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youre watching "cnn news central." im boris sanchez alongside alex mar quiet. there is no hope for babies evacuated from a war-torn hospital in gaza as pressure is growing on israel to provide evidence hamas ran a command center under the al shifa medical facility. in washington, d.c., a fiery courtroom showdown. former president donald trump is fighting his gag order in the federal 2020 election subversion case, with a special counsel says trump is trying to influence and intimidate...

targeting a safe house and training facilities used by iranian affiliated groups. thats according to the pentagon. weve got the latest on the significant escalation in the middle east amid rising tensions. plus, on defense, donald trump jr. back on the stand, the first witness for the defense in the new york civil fraud trial calling his dad today a visionary. what impact will his testimony have. and could the qanon shamon go back to washington, after serving 27 months behind bars, h...

Territory from isis fighters. thats just in iraq and syria. the big difference weve seen with the trump administration is the expansion of the war. we had deaths in nugir and yemen. they were fighting isis-affiliated groups. whats unclear is whether they were getting command and control from isis headquarters, especially since most of the leadership of isis has been decimated. thats the overall overview. i think the big bit of news we had from secretary mattis is he said more americans will be g...

Begraded by casual cruelty. at times it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

South africa, we have a scene over the years since 9/11, the spread of al qaeda affiliated groups. now it seems like isis affiliated groups, actively trying to attack our interests, attack our allies, attack our forces, andbassies so we made the decision years ago now to work with and by local forces on the ground. forces in niger and other parts of west africa to try to help them confront the threat before it gets too big and too big for them to handle, before it starts exporting to europe and ...

Words, words matter. let me play a little bit more on what he said. >> weve seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. at times it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. argument turns too easily into animosity. disagreement escalates into dehumanization. too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions. forgetting the image of god we should see in each other. >> rick, casual cruelty, a...

Something bad happens, they throw that back at us and say, look, we were there constantly. you know, six months ago i was with secretary mattis, we were in jabuti, they have a big task force in somalia, all through africa, in the chad basin they have about 1,000 u.s. troops. a lot of those forces at least in niger are building a drone base. what do you need the drones for? you need for surveillance, you need to follow folks all the way from central africa up to the northern coast where they coul...

Reform, or other issues such as tax reform. but broadly speaking, its not necessarily going to be a big anti-trump speech. its more, heres how he sees things and why you need to get out there and vote. >> and then goes to virginia after new jersey. polls, larry, a little contradictory, you could say. the latest have. up in two, northam and gillespie up in one. whats your sense of whats happening on the ground? >> reporter: i think northam is the front run aernd assuming democrats can get out the...

Commander, general nicholson, has been asking for about that number. what he wants to do with this, twofold. one, beef up the counterterrorism mitchell. more fighters on the ground to go after the isis network and other al qaeda affiliated groups actually using afghanistan, continue to use afghanistan, as a safer haven and use some for the advise and train beefing up afghan security forces fighting bravely in the field but in sore need of additional help. sort of a third component, too. enabling...

Little bit more about the identities of the victims. you now have confirmation that one american citizen was among those killed. a short while ago, a couple hours ago, to be precise, we got confirmation from officials here in belgium that a civil employee, a civil worker, if you will, of a regional parliament tier in belgium was also among those killed. he was also in mali for a training program to help train malis parliament, and as a result of his trip there, he was at that hotel when the atta...