. these steps will save lives. at the same time, much more needs to be done. protect civilians and to make sure that the humanitarian assistance reaches them. far too many palestinians have been killed. far too many have suffered these past weeks. and we want to do everything possible to prevent harm to them and to maximize the assistance that gets to them. and that secretary of state antony blinken this morning. right now, israeli military is giving civilians in northern gaza a six-hour window to evacuate south. it comes after israeli officials have agreed to daily humanitarian pauses after facing pressure from the white house. this morning, we have been seeing thousands of palestinians, including families with small children, streaming through gaza city as they make their way south. the window to get out is about to close in an hour. the footing has not stopped everywhere. new video shows israeli tanks at a hospital in northern gaza. you hear the sound of explosion, heavy gunfire. hospital's director is pleading for help to evacuate doctors and patients as the fighting intensifies. >> hamas has continued to fire rockets at israeli. our team on the ground witnessed the iron dome system intercept around ten rockets over tel aviv this morning. social media videos are emerging of people injured at a hospital in gaza. at this time, cnn cannot verify if it was airstrikes. a arlette, this comes at the same time we are learning about a stark warning in a diplomatic cable delivered to administration about what contacts are saying in the middle east. what can you tell us? >> this cable speaks to the profound concern among some american diplomats and u.s. officials about the frustration bubbling up in the arab world over the u.s.'s spr to for israel's campaign in gaza. in that cable that was object taund by our colleagues, an official in oweman working for the united states said that the robust u.s. support for israel's actions is seen as, quote, material and more culpability in what they consider to be possible war crimes. this comes as the president has been facing growing pressure since the beginning of this conflict as you have seen these dire images of the situation in gaza and the humanitarian crisis that has been playing out there. of course, there are not just concerns on the world stage, but back at home, just yesterday, president biden was in illinois and there were pro-palestinian protesters outside of his event. one audience member at the president's event related to unions actually interrupted the president calling for a ceasefire in gaza. of course, u.s. officials refrained for calling for a ceasefire, instead pushing for additional pause toss get more aid into gaza. it comes as the president is grappling with this growing concern of not just here at home, in the arab world, about the u.s. support for israel. >> an important meeting that president biden is going to have with chinese president xi jinping next week in san francisco. such a crucial time, given the downward spiral we have seen for u.s./china relations. what couldo you know? >> reporter: yes, the date has been set for president biden and chinese president xi jinping to sit down in the san francisco ab bay area on wednesday next week. this will mark a key test for president biden as he is trying to prevent the relationship from deteriorating any further as we've seen the tensions and strains over the course of the past year. now, this meeting, aides say, isn't expected to bring a total thaw in the relations between the u.s. and china, but aides believe the fact that the two hen are sitting down is a positive step. this will be their second meeting since president biden took office. officials at the white house say the president is ready to press xi on a number of issues, talking to about the need to restore military-to-military communications. he will bring that up with xi. also the conflicts in israel and ukraine as well as some of the issues where the u.s. and china don't see eye to eye. think about human rights and also all of the tensions surrounding taiwan. so this is shaping up to be a major consequential meeting for president biden as he is looking to manage this relationship with another superpower in the world. >> crucial meeting for sure. thank you for reporting from the white house. so we are out just a week away from a potential government shutdown. there is your favorite clock. no clear progress how to report it. a source tells us that republican leadership is aiming to post legislative text tomorrow on the plan to avert a government shutdown. that would set up a potential floor vote on that plan as soon as tuesday. the source warns things are fluid. republicans left washington for a three-day weekend after leadership scrapped a voten a measure that would have funded the treasury and other financial agencies. the republicans were divided. >> this assessment, the house is a mess, nothing surprises me any more. speaker johnson will have to thread a difficult needle while walking a high-wire fence in gale-force winds. other than that, things are great. michael lawler serves on the foreign affairs committee. i joke, and i appreciate the laughter. at some point we have to find humor in all of this. >> it was a silent laugh. >> sorry. lauren fox is reporting there will be bill texts tomorrow. everything is fluid. do you know what's in the -- like what's the plan? >> we have had a number of discussions this week. i don't know yet exactly what the speaker is going to put forth. my advice and, you know, opinion to this is to do a clean cr with aid to israel so we can, you know, move the ball down the field here, make sure that israel has the support that it needs in the media, and that we give ourselves more time to finish the appropriations work. obviously, governing can be messy, and when you're going through an appropriations process that has been broken over 30 years with only u bus and everything skbramd in that it takes time to pass the single subject appropriation spending bills. there is debate even within the republican conference about the measures that are in them. but ultimately we need to get to a point to pass these appropriation bills, force the senate to do the same and conference them. you need more time. obviously, the speaker battle and fiasco that ensued over the last month wasted a lot of time on that 45-day cr. so we need to get back to, you know, the process here. we started passing bills. we did a lot of amendment work. but there is still a lot of work to do. and so from my vantage point, let's pass a clean cp, extend the timeframe a bit, get