israel across the border. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. israeli defense forces expanding their ground operation in gaza overnight. an idf spokesman says the forces are in the field and continue the fighting with infinity and armored vehicles backed by massive strikes from the air and the sea, including the bombing of hamas tunnels. the bombardment also knocking out communications in gaza, creating a near information blackout. and largely cutting off the territory s more than 2 million people from the outside world. until now, israel s military had been conducting targeted raids with forces withdrawing after a few hours. it comes as an israeli ground offensive aimed at seizing and holding significant amounts of territory has been widely expected but does not appear that such a significant operation is under way yet. joining me from israel is cnn correspondent jeremy diamond. jeremy, still not the ground incursion that we had anticipated. reporter: well, at least no
Months, howard, with the press corps. i think for the country it lasted longer. in january of 2002. the press was not happy that george bush had a 90% approval rating. they were used to a red holt hot briefing room. when enron collapsed, the white house press corps went hard after george w. bush, trying to blame it on him. that s when the goodwill of the press evaporated and turned to the old days. the country, as i said, it lasted a lot, lot longer. howie: you think the press got tired of bush being popular and not being able to go after him more directly. they wanted a new story line. howie: whether it was early debates over waterboarding or gitmo or the more recent media controversies about domestic terror and the disastrous exit from afghanistan, doesn t it feel like i m not ex cementing anyone exempting anyone here, for so many of the
The insurrection? what if like in january of 2002, democrats say, we need to just move past 9/11? yeah, yeah, just move past it. nothing to see here. it s it s incredible, it s just another example of the sort of fantasy world, dystopian fantasy world that the republican party is living in now and, you know, they don t want to think about that, because that was a bad thing for them and a bad thing for their guy, who incited the whole thing, donald trump. so, let s just pretend it never happened. it s just astonishing. it s astonishing. if the tables were turned if the tables were turned, they would be telling the truth and also pointing out how this
Here. it s may 28th. this is, what, how many months? four months, five months after the insurrection? what if in i m wondering, gene robinson, what if in like january of 2002, democrats said, you know what? we need to just move past 9/11. yeah. just move past it. nothing to see here. it s incredible. it s just another example of the sort of fantasy world, dystopian fantasy world that the republican party is living in now. and, you know, they don t want to think about that because that was a bad thing for them and a bad thing for their guy, who incited the whole thing, donald trump. so let s just act like it never happened. it s just it s astonishing. astonishing. if the tables were turned your political parties to
Information from authorities in rwanda saying about 3,500 people have entered the country of rwanda from the drc. you can imagine this is because of a memory and not so distant memory. back in january of 2002 the same volcano erupted killing 250 people, displacing over 200,000 people. it was a big event. and people are fearful of a similar event. now, this same volcano erupted 7:00 p.m. local time on saturday evening. and again, as michael just said, the lava appears to be flowing away from the metropolitan areas of goma but moving toward the border of rwanda. evacuations are in place across this region. this volcano is widely known for its largest lava lake in the world. it s about 1.2 kilometers wide. that is very significant. and you can see some of the recent eruptions. and most notably the 2002 eruption that caused the devastation and unfortunately the fatalities. this is a strata volcano. this is characterized by a very