the governor to either sign that veto it, or let it go into effect without his signature, and so that's something that we might have to contend with in the next week or two. >> i'm just curious quickly, when you say contend with, i mean, are you talking about the possibility of going to jail? i mean, what are the stakes? >> oh, no, we're talking about the possibility of further legal action. >> okay, all right. >> julie burkhart, it is definitely. thank you. >> thank you. i really appreciate you coming on and explaining and talking through your story with us. appreciate it. kate. >> also on our radar this hour, the insurance institute for highway safety, which rates cars and suvs for safety, essentially says driver beware when it comes to self-driving car systems. the leik, the driving assist system, a system by lexus, is the only one of 14 examined and deemed acceptable by the group. even that rating wasn't top notch, still below the highest possible

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not to charge president biden for his handling of classified documents, but also why he described the president as an elderly man with a poor memory who couldn't even remember his own son's death date. cnn is now getting a look at the transcripts of the conversation between biden and her. that left the special counsel with that impression. according to the transcripts, president biden was telling a story that he framed that was between the times of 2017 and 2018. during it, he brought up his son, beau, saying, quote, remember, in this time frame, my son is either deployed or is dying. he then went on to say, what month did beau die? oh, god, biden responded. may 30th. that's when someone in the room interjected to say, beau died in 2015. not between 2017 and 18. cnn's evan perez has reviewed these transcripts. evan, this is, you know, a really big moment because there's been a lot of

talk. this has been a fodder for a lot of political fighting. you now have the actual words that were used. what else did you find in this report that related to biden's memory? >> well, sir, i think the big takeaway from the report is that the president repeatedly said that he didn't really handle a lot of these papers, that he left it to staff. >> he didn't know how things were packed and how things were were moved from, for example, his vice presidential residence to a home he rented in virginia to his home in wilmington. repeatedly, he said, i don't remember exactly how that how that got moved from one place to another. and i think, you know, obviously the special counsel rob her, points out the memory problems. but the big one, obviously, that that stuck out was the one that you just read the interaction about beau biden. it's clear the president remembered the date exactly may 30th that his son died. but

someone in the room then suggests the dates. and i'll read you another part of the of the transcript, where you know where you could see that he has a foggy memory of where things happened. he rob, he asks the president, but do you remember how these materials got into this box, and how that box got into the garage, which was where one of these some of these documents were found? president biden says, no, i don't remember how it got. i don't remember how a beat up box got into the garage. the tone that we get from the transcript. and to be fair, we don't have the audio from the audio recording from the interview, which lasted about five hours, over five hours, over two days last october. sarah, what we have is what i've read is simply just the transcript of it. and what comes across is, you know, an atmosphere where the president is joking with people in the room. there's laughter. it's generally a pretty genial

atmosphere, a very cooperative atmosphere, which is, i think, why the white house and people around the president were so surprised by the words that came out in that 388 page report from rob. >> herb, i do want to ask you, because it is 388 pages, but there's also something in it about biden's handwritten notes. what can you tell us about that? >> right. well, this is a big part of this investigation, because it's not only the classified documents that were found in the garage and in different places, including his private office after he left the vice presidency. but it's also his handwritten notes. and those contain, according to the special counsel. according to the investigation, they do contain some very sensitive information. and so i'll read you just one interaction from the second day of this interview, in which mark krichbaum, the deputy special counsel, says, okay, but i think it would be helpful for us to understand. and i think with respect to your notebooks that you wrote by hand, you view

these as yours. president biden says, yes, they're mine. but krichbaum says, and you were authorized to have them. president biden says, and every president before me has done the exact same thing. and i think that's going to be a big part of the discussion in today's hearings. sarah, because president reagan took home notes when he left the presidency, he took notes that he took from while he was president. there was some controversy over that at the time. and president biden is saying, you know, everything that i took, i was authorized to have and those are mine, obviously, the national archives and i think some people in the federal government believe that that shouldn't be the case, because if you bring if you write notes while you're president, those belong to the archives and to the people of the united states. sarah. >> well, evan, thank you so much for bringing us this reporting. again. this is the first time that we've really seen starkly exactly what was said between the special counsel and president biden, john.

