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thought i she the day our lifespans are quite short. extreme directtv without a satellite dish, are you gonna do this thing with my neck just for a bit. >> super tuesday coverage begins tomorrow at 06:00 p.m. on cnn and streaming on max >> to sad day in our sports lead. although next stop perhaps canton today, legendary philadelphia eagles center jason kelce announce tearfully his retirement from professional football after 13 seasons said an emotional press conference, kelce shared his favorite memories of his football career from his first little league games to his final plays with the eagles >> some people struggled to play in this they can't handle the boos, the media for our fans consider it a great blessing to play in the most passionate sports town in america >> of course. >> he also touched on his unique >> relationship with his brother and
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>> and fellow professional player travis and their iconic face off in the super bowl or the kelce bowl last year. after jason kelce's announcement, the pro football hall of fame posted quote now that philadelphia eagles star center jason kelce has announced his retirement the year 2029 is worth noting. 2029, of course, that would be the year that jason kelce becomes eligible to enter the professional football hall of fame. mr. kelce as a philadelphian and an eagles fan, and an attendee at the 2018 super bowl. all i can say it's thank you so much we are getting ready to kick off a big day here on cnn live coverage of super tuesday starts at 06:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. you can watch it on cnn and streaming on max, the news continues on cnn and i will see if our election coverage
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>> happening now, breaking news, colorado's top election official response to the us supreme court's historic ruling, keeping donald trump on the ballot in her state and others secretary of state, gender griswold is joining us live. also tonight. we huge stakes of the 2024 election are on vivid display this week. as trump aims to sweep super tuesday contests tomorrow, and president biden prepares for his critical state of the union address thursday, while also facing dismal new poll numbers. and there's more breaking news. vice president kamala harris just wrapped up talks with a top political rival of israeli prime minister benjamin, a tiny escalating the biden administration's push for an immediate six week ceasefire in gaza we're getting a readout of the media. welcome to our
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viewers here in the united states and around the world i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room the ski is cnn, breaking news >> the colorado secretary of state is standing by to discuss the consequences of the us supreme court's unanimous rejection of her state's efforts to remove donald trump from the presidential ballot speak with her in just a moment. but first, let's get a breakdown of the line landmark high court decision from cnn, chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid >> former president trump today claims the supreme court has unified the country by securing his place on the 2024 ballot. >> you voters can take the person out of the race very quickly. but a court shouldn't be doing that and the supreme court, so that very well. and i really do believe that well, be a unifying factor in a
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unanimous opinion monday, the court ruled that colorado could not remove trump from the ballot under the constitution's ban on insurrectionists serving in office states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the constitution to enforce section three with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency, the justices warned that allowing states to each make different decisions about ballot eligibility would result in a patchwork creating chaos around elections the victory for trump was expected after february oral arguments where justices from both sides of the aisle appeared skeptical of colorado's case. >> i think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide and who gets to be president of the united states. >> and the chief justice, unlikely that congress will do anything before november. and in less than two months, the court will hear arguments on
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another major trump case that could impact the outcome of the election. there the question is if trump has immunity that could protect him from criminal charges related to his efforts let's to subvert the 2020 election. now will most legal experts do not think trump will win on the merits. but the fact that court has even taken the case could help them delay it until after the presidential contest. >> we shall see a huge, huge decision coming up on that front as well. paula reid at the supreme court. thank you very much joining us now, the colorado secretary of state jenna griswold, madam secretary. thanks so much for joining us. the high court says states don't have the power to remove federal candidates from the ballot. what's your reaction to this historic decision today? >> well, thank you for having me on first and foremost, i'm glad that they issued a decision colorado voters and american voters all across the country deserve to know whether donald trump is qualified or not as we go into super tuesday
