Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com for information on how to help the humanitarian efforts in israel and gaza, cnn has gathered a list to benefits responding to the crisis. Go to cnn. Com impact. Yocan text relief to 707070. Cnns coverage with Kaitlan Collins continues. Tonight, straight from the source, President Biden says u. S. Intelligence agencies are backing up israels claim that it wasnt behind a deadly blast in gaza. Hes set to deliver an oval office primetime address on the war tomorrow. Also, in addition to that, still there is widespread Rage Exploding in the middle east, despite that newnf. Concerns about what that could look like, the farreaching consequences of that are definitely being felt inside the u. S. Government tonight. Also, as money for israel depends on a functioning u. S. Democracy, congress has failed to elect a new house speaker. But the twice rejected candidate, the republican, still showing no signs of dropping out. Im Kaitlan Collins, and this is the source. Good evening. Im Kaitlan Collins live in tel aviv tonight. President biden is due back in washington at any moment, after he visited here earlier today. We have learned that he will be addressing the nation from the oval office tomorrow night in prime time. He plans to talk about americas response to the attacks that hamas waged against israel and the ongoing war in ukraine. The president spent a whirlwind seven and a half hours here on the ground. It was a historic visit to israel during wartime, making him the first u. S. President to visit israel while it was at war. He met with israeli leaders and also promised a new round a new humanitarian aid to the people in gaza, who of course as we have been reporting, so desperately need it tonight. Complicating bidens visit was the blast that killed hundreds at a hospital in gaza right before he arrived here. On the ground in israel, biden firmly backed up israels assertions it had nothing to do with that blast. With the president saying it was data from the pentagon that reinforced his assertion on that. Still, there was outrage over the blast that erupted before that assertion from the former president from the current president , i should note across the arab world. This is what President Biden said to those protesters in the streets today. I can understand why, in this circumstance, they wouldnt. I can understand that. But i would not you notice i dont say things like that unless i have faith in the source in which ive gotten it. I dont know all the detail, but i do know the people at the defense department, who i respect, the Intelligence Community, who i respect, its highly probable that israel didnt do it. It was a rare moment where President Biden came to the back of Air Force One to speak with reporters, as he made his way back to washington. This came as we were speaking there is new footage tonight that cnn has determined this video shot by al jazeera comes from west of the hospital where the blast happened in gaza. The video appears to show a rocket misfiring. The idf argues this footage shows it was not responsible for that explosion. An assessment that was explicitly backed up by the white house not just in what President Biden said today, but also multiple statements from his National Security council tonight. The sad redwral on the ground is that a hospital in gaza is not a safe place for civilians. Reporter homes were threatened to be bombed or those who feared the bombing came together with their children, food, drinks, and took refuge in this place. I should note, cnn has geolocated videos and stills, pictures from the scene, meaning that cnn has determined the rocket was fired from an area that is south of gaza city. When you watch this video, you can see that the rocket is seen continuing to rise, but then later making a sharp turn back toward the direction from which it was fired. That is what expert plus say is consistent with a malfunctioning rocket. The idf and the u. S. National Security Council both say that they believe this disaster was caused by a misfire, like the one you see in this newly confirmed video. I should note, cnn is continuing to conduct its own investigation into the blast at the hospital. Cnn has not made any final conclusions about that. But both the u. S. And israeli governments are pointing to new audio tonight, which the israelis say features two hamas operatives talking about what went wrong. [ speaking in a nonenglish language ] for more, im joined by the Deputy Director of u. S. Intelligence, beth saner. Beth, im so glad youre here tonight. Multiple statements are pretty explicit tonight. Can you walk us through how the Intelligence Community approaches Something Like this, how they make this conclusion . Thanks, kaitlan. E its good to be with you tonight. The u. S. Intelligence community, along with military intelligence organizations, are going to do what is called all source analysis. That simply means that theyll take information from all different kinds of sources and combine them together to corroborate what is going on. So, its, kind of, rare that we would have just one source say, you know, this is whats going on. Were just looking at overhead. This situation actually has, it seems to have quite a few different kinds of intelligence to look at. Overhead, open source, which includes the film that you just showed, cig ent, which is the intercept of that phone call. And, you know, i also want to stress that the it does seem, in these comments, that the u. S. Intelligence has its own independent sources that its looking at and not relying on just the israeli sources. So, you know, when they use the word highly likely, then that is