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>> i am mj lee at the white house and this is cnn. ♪ ♪ >> we continue to follow the breaking news out of israel and its war on hamas. the israel defense forces says that it accidentally shot and killed three israeli hostages in northern gaza who were mistakingly identified as a threat. two of the vn -- victims identified. this is what idf spokesman lieutenant colonel jonathan told me just this last hour. >> we are looking into how it happened, how it came about that these hostages were out, trying to understand how that happened, whether it was intentional by hamas, or it wasn't ...

I held him in the very highest regard because of what he gave to me. They gave me my england debut and set me on the road, and i will never forget that. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is the latest twist in Donald Trumps confrontation with the heads of americas Intelligence Agencies. Mr trump says the director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, called him last night to condemn a leaked report claiming the President Elect was vulnerable to blackmail by russia. But mr clapper has said hed made no judgment on whether the report was reliable and he rejected mr trumps suggestion that Us Intelli...

>> multiple terror related charges filed against a new jersey man who allegedly was helping hezbollah find u.s. terror targets. brynn gingras, i understand you have new information. >> out of morristown, new jersey, the unsealing of the indictment, 33 pages, gives jaw-dropping description of the type of surveillance he was doing on behalf, according to federal authorities of this terrorist group, hezbollah irks iranian terror proxy group. it's our understanding from authorities that he became a naturalized citizen back in 2008, however they believe he had been working with the terrorist group ...

Donald trump as a citizen back in 2013 or there around in some of those tweets in which he was saying don't attack syria, he was also indicating that president obama -- that politics might be involved in this to overcome the involvement, that he was thinking of military action. you have democrats and others raising questions about trump's motives in this and are politics playing a role in this? >> yeah. i take him at his word that he was alarmed by what he saw and reacted to it. both things could be true. it could be politically strengthening for him in the short run to do what he did. he coul...

Actions, you need to get him book to the table, you can forget any counter terrorism cooperation and you need to work with us to end this conflict. the peril and danger is there are a lot of unintended consequences that can flow from this. we want to make sure that russia doesn't make our life more difficult, for example for our pilots, in helping to defeat the islamic state. and we want to make sure that resources that were dedicated to dealing with assad also remain in place. so there's a real balance to get right here. >> it's interesting, donald trump as a citizen back in 2013 or therearou...