[explosions] dana: happening today intense fighting across gaza as israeli special forces launch a raid into gaza city s largest hospital. they found weapons and hamas stockpiles inside. soldiers searching the hospital found no sign of the hostages kidnapped and held by hamas terrorists. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. israeli forces are going room to room and underground tunnels as intense fighting rages across the gaza strip. israeli forces extending their control across the northern part of the strip finding weapons and eliminating fighters in government buildings, schools and homes. the hospital is a huge come flex with multiple buildings and a key target in the conflict where thousands of palestinian civilians took shelter. in addition to the all the patients be treated as we speak. idf spokesman said they took extreme care to protect civilians during this operation. we went in because we understand the sensiti
night. bret: jesse, i will wait around for the sloth. jesse: you will wait a long time. bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, new attacks on u.s. forces in syria by iranian-backed terrorists. that is after the latest u.s. retaliatory strike on sunday. that now brings the total number of attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east to more than 50 since mid october. tonight, the fighting between israeli troops and hamas terrorists is centered around gaza s largest hospital. while fighting increases in northern israel as well against hezbollah fighters, correspondent alex hogan is in northern israel tonight with the latest. good evening, alex. good evening, bret. day 38 of the wariments idf releasing this photo. israeli soldiers say they managed to capture the parliamentary building in gaza city and raised the israeli flag. meanwhile here in the northern part of the country it is an entirely different situation. escalation on israel
Welcome to a very important here ainley have berthing support the patient to have been Opening Statement and then to introduce the first panel with vr done the Senate Judiciary committee is holding a hearing will entitle their responses to the increase of religious chairman grassley welcome, everybody, to a very important hearing that we have. Thank you for being patient while we get started here. Ill have an Opening Statement. Senator feinstein will go, and then well go, ill introduce our first panel. Then when were done there go to the second panel and introduce that at that time. The Senate Judiciary committee today is holding a hearing that we entitled responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. This is a subject of great bipartisan interest in the committee. Religious hate crimes harm victims. And also have a great impact on communities. Many of these crimes would never have been committed but for hatred. They run counter to americas values such as religious freedom and to
Church to become more political . Theis the area code in area. For the democrats, 202 7488000 and for republicans 202 7488001. If you are an independent, 202 7488002. If you want to join in the conversation go to facebook. Com cspan. We will get your calls and comments on the issue in a moment but first, frontpage story in the Washington Post. All eyes on france. The election taking place in that country. Frances divide mirrors the last in a piece this morning from the Washington Post. Ever since donald trump proved last november that anything is possible in the topsyturvy new world of western politics, may 7 has been circled on european calendars with a mix of anticipation and dread. The rightwing populist, the president ial election in france, a country scarred by unemployment and terrorism, seem offer forhe next big global order in their own nationalist and nativist and protectionist image. To the mainstream it looked like a possible third strike after trump and brexit with the pote
The president seems to have a the center of his rhetoric. For 240 years now we have had a very unique tradition in america. We are the only country that was built specifically and explicitly on political ideals and universal political ideals at that. That is really the core root of andidentity, and unlike more so than any country in the world, we are based on that rather than a purely tribal or blood link cultural, historical identity that most of the countries are based on. That has given us a unique identity and also a unique mission and unique sense of greatness. You look at our tradition has not been what is generally considered great in the nation, wealth, power, glory over others, but the ideals that we were founded on. About what theg president has put at the center of much of his rhetoric is that we should stay true to those positions, finding our greatness by fulfilling our ideals rather than choosing to abandon them, adopting a sense of greatness that frankly is much more com