introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. right now on early start, donald trump asks the supreme court to decide, should he be disqualified from colorado s ballot over january 6. plus the long sealed list of jeffrey epstein s associates was just released. what it means and more importantly what it doesn t mean. and just hours from now, ron desantis and nikki haley will be live on cnn for back to back down halls. is it too late to catch the far and away frontrunner, donald trump. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is thursday, january 4, just after 5:00 a.m. in washington where of course we are all looking just down the road from where i sit at the u.s. supreme court. donald trump is asking the justices to overturn a historic colorado ruling. two weeks ago the state supreme court ordered t
in beirut on tuesday. hezbollah, a powerful paramilitary and political group in lebanon, has blamed that attack on what it says was flagra nt israeli aggression . israel has not commented. both hamas and hezbollah, banned terrorist organisations in many countries, have close ties to iran, which itself is holding a day of mourning after 84 people were killed by explosions near an event to mark the anniversary of the death of the iranian general qasem soleimani. the islamic state group has now said it carried out that attack in the southern city of kerman. alongside this, several nations have issued a warning to the houthi militants in yemen, who are also close to iran, to stop the attacks on shipping in the key lanes in the red sea. and, of course, the fighting in israel and gaza which has played a role in sparking all this there are reports of dozens more deaths from air strikes in southern gaza as israel continues its military operation. let s start with the funeral of th
issue here in that iran is sort of looming over everything and i mean, this has been a problem for the u.s. as well. how do you how do you solve that? well, there are a number of problems that we ve seen over these last few days. i mean, the killing of the hamas leader in beirut has opened up the possibility of a greater conflict with hezbollah. the the fact that obviously close to 100 people were killed in iran, although the united states and israel were not involved, isis clearly conducted that attack, but it makes iran even more nervous about what do they do to respond to the attacks that have taken place? in addition to that, you ve got continuing concerns about iran having a warship in the red sea and the continuing attacks by the houthis, supported by iran,
tensions as paula was saying and the concern is that it could blow up out of that even though there might not be any firm evidence to say who was responsible for what. and u.s. official telling us of course that the blast had the hallmarks of a terrorist attack. so it could be completely unlinked to what is happening elsewhere in the middle east. just a situation where they are kind of using it as an excuse. and i know we talked about this yesterday, but this targeted assassination of the hamas leader in beirut, which israelis are not officially saying anything about that one way or the other, but of course israeli former israeli officials have been opening congratulating the security services on pulling that off. what is the use of that, kind of a targeted tactic tell you about how things may be shifting in the israel gaza war? well, they are not giving away their tactics for obvious reasons, but as we talked about yesterday, they are pulling troops back from gaza. that didn t s
thousands of people attend the funeral of hamas s deputy leader, killed in a drone strike in beirut. a shooting at a high school in the us state of iowa police say there are multiple gunshot victims. prince andrew and bill clinton are among those named in newly released court documents relating to sex offenderjeffrey epstein. hello, i m samantha simmonds. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. we begin in the middle east and the aftermath of several acts of deadly violence in different countries. the funeral has taken place in lebanon, just outside beirut, for saleh al arouri, the deputy leader of hamas who was one of several people killed in an explosion