>> and, of course, this comes as the now former special counsel, robert her, is going to testify on capitol hill this morning. he now has left the justice department. we learned he is testifying today as a private citizen. and not only that, he is hired as a personal attorney, someone who has represented prominent republican figures before, including folks in trump world and cnn, now has our hands on the opening statement. he will deliver. it is about five pages or so long. in it extensively, he goes into why he leaned into president biden's memory here to explain why he did not bring charges. let's get right to cnn's chief legal affairs correspondent. paula reid has got much more on what we can expect from robert her and if he wanted to take the temperature down here. paula, i have to say this opening statement, i'm not sure it's going to do that. >> yeah. and you know what? in speaking to sources close to him over the past year covering this investigation, i'm not sure he

cares if he, quote, takes the temperature down here. he views himself as not being partizan, as being a special counsel who is independent. >> and he knows that folks on both sides of the aisle are unhappy with him. john actually just got off the phone with a source close to her who talked to me a little bit about how he's preparing for the big day. >> and as you noted, he has hired a lawyer who has worked with former president trump and his allies. and i want to note, though, before he left the justice department last week, the office of legislative affairs at the justice department actually helped him prepare for today. they did moot hearings. so these are practice arguments that is significant because it's just another example of how he has received a support from the biden justice department. now, once he left the justice department last week, he has continued to practice with his attorney and others for today's hearing, anticipating questions that he's going to get on both sides. they know that republicans are probably going to hammer him on why he opted not to charge biden. they will probably make some comparisons to the classified document prosecution of former president trump. her

is going to be ready for that. he also knows that democrats are going to amplify these criticisms from the white house about comments he made about biden's memory. but as we see in his opening statement, he defends that saying, quote, he needed to show his work. now, we also anticipate, according to the source, he will emphasize that he did not find president biden, quote, innocent. it's just that he did not think that he could win at trial. now, as you just heard evan perez talking about some of this, this new information coming out about the interview from biden, i asked the source about the timing for this new information, and they said, look, it's clear the white house is concerned that under questioning her could potentially release new, possibly damaging additional details about the president. they're trying to get out in front of that. but the source again noted that the tape of that interview has not been released. so this is notable. and i also want to emphasize that the source did that, even though the white house is quite upset with her. a lot of democrats are. it was the attorney general, the biden

handpicked attorney general merrick garland, who oversaw this investigation and clearly did not object to the contents of this report. >> merrick garland had to read the report before it was released, and made public. so we know that to be true. and again, just his opening statement, robert, his opening statement will say the evidence and the president himself put his memory squarely at issue. it tees up what could be a contentious hearing. paula reid will talk to you again. thank you very much, sarah. >> kate, i will take it my friend. a mystery mar-a-lago employee now speaking out about the classified documents case against donald trump. why? employee number five tells cnn the case against trump is not a witch hunt. and a new safety audit into boeing's production lines finds dozens of problems, including using the same dish soap that you may have in your kitchen as lubricant for door seals. and minutes from now, the latest check on what you are spending at the grocery store and also at the gas pump and spending in general. what are prices going up for consumers or down?

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politically engaged. remember, in this time frame, my son is either deployed or is dying, biden said, according to the transcript. the president brought up his son's death, and he remembered the month and day. what month did beau die? oh, god, may 30th, several people in the room interjected to remind him that his son died in 2015. now, robert, he also determined that there was not evidence enough to win a conviction on the documents. question. that was the key of the investigation. no charges were recommended. her will address all of this when he testifies this morning before a house committee in his opening statement. as cnn has obtained, he's expected to say this the evidence and the president himself put his memory squarely at issue. also saying his task was to determine if the president willfully retained or disclose national defense information with the intent to do something the law forbids. her will add. according to the

