News tonight, the head of the United Nationscainfor Maxim Restraint as israel ways its response to an unprecedented attack by iran, the Israeli Defense forces says orawn launched some 350 rockets, missiles drones into it lets territory overnight, the vast majority of them shot down by israel and its partners. Before they could hit israeli territory. Tonight, the israeli war cabinet says, it is not yet reached a decision on the scale or timing of its response, but did it is determined to act with one cabinet Member Calling for israel to quote, exact a price on iran. President biden spoke with g7 leaders today hoping for a diplomatic path forward saying in a tweet just moments ago, we will continue to Work Together to stabilize the situation in the region and avoid further escalation. Students International Diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is in jerusalem. Nick, what do we know about israels current thinking in terms of a response youre hearing a lot of messages calling for restraint, inc
Gazans at this point. Wolf blitzer is eight miles from gazas border. Can you tell us anything about this building . The only thing i know about the building, there are several media organizations that have their base in gaza in that building. The israelis i spoke yesterday with an Israeli Army Spokesman who said there are also hamas organizations or hamas related infrastructure in that building. Thats why they say theyre targeting that building. But there are several arabic language news organizations based there. As you point out, carol, this is the second time the israelis have gone after that building. So other than what the israelis are saying, they say there are legitimate targets there, what were seeing on the ground from our own reporters, thats escalating into a pretty Serious Development even as diplomats are trying to achieve some sort of ceasefire. When you see whats going on that ceasefire looks increasingly remote. Lets see what happens behind the scenes there. I have hear
Msnbcs reverend al sharpton. Former ceo of hewlettpackard Carly Fiorina historian and film maker ken burns. And nbc chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell. And well here from representative Gregory Meeks this morning as we check in on some of the hardesthit victims of Hurricane Sandy and see how they offered thanks this weekend while surrounded by destruction. From nbc news in washington, the worlds longestrunning television program, this is meet the press. With david gregory. President obama doing his part for the economy over the weekend out Holiday Shopping as part of Small Business saturday, picking up several Childrens Book at an independent bookstore iypnarlington. Meanwhile, uncertainty in the middle east. More clashes in egypt over the weekend as Police Use Tear gas this morning to disburse protesters in cairo. I want to start there. We have New York Times columnist david brooks and our own Andrea Mitchell. Andrea, this is because president morsi has seized power,
Good news and bad news. The good news is that the Obama Administration did an excellent job of supporting israel all through this. Made israel feel moderate and the arabs feel realistic. The second piece of good news is that egypt, even under the muslim brotherhood, has an interest in having stability. Thats very important. The bad news is the islamists are in control. In the palestinian areas with hamas and certainly in control in egypt. And theres going to be no peace as long as they are there in control, and u. S. Policy has got to be a long, gradual process of trying to build up the nonislamists in the arab world, including in iran, across the region. That frames it. Well hear more from you in the roundtable. Now let me turn to carl levin, chairman of course of the Armed Services committee in the senate. Senator, to egypt. How concerned are you . Is morsi a partner of the united states, or a problem . Yes. Hes both . Some of both, yeah. But even though theres great concern, i think