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A hot mic moment. >> its a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> still, mr. obama seemed to back that up noting his own worries about the blood shed. >> we have serious concerns about the rising number of palestinian civilian deaths and the loss of israeli lives. >> and the white house is now calling for what it calls greater steps to reduce civilian casualties. as for rush, the administration says its running out of patience. i walked out of a briefing here at the white house. they were issuing some...

Point. about 3,500 wounded. so talk of peace may be encouraging some people to hope for a change. but the reality outside is quite the opposite. wolf in. >> yeah. and israeli, the israel defense forces announced today there there are seven israeli soldiers were killed today bringing the number of israeli soldiers killed to 25. ben, thanks very much. lets bring in cnn political analyst josh rogin, a senior national security correspondent for "the daily beast." josh,ings youre reporting for "the...

Malaysia airlines flight 17 was most likely shot down by a buk missile launcher. this raises the question, can commercial airlines be protected from missile attacks. brian todd is joining us from washington right now. brian, we know air force one is protected by electronic jammers from most of these kinds of missiles. can the same be done for commercial flights with a lot of passengers on board? >> reporter: wolf, it is possible this could be done. there is a variation used on l-al, the israeli ...

Simpler shoulder-fired missiles. to fend off the sophisticated radar-guided missiles like the one apparently filed at the malaysia airlines jet, one possible counter measure, we have animation to show here. according to experts in varies reports, says this could be fired from the commercial plane in a canister. that canister would burst open and send out whats called chaff, like confetti, strips of aluminum that are radar reflective and that shower of metal you see it there, that could confuse t...

Why cant we do one thing at a time, even if its a big thing. >> this is the problem for republicans. it gives a lot of ammunition to the presidents critics, always said he is too reactive and not aggressive enough, doesnt have enough of a vision on the world stage. on the other hand, you know, this makes it seem like congress will take any excuse to not do their job, right? oh, well, were busy, and theres not a very proactive feeling from the critics of the president and furthermore, since this ...

Tries to surgically take them out. but theyre safe underground, the military leaders. then theyve got the political leader. hes roaming around five-star hotel suites in the gulf states having the time of his life while his people, while hes deliberately putting his people oz fodder for this horrible terrorist war theyre conducting against us. so this has to stop and i think many people in gaza understand that hamas is destroying gaza, destroying their lives. theyve taken tons -- not tons, tens o...

Welcome pack. you just hard the u.s. secretary of state say the u.s. is in full support of israels right to defend itself. we are now joined by wolf blitzer. he is in tel aviv. earlier wolf, i know i spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> candy, i just came from the israeli defense ministry where i sat down with the prime minister for an interview. we met in an area thats a secure room. he pointed out to me that if the sirens go off, if missiles are coming in, we dont have to m...

Our time has nuclear weapons. then i would say the world goes into a tail spin. dont let it happen. >> mr. prime minister, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. thank you, wolf. the conflict in gaza gets even deadlier and citizens are trying to escape the violence any way they can. details on that straight ahead. plus, u.s. secretary of state john kerry pulling no punches. he blames the pro-russian rebels for downing the malaysiaen plane. well tell you what hes demanding from russia...

Investigations. it looks like a horrible situation there. >> yeah. >> clearly. >> weve lost. >> complicates the whole investigation. >> we had wolf blitzer. we lost his signal for a second. were going to see if we can get his signal back. theres wolf. do you hear us okay? >> i hear you fine. i just wanted to bring peter into this conversation. talk about how complicated this whole situation, the investigation has been because of the way the disaster scene has unfolded. >> well, we have no dale w...

We have been doing that in an v escalating way and we have to make sure we do so with the information that we have and, again, balancing it with a delicate relationship we have with russia where they are a member of ours. >> we want to bring in wolf because we also want to, sorry to hit you with all the news that weve got. real quick, do you have word yet that any americans were on this flight? >> at this point we dont know if there were americans on the flight. my conversations with the state d...