opening statement. i could not make that determination without assessing the president's state of mind. joining us now is democratic senator chris. he serves on the senate foreign relations and judiciary committees. he's also national co-chair for the biden-harris reelection campaign. senator, thank you so much for being here. what is your reaction to what i've laid out there? cnn's reporting on the actual transcript of the president's interview with her, and also his commentary about biden's memory that he's supposed that he will be bringing up in his opening statement this morning. >> kate, look, i think what really matters here about this whole kerfuffle is that at the end of the day, former president donald trump is facing 40 felony counts in a federal action because of his mishandling of federal classified documents. while president joe biden has been cleared all the back and forth about the commentary by the special counsel, i think at the end of the day has been put

to rest by president biden's forceful and compelling state of the union address on thursday, which makes it clear that the stray comments by a special counsel and a report really don't amount to much compared to the underlying reality that president biden has deep respect for. the classified document process fully cooperated, and his predecessor did not, per says that he called it like he saw it in his investigation. >> he did, and he says that he did not disparage the president unfairly. his report as you note, highlights that there was a is a material distinction between the two investigations of trump and biden on classified documents. >> that's an understatement to say a material distinction one charging a former president with 40 felony quotes and the other clears the current president. yes, that's a material distinction, kate. >> no, senator, for clarity, i'm quoting how he put it in the report. so that's why i understand material distinction. certainly, given that and given

all of this added together, the fact of the matter is, robert, he is coming before this committee. he's going to face questions about all aspects of this, for sure. and it also does highlight that he was he's now a former special counsel, but he became a special counsel because the attorney general put him in place. given all of this and what you know now, do you wish that attorney general merrick garland had not put him, put him in as special counsel or any special counsel? >> look, i that's a hypothetical that i think is best answered this way. president biden has shown over and over his respect for the independence of the department of justice, for the independence of the attorney general. attorney general merrick garland has run his department of justice in a way that shows his commitment to independence, appointing a former trump administration official, robert her, to be the special counsel. in this particular case, and in many other ways, president biden has shown that he's maintained an

arm's length distance from the attorney general and the department of justice in sharp distinction with the former president, who repeatedly pressured the attorney general and the department of justice to act as if it were his own personal legal department. we have a president today who understands and respects the obligations of the office to treat classified documents in a different way, and at the end of the day, this report and i expect the testimony that mr. her will deliver today in the house will reinforce that sharp distinction between president biden, who puts our security first, and former president trump, who doesn't. >> that hearing is going to get underway very soon. cnn is going to bring it to everyone live. i also want to ask you, you recently, you were recently on a trip overseas, and i want to ask you about president biden's recent comments on israel's war against hamas. the president called a military offensive in rafah a red line. in an interview this weekend, he said

in the next breath, though, that he's never going to leave israel. he's not going to cut off all weapons to israel. do you want president biden drawing red lines with israel? >> look, here's what i said to prime minister netanyahu when i met with him in israel just a few weeks ago, that he needs to understand the balance between having american support for continuing the campaign against hamas to restore a sense of deterrence and security to the israeli people after the horrific attack of october 7th, and his obligation to provide for civilian protection. that means if he sends a massive troop offensive of idf soldiers into rafah without providing any way for civilians to get out of the way of that combat, that would be, for me, something that israel should not do, and would, for the very first time, lead me to discuss conditioning aid to israel. that is the last thing on earth i want to do. i want to see us get a hostage deal. i'm

wearing this yellow ribbon today because later this morning, kate , i'm meeting with a father of an american-israeli hostage who is still being held beneath gaza by hamas. this crisis in gaza could end tomorrow. if hamas lay down their arms and release the hostages. but this is a war, a war between israel and hamas. and president biden is trying to balance showing deep concern for the civilians who are suffering and in many cases, now starving in gaza and prime minister netanyahu and the far right wing elements of his government members, ministers like smotrich and ben-gvir, who have made it very difficult to get humanitarian aid into gaza. president biden is trying to do the best in a very difficult circumstance. >> red line is, you know, carries a lot of weight to that statement. i don't need to remind you of when president obama drew a red line in syria, and the fallout from that, the red line is what? and if the red

