Nice footwork. Man, youre lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. Now you can stream all your games like its nothing. Yes [ cheers ] yeah woho running up and down that field looks tough. Its a pitch. Get way more into what youre into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. Gaza hasnt let up and israels leader are hinting at whats next. Im Brianna Keilar here in washington with Boris Sanchez and israels defense saying they will soon see gaza from the inside. Saying the command will come. Bracing for that next phase and still waiting for deliveries of food, water and medicine. Right now the u. N. Secretarygeneral is in egypt witnessing preparations for those shipments. Now, an egyptian official tells Cnn Aid Trucks will start going through the Rafah Border Gates starting tomorrow. Kaitlan . Reporter tonight President Biden is set to make the case for a different kind of aid. This is a massive military aid package. For not only israel but also ukraine. The war happening there. A rare primetime Oval Office Address throughly only the second one President Biden has done since taking office. Closely watched here in israel and in ukraine. Really all over the world. Get to coverage, though. Covers whats happening here or not ground on the border need gaza. Nic robertson is with us and Jeremy Diamond as well. N nic, showing viewers what happened while you were on the ground there in the last few hours. Reporter lots of the clouds. Yeah. Wow. Do you see the intercepts here . Look up here. Down there. Yeah. Reporter do you see that over there . Oh. Reporter fighter jet. Oh, wow. Look here. Incoming, incoming [ explosion ] reporter obviously, nic, this as everyones bracing for what they believe will be this Israeli Ground operation. Can you walk us through what are witnessed . Reporter yeah. This was outgoing fire coming from gaza. Rockets. The intercepts we saw were rockets headed north in the country and then the rockets coming over here. First of all, the rocket sounded so strong sounded like a fighter jet. It wasnt. Then we heard the, heard the incoming Missile Warning which gives you a brief time to respond and take cover. So, then it was all over quickly. For the people who live in this town and most people have left, but still a couple thousand here. This is what life is like. Theyre used to living with the sound of the sirens and just taking cover immediately. Partly because it seems intercepts over this town, at least, diminished to a degree over the past few days. But to what is expected in gaza, the Defense Minister there telling the troops that their boots will soon be inside of gaza. I spoke with the Economy Minister earlier on today, on this very subject, asking him about when the decision is going to be taken. He said, look, the political decision to go into gaza has already been taken. He said a green light, his words ashes green light given to the military. Its up to the military he said, now, about when they go into, when they go into gaza. And he did give us some ideas as well. Some outlines what a postincursion into gaza may look like. A much bigger level of border security, and when no one can go into, or all around the 67 kilometers, 50 miles or so at the gaza border and as well final situation, he said, where like the west bank which is completely different from gaza, where like the west bank, israely Defense Forces would be able to go in at a time of their choosen to arrest people who they want to arrest. To achieve that, that israel has to achieve its goal of completely crushes hamas and the only way that can be done realistically is a lot of troops on the ground for an extended period and thats what politicians today have been talking about. Expect a long war, and i think thats where we stand at the moment, and an incursion perhaps soon and a long time after that before all this wraps up. Reporter yeah. I think thats important. We keep talking about when this could happen, but what is the clearest message from officials here especially in israel. That it is going to be quite a lengthy incursion once they do go in. Nic, stay with us. Jeremy, you are in ashkelon, a city fired upon time and time again. So much action there. What have you been seeing tonight. Reporter thats right. Even today three different barrages of rockets towards the city with sirens going off. This is the most fired upon city in all of israel. About 25 of all the rockets have been targeted at this very city, and so we spent the day kind of trying to get a sense how the people who are living here still about 75, 70 of the population is still believed to be living here, yet 90 of businesses are closed. What is open, though, are super markets, for example. Where we were today when one of those sirens went off. You saw different reactions from folks. Some of them really still fearful trying to catch their breath as he rushed inside to try to get cover. You only have a few seconds before those rockets head this way. Others carrying on with their shopping. Even as those sirens wailed in the skies above. And what we also witnessed today was the Command Center of here in ashkelon. He worked it down to a science to try to get the response as quickly as possible. Two massive screens in there and what theyre actually able to do get a sense where the rockets are going to land if, indeed, they get through the iron Missile Defense system before they actually make impact to rush Emergency Services to those