New strikes by the New Strikes by the Israeli Military, the israeli air force, on southern areas of lebanon. And in particular a large escalation this morning where hezbollah has lodged a Ballistic Missile towards Tel Aviv, the most populous area in israel. Its the first time they have lodged a weapon of this scale towards Tel Aviv. Hezbollah says the attack was directed at the headquarters of Israeli Intelligence Agency mossad. They blame them for assassinating senior hezbollah commanders. Let me show this piece of footage. You can clearly hear the Air Raid sirens in this footage which shows the missile just after it was intercepted by israeli Air Defence systems. The Israeli Military says it detected the Missile Crossing from lebanon. Hezbollah said it fired at mossad holding them responsible for the assassination of senior hezbollah leaders and for blowing up pagers and wireless devices last week. Hezbollah confirmed its commander was killed in a raid in beirut, just a couple of kil
playbook was when president obama was in the white house, which is no, no, no, no, no, no, we re not going to work with you. they didn t have much of an opportunity, because the big heavy lift was obamacare, which they were never going to vote to repeal and the tax reform which ended up having obamacare, part of the repeal of the individual mandate nit. but this is different. the question is whether democratic leaders are going to want to hold their rank and file or whether they ll let them go, particularly those who are in tough re-election battles in red districts and red states to come back and say, look, i can work with the republican president, because that will play well back home. you know, i question how well that would play back home with democrats when the energy in the democratic base is really on an anti-trump platform. i think it will be hard for democrats to cross the aisle, for many democrats to cross the aisle. republicans are really between a rock and a hard place, b
to run again for the senate during the mid-term. i don t rule anything out. okay. what do you think? when i asked in the question, the guy with a last name like flake can only rise so far in politics. that s a very clever way of saying he can t win a republican primary in arizona. how is he going to win a republican primary on a presidential level. that s a big heavy lift. dana and brian and josh, thank you so much for all of you. happy holidays. joining me on this merry christmas. i do appreciate it. coming up this hour on newsroom, pope francis delivers his christmas message and eek speaks out against one of president trump a most significant decisions in office. also celebrating while a loved one serves overseas. live to kuwait to check in with service members. quit smoking. i tried hard to
single senators who as pat roberts said will not be here next go round. basically putting the fate of a lot of the gop senators who are up for re-election in the hands of the people who again aren t running for re-election. so it is a big heavy lift. we can see this going next week. which would be okay, but again, there s that special election in alabama that they wanted to make sure was ironed out before it could get out. the murder trial that galvanized anti-immigration activists in the u.s. jose garcia a homeless mexican immigrant who had been deported multiple times was found guilty of murdering not guilty of murdering kate steinle an american would fatally shot in 2015. steinle was killed by a bullet that ricochetted off a concrete
is the objective of getting our unjustly held people out could remain front and center, but not in a way to simply encourage in this case, north korea or others, to take more americans hostage. that just increases the agony for everybody. i think the real bottom line here is what this tells us about the character of the north korean regime, and when it gets down to it, character dictates how they act in a whole range of areas from this barbaric activity to the nuclear weapons program. the north koreans are not going to be induced in a civilized behavior by us making confessions. the only way we will solve the problem with north korea is by that regime disappearing from history and reunify korea s. shannon: that is a big heavy lift so we will see where that goes. meanwhile, the senate has 98-2 sanctions against iran and russia together. there will be strategic and keeping these countries together. the house will eventually have