line is crossed, it leads to what i think that's for president biden to communicate privately to our valued ally, israel. >> what is it for you? important for me, making no provision for humanitarian aid or for civilians to lead rafah to leave rafah, there are more than a million relocated civilians who have fled to rafah at the idf's direction, as they carried out attacks against hamas that have flattened civilian infrastructure from all over the rest of the gaza strip. so there is no way to carry out a campaign a military campaign at scale against for hamas battalion in rafah without massive civilian casualties. if you don't allow for them to leave. in my meeting with prime minister netanyahu, he said, i understand that, and we are getting a plan from the army for how we will relocate civilians before that offensive. i think it's important to keep clear that distinction. i am in no way

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long about half of it addresses. why her maid, the president's memory, an issue in his decision not to charge with us now, former federal prosecutor, jessica roth and former january 6 lawyer temidayo aganga-williams. this opening statement is a choice he is going in there. this former special counsel now, before members of congress, and he's defending his decision not to charge president biden and doing so, he really leans into why he brought up brought up the president's memory. what do you see here? >> i see special counsel hard trying to speak out of both sides of his mouth here in one side and he says, he suggested he has evidenced that from president biden committed a crime, saying that he willfully there was evidence that he willfully retain documents. but then what he does though, is admit what the actual law says. ripple willful retention is, which is to hold these documents back and to know that you are doing something that's against the law, which he does

does it admit he did not have evidence for beyond a reasonable doubt? so he's conflating what willful retention means. it's not merely knowing you have documents, it's not merely forgetting where you put documents is having them knowing you have them and knowing that a virus, a law which he he admits himself that the president biden did not do is his is page two of the opening statement here. he says, we identified evidenced that the president willfully retain classified materials after the end of his presidency. but then in the very next paragraph, he says, we did not, however, identify evidence that rose to the level of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. is there anything wrong with saying we found some evidence, but it wasn't strong enough to prosecute well, i think there is because the evidence he points to you as a reference to president biden noting that there were >> classified documents in his basement or something else. there's nothing in there that talks about knowledge that having those documents there was against the law. you have that when it comes to former president trump, that he had documents he was asked to

return the documents. his lawyers were engaged in negotiating the return of these documents. that's not what's happening here. so i think there's a big distinction here and it does appear to me that mr. harish trying to purposely conflict this, which frankly, without casting aspersions seems to be in the, in the partisan realm. jessica so the most important part of the opening statement, like the most important part of the report, is that he didn't find proof beyond a reasonable doubt that >> former president biden when he was out of office, retained national security information, knowing that he had it and that it was against the law to do so. that's the lead and it should continue to be the lead. there was insufficient proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he knew he had this material and that he retained that knowing it was against the law that gratuitous information about his impressions about biden's memory. it shouldn't have been in the report and it shouldn't be in the opening statement. i think he's feeling defensive about it. that's the best way to cast this. i think that's why he's repeating here. >> you said gratuitous. what

his his defense of that seems to be. my task was to determine whether the president retained or disclose national defense information willfully, meaning knowingly, that's a standard time you just laid out there. and with the intent to do something law forbids i could not make that determination without assessing the president's state of mind. for that reason, i had to consider the president's memory and overall mental state. >> i don't think that that's true. i think that he had plenty to work with based on the information that was available to him about biden's infirm is knowledge at the time in question when he was out of office and whether biden knew what he had in his office and whether he had any intent to violate the law. hers impressions about biden's memory today, during the interview really doesn't bear all that much on the information that was available about that moment in time from witnesses, from the tape recording of the interview with the ghost writer really was not, notwithstanding what he says today, necessary sara this doesn't seem like a lawyer backing off though the issue of

