is not politically motivated at all, though republicans say just the opposite, 20 days from election day. he is playing politics with the national security asset that we have that s developed for a time of war that we need the energy. let s bring in katie pavlich and mark penn, former clinton adviser. and chairman of the harris poll. both are fox news contributors. welcome to you both. katie, i m going to start with you. what struck me about the president s gas speech, not the fact that it seemed unrehearsed which was disconcerting, he said we ve been having a rough four or five years. we went back and looked. when he was inaugurated on inauguration day, gas was 2.31 a gallon. significantly higher now. not a rough four or five years, a very rough 21 months. the continued depletion of the strategic petroleum reserve by this president is outrageous and it is a scandal. it is a supply that is supposed to be reserved for the united states, not for ukraine, but for the unite
kremlin and russia, but they were told no. this comes as a federal judge in the case throughout an important charge against a man actually on trial. russian national will now face on the four council of lying to the fbi after the federal judge in the case remove the first count over a technicality. demanding that the governments as the primary sub sewers for x a british spy christopher steele, who compiled a dossier aimed at destroying then candidate donald trump. john durham allege it that he lied to an fbi agent when he said that he had not talk to a democratic political operative named charles dolan about the steele dossier. he gave him information that ended up in the dossier, but that s two community via email. they did not talk. a witness in the case of connections to russia. according to two fbi agents on the stand, dmitri pascal. the employees claimed that the mueller team squash their efforts to investigate or even interview him. on paper, this case is about him, b
Moment, jim jordan has indicated if he gets the votes to become nominated as speaker, he wants to ensure this wont go ballot after ballot after ballot that he can get 217 votes on the floor. Simply to get nominated by the conference, you need a majority of the 221 members. Jordan does not want to go to a situation like we saw with Speaker Mccarthy in january, 15 ballots, that messy process. Which why is theyre trying to sort this out Behind Closed Doors. The question is, can either jordan or scalise get there . The expectation is that they can. Well see if they ultimately can. Manu, thanks so much. Coverage continues with wolf blitzer and the situation. Happening now, Breaking News. Gaza under fire as israel unleashes new air strikes and says hamas Terror Attacks have killed at least 1,000 people in israel. The war taking a rising toll on both sides with at least 900 now reported dead in gaza. Hamas launching a new barrage of rockets toward israel as gruesome details emerge about the t
The Supreme Court hears arguments in his Immunity Claim also tonight, live reports from the University Campuses at the end of a day that saw propalestinian demonstrations spread and grow plus arizona, were say lawmakers are trying again to undo their recently revivim nir total abortion ban dating back to the civil war. Good evening. Tomorrow morning. The former president is back in court here in new york for the first full de, a Prosecution Testimony in the Hush Money Criminal Trial on time. Trump friend and former tabloid publisher, david pecker will be back on the stand, expected to continue laying out the socalled catch and kill scheme at this center of this case. Meantime, the judge, juan merchan could rule on the prosecutions motion and to hold trump in contempt for his attacks on witnesses, notably Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, who made the payments to Stormy Daniels, which has boss allegedly hd through misleading Business Records the defendants meant some of his da
suing after a report highlighting anti-semitic content on the site sparked a devastating advertiser exodus. now, unfortunately, a severe storm system could come at the worst possible time. what you need to know. coming up, i m kate baldwin with omar jimenez. this is cnn news central. it is very close. that s the word from a u.s. official to cnn, and the word also now from two israeli sources, a hostage deal could be announced as soon as today. there seems to be a lot of moving parts and a lot of things happening at one. listen to the latest and urgent painstaking work to get the hostages released. innocent victims were kidnapped on october 7th. here s what john kirby said. obviously we are laser focused on the american citizens we know are being held hostage. everybody should be out now, but here we are in negotiation, and we re getting closer to the end, we believe, of that negotiation, so again, i m going to be careful. the israeli prime minister s office just annou