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Im sitting in for christine romans. Good morning, im dave briggs. August 16th, 4 a. M. In new york, 11 a. M. In jerusalem. Thats where we begin with strong reaction with what congress sabaning two muslim women. Two members of the squad and his political foes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explaining the ban is the plan of the two Congress Women is only to damage israel and to full meant against isr l israel. Both omar and tlaib agree. The president said, quote, it would show great weakness if israel allowed representatives omar and tlaib to visit. The ban sparking a mountain of criticism from democrats. Speaker nancy pelosi saying it is beneath the dignity of the great state of israel. Some republicans are slamming the decision. Senator marco rubio saying while he disagrees with the two, denying them entry into israel is a mistake. Lets go live to cnns Oren Lieberman. He is live. I understand youre getting new details one of them may be able to enter israel after all . Reporter thats right, alison. Congresswoman tlaib has asked to visit her grandmother. She wrote a letter to israels interior minister where she said i will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against israel during my visit. Spokesman for the interior minister said he will decide within the coming hours whether to grant entry or not. We checked in with the Government Official and now he says it will be considered. Perhaps a slight backtrack. No final decision on whether to grant entry to congresswoman tlaib. All of this after israel decided not to grant entry to both congresswoman tlaib and congresswoman omar. Israel passed a law allowing it to ban entry to those who support a boycott against israel. This has certainly been the most high profile use of that law. When did israel make its decision . Well, we know when it was announced. Shortly after President Trump tweeted israel will be showing great weakness by letting them in and that left israel very little wiggle room, especially Prime Minister netanyahu. Netanyahu has never publicly disagreed with trump and he wasnt going to start now. It wasnt until shortly after that netanyahu said the two will be decided. Were waiting to see if congresswoman tlaib is permitted entry to visit her family. How much of this, oren, was netanyahu feeling the pressure to cave with an election right around the corner . Reporter both israel and the u. S. , the administrations, have insisted this was an israeli decision but there was hints that trump was involved in this. Trump sent the tweet telling israel how to carry out the foreign policy. There are no doubt political decisions here as well. Netanyahu has a tough battle for his sixth term in office. He wants to shore up with a fractured voter base. Whats the risk . Were already seeing it. It has grown a rift between israel and the democratic party. We saw that from congresswoman nancy pelosi and steny hoyer who said this decision was outrageous. Cnns Oren Lieberman. Thanks very much. President Trump Holding a keep America Great reelection rally in New Hampshire last night. The president again blaming Mental Illness for Mass Shootings suggesting it was time to build new institutions to house the mentally ill. But people have to remember, however, that there is a Mental Illness problem that has to be dealt with. Its not the gun that pulls the trigger, its the Person Holding the gun. Years ago many cities and states, i remember it so well, closed mental institutions for budgetary reasons. They let those people out onto the street. You probably have your examples up here. I can tell you in new york they closed so many of them, and they let really seriously mentally ill people out on the streets. And you see plenty of them today, even today. Were going to have to give major consideration to building new facilities for those in need. Of course Mental Health is not the only factor in Mass Shootings. There are factors like patriot access to assault weapons. The president repeated his support for expanding background checks. He gave no specifics but says hes making head way convincing republicans. Its been pretty an amazing experience. They want to see something happen and basically its very simple. They dont want to have insane people, dangerous people, really bad people having guns. Republicans agree with me on that. I think you know, i would say pretty much uniformly. The president did not bring up his administrations talks with republicans on capitol hill to strengthen background checks for gun purchases. South koreas military says north korea launched two unidentified missiles off the eastern coast. The projectiles reportedly landed in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and japan. Its the sixth sign they have tested missiles since last month. It comes after pyongyang rejected face toface talks wih them. They will only hold future talks with washington. The white house is said to be considering invoking executive privilege to limit former Campaign Aide Cory Lewandowski from complying. Law juan do you ski has