To mr netanyahu s demand that israel maintain a military presence in the philadelphi corridor. That s a small buffer zone between gaza and egypt s sinai desert. Mr netanyahu said israel is committed to destroying hamas and bringing the hostages home. He warned of the potential consequences should israel relieve its military pressure on hamas. Our middle east regional editor mike thomson has more on the prime minister s comments from jerusalem. Tonight, mr netanyahu doubled down on his insistence that israeli troops will not be withdrawn from the philadelphi corridor. That is the strip of land that separates southern gaza from egypt. He said it is absolutely vital that they stay there to stop hamas smuggling weapons from egypt into gaza. He said, if we let this happen, we could have another october the 7th all over again. Interestingly though, he had talked in the past about them not moving for at least 42 years. This evening he was referring to 42 days only, so there may be some wriggl
mind whether talking about tom price or steve mnuchin or whatever, but the optic to the rest of the country will look terrible. it will look like the same old washington that doesn t do anything and that s why senate republicans and their staffs are working hard to avoid that situation and also to have the nominations approved anyways. well, doug, i think democrats will look at this and say, we are capitalize, they might say, on the situation where the president has had a tumultuous several days with, whether it be the travel ban, whether it be arguments about voter fraud, whether it be about arguments about crowd size that president trump has had an interesting time here. and they may see him as potentially being vulnerable. and this may be a time, they think, to stand up to him, doug. certainly that s one of the calculus decisions they re making. at 1:30 p.m., sean spicer will be giving his briefing. and he s going to say what he s said every day this week. he s going to talk abo