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what exactly does the israeli military say it is doing right now inside that complex? >> well, kaitlan, this is an extremely significant moment in israel's war against hamas. we have watched as israeli forces in recent days and weeks have been building towards this moment, bringing their forces closer and closer first to gaza city and then to the al-shifa hospital, gaza's largest hospital. today the israel defense forces say, they are carrying out a targeted and precise operation. they're being very specific, saying this is being carried out in on the entire hospital complex, but on a specified area of the hospital that they face being driven by intelligence, and, quote operational necessitate. mr. this operation is designed to target hamas, and to rescue our hostages in the statement. they also note there will be medical teams and arabic speakers as a part of, this and the units involved have undergone specific training to try and minimize any potential harm to civilians who may be at that area of the hospital. we heard earlier tonight, when the idf spokesman, i want you to listen to what he said. >> we are not over running the hospital, but we are conducting a very precise and targeted operation against a specific location where we have intelligence and indeed operational necessitate in order to defeat hamas and perhaps rescue hostages. >> and what is really important to note, here is the fact that there are still thousands of people inside this hospital complex, an estimated 1500 patients and medical staff, and thousands more who are sheltering on the grounds of the complex. many of them already displaced from other parts of the gaza strip. tonight our team spoke with -- a journalist for the palestinian news agency who says he saw tanks in the hospital complex, active gunfights could be heard across the hospital yard and a doctor at the complex also told cnn the hospital staff forgiven about 30 minutes warning before israeli troops began moving into the hospital complex to carry out their operations. now we don't know for sure whether or not there are hostages there, but you heard the idf spokesman has repeatedly indicated tonight that there may be a hostages on other complex, and that may be part of this ground operation that is being carried out right now. >> and jeremy, what did you make of how we heard from the white house just a few hours, ago john, kirby the national security council, backing up those assertions from israel, saying there is u.s. the televisions, and also the u.s. believes that proves that hamas is using the al-shifa hospital as a command center, as a place to store weapons and store ammunition? >> the timing is really interesting, because israel husband making these allegations for weeks about a range of hospitals. but most of, all talking about al-shifa hospital, saying hamas operates a massive commanding control complex below its grounds, the evidence they are provided for, that we cannot independently verify at this stage. but it is interesting it was today that john kirby the spokesman for the national security council, for the first, time publicly confirms that the eu s does indeed believe that there is a command node below al-shifa hospital that hamas operates, the palestinian islamic jihad also used his hospitals for its operations, maybe stashing, weapons and may also be holding hostages there. now that being, said president biden for his part said yesterday, he believes that israel should make sure to protect these hospitals, should carry out less intrusive action that the most hospitals, and kirby today saying, that would mean essentially not carrying out mass of a strike from the air on these hospitals. instead, caring approach that we are seeing, tonight and more precise operation, although we will have to wait and see whether or not that is the case when we get more videos and are able to speak to people inside. kaitlan? >> and share, me i should note, oh audience knows as, well we are just learning this, the prime minister netanyahu and president biden did speak on the phone today. of course they had a lot of conversation sixth october 7th, but that is notable as well given timing there. jeremy diamond, we will continue to check back in with you as these developments are happening in this hour of breaking news happening. from a military perspective on what this operation could result, and what it could be looking like on the ground, i want to bring in retired air force colonel cedric leighton is here with me. you just heard from jeremy there in that sound from the idf spokesperson, do we believe there could be potentially hostages here and that could be part of why they're calling this a precise specific operation? >> i think so, katelyn. it is clear there is no guarantee the hostages are there, but it seems as if based on the idf press release, and how the freest things, other white house raising things, it does seem as if they believe hostages either are there, or were in that al-shifa hospital compound. so if that is the case, they will go get those hostages out as quickly as possible and a massive rescue operation if this is what this is, it is certainly something that requires a lot of precise, action but lesson, telegenic and a very concerted effort to go in very precisely. >> my quick question here is, i was just texting with an idf spokesperson, i asked if there were evacuations today of patients into the hospital, because we know yesterday there were, where the thousands of people -- were sheltering outside. they said they could not comment beyond what the idf had said publicly. that is a question here. can you carry out part of an operation through the hospital and everyone else is fine? what does that look like? >> it really depends on the geography of the hospital. we know the al-shifa compound has multiple buildings, so there are certainly the possibility that they could have honed in from a military perspective on one particular area if