walk a fine line. gaza is a crowded, urban area. i hold hamas just as responsible, if not more than the idf for civilian casualties in gaza because hamas puts their command and control centers underneath refugee camps, underneath hospitals. hamas told palestinian civilians to disobey the order to evacuate that territory. so it s a difficult road to walk, but israel must destroy and degrade hamas. that s their mission. i m sure they are determined to go about the mission, put they do walk a fine line. secretary johnson, your perspective is invaluable this morning. cnn this morning continues now. a deal has been reached to release all foreign nationals being held in gaza along with critically injured civilians. explosions in refugee camps flattening apartment buildings and leaving behind a giant crater. they are able to kill the commander of the battalion. doctors without borders have condemned this airstrike. children wounded. one man saw the strike said it felt
headlines, right? if they say georgia one, that is boring. so put ohio state there and get people talking. andy, thank you so much. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn this morning starts right now. we begin with breaking news. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. breaking this morning, americans and hundreds of other foreign nationals who have been trapped in gaza could be getting out. the same with injured civilians. you re looking at live picture this morning. ambulances have been rushing there after qatar brokered a deal with hamas, egypt to allow 500 foreign nationals to leave gaza. we re told the deal does not include hostages held by hamas. we have team coverage from tel aviv to the white house. let s start with selma in london. what are we learn ing about thi actual deal? who can get out and when? we understand this is a deal that has been mediated by qatar in coordination with egypt and the united states. this is a deal that people have been
he was meeting with the cia constantly asking for briefings and he was told there was no evidence of any threat against the united states. obviously we know al qaeda could attack, we have known that for years but on august 6th, less than a month before, president bush was given a top briefing by the cia and said there were no threats to the united states. any al qaeda operatives in the country were being monitored by the fbi. in his memoirs george tenet said there was no evidence of that tax on the u.s. the viet evidence indicated an attack in europe which suggests president bush was responsible for 9/11, same as saying franklin roosevelt was responsible for pearl harbor. president bush did rally the country and set up the counterterrorism infrastructure that prevented a major attack against the u.s. in the last 14 years. donald trump is basically echoing what people like michael more and all the liberal democrats in supporting from.
was planned against the united states. so, was it a general warning? yes. that s why the president asked to be briefed. that s why he asked for the briefing august 6th on his ranch in texas. if there was real fear or a threat of an attack coming, wouldn t george tenant be going to the oval office? wouldn t the cia be going to the oval office? the fact is, they did not because they did not have the intelligence. after 9/11, president bush set up the counterterrorism infrastructure, which has prevented any major attack against the homeland since september 11th. but donald trump is wrong. he s really echoing michael moore, and it s no wonder that so many democrats are jumping on board, because really, donald trump is sounding more like a very liberal democrat than a republican, and he s really distorting history. i think it s all because jeb bush got so much applause at the last debate when he said that his brother had kept the country safe. but congressman king, with all due respect, s
he came into office and when the head of the cia, who, again, is the leading intelligence person in the country, when he tells the president and his memoirs specifically says that there was no intelligence regarding any threats. so me, to be blaming president bush for that is totally wrong. i mean, that is totally misguided. it was after 9/11 that the president did reform all that and said in the counterterrorism infrastructure. if you want to point fingers, we could certainly go back into the clinton administration. to be eight months into office and to have inherited a system and to say that system didn t work and to blame president bush for that, the fact is, he was the one who was going to the cia, he was the one who asked for the briefing from mike morell in august, august 6th, at his ranch in texas, and morell and tenant in their memoirs both say they told the president is there was no evidence at all of any specific attack against the united states, no intelligence. that s the r