This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The dysfunction among republicans in the u. S. House of representatives has now taken on global significance because of the crisis in the middle east. So we are in this hour going to focus a bit on House Republicans meeting a tt this hour. They are hoping to get one step closer to decide who will become their next speaker. No legislation can be passed including any legislation that might address the growing crisis on the ground in israel. So we are following that story, but we are going to begin today in the middle east, where at least a thousand people have been killed in the hamas attacks on israel, most of them civilians. President biden confirming today that 14 of them were americans. The white house says 20 additional americans are still missing, and that number might not necessarily reflect the number of american hostages. Its just 20 americans who are not accounted for right now. Today israel is carrying out air str
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from washington tonight. thank you as always for being with us. university of destruction. that s the focus of tonight s angle not colleges and universities raising money work to appeal to the donors, to the alums and the perspective students by talking about their mission and their core values. for me, they re our commitments to excellence, to opportunity, and to impact. those three together are really the ones that propel us into the future. laura: a commitment to excellence? literally, no one who saw her testify last week, who has watched what happened at harvard over the past 20 plus years can say that excellence conveys objective merit and we all see that the best often loses out to the mediocre and harvard at elsewhere because the best isn t diverse enough. internally to our own community, i see my role as being the person who is always looking beyond the horizon to what s coming but also what can be. and then figuring out how to ready the campus and the campus co
angle from washington tonight. thank you,s as always, for being with you gos. university of destruction, the focus of tonight s angle. colleges, universities spend a lot of time raising money and work to appeal to the donors, to alums and perspective students by talking about their mission and their core values. those three propel us into the future. laura: a commitment to excellence? no one who saw her testify last week or watched harvard for the last 20 plus years can say that, the best lose out to mediocre at harvard and elsewhere because diverse is not good enough. i m the person always looking beyond the horizon to what is coming and what can be and ready the campus and campus community for the future. laura: doing this does not make it less gibberish, it is milk/toast language written by consultants and ms. gay didn t think her diversity eequity and inclusion prepares for the real world. it fosters resentment that makes harvard students less likely to suc
concludes the police force was inadequately trained. among the recommendations. new fencing, and the ability to call for help for forces like the national guard. but that means more money. that means bipartisan agreement and a sharply divided congress. some are complaining that he is biased and others are going it alone on the security matters. they did not consult me on security measures and they are not consulting me about he taking them down. however, they have not relayed to me what an internal threat is within the capitol. we need buy in to implement the common sense recommendations that his team put forth. but we seem to have a difference of opinion on addressing many important issues. the thing that really concerned me is that, the report itself just explains in just simple detail how disorganized the command structure was, how no one had clear rules of engagement, it s crying out for a 9-11 style of commission. who has a longer period of time to look at what reall