few hours from now here in new york city. this case strikes at the heart of trump's identity. prosecutors accusing him of kpaj rating billions of dollars and manipulating the value of real estate properties. >> this comes as trump faces 91 felony charges in criminal cases, while also the republican front runner for the white house in 2024. senior legal affairs correspondent, paula reid with us. it's a juxtaposition, to see how well he's doing, and all of the charges against him, and he will take the stand today in just a couple of hours in new york. >> i have covered former president trump's legal problems. coming up on a decade now, and this today, this really is a significant moment. he is being called to be a witness for the prosecution in their case. now, the judge has already found the former president and his codefendants committed fraud, and this is more focused on the penalties and what is at stake here is possible his business's ability to do business in the state of new york. but as you alluded to in the intro, what's also at stake is this persona that he has built as a billionaire business tycoon. it strikes to his very identity, but also, you know, what he has tried to sell to voters. it's such a significant moment today. >> ten years of legal issues. four years in the white house. you've covered him so often and so many different venues, and platforms, what do you expect when he takes the stand today? >> i know not to try to guess. the white house, for example, he would come into a press conference, and sometimes he would behave in one way. other times it would be unexpected. he would lash out. he would ramble. this is supposed to be a tightly controlled environment. this is a witness stand in a court of law. he's trying to convince a judge, there's no jury here, that he did not commit fraud. he should be focused. he should be disciplined. this is personal for hicm. he's watched his children testify. he's gone after prosecutors. if you look at what happened over the past few weeks, i would expect this could be a little rowdy. it's as much a test for trump to stay disciplined as it is for the judge to keep him in line. >> kcan you talk about what's o the line, there are key rulings, different than most people would think a trial would go. what's been decided and what's on the line? >> this is a civil case. the judge found that the former president and codefendants committed persistent and repeated fraud. now the judge is deciding how much they have to pay in penalties and prosecutors want to take away the license, and the ability of the organization to do business in new york. >> even if that happens, that is likely something that will set off years of appeals. there's what goes on in the courtroom and the larger public opinion. the former president has tried to brand himself as a successful businessman, so to have the ability to do business taken away in the state of new york, that would really be a blow to that brand, even though he has tried to spin this as him being a martyr. >> are you our eyes and ears today or will we see this on camera? >> we have a whole team of people inside the court, outside the court. we'll have a whole team. there is a little bit of access. a little glimmer of access in the court. you get a spry, photos i have seen of the former president, lawyers, his sons at the defense table. but there's not a continuous stream. if i may get on my soap box for a moment, it's important to see how this plays out, otherwise the former president walks to the cameras and gives his version. we're going to do the best we can to give upaccurate updates. >> eventually a transcript a little bit later, but in realtime, we'll get updated from our incredible team inside and help people understand exactly what's going on. >> busy day, paula reaid, thank you so much. new video of ground and air operations in gaza. the idf says it has struck 450 hamas targets and captured a hamas compound in the last 24 hours. it comes as israel intensifies offensive targeting of hamas's infrastructure aboveground and underground. moments ago, we heard from the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken after leaving turkey, speaking with his turkish counter part, and the mission to rescue hostages. >> i can say that this is an intense focus for us. and we also believe and we're seeing that other countries can play an important role in helping to get hostages back. >> cnn's jeremy diamond is live in israel. jeremy, the last 24 hours are the latest display of israel's plan to fight hamas's ongoing operation. what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, phil. israeli forces now saying that they have completed their en encirclement of gaza city and have cut off the northern part of gaza strip to the south. that is aboveground, at least. israeli officials acknowledging that hamas still has tunnelling capabilities to get from the northern part of gaza to the southern part, and that still represents a major challenge. overnight, phil, we watched as there were what the idf described as a significant, extensive strikes on gaza. they carried out strikes on over 450 targets in just the last 24 hours. we were at this position last night watching those bright flashes and loud booms as that intense bombardment continued. we have watched in recent weeks as many strikes have resulted in casualties as israel has targeted densely populated neighborhoods in gaza. there are hamas underground facilities below the targetings. we have watched as women and children have been among those killed. telecommunications cut off for gaza much of last night. the telecommunications companies saying that services are beginning to be restored today. >> jeremy, you had extraordinary access inside of gaza. i think people over the last month are wondering why haven't we seen more in gaza. a lot of journalists aren't allowed to get in there. you got in there with the idf. i want to play that for people. >> reporter: we're at a military post inside the gaza strip, one kilometer inside of gaza. gaza city is just this way. as you can hear behind me, there's a lot of ongoing fighting between israeli forces and hamas militants. what they are trying to do right now is flank the hamas positions. that's what battalion commander just told me, and all of this intended to try and cut off gaza city from the southern part of the strip as israeli forces also move in from the north. >> and jeremy, we should note that all footage had to be submitted to the