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but in terms of the bigger decision, i'm disappointed. we believe that it's up to colorado or any state to determine whether to disqualify oath-breaking insurrectionists from our ballots. ultimately, the united states supreme court disagreed. votes were donald trump will count and he is on our ballot. >> the court didn't address the sensitive issue whether trump has actually an insurrectionist. are you disappointed by that and what worries you most about this decision? >> i wouldn't say i was surprised. they didn't address it but it is the big elephant in the rub only two courts have looked at the question of whether trump engaged in insurrection, and they both determined that he did and i think one of the concerns from this decision is that without congressional action, oath-breaking insurrectionists running for federal office will not be able to be stopped from
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appearing on ballots although congress could act, it's highly unlikely with such congress that we have that just doesn't function very well >> as you heard, the madam secretary, even the three liberal justices agreed that trump can't be removed from the ballot given that did the colorado supreme court, from your perspective? go too far >> i don't think the colorado supreme court went too far. i think they're different opinions. that's why we have a judicial system as to whether section three of the 14th amendment is self-executing, whether states can apply that provision of the constitution to protect our ballots from oath-breaking insurrectionists >> i also >> think that the big concern is still there. donald trump incited the insurrection. he incited that violent mob onto the capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power. and he has
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not stopped his attack acts on democracy since then >> it's clear you disagree strongly with the supreme court decision as a legal matter. but madam secretary, is it better for the country that if if trump goes ahead and loses the election, it's a result of the voters making their choice at the ballot box as an elected official, as colorado secretary of state, it's my job to uphold the law in the constitution. >> if >> there is a provision in the constitution that would bar someone like trump from appearing on the ballot? it's my job to enforce that. when there's big questions while it goes into litigation and we've seen that play out exactly how it did. trump is a qualified candidate. the united states supreme court has decided states do not have the authority to remove him and ultimately will it will be up to the american people to save our democracy in november at
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their voting centers. insurrection he incited that violent mob onto the capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power. and he has not stopped his attacks on democracy since then. >> so it's clear you disagree strongly with the supreme court decision as a legal matter, but madame secretary, is it better for the country that if if trump goes ahead and loses the election, it's a result of the voters making their choice at the ballot box as an elected official, as colorado secretary of state, it's my job to uphold the law in the constitution if there is a provision in the constitution that would bar someone like trump from appearing on the ballot? it's my job to enforce that. when there's big questions while it goes into litigation and we've seen that play out exactly how it did. trump is a qualified candidate. the united states supreme court
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has decided states do not have the authority to remove him and ultimately will it will be up to the eric and people to save our democracy in november at their voting centers >> trusting the supreme court according to various polls, is near record lows right now, will today's decision lower the court's standing with the public, even more so. do you have less faith yourself in the court? >> my opinion on the court does not immediately matter to this case in hand. i am disappointed. but as secretary of state, i'll uphold the united states supreme court's decision donald trump, i believe, is a danger to american democracy. we already see maga, extremists trying to undermine confidence in 2024 trump himself is facing 91 felony counts in four separate cases. the american people from the very beginning have all the
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power in the world to safeguard our country. i was never waiting on the supreme court to do that because that will be the american voters job this fall, we shall see what happens. the colorado secretary of state, jenna griswold. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> let's get some reaction right now from our legal and political experts and laura coates, i'll start with you how significant is today's decision? >> oh, it's a huge decision wolf. the idea that even waiting for over a month, of course, very interesting as well. but this tells you that they have foreclosed in some respect and only a former president being able to be found i'm getting this way, but also any official that's not explicitly laid out in section three of the 14th amendment. it's consequential. could they told the states essentially, although your job is to oversee elections, to stay in your lane, if it's a state issue, it's all yours. but for federal office, you cannot. and that's pretty significant here. >> what did you think of what we just heard? from the colorado secretary of state, her reaction while i think it's obvious she wanted a different conclusion, her job as an official obviously has to
