[bombs exploding]. To the war in the middle eas as expended. Israel is no longer just fighting a Battle In The South against hamas, a second front i opening in the north. Hezbollah in lebanon is intensifying their campaign. E their goal Scimmers Thomas this made israel with rockets and mortars. [rapid gunfire] [bombs] [people shouting]. Israel just any casualties already this weekend from the iranian backed hezbollah forces. Israeli Military Bases are unde assault. Hezbollah snipers also neutralizing israeli Surveillance Cameras on the border in creating blind spots. Appearing to gear up for a full on invasion. And israel is responding, evacuating towns and villages near the border. And proactively striking hezbollahs installations. [explosions. Israels promised to destroy hezbollah if they formally ente the war. Service for israel israel. If hezbollah fully engages israels northern flanks, they would be forced to divert resources from the south, reaching their ground action in gaza, a
Antiisrael protests continue to disrupt College Campuses across the country where police have arrested thousands of agitators as they worked to clean up the encampments. Better believe they need some cleaning. Some of what police have found left behind is beyond disturbing. Take a look at your screen. According to new York Police Officers signs were left behind on nyu campus. They found this today which read about death to america and death to israeli real estate. Isnt that nice. And why you did provide a statement this evening saying they will continue to oppose antisemitism and its termination on campus. Meanwhile antiisrael radicals a University Of Pennsylvania have begun circulate in protests how to guides including 1 its titled flood the gates escalate. That encourages protesters to take more risk. What risk you ask . Another detailed exactly how to break into a building. Thats what we saw columbia this week. And while all of this was going on it took President Biden at least 9 da
That are populated by iran, Islamic Revolutionary guards, quds force, which is the Paramilitary Arm there are, there are some other options. The former head of the mossad is israels former spy agency a couple of hours ago, also said the Israeli Cabinet is considering targeting Iran Nuclear Infrastructure which would definitely be an escalation i think they are considering a lot of the options and probably trying to take an action that makes him look serious. But not get them into a complete allout war. Of course, though the every single one of these things that you say, i think anybody watching is fearful you think its just a small escalation, but none of these things really are. Were in unchartered territory seth. Thank you so much. Thanks erin thanks for joining us. The lead starts now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start this hour with Breaking News and what we do just heard from House Speaker mike johnson live right here on the lead just minutes ago, he i
Facing a potential revolt from his farright flank over his plan to bring three different foreign aid bills to the floor this weekend . Its a move his fiercest critics say, could ultimately cost him the speakership. But Speaker Johnson tells me hes not worried about what could happen. Hes going to do what he thinks is right. Even if the bill gets democratic votes this is very simple. Im operating with the smallest margin in us story. I have a o ve margin oy. So in order to getomhing into this underlying package, we have to havthe tes in the orida pass aule. I dont ha all mrepublicans who agree on that ru. And a rule on the floor or is that it requires a couple of democrats ls Speaker Johnson explaining why there isnt. A tougher border measures this legislation as many House Republicans want there to be coming up anjust moments. E of those republicans, coressman chip roy of texas, is goi to ta to ushe said today hes passed the point of giving gra to the speaker. Whats hiresponse to what
course in cr aftert happefore. but even so she ran into some headwinds today. yh. megan columbia says s firing one professor hired after he posted support for the hamas attack on october 7 colombia and condemned a tenured professor joseph mossad, who described hamas is tober 7 attack as a que, stunning victory in an online article. but he l s a job. i mean, tenure stil exists. i want you to listen to is exchange with republican congresswoman, at least defining like of new york is still in fact listed on e combia webte as chair of the academic review committee, are you aware of that i would need to check that the websites right here in this state cause he hasn t been removed as chair i would like to do you have my commitment. he ll be removed as chair to de i have my commitment commitment that i will come back to it, but yo can t say at this that this hearing that he should be removed as chair even though he violates not want him is chair and we are looking at the issue