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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. this is "the source" and i'm kaitlan collins. an extraordinary new israeli offensive is underway in the skies of gaza tonight. much of it is playing out right before our very eyes. cnn cameras captured these images that you're seeing here, scenes of flares raining down over the night sky in gaza. there appears to be a smoke screen that is covering the ground, potentially suggesting the possible movement of troops in that area. the israeli military says it has completely surrounded gaza city tonight. all of this is coming as prime ...

confirmed in that time are actually hostages? >> less than 10. >> that's not a number. i want a number from you. >> less than 10. >> why can't you give a number? >> i've given you an answer. what is your next question? >> you've given an answer. you've not been responsive. let the record show. the other question has to do with israeli warnings. the israelis have said their objective and they've been very explicit about it is to destroy hamas. from you and other administration officials, we hear the objective is to ensure that hamas can never terrorize israel again. those are two diff...

Raises a trillion dollars in revenue to help us lower our tax rate. for instance, the tax reform is revenue trut u neutral. we have to pay for those things. that's what our spring budget is going to do. for instance, there is a big infrastructure in this country. whether it's canals, roads, bridges, or rail or airports. that's a real problem. and we're financial to have to come up with ways to pay for that. so nothing's free. so we have to in our bug come up with other spending offsets to pay for those kinds of thingsful that's why we want you to prioritize spending to do that. >> it's hot her...

And special interest carve outs meaning more money so we can be more competitive. the one provision i was telling the tool and dye maker raises revenue to help us lower the tax rates. the other mentioned things do cost money. we have to pay for those things. that's what our spring budget is going to do. there's a big infrastructure problem in this country whether it's canals, roads or bridges or rail or airports. that's a real problem. and we're going to have to come up with ways to pay for that. so nothing's free. and so we have to in our budget come up with other spending offsets to pay fo...

Faster deportations, prohibition on asylum grants to these kids. >> it will probably be a mix of both. most republicans acknowledge a divided government. spending offsets is probably the best they can ask for. >> that's interesting because it strikes me we sort of moved past the austerity-era politics in terms of what riles up the base and seems the base right now is much more concerned about the threat of some kind of foreign invasion as it's often being interpreted or communicated in certain sectors of conservative media. >> well, that's the big problem right now for speaker boehner in the h...