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carry out the law as it's written, but the notion that they're taking away the state's ability to decide who can be on their own ballots is a huge step. the supreme court and why? >> because they >> believe that it's inappropriate for one state eight to decide how the rest of essentially the union will be able to operate. but their role is hold on. if i'm in charge of my own state elections than why would i not be in that best position here for my own voters? this is a way i think them to have the off-ramp that she was even herself because of being happening. and here it is, the off-ramp and the supreme court got off at that exit. >> what did you think norm eisen from what we just heard from the colorado secretary of state, well, wealth, their legal issues that reasonable minds can disagree about. i think secretary griswold position that the evidence strongly supported donald trump engaged in insurrection and the fair assessment that that is a threat to the devil i'm a critic. norms of the system. i think here though you can't underestimate the political win
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for donald trump a nine, nothing unanimous. supreme court decision is just something we saw him do it this afternoon. you could just take out and sell on the campaign trail as, as validation. now, i know this wasn't the thorniest or trickiest of all the legal issues he faces and that he had a pretty strong case here to take before the supreme court. but that is still sort of a feather in his cap. now to, as he's trying to do away with all of these legal challenges to get a nine nothing supreme court decision on one that keeps do on the ballot is no small thing. >> yeah, that's a good important point. laura based on what we saw today with today's supreme court decision, how if at all do you think that potentially could affect the other major supreme court decision that's coming in the weeks ahead, whether or not the president, the former president in this particular case he has presidential immunity. in other words, he can't be charged with a crime. well, there was >> this idea that the supreme court might split the baby. they might say in the colorado
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case. okay. you're on the ballot, which again, be careful what you wish for, because if your whole schtick is that i'm capped off on political martyr. now that you're back on, if you should lose, you can't really blame the supreme court although likely someone will, then the other part of it is hold on a second. you've got this immunity case here. well, that seems to be a much stronger argument in favor of >> took about a month to actually have a decision if you have an oral argument, april on april 22, if it's a month from then you have an actual decision. well, there might in fact be some time on the clock before the election to have some meaningful argument or a trial. >> and to david's point about putting the wind in donald trump's sales before for super
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tuesday clearly they're focused on the political calendar and the right of every american to be informed. well, if you apply that same logic, how much more so super majority of americans wants to know did donald trump abuse the powers that he's seeking two regain, they want a jury verdict on that. so perhaps that's a sign that they'll meet that schedule. so the january 6 trial can take place. we'll see what, if any, impact today's supreme court decision has on the voting tomorrow, the republican primaries in all these states coming up super tuesday coming up, we'll have much more. all of the day's important news right after this >> i was stuck unresolved. depression symptoms were in my way. i needed more from my antidepressant very large
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from tel-aviv. cnn's mj lee is over at the white house. she's getting new information. first to you, mj, what can you tell us about this meeting and the message it sends? >> well, wolf, the meetings certainly underscores the biden administration's growing urgency when it it comes to this conflict. we are told by the white house that the vice president made clear a couple of things to benny gantz in this meeting that just wrapped up. we're told that she made clear how deeply concerning the humanitarian crisis in gaza is right now, including bringing up that tragic situation last week were dozens of palestinian civilians these were killed just trying to get their hands on humanitarian aid. uh, we're also told that she talked about the importance of getting to a ceasefire deal where hostages can come out. this is something of course that us officials have been working on for weeks and weeks and we're also told that she made clear that israel simply needs to do more and trying to provide more humanitarian assistance. the backdrop here, of course, is that the us, as we saw over the
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weekend, began making airdrops of humanitarian aid, including food, so that the people there could have more assistance as they're going through. this really horrific situation of not being having access to basic life necessities these, you know, it's important to note for context wolf that benny gantz is visit was not without controversy in israel prime minister netanyahu making clear his displeasure that his political rival is getting this kind of audience with senior us officials. the white house has defended those meetings, basically saying, look, he's a member of the war cabinet in israel when he's visiting washington and asking time, we're going to give it so that we can have the opportunity to discuss a lot of these important wartime issues. >> jeremy, you're there until aviv, you're getting more information how much has this visit irritated the israeli prime minister? >> well, there's no question that is rankled not only the israeli prime minister, but also many of his allies in government who viewed this visit by benny gantz has somewhat of a breach of
