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room. hi everyone. i'm jessica dean in new york and we begin this hour with israel's military ramping up operations in gaza, ordering the immediate evacuation of several more neighborhoods in the southern city of rafah. that's where more than 1 million displaced palestinians have been taking refuge it's the idf saying about 300,000 have already fled. now this is happening as a newly released state department report finds it, quote, reasonable to assess that america in weapons have been used by israeli forces in gaza in ways quote inconsistent with international humanitarian law. we have cnn's priscilla alvarez with more fallout from that poor but first let's go to cnn correspondent scott mclean in the dire situation in gaza and scott, israel's military confirming war airstrikes. today, this as hundreds of thousands of people are trying to leave rafah, what do we know? >> yeah. so the israeli military ordered two parts of gaza to be evacuated, several

areas of northern gaza. and also several parts of rafah as well. and there had been airstrikes carried out in both of those places since then in southern gaza in rafah, these were in areas that were not actually ordered to evacuate the hospitals there, say 15 people were killed among them, women and children. and in the north, the bombing campaign there has resumed, i say resume because there were also airstrikes overnight across northern and central gaza, they came really without warning among the dead journalist, his wife, and 12-year-old son, the 143rd journalists killed since the war began, there were also dozens of other people killed, among them many children and i should warn you the report that you're about to watch his very hard to watch and contains some highly disturbing images the bomb that hit this building in central gaza didn't leave much

of anything or anyone intact local say it hit in the middle of the night while families were sleeping without any warning with little more than flashlights in their own hands. rescuers dig for survivors find the bodies as this child is loaded into an ambulance next to another, their pulses are checked. it seems on the vein these are the victims of a series of strikes across central and northern gaza that killed scores of civilians, many of them children, israel defense forces declined to comment on specific airstrikes and said it was operating to dismantle hamas military and administrative capabilities at the hospitals. they save who they can. >> the dead are placed in body bags. >> this one is big enough for three. a bloodied soot covered faces are wiped off. >> a small measure of dignity in death inside a field hospital, shell-shocked kids lie on dusty gurneys. even

after seven months living in a war zone sound of a nearby airstrike is no less terrifying from an ambulance. this man is rushed inside through the hospital and hoisted frantically onto a bed but it's quickly apparent he's dead for a moment. a relative sits with him in stunned silence before more family arrive at overwhelmed by daybreak, there's still pulling bodies from the rubble like this one crushed under the weight of a cement slab without heavy equipment, the process is slow but the biggest body part we've recovered was half a child is man says, oh ben pencil kind and gentle with it. >> we're all civilians. there were no militants here what did the children do to deserve this, this man wonders. meanwhile, the idf has now towards civilians and parts of central rafah to leave signed the ground operation.

>> there is about to pick up streets look increasingly empty as people pack up and leave a car, horse cart, or on foot it's horrible. is the world happy to see this? this woman asks, again, look, we can't find a place to stay. we don't know where we're going israel is directing people here to a designated area along the coast now flooded with hence but little infrastructure to accommodate the roughly 300,000 people. >> it estimates are now they're with ceasefire talks seemingly at a standstill. the citizens of gaza are just waiting for this nightmare. there to end and jessica, some of the people that spoke with our cnn stringer on the ground in gaza, who were packing up to leave rafah for said that they've been displaced now since the war began, seven or eight times, one man who had kids with him said that he's only leaving because of his children.