never served in any role in the trump administration. The white house has used executive privilege to stop don mcgann, hope hicks and annie donaldson. They all held positions in the west wing. Lewandowski has only advised President Trump since his work on 2016 ended. Americas longest ever war in afghanistan could be drawing to a close. President trump is expected to meet with his Top National Security advisors today to review a u. S. Taliban peace plan that could end the war. Critics though say it could also amount to a surrender for the u. S. And a betrayal of the afghan government. A peace plan expected to formalize the significant withdrawal of u. S. Forces from afghanistan from about 15,000 troops to 8 or 9,000, it includes commitments behind the taliban to Counter Terrorism efforts in afghanistan. Sources say the proposed deal has at least one crucial omission. It is not expected to secure a commitment by the taliban to hold its fire on the Afghan People nor the afghan military. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. An officer at a rhode island i. C. E. Detention facility has been placed on administrative leave after he drove that truck into a line of protesters demanding they cease cooperation with immigrations and customs enforcement. The incident was captured on video. Witnesses say the pickup truck intentionally swerved into protesters seated across from the entrance to the facility. Five people were hospitalized. The group never again action says dozens of people showed up wednesday night to protest the action of i. C. E. 129 people were housed. Conflicting signals are giving investors a pause. The question is what will happen next. Several sides are weighing in on the markets. The yield curve flashed a recession which warned investors. A trade war is looming over the markets big time. There are positives here to tell you when. Walmart suggesting consumers are still confident in the economy and will keep spending throughout the year and Chinas Foreign Ministry tried to ease trade war concerns by saying it remained open to negotiations with the u. S. So with everything going on, markets have been pretty resilient. The dow is up 9. 5 year to date. The s p 500 is up 13 and the nasdaq is up 16. 5 . Maybe you can go ahead and look at your portfolio today. Sure. The president last night at that rally saying love me or hate me, youve got to vote for me because of the economy, but if it continues to turn south. It can turn on a dime. Then whats the central argument. Ahead here, former nascar great Dale Earnhardt jr. And his family escaping this terrifying plane crash. Authorities say the family is not seriously injured walking away. Well bring you the details ahead. Terrifying moments for legendary nascar driver Dale Earnhardt jr. And his family. They survived this fiery plane crash in tennessee thursday. Remarkably, everyone on board the small private plane escaped without serious injury. More now from cnns diane gallagher. Reporter you know, dave, alison, when you look at all of the smoke and fire that came from this plane crash, its absolutely incredible. It appears everybody walked away okay. Dale jr. , twotime daytona 500 winner, iconic nascar driver, his wife amy and 1yearold daughter isla and two pilots were on board the cessna. It rolled off the runway and caught fire after landing. Now according to the Elizabethton Police chief, the plane had heavy flames coming out when they arrived. Everybody was already outside. The plane burned for 20 minutes. According to dale jr. s sister, kelley, everybody is safe but they were taken to the hospital to get checked out to make sure that they were okay after that scary moment. Now dale jr. Is nascar analyst, former driver, of course, but hes an analyst now for nbc. He was on his way to bristol for the race there to call that and to take it all in. Where they crashed is about 20 or so miles from bristol. So at this point the ntsb is going to investigate. Were waiting to hear from dale jr. s people just to see exactly how everybody checked out there, but, again, you look at that video there, really, really scary stuff. Dale, alison . Diane, thank you. President trump has reportedly on multiple occasions expressed interest in a new and unusual real estate purchase, buying greenland from the danish government. Random, right, dave . Yeah, a little bit. Sources say the White House Counsels Office has looked into the possibility. The president s interest in buying greenland was first reported by the wall street journal. He raised the issue during meetings and dinners with varying degrees of seriousness questioning aides about the possible advantages and disadvantages of purchasing it. Its some 750 miles above the arctic circle. Just another day in 2019. Today Prayer Service for one of the victims of the el paso massacre. Her shattered husband inviting the world to mourn with him. And people have responded. Our gary tuckman has more. Its tough to quit smoking cold turkey. So chantix can help you quit slow turkey. Along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. With chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting. Chantix reduces the urge so when the day arrives, youll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. When you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. 