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gaza hasn't let up and israel's leader are hinting at what's next. i'm brianna keilar here in washington with boris sanchez and israel's defense saying they will soon see gaza from the

inside. saying "the command will come." >> bracing for that next phase and still waiting for deliveries of food, water and medicine. right now the u.n. secretary-general is in egypt witnessing preparations for those shipments. now, an egyptian official tells cnn aid trucks will start going through the rafah border gates starting tomorrow. kaitlan? >> reporter: tonight president biden is set to make the case for a different kind of aid. this is a massive military aid package. for not only israel but also ukraine. the war happening there. a rare primetime oval office address throughly only the second one president biden has done since taking office. closely watched here in israel and in ukraine. really all over the world. get to coverage, though. covers what's happening here or not ground on the border need gaza. nic robertson is with us and jeremy diamond as well. n nic, showing viewers what happened while you were on the

ground there in the last few hours. >> reporter: lots of -- the clouds. yeah. wow. >> do you see the intercepts here? look up here. down there. >> yeah. >> reporter: do you see that over there? >> oh. >> reporter: fighter jet. oh, wow. look here. incoming, incoming! [ explosion ] >> reporter: obviously, nic, this as everyone's bracing for what they believe will be this israeli ground operation. can you walk us through what are witnessed?

>> reporter: yeah. this was outgoing fire coming from gaza. rockets. the intercepts we saw were rockets headed north in the country and then the rockets coming over here. first of all, the rocket sounded so strong sounded like a fighter jet. it wasn't. then we heard the, heard the incoming missile warning which gives you a brief time to respond and take cover. so, then it was all over quickly. for the people who live in this town and most people have left, but still a couple thousand here. this is what life is like. they're used to living with the sound of the sirens and just taking cover immediately. partly because it seems intercepts over this town, at least, diminished to a degree over the past few days. but to what is expected in gaza, the defense minister there telling the troops that their boots will soon be inside of gaza. i spoke with the economy minister earlier on today, on

this very subject, asking him about when the decision is going to be taken. he said, look, the political decision to go into gaza has already been taken. he said a green light, his words ashes green light given to the military. it's up to the military he said, now, about when they go into, when they go into gaza. and he did give us some ideas as well. some outlines what a postincursion into gaza may look like. a much bigger level of border security, and when no one can go into, or all around the 67 kilometers, 50 miles or so at the gaza border and as well final situation, he said, where like the west bank which is completely different from gaza, where like the west bank, israely defense forces would be able to go in at a time of their choosen to arrest people who they want to arrest. to achieve that, that israel has to achieve its goal of completely crushes hamas and the

only way that can be done realistically is a lot of troops on the ground for an extended period and that's what politicians today have been talking about. expect a long war, and i think that's where we stand at the moment, and an incursion perhaps soon and a long time after that before all this wraps up. >> reporter: yeah. i think that's important. we keep talking about when this could happen, but what is the clearest message from officials here especially in israel. that it is going to be quite a lengthy incursion once they do go in. nic, stay with us. jeremy, you are in ashkelon, a city fired upon time and time again. so much action there. what have you been seeing tonight. >> reporter: that's right. even today three different barrages of rockets towards the city with sirens going off. this is the most fired upon city in all of israel. about 25% of all the rockets have been targeted at this very city, and so we spent the day kind of trying to get a sense

how the people who are living here still about 75, 70% of the population is still believed to be living here, yet 90% of businesses are closed. what is open, though, are super markets, for example. where we were today when one of those sirens went off. you saw different reactions from folks. some of them really still fearful trying to catch their breath as he rushed inside to try to get cover. you only have a few seconds before those rockets head this way. others carrying on with their shopping. even as those sirens wailed in the skies above. and what we also witnessed today was the command center of here in ashkelon. he worked it down to a science to try to get the response as quickly as possible. two massive screens in there and what they're actually able to do get a sense where the rockets are going to land if, indeed, they get through the iron missile defense system before they actually make impact to

