Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im victor blackwell. And im amara walker. Israels army appears to be entering a new phase of war. An Army Spokesperson from the idf confirmed to cnn that idf Ground Forces are in gaza right now. Infantry, artillery and other units moved into gaza from the north overnight. As troops march in the north, israel continues to fire missiles across the border. The idf have been launching heavy and continuous air strikes throughout the night into the morning. Idf reserve soldiers are calling it the most intense night of bombing of the conflict so far. Cnns jim sciutto is with us now from northern israel. So, israel promised a major Ground Offensive after the attacks by hamas on october 7th. Is it clear yet that this is the beginning of that . That we are seeing that Ground Incursion in a major way or is this potentially Something Else . Reporter well, victor, its the beginning of something. Thats no question. Because israel is now confirming the Idf S
Liz that was reporter jeff f lock and his camera person laurie bullerdick getting hit in the middle of the protest last night the protest turned violent after President Trumps rally in phoenix but today calling for unity in a news speech in reno, nevada this as the president is not backing down. Hes doubling down on his policies. Welcome to risk reward im liz macdonald. The u. S. Stocks dow ending down 87 points on deepening concerns about d. C. In action stopping the president s agenda and now his threats of a Government Shutdown. This as the left was very much in action last night. Violence scenes outside the Phoenix Center after the president addressed thousands of supporters inside. President trump spoke for well over an hour spending a lot of time railing against the media and defending his comments about the Charlottesville Violence and then the president moved on to policy and just as combative. He said he would probably terminate the nafta trade deal but shutdown the government
Theyve never seen anything like it. Early voting begins tomorrow. And you can already get your absentee ballot, get out and get it, lets start the voting. Get rid of crooked hillary once and for all. We have team fox coverage now. Mike emanual is covering the Hillary Clinton and carl cameron will lead us off in florida. I just said it has wrapped up. What is the Closing Argument to florida voters . Reporter well he started making the Closing Argument this weekend. Yesterday in gettysburg, pennsylvania, the infamous site of the toughest civil war battle that ever was, trump was putting together a contract for American Voters and repackaged all of his policy proposals over the last 16 or 17 months and yesterday he tended to overshadow with his criticism of the Democratic Party and saying he would sue it for trying to rig the election an and hads a accusers who he will sue and he will try to block a series of the mergers because he thinks the media is rigging the election and it tends to
Because if they dont, we cant then use their plans to provide the coverage that we want to provide. Now, you can still have a debate about whether that is the least restrictive means of doing all this, but i dont see really how you can have a debate at that point about whether there is a substantial burden on religion because youre comipelling peope do something and if they dont, they have to pay millions of dollars this penal ciin penalti. Every court below that has gone the other way. Im not sure the government will fair nearly as well before the Supreme Court on that piece. But we shall see. Im agreeing with you that to the extent it turns on the fact of the government providing information, but i dont think the governme cases turn on that. Ill turn then to the press. Questions. Yeah. Will atmospherics on kim davis affect the justices thoughts on this . Kim davis is raising a claim under the kentucky state rifra. Her case is obviously a little different because shes a public officia
[cheers and applause] next, the vatican spokesman briefs reporters. This is 45 minutes. I am coordinator for the papal visit. We are honored to have with us this evening father federico lombardi. By a member of the archdiocese of chicago. Father lombardi will be providing daily briefings to the media across the three cities of the popes visit this week. We are honored to have with us his eminence, archbishop of galveston, houston and Vice President of the conference of catholic bishops. Axillary bishop of the archdiocese of washington. The format for this evening will be that each of our principals will say a few opening remarks and then we will open the floor to questions. Would you like to start . Father lombardi thank you very much and thank you for being the papalworking on visit. I would say that in the first meeting of the pope on the plane with journalists leaving from journalistsd to the thank you for the service that you will do in helping me in my mission. And theding good ne