every turn this party it can t be like a john of adrenaline right to the heart you re in the cnn newsroom. i m jessica gene in washington and we begin with breaking news in the middle east. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reject ding, a new ultimatum this time, from within his own war cabinet. cabinet member and former israeli defense minister benny gantz is calling on netanyahu to agree on a war plan by june 8th. that s about three weeks from now. or he says he ll withdraw from the government also breaking today, the israeli military saying it s recovered the body of another hostage inside gaza. officials saying ron benjamin was killed during the october 7 attacks has body taken into gaza by hamas on friday, the idf discovered the bodies of three additional hostages all of this unfolding as new humanitarian in aid arrives in gaza through a floating pier set up by the us military this week, officials say the goal here is to bring in 500 tons of aid daily, joining us
difficult mission that the president was embarking on became even more complicated just yesterday afternoon amid the blast at that hospital in gaza. the second portion of the president s trip ultimately was canceled. he was set to travel to jordan to talk about establishing humanitarian aid, establishing a corridor to get aid into gaza. but that trip was up ended in the aftermath of the blast. white house officials have down played the expectations of concrete deliverables. of course the president is hoping to press both benjamin netanyahu as well as others on trying to alleviate some of the humanitarian concerns. but it is unclear what specific announcements the president might leave israel with. but part of his agenda while he is on the ground there today is to try to ascertain what exactly the israelis need as they continue to try to root out hamas. the u.s. of course has said israel has the right to defend itself, but we have also seen the white house in recent days reall
inspection colleague, three three leaf filter today, more physically filtered.com adrenaline just like every tur n urine the cnn newsroom, i m wolf blitzer in washington, and we begin with a major development are 2024 presidential race here in the united states. president joe biden and donald trump have just accepted cnn s invitation to host, to hold a debate on june 20. that s just in a few weeks that s months earlier than traditional face-offs take place between, between two presidential candidates the announcement comes after a heated back-and-forth earlier this morning between the two, the president challenge trump to two debates and then trolled him over his hush money trial. listen to this shop laws, two debates to me in 2020, it sends said he hadn t shown up for debate. now he s acting like he wants to debate me again or make my day pal, i ll even do a twice so let s pick the dates down. i hear you re free on wednesdays former president responded quickly calling on bid
off. no fuel means no electricity and no pumps to distribute water. israel estimates 500,000 people have fled northern gaza for the south. israeli officials say that s where they re working with the united nations to establish a humanitarian zone to provide those vitally needed supplies. with israerly preparing for a ground invasion of gaza, president biden said in a 60 minutes interview aired sunday it would be a big mistake for israel to occupy gaza as part of its plan to eliminate hamas. what happened with gaza in my few is hamas and extreme elements of hamas don t represent all of the palestinian people. and i think that it would be a mistake to, for israel to occupy gaza again. by the numbers, the state department says 30 americans have died in the hamas attack. 13 still unaccounted for. the israeli military says hamas is holding a total of 155 hostages in gaza. cnn s clare sebastian is live in london. clare, good morning to you. the worsening humanitarian situatio
again this can t be allowed to be repeated. with regard to the second we have been very focused, we had been since day one and we want to make sure no other country or entity is being taken advantage of in this situation. the president is very clear about that. he said very strongly that any state not considering that should not. do not do it. and has back that up in a number of ways including as mentioned the other day, deploying our largest aircraft batter group to battle group.so that is clearlyr anyone contemplating to get engaged to make sure they don t do it. beyond that, big parts of my own conversations throughout this trip including today is working with other countries and making sure that they are using their own context and their own influence to make that case that no one else should be taking this moment to create more trouble. especially in some other place. i should mention as well that earlier today i had a very good conversation with the president of autho