idf before we could bring it to air, but cnn agreed to this so people could get a glimpse of what is happening on the ground there. talk to us more about what you experienced and what you saw. >> reporter: yeah, again, it was a limited vantage on the operations of israeli forces inside of gaza but it was an important one because it is the first time that we have been able to get into gaza since the beginning of this war started and to get a sense of how close israeli forces are to gaza city. the contact lines where we were we're told were about 100 meters to the south, 200 meters to the north. you could hear fighting happening all around us. small arms fire as well as short range missiles being fired by israeli forces nearby. and one of the points that the forces there wanted to emphasize is their work to try and establish this humanitarian corridor for civilians to flee from the north to the south. there ever been a lot of questions about this, in particular, because in the past, when israeli forces have told civilians to flee on certain routes, those routes have also been struck by israeli air strikes, and just moments ago, i asked a spokesperson for the idf about how they are distinguishing between hamas fighters and civilians who may be using those evacuation routes and he made clear that anywhere we see hamas activity, we will strike. that does raise questions about the ability of civilians to safely use some of those routes. one thing that was clear in this is that the commanders on the ground repeatedly stressed to me amid this opportunity i had this weekend, is they have control of certain areas aboveground. that 6 kilometer stretch, south of gaza industry is where they say that they have effectively cut off north from south. they have posts like this one that i visited all along that 6 kilometer stretch b, but they me clear, there are significant underground tunnel facilities that they have yet to discover. there were three underground tunnels that idf forces discovered and destroyed. they know that many more remain. we have already seen in recently days as israeli forces inside of gaza have been ambushed by hamas militants using those tunnels. it was interesting, traveling into the armored personnel carrier, every few minutes, the vehicle would stop, the gunner would look around using visual sites, and also the cameras they have inside this vehicle to make sure there were no hamas fighters emerging from the tunnels to ambush the convoy with the antitank missiles. >> it's extraordinary to see. thank you for all of that reporting. there are bruising new poll numbers that show president biden under water among several key voting blocs, we're going to break down the data. what voters who helped biden defeat trump in 2020, what are they saying now? there's a new poll out from the "new york times" and sienna college. the president is trailing donald trump in the five of the six key battle ground states that helped biden win the election in 2020. voters were blunt about why. one voter in pennsylvania telling the times, quote, at least i think trump has his wits about him. closed quote. another voter in nevada says i don't see anything that biden has done to benefit us. biden is losing support with two key voting demographics, black and hispanic voters. senior data reporter, harry enten here with all of it. you know that movie "everything everywhere all at once," is that the name? >> that's close to the name. >> that's what this poll feels like. >> this is bad news all around for the current president of the united states, and let's break it down by the sun belt and then the great lake battleground states and how big of a change are we talking about here. these are the sun belt battle ground sites, alabama, georgia, nevada, biden won all of these. look at the 2023 polls among likely voters, the numbers somehow showed earlier were among registered voters. donald trump ahead by 5 in arizona, 5 in georgia. 11 in nevada. you know, i went back and looked at the nevada polls from 2020, you know how many of those polls that joe biden trailed to donald trump in? a great big zero, and now we're already just in 2023, and he trails in the one poll that meets cnn standards for publication already. look at the great lake battleground states, all right. again, biden versus trump. 2020 results. biden won all of them. here we have a tie in michigan, we look in pennsylvania, look at that, another state where donald trump is ahead, wisconsin perhaps the best number for joe biden in this particular polling data set. but overall, if donald trump wins the states he's leading in in these polls, he will, in fact, be the president of the united states. >> is there one problem? there's 50 different policies, what's the primary issue for biden. >> i think the primary issue is age. age in two different ways. here's this question, which i think is so important, too old to be an effective president, the vast majority of 70% of likely voters across the six battle ground states say that joe biden is too old. donald trump, only he's only slightly younger than the current president of the united states, 39% say he's too old to be an effective president. this number has been going higher and higher. four years ago, this number was in the 30s. now it's 70%. it's a matter of perception, even though the numbers on age aren't too different, the question for joe biden, how do you solve this particular problem given he's getting older. maybe it's to boost donald trump's numbers, we'll have to wait and see. look at voters, millennials, age 30 to 44, the 2020 recall vote in this poll, joe biden won these voters in 2020 by 14 points. look at the 2023 poll across these six battle ground states, donald trump is up by a point. there's been a lot of leakage among younger voters. moving towards the former president of the united states and away from the current president of the united states. >> there is a new part of this poll that's crucial, just released by the times this morning. what does it tell us about if trump is convicted and sentenced in a federal election subversion case. >> i think, you know, if you're a republican, you look at prior poll numbers, donald trump well ahead, ahead in the republican primary, ahead over joe biden the general election, of course he has all of these trials he's facing. what happens if trump is convicted and sentenced in federal court for the 2020 trial. look at this. joe biden ahead in nevada, georgia, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, so we still have a year to go, a lot can change. >> ahead by 14 in wisconsin, that's interesting. >> ahead by 14 points in wisconsin. we've got a lot of time to go. a lot of variables we have to work with, folks. >> important point. harry enten, appreciate you. thanks, buddy. striking actors may be inching closer to a deal with the big hollywood studios, the latest on the negotiations next. a ukrainian soldier who lost his leg battling with russia ran the new york marathon yesterday. his inspiring story is having ahead. the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? 