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You told an interviewer that you have learned to, in your words, love the thing that i most wish had not happened. I remember you went on to say what punishments of god are not gifts. Do you really believe that . Yes. Its a gift to exist. Its a gift to exist and with existence comes suffering. Theres no escaping that. It doesnt mean you are happy i dont want it to have happened. I want it to not have happened. Right. But if you are ungratefgrate your life, which is a positive thing to do, which not everybody is, but its a positive thing to do, then you have to be grateful for all of it. Colbert said his grief as a child helped him appreciate other suffering and better connect. Funeral services will be held tonight for one of the victims of the el paso shooting. 63yearold margie reckar was killed as she shopped for groceries at walmart. Her devastated husband invited the public to attend the services and the response has been overwhelming. Cnns gary tuckman has more. Reporter dave and allison we spent most of the day tony basco who was very much in love with margie. She was shot a week ago. Tonys absolutely devastated. Whats sadder, he has no family whatsoever. The wife he was married to for 22 years, his only family member. She made me the happiest man in the world and the luckiest. Theres nobody luckier in the whole world. What would you like people to know about margie . She was a caring, loving, most beautifulest person. I sit at my table looking at the front door just waiting for her to walk in. Ive even tried calling her on the phone. You have . Ive tried to. Reporter well, reporters found out about that, started tweeting it. The funeral home where the funeral is taking place. The funeral itself had only had a few people coming to it. All of a sudden people from all over the country started phoning, emailing, texting. It now appears tonight at the funeral Prayer Service and saturday at the funeral, hundreds of people say they want to come. They will come here to el paso, texas, to participate in the funeral service. They never knew tony before but they want to honor him. Tony is grateful. There will be a lot of people. Reporter dave and alison, back to you. That is gut wrenching. Sometimes tragedy can bring out the very best in our communities. We saw that, of course, at 9 11. You see that unfortunately after many of these communities. Ahead, backlash from a decision from the Israeli Government to ban two United States Congress Women. Now one of them may be able to visit the west bank with conditions. Were live in jerusalem ahead. Four lines, er its all included for the whole family. Like unlimited with netflix on us. And now with each new line, get one of our latest smartphones included. 40 line for four lines and smartphones are included for the whole family. Its something we take personally, and believe in passionately. 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Hong kong protesters demanding action from the west as President Trumps Senior Administration officials tell him get stronger against china or there might be a, quote, bloodbath. Welcome back to early start, everybody. Im dave briggs. Happy friday. Happy friday to you as well. Im alison kosik sitting in for christine romans. Its 30 minutes past the hour in new york. There is strong reaction to what some lawmakers are calling a shameful decision to ban two muslim Congress Women from visiting israel. It came after President Trump encouraged the move against democrats ilhan omar and Rashida Tlaib, two members of the squad and his political foes. Benjamin netanyahu said the plan is only to damage israel and to fullment against israel. Both omar and tlaib support the movement to boycott against israel. The israeli decision was announced shortly after a tweet from President Trump in which he said it would show great weakness if israel allowed representatives omar and tlaib to visit. The ban sparked a mountain of criticism from democrats. Speaker nancy pelosi saying it is beneath the dignity of the great state of israel. Some republicans as well slammed the decision. Senator marco rubio says while he disagrees with the two, denying them entry into israel is a mistake. Lets go live to cnns Oren Lieberman for the latest. We should add to that, oren, marco rubio says thats what the two Congress Women wanted was to get banned. Youre getting details one may be able to enter israel after all. Tell us more about that. Reporter dave, the story certainly isnt over yet. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is asking to visit her family in the Central West Bank village. She says her grandmother is in her 90s and this may be her last chance to visit. She wrote a letter to the interior minister in which she promised, and i quote, i will e respect any decisions and a spokesman said that decision should be in the coming hours. Yester