against hamas. rejecting mounting calls for a cease-fire in gaza. in a new op-ed in the washington post, the president writes, quote, as long as hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease-fire is not possible. every cease-fire is time they ex ploi exploit to restock and attack innocents again. this comes as gaza s largest hospital, al shifa, continues to be a key military target for the idf, claiming hamas is using the complex as a large-scale command center. a claim hamas denies. hospital officials say patients and staff were ordered to evacuate the medical complex, which israel denies. a head doctor there says six doctors are staying at the medical complex to treat around 120 too vulnerable to evacuate. but as the fighting continues in the north, israel s military is now vowing to advance anywhere hamas is found. there are growing signs a ground offensive into southern parts of gaza could be imminent. meanwhile, in tel aviv thousands gathered at a massive rall
even though he s polling far beyond his republican rivals in the state, his team recognizes he can t get complacent in this final stretch. he wants to ensure he doesn t cede any ground to his rivals. his speech has focused heavily on attacking president biden and specifically his record on foreign policy. at one point, donald trump was referring to the president s meeting with chinese president xi earlier in the week and stated to escalate his criticism calling joe biden quote, a stupid person, and suggesting he may be on medication. our leader is a stupid person. our leader our leader can t get off this stage. you see the stage? when he s finished with a speech by the time whatever he s taken wears off and he s looking, okay, thank you. all right. thank you. now, paula, some of these remarks and what you just heard right there is in line with some of the increasingly vi rhetor he s been using. last week while in new hampshire, he received a wave of backlash for callin
georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger who lost a child to fentanyl poisoning sounded the alarm. i want to really emphasize the seriousness of this. some people like to call fentanyl a drug. but it s actually poison. it will kill you. it will kill you very quickly, very easily, and it is very dangerous. we lost our son five and a half years ago due to fentanyl overdose. we know how deadly this stuff is. it is very, very serious and we take it that way. anyone who holds elected office, anyone who wants to hold elected office coming through post 2024 elections, they re running for high office in this land, they need to contend with this stuff. when someone asked, what do you think about this? if they don t condemn this, they re not worthy of the office they re running for. this is domestic terrorism and it needs to be condemned by anyone who holds elected office and anyone who wants to hold elected office anywhere in america. for our part, we will keep track of who
generational divide. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. when it comes to supporting israel, america is seeing a significant split. thousands protesting in d.c. today to demand both a cease-fire in the israel/gaza war and an end to usaid to israel. in many cities on many campuses, missing person-style posters created by is raraeli artists. isaac hertzog wrote this. professors and students at american colleges make speeches and sign statements justifying terrorism, even glorifying it. and then it would have been unthinkable to hear such moral confusion uttered after the september 11th attacks or after bombings in london, barcelona, and baghdad. so what s different this time. why the troubling rise in anti-semitism? data suggests it s generational. by way of example, new polling by quinnipiac notes half of the voters in the u.s. respond to is reeling s attack and 35% disapprove. among voters 18 to 34, those numbers flip. 32% approve, 52% disapprove. among 18 to 34-year-ol
how to prepare when your opponent plays fast and loose with the facts. top of the hour with a good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with extreme weather, with more than 90 million americans under heat alerts as temperatures reach triple digits in some areas. at the columbus, ohio zoo, workers are working around the clock to keep those animals cool. our polar bears have a cool pool. they also have access to an air-conditioned building. are red pandas have boxes and they have air-conditioning in them, and we allow that has many choices and options as possible, so they can use the environment to alleviate themselves from the seat. meanwhile, people are flocking to the beach today from some relief from the sweltering temperatures. we have several reporters in place covering all these developers for us. we will begin with nbc s george sully s outside a hospital in philadelphia. i hope it is not too