the distance. the israelis are trying to engage anyone that tries to ambush their forces. the battle is street by street. it s urban gorilla warfare. neil: one month in, israel says they have gaza city surrounded and preparing to move in. the white house trying to move in. is the president starting to back off from his israel position? still with them, but maybe not as with them. coming up, we re going to talk to the national security council s john kirby on how far the white house is willing to go. welcome. i m neil cavuto. happy to have you with us. let s go to mike tobin in southern israel with the latest on this preparation for something big and pretty soon. mike? neil, while the israeli forces are not letting up as you mentioned, gaza city is surrounded. in fact, they have the israeli navy bringing pressure from the sea. overnight, there was an aerial bombardment with 450 targets being hit. the air strikes continue tonight. the palestinian health minute try said the
major develop moons, congress passed a bill giving 14.3 billion in aid to israel, but joe biden threatened to veto it because it does not include money for a cause that is already defeated sadly in ukraine. israeli prime minister netanyahu today says that nothing is going to stop them from going into gaza and getting the job done and now gaza city is surrounded. we re seeing explosions across the night sky. a live report from the ground later in the show. but first, loving china, hating us, the focus of tonight s angle. preparations for the date are underway. what is he going to wear? how long will the conversations last? who is better at small talk? the president is looking forward to meeting with president xi. will not get details about this meeting that is going to happen this month in san francisco. it will be a constructive meeting. laura: constructive for whom, jp morgan, goldman sachs? not the american people. xi does not meet with foreign leaders unless he s prepa
the lead with jake tapper starts right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in washington, d.c. in for jake tapper. and i m wolf blitzer. after the attacks and the israeli military now surrounding an inside significant areas gaza city and the bombardments continues to take a devastating stake on those inside. they cannot keep up with the amount of injured and sick cases. at least 9,000 people killed in israeli attacks on gaza according to the hamas-controlled health ministry. right now u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is headed to israel. here where i am in tel aviv, making his second wartime visit saying he will discuss concrete steps to minimize civilian casualties. israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself, and also to take steps to try to make sure this never happens again. we ve also said clearly and repeatedly how israel does this matters. right now i go to breaking news. look at
that this one senator is having this kind of an impact on our operational readiness and if you don t think it isn t, i would urge him or anybody else who doubts this, go on down to tampa, florida and talk to the folks in central command about the priorities and what they are trying to do on behalf of our administration s policy in the middle east, especially right now with everything going on. it s having an impact and as karine rightly said, an impact on family members, can t get schools for the kids, can t buy or rent houses, don t know where they are going to be living next. absolutely ridiculous. the vice president was over in london and said if israel and ukraine were bifurcated the president would veto it. you over the last couple of days have explained that you would be something offset, especially involving the irs. but i wanted to be clear, if the president was presented with a clean israel funding bill without ukraine, he would veto that as well? the president b
all of us know the suffering that is taking place as we speak. all of us are determined to see it end. but all of us know the imperative of standing up with our allies and partners when their security, when their democracies are threatened. that s secretary of state antony blinken laying out the difficult balance of standing with israel in its war against terrorists while also supporting the protection of innocent pal palestinians in gaza. it comes as an israeli rocket strike hit the largest refugee camp killing dozensens of people. we ll have the latest out of the middle east in just a moment. plus, the director of the fbi is warning that the hamas terror attacks could inspire extremists here at home, calling it the greatest threat to the united states since the height of isis. and also ahead, the white house is rejecting an israel-only aid plan from house republicans. we ll take a look at where that funding fight could be headed. good morning, and welcome to way too