Coventry direct redefining insurance im dr. Sanjay gupta in atlanta. And this is cnn us this afternoon on Cnn News central. Im boris sanchez, live in the Nations Capital alongside Alison Camerota grateful to have you, brianna keilar, obviously has the day off and we begin here in washington, dc, where just moments ago, President Biden made a Surprise Visit during the White House Press Briefing. His first time ever taking questions there as president and he took quite a few. He seemed to relish his exchanges with a report. Yeah, they got to drag him out of there. The president spoke about everything from the ongoing crisis in the Middle East to the latest positive Jobs Report numbers. He was also asked if he believes the upcoming election will be free and fair and peaceful. And im confident be free and fair i dont know whether it will be peaceful things that trump has said and the things that he said last Time Out would he didnt like the outcome of the election . Were very dangerous hav
Trump. I want to go straight to cnns kristen holmes, who is at the site of Trumps Rally in saginaw, michigan and cnns eva mckend, who was in ripon, wisconsin, were Vice President and Kamala Harris is campaigning. So kristen to kick it up to you first, what did the former president focused on his Rally Today Bit more of a difficult question than you might think because its focus was All Over The Place they had billed this because a speech on the economy ensure he touched on some of those policies, particularly no tax on tips. No tax on Social Security or overtime. But the speech really veered and multiple well different directions. We heard him using some of his favorite catchphrases, calling Nancy Pelosi crazy, you talking about how Gavin Newsom was crazy saying Kamala Harris Ruin California and also talking about how Kamala Harris never worked at mcdonalds, something that he has existed on fixating on, but the other other thing that he really kept going back to was this conversation a
Major Breaking News right now. Israel vowing to retaliate after iran launches a major Strike Firing about 200 ballistic missiles at israel. A Strike Iran assists was only a quote, portion of their power. Good evening. Im Wolf Blitzer along with Kasie Hunt, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. This is a Special Edition of this situation it is a sharp escalation between the two sides. One that could tip the region further into an allout War Air Raid sirens sounding across israel as flashes of light Lit Up the sky israels Air Defense System successfully knocking down most of irans missiles but there were some hits. This is one crater in central israel the massive strike coming a day after israeli forces launched a rare Ground Operation into southern lebanon, a mission aimed at taking out the uranium backed militia, hezbollah and tonight, iran is threatening what It Calls a Crushing Quote crushing response if israel carries through with its promise, promis
Around the world. This is a Special Edition of the Situation Room Wolf blitzer im Kasie Hunt in the new Yorks Spin Room for Tonights Vice President ial debate. And wolf, most of the missiles were intercepted, but there were of course, a few hits in central and Southern Israel this is new video of an iranian missile striking an israeli airbase. This is a base that iran tried to hit back in april theres only moments ago, kasie, i spoke to former israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and he told me this is the Moment Israel needs to take out or runs nuclear facilities all this is coming as israel is continuing to target hezbollah targets in lebanon just moments ago, he Israeli Military issuing new Evacuation Orders for Southern Beirut this is a very densely populated area where hezbollah holds a lot of Sway Jeremy Diamond is standing by his germany yes. From gadara in israel, jeremy, what have you learned so far about the damage on the ground caused by these iranian Ballistic Missile str
Airport, not use weaponry from iran in forming their part in the road its more civilian use and were not going to allow any Transfer Weapons through this airport we are in constant touch with the United States right. Were gonna break away from that. Thats the spokesman for the idf, Cnn National Security analyst, Beth Sanner joins us now. So beth, our Jim Sciutto just reported that a former senior israeli official says that the israeli military must have been shore that the leader of hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was there in those apartment buildings. But now israel appears to be warning that there might be more strikes to come. We still dont know if his nasrallah is dead. What do you make of it . All . They are trying to basically eliminate. Now all of the hezbollah leadership that might be in that neighborhood. That is that the center of power for hezbollah, they wiped out six buildings buy from what im hearing from Cnn Reporting along with the headquarters building. And now they want