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i m fred pleitgen and this is what s ahead on cnn newsroom cnn learns former national security officials are now voicing their concerns to joe biden about the presidential race. what they re saying, and how the white house is responding. donald trump hits the campaign trail with his new running mate. hear the message he took to a battleground state in his first rally since surviving an assassination and israel and yemen launch more attacks against each other as prime minister benjamin netanyahu prepares to visit the u.s we are now just 107 days away from the u.s us presidential election and the race looks very different for the two leading parties at least 35 democratic lawmakers are now publicly urging u.s. president biden to drop out of the race. and he is not taking that in stride. mr. biden is reportedly quote, seething toward nancy pelosi amid the growing list of democratic defections. ironically, the former speaker of the house headlined what was touted as a quo ....
is cnn breaking news. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning, sunday, july 13th. i m victor you re blackwell and amara walker. thank you so much for joining us this morning. we begin with breaking news this hour and israeli security official tells cnn that a top hamas military official, mohammed deif was targeted in an israeli airstrike in southern gaza this morning. now, deif is the leader of hamas s qassam brigades now, it comes as gaza officials say, at least 20 the team are dead, dozens injured in a strike in the khan younis area. new video into cnn now shows the moment of that strike. gaza officials say it hit an area where displaced people were sheltering. cnn s jeremy diamond joins us from jerusalem now with more what s the latest you re hearing jeremy well, the israeli military says that it is still looking into these reports of whether or not mohammed deif has indeed been killed in this strike. but in israeli security official is indeed telling me that ....
won t hear it. thanks, dana. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the pressure intensifies on president biden to drop out of the race. today the president defiantly insisting is he not going anywhere. both in a phone interview and in a letter to congressional democrats. this comes as the president prepares for a major international event, nato conference right here in washington. senior white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. white house officials are claiming they are not awar of any examples of national security officials withholding information from president biden late at night even though the president now says he doesn t work that well after 8:00 p.m. and president biden is ignoring all calls from democratic colleagues to exit the race on his own. watch. watch. i m getting so frustrated. peter: the president daring democratic officials to t ....
[ applause ] [ bell ringing ] a moment of silence for when flight 93 crashed in shanksville. you ve been listening to the 9/11 ceremony in new york. before that, the pentagon, where the leaders of the military spoke, including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, and the secretary of defense, lloyd austin. secretary austin will join us live in a moment. first, let s bring back gerad and jalia. i want to talk about the heroism of the staff. and the crew. important distinction for the families. and the passengers. it is almost such an amazing story that people almost express disbelief, that it s become a myth. no, it s real. it really did happen. there were all these heros, including the crew, as you note, that saved how many thousands of lives, we don t know, by forcing that plane down. tell us more. yeah. this is one of the things that you sort of see throughout that day. these little moments that end up making a big differen ....
when the delta variant spread has discourageded some people from flying, shopping and eating out. the president mentioning the delta variant the key reason why job numbers are coming out like this today and assuring middle class americans their taxes will not go up so long as you don t make over $400,000 a year. he said the rich, billionaires can stay rich and continue to own the two or three homes. he said that two or three times. those taxes will go up. but assuring the american people that things will get better once we get through this pandemic and we ll continue to watch and hear from the president later if he does comment on afghanistan. you heard a reporter there asking him a question about that. he did not answer and he walked away from the podium. anyway, we will continue our coverage here. we begin with a fox news alert. president biden heading to louisiana today. a packed afternoon. he will be touring the damage inflicted on the gulf coast by hurricane ida, s ....