korea and tonight's episode of the cnn original series secrets and spies and nuclear game looks at how one russian agent put everything on the line as tensions between the us and the soviet union ramped up. >> cnn original series secrets and spies, nuclear game errors tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn hello again, everyone. >> thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour with breaking news. prime minister benjamin netanyahu responding after a key member of the israeli for cabinet resigned this afternoon, benny gantz announced he is stepping down from the emergency government and called on netanyahu to hold due elections his departure comes just a day after netanyahu failed to meet gantz's ultimatum, which was calling for post-war plan in gaza by june 8, yesterday we live the government the emergency government which heavy are, you we stand together? for the campaign for israel, for generations so in order to get real victory so far, we are going to go through elections and at the end of it, we'll have government that will have the confidence of people ganim says resignation marks a pivotal moment in israel's war against hamas. >> and a major blow to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who is facing mounting pressure to end the conflict in gaza. in response, netanyahu is calling on ganim to change his mind, saying, i'm quoting now, this is the time to join forces and quote gantz delayed his announcement originally set for yesterday, saturday after the idf rescued four hostages from gaza. but the palestinian death toll from the raid is now seeing significant global condemnation. the gaza ministry of health says the military operation killed more than 270 people marking the deadliest day in gaza in six months. israel says the death toll was under 100. cnn has been wiedemann and paul hancocks are tracking all of these developments. ben, you first the international reaction to this restaurant two operation has been swift. what are you hearing of course, yes. >> for instance, the united states has been fairly positive, although vice president kamala harris did mention lead. high palestinian death toll as a result of that operation. now, others, however, i have not been so positive about the operation. we heard joseph battelle, the top eu diplomat describing it as another massacre and he urged all parties to agree to president biden's 31st of may ceasefire proposal. but on the ground, obviously this situation is dire as a result of this operation, according to the gaza ministry of health, the death toll is to have was 200 and 74 with 698 injured. and they did give a breakdown of those who were killed 64 children, 50 d7 women, 37 elderly. now, the men, they didn't give a breakdown on, but certainly what we saw was that there were many dead at the hospital. the al-aqsa martyrs brigade hospital, luck. some martyrs hospital in deir bella, where the morgues were completely full and they add to lay the bodies out on the pavement so the worry now is that in the absence of benny gantz in the war cabinet in israel and in the aftermath of this operation, which was widely praised in israel did pray a prime minister netanyahu is going to take the position that the military option to free the hostages may be the best just one, fredricka all right. ben, thank you so much, paula. so are you hear anything more about what the plan next is for israel with benny gantz out? as the israeli war cabinet minister well, fred, we've already heard from the israeli prime minister asking him effectively they tend to reconsider saying it's the time for unity, but from gantz's point of view, he is saying that israel cannot gain victory with netanyahu in charge. >> his conditions for staying in the government have not been met meaning he wanted a day after plan for gaza as the us vessel. so does another country soup netanyahu has been particularly vague on that front. he wants a decisive plan on how to get the hostages back. he has been very vocally supported the biden proposal, which president biden said is effectively and israeli proposal to secure that hostage-ceasefire deal. and he wants to see a quieter northern border. he wants plans for that. so that tens of thousands of israeli residents who have had to evacuate can then move back home. in a way for, for many months. now, what this does though, is it does isolate netanyahu domestically and internationally. this its removal of gantz from the coalition. the emergency government, but he does netanyahu's still have a majority so it means the government itself won't collapse. there is a concern that it could become more right-wing. >> fred alright. paula hancocks, and then wiedemann. thanks. to both of you. >> all right. let's dive even deeper into all of this with me now, former state department middle east negotiator, aaron david miller, and cnn national security analysts peter berg and good to see both of you and ehlmann all right. >> so erin, you first what are the immediate ramifications of benny gantz leaving at this stage of the war in gaza do you see this as a big blow, not just to the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, but also to the overall strategy i mean, i think for the tin you, this is a problem now is to contend with two right-wing extremist ministers are one of whom is pressing to become a member of the war cabinet with which the prime minister ensures on the cusp of resolving of