they believe the hostages are there for example, where if they believe the command center is there for hamas. but if that is the case, then, yes it is possible for other people to stay in that area without being harmed, but it is certainly risky and there are situations where if there is an overflow of personnel from the command center, where if there is an overflow of the hostages from one area to the other, that could complicate things. so it is a very risky situation. we don't yet know precisely where everything is in terms of where the people are, and even which buildings they have used for each specific activity. we do know at least we're intelligence folks know where the operation rooms are from the hospital, where the maternity ward would-be and things like that. so those are the kinds of things that would be part of a preparation, and preparation of an operation like this. >> given that, what does it look, like it is for clark in the morning in gaza right, now how does that factor in to the fact it is nighttime, and they are going in? we know there's armored vehicles, we have heard a bit about a doctor there who said they could hear firefight, but that is basically the extent of what we have been able to learn from the ground in gaza. >> so special person's off to in a current because the night is a special operators friend. in essence, the use goggles, these other systems to basically penetrate the darkness. and they are banking on the fact that the might surprise, that they might be able to have the hamas fighters not be able to grab any night vision goggles they might have. so they're hoping for a surprise, they are hoping to basically take them out while they can. >> do we know if hamas has night vision goggles? do they have that capability? >> they don't have any -- but night vision goggles can be oh purchased on the open market, so it is something they should suppose they have. and be prepared for that as well. >> and when you look at this, is this something that can be carried out as they go and look at this? the white house is saying we don't want firefights inside hospitals, we don't want strikes above, what is their option here? >> so they're option is what they are doing right now, kaitlan, which is a commanded raid, and that is how that would, work it is a very precise very targeted operation. if you bomb something, it is going to be much less precise, even with precision ammunitions, and the white house is basically telling the israelis, be as precise as he possibly can be. if you have the intelligence to go after targets like this, when they think there might be hostages or a command center, and do that and use -- as precisely method as you can and commando raid on those. >> thank you so much for your expertise on this highly needed at this moment. also joining us tonight, axios foreign policy reporter. i'm just curious, right off the, of you heard from sources tonight about what the purpose of this operation is? >> get, evening kaitlan. so again, right now, i think all we know is what the idf has publicly said. i don't have anything for you other than that. i think this operation is taking place as we speak right now, and i have to say i don't think the idf would go into the hospital, and take -- carry out such an operation if there wasn't high value target inside, either a very senior hamas official who was hiding their, or hostages. i don't think they would go in for any other reason. >> okay, that could be important, here because they say this is a precise operation. so that seems to indicate you they are going after a pretty specific target here. >> yes. definitely. look, it is a high-risk operation, and all eyes are on she for hospital for several days now. and if this thing arrives at the white house daily briefing then this means that everyone are looking at the hospital, and what is going on there. there are thousands of people there people who are just taking shelter gasoline civilians. so if you go on such an operation in the middle of the night it means you know there is something there that is worth it, that is worth the risk, and that if you do, it and if you manage to do it, you are going to get a lot of benefits out of it. >> what do you make of the timing given john kirby from the white house is bringing this up earlier on air force one, we have now learned president biden and prime minister netanyahu had another conversation today. is the white house pretty specific warnings about what they thought was acceptable to have been inside a hospital? >> yes so right after this operation started, an hour ago, i asked white house officials whether the fact that john kirby said what he said in the briefing, whether that can insinuate that they had any early notice about what was going to happen. they said it is not the case but i think we will know more details about that as things develop. i think if this is really an operation to release hostages, i'm pretty sure that the u.s. got some sort of early notification. >> so they seem to be thing they had, it you believe they had. there's a question here of whether or not there are hostages potentially inside that complex. i should note, we do not know. president biden sounded very hopeful today about the potential for a deal being made. what are you hearing from sources on if they are closer to a deal for hostages, or if they are just as far as they were last week? >> i think what describes it best, for several days, now we have been in the situation of almost almost not good enough, meaning we are very close, but every time, every day, there is something else that comes up, sort of at the last minute and shows there are still gaps between the parties. i think what they are trying to find now is this balance between the number of hostages that hamas is willing to release, and the number of days that the israel is willing to give for some sort of a temporary cease-fire. i don't think they found this balance yet. israeli war cabinet convened earlier tonight for several