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>> well, that is the key question, because we don't know what speaker johnson is actually going to release in that text, kate, and that why it is such an anticipated move by house republicans, because all week, we have been hearing from the conservatives who want the two-step approach with two various deadlines where the various agencies across the government would have their funding dates expire on different dates. and then there are others who are arguing to the leadership that the best course of action is to live another day, and have a short term spending patch where the republicans are trying to unite around the remaining spending bills that they have to pass from their own chamber and have the showdown with the senate in january, but we don't know which direction speaker johnson is going to go. is he going to listen to advice of some veteran appropriator who have been through many of the showdowns before or is he going to cave on those on the far right who want to have as many fiscal fights as possible? that is why so many people in washington and not just house republicans, but also the united states senate are watching johnson's actions so closely. now, we may see text as soon as tomorrow like you said, and once that text is released, then the lawmakers need at least 72 hours to review it, and that means they may not get to the vote until tuesday or early next week at the soonest possible date, and this is not going leave a lot of time to negotiate with the united states senate. so if he puts out a plan that the conservatives like, but the senate doesn't, that is going to set up a showdown and raise the prospect of a government shutdown and if it is closer for the clean spending bill, then the house and the senate could move quickly and avoid that shutdown coming on november 17th. kate? >> stay there, because that is the only reason i feel safe. thank you. omar? >> kate, secretary blinken is condemning the death toll in gaza, and this morning in a visit to india, he said that far too many palestinians are being killed and israel is not doing enough to keep them safe. this after israel has agreed to a four-hour window to allow civilians to escape. there are about 130,000 people who have fled to north in the past 24 hours. we go to oren liebermann who is live in tel aviv. now, the secretary of state has been pretty critical of what is happening in gaza, and in particular, and what are you learning on your end? >> one of the strongest statements that we have seen yet come from a senior american official about what is happening in gaza. first to be clear, president joe biden has said now is not the time for a cease-fire, and that is support for israel's campaign in gaza to root out and destroy hamas, but he said he was pushing for humanitarian corridors and passes for the next several days if not longer and hoping to make it happen, and hoping it had happened already, but the u.s. is pleased with the fact that the humanitarian corridors are announced everyday by the israeli military. we saw it opened for six hours and thousands of gazans fleeing the deepening campaign in gaza, and heading south. the minister of health in the west bank and the ministry of health in gaza are saying that thousands of palestinians have been killed which warranted a statement from secretary blinken. >> these steps will save lives and enable more assistance to help those palestinians in need. and more steps will be need to be done to help those. far too many palestinians have been kill and far too many have been suffering in the past few week, and we want to do everything possible to prevent harm to them and maximize the assistance that gets to them. >> meanwhile, israel says they have encircled northern gaza city over the past few days and deepening the operation on the ground there as it is going after hamas and trying to destroy hamas' underground infrastructure. >> thank you, oren liebermann, and we will see if the stronger language from the secretary of state continues or one that is a little out of the ordinary. we appreciate your reporting. >> and blinken's comments comes as heavy bombardment is being reported at hospitals in northern gaza. new video showing moment an apparent strike hit near or at the al shifa hospital and the aftermath of the apparent strike. though it is not known what hit the hospital, people are bloodied and asking and begging for help in the aftermath, and explosions reported at two other hospitals in northern gaza, and what you are seeing there is what has been seen outside of the only children's hospital in northern gaza. the scene outside of the windows there is the hospital surrounded by israeli tanks and the army closing in. nada, we are getting new information about the strike at the al shifa hospital, and what are you learning? >> well, kate, we are hearing from the warnings of the medics on the ground that the air strikes are edging closer and closer to gaza's hospitals and now a spokesperson from the world health organization describing the el shifa hospital coming under bombardment, and as you have seen there, we have seen the dramatic footage coming out of what is the outpatient center at the al shifa hospital, and gaza's largest hospital, and clearly people were injure and witnesses on the ground accusing israel of carrying out the air strike of the vicinity there of the hospital, and at that point, the defense minister has not responded to cnn's request for comment here on the latest strike. but as you mentioned, this is not the only hospital that has seen strikes in the vicinity, and with have seen two other hospitals, and officials at another hospital saying that the strikes targeted the vicinity of this hospital, and at least ten people are said to have been injured there, and the damage has been said to have damaged the hospital infrastructure and ambulances. meanwhile, at the pediatric hospital are appealing for the red cross to facilitate evacuations from the hospitals. they