rush emergency services to those locations quickly as is possible. beyond that we got a sense of today, a sense of waiting. a sense of anticipation for the next phase of this military campaign, as israelis here are certainly expecting that a ground invasion is imminent and certainly as those comments that nic just talked about, we are hearing israeli officials increasingly using bellicose rhetoric and increasingly using very crystal clear rhetoric about exactly what is going to happen next and that it will involve israeli forces going into gaza. >> yeah. framing you hear from so many of them, they feel they have no other option. jeremy diamond, we'll check back in. breaking news on the u.s. assets in the region. a lot of u.s. fire power moved since october 7th, since that deadly day and now u.s. officials say that a navy destroyer near yemen intercepted multiple missiles today. our cnn and chief national security analyst jim sciutto has reporting and our colleague jim

lieberman. is it clear what missiles intercepted were aiming at? aiming at the u.s. ship or is it clear? >> reporter: not clear in initial assessments who the absolute target was of this but close enough to u.s. assets there that they shot those projectiles down, intercepted them successfully. this is our understanding at this point. two u.s. officials telling myself and my colleague that the u.s. navy sdrdestroyer was operating off the coast of yemen intercepting missiles. one fired by houthis there and the issue being where you are, kaitlan, kearnconcerns about escalation and the various parties have proxies. hamas a proxy for iran as is

hezbollah and lebanon to and houthis to a large number as well. could come from iron irani forc irani-backed forces. and something such as unintended, prap the u.s. destroyer was not the target, close enough it intercepts and you imagine the scenario where it does intercept and the u.s. assets come into danger. that is the witches' brew of dangers that are mixing right now in that region, and this is one instance of that. >> yeah. i mean, given there is so much u.s. fire power moved into this area just in the last week alone, i mean, how is that received? understanding that the warning that is coming not just in statements we see from president biden but these actual movements we're seeing of all of these carriers? >> we don't know. the biden administration was

explicit saying, don't do it. right? that was very clear in his first public comments on this, but more u.s. assets are headed their way. one point of fact. now you have two u.s. carrier groups in the eastern mediterranean. hezbollah and lebanon has many thousands of missiles, far more than hamas and some are capable of striking ships. they've successfully hit an israeli ship in years' past. so those u.s. forces, though have tremendous capabilities, missile defenses, et cetera, hezbollah has tremendous capabilities as well, and there is danger, and you can be sure that their antenna are up, so to speak about any threats that come the way of the u.s. forces. >> yeah. seems everyone is interested. boris and brianna? so president biden set to give that primetime address about five hours from now. he's pushing for billions of dollars in aid for israel.

our next guest says the u.s. should not take its eyes of a vladimir putin while all this is happening in the middle east because the russian president is "helping hamas hurt the west." >> the title of josh rogin's opinion piece this week in the "washington post" and josh is with us now. josh, important to note here, you write that reports of direct russian military support for hamas remain unconfirmed. explain how putin now is using hamas against the u.s.? >> right. at this moment vladimir putin is in beijing meeting with his dear friend xi jinping to talk about the new world order they're trying to build together and for both of them, their governments, their states pumping up pro-hamas propaganda. not just criticizing israel but criticizes the united states. word it's our neglect of the united states, of the reason, that led to these rising tensions and moreover that ukraine itself is a distraction from this region that helped

exacerbate the problem. so vladimir putin's number one goal in the entire world, get the u.s. government and u.s. congress to stop ukraine. saying israel, ukraine, the president will say both need help, can't choose one or the other. vladimir putin proving he's right saying he's on hamas and iran's side. a side he's been on a very long time actually. >>y pound out in your column israel has been less explicit in its support of ukraine because it needs russia's help with syria. what happens now? how do you see israelal relationship with russia playing out? >> destroyed. vladimir putin's first move abandoned a business-like relationship with netanyahu to side with hamas, and we just saw the irani proxies are shooting missiles at u.s. forces off of the coast of yemen, oren liebermann reported militias aiming at u.s. bases in iraq. i can tell you now from my