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[ bleep ] terrorist putin. that's it. that's why we are fighting. that's it. >> that was ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy reaffirming his defiance of vladimir putin. as tensions grow in kyiv over the status of the war. two years in, and the battles are still raging. one ukrainian soldier made the trip to new york city to run in yesterday's marathon. roma roman kashpur is on a mission to inspire others. what did you see? >> roman had never been to the united states in his life. his first visit was providing a lot of inspiration. among the tens of thousands of runners at the state of the new york city marathon is this man in the white shirt, giving a thumbs up. a soldier from ukraine who stepped on a russian land mine that exploded. his name is roman kashpur. welcome to new york city. >> thank you. >> reporter: two nights before the marathon, the organization in charge of the race, the new york road runners, honored distinguished participants. roman kashpur was one of them, carrying a ukrainian flag with the emblem of his regiment. he lost his lower right leg as a result of the explosion, which occurred in 2019 during the continuing battles with russia, which ultimately led to the russian invasion and current war. roman tells me, right away, i touched my leg to see if the artery was damaged. once i made sure everything was okay, i pulled out a tourniquet and tied it up. then my comrades came out to help me. with the serious injury, this husband and father of two young boys, reported for duty after the russian invasion last year, performing surveillance missions. the 26-year-old has taken a break with the encouragement of his military superiors and with his wife awaiting him at the finish line, roman is running new york along with ukrainian-american friends. his goal, to try to break six hours. he had never done distance running before he was wounded. he trained and participated in the london marathon this april, the marine corps marathon last weekend, and now the biggest marathon in the world. >> roman kashpur says he's active duty military but his primary role is to inspire other ukrainian soldiers who have been wounded like him. >> reporter: he declares when you survive what i survived, you have to have a bigger mission. you need to do something with your life. as he runs, he's taking pledges for a ukrainian charity called citizen charity foundation, to raise money for other wounded ukrainian soldiers. rob similcare is the ceo of road runners. >> to have the example of someone like him who has overcome the injuries, inflicted in war is an inspiration. >> reporter: with the ukrainian flag over his head, roman kashpur closes in on the finish line, and breaks six hours, his wife julie at the finish line to greet him. congratulations, roman. >> thank you. thank you so much. >> reporter: can you ask his wife, julia, how she feels about him finishing? >> she's very excited and happy. >> reporter: and very grateful for all of her husband's accomplishments. roman plans to continue running and raising money. there are six major marathons in the world, new york, boston, chicago in the united states, outside the united states, you have berlin, london and tokyo. he's run london. he's run new york, and he plans, phil, in march to try to run tokyo. >> it's impressive to run those able bodied with no issues. that is a remarkable story. remarkable man. >> it's really inspiring. >> gary tuchman, great story. thank you so much. >> leave it to gary to warm our hearts on a monday morning. the film and tv actors strike may be close to being over. more than three months after it began. right now, the sag-aftra negotiating committee says it is reviewing the best and final offer from the major studios. in a statement, the union says we are reviewing it and considering our response within the context of the critical issues addressed in our proposals. so the union's demand for an 11% wage increase in the first year of the proposed contract term has been a big roadblock. the studios had agreed to 5%. we'll keep you posted on where this goes. donald trump spent his weekend on the campaign trail in florida but in a matter of hours, he will be testifying in a new york courtroom. coming up, we're going to ask his former white house communications director, anthony scaramucci, what we can and should expect today. stay with us. former president trump has watched others testify in a civil fraud trial. now it will be his turn. trump will take the stand today in a manhattan courtroom. it is a pivotal day in the new york attorney general's case against him and his business. trump is accused of committing fraud by inflating his assets to get better terms on real estate loans. he's rejected the allegations, insisting he's done nothing wrong and the case is a political witch hunt. there is no jury for trump to play to, just the judge, the judge who has fined trump twice for violating a gag order that prevents him from speaking about the judge's staff. joining us now, former trump white house communications director and the founder of sky bridge capital, anthony scaramucci. the idea that there's been reporting that behind the scenes trump is not worried about testifying. he's excited to some degree, his son has said publicly. do you think he's cognizant of the fact that there are actual risks to some degree? >> i do. i think the president, for all of the bluster and so forth, i think he's going to be very well coached on the stand. i think he understands the stakes of perjury. he doesn't want to trip over a wire into another potential felony charge, and so, he's also a stage performer, phil, so he will be ready for this, and he'll be way for subdued. i don't know if you have caught him at any of these indictments or arraignments. i'm not saying he's nervous in those situations but he's definitely