Welcome to inside politics. Im Dana Bash in washington. We have a lot of Breaking News this hour we begin with major news out of the middle East Israel says it has struck hezbollahs Central Headquarters in the lebanese capital of beirut. Cnns Jomana Karadsheh is now here with us from beirut. Jomana, what are you seeing and hearing . Well, dana, a short while ago, we were here on the roof and we heard massive blast that shook our hotel as well as the rest of beirut. And then we could see the thick plume of smoke rising from the direction of beiruts Southern Suburbs that is an area one of the most densely populated areas of the country where you have hezbollah presence, where their leadership has been known to have been based in the past where we have seen multiple Israeli Strikes in recent days. But this certainly was the largest blast that anyone here has witnessed since the start of this escalation, according to lebanese colleagues, they say that this is the biggest Israeli Strike that has taken place since the 2006 israel has vola war. We have heard from the Israeli Military military saying that they struck hezbollah Central Headquarters in beirut with a precise strike. They say that this headquarters served as underneath a residential building. Again, accusing him of using civilians as Human Shields, something that the lebanese government, we have heard say is baseless. They say that these are excuses. This is something weve heard in recent days. Hes from the lebanese government administer. We spoke to yesterday saying it is the same excuses that we have heard in gaza for nearly a year accusing Israeli Military of indiscriminate attacks. Here or they say not only going after hezbollah, but saying that it is women and children and civilians in this country who are barrow bring the brunt of this. Now, dana, we still dont have information from lebanese authorities on casualty figures, but that was huge explosions. And when you hear the Israeli Military lng, really the groundwork for what . Seems to have been a huge strike that. They carried out saying that it was under residential buildings, saying that it was a headquarters and based on what we heard, you would expect that large munitions were used in this strike and almost certainly when you consider how densely populated that area is, it is likely going to have a high Casualty Toll and we will bring you that as we get that information for the lebanese authorities . Yeah. And this of course comes after months and months and months of firing into israel from lebanon, likely hezbollah and much of it has been stopped by the iron dome, but some have been killed and there are tens of thousands of israelis who have been displaced from with in their own Country Kind of refugees in their own country have moved south because of what has been happening. So this has kind of been a slow burn as you know, far better than i between the two between hezbollah in Lebanon And Israel at its northern border. Before i let you go i know its early and forgive me because this might not be something thats answerable. But is there any indication that Hassan Nasrallah the leader of hezbollah, was in the headquarters that we believe was the target here is very difficult to say at this point. But considering what we have been seeing over the past week or so, what started with those Pager And Walkietalkie attacks. And then this stepped up israeli airstrikes targeting hezbollah commanders in that part of the root in the Southern Suburbs, as well as other parts. But definitely in the Southern Suburbs where they have killed several senior hezbollah commanders in recent weeks, it really is unclear at this Point Point who the target was. But i think we will be hearing more in the coming hours, but in the past, he was known to have been based in beirut thank you so much. As as you said, and we want to underscore it is very early in what we just saw as this really major strike by the Israelis Inside A Beirut at what they say is hezbollah headquarters. Thank you so much. Well come back to you if and when you get more information now, we want to come back here to the united states, to New York where we have even more Breaking News. Mayor Eric Adams is inside a federal Courthouse Set to be formally arraigned any minute. Like any other criminal defendant, he will be in the custody of who already is in the custody of us marshals its being fingerprinted and photographed. An unsealed indictment alleges adams pocketed cash and gifts from foreign powers and that he and his aides routinely deleted messages to hide their alleged crimes this morning, sources tell cnn that new Yorks Governor Kathy Hochul is weighing whether to use her authority to remove the mayor from office i want, to get straight to cnns Gloria Pazmino in New York. Gloria yeah, dana, the judge has taken the bench. Eric adams is side that courtroom, and the arraignment of the mayor of the city of New York for the first time in the Citys History is now underway. He is facing multiple charges, bribery, corruption, soliciting, and accepting illegal donations, and specifically defrauding the citys matching Funds System at taxpayer funded system meant to make elections easier for people who run for office, making them not have to raise its money from aipowered individuals in order to finance their campaigns. But thats exactly what the u. S. Attorneys says that Eric Adams did and that he started doing when theres a long before he became mayor. And that once he took office, he used his power, his authority to grant special favors to those donors. Now, i just want to take a moment to highlight whats happening here, because the mayor is inside that courtroom. My colleagues and Mark Morales and carroll for us going out there, they say that he is staring right ahead, are looking at the judges bench. He has also taken a look at the jury box, which right now is filled id members of the press and hes taken a look at the sketch artists. Theyre going to be The Ones who gave us the only images that come out of this. Its federal courts dont know cameras are allowed inside. You said he has when processed, just like any other defendant, they have taken his mug shot. They have taken has his fingerprints. They have put him through the federal system. We will not be seeing that mug shot. New york has a policy of not releasing those photos. But the enormity of this moment. And as you said, the political fallout fall the political implications of all of this are significant. The governor taking a serious look at the legal language that grants are the power to remove the mayor. Now that is not an easy thing to do. It is not a politically easy thing to accomplish but sources close to the governor and those who are familiar with what she is thinking about right now say that she is keeping her options open. Now, i do want to just highlight that is not going to be an easy task right here you have the first woman mayor, who would be using her powers to remove the citys second black mayor who has yet to be