moment, change has come to america. i will discuss barack obama, the first african american president of the united states lasting influence with valerie chair, ceo of the obama foundation. i am jonathan capehart. this is an extended edition of the saturday show. the israel-hamas war continues to rage on this morning. nearly 10,000 palestinians, including 3900 children, have been killed according to the ministry of health. in gaza. overnight clashes between israeli troops and hamas fighters continued as the israeli military says it has cut off all main roads into gaza city. nbc news has not been able to independently confirm that. this comes after america s top diplomat, secretary of state, anthony blinken, met with arab foreign ministers and jordan overnight. this follows the secretary s latest trip to israel where he called for a humanitarian pause in the conflict in gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s quickly rejected the notion saying it s a real would be
Thats that this is a question of president ial leadership. At the end of the day, it will come down to the president of the United States being willing to lead in a big picture and in a more macro sense, make a decision what he can support and pull the trigger on it. Here was Lindsey Graham in our conversation just a few minutes ago. What the house sent over is unacceptable to me. The cres can i the militar chs kill the military. I appreciate House Colleagues but we need to get this done. Were inside the 10 yard line. We need a white house that can make a decision and stick to it. And andegreeia, Lindsey Graham has cultivated his relationship with the president and the attempted skill of talking to the president through the television. And i think theres a lot of message sending going on that look, the way out of this is for the president to live up to what he talks about as the tuesday
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government that shuts down. starting tonight, many of the 9 million children who depend on c.h.i.p., the children s health insurance program, will lose their coverage. joining me is mark shriver, director of save the children usa. i don t have to tell you that we re at the height of flu season. one of the worst flus we ve seen. children are dying. people are in ers. and the government could potentially shut down and all of these kids would not be covered. it s an amazing program started by senator kennedy and senator hatch. he said we had a moral obligation to our children. we re 21 years later using this as a big bargaining chip. the kids, poor kids, don t have access to the political system and they have been pushed aside. they don t vote or give money. and both republicans and democrats have let this happen. it s the fourth time we ve had a cr. it s crazy, right? and the fact we re negotiating