>> he doesn't care if he dies. he said and he said, quote is this a life or death is more honorable than this humiliation. >> jessica scott mclean for us. >> thanks so much for that reporting. we appreciate it. >> cnn's priscilla alvarez joins us now with more on the state department report that's investigating israel's use of us weapons in gaza priscilla, you're out west with the president as he's on a fundraising swing out there, they're report stopped short of accusing israel of violating international humanitarian law but what does it say well, it says that they have found instances where that may be the case. of course, this was a high-stakes and highly anticipated report, then marked yet another stark moment in us-israeli relations. the biden administration putting together this report that it says it says is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by israeli forces in gaza in a way that is inconsistent with

international humanitarian law. but to your point, it said it just stopped short of saying that they violated the law. of course, this report stems from a february national security 30 memorandum that required the determination on this matter and also whether israel withheld humanitarian aid from gaza in violation of us law. and while the report is highly critical, it does not mandate additional actions by these really government nor mark any type of us policy change toward israel. and that has received push-back from some democratic allies on capitol hill who say that this is doing, trying to do two things and walk a very fine line here by saying that there are inconsistencies and yet there is no policy change. and of course, jessica, this comes against the backdrop of president biden's interview with cnn this week, where he said for the first time but he's willing to withhold some weapons if israel launches a major ground operation in rafah, where there are more than 1 million displaced palestinians. he said that they would sell support defensive weapons, but that may change with a fence of what are still a lot of questions there, but

there's no doubt jessica, that this report yet another data point and the underlying tensions between the us and israel as it wages its war against hamas, but also some of what some points of tension still between the white house and some of its allies and priscilla president biden is, as i mentioned on this fund raising swing, he's hosting a private fundraiser fraser seattle where you are and we're getting some details on what he's saying to some of his supporters behind closed doors. >> what are you learning that's right. >> he closed out his swing here in seattle. he just left and he essentially needled his republican rival, former president donald trump. it was a theme over the course of his warrant for fundraisers and something that he touched on again behind closed doors today saying that the former president is quote unhinged and also saying that quote something snapped at him after the 2020 election. of course, the president here trying to show and strike a stark contrast with his republican rival by noting multiple themes of his campaign about

protecting democracy see abortion rights of climate change investments, while also trying to show that the former president is stuck in court in new york. and again, in these private remarks saying that he is quoting unhinged. >> all right. priscilla alvarez traveling with the president in seattle, washington this afternoon. thanks so much for that reporting. joining us now is the former deputy assistant secretary assistant secretary of state during the obama administration, joel rubin, jolt really nice to have you on. thanks so much for being i'm here. >> thanks, jessica, my first i just want to get your take on this state department report and its implications on the us israeli relationship today yeah, this report is very hard-hitting report. it is one that describes the use of american-made weapons by israel and other countries as well. it derives, as you mentioned, from national security memorandum that the president signed back in february but, it's threads the needle appropriately, i believe because what it does is it calls out concerns, but it also says that it does not have

evidence that israel is intentionally engaging. in efforts using those weapons to violate an humanitarian law in american loss. so it's, it's balancing a lot of equities here. and this this is, this is what we should expect from a commander in chief who has to back in american ally against the terrorist organization while also holding that ally up to standards that we expect and we should expect from our allies and our friends who receive our weapons yeah, i talked to one of our analysts are national security analysts yesterday and described it as kind of straddling the line here. do you think that's a fair assessment? >> yeah, it really is just hill. i worked in bureau the bureau for political military fares that the state department that produce the reports like this. and i also worked in a legislative affairs bureau to transmitted them to congress. there's always going to be pressure from the left, from the right internal, you name it. but what this president is doing, what the state department report is providing is a clear vision of how to go forward a clear view of what it

is israel's doing with the weapons, but also saying now it doesn't have the kind of robust information that needs to have as well and so it does point out how it's a difficult reports to construct neural likely be more reports in the future, but this balancing matters because we have to support israel in this fight against hamas will make sure that it's being conducted in a manner that really does match our values in our interests. >> and some members of the president's own party were disappointed with this report. as you mentioned you've been in this position, you're going to get pushback from both sides probably, but i want to listen to what democratic senator jeff merkley said on cnn. let's take a listen to that it's a massive diplomatic dodge. >> it is frustrating because it's so important at this moment that we use the leverage we have to persuade israel to change its conduct do you think that this report should have tried to leverage that more so

