and those traveling with him according to the press pool, that's traveling with him, had to dr. from paris to brussels for that nato ministerial meeting, instead of flying, will watch to see where this goes. but as you said, there was a similar incident in january when anot

the secretary of state, tony blinken just arrived this morning. the other thing that i want to know just to pivot for a second away from the region, is that us officials just last week told reporters that there is really an unprecedented amount of support that china is giving to russia in order to build up its defense industrial base. and that's allowing russia to build up its military expansion in a way that it hasn't done since the soviet era. they think that europeans could put some pressure on china in this vein. so that's another thing that there'll be discussing at the g7 this week, the stakes write down clearly are enormous. we'll see what happens at that g7 summit, kylie, thank you very, very much, kylie atwood reporting for us. i want to bring in and seeing them political and global jersey analyst barak ravid right now, he's also reported for axios barack give me your analysis of prime minister netanyahu statement, thanking the allies for their support, but letting them know that israel and only israel will make the decision on how to res

the stakes of ceasefire negotiations all too clear and tomorrow, secretary of state tony blinken heading to jordan and after that, he will head to israel to try and push forward, though ceasefire negotiations will jeremy diamond in jerusalem for us. jeremy, thank you very much. and we'll be right back with more news i love your dress thanks. i splurged a little because liberty mutual customize my car insurance and i saved hundreds. >> that's great. i know. right. i've been telling everyone did. you hear that i just set her first word can you say mama? >> never can you say on how. >> many people did you tell only pay for what you need like, scout is protected by sim a trio and he's in it to win it sympatric. a trio is the first chew with triple protection intestinal worms. well, heartworm disease no problem with sim parotid dreo. this drug class has been associated with neurologic adverse reactions, including seizures used with caution and dogs with a history of these disorders for winning protection, go with sympatric, a trio time. >> led to an art the, lotto singular dot at high noon ha

practically spotlight, shine i'm clarissa ward in tel aviv, and this is cnn right now secretary state tony blinken is in italy for a key meeting with us allies, a critical topic at hand and impending response from israel after a direct attack from iran over the weekend, pressure is growing for israel to back away from a military strike and opting for more international sanctions instead get in chief national security correspondent alex marquardt joins us now, alex it sounds like the international pressure that has been building on israel is growing, but it's not really clear whether or not that's going to deter what netanyahu ultimately decides to. >> netanyahu today is essentially saying, we hear what you're saying, but we're going to do what we want to do. this g7 eating in capri and italy is going to be really interesting because those countries do want to get on the same page in terms of new sanctions for iran, which the us has already talked about it in terms of sanctions against iran, drone and missile programs, the irgc, the defense ministry, but at the same time, they want to get on the sa