reporting, first on cnn, iraqi militias sponsored by iran launched at bases in syria. on the border between iraq and syria, and jordan. so this is an escalation across the board, and the iranians are activating proxies in many, many, many countries. how we will respond will determine whether this balloons across the region and russian and the chinese governments are in the middle of it. working together diplomatically, propaganda, palestinian groups get all funding from moscow based crypto exchanges. all fighting against israel and us. >> how do you see ukraine aid being, you know, obviously biden is trying to tying these all together. not just ukraine aid and aid to israel, but other things as well. can congress pass all this as a joint package, how do you see ukraine relating to the israel

aid? increase or decrease chances it gets passed? >> a risky gamble, brianna. you're right. putting them together he wants to pressure prepublican whose don't like ukraine to swallow because they don't want to vote against israel. far right republicans and maga saying pass them separately. pass them separately they would both pass separately but both would have to come to the floor separately. there's no republican speaker in the house and no assurance that ukraine would ever get a vote in the congress. that's why the white house is putting them together. it might work. it might just work but going to be a lot of ukraine aid, less israel aid and -- at least a bunch of republicans have to support it. i don't know if it will work or not. >> tying the two points together in the aid president biden is asking for is also a significant amount of investment in taiwan. additional aid for taiwan. president xi and putin are watching this. had a meeting a few days ago

discussing a new world order, so to speak. in your mind how should the vits respond to the irani proxies in the reagion and other powers closely watching how we respond to this? >> we need to divide a military response from a financial response. as per attacks on u.s. forces the risk of escalation is so great that i would expect the administration to be very careful in retaliation, and to think carefully what the second and third-degree effects are. funding, it's clear this is the last emergency funding bill we'll be ate to get through congress, if we can get it through congress before the next election in a year from now. so this is the only chance they have. they're going to throw the kitchen singer. border funding, ukraine funding, israel funding, funding to modernize and replenish u.s. stockpiles. talking a lot of money. could be upwards of $80 billion to $150 billion no small amount

of money. but the alternative getting deeper and worst and have u.s. military and allies unprepared. i believe that's what the president will argue against in his speech tonight. >> great to get your perspective on all of these issues. >> anytime. coming up, a former trump attorney flips in the georgia election subversion case. why other defendants may not be nervous about the deal sidney powell struck. and battle of the next speaker of the house heating up. a lot of developments over the last few hours. we're get you up to speed when we come back. back with a s

development out of georgia. earlier today sidney powell pleaded guilty to six counts of election interference day before her trial was set to begin as part of a plea deal former trump attorney powell may have to testify against the former president at future trials. let's get the details now with cnn's kaitlan polantz following the details. >> reporter: boris, this is a significant step forward for state prosecutors in georgia who brought a massive racketeering case against donald trump and 18 others, sidney powell is the second person charged in that 19-defendant case to plead guilty and is pretty significant person in that admitting to essentially tampering with voting equipment or wanting to tamper with voting equipment as well as voter data in koefr co coffey county, georgia. part of the case prosecutors

accused all of these people of the a large conspiracy and accused her specifically being involved in and they are having her plead guilty to six misdemeanor charges that comes with a cooperation agreement. means that sidney powell, if the prosecutors want to put her on the stand in front of a jury as they have another defendant on trial potentially even donald trump himself they can call her and she will have to testify about the things that she's admitting to as part of this guilty plea and potentially other things they may ask her about. step back, boris, big picture is that sidney powell is someone who knew about that coffey county georgia voter data breach, but also she was around donald trump and around people like rudy giuliani, mark meadows in a free-wheeling, chaotic screaming match of a meeting in mid-december at the white house that at the end of the meeting, as she and others were trying to convince donald trump to keep

pushing lies of election fraud he is infamous tweet, "will be wild on january 6th." what she has to do and provide remains to be seen and interest by federal investigators, we'll be watching. >> thanks for the update. a very contentious heated meeting among house republicans ended and still no sign what will happen next with jim jordan the bid for speaker. members pressing him to step aside and let someone else run. jordan is not backing down, he says. go to capitol hill for us with the latest. lauren fox. >> reporter: brianna, a contentious meeting indeed and behind choice closed doors no resolution how the republican caucus will move forward. now on day 16 without a speaker, and there is no path in sight for jim jordan to clinch the nomination given the fact he's still short 217 votes he would