dissolving. yeah, i think the international pressure will grow, but remember on june and july 24, benjamin netanyahu will be in washington to address a joint session. now, for times exceeding even winston churchill. >> look, i think the prime minister's plan is very clear because that's what goes into recess on july 25th. it doesn't come back into session until ten days before the us elections. >> i think he's going to try to buy time until then and make a judgment on whether or not how he wants to comport themselves with respect to the next us president and i he can't vote in an election. >> but if he could, i suspect he wouldn't be voting for joe biden. one, there's one pathway out of this. if netanyahu wants to be smart, and that is he could say to biden, look, i never right-wing government i can't do the whole plan, but i could do phase one. we get some hostages back out the returns a palestinian prisoners. but you'll get to your six-week temporary ceasefire in the administration he offered the administration that i think in the mood they're in, they jumped at the chance six weeks great. dream of calm. we haven't seen that since october 7 and almost nine months peter de you see the resignation of gantz as impacting are changing the direction that prime minister netanyahu has been taking here or the idf overall look, i'm not an expert on israeli politics like ariane de vogue, miller is one of the world's leading experts on it. but i would just say look at a, look at the past track record of netanyahu. he has never presented a plan for the day after. he sometimes said israel might take gaza. he's rejected having the palestinian authority involved at all, which is crazy because if you're not going to have going to have to have some palestinians involved in administering gaza. so he's, he's never really done the things that benny gantz has very correctly said you need to do and look, you have sons who said a long time ago tactics without strategy is the noise please, before defeat and every the israeli military can win every battle. but if there isn't a actual strategy attached to what they want to do, a real plan for the day after you were just talking about a recipe for endless wall, which is why benny gantz has resigned. i mean, he's this guy, is he ran the idf. he knows what he he's talking about. in addition to being a politician. so i don't netanyahu has demonstrated no plan so far were more than eight months into this so then peter de you see hamas seizing on this moment? >> as an opportunity look, if i'm in hamas, i'm saying hamas has said that they review the biden stroke israeli plan for the six-week ceasefire, that aaron david miller just referred to. >> they've they've said that they view it positively. now, what does that mean? we don't really know but there was clearly some positive sounds are were made after president biden's speech by hamas. this event can surely is not going to help right? i mean the hamas military leadership and your mass political leadership are going to okay, this event and it's not going to get them to the negotiating table any quicker. >> okay. and then aaron in benny gantz's announcement, he also challenged meant now who to hold new elections? what do you see as the next potential step here first of all, on friday, peters reid, i mentioned the hours is just get on right he's he's trying to buy time look it's knesset arithmetic credit and 120 seats in these israeli parliament, the knesset, you need 60 plus one to govern net daniels got 64. it's rather coherent, cohesive coalition. do right-wing parties to religious parties, both of would you prepared to accept the biden plan and then netanyahu's likud party and likud does not ever reputation of devouring its own. so i think unless there's some something comes out of the blue, but to my surprise is that all of us, i don't think they will by giving a clean yes. to this plan then netanyahu and needs to present it to the government. the plan would probably fail. the biden administration, i think would up its pressure. you might get internal pressures more resignations from the security services, and the intelligence services and who knows what could develop? >> but by enlarge, i'm i'm afraid that benjamin netanyahu is going to be with us for a good deal while longer he is the worst leader at the worst time, at the worst moment in the history of this country. and frankly, for palestinians and then i'm peter the palestinian health ministry and hospitals are saying 200 270 civilians were killed in this raid operation that led to the rescue of four i israeli hostages. do you see that 270 plus number coupled with the benny gantz, a resignation as impetus for for hamas to carry out a retaliatory operation i don't know, but i'm going to make him solvation here. if this was a us special operations forces operation, it wouldn't have happened think about the meaning that the casualty count and would not have yeah, it wouldn't have happened. >> i mean, think about the months of debate the obama administration had over whether to, what to do about been lobbing and they rejected a bombing operation because there will be civilian casualties in in about a bat, the trump administration also had a very similar debate about the leader of isis in 2019 and debated for weeks about the operation in the end the isis leader in syria was killed. >> so look, this, the level of civilian casualties here, even if we accept the israeli number, which