reports to congress are just can be blunt instruments in congress tends to put down very hard lines and what the president is doing with his authorities commander-in-chief is to use the tools at his disposal suppose which to try to incentivize israel to put pressure on israel. and we saw this week quite frankly with this delay now of the transferring of 3,500 bombs, heavy bonds to israel to try to persuade israel to think through how it conducts an invasion into rafah. but if congress were to have it and just cut aid immediately tomorrow, that would undermine our relationship. it may not vary. it may not either lead to the kind of outcome that the senator is looking for us. i think the president is using his tools properly. he's trying to persuade israel pulling back a little bit on the aid appropriately, he's going to take flack from both sides, but that's what a commander in chief needs to be thinking about is the policy not the politics. >> okay, so i want to talk more about that decision to withhold

these, those large bombs from israel in the last hour, i talked with a member of israel's knesset about about that, about the ultimatum from biden on not crossing a line they're and rafah, here's what he said do you think the president has been president biden has been justified in those actions? >> it. absolutely not. you know, we are very disappointed, were confused because only few weeks ago we heard with biden saying that his he's well any understand that we have to operate in an alpha, but he wants to see how we handle the humanitarian aspects and we have plans out to deal with the civilian population. two moving them two different days before we operate in an alpha. and all of a sudden we held those do about holding a shipment. and that at the same time when i want is doubling their shipments to their proxies in lebanon. >> and we are being attacked by hizballah by poxy w1 and by hamas so yes, we are disappointed so joe, i'm just

curious in listening to that, you would imagine that that's what we would hear from members of the israeli government. but how, how far can biden take this before he risks rupturing? this relationship between israel and the us, which is already for many reasons, including the relationship with benjamin netanyahu really at odds right now. >> yeah, i don't think that he's a rupture of the american israeli relationship by any stretch. and what the president hasn't done is tell israel you can't move on to rafah. there is a hamas target in rafah multiple targets. there are four battalions of hamas fighters. there the united states is saying is do it right, dude, in the manner that gets at the hamas fighters, at the hamas leadership us intelligence assets used our support to have targeted strikes and do it in a way that doesn't cause a humanitarian catastrophe, like what we've seen elsewhere. and there's a logic to this after say

jessica, we have experienced variants from our wars in iraq a hard experience, we've learned a lot, and part of that is that don't destroy the civilian population. to achieve a military objective and have security plans in place. governance plans in place for the day after. and that's where the president is team are trying to guide this conversation. they haven't gotten clearly adequate responses and so they need those responses. and that is a helped israel in the long run for its overall security. >> yeah, certainly something we hear to a lot from the defense secretary lloyd austin, when he's talking about this. >> all right. joel ruben. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thanks, jessica, still ahead. >> former president donald trump, out of the courtroom and on the campaign trail, will he violated a gag order? could he risk jail time? >> we're going to take you to the jersey sure. >> at his big rally plus it's not too late to see the northern lights in places. >> they almost really never show up. it is as rare a solar storm now. that we've seen many, many years, it's hitting earth this weekend when you can

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president's still bound by that gag order are not allowed to publicly about this week's testimony by stormy daniels or the scheduled testimony of his former fixer, michael cohen on monday cnn's alayna treene as joining us now in alaina new jersey is not a battleground state. it is reliably blue, but we should mention trump is in an area that is pretty red at voted for him in the past two elections now that's exactly right, jessica, this is not a critical battleground state and no hate on jersey. i am from jersey, but it's not to say that his campaign even thinks that donald trump could potentially, when he lost it to joe biden in 2020 by 16 points. and so again, not a state that they think it's going to be competitive for the former president, but when i talk to their trunk campaign, they say there's a few factors for why they chose to hold a rally here. one is exactly as you mentioned wild wood, wood as part of cape may county is actually very red district in new jersey itself. he's donald trump held a rally here in