need. he said just a few minutes ago that his plan was to continue trying to have conversations with the holdouts. here what he said. >> at this moment -- >> i'm say this. we made the pitch to members on the resolution as way to lower the temperature, and get back to work. we decided that wasn't where we're going to go. i'm still running for speaker and i plan to go to the floor and get the votes and win this race, but i want to go talk with a few of my colleagues particularly i want to talk with the 20 individuals who voted against me so that we can move forward and begin to work for the american people. >> reporter: and the revolution he was referring to there at the top, the resolution that was being drafted by representative david joyce that would have empowered representative patrick mchenry to be speaker pro tem until january so legislation could be brought to the floor but in that contentious meeting

behind closed doors the decision made by republicans they did not want to move forward with that potential path. so basically right now everything is at a standstill. we are in the same place we'd been over the course of the last several weeks as everyone is waiting to see what happens next, given the fact, again, jim jordan is still in the race, but with no clear path to 217. brianna? >> so much has happened and yet nothing has changed. lauren fox live for us on capitol hill. thank you. >> back to the drawing board. still to come, joined by one of those republican lawmakers who backed jim jordan for speaker. is he still supporting the ohio congressman as he needs support?

there are so many stories we are still learning about from that horrific day on october 7th here in israel. this next one i warn you, it contains drastic images, disturbing images, give you a heads-up what you are about to see, but this is a story about a young medic who could have possibly saved herself and stayed in a safe place as that attack unfolded and gunman attacked. instead she left that safety and instead went towards therificin others in the process documenting final moments of life with photos and messages to

her sisters. cnn's anderson cooper that the story. >> reporter: when hamas gunman arrived around 7:00 a.m. sunday morning they waited for a car to arrive and open the gate. then they executed the people inside. a 22-year-old medic was already in the community clinic. she'd run there when rocket sirens first sounded at 6:30 a.m. could have stayed in her apartment safe room but wanted to help in case anyone was wounded. for the next seven hours hamas gunmen roamed the grounds burning homes breaking into houses. hunting residents. slaughtering more than 120 men, women and children. >> she wrote us there is terrorists in the kibbutz. heard arabs talking there and let us know that. >> reporter: they are two of her sisters exchanged messages with her on whatsapp during all the

attack. 7:51 a lot of dead and injured here. >> yes. >> the situation, i have no way to help. >> so upset she can't help them. all she ever wanted to do stay and help people. >> reporter: 9:13 wrote shooting is continuing. 14 minutes later sent them this photo. a man lies dead in the hall. blurred image of his body. the floor is smeared with blood. at 11:02 she messages her sister about the gunmen. they went into houses and slaughtered people. 11:27 writes, there's no way to get out. her sisters wanted to see her and asked for a foet pe's you can see blood in the hallway behind her. minutes later she wrote, where is the army? i don't understand. it's been hours. >> i told her will be okay. i wrote it. i promise you. and they didn't -- i didn't keep my promise. i really believed she would be okay. >> reporter: at 1:50 p.m.

messaged tearrrorists coming to us. they can oning inside the clinic. >> in there with a nurse and the doctor. doctor got murdered as well and two members of the kibbutz they came with weapon to protect the clinic. both of them also got murdered. >> reporter: at 1:54 she wrote, they are here. i love you. minutes later her last text -- i don't think i'll get out of here. please, be strong if something happens to me. >> and we as you can imagine, we go crazy, and we -- we write her. please, what's going on? she doesn't answer. then she -- send us an audio recording say, you hear a lot of shooting and screaming. she sends it to us. >> reporter: this is the record are sent at 2:05 p.m.

