bombing the prime minister s compound and other official buildings. the assault also killed a hamas commander. in israel troops are gathering at the border where many roads into gaza are closed. the military is ready for a ground assault with just an hour s notice, and the u.s. positioned the war ship iwo jima nearby but the location is classified. the egyptian prime minister visited gaza yesterday and prepared to mediate a truce. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon is expected to visit next week. the widening scope of the assault sparking fears of a violent new chapter in the arab israeli conflict. forces are launching rockets back and forth in the gaza strip and israel. yesterday one missile was aimed right at jerusalem. nbc news foreign correspondent is live for us in gaza. that jerusalem angle, that had not been seen for quite some time. let s get to what s happening right now around you. good morning, alex. yeah, we can let me bring you up to date on the air strikes
trillion dollar spending bill that is sure to rankle the white house today. once again, congress using government paychecks as a bargaining chip. it s thursday, december 15th, 2011. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. first read of the morning. republican candidates face off for the 13th time in sioux city, iowa. northwest iowa. the final scheduled debate of the calendar year. final debate before the iowa caucuses. the stakes as cliche says couldn t be higher tonight. can gingrich make the final sale to iowa voters? mitt romney spent every available moment between new york city fundraisers yesterday going after gingrich. how aggressively will he attack tonight? in an interview with the new york times, romney picked up on a question about gingrich s zany temperament and boy did he run with it. zany is not what we need in a president. zany is great in a campaign, it s great on talk radio. it s great in the print. it makes for fun reading. in terms of a president,
republicans unveil a late-night trillion dollar spending bill that is sure to rankle the white house today. once again, congress using government paychecks as a bargaining chip. it s thursday, december 15th, 2011. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. first read of the morning. republican candidates face off for the 13th time in sioux city, iowa. northwest iowa. the final scheduled debate of the calendar year. final debate before the iowa caucuses. the stakes as cliche says couldn t be higher tonight. can gingrich make the final sale to iowa voters? mitt romney spent every available moment between new york city fundraisers yesterday going after gingrich. how aggressively will he attack tonight? in an interview with the new york times, romney picked up on a question about gingrich s zany temperament and boy did he run with it. zany is not what we need in a president. zany is great in a campaign, it s great on talk radio. it s great in the print. it makes for fun r
people know the president but do they know his opponent. you are spending more money than taking in you need to spend less of this. who is this guy? do you know who this is? yes, of course. john boehner. lots of people didn t know him. i don t know who that is. or anything about the debt problem zbloojtsd what is the debt limit. what are they fighting about? i don t know. okay, tonight we ll explained and we ll talk about the debt. it s into the hard. the debt and the stossel solution. that is our show tonight. john: look at that, they need more? if they don t get more money they won t be able to send social security checks and pay veterans benefits our veterans deserve. really? isn t $2 trillion isn t enough? they can pay social security and medicare and the interest on the debt and still have hundreds of billions left over. two trillion is plenty. it s billions more than our entire government spends when president bush took office. what is the problem? the
you are spending more money than taking in you need to spend less of this. who is this guy? do you know who this is? yes, of course. john boehner. lots of people didn t know him. i don t know who that is. or anything about the debt problem zbloojtsd what is the debt limit. what are they fighting about? i don t know. okay, tonight we ll explained and we ll talk about the debt. it s into the hard. the debt and the stossel solution. that is our show tonight. john: look at that, they need more? if they don t get more money they won t be able to send social security checks and pay veterans benefits our veterans deserve. really? isn t $2 trillion isn t enough? they can pay social security and medicare and the interest on the debt and still have hundreds of billions left over. two trillion is plenty. it s billions more than our entire government spends when president bush took office. what is the problem? the problem is that republicans and democrats under president