say they are now completely surrounded, and of course, the concern is that many of the patients, and many of the medics will not be able to evacuate the hospitals. of course many of the patients are desperately reliant on the medical care, and we have heard from the doctors who refuse to evacuate, and abandon patients there. as we know, the vast majority of gaza's hospitals are now completely out of service. as the air strikes continue, and as the siege continues what we are seeing is more and more hospitals coming under attack, and more and more hospitals being thrown out of service, and the death toll steadily rising. kate? >> nada bashir, reporting from jerusalem, thank you. omar? >> we are keeping strikes outside of israel and gaza, as we are learning of four new attacks on u.s. and coalition forces since the u.s. strikes in eastern syria wednesday. the military officials say that wednesday's strike targeted a weapons storage facility used by the islamic guard corps, and w there were no injuries reported there. and now, there have been 49 attacks on coalition and u.s. targets, and what do we know about injuries? >> yes, there have been approximately 50 injuries. since october 17th, there have been at least 40 attacks with the u.s. and coalition bases there. and just hours after the u.s. launched at a tack on the weapons storage facility in syria, they launched four additional attacks on u.s. forces and coalition forces which wounded an additional three service members which were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. and this is why we are seeing the retaliatory attacks by these iran-backed groups. and they trying to destroy the weaponry to carry out these attacks, but there is concern if it is working. because the u.s. has carried out an attack on the weapons storage facility two weeks ago, and the attacks did not stop. so now after the latest u.s. strike, and so these groups are not deterred. and the question that the administration has been facing is whether this approach by the u.s. to continue launching these retaliatory strikes is sustainable, because the proxy groups, they are able to launch the attacks on the u.s. forces using small drones and rockets, and they are causing damage and injuries and the question now is how do you stop them. that is one that the administration is grappling with, omar. >> these are not harmless strike, because people are affected by these every single time. natasha bertrand, thank you. kate, a lot to keep up with over the region, and factors as well. >> yes, you are talking about the attacks of the u.s. and coalition forces in syria and iraq, and that is also, the idf is dealing with this as well. retired major general michael anns is joining us. and now, overnight in syria, we know that the idf struck a site in syria after a drone atk the hit a building in the southern city of allot, and this is after a string of attacks coming in from yemen towards this city specifically. >> yeah. >> that is what they believe. so start there and why are they attacking? >> well, that is a place where there are a couple of navy forces there. so for example the arrow 3 which is now deployed from israel, and think of a bullet hitting a bullet in space. and yemen is firing a bullet weapon system which has not been deployed there, and this is the first time we have seen it, and a bullet hitting bullet in outer space, and tremendous technology, and it is to thwart out missiles from iran, but testing it against this bullet from yemen makes a lot of sense. >> and from what i have been hearing is that these are the longest range missiles to be fired at syria since saddam hussein. >> yes. >> and we have seen these coming from the houthis and from down in yemen, and on october 19th, the u.s. navy released images of the "u.s.s. kearney" against the southern city, and this is the first military u.s. action taken to defend israel in this conflict, and how is that significant? >> it is brought the deterrence of the umbrella that israel has to have coming from the other countries. you figure that the real threat is iran. if they decide to get into this fight, and fire ballistic missims over mi missims -- missiles over and into israel, that is what we are doing is to protect them from these counter ballistic systems. >> and now, normally everyone talks about and is familiar with the iron dome, and now the arrow 2 and arrow 3 used for the first time, what is different about them, and why does this add to what is so significant about iran, and iran proxies. >> yes, the hypersonic missiles are traveling into outer space, and intercepts it in space, and a tough problem set developed by the united states and europe, and we likely use it in our technology here at home, but it is the type of system to protect israel from the far threats from iran. >> so far, too. thank you so much for coming in. omar? >> a suspicious envelope sent to different states, and what behind these. and there are potential employees from mar-a-lago who could be called to testify against donald trump. and we have new details of the timing of that trial, and how close it is to the 2024 election. that is next. this morning, federal officials are trying to find the person responsible for sending dozens of letters to officials across the country. these were sent to six states and at least one contained fentanyl. another letter on the way to georgia right now could also contain the dangerous drug. right now the homeland analyst and national security analyst ju juliette kayyem, listen to brad raf fensburger as he talks about this. >> we are told that they are going to try to intersect it before it gets to the processing center. it has not arrived in georgia, and we have prepared staff here at fulton county election office if it makes through the system, and this is what you do and how the handle it. >> he said as part of it is that the offices will be armed with narcan and he described this as domestic terrorism, and would you say this is the realm that we are