public remarks on the war in israel. hezbollah is backed by iran. attacking israel from across the northern border out of lebanon. the violence stoking fears of a larger regional conference. the u.s. and israel watching it as well. we ll bring news as we get it. also at the hour of 9:00 a.m. eastern the u.s. calling for humanitarian pause, israel a pushing forward. secretary of state antony blinken with the israeli prime minister back in tel aviv today. we expect to hear from him soon as well. a lot of moving pieces. i m bill hemmer. welcome to friday in new york city. dana: i m dana perino and america s newsroom. we ll take you through all the news. secretary blinken met with netanyahu and his war cabinet. earlier this morning he spoke with israeli president herzog. they reiterated israel s right to defend itself and urging palestinians in gaza to let s talk about new protests erupting in the west bank. good morning, to you. a real sense of tension hanging in the air
trump, in particular, a real weapon because it reframes this whole debate. all right. karen, thank you so much. good to have you on. still ahead, president trump is scheduled to meet with vladimir putin later this month and their summit might include a one on one without any aides present in the room. dershowitz might be there. like i said. morning joe will be right back. raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
first reads in part this. history makes it all the more difficult to understand why the president of a nation that long ago set itself against tyranny now praises and consworts so many unsavory national leaders in europe, asia and the middle east. some of them outright dictators. some imposing authoritarian schemes to the extent they can get away with it. some inflicting brutal oppression on their enemies and just about all of them profiting handsomely from their positions. last month, homage was paid to the head of the north korean government an unspeakable cruel regime that broke many promises to american presidents and may well break more. this month president trump will meet with russian president vladimir putin whose government and its minions have worked increasingly to undermand faith in democracy by spreading false information, meddling in foreign elections and sponsoring
embracing putinism and doing it as a party. like david ignatius, i spent a lot of time as a correspondent in russia in the 1980s. there s a wonderful book children of the arbach about the dissidents. it just wasn t about communism, it was about totalarianism. it was over and over again the individual right to freedom. that s what happened when you went to that part of moscow. you saw that welling up with america as the guiding star. now the united states government and republicans in the senate who went to moscow and donald trump is doing putin s bidding are not the guiding star, they are the ones following this authoritarian, anti-democratic time of policies that putin
that s been trying typical pose and successfully imposing all over europe and helping the american system with it in the past couple of years. you know, bob costa, you ve seen up close, you have followed the conservative movement, the history of the conservative movement. it certainly is. we certainly do find ourselves at a strange, strange time in 2018 that a party that worshipped, that worshipped freedom under ronald reagan and not only in america but across the globe, and actually that continue to, the most conservative part of the republican party, what do they call themselves? the freedom caucus. that right now it s not just republicans in washington, you look at poland, vladimir putin is more popular with the rank-and-file republicans across the country than he ever has been. well, joe, the outcry of it in this discussion isn t evident