aid to israel, and focus on the real fight, which is on appropriations, the border, and, obviously, ukraine. >> okay. awed to israel. you said that a couple of times. we know where you stand ton that. you want funding for ukraine. what the republicans have put forward so for tying that 14.3 billion in aid to israel to cuts in the irs, chuck schumer called that a non-starter. >> i think what is fascinating about the battles in washington is this. coming from a state legislature, nowhere else in america can you put forth a bill and not show how you are going to pay for it. and in washington, they just want to spend without any means to pay for it. that doesn't work. this administration increased spending by other $5 trillion in the first two years. we are facing a $34 trillion debt, national debt. republicans got elected to serve as a check and balance and to start to rein in the reckless spending. obviously, i and my colleagues support aid to israel. and i want to see that get done as expeditiously as possible. i also support aid to crane. but you have to pay for these things. >> the hissue is can you pay wih it that something the nonpartisan cbo says -- >> you i don't -- sure, there are lots of ways. and choouchl with all due respect has spent an entire year not really doing very much out of the united states senate. so if chuck schumer has a better way to pay for for aid to israel, aid to ukraine, put it forward. i haven't seen him pass anything. >> are you opposed to anything that's not offset. >> no. my -- >> the reason i ask is because i understand what you're saying about spending. both parties would acknowledge that's the reality over several parties over decades to some degree. but you are talking about fiscal restraint. in this particular context, you would pass it if it wasn't offset? you would support it? >> i would, but, again, the objective here is to start to break the fever in washington on spending. obviously, the appropriations process is the best way to do that. just passing supplementals adds more spending without anyoff set here. he would love to have anoff set. we passed a bill through the house. the senate has not passed anything. and so, you know, the objective is to find compromise and advance the ball forward. in the immediate, we need to pass a cr to keep the government funded and open, and, obviously, i would like to get the aid to israel as quickly as possible. >> on that issue, you recently introduced a bipartisan bill. it has an important distinction in language for the federal government. why is that necessary? >> sorry? >> on antisemitism. >> oh, the antisemitism awareness act? >> yeah. >> the antisemitism warnawarene act requires the department of education to adopt the working definition of antisemitism to allow them to use that for enforcement cases on discrimination. we have seen a rapid rise in antisemitism on these college campuses and we need to crack down on it. this is not a free speech issue. this is hate speech. it is putting people in jeopardy and it's part of the reason why i vote today censure rasheida tlaib. chanting from the river to the sea was not aspirational. it was absolutely vial and intended to undermine israel and, frankly, call for the extermination. and that cannot be tolerated anywhere in this country. >> congressman mike lawler, appreciate your time. >> thank you. senator joe manchin says he will not run for re-election to the senate. why some think the west virginia democrat could be getting ready to launch a presidential bid. and federal law enforcement is on high alert after suspicious letters sent to election offices across the country, some laced with fentanyl. brad raffensperger was told to look out for one of those letters. he will join us next. this is domestic terrorism and it needs to be condemned by anyone that holds elected office and anyone that wants to hold electeted office a anywhere ini americica. federal law enforcement is on high alert this morning as public officials in multiple states, mostly election offices, have reported suspicious mail and some of those letters contained fentanyl. officials say more than a dozen letters have been reported, california, georgia, nevada, texas, washington state targeted. investigators are treating the letters as connected given the time. joining us is georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger. sir, we appreciate your time. you talked about this yesterday. there were a lot of details that seemed unclear. do you have more insight into the letters, who they were addressed to and what they said? >> for georgia, not yet. we have been informed by the postal officials that there is a letter in transit. so it's a three to five-day transit through their system. and so, obviously, they will try to intercept that when it comes to the atlanta processing facility. but it hasn't arrived to georgia yet. so it will be intercepted, and that's why we prepared staff at the fulton county election office, if it makes it through the system and arrives -- this is what you do and how you handle it. >> how do you know it's in -- weighs the information that lets you know it's in transit? how do officials know that? >> the postal official has some capabilities, i guess, they don't talk about much. but somehow they are tracking -- and based on other locations, they identified another letter was, obviously, postmarked for georgia. >> and you haven't heard of any suspects or who may have sent these at this point, right? >> not at this time, no. understand from just readings that they do have identified potential suspect, but they are going to keep that close to their chest. >> more broadly, the fulton county commissioner said this is, quote, probably a forerunner for what we could see in 2024. do you think that's accurate? >> we are going to make sure we prepare all 159 counties and prepare them for events such as this. so make sure that there is narcan available for all of the election offices that do receive, you know, incoming mail, and train them in the use of that. so we will be doing that in the next election conference we have coming up in december. >> could i ask you, the idea that you need to make sure that your election officials have narcan available, would you have expected that when you got into this job? >> no. there is a lot of things i wouldn't have expected when i got to this job. i ran just to get new voting machines with a verifiable paper ballot, and we did that. we have been thrown a lot of curveballs. this extremely distressing to think people behave this way and threaten people doing their job. >> have you seen any