january 2020. i'd had a very enthusiastic crowd as you can tell behind me, there's a lot of people hear, a lot of his supporters isn't a very rowdy crow groups. so that's part of it. the upper part is that they believe that a lot of people from philadelphia, pennsylvania would be able to come. we've seen that today. a lot of people from pennsylvania have been in the crowd here and also get some of that media from the critical battleground states state of pennsylvania, which again, is actually a swing straight and then the other thing i've also been hearing as some of this reasoning is luck donald trump did not want to travel far. he just ended a very explosive week of testimony from stormy daniels, some other key figures and he wanted to stay closer to home and also closer to his bedminster golf clubs. so that might have been playing some factor here as well. while but i think you're totally right. it's very interesting that donald trump chose to come to new jersey, especially given since the start of the trial, he's only held three came campaign rallies. this will be the third and really only the second day of hitting the campaign trail since this trial began. and so a lot of

republicans have told me, look, it's they don't really understand why he's using one of his opportunities outside of the courtroom to come to new jersey, but we'll see what he says in just a few moments. >> yeah, we certainly will. i also want to ask you about your new report. bring on how the trump campaign is viewing robert f. kennedy jr. is ongoing campaign now, while it's really interesting, jessica because donald trump and his campaign have actually long had a playbook to attack kennedy. >> they had planned to paint him as a radical liberal, one from budweiser told me that he's a liberal and conservative clothing that is something that's a formed back in the fall when kennedy first announced that he was going to be running as an independent. however, donald trump didn't normally followed well, that script we've heard them in the past several months say that he thinks kennedy is a nice guy that he's not sure if kennedy hurts joe biden's campaign or trump's campaign more but in recent weeks really seen donald

trump and his team at large ramp up and escalate their attacks on kennedy. i'm what i'm told from trump's advisers is that luck. we're still not totally sure whether kennedy could be a huge threat to our campaign. instead, they call him a political problem, but they argue, if we can nip that in the bud, if we can way down his support as much as possible, particularly with any potential conservative trump votes that he could be pulling from why not get ahead of that and started attacking him now. so i think it's clear through all of that that they do actually see him as a real problem and as someone who could diminish his support. and that's especially an issue and i'm saying that'll be at such a close election as we are expecting it to be in november. >> jeff, it's great reporting, elena. thank you so much coming to us from wild would new jersey in a coat no less at the beach. so stay warm on this early or late spring de alayna treene in new jersey. thanks so much. and still ahead. the most intense solar storm in nearly 20 years yours is hitting earth this weekend. who may get

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don't normally you don't normally get to see this sort of thing down in atlanta i was in complete all complete shock to see the northern lights of the aurora borealis here in my backyard yesterday. and we are anxiously awaiting for that moment because another potential is possible. but why in the world is this happening? and it all has to do with a sunspot that has recently formed formed, and do you remember last month that little solar eclipse we happen to cover april 8. that was a big day. you might still have your glasses like i do. you could take these, go outside. i was doing this just a few minutes ago with my boss who's here and we were looking up at the sky between six and 7:00, right on the bottom portion of the sun you can see the sunspot, which by the way, is 17 times the size of the earth. and that sunspot is responsible for ejecting this highly energized plasma or particles towards zero. there they are solar flares ejecting from the sun all week long and they've made

that 93 million miles traversed chris from the sun to the earth and they've reached us now and they start to interact with the earth's magnetic poles. it's like a roman guard who's got a shield up like this and that plasma gets disbursed to the north and the south poles. and as it does that, the northern latitudes and the extreme southern latitudes of the earth see the most vivid if it displays. but here in atlanta, in places like key largo, florida for instance, were able to see them because this geomagnetic storm is so intense and so powerful that it's we seeing a very rare event by the way, which was a once in a lifetime event, if you're located this far south, jessica wow, it is really incredible where can people look for tonight? >> i'm looking at the graphic that we have on screen here where if i tell people like depending on where they are, what might they see? >> well, the cool news about all this is that if you didn't catch it last night, you got another opportunity tonight.

