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specialized home for wounded veterans. thank you so much. wolf blitzer picks it up right now in "the situation room." see you tomorrow. happening now, president biden says gaza's largest hospital should be, should be protected as israel insists it's striking medical centers hamas is using as cover. hospital officials reporting catastrophic conditions and increasingly desperate measures to keep premature babies and others alive. cnn goes inside gaza with israeli forces getting an up close look at the enormous scope of the destruction. the idf showing tunnels use bid hamas including beneath a children's hospital. donald trump jr. wraps up the testimony for the defense in the $250 million civil fraud trial against the trump organization.

trump jr. praising his father as a real estate artist, even as the case threatens the family's entire business empire. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". we begin this hour with the health situation stem in gaza nearing total collapse. new hospital horror stories emerging as israel defended attacks in and around medical facilities where it says hamas has dug in. let's go to cnn's oren liebermann who is joining us from tel aviv right now. oren, how dire are these conditions? what are you learning? >> reporter: wolf, much of the health system in gaza has effectively collapsed at this point. the fighting has focused around al shifa hospital, the largest hospital in gaza as there are intense bombardments from israel around that area. israel says hamas has dug in and

they're fighting them there as hmgs is using the hospital to defend itself. it has led to the hospital being cut off. officials from the hospital said all essential units have closed down already. that as other hospitals, many across the gaza strip have already shut down. inside shifa hospital itself, the neonatal intensive care unit had to take incub.inbabies out incubators. that's led to six babies dying as they try to keep others alive by wrapping them in foil and keeping them near hot water. meanwhile, doctors without borders say there are hospitals piling up in the hospital complex. they fear it's too dangerous to get the bodies out and try to get them away from people being treated. the hospital had some 650 patients and thousands of people sheltering inside. it's a symptom of a larger health system far beyond the capacity to treat what is

demanded. president joe biden cautioned israel that the hospital and civilians need to be protected. here he is earlier today. >> it's my hope and expectation that there will be less -- the hospital must be protected. >> reporter: the strategic communications coordinator for the national security council, john kirby later added to those comments saying he was talking about the added burden placed upon israel to make sure it's defending civilians and trying to avoid damaging the hospital itself. he says it is hamas that cynically uses the hospital and tries to find its own hospital under that, using it as a command mode. the u.s. standing behind israel's accusation that hams has dug in under the hospital. israel tried to deliver 300 liters of fuel to the hospital

but it was hamas that prevented it to be delivered. the hospital says they allowed the fuel to be delivered through the red cross and the hospital officials were too afraid to go out. >> oren liebermann, thank you for that report. now a very powerful new look at the destruction in gaza. cnn's nic robertson is in israel right now, embedded with the israel defense forces. what did you see, nic? >> reporter: wolf, we went about five miles into gaza, the restrictions on our trip, no photographs of regular soldiers' faces. officers were fine to film, no filming of sensitive equipment in the vehicles. i have to say in 30 years of experience in covering combat zones and wars, the level and extensive nature of the damage that we passed on the drive in, passing blown-up buildings -- we

were driving along the mediterranean coastline to get closer to gaza city, down past the jgibb ball yeah refugee cam, in many areas all the buildings have been damaged, either collapsed or heavily damaged by fire or rocket or partially blown apart. we got to a command post where we changed out of the soft-skin vehicle and into an armored personnel carrier to go very deep into the javale yeah refugee camp here to the al rantisi hospital. when we got there the idf top spokesperson, daniel regari was there. he wanted to show the things the idf was showing them, the

connection between hamas and the schools. showed the hamas commander's house, showed how the wiring from that house was being fed down into a tunnel of networks. we could see that very clearly. he said the network stretched towards the hospital that they were investigating that stretch of tunnel going in the direction of the hospital. 100 yards away he took us to the hospital. i have to say in that part of town there was still a very, very intense firefight going on. tanks firing, gun battles, bullets whizzing around. we got a real sense of how the street-by-street fighting was going. we did not see a single civilian on that trip at all. no people in gaza. every building that we saw either damaged, collapsed, but no civilians. when we did go into the the hospital, what admiral hagari wanted to show us was a weapons

