israel is expanding its military operations against hamas including in the south many palestinian men second term including price cuts to prescription drugs. plus it means style charm or attractiveness. it was made viral by generation z on social media. oxford is unveiling it is the word of the year for 2023. can you guess what it is? we are following the stories and many more all coming in right here on cnn news central. right now in gaza is really troops are operating in southern gaza for the first time. this new front is where hundreds of thousands of palestinian civilians fled after evacuating from the north. that is why a top un official in the region put it bluntly today we have said it repeatedly we are saying it again no place is safe in gaza. the head of the red cross visiting gaza today pleading for humanitarian relief and for the icrc to be allowed to visit the 137 hostages still held by hamas. those visits could be more crucial than ever now as hostage negot
are stay at home moms. jon: on this point the president in making that statement recognized that this was a fire he had to try to put out. yeah that he personally had to put out. they tried the night before to put it out with 140 character tweets from the campaign manager, jim messina and then from david axelrod, that was clearly unacceptable. the president had scheduled a series of local interviews, local television anchors around the countryment it was a subject he could not avoid, he wisely, i suspect not happily jumped into the fray and said, enough is enough, this was out of bounds and this is wrong and that is about as good as you can get in ending the conflict. jon: he also jumped into the fray over the supreme court hearing over his healthcare law when he addressed newspaper reporters in washington. he had pretty critical comments for the court. the fox news poll asked whether people think that the president was trying to intimidate the supreme court with his healthcare comme
leave them where they are. the less taxes the better. i would always cut taxes. people will work harder if they have less taxes. instead of bailing out the big banks when the crisis hit i would have repealed or us spend the income tax. bill: your prediction is the government not going to shut down in eight days. we ll get a continuing resolution and cut a few more billion every week until you get an ultimate resolution. we ll see where that comes. ron paul, thank you for your time today. good to see you again. martha: the obama administration taking heat for these healthcare comments. what s the $500 million cut for? preserving medicare or funding healthcare. which one? both. so you are double counting. martha: that has a lot of people talk. sebelius says republican plans