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8085920400 Hezbollahs Leader responding to the israel coordinated attack that killed dozens of people and wounded thousands more by Detonating Pagers and walkietalkies hassan nasrallah, the head of hezbollah saying, quote crossed all red lines that thats what the attack did. The militant group now launching new strikes on Northern Israel . And americans spending trillions on Health Care more than any other high income country. But what do we have to show for it . A new report says, americans are sicker they die younger and struggled to afford essential Health Care. A harsh indictment of our medical system at what happens when your Fantasy Football Chat goes forward . Youre wrong. And what case It Led to Bomb Threats and international investigation, and federal charges were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in, right . And here to Cnn News central we begin this hour in the Middle East and this just into cnn has bla says, it has now launched at least 17 attacks into Northern Israel in a new escalation that is bringing fears of a wider war closer to a boiling point. Israels military is saying that It Hit Dozens of hezbollah targets inside of lebanon today, including infrastructure sites and a weapons storage facility. This fall is of course, days of intense threats from israel and hezbollah, the israeli Defense Minister vowing that the Terror Group will pay an increasing price while the Militia Leader Warning quote, the reckoning is coming right now lebanon is on edge after two days of attacks on wireless devices, the boobytrapped devices detonated in a series of complex explosions that killed dozens of people and injured thousands more. Lets go now to Cnn Senior International Correspondent ben wedeman. He is live for us from beirut. Ben what can you tell us about these volleying Attacks Hearing is that within the space of about 20 minutes, within the last hour more there have been more than 50 israeli airstrikes in various various targets in Southern Lebanon that after hezbollah has claimed 17 strikes on israeli targets, this definitely would indicate certainly the number of israeli strikes a decision by the Israeli Military to intensify its attacks on his butler. We know that these ready government is under increasing pressure from the population to allow the more than 62,000 israelis who fled their homes in the north of the country he to be able to return. But what we heard from hassan nasrallah, the Secretary General of hezbollah in his speech this afternoon in beirut that hezbollah will continue to target israelis. On the other side of the border and Israeli Military positions until israel stops its war in gaza. That has been his Butlers Position and essentially going back to last october significantly while that speech was being broadcast at one point israeli jets flew over beirut, central beirut, dropping flares and about a quarter of an hour later, more jets flew over breaking twice. The sound barrier. So clearly the israeli sending a message, theres much more. They can due to put pressure on hezbollah. Now, what weve seen is that the last town, tuesday and wednesdays blasts involving pagers . And Walkie Talkies have put not only the populace on edge, but also his butler itself now set conceded in his speech that the group had suffered a serious blow, and unprece with these unprecedented attacks, a blow to not only its personnel, but its security, which has clearly been compromised, compromised. Going back to late july when that Sr Hezbollah Military commander was killed in beirut. But certainly the fact that israel has been able to infiltrate hezbollahs Communications System dems is a real vote to an organization that until recently prided itself on its ability to stop israel from infiltrating its ranks brianna, certainly im ben wedeman. Thank you for that report. Live for us from lebanon. For us. Lets discuss with Cnn Analyst and columnist for the global Opinion Section of the washington posts josh rogin. Hes also the author of chaos under heaven. Trump xi and the battle for the 21st Century Josh great to see you as always. Lets start with the comments this morning from nasrallah this Hezbollah Commander talking about the reckoning will come. We know that hezbollah launched at least 17 attacks into Israel Today what do you expect that retaliation to be for these israeli strikes on the Communication Devices and then the airstrikes that weve seen since have seen in previous instances these threats of retaliation or specific enough that we can be sure there will be some retaliation, but vague enough that we dont know exactly what that retaliation would be. And moreover, were not yet at the point where we can conclude that this latest round of escalation will spill over into what hopefully neither side wants, which is an allout war that could rope in the united states and Iran And Lord knows who else. So i think that israel is leaving himself enough room to take a couple of retaliatory steps. See what happens and then make another decision. And thats why i think you see a lot of regional leaders including Secretary Of State blinken, who is in the region and the egyptians and et cetera, trying to intervene to stop this thing from spiraling out of control. And if that cant be done, if Escalation Ladder continues to proceed israel could be facing an enemy thats 100 times more powerful than hamas, which could rope in the united states and iran thats a risk that, that nobody really wants to take. But well have to wait a couple of days or a couple of weeks to see how it plays out. What do you read into that description from the idf about a complete approval of plans for the northern arena. What do you think those plans entail . Is that in itself too vague to read much into . Right. Again, i think theyre leaving themselves some room to choose actually between what certain is that israeli defense forces are refocusing on the northern theatre. Whats not certain is whether or not their intention is to escalate to deescalate. In other words, to escalate to reestablish should deterrence that will hopefully convince hezbollah to back down and return Safety And Security to Northern Israel. Thats one possible goal. The other way that they could go is a Ground Force invasion, which would be sort of how this regional war is sort of kicks off. And now we know that the u. S. Administration clean Defense Secretary Lloyd austin, are warning the israelis in public and private not to do that but when you see that comment, thats clearly what theyre threatening, whether or not theyre actually going to do it. And we just dont know i wonder josh, how you think that israels domestic politics influence this move to adjust the focus from gaza now to hezbollah in Lebanon Right . Its really interesting because on the one hand, you have huge split inside of israeli politics in Israeli Society Over Whether or not president , prime Minister Netanyahu should strike a deal soon to release the hostages and have a ceasefire in gaza