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According to israel. It comes in the hours after the israeli military carried out what it called extensive strikes on hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. Israeli aircraft destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launch barrels in southern lebanon, according to israeli officials. Also tonight, the us state department is urging american citizens to leave lebanon, with fears growing of an allout war. Meanwhile, the death toll from israel's strike on a densely populated area of southern beirut on friday has risen to 37. Hezbollah says 16 of its members were killed in the attack, including senior...

I spoke with one senior state department official who pushed back on this characterization today and said this is isn't true, this isn't morale across the department really hitting an all-time low, but did say that people in washington are worried about what's happening right now and the problem is that pompeo, if he wants to keep his job, isn't able to stand out and publicly defend yovanovitch. >> it will be fascinating to watch. again, the first three public witnesses will be state department employees. up next, what last night's election results say for the president's path to reelection ...

Weeks ago. this is having a devastating effect on morale. >> when secretary pompeo came in, he was viewed as a trump guy. tillerson was not. a lot of people at the department say this will be good, at least we will have the president's ear. that balloon has popped. >> we saw in the transcript from michael mckinley, who is the top state department official who quit because pompeo did not voice any support for ambassador yovanovitch. we saw him say this wasn't always the case at the state department. things were good. pompeo did come in and boost morale to a degree because tillerson had done som...

His side an aide who was supposed to testify in the impeachment inquiry. we talk about how central rudy giuliani is to all of this. but so the is secretary of state. the first three witnesses announced for public hearings next week state department officials. how is he handling this? >> there are multiple officials in the administration who are telling cnn he's not handling it well. this is from one senior administration official who's actually been defending pompeo for the last several months. he said morale in the building is always bad but this is different. i think part of it is ukraine. i...