about as strong as most analysts are willing to ever say about anything. So, if thats as strong as analysts are ever willing to say as far as theyre comfortable going, is there a point where the u. S. Feels comfortable saying, it is a specific group that is responsible for it. They havent said whether its hamas. They just said the president s phrase was Palestinian Terrorist group. Is there any phrase they are comfortable going as far as to assign blame . So, i think that probably most of the u. S. Intelligence is going to be based on that overhead and looking at the physical blast areas, the size, and the corroboration with the open source. And im guessing that the only thing that leaves the path to pinch, the Palestinian Islamic jihad, which is a smaller terrorist group, that is probably only in that intercept. So, maybe the reluctance is that theres only that one source of the intercept that suggests that its coming from pinch. But they cant actually prove that is who it is. I mean, the unfortunate part of this is that in the time that the u. S. Is analyzing this, before you saw President Biden come out and pretty forcefully back israel up on this, we saw a ton of protests. I mean, there was serious outrage here in the middle east. Part of President Bidens meetings today in jordan were cancelled because of that. Is there any points, i mean, where even though the evidence is there, weve seen the video, weve seen what these two governments are saying, how quickly this conflict is moving, it doesnt seem like that is something that can, kind of, dampen that outrage that were seeing. This is a great lesson for us as americans, just to think about this kind of misinformation and disinformation and how quickly it can take hold as being fact. I think weve seen that in our own situation, and were going to see more of it in this case. That misinformation is pushing on an open door because decades and decades of views of the arab street of the Palestinian Conflict and the palestinian question is just so different than the israeli perspective. And theyre always going to blame israel. And fortunately, we have governments in the region come in very quickly and blame israel for it without waiting for information. Part of that is because these governments are afraid of these people. Theyre afraid of the protests that are going on. So, they dont want to stand up to the protesters and say, no, youre wrong. So, we cant expect that. Beth zaner, a lot of questions for this region. Thank you for joining with your expertise tonight. I want to go live now to matthew chance, who is live in northern israel. Matthew, you have been reporting on this. We talked about all the demonstrations that we are seeing erupt in the middle east. What is the latest that weve seen tonight now that youve seen the u. S. President come out and make these statements . Reporter well, i mean the region is still very much on a knife edge. Particularly here in northern israel. Were right up against the border with lebanon and syria as well. And even on, you know, calm days, theres a certain amount of tension across that border. And these arent calm days, of course. Youve seen the protests in the region. Israel has massed its forces up here near gaza and is threatening a Land Invasion of the gaza strip. And over the course of the past 24 hours, for instance, weve been seeing multiple exchanges of Artillery Fire and rocket fire here between lebanon, hezbollah positions in lebanon, and northern israel. It hasnt reached the point of escalation yet. That is the phrase that israeli officials are using when it comes to describing tlhe level f violence up here. If it does reach that point or breach that point, there are large forces from israel already here. And israel is enraged, of course, about what happened last week. Theyre not in the mood to compromise. The possibility of this conflict spreading out into this region i think is very high indeed. And, you know, diplomatic efforts have been underway to mitigate against that, but still a very high risk. Yeah. And speak ing of intelligence, you were doing reporting on how hamas was planning their attack and what they were using. They had an intricate level of knowledge about where certain israeli positions were. What have the israelis learned from that . How could they use that for their Ground Operation that we presume is going to happen in gaza . Its astounding, the level of intelligence, the level of detail, that hamas fighters, hamas militants had, when it comes to attacking and targeting those communities in southern israel. We spent the best part of the past week speaking to various sources in israeli government, First Responders here, israelis who witnessed the attacks firsthand to really build up i think what was a very disturbing picture of just how much intelligence hamas had at its disposal. I mean, first of all, on the amount of security that israel has in place in southern israel, the number of Security Forces protecting various israeli communities, what various buildings could be used for, location of strategic assets were located. And also some of that intelligence about what hamas intent was, the taking of hostages, the killing of hostages, things like that. So, it really does paint a very bleak picture, indeed, of just how prepared the Palestinian Military Group was to carry out these attacks. And i think thats a factor that the israelis will have to bear in mind if they are going to, it seems likely, stage a Land Operation to rout out hamas in the gaza strip. You can bet hamas are going to be waiting for the israelis in the very narrow, winding streets of gaza. And israelis government has been warning today that could be a very