cache by hamas. he took us into the basement of the hospital and showed the weapons cache. he showed a motor bike used by hmm that had a bullet hole in it, used in the october 7th attack. he showed us what he said was going to be investigated, dna analysis by forensic teams, women's clothing by a chair and what appeared to be rope around the legs of the chair, perhaps indicating that a hostage had been held there. he showed us a rudimentary toilet that had been set up in the basement behind curtains. he found that all very suspicious, pointing towards hamas potentially, potentially using the area for keeping hostages. he also showed us a room he thought was a guard room that had a list of guard duties that he said began on the 7th of october and ran the dates were ticked off until the 3rd when the hospital began to be

evacuated. the hospital had staff five days ago. he says in the past five days the hospital staff evacuated all the patients from there. that's when the idf blew their way in. he said when they got inside the basement, that's when he realized the suspicions of the connection of this building to hamas. under the international committee for the red cross' assessment of humanitarian law during a wartime, if a hospital is used for storing weapons, then that takes it off, if you will, a protected building status, wolf. >> nic robertson reporting, thank you very much. glad you're back safe and sound. i want to get more on all these major developments. joining us, a member of the u.s. senate relations committee, democrat chris murphy. thanks so much for joining us. have you seen intelligence to back up israel's claims about how hamas operates around these hospitals and from these

hospitals? does that justify the catastrophic impact of israel's operations that are going on and the impact of innocent patients? >> well, i am absolutely confident that part of hamas' strategy is to use human beings, the people of gaza as human shields. that has been their method of operation from the very beginning. they have long embedded themselves and their weapons in and underneath hospitals, schools, mosques, religious centers and so to the extent that there are very high numbers of civilian casualties, the primary responsibility for that lies with hamas. let's be 100% clear about this. as you heard nic robertson just report, when hamas makes that decision to put large weapons caches in these buildings, then the israeli military does have an obligation to try to go after those significant stores of

weapons that will be used eventually against israel. as you know, i think the civilian casualty count is far too high. i've urged israel to be more targeted in their strikes. i think the number of civilians dying has a long-term strategic cost to israel. i continue to lay the primary responsibility for everything that has happened today at the feet of hamas. >> president biden says he wants what he calls less intrusive operations around these gaza hospitals. what tangible steps, senator, do you want to see israel take to target hamas while protecting the innocent patients, doctors and civilians who are sheltering inside those hospitals? >> every time you make a decision about an air strike or a ground operation, you have to weigh the value of the target that you're going after and the number of civilians that are going to be harmed. i would hope that israel is going to place a high, maybe

higher level of importance on the number of civilians that are affected by these operations. second, hospitals need fuel in order to run. they need medical supplies. right now we're still, from what i have heard, from humanitarian operators on the ground, we're not getting enough fuel in particular into gaza right now. there are responsible operators that can make sure it doesn't land in the hands of hamas. the world food program is one of those potential partners. we've got to see in the next 48 hours more fuel to get into gaza. of course, hamas has plenty of fuel. hamas could choose to give the fuel they have to civilians. that's not what hamas does. hamas is willing to let all these civilians die. the united states and israel is not and should not be willing to. >> another issue that seems to be exploding right now. american forces, u.s. forces in syria, senator, as you well know have come under attack at least four times since the u.s. carried out air strikes on iranian proxy targets there in syria. that was last night.

why have u.s. retaliatory strikes failed to deter these iranian-backed agressors? >> well, as you know, these iranian-backed aggressors are a dispersed force without a central command structure. they certainly get a permission slip from iran, but they're often acting alone. we may hit one group and then get attacked the next day by another group. to me this begs the long-term question. are we sure that the united states is getting more benefit than risk from the large number of somewhat unprotected forces that we have in the region? i have long called for the united states to downsize its military and security footprint in places like syria and iraq, in part because we end up being targets for a lot of these militia groups. ultimately we could be in a situation where a large number

of americans get killed, perhaps by an iranian-backed militia, and then we're in a very different scenario, perhaps with the necessity of delivering a strike at iran itself. none of us want to be in that position. we have to have a discussion about how our troops are deployed in the region. >> senator, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. just ahead, donald trump jr. takes the stand for a second time in a trial that could determine the future of trump's businesseses. stay w with us. you'rere in "the s situation r "

