To promote ms. Rice to secretary of state should Hillary Clinton resign. If senator mccain and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. And im happy to have that discussion with them. But for them to go after the un ambassador, who had nothing to do with agabenghazi and was mak a presentation based on intelligence that she had received and to go after her reputation is outrageous. Senator mccain heard that remark and took to the floor of the sen sat to respond. Mr. President , four brave americans died. It has now been eight weeks and the American People have received nothing but contradick tri statements from all levels of our government. This administration has either been guilty of incompetence or engaged in a cover up neither of which is acceptable to the American People. There are still serious Unanswered Questions about the timeline of events. Remarks in the days and weeks that followed. Specifically, why didnt the president call it an act of terrorism the presi
The u. S. Is preparing for a possible Ground Invasion into gaza. Hundreds of israeli troops have been moved to the gaza border and another 75,000 reservists are being called to serve as the violence intensifies. This as president obama gets the phone call from the israeli Prime Minister to get an update on the tent situation and gets briefed by Henry Morrissey who he hopes can dissuade the conflict. Ten people have been killed in gaza and three people in israel. Today they released their largest air raid in decades, including jerusalem. Their air sirens echoed. Hamas also fired several rockets at the coastal city of tel aviv. In this dangerous game of tit for tat, both sides are vowing to press ahead. Sara seidner is live in gaza where she showed her support for the people there. Sara, youve done remarkable work covering this for people around the clock. What is happening in gaza now . Are people bracing for a ground assault from israel . Theyre certainly worried about one, very, very
Palestinians. The death toll in eight days there up to 137. The secretary of state Hillary Clinton is finishing up those direct talks this morning with the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. Thats happening in ramallah on the west bank. And netanyahu, the Prime Minister, in jerusalem, another conversation shes having. Now she goes to cairo where shes meeting with the egyptian president mursi. Mrs. Clinton making it clear that she is not interested in a quick fix in gaza. The goal must be a durable outcome that promotes regional stability, and advances the security and legitimate aspirations of israelis and palestinians alike. Cnn reporters flanking the middle east today to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of the crisis in gaza and in jerusalem and in israel. Ben wedeman is in gaza city. Frederick pleitgen is in ashkelon city. We begin with sara sidner at the scene of that bus explosion that happened just a little while ago in tel aviv. Sara first of all describe fo
Ranking member of intelligence. Welcome to you. Good to be here, pierce. We now know the white house, the statement coming from tommy. The talking points about the intelligence, and the white house and state department changing consulate to diplomatic facility for ak ras pep a line being drawn by the white house that they didnt change anything that the Intelligence Report went to susan rice other than what you named the consulate or dip the maic facility. What do you make of that . Well, what is the issue that has been raised as a result of that . I think we all know the Intelligence Community had created the talking points that did come out about the incident that occurred. The purpose is to make sure that any information or that they would give to the media would not be classified. I think thats how a lot of these issues with the talking points started and the issue thats been raised in the last couple of days has been the issue of having al qaeda taken out of the talking points and
Im Victor Blackwell sitting in this morning for randi kaye. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com we start this hour in the middle east. Theres a bit of hope for a negotiated ceasefire. Leaders from egypt and france are trying to mediate. For the past five days israel and hamas have fired rockets and bombed one another, israeli air strikes have taken a heavy toll on gaza and hamas. Right now israel is keeping open the possibility of a ground offensive. Theyve got 30,000 troopons the border with another 75,000 reservists being called up. Now, i want to show you something that played out live on Israeli Television just a short time ago. Watch this. What youre called is called an iron dome. This is egypts defensive zone system. Theyre tracking down two rockets. At the end, the small puffs there, thats the signals of success that those intercepters headed off those rockets. So far israel says a thousand rockets have been fired. Hamas puts it at about 900. The constant threat has those in israe