using civilians as human shields. they re hiding behind and among civilians. they re putting rockets and other terrorist infrastructure in civilian areas. that creates an added burden for the israeli defense forces, but it does not lessen their responsible to distinguish between terrorists and innocent civilians and to protect the lives of innocent civilians as they conduct this military operation. that s true of striking from the air. it is true of going in on the ground. this is something that we talk about with the israelis on a daily basis. national security adviser jake sullivan on the responsibility of israeli forces as its troops are moving farther into gaza this morning, days into its ground operation. we ll get the latest in a live report from the gaza border. plus, what the new speaker of the house is saying about aid packages for israel and ukraine and how soon the funding could pass in the lower chamber. also ahead, there s much more to report on donald trum
And the First Lady Melania Trump receives an apology and damages from the daily mail over allegations about her work as a model. A meeting is underway in moscow between russian president Vladimir Putin and us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson just hours after President Putin claimed relations between the two countries was at its lowest ebb since the end of the cold war. Earlier Rex Tillerson held talks with his russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Rex tillerson wants russia to withdraw support for president assad following the chemical attack ona assad following the chemical attack on a rebel town which killed more than 80 people. Our correspondence is travelling with Rex Tillerson and sent this report. This is not the kind of meeting that once seemed to be on the card. Long gone talk of a grand resetting of relations with russia, producing is encouraged by donald trump was replaced by tensions over the Chemical Weapons attack in syria and russian anger over the military response from ame
Security both hard and soft. and resources. and we just have to ask you based on our best assessment about what we need to do our jobs. and sometimes, you know, you ve got a budget process and nobody has predicted you re going to have a revolution against gadhafi. then you have to scramble. how do you figure out what to do in tripoli? and i could go down the line and tell you 10 or 20 of those examples we live with every day. so we it s more of an art than a science, to be honest. because as of now we don t have hard parameters. but we re trying to develop the best we can. thank you. madam secretary, i understand that you have a meeting at the white house but have agreed to stay so that members can have a few more questions. we will end by 5:00 and we really appreciate that. we want to go to mr. kissinger
I had left by then. so i know that as you being the superior of the people who died i m sure felt the same way. that s why i am glad that we brought up the names here today. i think it is important to mention the names. ambassador christopher stevens. mr. shawn smith. mr. tyrone woods. mr. glen dougherty. many of us believe they didn t die in vain. that s why i m proud you re here bravely standing before us trying to figure out what to do. one of the things that troubled me on this is the reliance we have on local security. that s the part that didn t make sense to me. i come from san diego. we have the marine corps there, we have the navy. we have incredibly good security in service people. why don t we rely more on them? well, that s an excellent question. and you brought back back some sad memories talking about the
And it is something we take seriously when we do it. you know, when we left benghazi on the night of 11th, 12th there were others still there. the italians were there. the turks were there. people evaluate risk over time. and i think it s important to do what we can to minimize it. some of that will be done by technology. some of that will be done by hard security. and some of that will be done by what we call soft power. trying to get the balance right is very difficult. as we look forward to steps taken, how do we ensure we ll be in new places how are we going to make sure we provide to the posts? very difficult. you know, that s going to be a question of new streamlined processes and protocols.