You again next week hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Right. Now us is on high alert and actively preparing for a significant potential attack by iran on us and israeli targets in the middle east soon as next week, thats according to a Senior Biden Administration official, iran is blaming israel for an airstrike in syria this week that killed at least seven iran let me and officials, including two top military commanders, were also following an Important Development in the humanitarian aid crisis in gaza israel is preparing to reopen the Erez Crossing in northern gaza, at least temporarily to bring in aid that move follows a meeting between President Biden is israeli Prime Minister met navajo. This wig the backdrop to all of this tomorrow, mark six months since the hamas attack on israel sparked, which sparked the war in gaza. Priscilla alvarez is in washington for us and Nic Robertson in jerusalem. Priscilla, you first, how is the us preparing for this potential attack that were being warned about . Well, the us and the Israeli Government is working around the clock to try to get in position ahead of any potential attack by iran. But both see it as inevitable. Now they dont know how it would be carried out or when, but theyre preparing for all possible scenarios of of an attack potentially in israel now, again, this was a major point of discussion between the president , joe biden and israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu in their phone call this week. And of course it stems from that israeli airstrike that you were just mentioning that hit an embassy in damascus. Now, the idf says that intelligence shows that that was its not indeed a consulate, but it was an escalation all the same. And that is really the fear here is that this would continue to escalate and pool. In other countries into a regional conflict, which is something that the white house has been trying to avoid. Now, the United States informed iran that it was not involved in this this is really airstrike nor did it know of it in advance. But the big concern here is that there would be an attack by a ram are on israel by iran, it strike, which again, could could incite eight regional conflict which the Biden White House has repeatedly tried to avoid. But in the moment what we know is that the us and the Israeli Government are tracking this very closely and monitoring all of these developments and trying to get in position should there be an attack by iran . All right, thanks so much up, priscilla. All right. Lets turn now to Nic Robertson and jerusalem, nic the Erez Crossing into gaza is expected to open tomorrow to bring in much needed aid. How much of an impact might that make . Its a very needed impact its not clear how much of an impact it will have because its not clear yet how many trucks will be allowed to go in, how regularly therell be allowed to go in. And what therell be able to reach when they do get in there so those are all the questions whats being watched . Of course, very, very carefully is what the Israeli Government does to make good on its promise to public promise and the comments the president president , under the pressure of President Biden how well they make good on that promise and the the Border Crossing and we were there today is a shell of what it once was. It was a place that hamas attacked on october 7. It shot up the Passenger Terminal because predominantly this was for foot passengers, not for heavy Cargo Traffic that typically crosses through the Rafah Crossing In The South and the Kerem Shalom Crossing in the south into gaza so this crossing itself is not one thats constructed for a big heavy flows of aid to go through. But of course, can be used for that what we know about the rows on the other side of the border inside of gaza, is that some of them . A very heavily damaged, that theyve been hit by a missiles and bombs. The tarmac blown out on the roof. But i think what strike us, our team has we were right along the border there very closely Erez Crossing todays effect that you can still hear heavy Machine Gunfire and The Sound Of Heavy X now, of course, other aid convoys have been able to get through, through into areas within, within gaza and deliver aid despite the fact the war is going on. But its clear in and around the arrows crossing itself in a way that we havent heard so close to other crossings there is still some persistent gunfire so that is going to be another difficulty for the aid delivery to be able to get through and at the moment, we dont have any details from israeli officials about how many trucks there planning to let through, whats going to be on the trucks where the trucks have come from, where the trucks are going to be inspected because of course thats something israel do before aid is allowed in. But the nice it is massive. Of course, the un says people in northern gaza, and the most vulnerable for food at the moment, many of them are starving yeah, we know indeed that aid cannot get there soon enough. Weve heard it from all sides Nic Robertson for scylla alvarez. Thanks to both of you. Appreciate it. All right. Lets zero. And again, back to the possible threats the us or possibly israel by iran Biden Ministration officials are warning that it is possible. So bob baer is with us now. Bob with this warning coming from Biden Administration officials that it is possible. How does the us or even israel brace itself . Well fred, what theyd like to know is what is the planning where, where is the ran get ahead. Is it going to hit through proxies or use its own forces . Remember when a dispute with saudi arabia had hit the Oil Facilities at ab cake with a drone it sounds to me, i would guess that iran is going to hit from lebanon. Its got a basis