Spying, germany kicks out the cia station chief describing u. S. Actions as stupid. Ill speak live this hour with the House Intelligence Committee chairman mike rogers. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in jerusalem. Youre in the situation room. The breaking news. The palestinian rocket fire is relentless and so is the israeli response. Palestinians say the air strikes on hamas targets in gaza have taken 100 lives, many of them civilians. Both sides theyre preparing for a longer, more violent conflict. Israel has thanks massed at the border and 30,000 military reservists have now been called to their units. Hamas is threatening to attack israels International Airport. Our correspondents are standing by with the kind of coverage only cnn can bring to you. And ill talk with the spokesman for hamas this hour. Ill also speak with the spokes olympian for the israeli Prime Minister and the former u. S. Special envoy for the middle east,
Israel could become an apartied states, which is vicious, those comments will be repeated by hamas and iran, and they will say this is not us speaking, this is the secretary of the United States. That is not acceptable. If you look at this conflict right now it is a false moral equivalency, hamas, who are terrorists murdering innocent women and children, and israel, those are not equivalent. Theyre fundamentally different. Senator cruz, thank you very much for joining us. I know you have strong views on this subject and youre willing to share them with our viewers. We appreciate it. Senator ted cruz from texas. Thank you very much, well continue this conversation down the road. Just ahead, the Top State Department spokesperson, at least one of the Top State Department spokeswomen responds to senator cruz. Marie harf is standing by live. Nineteen years ago, we thought, wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad . So we gave people the power of the review. And now angies list
Israel and lamas falls apart in hours. For it to work, both sides have to agree toe actually cease firing. And the national lead. Its like a polar vortex but its coming in the middle of july. Weather going hay wire today with 30 Million People in the path of severe storms. Well tell you who needs to look out. Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Well begin with the politics lead. Vice president dick cheney doesnt do regrets. In a moment he will join us and he might be experiencing some international deja vu. Israel and hamas are at each others throats just like they were during his time at the white house. Iraq is crumbling as it was in the months and years immediately following the u. S. Invasion. Over the years former president bush has stayed quiet. Vice president cheney has not even weighing in on the george lucas inspired nickname. When we made the decision to go in iraq in 03 i believed it in then. It was absolutely the right thing to do. I helped put together the enhanced i
With the Algerian National airline. Tom costello in washington keeping an eye on that. Were also following the incense fieg scrutiny of the Death Penalty amid what some are calling another botched execution. This time in arizona. Governor jan brewer is now ordering a review of that states execution process because it took nearly two hours for convicted murderer joseph wood to die following a lethal injection wednesday afternoon. Witnesses, many of whom were reporters, describe the troubling scene. Some say he gasped hundreds of times over the course of an hour 40 minutes. It was sort of a spasm that would go from his mouth down through his chest to his stomach. We watched this and it went on for more than an hour and a half. To watch a man lay there for an hour and 40 minutes gulping air. I liken it to a fish on the shore. Governor brewer acknowledged concerns with the lethal cocktail of drugs administered, but she went on to say wood died in a lawful manner and by eyewitness and medic
The day after her husbands funeral. And as unusual as it was at the time, in the 1930s, to have a woman sheriff in the United States, the reason Florence Shoemaker Thompson became nationally famous as a local county sheriff in kentucky at the time is because while she was sheriff of that county, she had to carry out a hanging. Just a few weeks after she was sworn in, an africanamerican man named Rainey Bethea was sentenced to die in davis county, kentucky, after he was convicted of raping and murdering a local white woman. He did not protest his innocence. Although he did fight his sentence. He tried to avoid the death sentence, but the county did convict him and they were determined to hang him and sheriff Florence Shoemaker Thompson thereby became the first woman in the United States to be given the task of carrying out an execution. Hundreds of reporters and photographers from all over the country descended on owensboro to cover the hanging, a hanging conducted by a woman, right . S