ramping up pressure on israel to define the next phase of the war with hamas. this as the idf claims it s discovered the biggest hamas tunnel in gaza and describing it as an underground terror city. hong kong pro-democracy media tycoon jimmy lai i on trial at this hour, facing his most consequential legal challenge to date. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. hours from now, the u.s. defense secretary will arrive in israel, his second trip to the country since the october 7 attack by hamas. and u.s. officials said lloyd austin will meet with israeli officials for updates on the war, but he s also expected to press them to define specific operational milestones and work to drill down on efforts to boost humanitarian aid to gaza. his visit comes as the israel defense forces says it s uncovered the biggest hamas tunnel in gaza, wide enough to drive a large vehicle through. that tunnel, which the idf says was secured a few weeks ago, was made publ
type of some type of asylum even if they re not directly related to a child. okay. s that s who are risk and that has us very concerned right now. sure so you re talking about the spending bill that was signed this week. they could problem mat nick some parts. okay. well help help with the wall. i was watching the issue with the wall even where they re going build the wall there s so many bureaucratic steps that everyone has to go through now that it is going to be difficult just to build one mile of fencing. okay. we will help us understand what this national emergency means for border agent as today. and what it means down the road if this all unfolds as the president hopes. well, i m hoping what it does is give us give the agents right toolses to be able to perform their job. and it gives every agent out there, the right equipment so they can, you know, protect our borders. that s what it comes down to. we need to figure out how to protect our borders to start taking t
more conservative politicos. turn to someone who seems to dismiss criminal activities altogether when it involves someone he is personally connected to. it s very problem mat nick this situation. there can be real implications for the american people and those who rely on the president to serve citizen s best interest when it comes to national security. i don t understand, like i said, the trump tower meeting. the same thing happened there. the story comes out july 8th, donald trump, jr., says we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. five days later, it s called opposition research. it s very standard where they have information, you take the information. july 30th, collusion is not a crime. we go back further in time to some of those articles in the new york daily news and new york post and national enquirer. i got more, i got hush money. it s the same pattern. when does it stop? probably never. but here s the difference,
can. if the trump administration ends non-disastrously i believe historians will look back saying the day that h.r. mcmaster replaced mike flynn was a huge moment, went from having a national security adviser who is problem mat nick all kinds of ways to a really experienced and savvy professional who is used to assuming responsibility as a general in the army and who has really stepped up on this case, i think. let s talk to syria, if we can, on the subject of foreign policy. tony, you were a deputy secretary of state during the john kerry s term as secretary of state. obviously bashar al assad is the one responsible for the actions committed by bashar al assad, but there has been criticism leveled at the obama administration. one tweet from 2014 from the state department from john kerry noted in 2014, today the last 8% of declared chemical weapons were removed from syria. great work done by all involved. apparently assad was hiding some chemical weapons still.
what s one of those? well, first, look, at the end of the day we ll have to repeal part of this law, replace part of this law, overhaul, reform part of this law, and maintain certain aspects. so some of the pay-fors, the medical device tax, for example, is extremely problem mat nick the part of the country where i live. we have to determine a way to create an individual health insurance market that functions properly. that is not happening. and that s one aspect that we are going to have to tackle in this obamacare discussion. what percentage will you keep? oh, i don t know. certainly there s agreement that i understand. dependent coverage for those under 26. certainly those with pre-existing conditions should be able to maintain their coverages. we want to make sure those people are protected. those are i think two basic things. we ll have an interesting conversation about the medicaid expansion, about how to adjust medicaid. some of the states like mine have already expan