is much lower, soccer 100 is it would not happen on a us special operations forces doctrine that just wouldn't be this would not have happened now, obviously, the united states it's the israeli government, is their decision obviously the us was supported that decision in some unspecified manner with intelligence or advice but i just wanted to make the observation that i don't see us special operations carrying out this ray with that number of casualties i understood. >> all right. peter bergen, aaron, david miller. great to see both of you. i appreciate it thank you. all right. right. now, donald trump is holding his first campaign rally since his felony conviction and tomorrow, the former president will meet with a probation officer what we're learning about that scheduled interview plus hunter biden's federal gun trial resumes tomorrow. the big question will he take the stand in his own defense tonight on the whole story? 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>> fred were on the eve of finding out the answer to that monumental question, will hunter biden testify? it's pretty rare and it would be very risky for him to do this, but it's possible that his team may have made the calculation that they might not have anything to lose after some of the and damaging testimony that the jury heard last week in wilmington, delaware they have said on the defense team that if hunter does take the stand in his own defense, they want to point out and they will use his time on the stand to tell the jury that he has been sober and law abiding since 2019 teen and they also would want to make the jury aware of the fact that the prosecutors had previously offered him a deal that would resolve these gun charges without charging him with a crime and sending him to prison. on the other side of this, fred, the special counsel, has said that if hunter biden testifies, they want to grill him about his discharge from the navy in 2014, which was over cocaine use. and they also said that they bring up his taxes. they want to undermine his credibility as a witness and tell the jury read that in their view, not only did he lie on the gun forms, but they think he also has lied on his taxes. so we'll see what happens. they have said that they had not made a final decision on friday and there will be telling the court tomorrow tomorrow morning whether they're going to do it or not. and if not, then you can expect the defense will rest and we'll get into close dosing arguments. >> and then marshall, we heard critical testimony from hunter biden's daughter, naomi, on friday. tell us more about what she said yeah. >> fred, it was fascinating to watch a daughter take this dan to try to help her father beat these charges. she was a bit shaky at times and visibly uncomfortable trouble as well. and the defense had hoped that she would give the jury a clear picture of a man who was trying to move away from drugs toward recovery. but the prosecutors grilled her on cross-examinatio n. i want to read for you a little bit of what she said. they asked her some critical questions about the a vehicle that quiche that she shared with her dad. because after she gave this car back to hunter a few days later hallie biden found drug remnants in the car. they asked her, you wouldn't have done anything speaking to naomi here that left any drug remnants and the truck. is that fair? and she said yes they went on, said when you gave it back to your father on the 19th, there was no drug paraphernalia in it right. and she said no finally, there were no drug remnants in it, right. is that right? and she said yes, that's right. so no drugs, no drug resonance and the car when she gives it back to hunter on october 19th, then on toolbar 23rd, hunters girlfriend at the time, hallie biden finds drug remnants. clearly it leaves a question lingering in the mind of the jury who put those drugs there and if they can connect those drugs to hunter biden, it really could help the prosecutors get a conviction all right. good marshall cohen. thank you so much all right. let's talk further about all this with cnn legal analyst norm eisen. norm, great to see you hello frederick, i'm doing just great. all right. so you know how how the attorneys representing hunter biden, how were they doing is really important and what might they'd be deciding this weekend about whether hunter biden should take the stand tomorrow. what do you think well, it's an agonizing choice. >> i know both a hunter and his lawyer abbe lowell and the greatest risk here is that he gets on the stand and judgment aerial and noriega believes he lied about whether he was knowingly addicted to drugs when he filled out those forms because that can harm him. at sentencing, the upside of hunter testifying is that lowell has argued to the jury that hunter was in denial. so he did not have the intent when he filled out that form two to knowingly lie so the only way to prove intent is for hunter himself to speak otherwise, it has to be inferred. that's the only direct proof. so there's pros and cons. it's an agonizing choice if it were me, i would not put hunter biden on that stan and then um now the prosecution has rested. did they do a good job in your view of proving their case i think they did do a good job. >> it is an inferential case. they don't have video of hunter using drugs while he was in possession, taking possession of that gun, filling out the forms. but they have a lot of