donald trump jr. wrapping up his testimony today as the first witness for the defense team in the $250 million civil fraud trial they're facing in new york. the former president's eldest son returning to the stand in the case that potentially could determine the future of the family business. cnn's kara scannell has details. what did donald trump jr. have to say? >> reporter: donald trump jr.'s testimony was very much like a promotional pitch. he walked through a number of the properties, more than a dozen with glossy photoed on the

screen and described his father as a visionary, said he was an artist, saying he transformed dilapidated buildings into spectacular estates, transformed a swamp land into a spectacular golf course and transformed the old post office in washington, d.c. he described as a war zone into one of the finest hotels in the world. he tried to describe the value that the trump organization adds to the properties they take over. he was on the stand for about three hours. one particular property he took umbrage which was the $18 million in mar-a-lago. he testified that the atrium alone would cost more than $18 million to construct today. here is what he said about the attorney general's case. >> i think they understand that they have nothing as it relates to a case other than i guess an overseoul laos attorney general who would destroy all of new york business by going after

transactions where there are no victims. it's a disgrace this is happening right now. >> reporter: the judge has given more leeway to trump's side today. the attorney general's office was objecting to the whole use of the presentation. the judge said he gave the state six weeks to put on their case, so he was giving the trump side time to put on theirs. >> kara, how will the defense unfold from here? >> reporter: what we're expecting is they will call expert witnesses over the next couple days. then they're going to call back some trump organization executives who will be testifying. they also said they would be calling back eric trump and put him on the stand. it's likely the former president himself will be called to testify. they expect to wrap their case by the middle of next month. >> kara, stay with us. i want to bring in tom dupree former deputy assistant attorney general who will break down today's testimony. tom, what do you make of how the defense's case seems to be

shaping up at least so far? >> today, wolf, was the curtain racer. this is the trump defense team putting out donald jr. to paint a different picture than the one the attorney general wanted to paint out. they wanted to paint in broad strokes, explain in donald jr.'s words how his father was a visionary and an artist in real estate. they wanted to set the tone in order to sper suede the judge this was the quintessential american business success story. as kara reported, in the days to come they'll get more granular, getting into the accounting details in order to defend themselves from the accounting charges. >> kara, what did don jr. say on the implications of the 2024 election on the family business? >> reporter: he was asked what was the future of the trump organization since they put a lot of their expansion on hold when his father became president. he said it will depend a lot on

the election in november. he said they won't be surprised if they will have to put this on hold for a while and said he will be sued into oblivion for the foreseeable future. saying if his father wins' election, the company will in in a holding pattern. a lot will depend on the outcome of this case. >> tom, were you surprised to see the judge strike a friendlier tone with donald trump jr. compared to the tension with the former president when he took the stand? >> i really wasn't. from the judge's perspective, his attitude is he needs to give the defense ample leeway. he gave the prosecutors leeway. this is a judge that he knows any decision he renders in this case is going up on appeal. he wants to insulate his decision from arguments on appeal that he didn't let the defense put on their case. in fact, there are several points today where he emphasized he was going to let the trump defense team put on this evidence, put on this testimony. it didn't mean he found that

evidence relevant or persuasive, but nonetheless wanted to allow them have their day in court and have their say. >> tom, do you expect the former president to take the stand again? how would that impact the defense's case? >> i do think he'll come back. i think there's more he needs to say. there's more he wants to say. he's somewhat irrepressible and he wants to have his voice heard in court. this will give his defense team an opportunity to push a little harder on the valuations, the reasons why he approved these or signed off on these in attempt to persuade the judge to back off his initial conclusion that these valuations weren't made in good faith. i do think we'll see a repeat appearance from the former president before the dust settles. >> kara, how is the attorney general's office reading today reacting to all this? >> there were a number of objections during the presentation today. essentially the judge said i'm going to give them the

opportunity, the trump side, to put on their case. he was sending them the message that they needed to let this happen. of course the ag's office is expected to cross-examine a number of these witnesses. they'll have experts coming on to testify, and it will go to these issues of valuation, as well as what the roles were of individuals at the trump organization and their knowledge. we can expect there to be an active cross-examination of several of the witnesses, particularly the ones that haven't been called yesterday for the a.g.'s office to challenge them on their findings and rationale for coming up with the valuation in defending how the trump organization factored that into their decision on those financial statements. >> this could go on for a while. kara scannell, tom dupree, thank you very much. coming up, we'll hear from a young u.s. zit zen holed up in one e of gaza's hohospitals, devastated by more t than a mon of warar.

