pbs, rick stengel, an msnbc political analyst and gordon chang, newsweek columnist. yammish, what do we know about this call between president biden and president xi jinping? we know the president for a long time has called china the u.s. s main competitor and said there is this really tug of war between democracy and autocracy this is really a high-stakes call and also a call president biden is welcoming because he has said diplomacy is the thing america should be known for. he s said over and over again that america is back. there s a lot going on there. we should also note that hanging over this call is the potential trip between house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. there s a lot of criticism coming from china, based on reporting, that says she should not take this trip and it could set off a sort of crisis. others are saying, if she cancels that trip, the u.s. would look week, including to nations like japan. there s a lot going on the domestic front and the nationa
in this segment. so before we go to break, we ll be getting into one of those. first i want to give you the latest with the middle east. the israeli cabinet is meeting on the very big question of whether or how to extend a pause in the fighting in the ongoing conflict with hamas, and they re racing against a deadline, because that pause s according to the deal that was struck, basically over, terminated if no new deal is reached tonight. officials from the u.s., israel, qatar, egypt, they ve all been in talks today. there s a lot of forces that want to make this step possible, especially considering with any deal you say, will it work? will both sides participate? innocent people have been freed according to many of the people in the region, so when you look at the scenes of some of these people being reunited, you can see why many people want this to continue. the last two hours hamas released 14 hours, including an american. that is if you re counting many of them younger
honoring the heroes of the past. but they call to arms for the future president biden talks about the sacrifices at normandy and parallels to ukraine s fight against russia, as he promises president zelenskyy, we re not going to walk away from you and defying the united states a new cia assessment suggests is israeli prime minister for benjamin netanyahu may ignore pressure from washington to set a post-war plan for gaza, even as his own grip on power may be in jeopardy. plus liquidating an empire built on lies, right? bring conspiracy theorist alex jones may be forced to sell info wars in order to pay off that one-and-a-half billion plus dollars he owes to sandy hook families we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here cnn news central we begin this hour with a high-stakes speech from president biden in france as he makes the case for freedom and the future of democracy, making that case at pointe-du-hoc in normandy were 225 us a
cia assessment reviewed by cnn finds that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is likely to defy u.s. press pressure for a post-war plan in gaza. the june 3 report gives clues into the israeli leader s mindset, concluding that netanyahu believes he can maintain support from both his top security officials and far-right members of the government by discussing the future of gaza in quote vague terms meantime, israel s military has struck another un school overnight this time in northern gaza officials there say the school was sheltering displaced palestinians and three people were killed. the israeli military says it used precise munitions to target a storage container. inside the school. they claim was being used by hamas. israel says it was also targeting hamas when it launched this airstrike on a un school in central gaza. just one day earlier, an attack that killed at least 40 people. new cnn analysis of that strike
i talked to jason from the washington post last hour, he said to him it s an indication that maybe things weren t going so well. that s your take? that was on the table weeks ago to facilitate the week. are we listening sorry. sorry about that, rick. that s to you. yeah. no, i agree with yamiche that the pressure in the press and among the families, i think, has caused the state department to react. i mean, you know, they read the newspapers, too. but that kind of press pressure and family pressure is a double-edged sword because it does get you to the front of the line but it also makes negotiations more difficult. it has given russia more leverage. even the russians said these things normally take place behind the scenes. they even prefer to do it behind the scenes. once it becomes public and on the lead of every television show, the pressure goes up and