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♪ ♪ ♪ israel says its found, quote, concrete evidence of hamas terror headquarters inside gazas largest hospital and hamas just acknowledged that hospital, al shifa, is now under the control of israeli forces. a heightened threat of a terror attack on americans. that new warning being delivered by the fbi director at this very moment. plus a high stakes sitdown nearly one year in the making is about to begin. president biden, chinas president xi meet face to face. im sara sid...

that warning to congress. it hasnt happened in a year, but its happening today just a few hours from now, president biden will be speaking face to face with chinas president xi. what might come from todays critical summit? well have it. im sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. "cnn news central" starts now. ♪ ♪ a senior israeli official says details are coming including footage later today of whats described as concrete evidence of a hamas terror headquarters in al shi...

Him from doing it and deter the action. i think imposing sanctions might provoke him to go forward. >> i want to get your take on something that i personally consider to be somewhat disturbing. its being reported that fox news and tucker carlson are working to secure an interview with vladimir putin. "the daily beast" reports the kremlin representatives actually think this would be a good thing for putin. youve got to be frustrated as a member of congress and -- who has the intelligence and unde...

Connecticut. based on what you heard from the opening, what you read in the opening statement, is there obstruction of justice? >> well, you know, this is ultimately a complicated question thats going to center for all the noise youre going to hear and hear a lot of noise seeing an effort being ramped up right now to damage the credibility of jim comey, this all boils down and im probably not the right person on the panel to make this definitive judgment, this thing boils down to the question of...

Well, we are now just hours from what might be the most highly anticipated senate hearing since clarence thomas aanita hill. we have a preview of what he will say, the opening statement outlining the discomfort with the conversations with the president, the need to break precedent he says and document them and the presidents efforts to get him to drop the investigation of fired national security adviser michael flynn. along with the senate, the house intelligence committee is investigating. join...

Now no pushback from the afghan government. >> what about this news, barbara, that the defense secretary is going to be visiting the middle east here soon? >> defense secretary mattis, the pentagon announced a short time ago is on his way to the region. let me just tick off some of the countries hes going to. saudi arabia, egypt, isreal, cutter and jabudi where there is a u.s. base where there is a good keel of counter terrorism effort being launched out of that base in north africa. saudi arabi...

A congressional investigation into whether russia tried to influence the election. this as donald trump insists there is nothingo see. also on the agenda, the clinton team weighing in and the campaign chief announces he is supporting a very long shot effort being led by clinton supporters in the electoral college to receive an intelligence briefing before they formally vote for president. rounding out the agenda -- >> rex tiller is a trumpian-inspired pick and he has a career outside of politics...

The american people that this is a serious problem, but they care more for their political image than they do -- i thought i would never say this about a president -- than the national security of the united states. >> you think this is going to be like a vietnam. >> i think they are so close. they are driven to do this. they have our weapons. i dont see any effort being orchestrated by allies or whatever to stop this. this blaming maliki, what have they been doing for four years? >> im sorry i ...

Congressional correspondent to explain what the democrats are trying to do. >> as you know, one of the big tools has been this 60-vote threshold that they can force the majority to come up with 60 votes to move legislation and now, the reality is that the democrats see their minority diminished to 53 and its going to make it difficult to hit that 60-vote threshold. what you have is this effort being spearheaded by freshman democrats like senator udall and theyre putting in changes here on this f...