. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and all around the world. i m max foster with our continuing coverage of israel at war. it s 9:00 a.m. here in london, 11:00 a.m. in israel, three weeks ago a series of brazen attacks killed more than 1,400 people in southern israel with more than 200 men, women and children taken hostage. after what it called targeted raids over the previous two days the idf now says it s expanding ground operations into gaza. it says its warplanes struck 150 underground targets overnight, set to be one of israel s most intense and sustained bombard ams since the war started. a senior adviser to the prime minister spoke earlier with cnn s jake tapper. we will not live like that any longer. we saw what they re capable of doing. we saw the sort of gruesome, terrible, horrific violence they inflicted upon us. we refuse to live with that sort of neighbor anymore. and we are now going to create a new reality in gaza. well, nearly all communica
revealed that a senior u.s. diplomat has been having conversation with north korean counter parts, another sign that the trump administration is quietly trying to calm this down. joining us now, john bolton. good evening, ambassador. seems like we ve never been closer to it nuclear brink than we are now. is that a correct statement? we re at a crisis point because of the advances that north korea has made in the last eight years, so donald trump inherits 25 years of a failed policy of negotiating north korea out of these programs and his options are few and not very good. what is interesting is the
regime and the threat of nuclear terrorism against our country. without looking backward for too long, do you see the way that some of the administrations, particularly the clinton administration, giving money to north korea, and then the parallel of the obama administration giving money to iran, do you see that the appeasement that seems to be going on is only to our detriment and
american taxpayers more than a million dollars. earlier white house tried to downplay its role. to be clear, white house doesn t have role on the front end of approving private charter flights. that s agencies and something we re looking into from this point forward and asked a halt to be put particularly at ahs on any charter flights moving forward. white house may not approve but played a role in travel costs overall. approved the use of military aircraft for price s trips to africa, europe and asia to tune of half a million dollars. adding to the cost. price reimbursing government about $52,000. inspector general is investigating whole mess but in case of private jets, anyone can figure out how outrageous the
travel costs were. $300 to fly commercial from washington to nashville. he took a private plane at more than $17,000. at least 20 trips. including a flight from washington to philadelphia, can drive in 2 1/2 hours or train for $72. this is just the spending that price ra
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out of millions of dollars. the president says he is a friend of ours, as they used to stay in the mob. jim acosta joins us. i understand you re learning more about the advice the president is getting about issuing pardons related to the russian investigation. reporter: that s right, anderson. i have been told by a source inside the president s legal team he has been advised for months now to avoid any pardons in the russia investigation including paul manafort. interesting to point out earlier this evening the washington post was reporting rudy guiliani told them in just the last several weeks, rudy guiliani had to talk the president out of pardoning paul manafort until it is over. what s interesting here about all of that is that at the white house secretary, sarah sanders, apparently was giving us a false or incomplete information that did not add up when she said that a pardon was
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interesting to see the white house parsing its words over this issue. this is something under discussion, something been on the president s mind and appears it s been on the president s mind lately as well. to hear the president yet again go after attorney general jeff sessions, going after him in that interview, we will talk to him more about it later. where do things stand on that. you heard him earlier on fox, what kind of man is this, once again seizing on this recusal jeff sessions decided to go with early on in the administration to stay out of the russian investigation. that has obviously been under the president s skin ever since then and he went after jeff sessions. what changed, a watershed moment often this punching bag relationship the president constantly beating up on jeff sessions, jeff sessions fired back showing what a lot of people in washington have been waiting for