welcome to the beat. i m katie fang, in for ari melber. we begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric that s surging on the far right about a quote civil war. the new york times reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the mar-a-lago search, is flaring online. that search happened on august 8th. just hours after trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on twitter spiked a whopping 3,000%. the times says similar spikes happened on facebook, reddit, parlor, gab, and truth social. of course, some trump allies are fanning the flames. at a campaign event in arizona, michael flynn talked about governors declaring war. states rights, did you know that a governor can declare war? a governor can declare war, okay? and we re going to probably see that. that comes after margorie taylor greene said this at a trump rally in michigan. i m not going to mince words with you all. democrats won t republicans dead, and they ve already started the killing. when joe biden g
Have it tomorrow, well have it every day. We stand resolutely against terrorism. Weve seen the almost undescribable acts committed by hamas against israeli men, women and children. We lost 22 americans. That number could still go up. And it probably will. At the same time, we have a number of americans who remain unaccounted. We are working very closely with the government of israel to determine their whereabouts and if they have been taken hostage by hamas to work to secure their release. Israeli military is stepping up its airstrikes on hamas targets in gaza. The idea says it has been hitting Weapon Launchers today and reports ongoing clashes with militants inside israel. And this has united deeply divided israeli factions. Prime minister has announced an Emergency Cabinet and wartime cabinet. To more, lets bring in elliott gotkine. Tell us about the overnight attacks and also were hearing more and more reports about Israeli Force massing on the border. Israel said i think it was abo