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and we begin this morning with breaking news on capitol hill. where a major defense bill has been turned into a debate over social issues. overnight, the republican-led house passed a series of amendments to nearly $900 billion defense policy bill. the amendments include overturning the pentagon's abortion policy, banning transgender health services for military personnel and other things. meanwhile, republican senator tommy tuberville continues to hold up military promotions over the pentagon's abortion policy, which defense secretary lloyd austin warned was a national security issu...

Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez with brianna keilar. We want to go straight to anderson cooper, where sirens are going on. Whats going on . Sirens have not occurred here for really today, certainly over the last several days. Theyre quite extensive sirens. You hear them all over tel aviv. It started maybe 30 seconds ago. It remains to be seen. If rockets do come, they generally come from that direction that sounded like an Iron Dome Interception. That was a rather large explosion. That is something we have nod heard very much here in tel aviv. No, i think were fine in this lo...

Well talk about the Significant Developments with california senator alex padilla. In new york city, former President Trump is back in court for day three of the Civil Fraud Trial against him. Why the judge has ordered a gag order on trump. And the largest Healthcare Workers strike in history is now under way. At least 75,000 Caser Workers hit the picket line. And we begin with what comes next for the house after the historic ouster of speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Moments ago, House Judiciary Committee chair jim jordan confirmed he is now running to succeed Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. Hes the first ...

>> our view of the national defense authorization act is that it is woefully irresponsible that extreme maga republicans have hijacked a bipartisan bill that is essential to our national security and taken it over and weaponized it in order to jam their extreme right wing ideology down the throats of the american people. >> reporter: now that was, of course, the leader talking about the ndaa, which, of course, democrats were almost unanimously opposed to, i think four of them ended up voting for it. what he also said in those comments during that press conference was that this was the right wa...

Election. >> dana: congressman, what could the republicans do right now to get tougher on the democrats? >> dana, we need to keep hitting hard on the fact that they are literally trying to impeach a president behind closed doors. the fact that adam schiff continues today, all of last week to conduct all of these hearings in secret, he does not even allow the press in. members of congress that are not on the relevant committees are being turned away from the hearings. that's a back room shade that this is pitted is not just a witch hunt, but being conducted out of public view online, we have ev...