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trump alone. wow. fascinating. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now pochlt. this is cnn breaking news. it is the top of the pour. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. monitoring two big stories right now. jim jordan about to give a news conference in minutes as he tries yet again to become house speaker after failing multiple times. we are also following several big developments in israel s war with hamas. today president biden is back from the war zone and calling on congress to approve a new wartime aid package for israel and ukraine. in a prime tile oval always speech he called it vital for america s national security. i know these conflicts can seem far away. it s natural to ask, why does this matter to america. when terrorists don t pay a price for their terror, when dictators don t pay a price for their aggression they cause more chaos and death and destruction. they keep going. the cost and threats to america and the world ke ....
whether against muslims, jews or anyone. pro-palestinian protests outside the white house gate, conflicts that have struck a cord here at home, not just overseas. it crosses the broader middle east. we have seen protests in almost every country. aid trucks lined up as long as the eye can see, that s to go into gaza. water is the issue right now. we don t have any utilities. israel s defense minister telling troops they would soon see gaza, quote, from the inside. and as you can see, very significant developments overnight. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. we have team coverage on the ground in israel, erin burnett in tel aviv, matthew chance on the border with lebanon. president biden back from the war zone, and today he is pushing congress to approve more war time aid for israel and ukraine. he made that case in a primetime oval office address. hamas and putin represent different threats. but they share this in common. they both want to c ....
killed hundreds of innocent civilians. officials in gaza claim it was an israeli airstrike. the israeli military insists it was a misfire rocket launched by palestinian militants near the hospital. cnn geolocated this video, this is the moment of blast. this morning president biden appearing to take israel s side. listen to the president. deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in gaza yesterday. and based on what i have seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. but there is a lot of people out there who are not sure. so we have to overcome a lot of things. shortly before president biden landed in israel, the israeli military laid out evidence blaming the explosion on the islamic jihad militant group, including intercepted audio of hamas operatives alleged by talking about the misfired rocket. despite israel s denials, a wave of protests have erupted across the middle east. lebanon hundreds tried to break through securi ....
expectations out there. my pleasure. thank you for joining us. ac-360 begins now. it is 3:00 a.m. here in israel, which is even at this late hour dealing with repercussions of a huge tragedy on a terrible, terrible scale. the massive explosion at a hospital in gaza city. we should say at the outset the pictures are as horrible as the incident itself. we want to show you new video moments after the blast. hundreds are believed dead. we are talking about men, women, and children, civilians, more may still be buried in rubble at the al-ahli baptist hospital. the hospital not only had patients and doctors and nurses inside, but thousands of displaced people outside who had been seeking shelter there displaced from the bombings that had been going on in gaza. compounding the loss of life. we cannot independently confirm how many people were killed in this blast, but the pictures are sickening. one photojournalist witnessed many moments like this, telling the new y ....
secretary of state antony blinken making that big announcement from israel. he announced that president biden is coming to israel on wednesday. he said this which itself could be a very big deal. the united states and israel have agreed to develop a plan that will enable aid from multilateral organizations to reach civilians in gaza and them alone, including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harm s way. to have the u.s. president heading there himself and then to have what secretary blinken just announced. the u.s. government announcing they have a plan with israel to get aid into gaza. these are very big developments. we ll be talking going what this could mean for the course of this war. for israel, for hamas, for civilians in gaza who have been put in such an impossible situation. we ll be talking about the potential riskiness of the president s mission abroad and what his mission might be able to change. might be able to shake loose ....