locations quickly as is possible. Beyond that we got a sense of today, a sense of waiting. A sense of anticipation for the next phase of this military campaign, as israelis here are certainly expecting that a Ground Invasion is imminent and certainly as those comments that nic just talked about, we are hearing israeli officials increasingly using bellicose rhetoric and increasingly using very Crystal Clear rhetoric about exactly what is going to happen next and that it will involve Israeli Forces going into gaza. Yeah. Framing you hear from so many of them, they feel they have no other option. Jeremy diamond, well check back in. Breaking news on the u. S. Assets in the region. A lot of u. S. Fire power moved since october 7th, since that deadly day and now u. S. Officials say that a Navy Destroyer near yemen intercepted multiple missiles today. Our cnn and chief National Security analyst jim sciutto has reporting and our colleague jim lieberman. Is it clear what missiles intercepted were aiming at . Aiming at the u. S. Ship or is it clear . Reporter not clear in initial assessments who the absolute target was of this but close enough to u. S. Assets there that they shot those projectiles down, intercepted them successfully. This is our understanding at this point. Two u. S. Officials telling myself and my colleague that the u. S. Navy sdrdestroyer was operating off the coast of yemen intercepting missiles. One fired by houthis there and the issue being where you are, kaitlan, kearnconcerns about escalation and the various parties have proxies. Hamas a proxy for iran as is hezbollah and lebanon to and houthis to a large number as well. Could come from iron irani forc iranibacked forces. And something such as unintended, prap the u. S. Destroyer was not the target, close enough It Intercepts and you imagine the scenario where it does intercept and the u. S. Assets come into danger. That is the witches brew of dangers that are mixing right now in that region, and this is one instance of that. Yeah. I mean, given there is so much u. S. Fire power moved into this area just in the last week alone, i mean, how is that received . Understanding that the warning that is coming not just in statements we see from President Biden but these actual movements were seeing of all of these carriers . We dont know. The Biden Administration was explicit saying, dont do it. Right . That was very clear in his first Public Comments on this, but more u. S. Assets are headed their way. One point of fact. Now you have two u. S. Carrier groups in the eastern mediterranean. Hezbollah and lebanon has many thousands of missiles, far more than hamas and some are capable of striking ships. Theyve successfully hit an israeli ship in years past. So those u. S. Forces, though have tremendous capabilities, Missile Defenses, et cetera, hezbollah has tremendous capabilities as well, and there is danger, and you can be sure that their antenna are up, so to speak about any threats that come the way of the u. S. Forces. Yeah. Seems everyone is interested. Boris and brianna . So President Biden set to give that primetime address about five hours from now. Hes pushing for billions of dollars in aid for israel. Our next guest says the u. S. Should not take its eyes of a Vladimir Putin while all this is happening in the middle east because the russian president is helping hamas hurt the west. The title of josh rogins Opinion Piece this week in the Washington Post and josh is with us now. Josh, important to note here, you write that reports of direct Russian Military support for hamas remain unconfirmed. Explain how putin now is using hamas against the u. S. . Right. At this moment Vladimir Putin is in beijing meeting with his dear friend xi jinping to talk about the New World Order theyre trying to build together and for both of them, their governments, their states pumping up prohamas propaganda. Not just criticizing israel but criticizes the united states. Word its our neglect of the united states, of the reason, that led to these rising tensions and moreover that ukraine itself is a distraction from this region that helped exacerbate the problem. So Vladimir Putins number one goal in the entire world, get the u. S. Government and u. S. Congress to stop ukraine. Saying israel, ukraine, the president will say both need help, cant choose one or the other. Vladimir putin proving hes right saying hes on hamas and irans side. A side hes been on a very long time actually. Y pound out in your column israel has been less explicit in its support of ukraine because it needs russias help with syria. What happens now . How do you see israelal relationship with russia playing out . Destroyed. Vladimir putins first move abandoned a businesslike relationship with netanyahu to side with hamas, and we just saw the irani proxies are shooting missiles at u. S. Forces off of the coast of yemen, Oren Liebermann reported militias aiming at u. S. Bases in iraq. I can tell you now from my reporting, first on cnn, Iraqi Militias Sponsored by iran launched at bases in syria. On the border between iraq and syria, and jordan. So this is an escalation across the board, and the iranians are activating proxies in many, many, many countries. How we will respond will determine whether this balloons across the region and russian and the chinese governments are in the middle of it. Working together diplomatically, propaganda, palestinian groups get all funding from moscow based crypto