long operation. M matthew chance, thank you. More on President Bidens historic trip to israel. Were going to speak to someone who can talk about this, who can talk about what happened in that meeting with netanyahu t today, and not just netanyahu, but also e newly formed war cabinet. Thats next. President biden is set to deliver a primetime address about israel and the war in ukraine tomorrow night. Were learning new details about his meetings that happened here in tel aviv today, including with the israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Joining me now is barack rah veed, who covers for axios and one of the best source reporters in this region. You saw President Biden come back, something he doesnt often do, and he told reporters that he was blunt with netanyahu in their conversations today, the ones that did not happen in front of the cameras. What have you learned from your sources about what those blunt conversations were . Good evening, kaitlan. First, i have to tell you im a bit jealous that youre in tel aviv, my home city. I havent been there for a long time. To your question, you know, President Biden, in the meeting with netanyahu and in the meeting with the israeli war cabinet, he tried to explain to them i think, again, as he said, very bluntly, very directly. He told them, listen, the u. S. Supports you. You have a lot of other allies supporting you, the uk, the eu, canada, australia, a lot of countries. But if you want to maintain that support, you cannot create a humanitarian crisis in gaza. So, even though i understand that youre a victim of a terrible attack, its in your own interest to allow this humanitarian aid from egypt into gaza. And i think President Biden also said it, he didnt get any pushback. The israelis basically said, yes, we agree. Yeah, he said he basically got in pushback. He even referenced 9 11 at one point. It seemed to be this gentle warning, where he was saying, essentially, look, we were so filled with rage in the United States following 9 11, and we made mistakes vuas a result of that, kind of, issuing this warning. The other thing, we heard today from israeli officials warning about how long they believe that Ground Operation is going to take. What have you heard from your sources about that . Yeah, in the meeting with the israeli war cabinet, its not only netanyahu who told biden that this thing is going to take time. Also Minister Of Defense galant told them its going to take time. And were going to need the same u. S. Support were getting now. Were going to need it for a long, long time. And even benny gantz, the new member of the former Minister Of Defense, told biden that the whole restructuring of gaza after hamas is toppled lets see if it really happens. If it happens, the whole process could take years, gantz told biden. And biden, one of the questions he asked the Israeli Security cabinet, whats your plan . Whats the strategy . Do you have a plan for the day after . Lets say you do topple hamas, what do you do the day after . Unfortunately, the answer he got is at the moment, theres no plan. Yeah. I mean, that is a big question here. What is the objective. What does that look like . And whos in charge . Barack, i was wondering when i got the airport this morning why theres this huge photo of you on a billboard. Now i know why. Youre the hometown king. Thank you, kaitlan. Thanks, barack. Great reporting. Well have you back soon. Of course today was not just the day the president was talking about what is going to come next tactically speaking with israeli leaders. It was also a very somber day. There were moments at the end of President Bidens day today, one of the lengthiest meetings, as he was meeting with people whose lives had been changed forever essentially by that massacre, by what happened. Im talking about the families of victims, of the survivors of that day, and also the First Responders who were there on the ground. One of the volunteers that biden met with was ellie bier. He is the founder and president of United Hatzalah, the largest Emergency Medical Service in israel. Ellie joins me now. Ellie, im so glad youre here today. You can take a step closer since were in front of the camera. When i saw you in the room today, you were in the room with President Biden, our viewers know you. What did it mean to you to have the u. S. President here speaking with you . Well, i felt like any other israeli in the country. We had the worst two weeks of our lifetimes. Ive been living here my whole life more or less, seeing the worst disaster as a first responder, as a medic in United Hatzalah, which is an all volunteer organization. If you put all 35 years, its nothing compared to what we saw in one day. And all of a sudden, the most powerful person in the world, the president of the United States, comes into israel just to show his love and support. I felt i couldnt feel better. Unfortunately, the stuff that i saw and Everything We Saw was so bad we will never forget it. But he uplifted literally he uplifted the spirits in this country. Yeah. And it meant a lot to me and to all the First Responders and of course to the country. Yeah, weve seen hes been very forceful in his support of israel ever since the day that that attack happened. When you and i spoke the other day, we talked about what that day was like not just for you but for the other volunteers and what they saw. What did you tell Priesident Biden . What do you want him to know today . We as United Hatzalah, were not only jewish. We have in israel 7,000 volunteers. Almost 800 of them are arab volunteers. And we have volunteers saving lives who are jewish and arab volunteers, muslims and christians. And unfortunately