convicted of any charges. There are other high Profile Lawmakers who have you called for his resignation, including Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasiocortez and media of alaskas here in New York along with several other City And State members who say that the mayor Cannot Run the city effectively and that he should step down the mayor so far showing no signs that he has plans to do so. He says he will fight the charges and that New Yorkers should give him i asked you defend himself. Dana. Yeah, its really remarkable that the Governor Governor Hochul has those powers and its been interesting to see the way so far as you sort of alluded to that she has been saying, please take a look at this kind of a do the right thing. My words not hers, but thats the the gist of what she has been saying so far. Well see if she takes it even further. Thank you for that. Let us know if you get any information from inside that Courthouse Prosecutors detailed some of their allegations in an unsealed indictment against adams here, Text Messages between an Atom Staffer allegedly show an effort to conceal Adams Pattern of free travel. The staffer rejects a 50 flight and tells un official with a state owned Turkish Airline to charge a more realistic than thousand dollars for a flight to turkey saying his every step is being watched right now. Let it be somewhat real. We dont want them to say he is flying for free prosecutors alleged that Economy Ticket was an upgraded for free something that would have cost 15,000 joining me now to help make sense of this indictment is cnns chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, Elie Honig. Elie, nice to see you. Thanks for helping us break this down. So what i just reviewed with our audiences, just one piece of evidence. There is a lot more in this indictment and presumably theres more that we dont know about that is not in this indictment, at least wasnt spelled out in the indictment yeah, dana so typically when you put an indictment together as a prosecutor, youre going to put a lot of your evidence in there, but certainly not all of it, but looking at this indictment in the broader sense, it strikes me that the Prosecutions Evidence here is solid. I wouldnt go so far as to say that its a complete slam dunk, overwhelming case. But the strongest parts of the case appear to be first of all, the texts you just highlighted one, theres another, for example, where Eric Adams is basically telling one of his staffers to get a donation from a foreign donor to make it work. We dont want to waste that opportunity. And then the other thing that comes through to me from the indictment is that they clearly prosecutors clearly have flipped people on the inside of Eric Adams his office, and campaign. Those can be really powerful witnesses. And i just have to say that having practiced in the very courthouse that we just saw, Eric Adams walking into 500 pro street. It is surreal. Its just surreal to see the sitting mayor walking into those doors right now, which are a couple of hundred yards away from his office. And now hes sitting at a table as a criminal defendant. Federal court sitting mehr, former Brooklyn Borough president , and cop, cop police captain. Exactly. Police captain. So hes very familiar with the with the law of the land, so to speak what i know youre experience is on the prosecution side, but you are obviously a game out. What youre going to hear from the defense when a prosecutor is prepping a case, what do you think that the Atoms Defense is going to say as theyre getting ready for this trial, you did approximate good prosecutors always say, well, whats The Other Side, right . Say they will have a spirited defense here. First of all, Eric Adams has absolute top Shelf Defense attorneys. I think what were going to see is a defense like The One that we saw in the first trial of senator robert menendez, not The One that just concluded with a conviction, but The One a few years ago where Senator Menendez beat those charges, essentially what he argued is, look, if i took travel for and benefits from people they were friends of mine. If i did things to try to help them, thats constituent service, thats what we do. And thats not bribery. There are some supreme court rulings that actually lend some support to that theory that say its not enough if youre just sort of setting up meetings and making Phone Calls for people you have to show something more specific than that. But the problem for adams is the funneling of foreign money through straw donors. I think thats going to be a big problem for him here. All right. Elie. Thank you so much. Really appreciate i always feel smarter and once i get your perspective, thank you. And now were going to go to another major Breaking Story this hour, hurricane helene, it is dousing the Country Hundreds of miles of rain, at least 23 related deaths thats have been reported across four states thats according to authorities, i want to check in on things in North Carolina which is seeing catastrophic flooding as we speak, you can see that, wow, just behind you, isabella, isabel, forgive me. As a bell, rosales is an asheville whats the status of things right there incredible amount of flooding bringing debris to what should be a roadway right here. And actually, as we push our cameras in what ive noticed here in the last couple of hours, extremely concerning is the amount of chemical tanks. So Propane Fuel tanks that have just floated in these floodwaters and then just drifted off pass i site at least a dozen of them and actually i can smell it right now. This center of fuel that is in the Air Weve been told by officials that just because the rain has stopped and we heard this from the governor as well it does not mean that the threat is over because all of this incredible amount of water has to go back and well go back into the rivers and the streams further causing it to swell over its banks. So this is not done. The threat is not quite over here. We heard from Buncombe County officials saying that this is the most significant Weather Event that western North Carolina has seen in modern times. They are telling people, please do not travel that you should consider all of these roads essentially closed because the situation again, is expected to guess, get worse to give you a little bit of a context as to where were standing over in that direction that is where the swamp and i know a river is at. It has risen to 12 feet in just over the last 12 hours, and it is expected to rise to 21 feet. That would surpass a record. Normally, that river is just two to four feet deep. So this thing is just getting increasingly worse. I have seen the waterline just rise and rise hes in rice and also one more thing over a nearby Rutherford County about 20 miles south southwest of here. There is a dam that is at risk of imminent failure. So all of this water will continue to cause considerable problems for the people living around here yeah. 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