exchanges. All fighting against israel and us. How do you see ukraine aid being, you know, obviously biden is trying to tying these all together. Not just ukraine aid and aid to israel, but other things as well. Can Congress Pass all this as a joint package, how do you see ukraine relating to the israel aid . Increase or decrease chances it gets passed . A risky gamble, brianna. Youre right. Putting them together he wants to pressure prepublican whose dont like ukraine to swallow because they dont want to vote against israel. Far right republicans and maga saying pass them separately. Pass them separately they would both pass separately but both would have to come to the floor separately. Theres no republican speaker in the house and no assurance that ukraine would ever get a vote in the congress. Thats why the white house is putting them together. It might work. It might just work but going to be a lot of ukraine aid, less israel aid and at least a bunch of republicans have to support it. I dont know if it will work or not. Tying the two points together in the aid President Biden is asking for is also a significant amount of investment in taiwan. Additional aid for taiwan. President xi and putin are watching this. Had a meeting a few days ago discussing a New World Order, so to speak. In your mind how should the vits respond to the irani proxies in the reagion and other powers closely watching how we respond to this . We need to divide a Military Response from a financial response. As per attacks on u. S. Forces the risk of escalation is so great that i would expect the administration to be very careful in retaliation, and to think carefully what the second and thirddegree effects are. Funding, its clear this is the last Emergency Funding Bill well be ate to get through congress, if we can get it through congress before the next election in a year from now. So this is the only chance they have. Theyre going to throw the kitchen singer. Border funding, ukraine funding, israel funding, funding to modernize and replenish u. S. Stockpiles. Talking a lot of money. Could be upwards of 80 billion to 150 billion no small amount of money. But the alternative getting deeper and worst and have u. S. Military and allies unprepared. I believe thats what the president will argue against in his speech tonight. Great to get your perspective on all of these issues. Anytime. Coming up, a former trump attorney flips in the Georgia Election subversion case. Why other defendants may not be nervous about the deal Sidney Powell struck. And Battle Of The Next speaker of the house heating up. A lot of developments over the last few hours. Were get you up to speed when we come back. Back with a S Development out of georgia. Earlier today Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to six counts of election interference day before her trial was set to begin as part of a plea deal former trump attorney powell may have to testify against the former president at future trials. Lets get the details now with cnns Kaitlan Polantz following the details. Reporter boris, this is a significant step forward for State Prosecutors in georgia who brought a Massive Racketeering case against donald trump and 18 others, Sidney Powell is the second person charged in that 19defendant case to plead guilty and is pretty significant person in that admitting to essentially tampering with Voting Equipment or wanting to tamper with Voting Equipment as well as voter data in koefr co Coffey County, georgia. Part of the case prosecutors accused all of these people of the a large conspiracy and accused her specifically being involved in and they are having her plead guilty to six Misdemeanor Charges that comes with a cooperation agreement. Means that Sidney Powell, if the prosecutors want to put her on the stand in front of a jury as they have another defendant on trial potentially even donald trump himself they can call her and she will have to testify about the things that shes admitting to as part of this guilty plea and potentially other things they may ask her about. Step back, boris, big picture is that Sidney Powell is someone who knew about that Coffey County georgia voter data breach, but also she was around donald trump and around people like rudy giuliani, mark meadows in a freewheeling, Chaotic Screaming Match of a meeting in middecember at the white house that at the end of the meeting, as she and others were trying to convince donald trump to keep pushing lies of Election Fraud he is infamous tweet, will be wild on january 6th. What she has to do and provide remains to be seen and interest by federal investigators, well be watching. Thanks for the update. A very contentious heated meeting among House Republicans ended and still no sign what will happen next with jim jordan the bid for speaker. Members pressing him to step aside and let someone else run. Jordan is not backing down, he says. Go to capitol hill for us with the latest. Lauren fox. Reporter brianna, a contentious meeting indeed and behind choice closed doors no resolution how the Republican Caucus will move forward. Now on day 16 without a speaker, and there is no path in sight for jim jordan to clinch the nomination given the fact hes still short 217 votes he would need. He said just a few minutes ago that his plan was to continue trying to have conversations with the holdouts. Here what he said. At this moment im say this. We made the pitch to members on the resolution as way