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we're getting another grim look inside a gaza hospital. the al quds hospital in gaza city where some civilians including u.s. citizens have been sheltering. >> reporter: darkness has descended on yet another gaza medical facility, al quds hospital where they've been trying to save lives with the very little they had left. but it's become impossible. this was al quds hours before gaza's second largest hospital was declared out of service

sunday. like other hospitals in the north, the fighting has been closing in on al quds where thousands of displaced had been sheltering alongside the injured. among them are at least two u.s. citizens. >> i want to feel like, oh, i can move my fingers. my fingers are gone now. >> reporter: she was injured in an attack on their bus on the roud south as they tried to make their way for a third time to the rafah crossing with egypt. the family blames israel whose military denied to cnn they struck the street on that day. >> i walked from the beach -- it was probably three miles from the ebeach to the hospital. i could have given up. i felt like -- all my blood dripped all over me. how i felt when i saw my hand falling or how i felt my skin

just -- and my bones breaking, and how i saw my wrist just turn blue. i knew that my hand was gone. >> reporter: this interview with farah was filmed a few days ago by a journalist working for cnn on the eve before her 17th birthday before the hospital was completely cut off. >> when i sleep, i dream what happened to me. i can hear the rockets when they hit me, and my sister and my mom just screaming when they saw my hand fall. >> reporter: this is the scene just outside the hospital. this video released by the israeli military captures a militant carrying a rocket-propelled grenade they say was part of a group that attacked their forces. they say the israeli military is surrounding and targeting the hospital. israel says it's targeting hams. farah was born in gaza and left with her family when she was 3.

they were back to visit family when the war broke out. for her father in pennsylvania, the past few weeks have been hell, desperately trying to get his wife and daughters back home, exchanging almost daily emails and calls with the state department. >> i'm asking is there a class a, class b from the u.s. citizen, for all the u.s. citizen? i pay tax for united states of america to support israel to shoot and bomb my daughter and my wife. i need the president. i need mr. blinken to listen to this message. we are u.s. citizen. we are loyal to this country. send the red cross, send to support the u.s. citizens that are outside, not hostage with hamas. >> a father's desperate to make his family's suffering heard, like so many thousands, he feels no one is hearing gaza's cries

for help. >> i feel everything hopeless. i feel like i'm dead. just ahead, donald trump calling his political enemies names that harken back to world war ii as his team plans to get revenge on his critics.

former president donald trump is promising to root out his political opponents if he wins the white house, calling his political enemies vermin. critics say it parallels comments by author therrien leaders in the past. as kristen holmes reports, trump's rhetoric appears to be resonating with republicans. >> reporter: former president donald trump ramping up his inflammatory rhetoric. >> the threat from outside forces is far less sinister,

dangerous and grave than the threat from within. >> reporter: denigrating his political opponents as, quote, vermin, during a veterans day speech in new hampshire. >> we will room out the communist, marxist, fascist and radical left thugs that live like vermins within the confines of our country. >> reporter: the white house condemning trump's remarks, likening them to language used by authoritarian leaders. quote, using terms like that about dissent would be unrecognizable to our founding fathers, but recognizable to our veterans who put on uniforms in the 1940s. as the former president commands the gop primary with his combative rhetoric, his allies are playing an agenda for the aekd term. >> if somebody -- if i happen to be president and i see somebody who is doing well and beating me very badly, i say go down and

indict them -- >> reporter: a trump 2025 agenda would also expand the hard line immigration policies trump pursued during his first term in office. >> we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in american history. >> reporter: with the mass detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants. >> i will shut down this travesty, terminate all work permits for illegal aliens and demand congress send me a bill outlawing all welfare payments to illegal migrants of any kind. >> it's part of an escalation in anti-immigrant language by the former president. >> it's poisoning the blood of our country it's so bad. people are coming in with disease. people are coming in with every possible thing that you can have. >> reporter: the darkening rhetoric appears to resonate with americans. tim scott suddenly ending his presidential bid on sunday after failing to gain traction in the