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protocol, but of course it's important to keep in mind that gantz is effectively netanyahu's chief political rival, even as they are both in this kind of uneasy marriage of police political convenience within the war cabinet and israeli government officials saying that gantz's not officially representing israel along the during this visit, the israeli ambassador in washington was instructed not to facilitate this visit, a sign of the disapproval of this visit, but of course, all of this spotlights the possibility, the alternative that gone through represents not only here in israel, but also in the united states, where us officials have been growing increasingly frustrated with the current israeli prime minister. and this is certainly an opportunity for them to get a look at what israel's next prime minister, which he would be if elections were held today, might look like very, very important. jeremy diamond in tel aviv, mj lee at the white house important developments we're following all of this. there's more breaking news. we're following right now, a united nations team finding what it calls
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the peaceful transfer of presidential power. and he has not stopped his attacks on democracy since sen. so it's clear you disagree strongly with the supreme court decision as a legal matter. but madame secretary, is it better for the country that if if trump goes ahead and loses the election, it's a result of the voters making their choice at the ballot box as an elected official, as colorado secretary of state, it's my job to uphold the law in the constitution. >> mar-a-lago covering the former president and kristin after talking about the supreme court colorado ballot ruling, trump's started also talking about his other legal battles out there. tell our viewers what he said >> yeah. well, he spent very little time actually talking about the ballot case. he said that he was praising the supreme court, that they did a really good job, but that he almost immediately pivoted to the immunity claims. so this has been really important to
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the former president. he has become fixated on these claims of immunity and the fact that the supreme court has decided to take up those arguments. the one thing to keep in mind when we're talking about this ballot case is that donald trump? and his team believed they were going to win. they watched the oral arguments. they thought their team did really well they actually believed that this case was the case they had the most legal evidence to prove. and so after the win, of course, donald trump taking a victory lap, as you said, but then moving onto immunity. now the big thing about her beauty is that while his team doesn't necessarily believe that this is a winning argument we do believe that it is fundamentally delaying the trials, the federal trials, and that is a win for them both >> and all of this sort of plays into new reporting. you also have about the trump campaign's finances. tell us about that yeah. >> alayna treene and i are colleague reported out this story about how the trump campaign has been raining in their expenditures as they prepare for a general election. now, this included scaling back
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those large-scale rallies either much smaller, looking for cheaper venue, cheaper hotels even included different staffers called colleagues, susie wiles, a miser, and making sure that everyone was aware that they were taking the cheapest modes of transportation because they were really concerned that the head as of the campaign, we're looking at their line items, at worried about it just goes to show you down, down, down that they were watching this money being spent. the other part of this that we learned was that they had mismatched cheap furniture in all of the various day locations are part of this is because they didn't want a repeat of what happened in 2020 when they essentially burned through hundreds of millions of dollars. in that case campaign and then they had a cash crunch, right before the november election. but the other part of this is that while his campaign has taken a lot of pride in the fact that there are a leaner operations. some of this might be a necessity as they try to figure out how they're going to pay that half $1 billion in legal fines. >> and
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>> that doesn't even include donald trump's mounting legal fees meeting those lawyer bills >> kristen holmes in west palm beach, florida for us. thank you very much. donald trump has having a good week with us supreme court win today behind him, and a potential sweep of republican contests on super tuesday tomorrow. all this as president biden is facing a huge test when he delivers his state of the union address on thursday amid a slew of new polls now showing the current president trailing trump by various degrees as they're expected, rematch is getting closer to becoming official. david chalian is back with us along with cnn political commentators van jones and s e cupp and david, let's start with you. i'll bet of sin is all of this for the biden campaign? well, >> it's not where a president would want to be heading into the heat of his reelection campaign. that being said, you just showed a slew of polls trump in a couple of them is outside the margin of error >> and trump argued the
