there is a clear path to dictatorship in the united states and it is getting shorter every day. new warnings including from former republican officials about the risks of a second donald trump presidency. in gaza the death toll is surging as israel expands its military operations against hamas. palestinian civilians and more than 130 hostages caught in the middle. an urgent push is under way to get israel and hamas back to the bargaining table. exhausted and demoralized. the new report on the stress air traffic controllers are under and the risk that it carries for air travel. i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. new this morning with donald trump surging in the polls, fresh sounds of alarm about what a second trump presidency might mean. and some of the warnings are coming from one-time republicans. quote, let s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality there is a clear path to dictatorship in the united states and
the public. the main number up there, of the roughly 240,000 or more based on this department, about 200,000 of them would stay on the job even with pay interruption. 200,000 people not getting paid to keep america safe. tom for man, thank you very much. back with us now, wolf blitzer and gloria borger. i want to bring up something important. more than 50 republicans voted against this measure to extend funding for homeland security for three weeks. these are republicans, by the way, who presumably have the support of their constituents, by and large probably do not want them to vote in favor of funding homeland security under these conditions. they re against president obama s executive actions on immigration. doesn t seem likely to change their opposition to those measures over the next week. right. these are people who as a matter of principle don t want to fund the department of homeland security even if it gives the
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muslim communities, but i don t want to give them the legitimacy they re seeking and that s essentially what the king told me. he said, look, let s not confer on them the legitimacy they so desperately seek and don t have in his view from within the world of islam. so i think that, what i hope people understand is that, we re not trying to be college professors here. this is not accurately describing something. it s a political strategy designed to say we re not giving you the satisfaction of calling you islamic, giving you that mantle of legitimacy and when you hear an important voice from the arab world say that, i hope in america say, oh, that s what this debate is about. a politicalization, king abdullah. he s got a war raging in his border, not far from him. a pilot who was slaughtered, brutally murdered by isis. did you sense any annoyance or