on the ground. israel expands its ground operations in gaza. we re going to fight in the air, ground, and sea. what does the escalation mean for the region s future? and for the hostages trapped there by hamas? national security adviser jake sullivan joins me live, next. and then, intelligence which he republican senator, james langford. plus, blackout, as israel s barrage picked up, gaza went dark with communication services cut. palestinian civilians must be protected. now with communications partly extraordinary, what is the latest inside gaza? and, new beginnings? finally, the u.s. house elects a speaker. one more sign of republicans embrace of donald trump. another? i have decided to suspend my campaign for president. gop candidate chris christie on what it all means, coming up. hello. i m jake tapper in tel aviv, where israeli bombardments of gaza lit up the sky overnight. cnn teams are hearing constant explosions and some machine gun fire with drones
particularly on the republican side it s going to be safe for more extreme members, you can imagine kind of trump inspired primary challenges in many of these districts being very formidable and casting having a huge influence on the way legislators behave, making them even more worried than they are now about potential primary challenges sponsored by trump. can i just say one thing on the first apppoint, whether you wano acknowledge it or not, what we re talking about is a partisan dispute. i mean, these laws are passing in red states, making it tougher to vote. they are passing entirely on party line votes. what s happening in washington is that two democratic senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are giving a veto to republicans in the senate on whether to countermand what s happening by republicans in the states are doing. and that contrast, as i ve said before, very starkly to what happened in the years after the civil war when the lincoln era republicans passed the sh 14th