polls. >> i think the voters who are the most remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they're telling me not now, tim. >> reporter: unsurprisingly, rnc chair raonna mcdaniel was asked about this over the weekend and refused to way in on the vermin comments. she said she would support whoever the nominee is including donald trump. >> i want analysis from our political experts. gloria borger, i'll start with you. trump's use of the word vermin in describing political opponents, democrats we're talking about, what's your reaction? >> i think, first of all, it's disgraceful. i thit it's dangerous. i think it is the language of an autocrat. i think what trump is trying to do and it's something he's always tried to do is be provacative. he needs enemies to survive. enemies are his oxygen. i think that's what he needs to

have, someone to rail against. this kind of language is all about riling up his base. i think it's dangerous if you look at what happened on january 6th. >> seems to be succeeding in that effort to rile up his base. let me get marc short's reaction to this, specifically your reaction to what former republican congresswoman liz cheney said about ronna mcdaniel, the chair of the republican national committee when she was, ronna mcdaniel, about trump's statements, his comments, his remarks. this is what liz chain nay said. when gop congress chairwoman refuses to condemn the gop's leading candidate for using the same nazi propaganda that mobilized the 1930s and '40s germany to evil, it's fair to assume she's collaborating. >> i don't think that donald trump is nazi. i think he has, as you know, a son-in-law that's jewish. he's embraced the jewish faith.

for any limited government conservative it's en nath ma to using the government to go after political opponents. we talked about communists and socialists, for many in the conservative movement, they started in opposition to what was happening across the cloeb behind the iron curtain in communist socialist countries. for any republican candidate to adopt the language, we're going to use the government to go after political opponents, i think that's counter -- >> the question, mark, why aren't republicans speaking out when trump calls his political opponents vermin? that's what the nazis called the jews leading up to the holocaust. >> the republicans are probably tired of feeling like they always have to respond to donald trump. i think he often does this to be provocative, to get more coverage than he otherwise would be getting. >> what do you think? >> you have to respond to donald trump if he's going to be your party's nominee. you can't ignore him. he's leading in the polls. if you don't respond to him, it's somewhat enabling him.

i don't like to call people names, but if we go back to charlottesville when donald trump says there are very good people on both sides, and some of the people on one side were holding tiki torches and saying terrible anti-semitic people about jewish people. >> jews will not replace us. >> that's right. if you think that's a good person -- >> likewise the left has been pretty quiet about people on college campuses hollering anti-semitic things -- >> anti-semetism has no place in this country. it has no place with people holding political office, and college students should not be doing anti-semitic things. the republican front-runner should not either. >> democrats should be calling out college students as well. >> i agree with you on that. i think, you know, how many times when donald trump is president he tweeted outrageous things, and we were asking

members of congress to respond. did they say, oh, i haven't read that tweet, i haven't seen the news. they're avoiding it now because, of course, he's the clear front-runner for the republican nomination. that's why ronna mcdaniel didn't want to talk about it. she said she's not involved in anyone's messaging. what kind of messaging is that? >> she could have at least said she deplores that rhetoric. >> i think it's wrong. let me get to another sensitive issue. learning more about trump's plans to tackle the issue of immigration if he were elected president. again, among the things he's suggesting, large scale arrests of undocumented immigrants, detention camps for migrants awaiting deportation and expansion of the so-called muslim ban. >> trump 2.0. i think there are no guardrails anymore, and i think this is what democrats, by the way, ought to be talking about.

but if you look at those things, he tried the muslim ban. there's a lot of legal issues involved in what he's talking about, not to mention constitutional issues. but again, he's trying to be provo provocative. this is what we're going to hear during the campaign. and there aren't people who want to rein him in. this is read on a teleprompter. there are people planning for this now in great detail who are still very loyal to donald trump, and i think that this is going to be a bone of contention or should be for every democrat who is running everywhere in 2024. >> go ahead, mavrjt. >> he's putting out a position to negotiate in public. that's what he does. the reality is there were not mass deportations when he was president, there was no a muslim ban. having said that, i think if the conversation about border security, his administration is far more effective at securing the border than the biden

administration. if it becomes something on cable news constantly, conversation about the border security, donald trump is winning. >> i don't know. i just think when donald trump was running in 2016 he said pretty derogatory things. one of the first things he did do was put in a muslim ban. he's telling us the platform he would run on. he separated children from their parents on the border. that's what he's saying he will do, only he'll send them back now. i'm open to having a policy debate. it should be a wake-up call to the republicans. to your point, to the democrats, we have to stop him and he can't get in the white house again. >> i think he's grown more radical since you were in the white house. i think he's been radicalized. i think he's being encouraged in this. as you know very well, a lot of this will have to go to court. will it be unconstitutional, will congress approve? so there's a lot of distance between what he's talking about and what could actually become reality. >> guys, thank you very much. coming up, a huge test of

the new house speaker mike johnson is unfolding right now on capitol hill as the deadline for a government shutdown is fast approaching.