dealing with here, and where do you start with an investigation like this? >> well, let me start with the second piece first which is essentially the good news if one can say that there is any good news is that it is single-sourced and all of the letters came from one place or one individual, and maybe multiple individuals, but it means that one mistake is going to then disclose who it is. lots omif mistakes can be made with that many letters, so they can single in on single source. they know how to do this and not just with fentanyl, but also, the anthrax attacks that we had in 2001. they will basically look at the video surveillance of the drop boxes, materials purchased and any other thing that would disclose it. in the realm of things, i am confident they will find out who it is, and in the domestic terrorism, there is not statute, but this is a federal crime, because you are disrupting a election, and the letters and some of them laced with fentanyl are disrupting the democratic process. people who run the elections are intimidate and some could get sick. if you open up a letter with fentanyl laced with it, you could get sick in the same way that a first responder has to use ppe before they get, or go to help someone who has overdosed on fentanyl. and no joke, and the intent is clearly a disruption of the democratic processes. so i would like to say that we have not seen anything yet, and we are not in the full swing of the 2024 presidential election. this is a tactic that is being used by those who would disrupt our elections, and the only solution is to find out who it is, and a severe penalty. >> the factors of intimidation are ones that we have seen play out especially over the past few years. i wanted ed to read a stark statistic that since 2020 in more than 11 states more than 160 elected officials have left their positions, and so we are seeing this on a widespread basis, and the doj has launched a task force focused on the election office type threat, and so should we anticipate these threats getting worse or because we are paying more attention to them, we will see them pop up more frequently? >> well, to be honest with you, it is going to depend who the nominee is on the republican side. it is not a both sides issue. if donald trump gets nomination, we now know, and there is no surprise here, and i am just reporting that we now know that he will utilize the intimidation, and the threat of violence and the things that he does as an extension of his campaign. he is not hiding it. we are not airing it, but you just go on air, and online and you can see what he is saying. it is about the election is about individuals who are within law enforcement, within the processes of the judiciary, and the judges and the prosecutors in the georgia case. we know it. we don't have to -- therefore, because we know it, we can prepare for it, but if donald trump gets nomination, we won't -- we ought not to be surprised. we can be dismayed, but we ought not be surprised that he utilizes the intimidation as relates to the election and it is not just him, but it is others who listen to him. and so not a surprise. so i think that we have to be cognizant of what 2024 is going to entail in terms of violence as part of the election process and be ready for it and report it and speak out about it, because it is the only way that people then will feel like there is consequences for it, including jail time in this guy's case. >> and look, these are all things that local secretaries of state have all spoken about and hoping to be prepared for as we head to 2024. juliette kayyem, thank you as always. and now the exclusive reporting. cnn is told that prosecutors may call several employees of mar-a-lago to the stand over the handling of classified documents and what they saw at the trump property. possibly a woodworker who installed some woodwork on the property. and also, a maid. katelyn polantz has more on that. >> judge aileen cannon said that she spoke on the court docket, and that his trial is still on, and the trump team has not wanted for him to go to trial as a criminal defendant in this case or any others before the november election of next year, but judge cannon says, we can revisit that and i will give you time to prepare for that from now to spring, but the trial is set for may of 2024. part of the reason that cannon is giving donald trump's legal team more time to work on evidence, and work on the motions leading up to the trial is because it has so much to do with classified documents in the ca case. it is a complex thing for someone to go to trial around, and where donald trump is accused of mishandling 32 classified documents. and it is not just documents, because there a human element where paula reid and i understood that there a woodworker, a maid, a chauffeur, and other people who were around donald trump in the white house or the political sphere or people working at mar-a-lago or temporary workers going in and out that the prosecutors could call at trial of what it is like at mar-a-lago, and what is our understanding is documents that are suspicious that caught their eye and looked out of place, and they were boxes that they did not know what they were, and justice department says classified material that shouldn't been around any of these people without security material, and so that trial is going to paint a picture of what it is like in that club after the trump presidency, and where all of these 32 records would have gone. kate? >> and how deeply they are investigating and how broadly they cast a net, this special counsel's office. thank you, caikatelyn. >> joe manchin is saying that he will not seek re-election. and how will that up set the balance of power. and also, another surge just ahead. a shakeup in the senate could play a pivotal role in the power of balance in congress. joe manchin is not going to seek re-election in 2024. he is going to work to mobilize the middle. the decision to retire could influence the power. i cannot promise this