julie: more americans coming home, nearly 80 of the u.s. citizens stranded in gaza making it out safely so far. hundreds more, though, are still trapped. the biden administration meantime pushing for what it calls a humanitarian pause, a stop in the fighting to get aid in and out to foreign nationals to get those out. this is the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas. good afternoon. i m in for maris today. blinken met with president netanyahu today. before the meeting he talked about possible pauses as we mentioned and the concerns around them. watch. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. a number of legitimate questions were raised in our discussions today including how to use any period of pause to maximize the fuel humanitarian assistance. how to connect a pause to the release of hostages and secure hamas doesn t use these to their own advantage. julie: senate majority whip dick durbin, the highest ranking democrat to back
it is 3:00 a.m. in tel aviv. for hours we have been seeing and hearing signs that israel s campaign against hamas in gaza is in a new phase. strikes. people in gaza telling cnn that strikes now the most intense they have seen so far. in addition to this air and artillery bombardment that appears to be growing in tempo, israeli troops today launched what they are calling an expanded operation into gaza. an idf spokesman, rear admiral daniel ha garry says, quote, the military is expanding their ground operations. he dismissed reports of a possible deal to free more hostages and said that gaza s largest hospital, al shifa, was the site of a hamas command and control center. he offered everyday, cell phone intercept reported to be between two gazans discussing the site. admiral hangar ri also had a warning. quote, when medical facilities are used for terror purposes, they re liable to use their protection from attack in accordance with international law. meantime, at another hosp
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Its completely dark, but i could just sense like oh my gosh, theres like 12 children in here and im just in the entrance way. And im spooked out. I cant even imagine. Talking to a lot of the experts that do cave diving as a hobby, were like man, this is one of the five most dangerous caves ive ever been in. The hair stands up on the back of your neck. The first thought is theyre not going to get out. I mean the kids, weve done recoverying before with live people and its about panic on the water. I was always confident we could get them out. It was get iting them out alive. June 23rd, 12 boys and their Soccer Coach Head into the mountains of Northern Thailand for a trek. They posted photos before riding to the cave. Place they had visited before. They were expected to return to their nearby village later that day. A dozen members of a youth b Football Team and their coach are missing after they
A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. Base supports President Trump. Pete absolute fact. Ainsley do you want to know why the president is so strict about immigration and wanting that wall . If you look at the murder rate in mexico, it went up dramatically in 2017 last year it went up 27 . 31,174 people were murdered. Pete thats higher than the height of the drug wars that happened in early 2011, 2012 over there mexico has 200 million less people in america. Yet the number of people murdered in that country is roughly twice ours. Serious Crime Drug Problem run by cartels just on our southern border and we are wondering whether we should secure it or not . Steve no kidding. One of the agencies inside the United States that is tasked
Manafort. And speaking of flipping today, Ruby Red District in ohio may be the latest to elect a democrat in a special election. We will get to that in a moment. First lets go outside of the federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia, on the trial of Paul Manafort. Joe johns is here with an update. Good morning, joe. Rick gates back on the stand, taking questions from prosecutors, laying out the government case. They say it is illegal conduct that goes all the way from 2008 to 2015. Thats seven years. Meanwhile, in 2016, mr. Manafort took over as the Campaign Chairman for the trump campaign, rick gates was right there beside him as his deputy. So what did we learn so far . Among the most important testimony is his testimony that
our Justice Correspondent Jessica Schneider is here, former u. S. Attorney greg bower joining me. And analyst xian wu. Lay out your representation previously of rick gates so its on the table. Right. We had represented rick from the time that he was indicted to