this is cnn. >> tonight, the new house speaker is trying to sell fellow republicans and all of congress on his plan to avoid a government shutdown. the deadline to avoid a shutdown is just four days from now. melanie, what is the latest? >> reporter: it is becoming increasingly clear, speaker mike johnson is going to have to rely on democratic votes. not only the underlying bill, but to procedural hurdle. typically, these are done along party lines. but several are willing to vote against that role.

just listen. >> i am disappointed in this bill. and i certainly hope this bill is not going to proceed as it is currently structured. >> continuing the status quo will not be acceptable. i am told the gop leadership is running a new strategy that would allow them to circumvent that gop opposition to the procedural about. what they are considering is bringing up the government funding plan under an expedited process known as a vote that can come to the floor and skip the procedural vote altogether. it would require two-thirds majority, a much higher bar, and one that would require significant democratic support. democratic leaders have not tipped their hand about how they are planning to vote, but they are open to backing this funding plan. hakeem jeffries, the house democratic leader, said they are evaluating carefully. chuck schumer, the senate

democratic leader, said it may not be perfect, but it is appearing to move in the right direction. it does not include israel aid or ukrainian aid, but it does not include significant spending cuts. that might be ultimately why democrats decide to ultimately swallow this government funding plan. we will get a much better sense tomorrow, that is when the house is scheduled to take a vote on what would be a major test of the new speaker's abilities to govern. >> the ramifications for the american public are enormous right now. thank you. coming up, the new york city mayor eric adams, facing t toug quesestions afteter his cecell were seized by the fbi. new reportrting, now emerging g abouout what thehe feds may y b lookining for.

new york city mayor eric adams is expected to face reporters tomorrow as new information is emerging about a federal campaign finance

investigation that prompted the fbi to seize his electronic devices. brian todd is working the story for us. there are certainly a lot of questions for mayor adams. >> reporter: he is under increasing pressure and the investigation of him seem to be widening. the mayor, for his part, says he has nothing to hide and he is cooperating. >> reporter: tonight, new information on white fbi agents publicly seized the phones and ipads of new york city mayor eric adams. the new york times reports federal investigators are looking into whether adams answered the city fire department to sign off on turkish officials being able to occupy their new $300 million high-rise consulate in new york, despite safety concerns with the manhattan building. this was allegedly done just weeks before the election, while he was still the borough president of brooklyn. >> law enforcement officers will have to look very closely at whether these are just actions carried out by an elected official, or whether they are bad actions by people

who were exchanging favors for actions. >> reporter: the act of trying to cut through the tape is not necessarily a violation of anything. adams, in a statement, it said, quote, as a borough president, part of my role was to notify issues on behalf of constituents and constituencies. i will continue to cooperate with investigators. but the times reports there is a broader public corruption investigation at play here, and investigators are looking into whether adams' 2021 camping conspired with the turkish government, to fund his campaign, which is illegal. >> sources have obtained financial records, showing that those people who made the contributions were paid back in full for the contributions. that makes them straw donors and that brings up the allegation of campaign finance fraud. not just creating a straw

donors, but getting matching campaign funds from the city. >> reporter: john miller was deputy commissioner of the new york police department, serving under mayor adams. miller left the department in july, 2022. mayor adams has denied any wrongdoing and says he has nothing to hide. adams' phones and ipad were seized in public, last week, just days after the fbi raided the home of his chief fundraiser. >> the mayor's office reached out and said there are other phones in his possession that he would like to voluntarily turn over, to make sure that you have gone through everything. >> reporter: neither mayor adams, nor anyone in his campaign, have yet been accused of any wrongdoing. as of now, no charges are publicly known to have been filed in connection with his investigation. adams will publicly address all of this with the media tomorrow. we will know more then. >> to our viewers, thank you very much watching.

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