the memory as he prepares to testify, does it know he doesn't seem to be backing off on it. and as i said, i think he's aware that he's been criticized for including it. and so the question is going to be, how much of today's testimony is about this issue and how much is it about? as i said, the more important finding that there wasn't proof beyond a reasonable let's talk about the documents case against former president trump here. the one that has been charged in this case, kaitlan collins spoke to brian butler, who is a mar-a-lago employee, who says he believed he moved classified documents around mar-a-lago and out of mar-a-lago, listen to what he told kaitlan did the two of you ever talk about moving boxes or looking back on that? >> yeah. i >> mean, there was one time towards one of the last times i was with them and we're talking about boxes and while biden did the same thing, you know, you can't get it always have got brought up about biden and other people that did the same thing. and then there was one time we said we're all dirty, we all move boxes and i said, well, look, i didn't even know

what i was moving until i was at the plane and that's when i remember moving both to be clear, butler's not talking about a conversation he had with donald trump there. he's talking about a conversation he had with another mar-a-lago employee, but in a different part of the conversation, it's something i was hoping you would all here. he says he moved boxes like the ones that we've now all seen as part of the special counsel report from jack smith into donald trump. so what do you take? get away from his interview with kaitlan and his possible testimony in a trial. >> i think what's clear is that jack smith has an incredibly strong case in a documents case. i mean, there are numerous witnesses and frankly, books speaking is former federal prosecutors. you have at all you have evidence of the president's men dreyer, his mental state. you have co-conspirators and evidence of actual statements. you have obstruction, which is incredibly helpful because it paints the picture for the jury. only. you knew what was wrong when you did it. but the fact that you cover up the crime shows what you say to my mind was i think it's going to be a really strong case how sector you, if you're jack

smith to have this guy on cnn yesterday, well, that's interesting. actually, i was thinking now that hadn't because you'd normally, you don't want your witnesses. do we go on tv before the trial? anything they say can be used as cross-examination material. he says anything inconsistent on cnn with what he ultimately says. i'm a trial that said he's a really powerful witness based on what we saw yesterday, and he comes across as having absolutely no ax to grind with the former president. unlike say michael cohen right? and really powerful testimony, it takes us inside mar-a-lago and the relationships there, as well as moving the documents. so as a preview for how that witness is going to hold up and how he's going to come across on the stand. i if i were jack smith. jack smith from that perspective, i think i would be happy with that performance. >> all right. a whole lot going on today. thank you both so much for being sara. >> all right >> new economic data out right now, inflation rates not going in the direction economists had hoped in february, they rose slightly just under half a percentage point to an annual rate of 3.2% in the midst of an election year stamping out

inflation. a bit of a rough go. cnn's vanessa okay, but just joining us now, what do these numbers tell us? this is not the direction that people wanted to see inflation going. >> we want to be moving in the opposite direction, but a slight increase year over year ticking up to 3.2% month over month, up 0.4%. that's largely where economists thought we would be because we've been seeing increasing gas it's prices that's actually the largest monthly gain we've seen since september. but when we look at inflation, we need to sort of step back and realize that although these numbers have increased, this is going to be a bumpy road down to the fed's target rate of 2%. they've said it themselves. but look at where we came from. we were at 9% while in 2022, we're still above 3%. we really want to be below that. >> but we have >> made progress, but really leading this monthly increase gas and shelter. shelter has always been a pain point for americans. it's the most

amount of money that you're spending every single month shelter up 0.4%. good news for food prices, flats. so good news at the grocery store for americans. but look at gas prices up 3.8%. we know that in just the last couple of months, gas prices have gone from about 03:07 a gallon to 340 not great for americans, and not great for president biden, who wants to see all of these prices come down for americans during an election year, every single penny, every second counts. it's vanessa yurkevich. thank you so much. appreciate it >> a sweet spot to preventing an all-out nato war with putin while making sure he is defeated in ukraine. retired joint chiefs chairman general mark milley says there is one, there is this sweet spot, and this is now being revealed in the new book by cnn anchor and chief national security analyst, jim sciutto gyms joining us now for more on this. and jim, your book is out today. if i am not mistaken, the return of great powers,

