Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack. But our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israel
lls and th ve splintering hoe still and still threatening their look and speaker s job. let s get the very latest cnn s lauren fox is joining me nowith all of this. d lauren hse democrats came to johnson s rescue le last night in another key vote are they. readto dit again yeah, obviouy, what you are talking about is what unfolded on the house rules committee last night, typically, these are rules that are passed out of this committee. this is known as the speaker s committee, and it is passed out of this committee with the republican or the majority support in this case, there were three republicans who voted against the rule which meant that democrats swooped in at the last minute, voted to advance these bills. that means get this debate to the floor and we do expect that to also occur today because there are a number of republicans who have already said they are not only opposed to this legislation, they are opposed to voting on this procedural step known as the