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Happening now, israel formally declares war on hamas and the Palestinian Terrorist groups strikes back. Breaking news. Hamas has just fired a new barrage of rockets at israel tonight. And were learning that there has been a direct strike on the city of ash. We welcome our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. And im wolf blitzer and this is a Special Edition of the situation room. Israel at war. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. And were following all of the Breaking News, o...

[laughter] i love this handoff now. okay. thank you. good evening. welcome to washington. im bret baier. breaking tonight, tens of thousands of people flooded the national mall here in the nations capital today. what was billed as the march for israel was a direct response to the rising tide of anti-semitism mosque attacks last month. correspondent mark meredith is at the mall with the latest. good evening, marc,. >> good evening to you. todays rally brought out a lot of people includi...

Mattis departure. >> the big question is now whether the president will look to do something similar in another hotbed of terrorists activity. afghanistan. >> lets bring in now senior editor for the atlantic, ron brown steen, and cnn correspondent for the washingtons examiner, and cnn political analyst, good to have you with us on this christmas eve morning. the reality is we would not be here this morning if the president had not rejected the deal that was agreed to. >> not only this time, if t...

Can just hit the sweet spot. >> i know you have thoughts on how to handle the domestic legislation but i have to ask you about everything blowing up internationally. and the president tweeted support for the iranian protests. what do you think he should do next? >> i think he was right to have done that and we need to get the europeans speaking up, we need to reimpose sanctions if they are brutal to their own people and we need to do what we can to facilitate communication as the regime and tehr...

To threats to the homeland is government doing enough to keep public informed? james rosen from the d.c. bureau. questions are being raised by the department of homeland security and specific programs, agency runs, that are allegedly supposedly, to alert us in periods of heightened alarm about terrorism? so tell us about that. reporter: gregg, good morning. the obama administration national threat advisory system was unveiled with fanfare by homeland security secretary janet napolitano in early ...

King. the french, the belgium, intelligence services, i heard from many u.s. experts that seem to be over stretched, overwhelmed right now. is that what youre hearing? >> yes, absolutely. i think they are. i think the combination of terrorists activity. a lot of people, there is apprehension this is about syrian refugees. most of the people are citizens of france and belgium and been there for years but they are over stressed and one of the problems is, i dont know if the europeans consider it a...

Democratic debate. it was a joke. hillary danced around it. hopefully he doesnt, either. theres a real enemy here, its not climate change, its isis. >> how many people has climate change killed? >> i dont know. >> why is it such a threat? >> i dont think theres any question its a threat. the legitimate argument is how can you look long-term at the threat posed by global warming, if theres a shortage of water, if theres a shortage of land, political instability that generate more tensions in the ...

Constitution. the fifth circuit could be no more clear on their injunction. we know this has been the most lawless administration since the nixon administration. i would hope the american people would be outraged. >> what did you find out? >> the obama administratiminista huge impediment to enforcing our laws. they will not allow a border patrol to have access to many federal lands where the illegal immigrants and human traffickers do their business. we know that also there are people from all a...

Islamist extremist groups, and he was not deemed an imminent threat. the factory is less than 100 meters behind me here, and police are still here blocking the area off as the investigation continues to find out what exactly triggered this attack. >> thank you very much. back in this country, federal agencies including the fbi are urging police departments all across the country to be aespecially vigilant for any kind of terrorists activity on the fourth of july. this came out yesterday. it just...

Cant do the types ofs that the nsa is doing. do them within the law and make us effective in terms of protecting the homeland. i think some of that data in the poll is a misunderstanding. people think theyre listening in on conversations. were not. its simply a mischaracterization by some partisans. ive done this. i was the united states attorney for seven years in one of the real hot spots for terrorists activity in our country, in new jersey new york metropolitan area. and i know how effective...