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president is not an to of the united states that would have been a head-scratcher to me if the supreme court nine justices agreed on that, this is one where reasonable minds can disagree and the other thing is they did not accept donald trump's invitation. he said, please say in his papers, please say i'm not an insurrectionist nine nothing. they declined to take him up on that request, discuss that at all of the supreme court decision. and if you read it fascinating, 20 pages, i've gone through a single single-space, david, what do you think of the secretary of state of colorado is saying that trump's still represents a threat to democracy here in the united states. well, listen, she's referring to a candidate who has said he intends to use the justice department if he's elected and serves as president again, to go after his political enemies. i think that is a fair assessment that that is a threat to the democratic norms of the system. i think here though can't underestimate the
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political win for donald trump. a nine, nothing unanimous. supreme court decision is just something we saw him do it this afternoon. you could just take out and sell on the campaign trail as as validation. now, i know this wasn't the thorniest or trickiest of all the legal issues he faces and that he had pretty strong case here to take before the supreme court. but that is still sort of a feather in his cap now to, as he's trying to do away with all of these legal challenges to get a nine nothing supreme court decision on one that keeps you on the ballot is no small thing. >> yeah. let's important point. laura based on what we saw today with today's supreme court decision, how if at all do you think that potentially could affect the other major supreme court decision that's coming in the weeks ahead, whether or not the president, the former president in this particular case, has presidential immunity. in other words, he can't be charged with a crime. well, there was this idea that the supreme
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court my where to split the baby. they might say in the colorado case. okay. you're on the ballot, which again, be careful what you wish for it because if your whole schtick is that i'm capped off on a political martyr. now that you're back on, if you should lose, you can't really blame the supreme court, although likely someone will then the other part of it is hold on a second. you've got this immunity case here. well, that tends to be a much stronger argument in favor of not allowing a president to be immune, which would be the other side of the coin for the supreme court, not having a win for donald trump. now, if they are inclined to make as a political calculation, that would be outwardly surprising. >> but there's a >> legal argument as to why he would not have immunity as opposed to one strong and the other direction? section either way, if the timing holds, it took about a month to actually have a decision. if you have an oral argument, april on april 22, if it's a month from then you have an actual decision well, there might in fact be some time on the clock before the election to have some meaningful argument or a trial. >> and to david's point now,
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putting the wind in donald trump's sales before super tuesday clearly, they're focused on the political calendar and the right of every american to be informed. well, if you apply that same logic, how much more so, super majority of americans wants to know? did donald trump abuse the powers that he's seeking to regain grew that biden that the democratic party tends to do a little bit better than we expect almost every time, given how bad biden's numbers are. so the red wave turned out to be a little red trickle. we did a little bit better these off-year weird year allegedly been doing a little bit better. we're doing better then biden. but how is biden going to do better than biden? that's the thing that is hard for me to understand. they think that will listen. democrats keep doing better. the only hope is that the economy continues to heal. abortion stays a strong issue and people start paying more attention to what it would really mean for trump to get in there but in the meantime, this is the hard sledding season for
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biden and you want to see him come out strong. this weekend and take this issue on. >> let's see how he doesn't
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>> mj. can you hear me? it's wolf. >> hey, well, if i can excellent. >> exactly. >> jeremy, you ready for tv?
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>> yeah. >> jeremy, can you hear me? it's wolf >> i will fire you. yeah. thanks for staying up late >> of course, always >> thanks, robin
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>> we're following more breaking news right now. the vice president, kamala harris, just wrapped up a meeting with
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a top political rival of the israeli prime minister benjamin at time you, the war cabinet member benny gantz here in washington right now for high level talks, despite the tiny house opposition. cnn's jeremy diamond is covering the story from tel-aviv. cnn's mj lee is over at the white house. she's getting new information. first to you, mj, what can you tell us about this meeting and the message it sends? >> well, wolf, the meetings certainly underscores the biden administration chin' discuss yo
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called bunny hundred 8149977. >> i'm dr. sanjay gupta. >> and this is cnn let's get back to the breaking news right now. the high-stakes meeting today between vice president kamala harris and an israeli war cabinet member who's a top rival of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. that meeting just wrapped up a little while ago and joining me now the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman jim himes of connecticut, congressman. thanks so much for joining us.