we want to waurn you, it's dist disturbing. [ crying ] [ gunfire ] screaming, please, make it stop. they are here. please, make it stop. they are here. >> please, make it stop. calming name of, the member of the kibbutz murdered. probably saw him dieing and then understood they're coming for her. she's next. >> exactly. >> so in desperate move i call her on the phone. and she answers. and she's telling me they shot me in the legs, and she's telling me murdered everybody in the clinic. she's telling me they on me. on top of me. >> on top of me. >> and i am crying telling her what do you mean what do you mean? she's telling me i don't think i'm going to make it and that's it. the call goes down and that was the last time we heard from her. >> the last thing she said to

you "i don't think i'm going to make it." >> yes. >> two days before they found out for sure she was dead. her family buried her this week. >> at least we got to say good-bye. >> yes. >> so many other families. >> we got to say good-bye, got bury her. you know? there are so many, dead bodies, that -- they -- that are missing. we tried to find comfort in that, and also that she died doing what she loved the most. which is save lives. ♪ when i was younger ♪ >> reporter: the other thing she loved singing. before we left her sisters wanted us to hear her voice. not as it was in those final awful seconds of her life, but as it was when she was at peace.

♪ my mama swear that she would never let hurt, so forget ♪ that was the day that i promised i never sing of love, it does not exist ♪ ♪ >> reporter: she was just 22 years old. anderson cooper, cnn. tel aviv.

drama and chaos inside the house republican conference just evolved into yelling, screaming and cursing. jim jordan had decided not to call a third vote this morning on his bid for speaker and

sources said he would back a plan to empower the interim speaker patrick mchenry until jordan could get the votes needed. then republicans emerged from a three-hour meeting with a new plan. scrap mchenry and go forward with more votes for jordan. joining us, matt rosendale, supported jim jordan. thank you for being with us. we heard many republican colleagues kelling manu raju this plan to empower mchenry is dead. is that your understanding? >> it is my understanding. i'm really pleased with that brianna. i don't think it's a good idea to grant special, additional powers to the speaker pro tem. in all fairs in, patrick mchenry himself also said he didn't think it was a good idea. he felt that the purpose of having the speaker pro tem was to just keep functions going until such time that the speaker was elected, and so everybody

came to that consensus in the room. we don't describe it as chaos. every time i go to the conference we can count on a couple of things. always a sports analogy, a wartime analogy always a couple bible verses and cursing ensues pretty soon there after. >> reporter: this one sounded extraordinary. sounded like there was at least one f word bandied about, and this was not the normal kind of conference meeting, i think, we should be very clear about that, reporting on that is very clear. ken buck said he doesn't think that jim jordan can actually get to that all-important 217 votes, and that he needs to be convinced. jim jordan needs to be convinced of that and when he is he will drop out. is that your expectation? >> no. as a matter of fact, i disagree with my very good friend ken buck. i think that jim jordan will get the 217 votes. right now he has 21, 22 people

that haven't voted for him but jim is showing he's an honorable man trying to earn that support and not usings d.c. cartel to st strongarm them, trying to find out exactly what their issues and concerns are and trying to earn those votes and i believe he will. he's only had two votes on the floor. kevin mccarthy too 15 rounds to finally secure the speaker's gavel with six of us just voting presence so he could do so. i am sure that jim jordan will be able to secure the speaker's gavel. >> is ken buck part of that d.c. cartel? >> i didn't say any of the members were part of the d.c. cartel. i said that the d.c. cartel tends to try to use arm-twisting tactics to persuade members to

vote certain ways. >> he is trying to convince them. right? meeting with them, trying to convince them. he's actually lost support over the course of votes. he delayed a plan to have a vote clearly for fear that he could lose even more votes than he did yesterday. why shouldn't he drop out? >> i think that's a false premise. i think that the reason jim jordan started talking about that resolution today is because he had concerns about other business that he wanted to house to conduct. wanted to bring the resolution to support israel forward. he wanted to mike sure we could do additional things that patrick mchenry decided he's not comfortable doing based upon the way the rule is written and what powers he felt it granted him. that's why jim jordan did that. my thought is that the department of defense right now, we pay appropriation bim bills state and foreign operations actually kbrants an additional

