About his recent atlantic article aboutthe end of the 9 11 era in a few minutes im going to introduce been. Ben will speak and he and i will havea conversation. We encourage you to post questions through the two and a feature. And we get to the second half of the hour i will begin to wrap up our discussion and start posing some of your questions then and we will run about one hour. So i also want to mention next week, next wednesday in fact were going to do i think our last webinar for the summer. Which will be with our partner, peter singer of near america talking about his new novel burn in which is a kind of look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare in particular so peter does a fantastic thinker and writer and i look forward to seeing that so for today as mentioned ben rhodes. Ben is former Deputy National security adviser in the Obama Administration. Lcurrent cochair ofNational Security action. Cohost of pond save the world which i highly recommend. Both organizations and
A lot across the border at the u. S. Embassy in beirut, lebanon. Public in the mideast upset by the blast of the hospital in gaza. Hamas claims israel. Israel claims the palestinians. They go after the blood Thirsty Hamas militants. It is what they used to call a phony war. Intermittent strikes but not a full blown invasion. Hezbollah using antitank missiles who hit a kibbutz. They used rockets and mortars and small arms. Israel huge Military Presence here. They responded overnight with artillery and air strikes, tanks, drones, you name it. So far in the past day since weve been here five israeli shoulders have been killed. 18 hezbollah and other militants have died as well and there has been civilian casualties. Remember, the powerful lebanonbased hezbollah claims 100,000 fighters, claims 150,000 rockets. They are playing a waiting game. A lot of threats from the group and benefactor iran. Remember, hezbollah and hamas depend on iran as well. Theyre clear if israel pushes further in t
Live now from capitol hill. Just after 8 p. M. On the east coast. Whats going on . Reporter whats going on is were waiting for white smoke out of the House Speakers Office which is right down the hall to see if they actually have a plan. Our understanding in talking to sources in the Republican Party and even some democrats is that theyre working on trying to shorten that stopgap measure instead of three weeks, which failed to just seven days for one week. The hope is that will appeal to enough conservatives who voted no. More than 50 republicans voted against this and that was part of the problem. But its still up in the air whether and how they can do that. But of course the clock is ticking and theyre still meeting trying to figure out a plan b. They simply didnt have one. They did not have one. They didnt expect this to happen dana. How did it why did it . Reporter good question. I mentioned the republicans who voted no. And then the other factor a big factor is democrats. Almost a
I think we should wait until we see all of the facts and all the evidence before coming to a final judgment. Im just going to make this as plain as possible to the cnn viewers. When one of the main home boys turn snitch, a bunch of people about to go to jail. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to our viewers here in the u. S. And hello to everyone joining us around the world. Were starting with breaking news on capitol hill. That Early Morning vote after a tumultuous friday for President Trump. Yeah, we have a live look for you right now over washington, where after hours of debate, lastminute changes, one republican holdout, the senate did pass its version of major tax reform. And President Trump already praising the vote on twitter. The democrats are slamming the gop saying the process was done in secret and rush. Some senators waving parts of the bill around showing handwritten changes made to the bill late last night. Now, despite those cri
Though not the first choice for the Congress president’s post, Kharge has proven to be an inspired selection, juggling smoothly a variety of roles the job demands. A consensus-builder who doesn’t overshadow the Gandhis, fluent in Hindi and having the right caste credentials, he is also at ease with the everyday leadership that the Congress organisation badly needed