Pacific, israeli forces say its military forces are carrying out new strikes against targets in Southern Lebanon. It follows two straight days of Surprise Explosions of pagers and Walkty Talkies Targeting Members of the iranbacked militia hezbollah. Lebanese Health Officials say 37 people were killed and nearly 3,000 were injured. Just the last hour, the head of hezbollah accused israel of violating a Red Line and explosive devices could be a declaration of war. Joining us, Raf Sanchez and Fourstar Jienl and Marc Polymeropoulos for the Cia And Security intelligence analyst, raf, what can you tell us whats going on right now . Jose, the Israeli Military has announced thousands of strikes in Southern Lebanon since this war broke out, but the strike they announced earlier this morning is different. Rather than saying they are targeting a specific Hezbollah Operative or responding to a specific rocket they announced what sounds like a broad effort to, in their words, degrade Hezbollahs Cap
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Senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Senator, why has the Replacement Ofjoe Biden with Kamala Harris, on the democratic side of this president ial race, why has it knocked the Trump Campaign so badly off balance . I think it was a. Its taken a while for them to get their sea legs, but i think theyre good to go now. I thought he would be replaced. You know, we were all saying, as republicans, the guy is not capable. Hes in decline. And all of a sudden he leaves. You know, itsjust switching up candidates that late, it took a while to absorb that, but i think hed be ready. This coming tuesday is the debate, and i think itll be probably the most consequential debate maybe in a long time, if not ever. You talk about the way in which, for so long, the Trump Campaign was built around the Idea Thatjoe Biden was too old, he wasnt competent. Yeah. Right, right, right. Theres a big problem now for trump, isnt there . Hes the old guy. Hes 78 years old. And people looking at him
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ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage