are in the cnn newsroom. hi everyone. i m jessica dean in new york, and we begin with breaking news in a major bloated israel s emergency government. just a day after prime minister benjamin netanyahu celebrated the rescue of 400 inside gaza israeli opposition leader and war or cabinet member benny gantz announced he s resigning from the government back in may yan s gave netanyahu an ultimatum, calling for a plan to end the war in gaza bring all the hostages home. or he said he would quit. well, that deadline came yesterday was of course, the same day israel s military conducted a special operation to rescue those hostages this from gaza. and today, we re learning new details about that surprise mission cnn s paula hancocks is live in tel aviv. she s been tracking the latest developments and paula, let s start first with what s happening inside the israeli government. how is prime minister netanyahu responding to this well, jessica, he has already effectively asked ga
general merrick garland s recent statements and what has come out in hearings with the head of the national security division, the big lie is something that has animated domestic extremism. and if you are the justice department you see attack on january 6th as an act of domestic extremism or even domestic terrorism. as the committee tries to figure out why this happened, they will want to know motivation and people said their motivation coming to the capitol is the belief that the election was stolen and the justice department s own national security experts continue to say it is the big lie that continues to fuel domestic extremism here at home. yeah. we ve made this point before. it s an important one, the point you are making, katie, to reiterate, that if you think it is the case that a free and fair election was actually stolen successfully by joe biden and put in power against the will of the people, you are living in truly extreme times in which the rule of law hasn t held, rig
in extreme times, in which the rule of law hasn t held. there isn t a possible mission structure of course, that s key to what we re seeing. i want to follow up to you, katie. this is reporting of a colleague of yours, not your writer for new york times. to the legal system. and at least one case, and in visual named brenda straka the prosecutors are said to have asked about trump s role of the january 6th riot. which seem significant, and maybe we have not seen that yet, in any of the charging documents. prosecutors wanted to know about any coordination with trump, or his followers. we haven t seen that in the charging documents. we have seen is people being charged by the justice department, saying that they did with a did, that they were at the capitol, illegally