Night. Israels Ground Operations have now expanded. We have large explosions, arti artillery, tank fire, and possible Bunker Buster Bombs heard and seen all night long as the idf has now confirmed the expansion of operations, in other words, the Ground Incursion into gaza has now officially begun. Heres a description of how things went on earlier tonight, just how this all got started from trey yingst. Clearly something is happening. We cite the israeli military, they say theyre having ground raids into gaza. Dont want to speculate or call it what it could be, we need to wait and be patient. This is unlike any other night we covered. We have been here the past 20 days as it unfolds. This is a significant development. Also to give you a sense of the phases here, this is indicative of what we expected to come next. Israel told us they would be ramping up strikes against gaza before entering on the ground, this is the next phase of the war. At this moment, i cannot confirm the Ground Oper
Carry, jones to this is all just say right with us. And also in the news, as well as Prime Minister says that every member of how much is a dead man as a country, forms of war, time, emergency governments, the contains for com, mazda full salons. In these roles, tens people scrambling for show. So the entire neighborhoods in gauze i have been reduced to rubble, at least 1100. 00 palestinians had been killed during a Relentless Campaign of is very strikes. Garzas sole power plants has run out of fuel and medicines that a Central Supplies are also running out of the site. It has more from gloucester, a gets her be a final kiss before shes or hes taken away, john or the great one glimpse of the tragedy spreading through gauze. This is set to date. How to use or bearing the brunt of 4 on a scale. They havent seen before, theres been new laptop in these relief on boardman of the inquiries. On wednesday, these aerial shots show the extent of the devastation, is really our strikes, have reduc
In the United States. Theres also an important people to people dimension to the relationship so i think the last figure i saw was 70,000 americans living and working in saudi arabia. At least 30,000 saudi students in the United States. This is a multidimensional relationship that only continues to grow and deepen over the years. In continuing to grow and to deepen going forward. Host a lot more to say but we are out of time. A spokesperson for the embassy of saudi arabia thanks so much for joining us. That is it for todays washington journal we are back again tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. Eastern. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms. Washington, d. C. May 8, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable michael cloud to ac
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[indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] good evening from washington. You have been watching cspans live coverage of the white house Correspondents Dinner here in washington. It is an annual tradition, as you heard from Kelly Odonnell. It is with the exception of former President Donald Trump that every president has attended at least one of these annual dinners, beginning with Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Some 2700 guests walked the red carpet to attend the dinner tonight, including andrew mccarthy, steve ducey of fox news, followed by the Senate Majority later, other journalists, hollywood stars, and politicians attending. [indiscernible conversations] and that is Comedian Colin Jost with Scarlett Johansson. Colin jost is the entertainment tonight. And the speaking portion of the program is expected to begin around 9 30 p. M. Eastern time, with president joe bidens remarks being delivered after 10 00 p. M. , followed by saturday night lives just. Colin jost. If you ha