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Today on inside politics, panic, pain, and fear of whats next. Israeli forces are ramping up air strikes in response to hamas Terrorist Attack. The barbaric attack in israel just over two weeks ago. The idf says 320 Quote Terror Targets were struck in gaza overnight including tunnels and Operational Command centers used by hamas. New video from gaza city shows the aftermath of those strikes this morning. Streets reduced to rubble. As the humanitarian crisis deepens, sources tell cnn the white ho...

Other side effects include upper respiratory tract infection and headache. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if youre pregnant or planning to be. ♪ otezla. show more of you. 13 russians indicted in a mueller probe. lt weekend tweet storm making everything about russia all about himself. dragging the florida shooting victims into it. the students taking action they hope to make this latest tragedy the last. a story youll only see here about a new dimension in the mueller i...

There were signs a government shutdown might be avoided. >> as the hours ticked away all hope of a deal faded away. cnn jeff zelny explains. >> on the one year anniversary of the inauguration a federal government shutdown. the senate failed to pass the house passed version to keep the government open. that funding deadline expired midnight friday. president trump will be waking up saturday here at the white house. now presiding over his first government shutdown. not since 2013 has there been a ...

Work through, certainly not something the president is getting into the necessarily the back and forth of that conversation at this point in time. again, he spoke with senator johnson, he supports the priorities. he wants to work with members of the senate to bring them together to make sure that we pass historic tax cuts and tax reform. >> did he offer senator johnson anything? >> he did encourage him to get on board. thanks so much guys, well be around the rest of the afternoon. >> welcome to ...

And wolf, that full debate is going to happen in the coming weeks, we are going to see the first bill exactly the specifics of this tax reform pledge released next week by the house. the president, im told, is going to become more involved in this to try and sell this plan. wolf, this is the biggest priority on the presidents plate here. the biggest test for what he calls a unified republican party. well see if they are unified and if they can get this tax agenda moving forward. >> good news for...

Some of the persistent questions expressed by official investigators and two generations of conspiracy theorists. a cnn exclusive well go inside north koreas capital where kim jong-uns regime has launched the shocking propaganda campaign in which daily life revolves around patriot of america. ill speak with former defense secretary leon panetta. and correspondents, analysts and specialists, they will have full coverage of the todays top stories. lets begin with president trumps emergency decla...

Correspondent jeff zelny was in the room, jeff, kelly was strongly defending the president and attempting to end the entire controversy. did he? >> reporter: wolf, the controversy changed today when john kelly walked in the briefing room. you could feel the emotion in the room, see it on his face and hear it in his voice. he was speaking not only as the white house chief of staff, but as a four star marine general and a gold star father himself whose son died in afghanistan seven years ago. wolf...

Specific questions about the niger ambush, what were the troops doing there, he said they were helping the local forces, but he did confirm there was an investigation under way by the pentagon of course, he said that does not mean that there was anything wrong necessarily, he said but they must find out what happened and why. >> try to make sure it doesnt happen again. jeff zelny reporting for us at the white house, thank you. this controversy over the presidents calls to families of fallen troo...

Forever. so the white house chief of staff was asked specifically about that, it was exactly after it, he said the first responders in fema will not be there forever, john kelly also asked if the president believes the residents of puerto rico are americans, jake, he said they do, but he did not distinguish why the call was made for puerto rican rescuers to leave and not florida or texas. >> american citizens since 1917, jeff, thank you so much. president trump announced that there would be some...

I am told the relationship was repaired somewhat, wolf, but this is an incredibly interesting new detail about what angered the president so much about one of his long time supporters. one of his first supporters in the republican senate, jeff sessions. explosive new details in a in that "new york times" report. >> it says it wasnt just a one on one meeting in the oval office, there were other aids president when the president berated him. jeff, the outcome of the dinner they had last night, the...