hours. i still don't know the results of that meaning. i think we will see more developments in the coming days, -- president biden and senior middle east advised it will be in qatar on sunday. he will be in israel tomorrow. so i think things are moving, but i'm not sure we are there yet, and, especially by the way, if what we see now at al-shifa hospital is indeed an operation to release hostages, that opens up the whole story and we will start from scratch. >> great importing, thank you very much. coming up, it looks like on capitol hill, the federal government is not going to be shutting down in just three days, but the quorum on capitol hill may have totally disintegrated today. one senator challenged -- to a fight, a sitting member of congress accuse the former speaker of sucker punching him in the back. he is also here, we will talk to him next. plus georgia prosecutors seeking an emergency protective order after the leak of those confidential videos you saw here last night, and the trump elelection intnterference e cas. >> it appears the osborne loosen capitol hill today, there was some good news, the house passed a bill so the government likely want overtake shut down, we are waiting to see what the senators with it. that is their basic duty to keep the government open and funded, yet attentions are still erupting basically everywhere. speaker mike johnson seemed to call it today. >> members have been here for ten weeks, and this place is a pressure cooker. >> ten whole weeks, a pressure cooker me be a steel cage match. because just minutes before we heard that assessment from the new speaker, anger came to a tipping point between the old speaker, and one of the eight republicans who voted to oust him. congressman -- of tennessee, claiming he now was sucker punched in the back by kevin mccarthy. we also have audio of just this entire incident, so you can hear for yourself what happened. >> and -- i'm sorry, kevin, did it mean to you. why did you all moment back kevin? a kevin, you have any guts? >> jerk. >> the reporter said it, without what kind of chicken with is the? you are so pathetic. what a jerk. you need security, kevin? >> it did not and there, mccarthy later denied hitting, him saying if i punch someone, they would be on the ground >> there was a plane shot to the kidney, you just don't expect a guy who was at one time three steps away from the white house to sucker punch you, in the hallway. >> i would not elbow him, i would not hit him in the kidney. >> i did not hit the guy, i did not kidding, but irma did not do anything like that. >> you did not shove him? >> no. >> these are taxpayer funded lawmakers i'm talking about here. i should note, congressman is your life, we will speak to majestic and. just to give you a full picture of the crazy on capitol hill today, where if i told you that is senator challenged a witness at a hearing to stand his butt up and fight. when that off accepted only to be broken up before it came to blows by senator bernie sanders. >> if you want to run your mouth, we can reduce consenting, adults we can finish here. >> that is, fine perfect. >> you want to do it now? >> i would love to do right now. >> hold on. >> stop it. stop it. sit down. sit down. you are united states enter. >> no, you are not imagining things. you just saw that. that was republican senator markwayne mullin from oklahoma picking a physical fight with the teamsters president sean o'brien in what was supposed to be a hearing on libra unions. but that is not all of it. there was more blowing over in that congressional pressure cooker today. i present to you, james comer, their public and chairman of the house oversight committee, and democrat congressman jared moskowitz. >> that is -- you look like a smurf here just -- >> you are doing stuff, you american people half -- why should they believe -- >> you have already been proven a liar. >> who has proven me ally? are you? >> yes. >> all of that actually happened just today within the span of a few hours in congress, the people's house, not to be junior high school. let's go straight to the source now is tennessee republican congressman -- tim you just heard kevin mccarthy there, then eyeing what you said, what is the response to that? >> thank you for having me on this. i noticed we got to the part about, that his voice got a few octaves higher, i don't know if you call that a, not that is a pretty good indicator. i actually never said it in the beginning, it was -- from npr, if you follow her on twitter, you will see she actually documented the whole series of events pretty well, and i was called by reporters about it when i was on the house floor because i was -- and there wasn't any reporters around when it happened just her. it was in the hallway outside the republican conference meeting, and i was standing there, and i got somebody hit me in the back, and eileen forward a bit and she said i've been here a longtime, i've never seen anything like that. and i turn to kevin, and i said something to him and he of course as he, does he had his security detail and marched off and i went to confront him about it. but i think it just shows to america why the eight of us did what we did. this is the man that was three steps away from the white house. i wish we could get back to talking about a balanced budget, or building a wall between us and mexico, maybe or even talking about helping out the folks in israel, but this is the kind of things that folks like kev do and it is a big distraction. >> so just to be clear, u.s. thing he's lying when you say he didn't hit you? >> yes, ma'am. all you have to do is read what the lady from npr said. i think that is, you know, and pr, you know my voting record, if you, know every conservative rating agency of the country rates me in the top 90%, so i dare say i would not be a friend to a lot of the npr listeners. so she has no reason to cover for me. >> you are saying, he petunia kidneys, are you in pain tonight? have you seen a doctor? >> no