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Im zonaida sambolin. The i realsraelis pounding targets while Palestinian Militants continue to launch rockets into israel. Israel calls up reservists in preparation for war. Ben joins us by phone this morning. Egypts Prime Minister paid a visit to gaza. Somehow that going so far . Well, it was originally planned it would be a threehour cease fire while the egyptian Prime Minister was making this visit to gaza. According to our sources, it doesnt appear either side significantly reduced their level of military activity in gaza. Certainly before the sun came up there was an intense air attack o...

Does it add up . And a democratic leerd offers a solution to the fiscal cliff. So far, even the president may not be going for it. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Outfront tonight, developing story. Petraeus corrects the record. There are new details coming in about the former cia directors highly anticipated testimony tomorrow on capitol hill. Cnn has learned David Petraeus will acknowledge he knew almost immediately after the attack that it was the work of al sharia, a Militia Group linked to alqaeda. This is a significant dwom. It was five days after the benghazi incident when sus...

Raid sirens going off in jerusalem. Hamas, the group that controls gaza, landed south of jerusalem. More rockets aimed for tel aviv ende in the water. No reports of damagen either case, though. But Officials Say 27 palestinians have died since weesday from israels strike in gaza. This is Israeli Defense forces video showi what they say, look at this, they say this is munition sites. Israel points to the stockpiles as more proof hamas is trying escalate tension. Hamas says israel is to blame. People live in fear of how close the attacks will come. Listen to one man in gaza just last night. I fe...

Also pat houston, Whitney Houstons sisterinlaw and manager and jeopardy champion ken jennings written a new book. Its tuesday, december 4th, starting point begins right now. Welcome everybody, youre watching starting point. Were honored this morning to have the former british Prime Minister tony blair with us as our guest. Hes going to be weighing in as a number of topics. Were going to talk about the fiscal cliff, were going to talk about the global economy. Were going to talk about the civil war in syria. Well talk about the royal baby coming soon. First we want to get right to Zoraida Sambo...

When you go around, and this is a reality in delaware as well as rhode island. You ask about the state department. Its trillions of dollars a year when in fact its a very small fraction. Now theyre beginning thoint that no, this is about something more fundamental. This is about the basic social contract that people have worked all their lives, paid into Social Security, will get Social Security benefits. This is about the social contract that if youve worked, youve paid into the medicare system, youll get medicare benefits. So now the storys shifted totally and now its all about negotiations,...