$3.8 billion aid to israel. house of representatives has done that, sent those pieces over to the senate of legislation and the senate hasn't taken them up. if the senate would, please, continue to do their work we could take care of a lot of this. >> there's a lot of business outstanding at this point in time. you along with ken buck were among the eight who supported that motion to vacate kevin mccarthy. i want you to listen to what florida republican, your colleague, michael wahl said about that. >> i'll just leave it at this. the eight who did this clearly did not have a plan, where i come from as a veteran you blow a bridge, butter have another one to cross and those eight clearly didn't have another one. >> he's saying you better have another bridge to cross. so as you did this, where was that bridge? >> the bridge to change,

brianna. the bridge to change and that's what the american people want. jim jordan has had two round of votes on the house floor. why everybody is getting so worked up when it took kevin mccarthy 15 rounds to secure that very same seat is bewildering to me quite frankly. jim jordan is trying to earn those votes. >> well, he's moving backwards and his deficit is bigger than kevin mccarthy's ever was. what do you say to that? >> i say that false. he picked up two additional votes on the second round actually. some additional -- >> saying he picked up -- saying he picked up votes? he net lossed. >> had a net loss of one vote, brianna. one vote. again, jim jordan -- >> two. >> -- no. a net loss of one vote. went from 200 to 199. okay? check the tally. no, check the tally. >> yeah, he had a net loss. >> of one vote. of one vote. had a necessary loss of one

vote. >> how is that heading in the right direction? >> hey, brianna, check the record, okay? on the second round of kevin mccarthy's, also had ten votes. went from 10 or 12 to 20 votes against kevin mccarthy. >> but he continued with the votes. continuing voting. >> that's what we want to do now. continue to vote. get back to the floor. continue voting. >> when will that be? >> jim jordan -- oh i don't make that call. i'm ready now, i assure you. i am ready now to go to the poll and vote. ready to go to my committees do my work. ready to meet with the rules committees so we can continue to do our work on the appropriation bills and deliver the aid remaining appropriation bims over to the sna senate so they don't try to develop an omnibus bill and flood the american people with more debt and deficit. i'm ready to do my work right now but i don't get to make that call when actually going to the floor for the next vote. >> when a vote is not held on

jim jordan's warranting the speakership, vying for the speakership what message do you think that sends? >> well, if anyone was in the room, what the message it sends is that he is trying to meet with the remaining people that haven't supported him. so the 20, 22 votes and trying to earn their support. i think that is extremely honorable and that's why jim jordan, quite frankly, is the second most popular republican in this country. second only to donald trump, that he's trying to earn those votes from the people. he has demonstrated all the work he's done in judiciary that he is "the" spokesperson for the republican conference coming out of washington, d.c., and i think that he'll end up earning that support and securing the speakership. >> we will certainly be watching, as we have been, along with you, congressman matt rosen baierl. thank you. >> thanks for having me on. >> thank you. we'll be right back.

new dames on the breaking news regarding u.s. navy destroyer that shot down multiple missiles and drones we're learning launched from yemen. >> talk now with cnn max anchor and chief analyst security expert jim sciutto. this was just addressed. >> reporter: reported earlier oren liebermann and i, the u.s. destroyer off the coast of yemen intercepted multiple projectiles. at the time not sure where they were headed fired by houthi rebels, operated in yemen backed by iran. a proxy for iran similar to

hamas and hezbollah. targeting someone else? now the pentagon's view those missiles were actually head and a trajectory towards israel. significant, because that would, if it's true, potentially open up another front in this war. the idea that not just hamas from the south attacking israel but the houthis from the eastern part of the country attacking israel as well. here what the pentagon press secretary brigadier general patrick ryder said about this moments ago. >> information about these engagements is still being processed, and we cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting but they were launched from yemen heading north along the red sea potentially towards targets in israel. ow defensive response was one we would have taken for any similar threat in the the region where we're able to do so against other interest, personnel and partners. >> normally u.s. assets are there, ship, air, et cetera. loads of bases.

more moved in. two carrier groups president biden ordered to the eastern mediterranean. good for israel. a lot of sensory equipment, ability to fire, chute don missiles. of course, their targets as well and all of these proxies, jose hrzjose -- hezbollah and houthis have missiles. >> and another warning to iran about this tonight? >> it's possible. clear from the beginning. wouldn't be surprised because he wants to say, as he said in that first time around, don't even think about it, in effect. whether they listen, that's another question. >> jim sciutto, thank you. stay with cnn. "the lead with jake tapper" starts after a quick break.