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coy, thank you. thanks to all of you for joining us. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. so glad you're with us on this monday. this morning, we're watching growing threats of the israel/hamas war spreading to a much wider conflict, new overnight, israeli military ramping up air strikes after announcing it was expanding the ground assault to the entire gaza strip including in south, where so many civilians have fled, the idf say the strikes destroyed 20 on hamas targets. >> the u.s. navy destroyer came to the rescue of three commercial ships that were attacke...

Moderating members of the previous cabinet would lend support to pulling out. i don't think that mr. mat tis would agree, but that is what a appears to be the direction, and that is is a big, big mistake. >> we will be watch. former representative ron klein, thanking for sharing your expertise with us. all right. coming up, hawaii with the strongest eruption of a volcano in years. we will have a live report from the ground next up. xxx. it's just a burst pipe, i could fix it. (laugh) no. with claim rateguard your rates won't go up

Military officials have confirmed now that two soldiers were killed overnight in the helicopter crash in kentucky and the helicopter crew was conducting a routine training operation in fort campbell when the helicopter went down. the crash is under investigation, and the two soldiers who were killed have not been released. marching papers for the national guard troops. he said this afternoon we are sealing up the border. secretary jim mat tis has signed orders to deploy up to 4,000 troops to the southern border and the planning is under way. the texas national guard is dispatching guard to t...

>> nbc news has learned both mattis and pompeo and the defense secretary are disclaiming any knowledge of this and that they had anything to do with drafting this document. in general here at the pentagon, officials are trying to figure out just what this new administration wants. we'll have a visit here tomorrow. president trump will be visiting, meeting with the joints chiefs. absent clear -- they're still waiting to see what the new political leadership wants. after that, they're reduced to relying on what trump says publicly. and what trump said is that mattis ultimately will have the fina...

She's going to be confirmed. she was asked if she believed that russia committed war crimes in syria. and she answered affirmatively, right? now you have the incoming u.n. ambassador from the united states branding vladimir putin a war criminal at the same time that you have the president-elect saying, putting putin on the same level as angela merkel, one of our closest allies in europe. there is major dissonance here between the u.s. ambassador and the president-elect and at the same time in mattis' hearing last week, he also was a strenuous defender of nato and the traditional western allian...