russia, china, and the new world. and the next world war tell us more about your conversation with milley. what this sweet spot is? >> so this is notable at the time he was still the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. now, of course, he is step step down, but he was saying in effect, what i've heard often in private, but he's saying it in public here and that is that it's some point there has to be a settlement to end this war because really no one or very few people believe that either side is going to be defeated on the battlefield. what he describes the sweet spot, let me quote him more fully here he says, you have to find the sweet spot by ensuring that putin doesn't win in an illegal war of aggression. but at the same time he's not provoked in the escalating the war into a war with nato or the united states. he goes on to say this, and this is particularly notable in order to have a successful negotiation, there's that word negotiation again, you have to

somehow address both sets of national security and securities or anxiety. so you have to somehow convince the russians that nato is not going to invade ukraine is not going to be part of nato. and that they shouldn't fear invasion from the west, that sort of thing ukraine, not part of nato, because you, kate, like me and others watching this broadcast now have heard so often from the leaders of nato allies, from us leaders and others that at some point ukraine will be part of nato. there'll be a path to nato. ukraine belongs in nato, but here you have the then chairman of the joint chiefs saying, i don't see how that works because one, it will tie nato to go into war with russia if russia were to it were to invade ukraine again, and it would so scare russia that they would never come to the table well, so they're looking for some sort of middle arrangement. they often talk about an israel type arrangement where you don't have an explicit mutual defense treaty, but everyone knows, you will come to that nation's defenses as best you can. it's,

it's a notable public comment from him it is. >> milley calls milley talks about as a sweet spot, but it also very clearly it's threading and a very difficult needle for sure. i heard you talk a little bit about this last night. i had to ask you again, you spoke to many members of trump's national security team other foreign leaders, and you write about their reaction in the book interactions if. you will, with trump and his admiration for the putins of the world and even how he talks about hitler >> yeah, it's remarkable. it's appalling. and now here i am talking to general john kelly trump's own chief of staff, a retired marine general, who was just appalled to hear there's a then president of the united states, describe how in his words, this is trump's words. putin did some, sorry. hitler did some good things that the man who started world war ii, the man behind the holocaust and kelly's reaction i think is telling, he says, it's pretty hard to believe he

missed the holocaust speaking of trump, and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 american gis that were killed in the european theater. but i think it's more again, the tough guy thing. so him describing how a us president in effect on the wrong side of that war, right? and any ties that to trump's broader, often public praise of the xi's, the putins, the kims, the, or bonds or the world it's ingrained in trump's worldview and just some of what you've gleaned and game for all of your amazing reporting that you put in this new book. it's great to see you, jim, thanks for jumping on. jim sciutto's book, the great, the return of great powers out today, john write a massive screaming chaotic people. that is how one american dr. describes his experience working in a war zone and we're now just minutes away from former special counsel robert hur testified before congress about his decision not to charge president biden for his handling of classified documents we're getting new information about what he will say and how he plans not to

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he tai hen, it was thought that he was alive still and being held captive by hamas. but now israel reports he was killed on october 7 cnn's jeremy diamond is joining me, joining us now. what more is the idf saying this is horrible news is his parents were so outspoken about trying to fight to get the hostages released >> they were outspoken. they have been fighting every single day to raise awareness about their son's captivity to try and secure his release through the israeli government, through the american government, basically through any avenue that they could. and so today, obviously this is devastating news for that family. a tayfun, a 19-year-old israeli soldier, a dual american israeli citizen, according to the idf, was killed on october 7. his body was taken into gaza and his body is still the israelis the military says, being held hostage by hamas, he was one of six americans believed to be

held alive by hamas. that number now down to five for americans, including a tai fen, are believed to be dead and their bodies also believed to be held by hamas. at this moments when we talk about the family and the fight that they have been leading to try and secure their son's release. i spent some time with you thai fans, mother highgate, as we were flying to the hague in the netherlands, where she was part of a group of 100 members of hostage families who were pushing it's a file a complaint to urge the icc to basically a file charges against hamas is leaders. she told me that she dreamed of her son a lot. she dreamed of the day when he would come back to her saying that she believed that it would be as part of a hostage agreement as part of negotiations that she dreamed of? >> seeing >> him in a red cross van waving to me. she said smiling because he always had a big smile on his face and he will say, i'm okay, why are you

