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behind us, end quote. not really. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer. he s in the situation room, actually he s replaced by alex marquardt today. i ll see you soon. happening now, donald trump brushes off questions about a report you heard first right here on cnn, that is, federal prosecutors now in possession of audiotapes undercutting trump s defense over retaining classified documents. we re also getting reaction from one of the former president s previous attorneys. in the senate the debt ceiling deal could come to a final vote as soon as tonight. even as members of both parties raise serious concerns. majority leader chuck schumer telling senators, they have to stay in session until the bill passes. and russia says that regions near the border with ukraine have suffered dozens of attacks in just the last day. the kremlin condemning international silence over the recent strikes on russian territory. welcome to our viewers here in the united state ....
jim jimenez. sara and john are off. the israeli war cabinet is announcing that they will be gathering this morning, and voting on a deal to get the israeli hostages released by hamas in exchange for palestinian prisoners in israel. an announcement could come as soon as today about the culmination of this. and the number of hostages could be significant. a u.s. official says this is the closest they have been to a deal since the terror group kidnapped the innocent civilians in the october 7th attack. two israeli sources tell cnn is the names of who would be released, but regardless, it does appear that it will be a significant number, and potentially 50 women and children currently held in gaza in exchange, three palestinian prisoners could be released for every one hostage set free. on top of that, the swaps would be coming in a four to five-day pause in fighting. that is just some of the details of what this potential deal is starting to look like. we will get over t ....
hello and welcome to all our viewers joining us here in the united states, around the world and streaming on cnn max. i m rosemary church. the ifd with a video that shows their claims that hamas had been operating inside the al-shifa complex. two dozen babies awaiting transfer to egypt. and trump returns to a familiar theme and secures a key endorsement. live from cnn center, this cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. we begin in gaza, where we are now getting a look inside what the israeli military says is a hamas tunnel shaft in the hospital compound. the video was filmed by israel defense forces over the weekend. it begins on the outside before a camera is lowered down revealing a set of spiral stairs and the tunnel walls reinforced with concrete. israel says hamas has used al-shifa to cover up a terror infrastructure underground. something that hamas and hospital officials deny. the idf has release d videos an stills it claims hamas bri ....
right now. new video showing the inside of a tunnel reinforced with concrete on hospital grounds. reporter: more information about three hostages. we believe we have closer than we ve been for a final agreement. these are sensitive delicate talks. former president trump plans to argue that gag order is violating his right to free speech. deranged jack smith, have you ever heard of him? the court will take that into account. former first lady rosalynn carter has passed away at the age of 96. champion of mental health and women s rights and also caregiving. best thing i ever did was marry rosalyn. t that is the pinnacle of my life. and on this monday morning, so glad that you are with us. happy to have erica hill by my side. phil is on vacation. good morning. israeli military now claiming that surveillance video shows hamas bringing hostages into gaza s main hospital. that is what you are looking at. one of the videos shows a man being rushed in to t ....
command center. today the israeli military released this new video showing the inside of a tunnel on the hospital s grounds. we ve reached out to hospital officials about this footage but have not heard back. oren liebermann got a chance to enter with the israeli defense forces saturday and joins us now live from tel aviv with more. orin, what did you see? reporter: paula, we spent about six hours inside of gaza crossing the border fence at 9:00 in the evening and not coming back out until about 3:00 in the morning so the entire time we spent there was at night, and much of the time in gaza city itself which has been without power for days was in nearly complete darkness, but what we went to see was the newly exposed tunnel shaft, this had been revealed by the idf only a couple days earlier but haven t gotten to look inside. even though it was pretty much the middle of the night and had to use our headlamps to see it was clear there was something substantial there, ta ....