but it is going to start waning into sunday and monday. so i think your opportunity is tonight. so set those alarm clocks because after midnight is really our best chances. 10:00 p.m. to midnight. and then after that, about 2:00 and then you can actually see that our bodies hi, our forecasts of this geomagnetic plasma forecasts, we don't get into that that often, but here's the greatest chance of viewing. i don't think it'll go as far south as let's say, key logger or key west like they saw yesterday, i saw northern lights photos with a palm tree in the foreground. i mean, that was a yesterday. of course cloud cover makes all the difference as well. you can see on the map here, lots of clouds across mississippi and into alabama. so maybe not as lucky as we were last night, but if you do get the chance to score it, yeah, you're going bond to pn for quite a celestial surprise. >> so i want to see it. i was flying from dc to new york last night and i was like looking out the window, but we had a lot of cloud cover. so i couldn't see much. maybe tonight that i've seen what i've seen pictures outside a jet windows and some people

were capturing them with their phones yesterday. >> remember, you can pick up more with a phone and long exposure, then the human i can actually see. so that's a good option for, okay, good to remember. all right. derek van dam. thanks so much and let's discuss all of this was seen an aerospace analysts, miles o'brien, miles great to see you is there a difference in what people are going to see tonight as opposed to last night. and if so so why i know derek was just explaining it, starting to wane a little bit after tonight yeah, scientists are not very good at predicting these things and that's kind of the key here that we should be thinking about jessica after all these years of study about coronal mass ejections, solar flares, these storms were still not very good at predicting when they might happen and how powerful they might be because we don't really understand the underlying causes. >> we do know this the sun is a crazy confused magnetic field,

kind of a soup of magnetism that has met medic fields that are constantly turning and twisting. and sometimes those fields snap. and when they snap, you get one of these sunspots and out from the sunspots, often come these solar particles we'll sees vast storms and had in our direction. but beyond that, we don't know why it happens, tends to happen on an 11 year cycle where the approaching what is called solar maximum solar max right now, which explains why this is probably a stronger storm, but we have a fleet of satellites out there nasa is parker solar probe is the one that is closest to the sun there's a half-dozen others from japan and europe that are also looking. and this provides a tremendous natural experiment for them to gather data at the source and compare it to what we see here on earth. so we enjoy the show, but we do get a little science right? >> you're going to get to learn something. while this is going on is there a better way

to view what's going on tonight? the solar storms than another like a better time, a better location. i knew derek was saying sometimes phones and cameras can better capture the gradient of light yeah, believe it or not, your phone if you hold it really steady, you might be able to pick up some things you're i can't see, but there's if you've seen the northern lights, i've had the good fortune to do it over the years. >> there's nothing quite like seeing it with your own eyes. and so just hope that you have clear skies. or if you want to get on a plane and find a place with clear skies, if you're really avid about this, i would suggest doing that and if i were doing it, i would head north or south, head toward the poles. it's going to be a little stronger there. >> but what you see there, what do you see that? >> red and green colors that those are oxygen atoms and the purple and blue or nitrogen that's basically the, the molecules in our atmosphere spinning off a little photons as these particles come in and bombard them and split them away. and the more of them, the more vivid the colors. and

it's just stunning. it it really i can't stop looking at the pictures on social media because it almost looks fake and pretend that's an amazing thing to witness. >> before i let you go, there is some concern that this because it's so much energy being thrust and magnetic energy at earth that it could mess with satellites or gps or radar. >> what do we know? about that? >> all of the above are true. we've lost satellites in the past, elon musk's starlink company launched 40 satellites into a solar storm few years ago, lost the mall. what happens is the upper parts of our atmosphere sort of thicken and satellites in that part of the at that altitude slow down. they can't keep up. so they, they tend to drop down and can fall out of orbit communication becomes difficult. collision avoidance between those satellites becomes more challenging, and then ultimately the power grid, all those exposed wires when these parties because come in, it can