there all along the border using his ball of proxies. Theyve got missiles in caves. They can be pulled out, fired they can swarm israeli air defenses. They can hit haifa, they can hit tel aviv and also, i would suspect that a ran is going to hit israel rather than the United States simply because theres a possibility to divide washington and tel aviv, that relations are terrible at this point. And if it looks like israel is starting World War Three in the middle east, a may calculate that it can separate the United States from israel. I dont think it well, but this is the kind of planning the tehran is going through right now. Do you feel like its possible that this would be immediate i think the intelligence that cnn has picked up, that its going to be next week, its probably a good idea the cia National Security agency can see preparations for strikes on the ground, either overhead or chatter and if they say its going to come next week is a good chance it will. And do you feel like this is indirect response to what happened earlier in the week or do you believe . It instead coincides with more of a six month marking of when this conflict began, october 7 fret. I think its what we have to look at is the war in gaza. Its got terrible for israel. They havent been able to to get to the command of hamas. Lot of civilian casualties. Fred, so that means theres a huge amount of pressure on tehran from the population, from the muslims around the world. And they feel that they want to have a voice in the future of the middle east. Theyre going to have to retaliate against israel and the sooner they do it in their minds, the more effective it will be the us and iran doesnt have diplomatic relations. Do you believe there would be a third Party Country that would have to be involved here or do you see that . This is an instance in which the us has to have some sort of outreach to iran being messages to tehran through the swiss saying, hey, lets not stop, are a regional war. You will pay for it. Dont drag us in just dont do it where were doing our best to control things in gaza and dont interrupt this now, whether the us rate the weather, the iranians will listen or not. I cant tell you, but i guarantee you washington is sending a lot of Back Channel Messages to tehran all right, former cia officer bob baer. Thanks so much. All right. Still to come. 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The starting admission, if you will, is 250,000, but folks who are listed as chairman of the event, who give the top of mount are each giving 824,000 per person. Wow, now they could raise those big numbers in part because it is a joint fundraiser with the Republican National committee and a bunch of state party committees. And so you ask its one billionaire to write a big check and then that money is distributed Amount Dozens of committees were contrasting. Yeah. Okay. So then i tonights fundraiser also comes after President Bidens Campaign Announced a huge fundraising haul for the month of march what more is the Biden Campaign saying about where they are in . Their war chest. Well, they raised 90 million in march was a huge number. And they have a war chest of about 100 million cash on hand. That is about 100 million more than team trump as on hand. So they are celebrating, i mean, frankly, fundraising has been one of the bright spots for the Biden Campaign they raised more than 26 million at a fundraiser that included former president s clinton and obama earlier, will late last month and hes been dealing with really low Approval Ratings, but he is able to make the case. His team argues that he succeeded in his first term and should be reelected. Theyre talking about opening 100 offices and battleground states. And theyve Just Launched a third pretty Million Dollar ad buy targeting black latino, and asian voters and folks who supported nikki haley in the primary trying to persuade them to come to their side. Fredricka. All right. Theres a lot there. All right. Fredreka schouten. Great to see you. Thanks so much. For more. Now lets bring in political reporter for a semaphore academia gaba, and also cnn Political Analyst and White House Reporter for the associated press, son min kim. Good to see you both. All right. So cadena you first. I mean, when you look at the cash on hand for these campaigns you biden has a sizable lead there. You just heard fredricka, they are talking about almost 100 a million more than trump. So its a very interesting contrast because as fredricka just underscored biden has very, or has low Approval Rating numbers. But then in contrast, has brought in a whole lot of money. So help, help us understand how the Biden Campaign is seeing this well, like she pointed out, i think theyre very happy about it. Fundraising has been a bright spot for the Biden Administration. And i think theyve been very disciplined about it raising 90 million basically it compared to trumps 93 million on hand is a considerable hall. I think youll see both of them. Both campaigns start to ramp up. That says what the Trump Campaign has been touting for the last couple of days ahead of this fundraiser that hes gonna have really targeting on that 25 million and that Biden Raising that hes going to tell donors hes going to double that, i think will this will be the season or the era of campaign galas. And i think youll see both campaigns start to ramp up here and sungmin, i mean, whats all this money for mean, it doesnt make a gigantic difference because we saw trump wins in in 2016 will Spending Hundreds of millions of dollars less than hillary clinton. So why so much money needed now to make a difference . Or do you right . Right. I mean, democratic republicans have told me that obviously the normal political rules can off an