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Even as the stakes get higher. >> no betrayal of israel on this one. no sacrificing israeli interests on the alter of american expediency. either this president gets it right we all consider the alternative which is the use of military force. jenna: michael hanlon, senior fellow on foreign policy studies from the brookings institution. nice to see you again. >> likewise. jenna: were waiting to get the tape playout we get from the two world leaders. well hear a little bit about the conversation t...

Moment in the courtroom with all of the victims crowding in and what was his affect? >> yes. it was only about eight minutes long. these hearings tend to be rather short. main point was for him to enter a plea and it was not guilty to all the counts. he had some injuries. he has an injury to his hand that was either in a cast or bandaged. he didnt really look at the crowd or acknowledge them. he acknowledged two people that were presumably his two sisters but otherwise he was pretty stoic during...

Afghanistan, general petraeus is sitting down for an interview with fox news today. the general said he understands the american people are frustrated with the war but is asking for our pay shns -- patience so the troops can get the job done right. jennifer griffin live from afghanistan. tell us of the interview, jennifer. >>reporter: well, it was an amazing interview and one of the most interesting aspects was general petraeus talking about what he plans to do here that was similar to what his ...

Hire act that gives incentives to the private sector to hire unemployed workers. >> thats a very difficult political argument. its difficult to say, hey, things would have been much worse had we not acted. >> the main point, david, weve got the best news we had in a long time, out of that 162,000 new jobs, 123,000 of those jobs are in the private sector. that is both encouraging and substantive. im optimistic but also realistic its going to take us a long time to dig our way out of those unemplo...

56% saying avoid a shutdown, only 34% continuing daca, shuck schumers main point. you flaerd lindsay graham, put out a great, general james mattis said, quote, the damage defense cuts in continuing resolutions are having on the military is sobering. i have full confidence we will be able to respond in a bipartisan manner. what hes referring to is one, general mattis suggested that this budget from day-to-day, week-to-week is hurting military readiness in a time when we have all of these hot spot...