Good to be back with you for another hour. Im katy tur, nbc news is reporting three convoys, that appear to be evacuees were hit by israeli strikes in gaza, according to the Israeli Health ministry. 70 people are dead. Only an hour ago, the idf said an extensive attack against military targets within gaza was underway. This morning, israel dropped thousands of leaflets in the north of the strip warning civilians to go south. Quote, gaza city has turned into a battlefield. Leave your homes immediately read those flyers. The idf told gaza City Residents they would refrain from touching an Evacuation Route until 8 00 p. M. That was just about two hours ago. Quote, no one knows where were going, One Gaza Resident told nbc news, but were ready to run. Joining us now from tyre, lebanon, is nbc news chief Foreign Correspondent Matt Bradleyment thank you for being with us. I know were going to start at the north end of this. But tell me whats been happening there today . Everyone is still very
Of jerusalems story. 70 years ago, the state of israel was formed, but not accepted by all of its arab neighbors. In september of 2000, ariel sharon made a visit to the temple mount that inflamed the palestinians. It was called the second intifada. Now, some believe, President Trumps decision to move the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem might trigger the third. Is that the biggest fear . Tzipi livni there is no excuse for terror, there is no excuse for violence. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] sharyl welcome to full measure. Im sharyl attkisson. This week, democrats demanded President Trump be investigated for alleged sexual misconduct. Republicans demanded the special counsel on conflicts of interest. Meantime, new Sexual Harassment probes started up in congress in the past few weeks against congressmen Blake Farenthold and trent franks and senator al franken before he announced his res
[inaudible conversations] are we ready to go . Great. Welcome to todays launch of the council on Foreign Relations and the pendant Task Force Report north america time for a new focus to rid the cochairs hear Robert Zoellick of course, somebody who i think last time i interviewed you we were both in sudan. So thank you very much. Shannon oneil, director and cochair, David Petraeus i think last summer i into the jew we were in iraq. So its good to be in a slightly more tame environment. I want to get right to the question of why now, why this . Reading newspapers, the attention, the focus of this administration clearly on Foreign Policy, current prices the in the middle of these, please to the idea of a pivot to asia and effectively what youre talking about in the Task Force Report is a pivot to north america. So why . Its time for a new focus. The reason is when you come back to it, our number one and two trading partners are our two neighbors, not other countries or regions of the wor
Things, you know, id threat cant agree with all of your points but i agree with your basic will go because there is always a disconnect between what is provided to folks, whether it is the gas tax that goes to building roads and highways that people use every day but not realizing that they are paying for that. A variety of other things that people use that the tax system paid for but not realizing that connection. So the whole idea you bring up, stephen, that you believe that to connect the taxes they are paying with what they are getting in some respects, i agree with you and that is one of the challenges. On the first point, i take exception to you saying that my request for raising the cap on Social Security is a kneejerk reaction. Kneejerk reaction is a description of Somebody Just sort of making a decision without thinking about it. I have put a lot of thought on the issue. You and i may disagree on the best solution but i put a lot of thought into it and i think it is the best s
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown after talks between president obama and Congressional Republicans stall, the house moves toward a vote on Speaker Boehners planb for limited tax increases. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Suarez and im ray suarez. On the newshour tonight, we sort through the state of play and the latest political maneuvering with congress watcher Norman Ornstein and Political Editor christina bellantoni. Brown then we look at the suspension of the u. N. s Polio Eradication Campaign in pakistan, after the killings of nine aid workers. Suarez from capitol hill, ame lman repor on two congressional hearings today where state Department Officials accepted blame in failing to protect the u. S. Diplomatic mission in libya. We have to do better. We owe it to our colleagues who lost their lives in benghazi. We owe it to the Security Professionals who acted with such extraordinary heroism that awful night to try to protect them, and we owe it to thousands