Casualties on both sides, and not simply call it collateral damage. The proportions are simply way out of measure to simply call it collateral damage. Its much more than that. Shamil, thank you so much. Appreciate your time and your insight. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Im Fredricka Whitfield in atlanta, alongside wolf blitzer in washington. Were continuing with our special coverage of the events unfolding today on the ground in israel and gaza. After days of waiting, the rafah Border Crossing between gaza and egypt was open, briefly, this morning. 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid were permitted to Cross Into Gaza. Water, fuel, and food, are all running desperately low there, and the United Nations is warning that gazas hospitals are on the brink of collapse. Israel continues its air strikes over gaza. The death toll there now standing at more than 4,300 people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of health. M
but here on this spending package in the final days of the new congress real tension between republicans in the house, republicans in the senate as they try to come to a messy conclusion to this congress. john. manu raju, kicking us off. thank you. with me, cnn s phil mattingly. sun lynn kim and rhonda coleman of the washington post. policy first. that s what matters to the people at home. we don t have a lot of details yet but billions of dollars in new funding for ukraine. the president will like that because house republicans are more iffy how much he gets there. what else do we know from the white house per tech i have? the world is about to change for joe biden. the house republican also have a lot more leverage in a couple of weeks. do they have a sense at the white house? one of the former top hill staffers on all appropriation issues is young the omb director, management of budget leading them and this is a large reason from the white house
weeks later and we re no closer. so we re asking to have a short-term c.r. and let s stay here and resolve the budget issues, the budget caps and let s define short-term. to me four weeks is short-term. well, no, four weeks means we ll delay the issues and come back four weeks from now. let s stick with the issues. we re close. a lot of progress on the immigration and the health care issues. a lot of progress on a lot of the appropriation issues on opioids and disaster relief and have results in the next week. but let s be realistic here. you re basically arguing over how much time do you need to negotiate. is that worth shutting the government down over. no. we are not negotiating. we re arguing over whether there will be a bipartisan effort to resolve the issues and whether the republican leadership will work with all of the members of the senate and let s get something done. that is what we re arguing over.
he can make a prove. and on the flip side looking at the waning months of his administration and he has to balance both. i think he s demonstrated contrary to what other folks anticipated he s not planning to lose any ground whatsoever. he s continued to move his agenda forward. i think there are two places where the republicans and the president can work together. certainly on the trade agenda. if they can move appropriation issues. not the crisis continuing resolutions we saw often. there are two things that should be off the table. that is obamacare and it is also the keystone pipeline. if we can move to pack the issues on something far more productive. i think you ll see a good 114th president with the congress. i don t see any question obamacare has to be on the table. people are hurting the fact they have to pay more. if he tries to take obamacare off the table, you ll see his approval ratings plummet and american people revolt against what they have to pay in higher