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Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Meadows who chairs the House RepublicanFreedom Caucus talks about the groups ,ission, following his remarks congressman metals takes questions about the Freedom Caucus in gop efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The worlds leading professional organization for journalism where news happens and we are the constitution. Theame is jeff ballou and 110th president of the National Press club. I want to remind people in the audience and our about some housekeeping things that we have happening here. First of all to remind you for those who came into the room late. ....
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Meadows who chairs the House RepublicanFreedom Caucus talks about the groups ,ission, following his remarks congressman metals takes questions about the Freedom Caucus in gop efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The worlds leading professional organization for journalism where news happens and we are the constitution. Theame is jeff ballou and 110th president of the National Press club. I want to remind people in the audience and our about some housekeeping things that we have happening here. First of all to remind you for those who came into the room late. ....
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Morning, welcome, everybody, our starting point this morning, israel mobilizing thousands of troops for a possible fullscale ground war with hamas. Violence in the region intensifying overnight. The Palestinian Militants launched hundreds of rockets into israeli territory. Air raid sirens sounding in tel aviv. Thats the very first time thats happened since the gulf war. Israelis responded by pounding hundreds of terror sites as they call them in gaza with artillery fire. Ben wedeman reporting live now from jerusalem. We know, ben, that the israelis have called up 16,000 reservists. What exactly are they going to be doing . Well, what theyll be doing is heading down into the area around gaza. Very similar to what we saw in 2008, 2009, when they had a similar outbreak of violence between the two sides. We also know that theres a lot of heavy armor, lots of tanks being transported to the area around gaza, as well, for a possib ....