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what message does it send for the white house to host benny gantz today? that's something they haven't granted. and time you since his reelection well, wolf, i think it's it's i hope two things are going on. number one, it sends a signal that the united states stands with israel and that we have not forgotten the horror that was visited on israel on october 7 and the necessity, the righteousness, acidy to make sure that hamas is not an operative the force ever again, it also, and i imagined that behind closed doors this message was delivered is essential. that the conflict in gaza, the israeli attacks in gaza, happen in a different way than they have these many months. in a way that is much more consistent with the kind of humanitarian improvement we would like to see and gaza. and in which hamas is the target and in which there is much less damage done, fatalities, casualties amongst the civilian population.
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>> because i know congressman, you've joined most of the democrats in criticizing the tiny far-right policies. but given the very sensitive talks over a potential ceasefire, fire and hostage deal, could it actually backfire on the white house to anger and atten, you >> well i don't know about angering netanyahu. what the united states is doing here. and i think the vice president was very clear in her statements in pointing at hamas as the barrier but this point to a cessation of hostilities to allow for the humanitarian situation to be addressed, to allow for the release of hostages and the united states needs to continue to play a role in saying to the israeli leadership, regardless of who it is. and of course, benny gantz is in the war cabinet that, that we must together undertake the attacks in gaza
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in a, in a different way than they have been. the way they have been undertaken from a humanitarian standpoint is just not tenable going forward as you know, wealthy israeli leadership prime minister netanyahu, most notable amongst them, it has not been open to that message. and it's really going to be critical, not just for the moral reasons, but for ultimately the ability. and we all hope the disability comes sooner rather than later, but to migrate this catastrophic situation to something that is is ultimately about the peace and security and the safety of the israeli people and of legitimate end state for the palestinian people, which of course is a two-state solution so my hope is that the conversation in the white house is about taking the steps to get us closer to that. what seems like today, very different it's in solution because as you know, the vice president kamala harris is speaking out a lot more forcefully and publicly about the humanitarian catastrophe in gaza right now. and the white
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house's frustration with israel clearly is growing. i want you to listen and watch this. listen to this people in gaza are starving conditions are an issue. made. there must be an immediate ceasefire we're last at least the. next six weeks. she added, should president biden himself, congressman, be speaking out like this? >> well obviously i think we all believe that the vice president is echoing a message that that is consistent with the president, consistent with the administration, consistent with a lot of members of congress. and i have to say this a lot to my constituents, wolf, which is that two things can be true at the same time. number one, that what happened on tobar seventh, what was perpetrated by hamas was inexcusable, was barbaric and was monstrous, and that hamas must cease to be a player in the region. and on the global
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stage, it is also true that 30,000 dead gazans is not a tenable situation that a humanitarian crisis in which gaza they're not getting enough nutrition, not getting the medicine. that is also untenable. >> so again >> sadly in this conflict, people have a tendency to take sides. we have to remember that the life of an israeli and the life of a gazan are morally equivalent and that we shouldn't take sides. and yes, we need to prosecute the war we're against hamas, but we need to do it in a way that is different, frankly, from the way we have seen the war undertaken in these last several months gardens. >> but jim himes, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf >> we'll have much more news just ahead >> this is pickleball is basically ten is for babies before adults, it should be called wiffle tennis yeah
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tied with trump in this new york times poll this weekend, he had a 15 point advantage. you see? if black voters, he was he's got a 40 three-point advantage that substantial except in the 2020 election, it was a 75 point advantage. and then if you look at nonwhite voters without a college degree, you see he's got a six point advantage over trump, but that was a 46 point advantage in 2020. so clearly they have a to-do list here. there's no doubt to try and bring some of these key pieces of the coalition back into the fold at the robust levels that they were four years ago. i'm sure when they read these new york times sienna poll numbers yesterday in the new york times, there was a lot of depression over there, but probably little surprise. yeah. good point. all right, guys. thank you. very, very much. just ahead the top democrat on the house intelligence committee will join me in the situation room. we'll be righ t
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now, joining me now, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman jim himes of connecticut, congressman. thanks so much for joining us. what message does it send for the white house to host benny gantz today? that's something they haven't granted the time you since his reelection >> well, wolf, i think it's it's i hope two things are going on. number one, it sends
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