visit finishyourdiploma.org to find free and supportive adult education centers near you. happening now, thousands are gathered on the national mall supporting israel and demanding the release of the hostages that hamas is holding. plus, the health care system in gaza collapsing. the u.n. warns only one hospital in northern gaza remains operational. but israel insists hamas is using civilian infrastructure to hold weapons and hostages. and the house set to vote this afternoon on speaker mike johnson s plan to fund the government with just three days left before a potential shutdown. the far right house freedom caucus already came out against the plan. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. today, tens of thousands of people are marching here in the nation s capital, showing solidarity with israel and demanding the release of hostages that hamas is holding right now. the rally is coming as joe bide
the stand. his testimony a day after paul pelosi shared his chilling first memory after the attack, saying quote, he remembers waking up in a pool of blood. plus right now, powerful images are coming out of d.c. tens of thousands of people standing together. a forceful show of support for israel. loved ones of hostages demanding their release today while the idf shares heartbreaking news that a 19-year-old that was being held captive is now dead. what we know about her, the revelation that one israeli peace activist thought to be held hostage in gaza was actually killed on october 7th. and a lot of new developments there. our nbc news reporters are following all of those developments but we begin on capitol hill where we just heard from that senator who stood up seemingly ready to fight a witness before the committee. ali vitali is reporting for us. what did he say, ali? basically, no regrets, chris. he defended his actions that happened during the committee hearing. look
abby phillip starts right now to president s two speeches to alternate realities. that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby philip in new york tonight to stories with very different tones from the men who were vying for the same job. first, the sobering president s biden s of appeal to end the violence in gaza hamas is hobbled biden says, and the time to end this war is now. biden announcing a path forward for tomorrow. and the day after, in hopes of a lasting peace. now, to the response from donald trump to his conviction on 34 counts in his home state of new york trump pulled out some of his best words, rigged, scammed, et cetera to describe how the hush money case mostly papering over the fact that this jury of his own peers found him guilty of breaking the law that trump s words today also clash with the trump in all of our memories once upon a time, he claimed that hillary clinton couldn t run, shouldn t run for president because of the specter of a trial that
is bigger than my presidency. i find it absolutely insane. any person running for office that we would go after them in order to silence them? that s a scary place to be. this is all done by biden and his people. may be his people more portly i don t know if biden knows too much about it. i think it s a complete failure of our justice system. it s a complete joe biden kamala harris hit job. it will catch up to him. i think it s the right verdict. etiquette shows our system of justice works if you are rich or poor. i m shocked he keeps going. i m willing to do whatever i have to do to save our country and to save our constitution. sandra: that was moments ago live in new york city and now a lab look at the white house screen left where we are about to hear from president biden. a big question is whether or not he will comment on former president trump s historic guilty verdict. the president we are told will be making those remarks shortly. they are expected to be
thank you john and sandra, good afternoon, and for martha maccallum, this is the story . we are live out of the trump trial in downtown manhattan where the jury is still awaiting right now behind closed doors, the former president charged with falsifying business records to cover up a payment to born stars stormy daniels before the 2016 election he s facing up to five years in prison on each count and he says you did nothing illegal. mr. trump: mother teresa could not meet those charges, this whole thing is rigged. where the judges so conflicted he cannot breathe, he has to do his job. it s a disgrace and i mean that. mother teresa cannot be those charges but we will see. the five cohosted judges with me here at the courthouse, what has struck you, in the final argument, the jury instructions now we wait. judge jeanine: so much that strikes me, on the one hand up and saying continuously that michael cohen it is the linchpin of this case, the judge gave an instruction