tangible impact? there is concern for what this means for these types of threats on poll workers, election officials, willing to do the things like you d did in 2020 that were so critical. have you seen people unwilling or not being willing to step into those jobs because of things like this? >> by and large, we are in pretty good shape in georgia. i think really because the governor and i ran for re-election, we addressed a lot of the 2020 issues and had great conversations with people. i know still many people were disappointed. we understand that. but i think that by and large we are in pretty good shape. obviously, we could use more poll workers and election workers because, after all, when you show up to vote, if there is no one on the other side of the table, how would you be able to vote? we need pole workers. if you have any questions about the process that you don't really know if you can trust it, become a pole worker. you will have, you know, the training and understand all the checks and double checks to make sure we have security in the system. >> the former president, you talked about, there are a lot of things you didn't expect when you entered this job. some of the stuff you dealt with the former president probably qualifies in that space. i want to play something he said last night when asked about the idea of the justice department and what they have done in some of the indictments so far. take a listen. >> something that allows the next party, i mean, if somebody -- if i happen to be president and i see somebody who is doing well and beating me very badly, i say, go down and indict them. mostly that would be, you know, they would be out of bids. they'd be out. they'd be out of the election. >> sir, the idea, you know, chris sununu said we shouldn't be surprised when the former president says stuff like that. my question, is given your experience, do you think he means it? >> i don't know as an elected official. i follow through -- i follow the constitution. and i think the voters should hold everyone accountable and make sure that the people they are voting for follow the law and the constitution. that's the number one duty. and make sure we always do what is right and always follow the law. these laws were put in place slew the legislative process, signed in law by governors or president of the united states if it's a federal law. it's important we have to lean into that. i think we also need to look at, you know, how we lead. i think we need to lead with care, integrity, honesty, civil discussions with everyone. if we do that, that's our way back. >> georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, appreciate your time. thank you. . thank you. israel announced today's humanitarian pause in gaza will be six hours. a potential breakthrough. also, maybe for getting hostages out. and as the israel/hamas war continues, antisemitism is rising sharply in america and around the world. dana bash joins us to discuss. l pledging to protect the jewish population from antisemitism. he made those comments at the 85th anniversary of kristallnacht, the organized violence and destruction targeting juice in nazi germany, antisemitic threats around the world and in the united states are on the rise. dana bash looks at this critical issue in a new episode of "the whole story with anderson cooper." that airs sunday night. we are so glad that you are doing and continuing to shine a light on what is happening in this country, and as part of had episode you spoke with amba the ambassador how to come pat antisemitism. here is part of that. >> since the attack on israel, october 7th, how has your role become more vital? >> in the wake of the attack we began to see first a surge and then a spike and then an explosion and now a tsunami of antisemitism. worldwide. in paris, in london, in germany. in australia, it was gassing the juice. ge jews. let's have a jew-free zone. it's not being pro-hamas or anti-israel. it's about antisemitism. >> she was appointed because she is one of the world's foremost academic experts on antisemitism. >> you know how when the yellow light is flashing? antisemitism is like that amber light, and what it is signaling is that antisemitism is coming and it's a threat to democracy. >> she is really sounding the alarm. what else did she tell you about how urgent this danger is? >> you know, she and others incredibly urgent. the last time we did this hour, it was in 2022, and we were trying to shine a light on the fact that antisemitism and by the way lot of experts say we should call it jew hate, not antisemitism, because that word sounds too fancy, and that's what this was. it was more latent. if you didn't know, you didn't know. now it's not. it is part of our everyday news cycle because it is so overwhelming. just some statistics blew my mind. since october 7th, poppy and phil, the adl tracked a 388% increase, so almost 400% increase in harassment, in vandalism and violence in america against jews. and you talked about kristallnacht, and it was 85 years ago yesterday that the -- it was called the night of the broken glass. it was a concerted effort to go in and vandalize and jewish businesses and homes. part of this special, we talk to a woman who is 90. ruth steinfeld. and she remembers being in europe as a 7-year-old girl. she is a holocaust survivor. a 7-year-old girl, they came into her home and started smashing things up. now 85 years later, she is living had texas and she is as worried as an american now as she has ever been. >> dana, we saw your conversation or pieces of your conversation with ambassador lip stat. who else did you speak to her? your last iteration of this, so many critical voices, key players. who else did you talk to? >> college students. and that is one of the biggest storylines. alarming storylines. we have been covering it on the show almost daily. and the issue is that you are seeing -- the last time we did this, it was very clearly violence 'interrupting from the right, from the hard right. the white supremacy. we did a segment on what was happening on the left, which was slow going and we got some pushback about the notion of anti-zionism being really antisemitism, meaning you could say you are against israel, but not really be full of hate for jews, and nobody pushed back on that now because of the connection to the violence here in america, the threats in america, and around the world, specifically after october 7th. and what is happening on college campuses is very much now an explosion because of unchecked bias and, in some cases, down right prejudice on college campuses a