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hello to satisfy greene buddy, you still got a landline a your house or now and in some way out, how it really happened tomorrow at nine on cnn nearly 2000 people are fleeing from russian bombing and shelling in northern ukraine right now, ukraine's president is the once-key says at least two people have been killed in that attack. >> pulitzer prize-winning writer and historian and applebaum is joining us now she's the author of the new book, autocracy, inc. the dictators who want to run the world. it's coming out in july and an excerpt was just published in the atlantic. i do want to get to that in just a minute it's exceptional. but first, i want your take on russia's latest attacks that we were just talking about. >> ukrainians have been expecting this for a long time. of course, there's still suffering from the six months in which they didn't have sufficient ammunition and sufficient weapons i assume that the congressional decision finally, to give them more money and more aid has made a

big difference and weapons are on the way, but what, what they're, what they're now, certainly on the back foot, the russians are attacking and let's just hope that are, are a gets there in time and you write about the new propaganda war in the cover story for the atlantic it's such as interesting and sobering peace and excerpt tell us more about how disinformation is playing a role in all of this. and the current just world foreign affairs and the world around does and what the white house is doing about it so this piece actually takes a step back and it looks not just at russia or russian propaganda about ukraine, but it looks more broadly at russia, china, and other autocracies who've now coalesced around a set of narratives that they promote in their own countries. >> in our country, but also around the world in africa and latin america across asia. and their main, their main interest

is in promoting the idea that autocracies are stable and safe and the democracies are divided k failing disastrous and this of course is it's partly a, their own political opposition. the chinese have, whether it's the hong kong protesters or the uyghurs movement, whether in russia with there it's the navalny movement or others that they have their own local protest movements and democracy movements that want rule of law, that want transparency, that want democracy. and so they're, and they fought against them for many years but they've finally come to realize that what they need to do is poison those ideas and so that's what they've begun to do. they also do it in our country and they've had a lot of success among people who also don't like our political system and that includes some people on the american far-right who had been also promoting the idea that autocracies are better and more stable, that democracy is

degenerate and a otic especially our democracy. and of course you can see it in their language and their propaganda yeah, and i wanted to ask you about that because you write you write about how it's not just foreign, it's echoing around here in the and you say, quote, the light, the leaders of those countries. >> are referencing russia, china, and their ilk the american maga, right, also wants americans to believe that their democracy is degenerate. their elections are illegitimate. they're civilization is dying how dangerous is this? >> maga messaging and, and how corrosive to really fundamental tenants of our democracy so we've, we've seen it and heard it and we've been seeing hearing it for the last several years those that's the message about the for example, that the 2020 election was stolen when there's no proof, there's no evidence. >> the message that the 2024 election will be somehow hijacked by migrants who can't vote we know that's not going

to happen but their interest is in convincing a lot of voters that the system itself is flawed, that the everything about our political system is rotten, and therefore they need to vote for radical angry people who will oversee turn it and change it. and i think it's not it's not a it's not my article doesn't predict that this could happen or will happen. it's a it describes how it's already happening. and of course, we've all seen it. we've seen, we've seen those kinds of messages on the far right. we sometimes hear them from donald trump we hear them from members of congress, from senators. there has even been a few members of republicans who have begun finally, pushing back on this and saying, hey, why do we hear this language that sounds like robert russian propaganda on the floor of the house of representatives that's, that's, that's been a phenomenon of the past few months as well. >> yeah. and two hear the chairman of the intelligence committee republican in the

house saying that he thought russian propaganda had infiltrated parts of his, party it does go to show you a lot about what you're talking about and how it's playing out in real time. and avalon thanks so much. we appreciate it thank you still ahead. you could still have to pay your credit card late fees after a judge blocks of biden administration rule capital thank them what that could mean for your bill. >> you're in the cnn newsroom nothing like it was ever documented i thought this is all controlled and save better rallies came. >> miki to shoot me foreign. the weather text here whether is the ultimate protection for your vehicle laser measured

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