Dan Points Out News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

hello i'm abby phillip in washington. welcome to cnn newsroom we begin this hour in the middle east, where both violence and tensions are escalating. today israeli forces unleashed air strikes in southern lebanon and gaza and israel says it struck targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas. israel blames hamas for firing 34 rockets from lebanon yesterday and the latest barrage since the two countries were at war back in 20 in 2006. now that has raised fears of an escalating conflict across the region, and just overnight, we learned that israel has mobilized some of its...

Very hard to get through these whole at the swap this period of holy days and holidays without something, major, uh getting underway. yeah, and david. before we go. these israeli strikes in lebanon do risk drawing in hezbollah. and as you've noted that iran backed militia is heavily armed. so uh , is it possible to do that and not draw in hezbollah at this point? it's gonna be pretty hard , and that's why they need a general de escalation. i actually think that it's conceivable that the fact that we do have these overlapping holidays one would hope ah and celebrations, one would hope would wou...

This emphasis on access should also animate politicians. the biggest problem with american education is that it does very, very badly for poor kids. as dan points out. >> comprehensively separates the rich from the rest in an increasingly unequal america. >> the gap between the rich and poor today is greater than between blacks and whites in 1954 when brown versus board of education outlawed school segregation. the american system of education does not provide many paths for poor, bright kids to move up, which is at the heart of the scandal of our declining social mobility. finally, let's take...

Testing measures. many elite colleges take in more students from the top 1% of the income distribution than from the bottom 60%. it cannot be those millions of students have no talent. it's just that we don't have a good enough mechanism to find them. elite chejs should be taken it many more students anyway. endowments have grown, they the class sizes from expanded very slowly. this emphasis on access should animate politicians. the biggest problem with the american education is that is does very badly for poor kids. as dan points out. comprehensive separates the rich from the rest in an unequ...

Contact with julian assange from wikileaks -- >> right. paul: -- which ultimately leaked some of the documents from the dnc, presumably getting it from the russians who hack had had it. >> right. paul: okay. so that's the connection to the potential collusion, bill. >> right. but you say "potential," and that's a big word here. the important part about this indictment is roger stone has been a swamp creature for a long time, and he thrives in it, right? he seems to be in trouble for during the campaign having exaggerated his contacts with julian assange at wikileaks -- paul: he even talked abo...