or continue to fight Hamas Gaza until i guess its over and avoid that the but theres very little sort of at least from what i can tell, disagreement over the idea that the problem in the north needs to be dealt with one way or the other that the hezbollah attacks such as they are needed to be stopped. So of course, theyre related and of course, what Tiktok Blinken is saying is that if you continue to escalate in the north, then therell be nowhere no way to strike a ceasefire in the south. The problem is that its not clear if netanyahu government wants to strike a Ceasefire Deal in south anyway, and they certainly not clear that they care at all what the biden administration is saying so you dont think that this will have much of an impact these hostilities between Hezbollah And Israel on a Ceasefire Deal itself between israel and hamas no, im saying that it will surely make the Ceasefire Deal harder and but im just saying that that doesnt necessarily cut is simply inside of israeli politics is as some would like to believe, and its complicated, but theres No Doubt that the more violence there is, the farther away we are from piece that seems pretty clear that the question is, whats the way to end the war . And on that, i think nobody really has any, really good answers josh rogin, appreciate the analysis. Thanks so much. Anytime Republican House speaker Mike Johnson facing a Pressure Campaign from the leader of his own party, former president trump, pushing for a Government Shutdown on September 30, unless he gets his way on the latest Spending Bill. Cnn Washington Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty is with us now from The Hill with details on this sunlen what are lawmakers saying there . Well brianna, theyre certainly is a growing frustration that there is not a clear path that the speaker has chosen ford yet and just moments ago, Speaker Johnson and for the first time Today Talk with reporters as he made his way around Capitol Hill. And he said, im not making any Announcements Today in terms of what Path Forward he has chosen isnt he goes on to say, now we go back to the playbook and it divides another one. He mentioned, he says we have got time, well get it done. Were having thoughtful conversations, right now. But very clear that he is not chosen a Path Forward and thats whats concerning. And frustrating many members up here. He had that big defeat in the house last tonight on his Spending Bill that of course included those Voting Provisions that former President Donald Trump wanted an extended it through or early next year, that was defeated. So the big question is, what will Speaker Johnson do next . Theres a growing sense on Capitol Hill that the speaker needs to embrace a clean, continuing who knew resolution, a clean Spending Bill get through the elections, get through potentially the Holiday Season to sign another one, but leave those fights for another day after the november election. But as of now, briana, he has not chosen a Path Forward. Now, meantime, in the senate, Senate Majority Leader chuck schumer, he took some procedural steps, is afternoon to kind of put the ducks in a row should the senate me to move before the house, but thats all to say right now on Capitol Hill, Speaker Johnson again reiterated that hes not chosen a Path Forward, whether he will accept a clean, continuing resolution. Brianna all right. Sunlen. Thank you so much for that report from The Hill, im joined now by Cnns Alayna Treene and alina. We should note that its a bit of a hallmark of the former president s to influence his partys legislative agenda, even though hes out of office. Oh, absolutely. I mean, this is obviously not the first time weve seen Donald Trump you try to influence what is happening on Capitol Hill. Remember earlier this year, a lot of republicans actually were very angry with Donald Trump because he helped to sink that bipartisan Border Bill Deal that they had come up with and prevented it from happening. And now youve heard manu raja, who has been interviewing a lot of people on Capitol Hill for us hearing some molar things now from republicans as well that they are frustrated because a lot of people do not want a shutdown. And now as the sunlen walked through, i think its important to keep in mind what exactly Donald Trump is asking for. And we saw him post about that. Hes posted about a couple of times now, but yesterday just hours before that house vote, the former president went on truth social and said, republicans need to pass the Save Act every single ounce of it or not move forward with this continuing resolution. But remember, the Save Act is about having Non Keeping noncitizens from voting in elections. But that is illegal in every single state already. So a lot of people are kind of like, why is this such a big problem . And thats why youre hearing democrats push back on this effort. I think one interesting thing that ive been paying attention to is that this is actually the same issue that House Speaker Mike Johnson went to maralago for in may. He did that joint Press Conference with Donald Trump to talk about this bill. And part of that was because he recognized at the time his Speaker Gavel was on the line and thats really what a lot of this i think is coming down to Donald Trump is still such a kingmaker, not only in republican politics, but very much on Capitol Hill. And what he says is absolutely influencing their decisions the Speaker Gavel on the line again, right . Well see that. So tell us about this event. Trump is going to be speaking tonight in washington before the countrys largest pro israel conference. Yes. You actually had two events. One is going to be a little bit earlier where he is sitting down with gop megadonor, miriam adelson, and then later hes going to be addressing the israel, american conference, as you mentioned, the largest kind of gathering of these pro, israel supporters and a lot of this is him trying to core disaffected jewish americans, especially ahead of november, particularly those who are not exactly happy with the way that the biden administration has been handling the war between israel and hamas. Now i do want to note that of course Donald Trump often refers to himself as the most pro israel president that they have had in they are in recent american history. But at the same time, we also know that hes made a lot of disparaging remarks about jewish americans. Many that people have argued are antisemitic. He said that people arent exactly jewish if theyre voting for democrats, things like that. So i think its important to keep that in context when we hear from Donald Trump this evening, but this is definitely a move by him and his campaign to kind of pull as many voters in that camp as they can, as they look forward to November 5 Alayna Treene. Thank you so much for that. Still ahead. A new study shows americans are the sickest and die the youngest of any high Highincome Nation we are digging into the report and asking to doctors how to improve our health. Plus Fantasy Football gets ou