As monday. On Camera Briefing us State Department saying effectively, that line but let us bring you the exact line. Israel is told the operations, limited operations and infrastructure and with lebanon. We have heard from the afp that declaring the northern Border Area of israel is a closed Military Zone and since then, theres a report that a lebanon Army Source says Troops Repositioning after israeli threats of an incursion there. That is the State Of Play as things stand right now. No confirmation of any movement. Lets speak to the former editor in chief of the post. Thank you for coming on the programme. Where do you think the region stands right now . I the region stands right now . I think were in the potential beginning of another stage and some might say an escalation in this conflict has been going on now for nearly a year since october eight when hezbollah began assaulting israel the rockets and drones and also its of explosive devices, antiaging missiles into israel is been
So many ways to look at this. Because you asked about sean, thats one way. Another way is also what this says, maybe much more importantly, about the president of the United States, and how he has learned from the First Six Months about the way he wants to craft his white house with people who are loyal to him. People who know him, who are new yorkers. And are much more fluent in the language of trump than in the ways of washington. Were going to talk much more about that. Jen palmieri, white house comes director for President Obama and of course, you will know her from the Hillary Clinton campaign where she also served chief of communications there. Jen, thanks for joining us. Give us your reaction to this. All right. Can jen . Can you hear me . All right. Were going to try to work out the connection with jen palmieri, well bring her in soon as we have her. Going to scaramucci, and im sure sean believes that hes not the right guy for the job. And hed been we were seeing him sidelined
we ve got a little news in from the shop over at the west wing. turns out, the white house will be holding an on-camera briefing later on this afternoon, 2:00 eastern. this is the first on-camera briefing by press secretary sarah sanders in more than 40 days. yes, there will be a special guest appearance. the acting director of the office of management and budget. this is because it is budget day for the white house. sending it over to capitol hill this morning, i will be there for that. meantime, here on this hour. bo rourke hasn t announce ad run, but he is already in the sights of an anxious conser conservative group set to run this ad in iowa. he s barack obama but white. he sure does act like it. born with a blue blood pedigree, the scion of a prominent family.
minutes, and you saw reporters scramble to get into the room. you can t really tell in the video, but there were a lot of empty seats towards the back of the room, because some of the reporters just weren t here, because there was nothing on the president s schedule today. then the president came in with these members of the border patrol union and spoke briefly and invited them up to make brief remarks. then the president, press secretary and white house communications director all left the room without taking any questions from the reporters who were sitting there. now, as this was going on, there was supposed to be a briefing with the customs and border patrol commissioner today on the record, on-camera briefing where he was going to take questions from reporters about the state of what s going on at the border, but they bumped that briefing, because they were told the white house was doing a briefing instead. so, instead, that briefing didn t happen. they had the president of the u