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New u. S. Intel jligence and complex tunnel system under gaza. More lost and legal blows to come. Mark meadows has been granted immunity to testify in the federal subversion case. Meadows reported there was no evidence of fraud, telling prosecutors trump was dishonest. And theres more. Trumps former attorney is back on the stand soon. This is for the civil trial against him. Former president expected to be there again. Im kate baldwin with john be berman. This is cnn news central. This morning, ...

israel at war. is this the start of a ground invasion? >> this is our second independence war. were going to fight for the homeland and we wont withdraw. plus pence packs it up. >> ive decided to suspend my campaign for presidentective today. this is not my time. >> hes the first major candidate to end his campaign. will it help someone else emerge as a true trump alternative. and mr. speaker. >> the challenge before us is great but the time for action is now and i will not let you...

After the fact. >> perhaps a bit of revisionist history. >> it might be honest history but its quite delayed. i think its accurate what hes saying. would it have had more impact while he was there versus now? >> and also the president we should note lashing out on twitter overnight with a response calling -- >> least surprising ever. >> he called paul ryans record of achievement atrocious and a lame duck failure. and i do wonder. theres a discussion about this, but isnt this battle basically ove...

Election? >> and will they try to insert the president? its high on his agenda as well. but lois, i want to play another clip from congressman paul ryan and his first public reaction on camera to the loss for he and governor romney. let me play it. >> mitt didnt pick me for wisconsin or a certain state. e he picked me for issues, for taking on the debt crisis. we had hoped to win wisconsin. he fought very hard for wisconsin. we cut president obamas lead in half, but nevertheless, it wasnt enough...

Fair share. everybody is going to get a fair shake at life. how do you think these two gentlemen did on this issue? >> let me start with agreeing with lanny on the spin. i think its bizarre. the substance of the spin is romney won on style. are they going to have the spinners for obama say mitt romneys style and theatrical guy and barack obama is th the wonky guy? the idea that hes a glib theatrical guy is bizarre. the basic problem. the romney campaign has not been great about pushing back hard...

virginia. ryan monroe is the editor of cnnpolitics.com. hes joining us from our washington bureau. sources telling cnn that it will be paul ryan. what do you think? what do you think he brings to the ticket? >> this is either going to be his boldest move or probably his riskiest mistake. paul ryan is a galvanizing force. for conservative republicans, hes seen as the voice behind conservatism. he is the voice that wants to get rid of medicare. if either of those are truthful, it will be...

It was a much, much worse recession than we knew at the time. mitt romney takes full advantage of that. but were seeing the flip side not to the same degree but as all the revisions tend to be bad early on as you begin to recover, as models havent picked that up yet, they are tending to be good now. youre seeing it happen in the other but insofar as revisions are political, they havent benefitted from them. >> what do you make as a wonky guy, ezra, what do you make from people in other venues on...

These revisions were terrible, much worse recession than we knew at the time. mitt romney takes full advantage of that. but were seeing the flip side not to the same degree but as all the revisions tend to be bad early on as you begin to recover, as models havent picked that up yet, they are tending to be good now, youre seeing it happen in the other but insofar as revisions are political, they havent benefited from them. >> what do you makes a a wonky guy, ezra, what do you make from people in ...

>>neil: normally we do not usually wonk out here although i am a wonky guy. the dow was up 143 points. do you know why? because the news wasnt as awful as we have had, only 391,000 americans filed for jobless claims. that was reason to party. and the latest quarter 1.3 percent growth for the economy. it should be like, what, four or five times that. sense our heads were not beat were against the wall we regis -- rejoice. and now, my guest says this is the kind of reaction you get to news that ot...