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you are live in the cnn newsroom. im jim acosta. in gaza, the israel-hamas war enters its 30th day. weve been watching these images come in tonight of many explosions near the gaza-israel border. it is not clear yet what caused these blasts. they happened within the last 30 minutes or so. in just 30 minutes or so, in a separate area, a cnn team witnessed eight rockets being fired from gaza into israel. the idf tell israel, six. eight rockets were intercepted. israeli police say there...

Up to them. it is the split screen that they have chosen, and the juxtaposition that they want and i think overtime we will see how that plays out. >> your boss, former vice president mike pence, what is his expectation coming out of this debate? what does he want to accomplish at the end of the day? >> he is had the experience again of running the state as well as the vice president of the united states and i think that he knows the -- and i think that he will hopefully hear a lot of different ...

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We see many bad economic fall jou outs when we dont appreciate the impetus the immigrants bring to our economic engines. >> jason, we know stephen millers anti-immigrant ideology is in line with the presidents views. a lot of them have made major headlines and caused huge backlash, talking the muslim ban, child separation policy, but you note in your piece that there are a number of policies not just ideologies but policies that havent goent the same attention but maybe they should. walk us thro...

Cruz, came within 2.6% of winning. brooke, a texas democrat hasnt won a statewide race since 1994 and because he came so close, they feel like he can run in 2020 against john cornyn, the senior senator here and perhaps win. he came that close. one more biscuit for breakfast maybe he gets over-the-top. theres a lot of people in texas that want him to finish the job for senate. cornyn is a different match-up. they feel its a better risk than running for president. >> what about -- theres this new ...

Disagree. whether it is hillary clinton or john kerry who came off as academic or highbrow that doesnt work with american voters, they want someone they can have to deal with. democrats by appealing to and speaking from to the hard and when we saw that in the last presidential election where some members in the economy were ignored in states like wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. >> the idea their too intellect will? >> reminds me of al gore seated at the funeral service today and why he los...

I think hes got nothing to lose. theres no reason why he should have regrets. i think he regretted not having run in 2016. i think, you know, to me he is the anti-trump. he is all empathy, human emotion, hes got such compassion, hes got such a basis of policy knowledge, foreign policy knowledge, hes jovial, hes a unifier. hes got family favalues. it would be a foil and a contrast to trump. the question is can he get through a primary? look, well have all of those proverbial age questions, is he ...

The anti-trump. hes got vast experience, vast policy knowledge. he gets along across the aisle. >> because you mentioned his experience, i dont mean to cut you off but i want you to weigh in on the fact that he said he is the most qualified person to be president right now. is he? >> listen, if he were thinking of running for president, you should think that you are the most qualified. if you are thinking of running in what looks to be a field of more than a dozen potential democratic candidates...

The dnc and the rnc computers was not a false flag operation. >> i think the only diplomatic option left is to end the regime in north korea by effectively having the south take it over. >> and lets remember as recently as, what, three weeks ago he wrote a piece the legal case for striking north korea first. >> a remarkable supposition from him on fox, which is, well, everything i said before is -- wouldnt that be a great life if everything you said publicly prior was irrelevant? i understand hi...

If you did, i think his ability to carry out a conversation, while ill note that was very light on specifics. he did contradict himself. the fact that kevin mccarthy had to step in and said, okay, mr. president were not going to do a clean daca bill, displays a lack of his deep policy knowledge. it doesnt mean youre mentally deteriorated. >> lets play it for people who may have missed this extraordinary. >> can we just say chris cillizza is not unfit. >> chris has watch issues. i just want to sa...