worried so much those dreams today dashed >> okay. >> jeremy thank you for your reporting right next to your image is the image of a tie that we've all becomes so familiar with as the fight for his release had continued. now, we have this news today, jeremy. thank you >> sarah >> all right. this morning is ship carrying pallets of much needed aid has left cyprus and is headed to gaza. the aid is from world central kitchen, but a top health official says the humidity hearing aid entering northern gaza is quote, not enough for anyone more than 1 million displaced people have fled to rafah in southern gaza. they are living with severe shortages of food, water, medicine, and shelter. retired obstetrician, dr. michael grady saw firsthand the dire can additions people are facing after spending nearly five weeks there in rafa working on patients delivering emergency

medical care. thank you so much for joining us, dr. grady. i really appreciate your time. you were stationed there, as we said, for roughly five weeks give us some sense of what you see, what you experienced as you were trying to just do your job in these difficult circumstances >> yeah. good morning. yeah. it's just horrendous worse than you could imagine, worse than you can see on a film because, what you don't get on newsreels that on films or the background screaming, you don't get the smells, you don't get the dust. it's really an awful, awful situation can you give us some sense of where you were and how you were operating? were you inside tents? where you inside the hospital. what are the conditions? >> yes so i worked with the iaea international medical corps and in early january, we set up a field hospital sort of

halfway between eunice and rafa they are if you would like, a mash unit. we had a series of ten set were connected to each other there was an outpatient ten, there was an emergency room ten. then we had an inpatient ten set would hold 50 people. and of course, we soon had upscale that. we now have tents that will hold 140 people. we had operating rooms intensive care so it was it was very, very intense and i've done this kind of work for many, many years and this is the most intense situation that i've been >> we are seeing some of your video that was taken there while you were trying to do your work inside 10th with emergency medicine? i have to ask you what what was the availability of medical

supplies? it's been a lot of talk about how the jeff not enough food, not enough clean water. and especially medical supplies. what did you experience there? what did you see >> so if you just imagine how many people that we were seeing, you know, we thought maybe we would see 20 or 30 people, a day in the emergency department and maybe 100 people a day in the outpatient department. within days, we were seeing 234. now we're seeing 600 patients a day when the outpatient department and sometimes 30 people will show up from a mass casualty event in the emergency room at one time. and so now we're seeing well over 100 people a day through the emergency room to put it in perspective, in one week, we gave out 20,000 tylenol. so you can imagine when it takes to resupply that. and in the efforts for

resupply, so there's always a constant shortage of critical medicines is a constant shortage of pretty much every supply. but we make due with what we have you do what you have to do. and i know the people there have. thank you. profusely for that. i do want to ask you about a move by the israeli government saying that its military is planning an assault on rafa. what, what does that going to mean? because you talk about all these tents that are sort of put there to try to deal with emergency medicine what's that going to mean if and when that assault happens >> of course, i'm not a politician, i'm a dr. but i can say that we will scale up. we will we will provide the care that that we do. and it continued to do it. you know, we were used to working in conflict zones. we've been doing this for 40 years and we will do, we have to do dr.

michael grady. thank you so much for the work that you did there to try to save lives and for taking the time out this morning to be with us a new hour of cnn news central begins now cnn breaking news >> here's the quote, the evidence and the president himself put his memory squarely at issue. that is what the now former special counsel, robert hur, is expected to say when he gets into the hot seat on capitol hill at the top of the hour. that is when this begins and lawmakers will be questioning her on his decision to not recommend charges against president biden over his handling of classified documents and her will also face questions about his decision to describe the president and his final report as an elderly man with a poor memory her also now learning exactly what biden said when that special counsel, bob hur, interviewed him, including a section in which the president

appeared to forget what year