Starts right now its just wrong. The president of the United States drawing a red line in israels war in gaza. Thats tonight on good evening. Im abby phillip in new york tonight. A cnn exclusive, joe biden, sending a message that will echo across the globe and rattle the normal order of things inside of the middle east, the commander in chief, making it admission a promise. The admission that American Military might has been used to kill civilians in gaza i know that you have paused, mr. President shipments of 2000 pound u. S. Bombs to israel due to concern that they could be used in any offensive on raffa. Have those bombs, those powerful 2000 pound bombs . Been used to kill civilians in Gaza Civilians have been killed in gaza is the consequences those bombs and other ways in which they go after Population Centers . And the promise that should israel flaunt a biden demand to stay out of rafah instead of just stepping on the hose that allows u. S. Military aid to flow to israel. Biden
republicans are in lock step with the president and he s feeling good about that. republicans will continue to say there s no one that said president trump specifically told them to hold this up and that s the argument they re making. there s the president meeting with the prime minister. i think nobody wants coal in their stocking and impeachment is coal in your stocking. they need to have a ballot in the senate. that would be interesting. u.s. congresswoman karen bassverb have a nice impeachment. up next trump s defenders are using a debunked russian conspiracy theory pushed by putin to push back against impeachment. are they unaware or just unconcerned about being played by putin? and it s true. you re watching hardball. putn d it s true. you re watching hardball. (burke) a rock and wreck. seen it. covered it. at farmers insurance, we know a thing or two
year we did know we paid taxes. trump would appeal the estate tax, which applies only to the very richest families. so even though we have no idea how trump s flimsy tax plan would affect most americans, we do know it would give a massive tax cut to donald trump. his plan could mean a tax cut of nearly $60 million for trump itself. joining me now our michigan state professor and bruce bartlett, who served as an economic advisor. i will start with you lisa on this first. donald trump s tax plan and we could put up the highlights or low rates if you will, cutting corporate tax rate, eliminate alternative minimum tax, is
he praised kim jong-un. he praised air dwyane when he was formalized as a dictator. this is a quality that trump finds attractive in others. it extends, of course to putin and to other authoritarian leaders, as well as white s supremts. i think this is a piece of his policy. we do seem to be forming an alliance there of a kind, the head of turkey, the head of egypt, vladimir putin, marine la pen. the nonpence box is this sprang authoritarian box. it s more than that. it is an autocrat with a tendency to mobilize. they are increasingly relying on
the vice presidential debate where he lied multiple things that trump said and did, things that were provable through video, as if we had no access to this information on our own. i think what s going on here is americans aren t used to a calm liar. we re used to lies put forth in an obviously propaganda way. and i think with pence, the republican party put him out as this alternative, but he s just as come police it and involved. he was part of the transition that put this together. he was warned through a letter. and i think he is just only different in disposition and not in terms of intention as to what this administration wan to accomplish, which is to, y know, violate constitutional law. and, you know, there is this sort of sense that in the trump administration, they have set up these two sort of camps that you have got the crazy, that donald trump is out there riling up the base, giving these rallies, doing, performing this auth