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with israeli officials saying there s no timetable for slowing the pounding of gaza, a cabinet member comes to washington where pressure is growing and it soon. also, does he think it s festivals? the former president airs his grievances, makes a list and tells the people on it what to do and where to do it plus alexei navalny fear death, he resurfaces bringing a christmas message of courage, hope, and yes, good cheer from one of the coldest corners. good evening, everyone. we begin with u.s. officials trying to steer israel toward a less intensive, less destructive phase of its campaign in gaza and israeli officials signaling they are in no hurry. one of the officials is in washington tonight, we will have the latest on those meetings which wrapped up about six minutes ago. first, though, the fighting itself, which included more than 100 airstrikes today on hamas targets in gaza according to the idf, and 241 killed on the ground according to unverified claims by the hamas -c
conservative or chaotic members of their conference who have put us in this position, but they honestly can t afford to wait around, let this come out and potentially risk not being able to get a set of rules to govern the conference going forward. speaking of transparency, jamie gangel, what about the fact we ve had so much transparency we haven t been in legislative business so the c-span cameramen and women have been able to shoot anything they want as opposed to the government seizing what they have. are they going to allow the c-span cameramen and women to continue to show what s going on the floor of the people s house? first of all, you ve had too much coffee. where is your energy coming from? i m just taking these people at their word. big finish, jake. look, i just want to say one thing that i would like in the rules package thought that i get a vote. i want the c-span cameras to stay. america does. just this way. i salute c-span this week. it s been sp
they ve got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. and indeed, they won t have been i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delayed, for congress to still not be seated and functioning in the way that we have sort of gotten used to it functioning our myriad. and i think, as ryan rightfully points out, it s precedent. what we ve seen over the course of the last four days is very much a taste of what may be to come for the months, if not years ahead. all right, that part doesn t in tonight, alex. thanks very much. have yourself a great weekend. we ll see you next week! thanks, ali. good luck tonight. u next wand it is st
how the border crisis not only affects texas but impacts the entire country. essentially every state is a border state. we re seeing record number of immigrants coming across that border. record number of deaths from immigrants not only crossing the river but being smuggled and being killed during the high speed chases and also in different situations like we saw in san antonio, where we lost 53 immigrants smug nulled a smuggled in a trailer. migrants continue being smuggled into the country in staggering numbers and dangerous ways. for the migrants themselves as well as the people in these texas border communities. a group of 300 migrants just crossed the border into eagle pass. right before the sun rose this morning a group of 300, mostly single adult men from cuba. something we have seen every single day this morning. in fact, we re seeing two groups per day, which is the case again today. i want to show you the video you just teased with. an exclusive video from a pol