You for joining us. Im Jim Sciutto live from Tel Aviv. We begin with Breaking News this morning, a claim just in the last hour by israel that it has killed hezbollahs leader, Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike in Southern Beirut. Yesterday, israel says nasrallah was killed but hezbollah has not yet commented and israeli official told cnn earlier that nasrallah was the target of the attack. And i was told in the last 24 hours that they had very high confidence. Nasrallah was on the site when the attack took place. This comes on the heels of israels largest strikes on beirut in nearly 20 years, Lebanons News Agency says israel also launched strikes in Southern Lebanon, as well as the eastern part of the country. This morning, hezbollah says it fired more rockets into Northern Israel in response we are also hearing that some hospitals in the southern part of beirut, an area targeted by israel yesterday, will now be evacuated. Im joined now by cnns Ben Wedeman, who is In Beirut and in ben, w
The israeli army is conducting localised raids in northern gaza, wherei million palestinians were told today to relocate ahead of a much bigger Ground Operation that is expected. In a day of rage ordered by hamas, there were protests across the middle east, and more rockets fired from gaza towards tel aviv. With me on the panel tonight sunday columnist and deputy Political Editor at the mail on sunday, anna mikhailova. Also here from atlanta, the attorney and democratic strategist, chris bruce. In the next few minutes we will get the thoughts of the former israeli Prime Minister, ehud olmert. And we will bring you up to speed with the chaos in the us House Of Representatives where republicans are still struggling to appoint a speaker. Good evening. The israels military has ordered the evacuation of more than 1 million palestinians from the northern section of the gaza strip, a move the United Nations has described as calamitous. The 24 hour deadline provoked a desperate scramble with f
we found of new contact with russians between michael cohen and a russian emissary, possibly trying to put the president in direct contact with vladimir putin. in the manafort filing, we find out about new contacts between manafort and the white house as recently as earlier this year after he had been indicted. you know, there was plenty of new information here. and explicitly stating that the president here had directed michael cohen to potentially break these campaign finance laws. we had seen some implications of that previously. this underscored it in a way that was different. there s a role question about where congressional republicans are on this. and that s a key question as it plays out. the department of justice has a standing policy or guidance against indicting a sitting president. and so what seems most likely moving forward is that we might see prosecutors, be it in new york or the special counsel, mueller, recommending action via congress filing a report to congressional
race. and we are told his announcement was met with stunned silence from fellow republicans. and mccarthy said the gop needs a new face to unite. it bret baier on special report. it is unexpected and there were mummures after the gaffe that he met about benghazi and hillary clinton and that might have impacted the race. is that what this is all about that one comment? well, as kevin mccarthy said in the statement it didn t help. i think it had a influence in this day. i think that no one believed that he was going into the conference and would not be able to get the majority of the republican conference. the role question was 218 number of votes needed on the house
congress has been cutting the budget, and so it seems to be a muddle and there is a role question of whether this is the right agency to lead an important battle fold in terms of the information wars and propaganda wars against our terrorist. two and half million a year guess to the voice of america. if it can that one thing. but do you think that voice of america is the right place to fight the battle? i have my doubts. it is kind of old technology and it was designed to penetrate different countries where they couldn t get another point of view because of state- controlled media and also our serious foes today are stateless forces like al-qaeda and isis. if they can t modernize and figure out what it wants to do maybe it is time for other elements of the u.s. government