Has a friend, he expects blind hello . Youre on the cnn newsroom. Hi everyone. Im Jessica Dean In Washington and tonight we are following breaking news. President biden speaking with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time. Since signing a 26 aid package for israel. The call coming just a month after the president warned netanyahu about the humanitarian crisis in gaza, calling it quote, unacceptable. More than 34,000 Palestinian People have been killed in gaza since the war began, triggering massive protests here in the us with students at major universities calling for an end to the war cnns Priscilla Alvarez is live at the white house. Priscilla, what are you learning about this call today . What were learning from this white house readout that they touched on multiple issues during this call that happened earlier today between President Biden and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ranging from recent events like for example israels strikes back at or ron
hello, i m loren taylor. rishi sunak has launched the conservative party s election manifesto, promising a raft of new measures, that he says will enable working people to keep more of the money, they earn. he was speaking at the silverstone race track, and made pledges on tax, housing, and immigration, including another 2p cut in the pound, in national insurance, plus the abolition of the main self employed rate. there ll be help for first time buyers, with the scrapping of stamp duty on homes up to £425,000, and a new help to buy scheme. there s also a commitment to halve migration, and have regular flights to rwanda, for those entering the uk illegally. chris mason was at the launch today. halfway through this election race, it s the moment for the cardboard boxes. within them, bundles of promises not always kept that set out a party s blueprint for the next five years. so the manifesto is here, so is the cabinet, then the prime minister. music, applause, and ovations f
this is one of those rare instances last week were jordan , with the largest palestinian population of any of the arab countries. in fact, participating in knocking down iranian drones or missiles coming toward israel. helping israel defend itself. an extraordinary coalition, the british, the french, the jordanians, saudi assistance in termsce of their overflights. so it was a lot of help and support the u.s., primarily, is helping. in operation of israeli air defense, air defenses. and then internally, for the drones that were coming closer to israel, using, of course, the iron dome. what has happened now, back to
an immediate excuse. ns what happens to gaza, i think, will really depend on what irand does. if iran doesn t respond, israel will go back and gaza but instead it wants to continue d with the rafah operation, that is still important to take downa hamas there but if there s s going to be a wider response of the north, that is where israel s focus will have to be. you are in israel, how concerned are you personally for your family about retaliation and attacks in israel? you know, definitely i am concerned and i don t want to seem see more war. also, my analysis of it, and maybe i m wrong, stephanie. in my analysis of it, i don t think that israel had a choice here. i think that had we contained this massive, unprecedented, historic, direct iranian attack from iranian territory against israel we would be setting ourselves up for this to happen again and again and again. it is basically almost like i going, imagine going back in time to when one of those first rockets was fired by h
who else gets involved in this conflagration? again, the u.s. says it will come to israel s help in an offense of operation but if i ran a tax israel, committed helping defense. so this is clearly drawing the united states into something it wants no part of. andrea, thank you so much for joining us tonight. andrea mitchell. let s bring in our panel this evening, peter baker joins us. retired four-star u.s. army general, harry mccaffrey, a decorated combat veteran of vietnam and a former battlefield commander in the persian gulf. michael allen joins us, former special assistant to the president at the national security council peter, president biden urged israel not to escalate andrea just laid it out for us, what do you think the reaction is in the white house tonight?