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were following all the breaking news in israels escalating war with hamas. israels prime minister says his country is now in the second stage of the war. the goal to eliminate hamas and eeradicate its threat to israel. israels military says it has troops inside gaza, but its not clear if this expanded operation is the beginning of a broad ground incursion. civilians in northern gaza say last night was the heaviest bombardment so far. israels defense minister says the intensifying assau...

Foreign government attacked are 2016 elections to support trump, trump welcomed that help and obstructed the investigation, now he said he would do it all over again. time to impeach donald trump and this from senator kirsten gillibrand, time for congress to begin impeachment hearings but the concern all along for democratic leaders in congress and nancy pelosi among them is if they push forward with impeachment they are getting ahead of public sentiment. democrats outraged over donald trumps re...

President bushs funeral. does that surprise you? what do you make of that? >> well, i have to say that barbara bush remembered those who stabbed her. she remembered those who caused hurt to her husband. she had a long memory, and she did not let you forget those things if you were the person that perpetrated that. im sure she had deep feelings of hurt and pain for her husband, for her children on the campaign of 2016. george h.w. bush, by contrast, he was a forgiving man. he would get angry at y...

This foreign firm right after the campaign. he paid this foreign firm that had offered this mysterious pitch to the campaign in 2016. george nader is now a cooperating witness for the fueler investigation. he is cooperating allegedly under a deal that grants him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony. so because of him, because in the middle of that strange story, theyve got a cooperating witness whose already got immunity. hes already in the tractor beam of the special counsels...

Also, since coming under scrutiny, the firm appears to have dissolved into thin air which is not itself crazy. business goes away. but it does add to the mystery here. this, however, i think, is one of those mysteries that we ultimately will probably get to the bottom of, if only because one of the people involved in this very intriguing story, the guy who reportedly sent this firm a check for $2 million after the election, that guy who sent them the check, what was he paying for? that guy who s...

That they want. that is not anything we proposed. we want to get to border security. were going to do everything we can to do it until and when congress acts. >> how many will go, do you have that number? >> we dont. just because we take each mission set, each location and work with the governor on how many people. well let you know that as soon as we can. >> so we told you what we dont know. what we do know is that 2017 actually saw the fewest arrests of those attempting to cross illegally in y...

Michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. paul manafort pleaded not guilty to among other charges, money laundering. youll hear more about them later in this story. one lesser known player is also in the hot seat. donald trump first mentioned him at a meeting with washington post editors in 2016. >> george papadopoulos, an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> excellent guy, george papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi in the russia investigation. >> mr. president, y...

Have had contact with russians. two of the most prominent have been charged with crimes. michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. paul manafort pleaded not guilty to, among other charges, money laundering. youll hear more about them later in this story, but one lesser known player is also in the hot seat. donald trump first mentioned him at a meeting with "washington post" editors in 2016. >> george papadopoulos, an oil and energy consultant. excellent guy. >> excellent guy george papad...

Rollout of measures to curb gun violence will not be released today as planned. mitch mcconnell says the senate will take up a banking bill next week. dashing hopes of quick action on guns in the wake of the school shooting in parkland, florida. >> a lot to talk about. joining us is cnn analyst julian zelizer. author of the book "the presidency of barack obama." congratulations. edited by you. looks fantastic. lets start with the big story of the morning. tariffs. this is a good time to bring th...

Was amplification operation for the disinformation of russia and its allies and far from saying that was a bad thing, brad parscal has been bragging it was successful and facebook was a successful thing and so this is a sign that trump intends to use the same tactics in 2020 that he used in 2016. >> george? >> if there is a 2020. this man has been elevated to a job that may not exist. a very long time between now and then. mueller will report -- mr. trump, im not sure he is having fun. im not su...